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The first that comes to mind for me is The Breakfast Club and I hope it never does have a sequel or remake

The Princess Bride is another good one

Edit: another one of my favourites is Wall.E, my favourite Pixar movie. There are also several other Pixar movies that don't have sequels or remakes yet

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[–] bazzett@lemmy.world 37 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The Fifth Element. And I hope it stays tat way.

[–] Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 13 points 2 days ago

Coming this summer: Rob Schneider is the 6th Element!!

[–] Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 23 points 2 days ago (1 children)
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[–] Alenalda@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Jared Leto as Anton Chigurh.

[–] Mothra@mander.xyz 20 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The first thing that comes to mind is everything Studio Ghibli. They are mostly great films, and have no sequels or remakes yet and I hope it stays that way.

I'm sure there has to be live action examples but I can't think of any right now.

[–] frank@sopuli.xyz 10 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Inception? I'm always surprised about it getting left alone as it should.

[–] MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 days ago

Anytime somebody starts eyeing the rights to it, they get incepted to leave it alone.

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[–] haywire7@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago

Master and Commander. Wonderful movie, but opened at the wrong time. Could have been a nice series of movies.

[–] deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] slazer2au@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

What are you talking about? They never made them.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 15 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] Klear@quokk.au 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

There's a whole bunch of spin-offs, most of them series. Star something.

[–] mushroommunk@lemmy.today 14 points 2 days ago (2 children)

For those unaware, the sequel has been filmed and ready to go for years but has been blocked from release by law suits.

[–] Sanctus@anarchist.nexus 14 points 2 days ago (3 children)
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[–] sic_semper_tyrannis@lemmy.today 12 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (7 children)
  • The Big Lebowski
  • Pulp Fiction
  • Napoleon Dynamite
  • Tropic Thunder
  • Super Bad
  • Interstellar
  • Forest Gump
  • ~~2001 A Space Odyssey~~
  • Pan's Labyrinth
  • Tenacious D - The Pick of Destiny
  • Event Horizon
[–] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

2001 A Space Odyssey has a sequel

[–] Klear@quokk.au 3 points 1 day ago

And it's actually great! It just exists in the shadow of the original.

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[–] Witchfire@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

What would a Pan's Labyrinth sequel even look like?

[–] Fondots@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The big Lebowski kind of has a sequel in The Jesus Rolls

It's a popular theory that a lot of Tarantino movies take place in the same universe, and other of his movies are movies that exist in that universe, like Kill Bill may be the pilot that Mia Wallace starred in. I don't believe any of that is outright confirmed, but again kind of a sequel if you buy into that theory.

There was a Napoleon dynamite cartoon series made at one point if you want to count that

Forest Gump was based on a book, and there was a sequel book made- Gump & Co, and I never read it myself but I've been told that the sequel book is actually more of a sequel to the movie than to the original book

You know a lot!

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[–] ace_garp@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Black Rain(1989)

Great antagonist, moral ambiguity, and culture clash.

[–] Etterra@discuss.online 8 points 1 day ago

Dark City. And it needs neither.

[–] Jack_Burton@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago

Thankfully the Rock's remake seems to have been scrapped (fingers crossed it stays that way), so Big Trouble in Little China (hence my name).

I'd also say The 'Burbs (one of my favorites) but it just got a series.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 8 points 2 days ago (5 children)

I mean, there are plenty of highly-rated movies that don't have a sequel (and probably that's a good thing).

  • The Shawshank Redemption

  • 12 Angry Men

  • Schindler's List

  • Pulp Fiction

  • Fight Club

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[–] kubok@fedia.io 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] akmur@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

ahh that would be impossible to do, the bar is set so high

[–] kubok@fedia.io 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That's like your opinion man!

(mine too)

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[–] Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 6 points 1 day ago

Anyone who tries to remake or sequel The Princess Bride will have a special place in hell reserved for them.

[–] ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago

Master and Commander

[–] MurrayL@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] MimicJar@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

Silicon Valley is the sequel.

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[–] toddestan@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

Demolition Man.

[–] P00ptart@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Collateral. That movie was so ridiculously good.

[–] Brekky@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

Lost in translation

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