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[-] Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de 53 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] maegul@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] thecrotch@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

Star Wars started as a cash grab, you were just too young to notice

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[-] burgersc12@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

I think TFA was the warning. TLJ was the true sign that the end is here

[-] maegul@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I actually liked TLJ. But we can all probably agree that the rise of skywalker was garbage.

[-] burgersc12@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago

I think everyone hated TROS

[-] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago

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? galaxy-brain What if everything is reset because Abrams bashes other people's toys together while making explosion sounds until they break? so-true

[-] kingmongoose7877@lemmy.film 4 points 1 year ago
[-] Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 year ago

Thanks ha ha

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[-] adam_y@lemmy.world 44 points 1 year ago
[-] kingmongoose7877@lemmy.film 7 points 1 year ago

Even the original stunk on ice! 🤣 That vision thing.

[-] giddy@aussie.zone 30 points 1 year ago

Highlander 2 was ssssssssssooooooooooooo bad.

[-] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 5 points 1 year ago

I was told there could be only one.

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[-] AndreyAsimow@lemmy.world 28 points 1 year ago

Matrix: Resurrections

Totally unnecessary sequel to a not so great 3rd part of a great franchise.

I felt unsafe watching it the whole time.

[-] nieceandtows@programming.dev 12 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] maegul@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 year ago
[-] teamevil@unilem.org 23 points 1 year ago

Boondock Saints ,2

[-] kd637_mi@leminal.space 23 points 1 year ago

The Starship Troopers sequels. Which don't exist, but if they did they would be awful enough to pretend they don't.

[-] WarmSoda@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

You scared me. Don't do that.

[-] Mardoniush@hexbear.net 2 points 1 year ago

I had a terrible dream where a Sky Marshal had a full dance number.

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[-] Hundun@beehaw.org 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[-] SnowdenHeroOfOurTime@unilem.org 2 points 1 year ago

Wow, the most nihilist answer possible in response to a question about movies...

[-] WarmSoda@lemm.ee 18 points 1 year ago

American Psycho 2.

Yeah, there's a direct to video "sequel"

[-] h3mlocke@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

Isn't that girl from that 70s show in it?

[-] WarmSoda@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago
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[-] CeleryFC@beehaw.org 15 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] WittyProfileName2@hexbear.net 12 points 1 year ago

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?

[-] bobotron@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago
[-] WittyProfileName2@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Halloween 3 is (imho) worse than Halloween, but it is better than the other sequels because it does try to do something different.

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[-] kingmongoose7877@lemmy.film 10 points 1 year ago

Oh, jesus, I just remembered!...

The cute but completely and totally unnecessary A Christmas Story Christmas!

[-] Muddobbers@infosec.pub 4 points 1 year ago

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!

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[-] Kushan@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

There are only two Shrek films.

[-] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago

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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[-] yessikg@lemmy.film 7 points 1 year ago

Pacific Rim 2

[-] davefischer@beehaw.org 7 points 1 year ago

Blues Brothers 2000

[-] Orange@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago

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.

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[-] bledley@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] ShitpostCentral@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

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.

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[-] Mardoniush@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago

Most unnecessary, Indiana Jones 4. Last Crusade was a perfect ending. Worst...I submit Grease 2 for your consideration. Not only is it a terrible movie, it is arguably worse than Starlight Express as a musical.

[-] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[-] jordanlund@lemmy.one 3 points 1 year ago

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.

Original:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wings_of_Desire

Sequel:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faraway,_So_Close!

[-] mister_monster@monero.town 2 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] HenriVolney@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago
[-] AndreyAsimow@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

As bad as it was, it had its good moments.

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