I want to see a movie with a bunch of Poogles and faerie Aishas.
That's what I want.
Give it to me.
I don't know what's happening.
This is-
I'm talking about Neopets.
She had an aneurysm.
I've only...
Yeah.
I taste pennies.
Is that normal?
Nina, what's a great film that you are glad never got a sequel?
Well Brian, I was looking at the article of that same title on a little website called
Looper.com and-
I've heard of that website.
Yeah.
As have I and yeah.
It has so many movies that I love very much on it and that I agree with wholeheartedly.
I'm thrilled that Casablanca does not have Casablanca 2 Back in Morocco or whatever.
Casas Blancas.
Yeah.
I'm glad Inception didn't continue because it closes on such a good button.
Pulp Fiction is a long time favorite and I don't even want to think about what a sequel
would've been and I ended up going with something on the list, but I want to present my honorable
mention first because it's a movie that I love very much, that was a huge comedy hit
and that I believe there have been many attempts to wring a sequel out of it, but they haven't
been successful because the screenwriters just don't want to do it and they're smart
and that's Bridesmaids, which was a huge hit, crushed the box office, great reviews, was
nominated for Academy Awards for Melissa McCarthy and for screenplay written by Kristen Wiig
and her friend, Annie Mumolo.
And I believe that the powers that be behind Bridesmaids have wanted a sequel for years
because of how profitable it was, but Kristen Wiig and Annie Mumolo have just been like,
"No, we're done.
We're done telling that story.
Let it rest," and I'm really happy because I think a sequel would probably be about Maya
Rudolph's character having a baby and it would just play the same beats of the first one.
And I don't think it would be good-
... another Hangover.
What if they called it Brides and they all got married at the same time?
That would be bad, Brian.
That would be a bad movie that I don't want to see.
No, it's like-
... bad, Brian.
I don't see a way that they could avoid The Hangover curse of that where they just do
the same thing for three movies to increasingly diminishede returns and also, what that led to
is instead of working on Bridesmaids 2, Brides, or whatever your idea was-
Groomsmen.
Yeah, Groomsmen.
Finally, a comedy like this for the guys!
Oh, it's been so long.
But what this led to is Kristen Wiig and-
Nina, we're talking.
Brian, that's a really good idea.
What this led to, I'm going to continue with some dignity left maybe, is-
Sorry.
... because Kristen Wiig and Annie Mumolo had an Oscar nomination under their belt and
a ton of financial studio success, they got to make the weirdest movie of 2020, near and
dear to my heart, Barb and Star Go to-
Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar.
Yes and I consider that a spiritual sequel to Bridesmaids and if you haven't seen it,
please watch it.
I think it's on Hulu right now.
If you don't think that you want to see Jamie Dornan dancing down a beach and doing pirouettes
and singing his heart out, then you're just wrong.
You're very wrong.
You do want to see that, but okay.
My real pick.
I got off topic is Social Network.
Okay.
My real pick is The Social Network, which is one of my all time favorite movies.
Everyone who knows me pretty well knows that I have a really bitter grudge against King's
Speech, which is a fine movie, but it should not have beaten Social Network for best picture
and I will die on that hill.
That's fair.
Should have just called The King Speech.
Lost the The.
Yeah.
That's fair.
It's cleaner.
Did you just whack your mic?
Anyway, I'm going to continue as if nothing happened.
Please.
No.
Social Network should have been a best picture winner.
No, a very acclaimed movie, great cast, great writing, great direction.
Everything about it comes together.
It's such a tightly paced and edited and just every aspect of the movie, I think for me,
works on every single level and it also is smart in that it specifically focuses on the
inception in college years of Facebook, rather than the modern behemoth that Facebook has
become and with all the weird, legal troubles that whole company has faced in the past couple
of years through elections and through all sorts of stuff, I mean I don't want to see
that continue.
That would be a really upsetting and potentially very dull movie.
I mean, there's going to be a documentary about it eventually that I'll watch and talk
about at a dinner party or whatever, but it's not a sequel I want to see and I also think
that none of the people would come back for it.
So, it would just be very bad.
It would be some you cut rate Aaron Sorkin acolyte and someone who looks like Jesse Eisenberg,
but isn't him.
Michael Cera.
Yeah.
I didn't want to say Michael Cera because I wanted to give him a little more credit
than that, but you're right.
It would be Michael Cera.
Poor Michael Cera.
Yeah.
Yes.
It would be him and Tom Holland as Andrew Garfield, yeah, to play Eduardo.
I'm starting to think this movie might be good.
I don't know.
Can we do exactly what we're talking about here, but it's the origin of MySpace?
Who's going to play Tom?
I think Bradley Cooper should play Tom from MySpace.
Mm-hmm.
Oh, no.
That's what I'm saying.
