Top 5 Movies That ACTUALLY Deserve Sequels (they're that good!). Maybe some potential storylines.

Grab your popcorn and drinks folks, the movie is about to start! (WARNING: Spoilers ahead!).

Have you ever just found yourself devouring your popcorn down to the last bit or slurping away your beverage until there was nothing left, hoping that perfect movie would never end? At least, up until it did and left you at the edge of your seat with a cliffhanger.

Sucks right? Well, today we take a look at the 5 films that left us star-struck and wanting more.

So, last week Thursday on my Instagram, I posted a poll of which blockbuster movies you would love to see get a sequel or are at least deserving of one.

Major S/O to everyone who participated in the poll, you guys are rockstars in my universe!

And the results are (drumroll, please)...

• Romance films:

Crazy Rich Asians (2018) - 38%

Titanic (1997*) - 62%

• Sci-fi films:

Avatar (2009) - 64%

I Am Legend (2007) - 36%

• Action films:

Baby Driver (2017) - 46%

John Wick 3 (2019) - 54%

• Fantasy films:

The Mummy (2018) - 54%

The Golden Compass (2007) - 46%

• Horror/Thriller films:

Get Out (2017) - 73%

Escape Room (2019) - 27%

With that settled, let's get on with the review of what you think are the top 5 films that deserve sequels.

1. Titanic (1997)

It is one of the few movies that have made me cry, in fact - I think this movie made EVERYONE cry!

James Cameron's 194-minute, $200 million film of the tragic voyage is in the tradition of the great Hollywood epics. It is flawlessly crafted, intelligently constructed, strongly acted and spellbinding.

Plot:

The story is a retelling of our main character Rose DeWitt (who in the opening shot is age 101) reminisces on her days on the ship up till the tragedy:

17-year-old Rose DeWitt Bukater is sailing to what she sees as her doom: She has been forced by her penniless mother to become engaged to marry a rich, supercilious snob named Cal Hockley, and so bitterly does she hate this prospect that she tries to kill herself by jumping from the ship. She is saved by Jack Dawson, a brash kid from steerage, and of course, they will fall in love during the brief time left to them.

Jack is invited to join Rose's party at dinner in the first-class dining room, and later, fleeing from Cal's manservant, Lovejoy. They find themselves first in the awesome engine room, with pistons as tall as churches, and sneak away together at a rousing Irish dance in the crowded steerage. Their exploration is intercut with scenes from the command deck, where the captain consults with Andrews, the ship's designer and Ismay, the White Star Line's managing director.

Ismay wants the ship to break the trans-Atlantic speed record. He is warned that icebergs may have floated into the hazardous northern crossing but is scornful of danger. The Titanic can easily break the speed record but is too massive to turn quickly at high speed; there is an agonising sequence that almost seems to play in slow motion, as the ship strains and shudders to turn away from an iceberg in its path--and fails.

As the ship sinks, the passengers all rush to escape to the safety and salvation that were the lifeboats, but to their demise were not enough for all of them. Throughout the mass chaos, people are fighting, shooting at each other, plunging to their watery deaths, and in some cases, even committing suicide. Moments right after it sank, the night sea was quiet enough so that cries for help carried easily across the water to the lifeboats, which sailed away. Whilst the remaining passengers froze and drowned, including Jack, leaving Rose as the sole survivor of the wreckage.

The real ending, of course, comes a bit later. There’s an epilogue in which the older Rose bids Jack a final farewell and goes to sleep. In her dream, Rose appears in a white dress, climbs the boat’s iconic grand staircase, and reunites with Jack, as the rest of the ship’s passengers and crew (minus the story’s antagonists) applaud joyously.

Potential Storyline if Titanic were to continue:

If there were to be a sequel to James Cameron's Titanic, then the ending would have to be reimagined. Yes, the ship would still have to sink (after all it is based on a historical event) but instead of Jack dying, He and Rose could've both survived and age happily together (that's what everyone wants right but is too underwhelming).

