I have watched numerous movies where literally all I wanted was to enjoy more of the world that was created. I wouldn’t even mind if there was literally no plot involved.
Movie wraps up with a perfect ending? Just release an extended ending!
Sometimes I just want to watch those characters enjoy their happy ending and get to explore more of the lore and the world.
Just finished up project hail Mary and…
Spoilers?
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All I want is a sequel where it explores the world of Erid before he gets sent home. Talk to more eridians, learn some of their culture and traditions. Maybe even have permanent communications established between them and earth and scientists and people just talk with them.
I don’t even care if there’s much of a plot, just story.
It would be nice if there was more of this stuff for horrors or thrillers.
Like when a bad guy is caught or killed at the end, I’d like to see the reactions of everyone else. Or even the good guys or whatever.
Like how the families or the world at a whole moved on from the events. If anyone got arrested.
Like with Obsession, what happened to the girl at the end?? Did she end up in prison for everyone’s death?
Or I recently watched one called The Watcher. What happened with the main girl? There’s gotta be some trauma there, she couldn’t have just gone to normal life. What happened with her husband that never believed her?
Detective Pikachu.
Spoilers for the ending
I think they shot themselves in the foot by having Pikachu lose his human voice and return to talking like a normal Pikachu. I’m not sure a “buddy cop” type movie would work as well without real dialogue. All that said though…
It was a very unique take on Pokemon. Some of the designs looks odd in live action 3d, Mr. Mime comes to mind lmao, but it was so cool seeing how humans and monsters work together and are integrated into an urban setting. It’s something the games touch on a little, but something Nintendo/Game Freak don’t seem interested in animating in any interesting way. (That’s not a dog at the battle system not being animated, which is a totally separate topic.)
Seeing Loudred (I think it was Loudred, not Exploud) as a DJ while there was a fucking cage match was sick as hell!
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang.
The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya, but only if it can be as insane as the original.
What you’re looking for is fanfiction.
The Chronicles of Riddick
Yeah I know they made ‘Riddick’, it’s okay and a nice step back into more of what Pitch Black was. But I wanted to know more about the Elementals, the Necromongers, other races that were extinguished, or like the Furyan… thought to have been purged.
Edit: Tossing in Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets as a bonus. Another cool world I wanted to see more of.
Technically there was a movie (Serenity), but whatever got me more of the Firefly universe. The characters were just so much fun, their banter alone would be enough for me. Thankfully, there’s supposedly an animated revival in the works - announced several months ago by the entire original cast (edit: sans Ron Glass of course 😔).
I am a leaf on the wind 💔
Wait really? I saw Fillion doing the “so are we doing this?” Skits with all the other actors a while ago, but I then heard it was for a podcast. I wasnt aware its actually going to be an animated revival. Thats great.
There’s also a bunch of comics, some are excellent.
I’d watch a Guardians of the Galaxy movie that was just 3 hours of the characters interacting with each other and otherwise going about their day. I’m confident that they wouldn’t need a plot to be entertaining.
I’d also just enjoy watching Rocket for 3 hours if I’m being perfectly honest.
Draw and Pom. All day long.
I cant think of any examples myself, but if you’ve only seen the project hail mary-movie, I’ve got great news for you!
Tap for spoiler about Project Hail Mary
The book contains so much more info about Eridians and Erid, including biology and culture, interactions between all the characters (both on earth and in space), and the science. It’s a damn worthwhile read even if you already know the plot.
I’m still waiting for Bright 2….
Modern Fantasy like that always gets me going!
That world has a million stories that could be told in it, just using the premise of orcs/elves/humans in an analog modern society. Off the top of my head a “reality” cooking show where they make a meal to appease each races tastes; explore more into their sports: there was the throwaway line about Orcs being NFL linemen; a crocodile hunter type show about all the mythical animals that are around…
I’m gonna stop, I’m disappointed none of this is happening.
Possibly deep cut but the BBC miniseries Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell
Based on an incredible book set in the Regency period about magic and magicians, the world is just so cool, I’d love another episode just about people making statues talk and enchanting the weather and stuff
I read the book, never knew there was a TV adaptation.
I know what im doing this weekend!
This is kind of why I watched Rings of Power. The plot has many problems but I just wanted to see more of middle-earth.
Half Baked sequel
I stopped watching Marvel movies because I found the plots virtually nonexistent. And don’t get mad at me, dear reader, if you love them. That’s okay, I’m not taking that away from you. I’m just saying how I felt.
So I don’t know if I would sign on to your theory. I did enjoy a lot of the characters but it didn’t carry an ironman or Thor movie for me.
I would like a sequel of Hail Mary though.
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My guess is that Grace’s life on Erid is just not interesting enough. In that he will probably just die there. The gravity, the nutritional problems - he is so worn out he probably wouldn’t survive his trip back, coma or not. I would like a story set in the same universe where humans deal with the multiple crises while Grace and Rocky are getting the Taomeba, how they infect Venus with it once the Beatles came home, how Strat deals with her predicted abuse of power lawsuits, and how later the Eridians show up with Grace’s body encased in Xenonite, bringing their saviour home, to a chaotic Earth that’s just recovered and thinks it’s Independence Day. The problem is just that we need to find a way to tell this story through the lens of a lone male wolf character because that’s what the author does best.
I would watch infinite Clue sequels where they just shuffled the evidence cards and started a new game.
