Who pays to watch these things? Like Fast and Furious part 47 is clearly making money as is Comic book hero vs other comic book anti-hero part 32.
I know I'm old, but I can't even name the year when I last paid to go see a movie.
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See, I actually think the F&F franchise is the exception here. The first one is just about some folks who like cars stealing DVD players. If it had just been that movie, I think it would have been mostly forgotten. It's not bad, but it's not iconic on its own. With each subsequent one they continue to lean harder and harder in to ridiculousness to the point where suddenly we have Tyrese and Ludacris in SPACE. To me the franchise is an example of how to do the action movie right: with a huge amount of self awareness and never taking it too seriously. They know what kind of movies they're making.
The first one is just about some folks who like cars stealing DVD players
Not even... CRT TV/VCR combos
yeah fast and furious is basically anime and i love it for that
Toy Story 4, Toy Story 5...
Which wouldn't be so bad if they did more of a reboot with entirely new toys to keep the stories separate.
Or just leave a franchise to conclude and take that time and money to create something new.
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I remember seeing Kung fu panda in the theater with my niece, walking away thinking, well that was a nice complete story and forgetting about it.
There is a 4th one now???
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Lord of the Rings, the moment it was infested by the malignant growth of WB.
What? The LotR series is an amazing accomplishment. Probably the best trilogy of all time, and the highest grossing trilogy of all time.
It's probably in reference to The Hobbit movies - which were...less than great.
And Rings of Power, which was also...less than great.
The most boring movie I have ever watched. Even with work paying for the tickets I still feel I’m owed something for wasting my time watching them. I didn’t come back for seconds.
A 300 page children's book pointlessly and agonisingly squeezed into about 8 hours of terrible CGI cinema.
That fucking barrel ride scene is a travesty.
The Matrix Resurrections?
I liked all the references to the Matrix Trilogy being a trans allegory but I see the movie separate from the original three. It's not head canon for me.
Like River Song coming back to Doctor Who for no reason and destroying the whole idea
Felt this with MGS4.
Ending: You’ve been going too long, Snake - given too much. Quit smoking. Live your life. Don’t look back. Don’t turn out like me.
MGSV trailer: HERE WE GO AGAIN
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To hear Russell Crowe tell it, Gladiator 2 may suffer from this
They're making a Gladiator Two? WTF? Why? How? Let me guess, he knocked up Commodus' sister when she visited him in prison and the kid will be betrayed by the Senate and have to fight its way back into power?
I think it's Joachim Phoenix's character's son, but yeah...
I met someone who worked on this movie and she says 2 is gonna be pretty okay-ish, not bad but nowhere near as good as the original.
If even the people making it are like "it's pretty mid", it was probably a waste of time lol
Since everybody knows it's going to be mediocre, they should have just used the budget to make a historically-realistic movie about something in that era.
Yeah, but it's not like anything interesting and movie-worthy ever happened back then.
Bit later but im juat ginba drop one of my favorite qoutes from antiquity. "Give me back my Legions"
Seriously id kill for a movie about the Battle of Teutoberg Forest.
There's a short 1 season long series called "barbarians" which is supposedly pretty good. I don't know if they made a session 2, but I know that season 1 had a conclusion and all historic advisors left work for season 2 because it became ridiculous.
Highlander 2: The Shittening
All of the sequels are weird since the first film is literally about the end of the immortals, but among the billion sequels and TV show, Highlander 2 is definitely the weirdest. I like how the rest of the sequels 100% ignore it.
Like: suddenly they're aliens and Sean Connery can be resurrected by shouting his name, and he can project a force from his hand, but it'll make him die again, and Connor is a scientist who made a shield to replace the Ozone in the future but the Ozone layer is actually fine so they have to destroy the shield generator in a Cyberpunk dystopia.
There's not enough cocaine on the planet to explain that script.
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Godfather 3…. why?!
Grim Fandango'd
Why are you watching a sequel you didn't want?
Because as a fan I'm contractually obligated to consume and enjoy all related content, rave about it online, and buy $100 worth plastic waste a year.
It can shit on the original, loved canon by people citing and making memes about the crappy sequel. Examples: The Matrix, Star Wars
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All the terminators after 2
I actually quite like 3, if only for the ending.
It was quite a cool ending to be fair
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