Another option could be a continuation of Rose's story after being rescued at sea (but it would take more of a paranormal/sci-fi shift):

Where maybe, Rose lives in New York for several years, where she meets Jack Dawson’s relatives, learns much more about Jack, and marries his cousin Jeremy, who is later murdered by her (Rose's) ex-fiance (Cal). Rose dreams often of Jack and feels his presence in her life. Jack helps Rose in various mysterious ways during her life, but most importantly by inspiring her to sacrifice herself for others and by gradually helping her to forgive the survivors of the Titanic for their failure to return and rescue those in the water. Other facts about Rose’s life are revealed at her funeral. The story continues with events in the life of Rose’s son (who would also be named Jack and is a spitting image of him). The authenticity of various paranormal experiences of Rose involving Jack, at first uncertain, seems to be gradually confirmed.

Either way, Titanic was truly a beautiful and powerful film that captured the heartstrings of the audience and is truly one, deserving of a sequel.

2. Avatar (2009)

Yet another one of James Cameron's beautifully orchestrated and brilliant creations on screen.

The concept of the film, which was first developed in 1994, was originally set to premiere after the completion of Cameron's 1997 film Titanic and planned for release in 1999. However, according to Cameron, the necessary technology was not yet available to achieve his vision of the film (Otherwise we would've been stuck with a horrible film with bad special effects!).

Cameron continued working on the development and screenplay of the fictional universe between 2005 and 2006. Avatar was officially budgeted at $237 million. Other estimates put the cost between $280 million and $310 million for production and an additional $150 million for promotion (Much higher than his previous blockbuster films). The film made extensive use of new motion capture filming techniques, ground-breaking visual effects, becoming and remains the highest-grossing film of all time, even surpassing recent major hit films like 2019's Avengers: Endgame.

Plot:

The movie is set in 2154, humans have depleted Earth's natural resources, leading to a severe energy crisis. The Resources Development Administration (RDA) mines a valuable mineral unobtanium on Pandora, a densely forested habitable moon orbiting Polyphemus, a fictional gas giant in the Alpha Centauri star system.

Pandora, whose atmosphere is poisonous to humans, is inhabited by the Na'vi, a species of 10-foot tall (3.0 m), blue-skinned, sapient humanoids that live in harmony with nature and worship a mother goddess named Eywa.

To explore Pandora's biosphere, scientists use Na'vi-human hybrids called "avatars", operated by genetically matched humans. Jake Sully, a paraplegic former Marine, replaces his deceased identical twin brother as an operator of one. Dr. Grace Augustine, head of the Avatar Program, considers Sully an inadequate replacement but accepts his assignment as a bodyguard.

While escorting the avatars of Grace and fellow scientist Dr. Norm Spellman, Jake's avatar is attacked by a thanator and flees into the forest, where he is rescued by Neytiri, a female Na'vi. Witnessing an auspicious sign, she takes him to her clan. Neytiri's mother Mo'at, the clan's spiritual leader, orders her daughter to initiate Jake into their society.

Colonel Miles Quaritch, head of RDA's private security force, promises Jake that the company will restore his legs if he gathers information about the Na'vi and the clan's gathering place, a giant tree called Hometree, which stands above the richest deposit of unobtanium in the area.

When Grace learns of this, she transfers herself, Jake, and Norm to an outpost. Over the following three months, Jake and Neytiri fall in love as Jake grows to sympathise with the natives. After Jake is initiated into the tribe, he and Neytiri choose each other as mates. Soon afterwards, Jake reveals his change of allegiance when he attempts to disable a bulldozer that threatens to destroy a sacred Na'vi site.

When Quaritch shows a video recording of Jake's attack on the bulldozer to Administrator Parker Selfridge, and another in which Jake admits that the Na'vi will never abandon Hometree, Selfridge orders Hometree destroyed.

