25 Movie Sequels We'd Line Up to See
Sequels. Sometimes they're good, and sometimes they're ''Garfield 2.'' Here are some unlikely ones we'd pay for. ''Return to Casablanca,'' anyone?
By Jeff Labrecque Updated December 19, 2008 at 02:00 AM EST
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The Usual Suspects, Kevin Spacey, ... | Original Plot: A chatty cripple named Verbal Kint, the sole survivor of a drug deal gone bad, spins the mythology of an omnipotent Turkish gangster
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Top Gun, Tom Cruise | Original Plot: A cocky fighter-pilot chasing the ghost of his flyboy father finds love, tragedy, and palpable homoeroticism at the Navy's elite dog-fighting school. Why
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True Lies, Arnold Schwarzenegger | Original Plot: An undercover secret agent pursues an Islamic terrorist group threatening to detonate a nuke, while simultaneously spying on his bored and oblivious wife
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Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, ...
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The Incredibles
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The Silence of the Lambs, Anthony Hopkins | Original Plot: An FBI trainee probes the twisted mind of infamous cannibal Hannibal Lector in order to catch the serial butcher known as Buffalo Bill.
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Casablanca, Humphrey Bogart, ... | Original Plot: In WWII Casablanca, where life is cheap, a woman from Rick's past walks into his nightclub just as the Germans are plotting the
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Before Sunset, Ethan Hawke, ... | Original Plot: Nine years after a chance romantic encounter in Vienna (see Before Sunrise ), Jesse and Celine cross paths in Paris. Why a Sequel
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Lukas Haas, Harrison Ford, ...
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South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut
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Wall Street, Michael Douglas | Rising stock trader Charlie Sheen goes to work for Michael Douglas' corporate raider (pictured) and learns that, once you start making serious money, hideous art
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Eastern Promises, Viggo Mortensen
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The Goonies | The Goonies There isn't a kid in the world who hasn't walked into their attic on a boring Saturday afternoon hoping to find a treasure
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The Good Shepherd, Angelina Jolie, ... | The Good Shepherd (2006) In her small role as the frustrated wife of a CIA agent (Matt Damon), Jolie was ''lassoed in ladylike dresses and
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Out of Sight, George Clooney, ... | Original Plot: An escaped convict charming enough to rob banks simply by asking for the money risks his last heist for his infatuation with the
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Bull Durham, Kevin Costner, ... | BULL DURHAM (1988) Susan Sarandon?s Annie believes in the church of baseball. But we believe in the church of Bull Durham . The film —
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Midnight Run, Charles Grodin, ... | Original Plot: A disgraced ex-cop-turned-bounty hunter must deliver a daffy accountant from New York to Los Angeles before the mob or the FBI find him.
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Jim Carrey, The Truman Show
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The History of the World Part I, Mel Brooks | Original Plot: From the dawn of man through the French Revolution, Mel Brooks depicts man's evolution with all the wit of an accomplished stand-up philosopher.
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The Big Lebowski, Jeff Bridges | Original Plot: The laziest dude in L.A. gets wrapped up in a kidnapping plot when he's confused for a stingy millionaire, but all he really
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Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, Paul Bettany, ... | Original Plot: As Napoleon's armies march across Europe, Capt. Jack Aubrey and the British crew of the HMS Surprise play a deadly game of cat-and-mouse
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Ziyi Zhang, Chow Yun-Fat, ...
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Owen Wilson, Vince Vaughn, ...
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The Simpsons Movie
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