Ninja Assassin. Okay, not a great film but it made a profit in the box office, the fight scenes were pretty sick, and it hinted at a little bit of world building with the mention of other clans.
If you like ninjas, may I suggest House of ninjas
Matrix
Yeah, would have been nice to find out what happened after Neo flew away. At least Rage was playing.
But seriously: it was a perfect ending. Now he’s Superman, kicks everyone’s ass, frees mankind. The sequels were not only shit but completely unnecessary.
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“Great” is a massive overstatement. They were passable movies that suffered from bad pacing and exposition dumping. I don’t hate reloaded or revolutions, but I’m not going to go out of my way to watch them like I do for the first one.
Matrix sequels underrated crew rise up!
Say what you will about the Wachowskis, they never fail to push boundaries and try something weird and interesting with every film.
I’m very glad that the people who don’t appreciate that haven’t stopped them from doing what they do. What a bunch of wet blankets.
The biggest problem with those two movies is that the pacing was awful. You had exhausting fight and chase scenes followed by scenes that had way too much mumbo jumbo dialogue. Every scene could have been made shorter without losing any plot points.
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I understood them all just fine… Still poor pacing. The first movie was basically half buildup for the second half’s continuous action. Two and three both suffered from the abrupt slow down after the action scenes that I personally feel never really got “better.”
I mean, I’ve got them all so I’m not going to pretend they’re as bad as other movies that we pretend didn’t get sequels but they just worse than the first one.
That said, I would regularly rewatch a cut that was just all the action scenes.
Is this a joke? Matrix has 3 terrible sequels.
Titanic
What do you mean? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titanic_II_(film)
Oh f**k, missed that one. Zombies?
From the wiki: “it is not a sequal but a mockbuster”
District 9
I might be in the minority but Chappie was a really good movie. It’s a real bummer Die Antword were so horrible to work with that the director kinda gave up on it.
I saw Chappie for the first time last week and was moderately devastated to find out there isn’t going to be sequels. It had so much style, humor and personality!
I never understood why they thought it would be a good idea to have them in it. It’s not like they are known well enough to have a huge pull
I actually watched the movie because of them.
Stumbled upon the band on youtube, and I’d never heard anything like it before.Plus, their music videos are fucking sick!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcXNPI-IPPM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXlZfc1TrD0I used to love them until the stories of them being fucking horrible people came out. They’ve been accused of rape, human trafficking and slavery.
so, average Cape Town citizens
I remember reading that they were trying to get District 10 done?
Yeah, but before the director made several more movies that were all bad. I don’t know how he keeps getting work.
And yet M. Night still makes movies. You can’t explain that!
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Teenage boys deserve some love and movies!
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I mean, stupid teenage boys will spend what money they have to hang out with their friends… So, it’s a viable audience.
His stuff at least manages to make money somehow, so that makes some kind of sense from a money worship point of view. I doubt Blomkamp’s movies raked in as much cash though.
Yeah, that’s another that makes no sense to me. People largely dislike all his recent works. “Let’s give him a huge budget for a two part star wars fan fic!”
Snyder has an amazing eye for action. Sucker Punch, 300, and Watchmen were all amazing visual/auditory feasts. Everything else about his movies is just average to below average, though.
Giving him a Star Wars makes perfect sense when you consider what Disney thinks of the Star Wars audience. “Just give them laser sword and space ships and explosions and they’ll be happy.”
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Blokamp is great at effects and story ideas, he’s not a good director. Even District 9 is a bit of a directorial mess but there’s enough interesting story there to overcome that. The rest of his films? Not so much.
I personally wouldn’t put him above Snyder in the visuals category, but I respect your opinion and I don’t think you’re way off or anything. I can see having that preference.
Bloody prawns!
The cabin in the woods. I’d love to see other groups trigger other monsters or a prequel on how they captured all the monsters.
I feel more upset that we never got the Left 4 Dead map tie in that was planned
Awww I never heard about that and now I’m upset. That would have been sick!
Yea, there is a cameo in the movie though. During the scene where they’re showing all the monsters in boxes you can briefly see a boomer and a tank.
Constantine, I’m surprised it’s taken them this long to even talk about a sequel.
One of my favorites, the the series was excellent too. I’m not entirely sure which actor I liked best in the role
I loved the series, the movie not that much
He had some great animated movies. Unlike the movie with the worst casting decision in the history of comic book movies.
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Flash Gordon.
I’m way too late on this one but I’m going with Battle Angel Alita.
I can’t see anyone mentioning Titan A.E. man I love that movie, the mix of hand drawn animation and CGI was great for the time and I really enjoyed the world building.
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Return of the Jedi. Episode 7 is not a sequel but a remake. Episodes 8 and 9 are bullshit.
I mean, if we’re talking release order, then Return of the Jedi did get a sequel! It was called The Phantom Menace and ahh
Ahahaha hahahahahahahaha. I’m sorry, I’m sorry! I almost made it through with a straight face.
Warcraft
Like the video game. It was actually a pretty good introduction to the lore, (which I only know surface level from playing the games and not digging real deep. So there may have been mistakes) and it was just about to get good, but, there just wasn’t enough interest to sink more money in the franchise.
I saw Warcraft in theaters when it came out. I left the theater thinking that it was 6/10 at best.
Fast forward to 2021. I Saw that it had gotten better reviews since years ago, and I was thirsty for some nostalgia and was willing to give it another try. Turns out, I liked it more this time around. I believe that I had my expectations really high when I went to see it. Seconded watch, I gave it a 7.5/10.
I really liked how neither the Orcs or Humans were the bad guys. They painted both teams as equally sympathetic.