Despite Grace's argument that destroying Hometree could damage the biological neural network native to Pandora, Selfridge gives Jake and Grace one hour to convince the Na'vi to evacuate before commencing the attack. Jake confesses to the Na'vi that he was a spy, and they take him and Grace captive. Quaritch's men destroy Hometree, killing Neytiri's father (the clan chief) and many others. Mo'at frees Jake and Grace, but they are detached from their avatars and imprisoned by Quaritch's forces.

Pilot Trudy Chacón, disgusted by Quaritch's brutality, frees Jake, Grace, and Norm, and airlifts them to Grace's outpost, but Grace is shot by Quaritch during the escape.

To regain the Na'vi's trust, Jake connects his mind to that of Toruk, a dragon-like predator feared and honoured by the Na'vi. Jake finds the refugees at the sacred Tree of Souls and pleads with Mo'at to heal Grace. The clan attempts to transfer Grace from her human body into her avatar with the aid of the Tree of Souls, but she dies before the process can be completed.

Supported by the new chief Tsu'tey, Jake unites the clan and tells them to gather all of the clans to battle the RDA. Quaritch organises a pre-emptive strike against the Tree of Souls, believing that its destruction will demoralize the natives. On the eve of battle, Jake prays to Eywa, via a neural connection with the Tree of Souls, to intercede on behalf of the Na'vi.

During the subsequent battle, the Na'vi suffer heavy casualties, including Tsu'tey and Trudy, but are rescued when Pandoran wildlife unexpectedly join the attack and overwhelm the humans, which Neytiri interprets as Eywa's answer to Jake's prayer. Jake destroys a makeshift bomber before it can reach the Tree of Souls; Quaritch, wearing an AMP suit, escapes from his own damaged aircraft, then later finds and breaks open the avatar link unit containing Jake's human body, exposing it to Pandora's poisonous atmosphere.

Quaritch prepares to slit the throat of Jake's avatar, but Neytiri kills Quaritch and saves Jake from suffocation, seeing his human form for the first time.

With the exceptions of Jake, Norm and a select few others, all humans are expelled from Pandora and sent back to Earth.

Jake is permanently transferred into his avatar with the aid of the Tree of Souls.

Potential Storyline if Avatar were to continue:

There have been MANY rumours floating around on the internet, stating the promise of a sequel to the franchise, and the actual good news is, James Cameron himself has confirmed there to be a continuation of the Avatar story. Avatar 2 is set to release on 16 December 2022, whilst Avatar 3 is planned to premiere in the year 2024 (if there are no further cutbacks).

In terms of plot, it's really hard to say. Perhaps in Avatar 2, we'll finally see Jake and Neytiri together with children and the humans coming back to Pandora for a second fight (maybe a more in-depth backstory about Jake's twin brother?).

Whatever the case is, I'm sure that James Cameron is cooking up something really good for the sequels (if the first part took that long to make, then part two is about to be phenomenal!) and it is something that the Avatar fanbase are really looking forward to.

3. John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum (2019)

Any movie with Keanu Reeves is bound to be a good one right? And it's no exception with the epic, action-packed John Wick franchise.

The 2019 American neo-noir action thriller film directed by Chad Stahelski and written by Derek Kolstad, Shay Hatten, Chris Collins, and Marc Abrams, based on a story by Kolstad. Is the third instalment to John Wick (2014) and John Wick: Chapter 2 (2017).

Plot:

Our hero, soulful assassin John Wick, is at the New York Public Library to find a very specific book when he's interrupted by one of the approximately 11 million people who will attempt to kill him. Eventually, John kills them by utilising the book he's holding as a weapon. That part is great, but the moment of true inspiration comes next when he goes back and replaces the book on the shelf where he found it.

In the original “John Wick,” we were introduced to Wick, the recently widowed former member of a shadow cabal of assassins governed by the rules-obsessed High Table, who was spurred back into action when connected punks killed the dog left to him by his late wife. In "John Wick: Chapter 2," he was still enmeshed in the world that he had successfully left behind and at the end, he killed a member of the High Table while on the grounds of the Continental Hotel, an establishment designated as a safe ground for those in the assassin trade.

