Toothpaste was out of the tube by then. A lot of folks reference that highway scene. Outside that it set the framework on what everyone disliked about the franchise
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Rolling Stone: The 50 Most Disappointing Movie Sequels of All Time
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Folks have already mentioned it, but Glass and Mortal Kombat Annihilation deserve a nod.
A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master is what first came up to me. Dream Warrior is undeniably the GOAT and then the sequel comes and shits all over the previous entry. They did Kincaid and the rest of the crew so fucking dirty.
Alien³ does a similar thing of shitting over the previous entry but something about it worked for me while The Dream Master just angers me.
A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master is what first came up to me. Dream Warrior is undeniably the GOAT and then the sequel comes and shits all over the previous entry. They did Kincaid and the rest of the crew so fucking dirty.
Alien³ does a similar thing of shitting over the previous entry but something about it worked for me while The Dream Master just angers me.
My counter argument is this, was TPM a disappointment to the kids who watched it at the time? Cause to me it seems like the movie at least won that particular audience vs TROS.Ridiculous.
There is only one correct answer for number one:
Nothing will ever be as hyped, or as disappointing. BECAUSE of The Phantom Menace. TROS didn't have 1/100 of the hype.
Yeah. As I said in the other post I completely forgot how much less Revolutions made at the Box Office compared to Reloaded. I wonder how The Matrix Online performed after Revolutions being an official continuation of sorts, 4 years is not the worst run for an MMO, but there are games from that time that are still online.
I don't know if TRoS can be #1 when the hype was way lower than TFA and TLJ. It had a lower than expected opening weekend at the box office and the general consensus felt like, "Let's just get this shit over with."
Phantom Menance was so disappointing it created the entire online film criticism industry at the perfect time when the internet was starting to explode. I'd put it at #1.
Spider-Man 3 sent geeks and casual goers into shock lmao. It caused a decades lomg discourse on when is it too early to reboot a story/character. I'd put it at #2.
Phantom Menance was so disappointing it created the entire online film criticism industry at the perfect time when the internet was starting to explode. I'd put it at #1.
Spider-Man 3 sent geeks and casual goers into shock lmao. It caused a decades lomg discourse on when is it too early to reboot a story/character. I'd put it at #2.
Youre not allowed to have a nuanced and totally fair star wars take that normies largely agree with.
Disney has earned quite a few spots over the years. Impressive stuff. The sequel trilogy can just be there as a concept.
I still think Crystal Skull is my number one due to the reverence I have for the original trilogy and Spielberg dropping the ball so badly.
I still think Crystal Skull is my number one due to the reverence I have for the original trilogy and Spielberg dropping the ball so badly.
I remember opening weekend for Speed, and showings were sold out at every theater around my area on the weekends for the first couple of weeks. It was pretty much lauded as the perfect action movie for its time and the chemistry between Keanu and Sandra Bullock was off the charts. So yeah, it was a pretty big deal back then.
I was a kid at the time and it was the thing that introduced me to the concept of disappointment.
Like I literally couldn't even fathom a movie being bad until I saw the phantom menace. It was such a dry and joyless experience compared to the OT films I loved. I hardly even understood the majority of the dialogue. There was no protagonist like Luke Skywalker that was easy to connect with. Certainly no Han Solo audience insert character that talked like a real human being. Jar Jar was nails on a chalkboard even as a kid. It goes on and on. It failed on every level.
And before you think kids didn't like TROS... I went to watch it with a younger cousin and as soon as the movie ended, he looked at me and with zero irony at all said "That was amazing." I absolutely promise you a generation of sequel trilogy kids are going to get louder and louder very soon. The stuff we hated from TROS will be funny, loving memes to them, just like with the prequels.
Credit where it's due for risking the wrath of the worst SW people by not putting The Last Jedi.
I think Love and Thunder is a perfectly fine movie that just got caught up in a hate bubble for some reason (still miles ahead of 1 and 2), but otherwise no major disagreements.
I think Love and Thunder is a perfectly fine movie that just got caught up in a hate bubble for some reason (still miles ahead of 1 and 2), but otherwise no major disagreements.
As someone who saw it in theaters in elementary school, yes. I never loved Star Wars even as a kid so I wasn't disappointed, but I definitely thought it was way worse than the others. The real TPM fans are the ones who saw it younger and hadn't seen the OT, I imagine.
All hope was probably already dead by covenant. Ressurection sucked it all out of us like a monster into the vacuum of space
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Alien Convent is definitely missing on that list. As dumb but pretty Prometheus is it set up an interesting concept for its sequel. That they ignored just for jumping to here is xenomorph stalking bored uninterested people
Dark Fate being in the top 10 is insane considering Genysis exists. It makes me wonder if they made a mistake.
Enough kids like me at the time watched these and enjoyed them enough to change the popular opinion of the prequels over time(even AOTC which is a deeply terrible movie), I just don't think that's gonna happen with TROS, even if it is a very solid Indiana Jones-like in its structure regardless of everything else. Especially with the way Disney has dropped that era and not looked back, maybe the Rey movie will give the sequel trilogy the goodwill it needs but I just don't think it'll have the same renaissance the prequels did. Kids might have liked the sequels enough I think their nostalgia mines will be for Marvel and Fortnite.Ridiculous.
There is only one correct answer for number one:
Nothing will ever be as hyped, or as disappointing. BECAUSE of The Phantom Menace. TROS didn't have 1/100 of the hype.
Where tf is Matrix 4?
Matrix 4 was asssssss.
Matrix: 10/10 best movie of all time
Reloaded: 7/10
Revolutions: 6/10 but I secretly like it more than Reloaded
Resurrections: 1/10
Legit the most disappointed I have EVER been in a movie. The first 25 minutes are pretty interesting and I was excited for the "meta" stuff the trailers alluded to. But then it just becomes 90 minutes of shitting on your fans. Add in AWFUL action, not a single bit of bullet time, a dumb continuation of where we left things, and a stupid ending; it's a massive massive miss.
