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.
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
What if the Jedi returned… and then were wiped out off-camera? And the Republic returns, and is blown up by a single big boom boom blast?
What if everything is reset because Abrams bashes other people’s toys together while making explosion sounds until they break? 
Bravo! You nailed it.
Thanks ha ha
They were far better than the prequels and original ones
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Even the original stunk on ice! 🤣 That vision thing.
Highlander 2 was ssssssssssooooooooooooo bad.
I was told there could be only one.
They LIED
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
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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.
I had a terrible dream where a Sky Marshal had a full dance number.
In that vein:
Romeo and Juliet II: Friar Lawrence Strikes Again
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…
American Psycho 2.
Yeah, there’s a direct to video “sequel”
Isn’t that girl from that 70s show in it?
Yeah
It was kind of fun watching Jackie strangle a dude with a condom.
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.
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.
Halloween.
Executives butchered what was gonna be an anthology series because they saw Michael Myers as a marketable villain. So now every film in the series has gotta be the same thing again and again with the same monster doing the same things, ad infinitum.
Now I come to think of it that’s, like, pretty much the entire mainstream of the horror genre isn’t it?
What about Halloween 3??
Halloween 3 is (imho) worse than Halloween, but it is better than the other sequels because it does try to do something different.
that’s, like, pretty much the entire mainstream of the horror genre isn’t it?
Yep which is exactly why I’m not into most horror movies. It feels like there are about 5 horror movies that have all been remade 10,000 times each.
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.
Hot take that might get some shit, but I’ll say it anyway:
The Matrix.
The first movie, if it was the only one, was such a sleek tight narrative with such a satisfying ending that left so much open to the imagination that arguably the movie would have more cultural impact today if it stopped there.
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I think you’re right when I talked about the Matrix and there was worse sequels out there.
I didn’t even get to 5 in the Pirates franchise. I didn’t even make it to 4.
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The Matrix Reloaded was full of action scenes that still haven’t been matched, and I liked the story, even if it was a bit bonkers at times.
The Matrix Revolutions was… disappointing. Big battle scenes had already been overdone at that point, the story was just getting stretched too thin, and dialogue was laughable at critical moments.
Reloaded had some great setpieces, and maybe “worst” didn’t really apply to the sequels as the thread requested, but I still feel the original could have stood on its own, maybe timelessly.
Pacific Rim 2
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