Movie sequels you just loathe.

POSTED BY: OPPYH
UPDATED: Thursday, March 10, 2011 01:38
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OPPYH

Tuesday, March 8, 2011 8:07 AM

Tron Legacy-I don't know what else to say other than I thought this film was just pathetic. I like Flynn, but his son was completely unnecessary. The film tries to create an emotional bond that just falls flat.
What really makes my blood boil is that the soundtrack by Daft Punk is freaking phenomenal. Its an A+ score over a D- film. This happens very, very seldom in the world of film. Usually if the movie stinks, the soundtrack won't be much better.

Indiana Jones, and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull-Indiana Jones has a kid, and he F^%$s up the whole picture. Surprise.

Lost Boys:The Tribe-HAhahahaha. I can no longer remember much about it. I successfully erased it from my brain.
Must have been a doozy for that to happen.

X-Men 3, Spiderman 3-Hated both equally.

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FREMDFIRMA

Tuesday, March 8, 2011 11:58 AM

M.I.B.

Seriously, they shoulda quit while they were ahead, everything past the original was just emetic in its pulchritude.

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LWAVES

Tuesday, March 8, 2011 2:20 PM

Any sequel where they take the name of the first film and craft a new movie from it with none of the original cast involved.

Spider-Man 3.
The first two were great movies but this just sucked for the most part. Dancing Peter, too many baddies, tired acting and the obvious studio interference gave a very poor ending to what could have been a great trilogy.

Matrix Reloaded + Revolutions.
After being blown away by the first film I was disappointed by Reloaded but I had some hope they might make sense of it and make up for it with Revolutions. They didn't. It was a bigger mess and showed everyone that the now common comment of "we always planned a trilogy" was complete bull. I can't even watch The Matrix now because of the sequels and I can usually ignore bad sequels.

Indiana Jones And The Movie It Could Have Been.
I could live with it being about aliens as it fitted the time period and the opening sequence in the warehouse was good but after that it went seriously downhill. They went too OTT which is saying something for an Indy film. Bad CGI which is inexcusable these days, a lack of humour, Mac who was obviously a bad guy from the start, the fridge, the desert rat thingies, Harrison Ford being too old, Mutt's jeep sword fight, the endlessly flat jungle road, the Tarzan impression, betraying the character of Marion and on and on....
Too many problems to list them all. It has it's fans though and seems to divide people cleanly into love it or hate it. Almost the worst sequel ever IMO and will always remain a fantastic trilogy in my mind.

Highlander 2.
Worst. Sequel. Ever. What were they thinking. The first may not be the greatest movie ever but it has a good following, great soundtrack and a cool concept. The second film went ahead and pissed all over it by making them aliens, amongst other things. A crappy mess was the result but I can ignore the sequels and still love the original as a one off story.

And it's probably down to my musical tastes but I didn't like the Daft Punk score for Tron Legacy. I may be in the minority but it did nothing for me, I can't even remember it very well.
Not a terrible sequel but not very good either. A weak plot that basically retread the same steps as the original film.

"The greatest invention ever is not the wheel. It's the second wheel." - Rich Hall

STORYMARK

Tuesday, March 8, 2011 5:32 PM

I don't gat saying the Matrix sequels didn't make sense. They weren't what most of the audience wanted, but I didn't have any trouble following along at all. And there never was a "we planned it as a trilogy all along" talk - they were quite open with their original intent to do a prequel instead, which ended up animated in shorter form on the Animatrix set.

Anyway, off the top of my head:

Spider-Man 3 - Just awful and overstuffed.

Wolverine - Sure, it's a prequel, but I'm counting it. After a cool opening credits montage, the whole thing just goes off a cliff.

Any Alien movie after the second. Sure, 3 has great visuals, and 4 has some fun Joss-isms, but I generally dislike them quite a bit overall. And we won't even talk about AvP.

"I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him."

ZEEK

Tuesday, March 8, 2011 6:04 PM

Pirates of the Caribbean 2 & 3 were awful. They went way over the top on the action sequences. They rehashed all the old jokes from the original and they didn't come up with any new jokes. I could barely force myself to sit through the 3rd just to see the end of the story.

Luckily it didn't spoil the first one for me. I still think that movie was incredibly well done.

CHRISISALL

Tuesday, March 8, 2011 6:35 PM

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Originally posted by lwaves:
I can't even watch The Matrix now because of the sequels and I can usually ignore bad sequels.

Sonisall & I just watched The Matrix, and we loved it. The sequels were the worst movies ever made IMO, and if you watch the first one, it CLEARLY states that there will never be peace while the machines enslave humanity. The point is to DESTROY them.
Then 9-11 came along, and the directors decided to go all retcon & find a peace between them.

The laughing Chrisisall

STORYMARK

Tuesday, March 8, 2011 6:49 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by chrisisall:
Quote:
Originally posted by lwaves:
I can't even watch The Matrix now because of the sequels and I can usually ignore bad sequels.

Sonisall & I just watched The Matrix, and we loved it. The sequels were the worst movies ever made IMO, and if you watch the first one, it CLEARLY states that there will never be peace while the machines enslave humanity. The point is to DESTROY them.

I don't recall that being "clearly stated", nor does it jive with the philosophy present in the first film. Hell, the slavery part is debatable, since the third ended with anyone having the option to leave if they wished, and many clearly did not want out (as also established in the Holy First Film).

And I've always thought it was funny that people complain that the machine's weren't destroyed. If they had - it would have meant the death of everyone they were trying to save. Though I would like to see the audience reaction as the machines are defeated - the crowd cheers! - then sits in abject shock as every human in the Matrix is spit out into the water like Neo - millions left to drown with no means of helping them.

But I think you provide a clear example of why they didn't work for general audiences. People wanted a superhero movie, essentially more of the same, fulfilling their personal fantasies of fighting against "the man". A fairly conventional structure. But the Wachowski's wanted to make something less conventional, and delve even deeper into the themes they introduced in the first.

I think they're interesting, but highly flawed films, and I personally appreciate that they tried to do something new, rather than just make more of the same. They weren't entirely successful, but I admire the effort.

Saying they're the worst ever is hyperbolic to a ridiculous degree.

"I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him."

CHRISISALL

Tuesday, March 8, 2011 6:57 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Storymark:

Saying they're the worst ever is hyperbolic to a ridiculous degree.

They are the worst movies ever.
The first was innovative & clever.
The other two were made because contracts were signed, as far as I can tell. The W brothers were in a corner. And they painted their way out with nonsense.
Neo dies, Trinity dies, trinity dies, Neo dies.
PLUS the longest cartoon battles ever put on film.

If you introduce superhero themes in your first flick, don't be surprised when the audience doesn't like a sudden gear change to, ahem, "realism." LOL.

The laughing Chrisisall

CHRISISALL

Tuesday, March 8, 2011 6:59 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Storymark:

And I've always thought it was funny that people complain that the machine's weren't destroyed. If they had - it would have meant the death of everyone they were trying to save. Though I would like to see the audience reaction as the machines are defeated - the crowd cheers! - then sits in abject shock as every human in the Matrix is spit out into the water like Neo - millions left to drown with no means of helping them.

Oh, and that's the only way it could have gone?
Wow. My head must be full of ideas that NO ONE ELSE could ever think of, I guess...

The laughing Chrisisall

ZEEK

Tuesday, March 8, 2011 7:42 PM

Oh come on worst movies ever? In Reloaded Neo is basically a superhero. Other than the vampire and werewolf BS that got shoved into Reloaded I really didn't see anything too bad about it. It wasn't revolutionary or anything but it's a decent movie. Revolutions didn't really work for me.

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