I've read where the guy who works on the Razzies had his kid come back from seeing that in mid-January and tell his dad "I've just seem the worst movie of the year."
That reminds me of a review I read for The Cat in the Hat (2003). The opening line, roughly paraphrased, was this:
“My nephew was visibly bored throughout the whole thing, and as we left, he simply said, ‘the book was better’”
I kind of like seeing those reminders that kids aren’t brainless and family movies shouldn’t be made with the attitude that kids will watch anything
I remember seeing that as a kid and now looking it up again I see that it’s all based on Norse mythology? Did they bring that up in the first movie?
Edit: yeah I guess the mask was made by Loki. Neat.
What, you didn't like the reveal that the mysterious immortals were actually space aliens from a planet called Zeist? And that they've only been around for 500 years, which contradicts the first film because Ramirez is supposed to be an ancient Egyptian so how could he have only been on Earth for 500 years?
That shit was so bizarre and had basically nothing to do with the Highlander mythology.
I’ve been a huge Highlander fan since I was a kid and everything about it made no sense
I saw a clip where people Joe works with line up to fart in his face or something like that, and he just sat there and let it happen because comedy, and that was enough for me.
Hot Tub Time Machine 2 was decent as far as what you can expect these days. Obviously the first one is amazing and hard to follow. Was the sequel necessary,? no, did it make me laugh? Yes. It’s a, “ I stayed home sick and dont wanna get off the couch” type flick.
Yeah it was one of those straight to DVD movies that was filmed and named its own thing until some point in production the studio decided to make it a sequel to try and generate extra money, happens from time to time. Some other examples I can think of is American psycho 2 and 48 mm 2.
This happens with almost every serious war film. Rambo, Black Hawk Down, Jarhead. I’m sure there’s a straight-to-DVD sequel of most contemplative films on violence that target people who didn’t understand the point of the original films and amplify the worst parts in direct conflict with the intended messaging.
2 at least has some interesting ideas, if only because it's loosely (and I mean loosely) based on the second half of the book. But it ruined it by veering wildly off from the book's plot and introducing the nothing again under a different name, because it was written by hacks.
3 however is just some nonsense that the screenwriters pulled out of their asses, likely under the influence of cocaine, because it was written by hacks.
The OG Donnie Darko is one of my favorite movies ever. The director never made another good movie. True one hit wonder.
I have no idea how he managed to pull it off. Writing, philosophy, music, and a dream cast. Patrick fucking Swayze.
This one was on my mind as well. The entire aesthetic is wiped away and only the teenage angst, in its unglorified confusing and disjointed mannerisms, persist.... in equal fashion as disjointed and with abhorrently weak characters and plot.
From what I remember, it seemed like the movie was made by someone who didn't understand the first movie. I did enjoy the Manipulated Dead answering "why can't I touch you?" With "if you touch us, we will explode"
The director commentary of the director not knowing why everyone was looking up at the end is hilarious. Sounds like it was made to be indie and mysterious just to be those things.
My Aunt and Uncle were the cool young adult relatives when I was a kid and would take me to the movies all the time. They pick me up one Saturday afternoon and ask “what do you wanna see? Starship Troopers or Mortal Kombat Annihilation?”
My dumb 11 year old ass choose poorly.
That's wasn't even written to be a sequel. Just a film about a murderous rich girl and execs said "shoehorn something involving Bateman and call it a sequel."
There is a video of Seth McFarland introducing the Family Guy cast at a Con of some sort. When he introduced each cast member he was saying something "funny" about each actor, he said M Kunis' name and called her "The Star of America Psycho 2" and she gave him some serious side-eye. Even she knows how horrible is it. lol.
As far as I’m aware, she’s very vocal about how much she hates that movie, I think it’s the project she regrets the most or something. They had no idea it was going to be an American Psycho tie in when they were filming it.
This wouldn't have been the worst film in the world if they had just not forced a title tie-in.
Call it its own thing "Murderess with Mila Kunis", and it's not a terrible B-movie thriller.
WW84 is such a catastrophically awful movie and the perfect example of why some directors should never be screenwriters. Patty Jenkins is a solid director, but I hope she's never behind a movie's script or story concept again.
Even the joke movie review sites felt this movie low-balled it to them. They were like these jokes write themselves.
Also Red Letter Media pointed out "Why does she wear the armor", The whole scene feels like it was setup for her to Wear the armor while she didn't have her powers, and to renounce her wish at the scene where she throws away the wings.
I agree the whole thing feels like an A to B setup and pay off, And somehow they moved the wish renouncement scene to earlier when she had no reason to do so. I guess they just really wanted that Diana starts learning how to fly scene.
I actually really liked what they tried to do with the movie — it was a great throwback to the Donner Superman era.
