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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

All the terminators after 2

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I actually quite like 3, if only for the ending.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

It was quite a cool ending to be fair

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

Grim Fandango'd

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

Godfather 3…. why?!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Why are you watching a sequel you didn't want?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It can shit on the original, loved canon by people citing and making memes about the crappy sequel. Examples: The Matrix, Star Wars

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I know, right??

(I actually do enjoy the SW prequel memes themselves, just not the reminder those movies exist)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I binged all of Game of Thrones when the last season started just so I could appreciate the memes. I caught up by episode 3 IIRC. Worth it. The memes were glorious.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Makes sense. That season is so bad, it's basically comedy.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Everyone forgets PEACE WALKER

[–] [email protected] -5 points 5 months ago (3 children)

👏 Bad 👏 sequels/spinoffs 👏 don't 👏 ruin 👏 existing 👏 works 👏

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

They should have spent the budget on something that was original and took a risk. We can watch a shitty reboot or a shitty original - and some of those original movies that are panned as not good at least have a shot at maybe becoming a cult classic or a fan fave.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

They do if they retcon things that happened in the good installments, like MSG4 explaining all the cool and unexplained stuff from the previous three by saying "nanomachines did it" except the one thing that would have made sense to be nanomachines, which turned out to be a case self-hypnosis.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

👏We’re👏sick👏of👏the👏waste👏of👏money👏and👏creative👏talent👏producing👏garbage👏

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Sometimes sequels are how movies get made at all.

There's a story about the suggested sequel to the gladiator that has Maximus traveling through fucking time. The reason that movie was pitched was because the director and the writer specifically did not want to make that movie. But the contract for the Gladiator required a multiple movie deal if it was successful. So they pitched the craziest shit imaginable and the studio let them out of the contact.

A lot of movies are made this away. Original IP doesn't get picked up unless a studio thinks they can milk it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

Sometimes sequels are how movies get made at all.

I say this with the utmost respect to "the industry": If all you have is a shitty moneygrab sequel or reboot "or nothing," make nothing. Get back to the goddamn writer's room, take a walk to your local comic shop and look for something creator owned that hasn't been adapted if you have to, there's plenty good shit, worked for Invincible, but for "Bob's" sake stooooop with the bullshit.

Not that it matters to me, I gave up on them in about 2010, and they'd have to pay me to watch their garbage now.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

So they have to game their contracts to not be forcefully made to milk a franchise. Sounds like a lovely industry. Maybe it should be torn down and a wave of small creators and indie studios will revive the golden age of film as art instead of being products to milk.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

So those indie films definitely still get made, sometimes. But there's a big fucking asterisk attached to that. Fox searchlight and another of similar firms will buy movies that have already been made and give them a wider audience. A24 also produces films that would traditionally fly the insie circuit. But for the most part, these movies are being paid for by the people making them, and whether or not they ever see that money returned is purely a matter of luck.

Kevin Smith has a long story about how he managed to finance one of his movies only because he'd done a shitty Bruce Willis movie. And relatively speaking the movie the financed was peanuts compared to what some can cost.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Highlander 2: The Shittening

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Oh, there’s a Highlander 4 in the works. It’s not dead yet. One saving grace is that it has Cavill in it, I liked his Witcher quite a bit, so I have hope for the Highlander 4.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

There's already 5 Highlander movies. The reboot would be the 6th

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Isn't this going to be a complete reboot? Cavill will be great in it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

No idea. Haven’t followed it that closely.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago

Like River Song coming back to Doctor Who for no reason and destroying the whole idea

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