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How about a sequel to this movie, "The Game 2" ?

posted 10 years ago by DragonHunterX
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Nicholas gets so mad to his brother (as he should be),he goes along with a smiley face for a couple of months but secretly plans a Saw-ish death trap game and executes it on his brother.

But if there would be a plot twist at the ending and Nicholas stops the game just before the blades cut off his brothers head,it would be so easy to predict for both Conrad and the audience of the movie.Conrad would go like "Oookay I made his life miserable so he is making me feel like exactly how I made him feel,will this end already ?"

But no,there will be no plot twist and the game will actually kill him brutally.In a second thought,that would be the plot twist.

If there are any different ideas for a sequel,I would like to hear :) I know,my idea is unrealistic and crazy but I can't see a "game" planned out if Nicholas doesn't get mad

Sorry for the english

[–] thomas-begen 10 years ago

How about no. A sequel to this movie would be thoroughly dull even if it's unpredictable.

[–] sbowesuk 10 years ago

Can we *beep* not please? What is it with people asking for utterly unnecessary sequels? Just enjoy the story for what it is, then movie on. Asking for a sequel to The Game is moronic.

[–] rwm6 10 years ago

This isn't the kind of movie that merits a sequel. A big part of its appeal was the element of surprise and not knowing how it would end. It would be hard to duplicate that freshness in a sequel.

[–] redban02 10 years ago

Along with the above comments, you should also note that this movie didn't do well at the box-office. You don't get sequels unless there is profit to be enjoyed.

[–] MaximumMadness 10 years ago

Sorry, but I don't think that this film needs a sequel, and I don't think your idea would really work... it would completely diminish the original film.

For a follow-up, the only thing I could see possibly working would be giving the film the reboot treatment down the line... but even that would probably end up a complete and utter failure, because studios don't care about their properties and tend to dumb-down their reboots/remakes.

Although, I will say I'm pretty surprised that, given the time this film was released ('97), and the fact it became a pretty sizable cult-film, that it didn't get the lame direct-to-video sequel treatment that many other cult-hits of the era received. The late-90's/early-2000's were filled with nonstop direct-to-video cash-in sequels to cult-films... everything from Darkman to The Crow to Mimic. (And many others) And while occasionally one of these sequels would turn out ok (Mimi 3: Sentinel being one of the ones to pop into mind, since it was halfway decent, especially for it's non-existent budget), 99% of them were trash.

I would've thought that a film like The Game would have easily qualified for similar treatment. Though I'm very happy it didn't, for obvious reasons.

And FURTHERMORE, this is my signature! SERIOUSLY! Did you think I was still talking about my point?

[–] residentevil6901 10 years ago

If they did a sequel it should just be an all new person going through the game with all new scenarios that happen. Make it nothing like the first one and I would like it

[–] wormholeboy 8 years ago

I'm not sure that it would be possible to make an effective sequel, but I have always been a bit disappointed that the movie wrapped up the ending so tightly. I would have preferred a more ambiguous ending that suggested the "Game" was still underway with Nicholas.

If a sequel had to be made, the only reasonable way I could see doing it at this point would be to focus on the members of CRS itself, such as by having a CRS team finding evidence that someone else in the company was using the "Game" for criminal purposes, then it becomes a "who can you trust"/"what do you believe" situation with all the parties having some degree of access to the resources of CRS.