When we were following the Humans I was like “Yeah! Let’s crush those Orcs!” But then we start following the Orcs and I’m like “Watch out! Those asshole Humans are coming for you!”
I think going back to warcraft 1 was ultimately a mistake. If they did a part closer to where the wow story was it would have done better.
I thought the exact same thing after I watched it. Sadly, that same thought made me especially excited for the sequel… that never came.
I understand why they did it, but there’s just too much to absorb. I was a fan, and although I recognized some of the names, I wasn’t familiar with any of the characters besides Gul’dan.
The entire first movie should have been a 5-10 minute exposition. “It’s been X years since we came through the portal…” And instead we follow Thrall and Grom, and Uther while two factions battle for dominance! (and it’s been a while, so I forget what all happens in Warcraft 2)
Now that I’ve typed it all out, I’ve decided that if they could only make one Warcraft movie, but I got to pick which era, it would definitely be Arthas and the Lich King. That’s a good story.
Kind of a downer ending though for mainstream audiences
Or the Warcraft III story, so good.
I recently watched this and was surprised how much I enjoyed it, I expected it to be terrible based on the reviews.
I never played wow and thought the movie was pretty good. Especially for a video game adaptation
I just watched it this weekend and it was far better than I expected.
Now Borderlands… That’s a different story.
I find this comment reassuring as I have said movie on my watchlist.
(My Warcraft knowledge is about almost finishing Warcraft III, for some reason I always leave it close at the end, or at least I think I am close.)
I got hooked on the franchise in Warcraft 2, played everything since.
We’re like evil twins! I haven’t played any Warcraft SINCE Warcraft 2!
But did you put the disk in a CD player for bitchin’ driving tunes?
Only for the secret disco track
What what what what what do you want?
Why do you keep touching me?
I said that on my wedding night.
My bride, “Zug zug”.
The Matrix
Jurassic Park
… can we just pretend? Please?
What was wrong with the second movie?
It became a parody of Godzilla movies for no real reason. And it came out of nowhere. I call it the movies 4th act.
Promised Neverland s1
I think you wanted to post a top level comment.
I did not.
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The matrix, jurrasic park, and promised Neverland all got sequels that most people think are shit.
Unpopular opinion, I actually really like the third one
…uhhhhhhh, I would ask your mom if she smoked while pregnant with you. There’s clearly something wrong with the development of how your brain came out.
Look, I’m not saying any of them come close to the original, but imo it’s the second best of the series (including all the dogshit jurassic worlds) because it sticks to what made the first one great; small amount of people trapped on an island with dinos. The Lost World was like half that but then it turns in to some weird almost king kong-esq thing. Also i love me some Goldblum but he’s better as a foil imo and Chris Pratt has nowhere near the gravitas as Sam Neil. Like really besides the annoying parents what do you not like about the third one?
U can just say Téa Leoni is hot
Sure she is, but not in that movie :D
Jurassic World is a guilty pleasure of mine.
It’s good enough to grip you and at the same time so predictable and full of clichés it’s also funny.
Plus, Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard are both hot as hell.Why pretend? There’s never were a sequel. Fanfic, yes, not sequel.
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The thing is that “excellent” is something they are not… Look I enjoyed the movies too, they can be quite fun. Some aspects are great, the action and stunt work is in my opinion flawless for the time. Some other things were great too and some others not so much. But in general, really they are not good movies if we try to be a bit neutral, and at the very least they can’t follow the complexity of the theme from the first movie while making it look so simple like that one did. It may just be the case of standing too close to the sun, the movies as part of the trilogy just can’t compare. So people have a feeling of rejection to them. And probably the one thing people find it tough to come to grips with is the fact that the first movie had great action, that helped the movie go forward, while the others just seem to have random action scenes that are just not part of the story. It’s just about how they are added into the story.
But don’t let that bother you, enjoy the movies, I still do, they are just not the masterpieces the first one was.
And no, its not about wanting the first one again, in essence, I wish the movies would have managed to expand the story in a refreshing way like the Animatrix did. But they just fall flat instead, simple mindless fun that kinda finish the storyline quite OK for me.
Now the fourth part… That was brilliant, a brilliant crap, but brilliant nonetheless. If my guess is not wrong, it was a great middle finger to the movie execs that wanted to squeeze more money out of the movies.
You call it a trilogy because you reject the fourth one
I call it trilogy because I reject the first one
We are not the same
Jokes aside, I would call 2&3 a long movie, which makes it a trilogy again. One mistake is to see them as separate
I really don’t get the hate for the second two.
There was a bit more to the story and required paying attention. The second two had more action that’s wasn’t directly related to the story but was still good.
As much as I tried to like 4 it was crap.
Yeah, a real shame, that
The Man from UNCLE. And because of Armie Hammer it’ll never happen
Came to post exactly this
That was a hell of a Wikipedia read.
Beetlejuice. It was such a popular movie that spawned a musical, a cartoon, various video games, etc yet there’s only been the one movie. There’s been talks about a sequel over the years but nothing has materialized yet.
Either this is a joke that whooshed over me, or you’re going to have a fine time next month - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2049403/
I didn’t realize there was a sequel coming out next month. Don’t know how I missed that.
Master and Commander. It was such a great adaptation of a hugely popular series, I expected it to do better at the box office than it did.
I would have loved a sequel, too. That movie would probably have done better if it had not have to compete to The Return of the King that year.
It’s a phenomenal movie with lots of actually reasonable depictions of sailing in the era.
It was a great try, visually stunning and true to the overall feel of the book, but it didn’t have a very cohesive story. They tried to cover too much ground. It would have been better if they had just stuck to the first book.
