Movies that promised closure

[zombie no.one]

a flip on chainsaw midget's thread.

movies that pretty much did away with any notion of a sequel, then carried on anyway

an obvious one is how Friday 13th declared the end twice

Part 4 'The Final Chapter' (erm, nope)

Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday (nope again)

[Chainsawmidget]

Highlander.  The whole purpose of the movie is that In the End there can be only one, and in the end, there was.  Then they continued it.  Then there was only ONE five more times or so. 

[Couchtr26]

Every Jaws after the first one.  Jaws shark is dead and then we get three more sequels.  

On that same note, wasn't Godzilla 1985 more or less an end.  Then I guess there was a reboot but then didn't we have Godzilla Final Wars?  

[WingedSerpent]

While the movie really didn't provide closure, the set up for Jeepers Creepers was so that it didn't create a franchise.  I remember hearing that because the creature is only active for a month every 23 years, this was intended to be a one and done movie.  Didn't stop the first sequel and a third has been in production limbo ever since.

Personally, I want to see it continue as a franchise.  Not really because I liked the movies that much, but I want to Jeepers Creepers 6 where the Creeper wakes up and finds that he has to conduct his hunt in a world of laser pistols, flying battle mechs, and the advanced alien species that rules his half of the world.

[indianasmith]

As terrible as the sequel was, I doubt they will ever make another!

[retrorussell]

Well, maybe they didn't promise closure per se, but at the end of HALLOWEEN H20 (water?), Michael gets beheaded by his sister (Jamie Lee Curtis).  Looked pretty final, then they state that ol' Mikey switched clothes with a paramedic at the beginning of part 8.  LAME!

[zombie no.one]

Looked pretty final, then they state that ol' Mikey switched clothes with a paramedic at the beginning of part 8.  LAME!

yeah movies that have to make some convoluted backstory to justify another sequel. "but  actually this happened...". in other words treating the audience like idiots. (although half of them probably are, lol)

Every Jaws after the first one.  Jaws shark is dead and then we get three more sequels.  

Not sure what to make of Jaws here. I wish there'd only been one movie, but at the same time the prospect of 'another' shark is not too far fetched, I can sort of buy it. There's always plenty more fish in the sea (literally)

[Couchtr26]

Every Jaws after the first one.  Jaws shark is dead and then we get three more sequels.  

Not sure what to make of Jaws here. I wish there'd only been one movie, but at the same time the prospect of 'another' shark is not too far fetched, I can sort of buy it. There's always plenty more fish in the sea (literally)
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I can see your point but Jaws: The Revenge does imply either the same shark or some relation.  However, for those wishing to forget it, I can agree. 

[zombie no.one]

if Speilberg had made the trucker from Duel come back to chase Dennis Weaver again, then we'd be talking!

[The Burgomaster]

THE STING.  Why, oh why, was STING II necessary????

[JaseSF]

Was a Poseidon Adventure sequel really necessary? I think not....

[zombie no.one]

I haven't seen The Sting and cant remember the ending of Poseidon Adventure so this may not apply, but just to be pedantic it's not about whether the subsequent movie/s were any good (or even 'necessary') it's about whether they should've been impossible given the ending and/or claims of the movie that preceded them.

[ChaosTheory]

I didn't have unanswered questions at the end of THE EXORCIST.

FINAL DESTINATION, although those sequels are so stupidly fun I can't really complain...

[The Burgomaster]

I haven't seen The Sting and cant remember the ending of Poseidon Adventure so this may not apply, but just to be pedantic it's not about whether the subsequent movie/s were any good (or even 'necessary') it's about whether they should've been impossible given the ending and/or claims of the movie that preceded them.

THE STING - A sequel would not have been impossible, just unlikely.  The ending of the original ties everything up in a neat bow and there's no hint of, "Hey, don't worry, we'll all be back for part 2!"

THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE - Again, a sequel would have been unlikely.  SPOILER ALERT!!!!!! Actually, at the end of the book the ship sinks.  At the end of the movie, the ship is still barely afloat.  In part 2, Michael Caine shows up to salvage the ship before it sinks.  Paul Gallico wrote both novels and he wrote an explanation at the beginning of the second one that it is a sequel to the movie, not a sequel to his original book. 

[Ted C]

The Matrix: Neo has discovered that he is the One and has the power to rewrite the matrix code on a whim. The monolithic power of the machines is about to be broken, and a new age for man and machine is about to dawn.

Then we get The Matrix Reloaded, in which we find that the machines are not really a monolithic enemy, but a bunch of squabbling crime lords, and the "great change" is that Neo increased the rate of freeing humans from slavery from a dribble to a tiny stream.