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On first watching, 2049 went straight to the top of my all-time faves. And... I can't imagine where you'd take the story from there. My imagination is limited of course, but I always have those cynical thoughts, 'they made a lot of cash on the film and want to make more and the sequel will be cliché, or tortured, or insipid.' Phantom Menace, early POTA sequels, BTTF sequels were just money grabs.

But I have hope. 2049 itself was a sequel, right? Most of the MCU are technically sequels, and pretty good. The latest Star Trek reboot was enjoyable.

What do you think?

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> The latest Star Trek reboot was enjoyable.

they were pretty terrible star trek movies - because they didn't have anything of note to say about humanity and society like the old star trek would.

These reboots are merely action/adventure movies with a star trek setting. In fact, they use the star trek name to generate marketing hype. Those films would not have done nearly so well had it not borrowed it.

there are quite a few of sequels which are as good or better then the original. Terminator 2, Aliens, The Empire Strikes Back come to mind.

But IMO, the likelihood goes down exponentially the more sequels they make.

> I always have those cynical thoughts, 'they made a lot of cash on the film and want to make more and the sequel

I think it was a flop, actually. But I also loved it.

I personally would love to see how things are outside Earth in the Blade Runner universe. Probably bleak.

If you go by the source material, Philip K Dick's novels, they are extremely bleak. 3-5 people huddled in tiny, isolated camps insulated from a toxic environment, where the only joy available is taking drugs that allows them dream they are living back on Earth.

Which novel is this from?

Several! But I think his best "Mars is actually a shithole" novel is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Three_Stigmata_of_Palmer_E...

Martian Time Slip is another one, more focused on Mars (duh). But I agree, Stigmata is bleaker.

I would like to see things you people have never seen; attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion ... C-beams glittering in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate.

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