Bring in Michael, bring in the off brand, bring in the Kirkland Signature versions of
all of the actors.
The story of Friendster.
Yeah.
The story of Xanga and LiveJournal.
Yeah.
This is Neopets.
Oh, yes.
Okay.
No.
Now you're just describing a bunch of movies I want to watch is the problem.
I would totally watch a gritty, biopic about the founding of Neopets.
Of course I'd watch that.
That sounds awesome.
I think Scientology was involved in that eventually.
It was-
... Christian Bale in there.
I'm sure I can find a link and we can put it in the description, but there is a long
form YouTube video about the weird shady stuff behind Neopets and it's fascinating.
Yeah.
Neopets was a big touchstone for me.
So, yeah.
Social Network, I don't want to see remade unless it's about Myspace, Friendster, Xanga,
LiveJournal or Neopets, in which case I want to see it.
Club Penguin?
I want to see a movie with a bunch of Poogles and faerie Aishas.
That's what I want.
Give it to me.
I don't know what's happening.
This is all-
I'm talking about Neopets.
She had an aneurysm.
I've only, yeah.
Yeah.
I taste Pennies.
Is that normal?
No.
Get them out of your mouth.
There's a couple on this article that I responded to.
One was Logan Lucky, which I saw pretty recently, which I liked a bunch.
That was a good heist movie and I do agree that I think a sequel to that would definitely
diminish some of the special weirdness that happens in that film.
It's a fun movie.
It's a really fun movie and a lot of that has to do with Daniel Craig playing Joe Bang,
which also brings up this interesting...
We've talked about this before, the sequel to Knives Out, Knives In.
I love- Yep.
More Knives-
Knives Out Two, Knife Crimes.
Yeah.
Knife Crimes.
You're welcome.
I think I just blew a booger out of my nose.
Thank you.
Knife Crimes.
Thank you.
You're welcome.
Inside jokes, they happen here too.
No, but the reason I bring it up, right?
Because Daniel Craig plays Benoit Blanc and he's amazing.
I love that movie.
I'm really excited to see a sequel, but part of me also likes to think that would've been
great as just a standalone film that you can just revisit and say, "Do you want more Knives
Out?
Watch the movie again.
Here it is.
There's no chance that it will disappoint you because it's the same movie it was that
you like."
I mean, I will make the rebuttal though that I like the idea of the Agatha Christie, Hercule
Poirot thing that they're clearly doing with Benoit Blanc where it's like put him in a
different situation, he'll be himself and then you get a cast of A-listers to surround
him.
Right.
No, I agree.
I'm excited to see what they do, but I do think back to movies like Logan Lucky that
are so singular, so weird and that definitely could have sequels.
It has franchise potential, but unfortunately for them, unfortunately for us, it didn't
do very well.
So, they're not going to make one.
So, you just have this one strange, Southern Gothic comedy, heist film and it just works.
And the other one that you mentioned was Inception, which is a really good example of a great
movie that again, has that sequel potential.
You could go in all different directions with it and thank goodness that they didn't.
Well I mean, aside from Batman, I don't think Christopher Nolan's much in the sequel business.
Is he?
I mean-
No.
Fair enough.
But I mean, that's the thing-
I can't think of a single movie he's made that's not Batman that has a sequel.
Beyond that too though-
He did that sequel to The Prestige where it was just Hugh Jackman's body floating in a
tank the whole time.
Oh.
I missed that one.
Yeah.
Very Warholesk.
That sounds great.
Yikes.
No, but one of the things that's so great about Inception is that ending, which is that
people like to know is he in a dream?
Is he not in a dream?
Did it wobble?
Did it fall?
Did it fall after the screen went to blank?
And the answer ultimately is it doesn't matter because the ending is the ending is the ending.
That's how the movie ends.
I think we can all agree that none of us want to see what happens when and if the top stops
spinning.
It's-
Wouldn't that be great if the sequel was just the top spinning for 90 minutes?
Honestly, I would not put that past Sir Christopher Nolan.
I don't think he's a knight.
I'm just calling him that anyway, but-
He will be.
Yeah.
He will be.
That wouldn't surprise me at all-
Or they do it like Clue where there's two different movies, right?
Yeah.
The top is spinning for 90 minutes and the other one is the top falls immediately and
it's just laying on a table for 90 minutes.
By the way, that's also a movie I'm glad didn't get a sequel, is Clue.
A perfect film-
Another good one.
Yeah.
Another good example of a great movie and again, Clue is the kind of thing that you
could do 100 times and it would be different every time and it would be fun and funny and
great every time.
Although you couldn't do that movie again because that cast is perfect-
No.
It's lightning in a bottle and much like Logan Lucky, it was a flop and so, they were never
going to make a sequel because it did so poorly.
Right.
An incredible flop that nobody at the time liked and weirdos like us watched it on TV
throughout our whole lives-
And it became a cult classic and now Flames on the Side of my Face is the greatest gif
ever made.