This move leads to his being designated “excommunicado” by the High Table—all of his rights and privileges are stripped away and an open contract is issued for one and all on him with a payoff beginning at $14 million—though his colleague, Winston, gives him a one-hour head start, partly out of friendship and partly, it appears, for his own amusement.

Wick’s plan is to make his way to Morocco in the hopes of tracking down the secretive leader of the High Table in order to make a personal offer to atone for his grave transgression. Although no one in the organisation is supposed to offer any assistance to Wick, he does receive some aid from a couple of people from his past—his onetime mentor and Sofia, a onetime killer who now runs the Morocco branch of the Continental and owes Wick for a past favour.

While he is off trying to find the head of the High Table and fighting off all comers, another member of the organisation, known only as The Adjudicator arrives in New York to set things in order and punish both Winston and The Bowery King for daring to aid Wick. To help carry this out, they enlist the services of Zero, a sushi chef with an endless array of deadly ninjas at his service, all of whom seem giddy at the possibility of fighting the legendary John Wick.

Potential storyline if John Wick 3 were to continue:

For John Wick fans, they can expect to see the continuation of the John Wick franchise, with its fourth instalment, John Wick Chapter 4, in 2022, as confirmed by Lionsgate and Stahelski. The sequel was set to release this year in 2021 but was delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic and Reeves commitments to the development of The Matrix Resurrections.

Plot-wise, while some characters died in Chapter 3, including Zero, many of the main players made it out alive. Obviously, John Wick will return (his name is in the damn title), but plenty of other characters are likely to come back as well. The next movie will likely have a continuation for characters like Winston, the Bowery King, Charon, The Adjudicator of the High Table, and Tick Tock Man. Potentially the return of the mysterious Sofia.

With the High Table turning on both Wick and the Bowery King, it appears war is coming between the two sides. The Bowery King has an army of homeless-looking killers at his disposal that are located all around the city, and with Wick likely feeling a little mad after being shot by his former associate Winston, a team-up could absolutely be in the cards.

Any Matrix fan will be thrilled to see more screen time for Reeves and Fishbourne together, and John Wick 4 likely will have plenty of that.

4. The Mummy (2018)

"Enchanting", "mysterious", "wicked", are the words I would use to describe this beautifully yet twistedly crafted movie.

American action-adventure film directed by Alex Kurtzman and written by David Koepp, Christopher McQuarrie, and Dylan Kussman, with a story by Kurtzman, Jon Spaihts, and Jenny Lumet. A reboot of The Mummy franchise, the film stars Tom Cruise and Sofia Boutella.

What I actually like about this film is the new take on the feminist approach, emphasising that an elite role as such as Pharoh can be undertaken by a woman, also making a badass mummy at that (fun little fact about me, I like reading about ancient civilisations - especially mythology, so when the I heard that there would be a reboot about The Mummy, I knew I had to watch it).

In hopes of rebooting The Mummy series, and a speedy unveiling of Universal Studio's: Dark Universe, in actuality, the film received generally negative reviews from critics and despite grossing $410 million worldwide, it was estimated to have lost the studio as much as $95 million.

(But each to their own right? I found the movie enjoyable and so did you - after all, that's how it made it to the top 5).

Plot:

In present-day London, construction workers discover the tomb of a crusader knight who was buried with an Egyptian ruby in 1127 AD. In Iraq, U.S. Army soldiers Sergeant Nick Morton and Corporal Chris Vail discover the tomb of Princess Ahmanet, who attempted to summon the deity Set.

She was caught and mummified alive. They and archaeologist Jenny Halsey fly Ahmanet's sarcophagus to Britain, unknowingly bringing Ahmanet back to life.

During the flight, Chris is possessed by Ahmanet through a spider that bit him and attacks the others, only to be killed by Nick. Many crows attack the plane, causing it to crash, killing the crew except Jenny, who escapes by a parachute Nick gives her.

