George W Bush
Even the original stunk on ice! 🤣 That vision thing.
I’ll start: The Stars Wars postlogy was such a disastrous cash grab that it doesn’t exist in my head cannon.
This whole thing was a mess.
I think I’m still in kinda disbelief that that happened. Like, maybe don’t take me too seriously, but the true sign that the world is going to shit was right there with The Force Awakens. When Star Wars devolved to a totally fluffed up cash grab that we all ate up, that was the sign that we’d lost the plot.
Star Wars started as a cash grab, you were just too young to notice
I mean sure, in a “Hooker with a Penis” everyone has sold out kinda way.
Jedi and Empire were written specifically around driving toy sales. And the reason we waited for 20 years for the prequels was because Lucas wanted the toy contracts to run out so he could get a bigger slice. Story took a back seat to merchandise from the very beginning. The man practically invented selling out.
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I actually liked TLJ. But we can all probably agree that the rise of skywalker was garbage.
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That movie convinced me I’m no longer a die hard fan for Star Wars.
Thing is, they could have done it right, but they went straight to a hack who throws mystery boxes around, takes lazy shortcuts at every conceivable turn, and can be even mildly realistic with space, distances and their visuals, but refuses to be.
And they let him not only direct, but also write the framework and story.Bravo! You nailed it.
Thanks ha ha
They were far better than the prequels and original ones
Matrix: Resurrections
Totally unnecessary sequel to a not so great 3rd part of a great franchise.
I felt unsafe watching it the whole time.
I went in after not having watched any matrix movies in a very long time, and enjoyed it. I think people overprepared for the movie by watching all matrix movies back to back, and the movie ended up recapping the previous movies for 1/3rd of the runtime. It’s a true reboot for a new generation where you don’t need to have watched any of the previous movies. It’s enough if you just knew about them. That’s what I think.
It was definitely not made for hardcore fans. That’s true.
I went in not expecting anything good of it (I think I had an intuitive hunch about exactly where it was going to come from) and ended up really enjoying it. I wouldn’t really recommend it to anyone and don’t think it’s “good” … but as a long time Matrix fan I feel like I could get where the film was coming from, and while watching it in the cinema, that was a unique experience.
Also, the idea of the new matrix being based not on consent to a fantasy but constantly unmet but tantalising satisfaction … I felt that and it was a good extension to the trilogy IMO.
So true
Highlander 2 was ssssssssssooooooooooooo bad.
I was told there could be only one.
They LIED
Boondock Saints ,2
The Starship Troopers sequels. Which don’t exist, but if they did they would be awful enough to pretend they don’t.
You scared me. Don’t do that.
In that vein:
Romeo and Juliet II: Friar Lawrence Strikes Again
American Psycho 2.
Yeah, there’s a direct to video “sequel”
I know this is probably one of those ‘fun facts’ that everybody knows but learning that it wasn’t written or made as a sequel and the studio shoehorning that in after the fact to market it makes it a lot less atrocious. It’s still not a great movie but not as offensive as it would’ve been had it been made as a sequel from the beginning.
Isn’t that girl from that 70s show in it?
Yeah
It was kind of fun watching Jackie strangle a dude with a condom.
There are only two Shrek films.
Oh, jesus, I just remembered!..
The cute but completely and totally unnecessary A Christmas Story Christmas!
Fun to watch once, but definitely not a “rewatch every Christmas” kind of fun movie. So much bad crap just happens over and over again and it just doesn’t feel like a happy story!
I’m in the minority but I don’t even watch the original anymore. It’s dated even if people act like it isn’t.
Give me some bad Santa / Jim Carey’s Grinch any day of the week.
Bonus unpopular opinion: Mariah Carey’s “all I want for Christmas” is not a Christmas song. Not in the traditional sense. Not at all.
Anchorman 2. The first is such a great movie start to finish with so many legendary quotable lines. The second could never have compared to the original. Sticking with Will Ferrell, I really hope noone ever gets the idea to make a Step Brothers 2.
Zoolander 2
Pacific Rim 2
Lost Boys 2 is pretty tragic. Dunno about worst ever… but first thing that sprung to mind. Those sequels are rough and capture none of the magic of the original. They shouldn’t have bothered.
R.I.P.D. 2
Hear me out. I watched the first R.I.P.D. on a flight, expecting it to be enjoyably bad, but it wasn’t. Instead, it was just enjoyable. The whimsical lore of combining ancient prophecy with modern people and boring bureaucracy was pretty funny. Was it an absolutely fantastic movie? No, but it was good.
The sequel, however, explored none of the above any further. Instead, it tried to replace all that with a much more dramatic tone. So when I watched this one on the flight back, it wasn’t even enjoyably bad. It was just simple and dull.
I only found out about the first one recently and was pleasantly surprised at Ryan Reynolds’ ability to keep me watching.
I was not ready to hear about a sequel.
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The Sting is a near-perfect movie which wraps up an entire story, spawning an entire genre of copycat clever-twisting ensemble movies. It wasn’t the first movie about the grift, but it was the best.
Sting 2 shared similar characters.
