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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.
I think TFA was the warning. TLJ was the true sign that the end is here
I actually liked TLJ. But we can all probably agree that the rise of skywalker was garbage.
I think everyone hated TROS
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.
Bravo! You nailed it.
Thanks ha ha
George W Bush
Even the original stunk on ice! 🤣 That vision thing.
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.
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
Every home alone past 2, every terminator past 2, the latest Matrix practically apologizes for its own existence. Examples are too numerous, the entire hyperreality we exist in is built on pointless repetition and self-cannibalization.
Our world is running out of resources to turn out profit, so it had started digesting itself and feeding us its over-processed and over-produced communion, like a sleezy street-food vendor dousing their meats in spices, so we don't smell how spoiled their paska is.
That is why everything revolves around the nostalgia: it's not us who are stuck in the past, it's our culture experiencing rigor mortis, and we treat it as the final chance to see its original form, as if the chicken in our tavuk durum hasn't been rotting since yesterweek.
Wow, the most nihilist answer possible in response to a question about movies...
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
Less of a sequel, but all the remakes of 80s/90s classic movies are awful and do nothing but bastardize the legacy of some incredible pieces of art. The Karate Kid, Total Recall, and Point Break top the list.
American Psycho 2.
Yeah, there's a direct to video "sequel"
Isn't that girl from that 70s show in it?
Yeah
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.
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!
Blues Brothers 2000
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.
Pacific Rim 2
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.
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.
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.
Most of modern StarTrek is pretty much up there, especially Discovery, as that wasn't just bad by itself, it also seriously fucked up the timeline beyond repair and utterly failed at actually doing anything interesting scifi wise. It turned a franchise that used to be thought provoking into mindless pewpew with lots of crying and a complete lack of competency and professionalism. The "fan service" is also excruciating, as it's just name dropping things from MemoryAlpha, while completely failing at doing anything interesting with them.
I give Lower Decks a pass, as that at least understands StarTrek, doesn't mess with the timeline and actually continues where TNG/DS9/Voy left off. But most of the rest should better be snapped out of existence.
It's especially depression as we are right now in a time were serious progress has been made with AI and where a bit of though provoking scifi could actually work quite well, instead we just get reruns of old tropes.
Terminator 3
As bad as it was, it had its good moments.
Terminator 3 was fun and I genuinely liked how it ended.
Salvation is ok for the most part, purely because I've always wanted to see more of the Future War.
Genisys was just terrible and the marketing ruined the big twist of the whole film. Plus Jai Courtney isn't the best actor and I can't believe I checked the time on my watch during a Terminator film.
Apart from the impressive opening sequence, Dark Fate wasn't that good either.
Conan the destroyer. The first movie (Conan the barbarian) was absolutely amazing, the second one was a cheap cash grab about some super team setting out to save a girl from an evil bad guy.
Faraway, So Close!
Wings of Desire is one of my all time top 10 movies, as tempting as it was to make a sequel, it never should have happened. It definitely should not have had a pie fight.