6. Casablanca 2: Brazzaville
Chances are that, even if you haven't seen
Casablanca yet (why?), you at least know enough about it to understand its legacy, its place in history, its standing as one of the greatest motion pictures ever made, and the fact that making a sequel would be just about as disrespectful as digging up Humphrey Bogart and using his corpse to stage your own twisted version of
The Maltese Falcon. The movie itself takes place during WWII in a Nazi-occupied Casablanca, where Rick Blaine, a nightclub owner and all-round melancholic badass, finds himself helping his long lost love, Isla, escape the country so that she can spend the rest of her life with another man. When all's said and done (and Isla has escaped), we get the feeling that ol' Ricky is going to abandon his neutral ways to join up with the French to take on the Nazis. Which is what the proposed sequel,
Brazzaville, was supposed to be about: killin' Nazis. Though that's not that bad of an idea, the central spin on the story undermined Casablanca's integrity by revealing in the beginning that Rick was a spy working for the US government all along. But the point of Casablanca, you see, is that Rick was neutral and cynical and pessimistic, though he eventually made the decision to do something good and heroic. The spy thing ruins this completely. Bogart actually signed up for this movie, though - for unexplained reasons - it never happened. Here's looking at you, Warner Bros.