Nick returns to life in a morgue. Chris' ghost appears and tells him he has been cursed by Ahmanet who seeks to use him as a vessel for Set. Ahmanet's mummy escapes from the sarcophagus and begins feeding on people to regenerate her body, turning them into zombies. She recovers the Dagger of Set and attempts to stab Nick, before realising that the ruby is not attached to it. She and her army chase after Nick and Jenny until soldiers appear and subdue her.

The soldiers’ leader, Dr. Henry Jekyll, explains that Jenny is an agent of Prodigium, a secret society dedicated to hunting supernatural threats. Nick and Jenny discover that Jekyll intends to allow Set to possess Nick completely, believing that this will render Set vulnerable.

Jekyll transforms into Eddie Hyde. Nick stops him with a serum that Jekyll invented for this purpose, allowing Nick and Jenny to escape. Ahmanet finds them, regains the dagger, summons many crusader zombies, and creates a large sandstorm in London. The crusader zombies kill the Prodigium soldiers and Ahmanet recovers the ruby, combining it with the dagger in order to free Set.

Guided by Chris' ghost, Nick and Jenny flee into the London Underground, where they are attacked by Ahmanet's zombies. Ahmanet captures Jenny and drowns her. When Nick is brought to Ahmanet, he sees Jenny's body, and the zombies turn to dust. Nick is injured when he tries to attack Ahmanet and he lets her embrace him as a ruse to steal the dagger and shatter the ruby.

He strikes the pommel of the dagger against the floor, cracking the ruby, but Ahmanet reminds him that the dagger could grant him the power to reverse death. Instead of destroying the gem, he stabs himself. However, because the ruby is cracked, he is only partially possessed by Set. Nick goes to Ahmanet, but on remembering the words of Jenny and Jekyll, he turns on her and uses Set's powers to extract Ahmanet's life force and resurrect Jenny. Knowing that the Prodigium is coming for him, he says goodbye to Jenny and vanishes.

As Ahmanet is sealed back in her tomb, Jenny and Jekyll wonder whether Nick, now fused with Set, will use his powers for good. Nick returns to the desert and resurrects Chris. The two go on to a new adventure.

Potential storyline if The Mummy were to continue:

Although the ending held the premise of there being potentially a continuation, due to the many bad reviews it received, I don't think that the film will be getting a sequel anytime soon. This, of course, is sad news to the few fans that actually WANT to see more of the story.

The only hope of there ever being a sequel to The Mummy is if producers considered re-making the movie entirely.

Unlike the film's predecessors, this reboot truly impressed me. despite the negative reviews critics gave, the film has a number of decent qualities that have become overshadowed by its shortcomings (namely, the element of horror and cinematic visuals).

I believe this film has potential, perhaps a few touch-ups here and there, and it will be good as new again!

5. Get Out (2017)

One of the most disturbing films I've seen all year round, Jordan Peele's Get Out is a refreshing take on horror movies with some amazingly good performances by Daniel Kaluuya and Allison Williams. This film was a reflection of the terrifying truth that many black communities in the world face today.

This low-budget horror film which reached top Horror films in 2017, was able to produce a scene that figured a pretty basic task that most people have to face: meeting your significant other’s family for the first time. The task in itself can be nerve-racking, but when race is introduced to the picture, things get a bit unpredictable.

What makes “Get Out” different from the rest of traditional horrors movies is the fact that it tackles issues of racism. When it comes to a racism-themed horror movie, you would expect a story about a haunted cult taking the lives of unsuspecting black people running for their lives. However, “Get Out” addresses a different type of racism that is a little more subtle. A type of racism that is more covert and not so obvious. This is the type of racism that can possibly be the reason why as a black person would have to watch the tone you speak while talking to police to not sound threatening and wind up in the obituaries.

Peele was a true mastermind when it came to producing the film and layering “Get Out” with symbolism and satire that mirror the black experience in current times.

Plot:

The movie starts with a cold open of a young black man walking down an unfamiliar street in a swanky suburb trying to get to his girlfriend’s house.