The dude that played New Morpheous was cool and that was it.
Matrix 4 was asssssss.
Matrix: 10/10 best movie of all time
Reloaded: 7/10
Revolutions: 6/10 but I secretly like it more than Reloaded
Resurrections: 1/10
Legit the most disappointed I have EVER been in a movie. The first 25 minutes are pretty interesting and I was excited for the "meta" stuff the trailers alluded to. But then it just becomes 90 minutes of shitting on your fans. Add in AWFUL action, not a single bit of bullet time, a dumb continuation of where we left things, and a stupid ending; it's a massive massive miss.
The dude that played New Morpheous was cool and that was it.
So you have Jaws 2 but not Jaws: The Revenge? Completely invalid list.
On Phantom Menace not being there:
I'd argue Phantom Menace cannot qualify as it's not a sequel but rather the first of a new trilogy. Attack of the Clones should be there because that was by far the worst of the prequel trilogy movies.
Caddyshack II is the true #1 though. They tried to effectively do a remake with a different and significantly worse cast. An absolute disgrace that should be vaulted forever.
On Phantom Menace not being there:
I'd argue Phantom Menace cannot qualify as it's not a sequel but rather the first of a new trilogy. Attack of the Clones should be there because that was by far the worst of the prequel trilogy movies.
Caddyshack II is the true #1 though. They tried to effectively do a remake with a different and significantly worse cast. An absolute disgrace that should be vaulted forever.
I don't see Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, which is one of the dumbest sequels I've seen in any franchise. Nothing of interest or consequence happens until the end.
I don't think I'll ever forget this single frame from Jaws 3D in my life, it is so hilariously bad that it's magical lmao
I agree with number one. There is literally no movie that in history that was so desperate to please everyone and wound up pleasing absolutely no one. Absolute dog shit.
Would have given Kick-Ass 2 a shout here.
Would have given Kick-Ass 2 a shout here.
Anchorman 2 and Zoolander 2 should both be there. Generation defining comedies that were endlessly quoted and I'd argue both had a bigger cultural impact than Dumb and Dumber followed by absolute stinkers that made you question how the original films ever turned out good in the first place.
People who don't vibe with the Matrix sequels are society's weakest links and that remains true today.
I don't think I'll ever forget this single frame from Jaws 3D in my life, it is so hilariously bad that it's magical lmao
That's cuz you're not wearing the glasses.
It was the first thing I thought of. Zoolander 2 probably was worse but I found it less disappointing
Definitely surprised it's not on there, I watched the first Matrix again not too long ago and was (of course) unsurprised how awesome it still was. Then I was like "hm maybe I was wrong about these sequels after all," put it on and nope, still fucking sucks real bad.
Yeah, that number one pick is spot on, couldn't believe how hard they fumbled it and completely sunk the momentum Star Wars had with the sequels. The Star Wars TV shows give me some faith that they learned their lesson, but boy did Star Wars go from the biggest thing in entertainment to the most disappointing in a few years.
The Phantom Menace is also a quite bad movie overall but it had a lot to like and moved the franchise in an interesting direction, Disney did the exact opposite. There was no coherent creative vision and thought out narrative to build the franchise, just a rush to produce something resembling Star Wars movies without giving it the care it needed.
The Matrix 4 also deserves being mentioned but it at least had a vision that it executed poorly, and the first third is actually pretty okay.
The Phantom Menace is also a quite bad movie overall but it had a lot to like and moved the franchise in an interesting direction, Disney did the exact opposite. There was no coherent creative vision and thought out narrative to build the franchise, just a rush to produce something resembling Star Wars movies without giving it the care it needed.
The Matrix 4 also deserves being mentioned but it at least had a vision that it executed poorly, and the first third is actually pretty okay.
I could think of a lot more disappointing sequels than Halloween Kills
Like y'know, Halloween 3. And yeah I consider 3 a sequel, it's got 3 in it and when I first saw it I expected Michael Myers to be present still.
Like y'know, Halloween 3. And yeah I consider 3 a sequel, it's got 3 in it and when I first saw it I expected Michael Myers to be present still.
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I guess RoboCop 3 didn't make the list because 2 softened the blow somehow.
American Psycho 2? Is that even an official sequel?
Can we consider the second LOTR trilogy a sequel?
And is the Amazing Spiderman 2 the Tobey McGuire Spiderman 2 or another one, because I thought that was perfectly fine.
Also what were they expecting from the Revenge of the erds part 2.
American Psycho 2? Is that even an official sequel?
Can we consider the second LOTR trilogy a sequel?
And is the Amazing Spiderman 2 the Tobey McGuire Spiderman 2 or another one, because I thought that was perfectly fine.
Also what were they expecting from the Revenge of the erds part 2.
I feel like Rolling Stone doesn't understand the difference between disappointing and bad. Terminator 3 can be seen as disappointing because it was coming off 2 classic films but Dark Fate? Did anyone expect that to be anything but mediocre at best? The series had been shit for 20 years at that point.
Yup. I don't think young people can really comprehend what that was like.Ridiculous.
There is only one correct answer for number one:
Nothing will ever be as hyped, or as disappointing. BECAUSE of The Phantom Menace. TROS didn't have 1/100 of the hype.
Star Wars was the biggest thing in the world and then it went radio silent for 15 years. Fans had absolutely nothing except EU books to feed on in that time. I remember where I was when I heard they were even making a new movie, that's how desperate people were for more Star Wars. The hype was beyond anything we have seen before or since. TPM being so hyped and then so disappointing broke peoples brains and changed pop culture forever.
