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It's Saturday, I'm sitting here watching Highlander, and my mind turns to the topic of sequels. And since I was here, I figured "Why not ask everyone what, in their opinion, the worst sequel is?"
Oh, and just to ensure there's no confusion, I don't just mean the second in the series, I mean anything after the first. And I'm not limiting it to just movies. That said, in my opinion, the worst sequel is Highlander II: The Quickening.
Post by Hahiha / USSR on Aug 1, 2015 12:19:40 GMT -5
Terminator 3
Jacques Barzun said:
Education in the United States is a passion and a paradox. Millions want it, and commend it, and are busy about it. At the same time, they degrade it by trying to get it free of charge and free of work.
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Post by Candlewhisper on Sept 11, 2015 12:41:34 GMT -5
Matrix: Rewhatever. The third one.
The first film was amazing, a true seminal work of Big SF meets Kung Fu meets Mirrorshade Counterculture. It was pretty much perfect as a film - maybe not the greatest film ever made, but something that could be held up as one of the most significant cinematic cultural works of the decade.
The second film kind of killed the magic. But it had a good car chase.
The third film... wtf? Half of it was incoherent pseudo-philosophical technobabble, the other half was a badly written cliche-ridden war movie with all the worst tropes of the genre, zero creativity and zero intelligence. And that finale? Just plain awful. You can easily do a cinematic clash between two epic-level fighters with reality warping martial arts against a ruined city backdrop. I point to the finale of (the equally incoherent but far more beautiful) Final Fantasy: Advent Children for that. The Cloud / Sephiroth battle shows how the Matrix finale could have been done: buildings sliced into pieces, beautiful choreography, an amazing musical score. The Matrix, on the other hand, ended with a slapstick routine of clumsy middle aged men bouncing off each other like beachballs, slapping at each other with all the martial grace of two five years old boys brawling in a play-group.
Yes, there are worse movies out there, but few have such a steep gradient from the brilliance of the original to the vomit-inducing awfulness of the sequel.
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Transformers 4, the transformer dinosaur one. The first movie was ok, and then it just went downhill. Transformers 4 featured a nice mix of extremely blatant advertising and terrible movie.
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