As he walks down the street, a white car drives behind him playing eerie music. The driver slowly stalks the young black man until he is fed up and decides to walk in a different direction. A man with a metal helmet dressed in all black appears from the cars. He chokes the unsuspecting man and drags his lifeless body back to the car.

Cut to our protagonists, Chris and his girlfriend Rose, are preparing to go home to meet her parents. Rose hasn’t told them he’s black, which she blows off as no big deal, but he’s wary. His TSA Agent buddy, Rod, warns him against going too, but Chris is falling in love with Rose. He’ll have to meet them eventually. And Rose swears her dad would have voted for Obama a third time if he could have (sounds weird to me too).

From the minute that Chris and Rose arrive at her parents’ house, something is unsettling. Sure, Dean and Missy seem friendly enough, but almost too much so, like they’re looking to impress Chris. More unnerving is the demeanour of a groundskeeper named Walter and a housekeeper named Georgina. There’s just something wrong. But, as we so often do in social or racial situations, Chris keeps trying to excuse their behaviour—maybe Walter is jealous and maybe Georgina has an issue with Chris dating a white woman.

The lurking presence of Rose’s odd brother doesn’t help. Chris goes out to have a smoke one night, and, well, things start to get even stranger in ways (I won’t spoil—in fact, the preview gives away way too much. Avoid it if you can).

As the clues continue to point out that something is wrong, Chris begins to think that he just might be overreacting to everyday racial tension? Moving on to the next scene, as white partygoers comment on Chris’ genetically blessed physical gifts, the mind is racing as to what exactly the greater purpose of this visit is for this young man, a minority in a sea of white people who seem to want to own him.

It is later revealed that the family of Rose transplants their brains into other people’s bodies granting them preferred physical characteristics and a twisted form of immortality. A blind art dealer Hudson reveals that he wants Chris's body only for sight and his photography skills. Missy then performs hypnosis on Chris seemingly knocking him out. As Rose’s brother comes close to unconscious Chris, he is knocked out by Chris. Chris had blocked the hypnosis by plugging his ears with cotton stuffing pulled from the chair that he was tied to. He then goes on a bloody rampage to escape from the house.

Cut to the end, and Chris tries to escape from the house, he hits Georgina while driving away. Remembering his mother’s death, Chris carries her in her car but as she is possessed by Rose's grandmother Marianne, she attacks him. During the struggle, car crashes and Georgina is killed. Chris then neutralises Roman who had possessed Walter’s body. As Walter regains control of his body, he shoots Rose in the stomach before killing himself.

A dying Rose claims that she still loves Chris in the hope that he will save her. Chris sees through this gambit and starts to strangle her as a Police car pulls onto the scene. Chris’ friend Rod comes out of the car and rescues him leaving Rose there to bleed out on the road.

Potential storyline if Get Out were to continue:

Get Out is a little film with a big message.

Peele wanted the audience watching the film to feel the anxiety of what it is like to be black in America by adding various situations throughout the film that has high stakes but would have a much different if the lead was a white man (a razor-sharp commentary of how unfair society is).

The film was made to show the audience what the racially motivated anxiety of being a black person feels like. It shows what goes through the mind of a black person in an interracial relationship meeting their significant other and their parents for the first time.

You have to ask your parents a question which shouldn’t really matter but in this world, it does. “Do your parents know I am black?”.

In terms of the future of Get Out, as much as the film was effortlessly put together, the end of the film didn't leave a lot of room for a continuation. That doesn't mean, though, that audiences weren't hungry for more. Peele has brought a lot of excellent creations on screen right after Get Out, such as the film Us and the television series Lovecraft Country.

Unless a brilliant story for Get Out 2 pops fully-formed into Peele's head sometime very soon, it almost certainly won't happen — which, as perfectly self-contained and self-explanatory as Get Out is, having no sequel may be for the best.

As we've reached the end of the review of the top 5 films that deserve sequels, each and every one of these movies, whether its about sinking ships, aliens, mummy's, high paced action or psychological horrors; are excellently put together and have left a long-lasting impression on the audience ever since they first appeared on the screen. Truly,works of art.

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