Why Do People Want More Sequels/Remakes?

i need Hellboy 3.

Sequels and series are not restricted to the movies. Books, music, TV shows. And remakes can work as reinterpretations if they are done right.

Sometimes it's really the industry that expressed more interest in churning out more sequels and remakes, especially to successful beloved media, rather than the fans that demanded for one.

I think sequels can work half of the time if the potentials are there for one and are necessary enough to add onto the series. 'Delayed sequels', as I liked to call them, like the Dumb and Dumber to example you had brought up are a bit questionable. I mean, delayed sequels can also work half of the times for the same reasons that I stated in the first sentence. Especially if a series had a pending sequel stuck in development hell for a while. Case in point: look at movies like Tron: Legacy, Toy Story 3, MIB 3, and Mad Max: Fury Road. Ghostbusters 3 was almost going to be this until Harold Ramis' death and then got revamped into a 2016 reboot. While other kinds of delayed sequels (Dumb and Dumber to, Zoolander 2, Bad Santa 2, MBFGW 2, Blare Witch) felt like they're just kind of there to cash in on nothing more than being a nostalgic reunion flick, and aren't really that necessary.

Remakes are where they become a little issue for me. On one hand, remakes can work if the potentials are actually there for one and felt there's something in the old material that could get greatly improve on, rather than just introducing a modern/updated version of the source. Remakes like The Fly (1986) and Pete's Dragon (2016) falls into the former case while ones like Psycho (1998) and Robocop (2014) falls into the latter case. Unfortunately, it's mostly the latter scenario that became more excessive and that remake fatigue of beloved classics is no secret. You rarely hear of movies like 'Manos: The Hands of Fate' getting a legit horror remake it may deserved than how you often hear about another remake of a 80s classic on the way.

I'm all about sequels as long as they're not just straight up rehashing of the previous movie in a different place. For example Hangover sequels. The first one was awesome and then 2 and 3 were just the same thing but in Bangkok and then back to Vegas. Comedies seem to be the biggest victims of that which is why I tend to cringe when a comedy film that I enjoyed gets a sequel. I still haven't seen Anchorman 2 for this very reason.

In terms of remakes, I'm for it as long as the remake can in some way improve on the original. The Psycho remake that was shot for shot remake of Hitchcocks I don't understand. That isn't giving this generations own version of it. It's just using the original with different actors and in color. That seems insulting to me. I don't support the idea of everything these days needs a remake for the sake of remaking it. But something like 'IT' I'm into the remake of it. I never saw the original and for me when I first got exposed to it as a teenager it looked really dumb to me. However that 'IT' trailer that came out, has me 100% excited to see it. Even to the extent that if I enjoy it I'll gladly go back and watch the original Tim Curry version.

I want more of them when I do because:

(1) I love what I've gotten so far--the characters, tone, sorts of stories, etc.,

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(2) I typically like almost all sequels and remakes. The sequels and remakes that I don't like are very few and far between. So for my tastes, it's a very good gamble.

I can understand sequels, because you loved those characters and that world, so you want to see them again. Kind of like TV.

With remakes.......idk, I guess if the original doesn't necessarily fit in modern context, not that it doesn't hold up, but if it's too entrenched in its decade. Sort of like Dawn of the Dead.

Or if there's a film that either doesn't fully translate, or if you want to add your own twist for a different audience, like The Departed.

However it's difficult to actually see which films could benefit from being remade, for example Oldboy......the original I think transcends its origins, so the remake was probably unnecessary (I have it, but have yet to see the remake), or a film like Vertigo, it holds up as well as it did all those years ago.

I spent my formative years in the '80s (8-18), and one thing I feel is different about then and now is that teens (and people in general) were more likely to watch older movies and TV shows. Cable was new, and channels like TBS and USA showed predominantly older titles. It was the programming of older films on those channels that first made me aware of Errol Flynn. TBS, I think, would frequently play Prince and the Pauper and Adventures of Robin Hood, among others. I never really gave black and white movies a second thought. They were the same as modern movies.

As another poster said, most kids today rarely watch older films. Some do, so I don't want to generalize, but the vast majority don't, and so I think releasing new versions of old familiar titles becomes appealing to studio heads.

As for BTTF, I hope they never make a new installment. For one thing, it will never be good. Something magical happened in that first film that can't be replicated. They tried twice, and and the results were just okay. The ingredients just happened to come together in such a way as to create something great. For all it's flaws, they were the right flaws at that time. A remake could only be a cash grab, and I do t want to see that

With that said, there are some franchises I would like to see more of, like Friday the 13th, Mad Max, and Police Academy, but those series are less about plot than about an environment. An that has a lot of bearing on whether I want a sequel/remake. Plot-heavy movies I don't want to see more of. Light, fun movies I do. It also depends on if the main draw in the originals was due to the charisma and rapport of the actors. If it was, then there's no reason to update it.

Ghostbusters (2016) was WAY better than the original movies.

I don`t really have a problem with sequels or remakes. I mean nobody is forcing you to watch them i assume.