Yeah.
I just love to see, I love the little bit where Martin Mull's like, "Does anyone want
to drink?"
And a bunch of people want drinks and he just pours booze all over the class-
I just like anything Madeline Kahn does in that whole movie, like when she just runs
around making-
Or any movie.
... squeaky noises - or any movie.
Or any movie.
Yeah, she's perfect.
Yeah.
No.
Logan Lucky's a good one.
Logan Lucky, Inception, Clue, Clueless...
I don't want to see that sequel where she and Josh break up in college.
Although they did have a TV spinoff.
So-
I know.
I watched it.
So, now that brings up a good point because a lot of the movies that we've been talking
about and I only bring this up...
By the way, just side note.
Just an idea for later, maybe we all get a button called the comment blocker where it
makes a loud noise and we're allowed to interrupt each other when we just want to correct.
We don't want to be rude, but we need to correct something really quickly because we know that
the YouTube comment section is going to fill up with ---- talking.
Actually I think what really happened, Casablanca had a TV show.
They made a TV show following up The Adventures of Rick in his part, at Rick's.
That sucks.
What was the...
Yeah, no.
It does suck and I don't know if it made it past pilot, but-
And I will say, I did.
I watched the Clueless series, but it was bad.
Donald Faison was on it and the girl who played Amber was on it and I think those were the
only two people who came back from the movie, but it was a bad show.
People who liked paychecks.
Yeah, man.
The name of the Casablanca TV show is called Casablanca.
How original.
It was from 1983.
So you mentioned a few movies, but I don't think you've gone into any of your picks.
So, what are some movies that you are glad don't have sequels?
Speaking to what we were talking about, the one that I picked that comes off of the article
that we have.
It is something that there have been other projects associated with it, there have been
unofficial sequels to it and a lot of plays and it helps it.
I think it whoops into the public domain a while ago, but It's a Wonderful Life.
It's a Wonderful Life.
Classic movie, beautiful ending, wonderful story.
Any continuation of it that I can think of aside from doing-
A comedy version-
I was thinking a series.
Yeah.
Waka Waka.
Yeah.
No, totally.
Right, but unless you turned it into an anthology series where it's angels going around.
Well, that's Touched by an Angel, which is a perfect show that nobody ever had any complaints
about.
I was thinking about, I was trying to figure out how you would do a sequel to It's a Wonderful
Life and the unfortunate fact of the matter is that it's a story about a guy who is told
by God that he's pretty good.
That he's a pretty great dude and I can't imagine that does anything good to a person's
psyche, right?
There's no way that he became a better person because of that, right?
That's a lot of confidence to pile onto one dude.
So, I feel like if we caught up with that character later on...
No, please.
I mean, the premise of The Good Place though is that a godlike figure tells somebody you're
great and you belong in the good place and he's using that false information to torture
her and then she eventually becomes a better person, as do all the rest of them.
Right.
Well, he's doing that specifically to torture her though.
This is more like-
Right, but then they actually all put in the work-
God feels sorry for a guy.
So he's like, "Hey man.
I bet you're all right.
I bet you're okay."
Yeah, you're okay.
There's other implications to it too.
Clarence, the angel that gets sent down.
Pretty clearly a barely functional alcoholic throughout the whole thing, right?
And then they give him wings and-
Isn't the implication in that, that guardian angels do that kind of thing all the time?
Yeah-
And that this is the action that gives them their wings?
So I mean right there, you have an It's a Wonderful Life cinematic universe already
unfolding.
Oh boy.
Totally.
Yeah.
It sounds boring and bad, but yeah.
Yeah.
I mean, someone-
It really only works once.
Yeah.
Really nice story, but I don't know.
Yeah.
There's nowhere to take that, right?
At best, you find out that...
I don't know.
Well and it's also, I mean Tom, you mentioned what a sweet, heartwarming story it is and
so, yeah.
A sequel at any time about any member of the family would feel so soulless, like what a
cash grab it would be.
That's the bigger thing for me.
Here's how you do a sequel.
George Bailey is dead.
He is now an angel assigned to It's a Wonderful Life someone, But he's really not good at
it and people keep jumping to their deaths.
So, then they resend a new angel to show George that things would be much worse if he weren't
an angel.
Isn't this also just the plot of Soul?
I don't remember.
Wait a minute.
So, are you saying that they send an angel to convince George that the world is better
with the people that he got killed dead?
Yeah.
Like he's an angel of death that's going down and inadvertently pushing people over the
edge and forcing them-
I have an idea.
I haven't really thought it through.
What if he finds dead people and they whisper, "Help me," and then they get transported back
to the day of their death?
As God as my witness.
Nina, if you pitch Tru Calling one more time.
I will never stop pitching Tru Calling.
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