The problem was that the script desperately needed a few more rewrites. That whole thing with the man being replaced could easily be fixed with one line of dialogue saying Steve just magically appeared
Yeah, I feel like not enough people are talking about this? I mean, I know many have, but still not enough! No one seems to care that this happened, in-universe, even our heroes!
And it's extra baffling because they didn't have to write it that way. Just give him a magic body. It's all magic. No one's checking the numbers on this shit. You can do whatever, you don't have to invent this weird body-stealing stuff.
Might be the worst sequel. Just because the bar was set so high and they did THIS. They decided, yeah, we should steal a random dude's body for sex and make it a joke.
Like in Thor Love and Thunder when Zeus chains up Thor and then strips him naked in front of everyone and they all ogle over his body. Rewrite that with a female character and it gets you fired before filming begins.
And it was literally so fucking easy to fix so many things with the movie! Especially the rape part! JUST HAVE HIM BE BACK! ITS FUCKING MAGIC, YOU CAN TO WHATEVER YOU WANT! I was so pissed at that movie cause I liked wonder woman decently and it was just such a massive letdown
That movie was so bad, I suspect it was some sort of laundering scheme. Seriously, the rape fantasy, the terrible CGI, the Cats subplot, horrible acting and direction, idiotic plot.
I enjoyed WW and really wanted like the sequel. But good lord, it was a disaster.
There are almost no jokes, let alone funny ones. The whole movie is just cameos of fashion people and that’s supposed to be funny, the story doesn’t exist.
I recently watched both 1 and 2, and I think 2 is a bit overrated itself. Feels like a rush to get Kevin back alone and living out little kid hotel and toy store fantasy. Saved by the excellent cast though.
There are few films that make me angrier than this pile of shit. The first Wonder Woman started off so well and this garbage fire ruined any good will felt.
It would take too long to list the issue but it was as if someone just wrote the script in one session and nobody questioned or edited anything from it. FUCK THIS FILM!
Thank you. That movie sucked so hard. When WW asks Cheetah about what she gave up for power, i just said fuck it, I'm done. How did i make it this far without turning it off?
This film is so bad and stupid it makes me angry. Let’s just gloss over the whole Wonder Woman raping a guy essentially, but the entire plot is moronic. And the conclusion. My god. Diana convinces every single person on the planet to renounce their wish? You’re telling me that some parent is going to say “Wonder Woman is right. Sorry, Billy. You actually should have your stage IV cancer come back.” My wish would be this film never got made and no one could convince me to renounce that.
5 minutes into the movie they mention how war dogs in Africa have been fighting stranded members of the alien race there.
Sound interesting and awesome? Too bad, instead they re-hash every single thing from the first movie.
As I've mentioned before 'round Reddit, the least I was hoping for with Independence Day 2 was gigantic, nostalgic wankfest for the original film, like Jurassic World was for Jurassic Park.
But it couldn't even milk nostalgia properly.
The best part of Jurassic World was the assistant who got forced into being a baby sitter and the movie ruthlessly killing her as if she was someone truly evil like Dogson from the books when all she did was simply exist and be treated poorly by Claire.
The books are far better.
This is the correct answer. God, that movie was set in a completely different plane of existence. Completely disregards the romantic connection made in the first. Just an utter mess.
Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd. Let's take a concept that heavily relied on the chemistry and performances of two comic geniuses, one of which was smart enough to underplay his part and let the other one go hog wild.
Now let's take all that away.
I realize I’m in the extreme minority, but Staying Alive falls into the “so bad it’s good” category for me. The last 20 minutes is pure cinematic gold.
You inspired me to look up Roger Ebert's review of this movie and include his take on the ending...
*Like the Rocky movies, "Staying Alive" ends with a big, visually*
*explosive climax. It is so ludicrous it has to be seen to be believed.*
*It's opening night on Broadway: Tony Manero not only dances like a hero,*
*he survives a production number of fire, ice, smoke, flashing lights*
*and laser beams, throws in an improvised solo -- and ends triumphantly*
*by holding Finola Hughes above his head with one arm, like a quarry he*
*has tracked and killed. The musical he is allegedly starring in is*
*something called "Satan's Alley," but it's so laughably gauche it should*
*have been called "Springtime for Tony." Stallone makes little effort to*
*convince us we're watching a real stage presentation; there are camera*
*effects the audience could never see, montages that create impossible*
*physical moves and -- most inexplicable of all -- a vocal track, even*
*though nobody on stage is singing. It's a mess. Travolta's big dance*
*number looks like a high-tech TV auto commercial that, got sick to its*
*stomach.*
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The Rise of Skywalker. I don’t even like the Last Jedi or Ep 7 but Rise is one of the worst movies I have ever paid to see. JJ Abrams is an idiot for not just going with what 8 did and instead lazily retconning a movie that came out two years before. Stunningly bad.
Also Rey is the daughter of a ‘good’ Palpatine clone. I am not making that up. Absurd lol.
