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.
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.
Zoolander 2
Matrix: Resurrections
Totally unnecessary sequel to a not so great 3rd part of a great franchise.
I felt unsafe watching it the whole time.
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.
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.
So true
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?
that’s, like, pretty much the entire mainstream of the horror genre isn’t it?
Yep which is exactly why I’m not into most horror movies. It feels like there are about 5 horror movies that have all been remade 10,000 times each.
What about Halloween 3??
Halloween 3 is (imho) worse than Halloween, but it is better than the other sequels because it does try to do something different.
American Psycho 2.
Yeah, there’s a direct to video “sequel”
I know this is probably one of those ‘fun facts’ that everybody knows but learning that it wasn’t written or made as a sequel and the studio shoehorning that in after the fact to market it makes it a lot less atrocious. It’s still not a great movie but not as offensive as it would’ve been had it been made as a sequel from the beginning.
It was kind of fun watching Jackie strangle a dude with a condom.
Isn’t that girl from that 70s show in it?
Yeah
Pacific Rim 2
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.
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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I think you’re right when I talked about the Matrix and there was worse sequels out there.
I didn’t even get to 5 in the Pirates franchise. I didn’t even make it to 4.
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The Matrix Reloaded was full of action scenes that still haven’t been matched, and I liked the story, even if it was a bit bonkers at times.
The Matrix Revolutions was… disappointing. Big battle scenes had already been overdone at that point, the story was just getting stretched too thin, and dialogue was laughable at critical moments.
Reloaded had some great setpieces, and maybe “worst” didn’t really apply to the sequels as the thread requested, but I still feel the original could have stood on its own, maybe timelessly.
Blues Brothers 2000
Terminator 3
As bad as it was, it had its good moments.
Terminator 3 was fun and I genuinely liked how it ended.
Salvation is ok for the most part, purely because I’ve always wanted to see more of the Future War.
Genisys was just terrible and the marketing ruined the big twist of the whole film. Plus Jai Courtney isn’t the best actor and I can’t believe I checked the time on my watch during a Terminator film.
Apart from the impressive opening sequence, Dark Fate wasn’t that good either.
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.
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.
Wow, the most nihilist answer possible in response to a question about movies…
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Boondock Saints ,2
George W Bush
Even the original stunk on ice! 🤣 That vision thing.