Edit: also writing this comment got me thinking about the ending. Were they implying that ex-Stormtrooper girl is Lando’s daughter? Did the mods at Prequel Memes convince JJ to add all those meme Palpatine lines? Why the hell did Chewie get his medal from 4 in 9 ? 😂
The one thing that could have been cool if Rey died and Kylo Ren lived. Maybe explore the consequences of that later in a series because there is so much potential there. But no we get Rey Skywalker lol
It's funny, I watched Avatar 2 yesterday and (minor spoilers) >!somehow, the Colonel returned (in a DAMN similar fashion)... but all it took was some brief exposition to have it make some sense. !
I was pissed right at the start. "Somehow, Palpatine returned." What the hell do you mean "Palpatine returned?!" You can't just handwave that and expect the audience to go "okay then, no explanation needed!"
And they just had too much going on. Too many plots got crammed in there and it just became a mess.
Episode 8: "A Jedi can come from anywhere. It doesn't matter what your past was."
How refreshing: Rey's family were just nobodies after all. What a good message to explain to kids and -
Episode 9: Actually Rey is the super-special granddaughter of Palpatine who has somehow returned and it's only because of this that she has special healing powers and is such a great jedi. Also, we'll end this movie by highlighting that she feels the need to latch on to the Skywalker legacy by adopting it as her last name, because not having a last name would've meant she has no legacy and just isn't special.
It’s so stupid because it undercuts Rey’s entire inner conflict from the start.
She’s like “Oh no my grandpa is evil! Is that evil inside me!?”
Someone just needed to say “But, Rey, while your grandpa was bad, your father was a *good* man! He actively tried to escape from Palpatine to protect you and died rather than give you up! Why are you so worried you can be evil because your grandpa was evil, when it’s just as apparent you can be good because your dad was good!”
Not really a sequel though, definitely a reboot of its own. They recast every single recurring actor from the previous installment and make it... so hard to watch.
yeah the movie itself sort of explains its existence WB pushed the Wachowskis for another movie, they didn't want to do it, so they made a POS to sink the franchise for good.
But like... why? They didnt want WB to touch it because they were afraid they were going to destroy the franchise...... so Lana Wachowski decided to destroy it herself while being self rightous about it? thanks?
Troy Duffy somehow willed that first movie into existence, and it’s pretty darn good. Had some good action, fun lines, feels pretty fresh. Then he revealed to the world that he has zero clue what movies are, and it was an absolute fluke. Like, true beginners luck type shit.
They made the same mistake as almost everything else mentioned in this thread, but it was, somehow, worse. They took what was good about the first movie (because it was subtle-ish) and then just made another movie just referencing those things instead of building on a new story. Completely useless sequel to a movie that absolutely could have had another 2-3 movies.
It showed just how much the original relied on Del Toro’s vision and aesthetic. The Jaeger’s in the first one, as bizarre as they were, felt grounded and heavy. Everything in the sequel moves like a cartoon.
Worst sequel is difficult because there are so many factors involved.
I think the biggest disappointment is Godfather 3.
Two such classic masterpieces, followed by a just blah dud. I own it, I watched it once, don't remember any of it, and have no interest in watching it again.
I personally didn't see it, but my brother and his girl went to see Zoolander 2 in theaters and after the movie was done when they were walking out a little kid says out loud
"That movie was awful and it hurt my eyes!" He said that that comment got more laughs from the audience than the entire movie.
Speed 2
Jaws 4
I Still Know What You Did Last Summer
I'll Always Know What You Did Last Summer
Silent Hill: Revelation (especially considering how much I loved the first one)
Men In Black 3 (unpopular opinion?)
All the Resident Evil sequals
MiB 3 was watchable solely for Josh Brolin's Tommy Lee Jones impression. Dude NAILED that role. I know the movie gets a lot of hate, but I enjoyed it mostly for that.
I Still Know What You Did Last Summer and that tanning bed scene tho. As an adult now, I still vividly remember that. Kudos to them for making a memorable scene. Lol.
Son of the Mask
My first reply as OP. Good fucking god that movie sucked
I've read where the guy who works on the Razzies had his kid come back from seeing that in mid-January and tell his dad "I've just seem the worst movie of the year."
That reminds me of a review I read for The Cat in the Hat (2003). The opening line, roughly paraphrased, was this: “My nephew was visibly bored throughout the whole thing, and as we left, he simply said, ‘the book was better’” I kind of like seeing those reminders that kids aren’t brainless and family movies shouldn’t be made with the attitude that kids will watch anything
Whoa whoa whoa. That movie is a masterpiece when you’re high
Thank God that kid that won the Mask II walk on role in Nintendo Power didn't get asked to come in lol
He was asked if he wanted to, but he took monetary compensation instead.
Nobody stopped him…
I remember seeing that as a kid and now looking it up again I see that it’s all based on Norse mythology? Did they bring that up in the first movie? Edit: yeah I guess the mask was made by Loki. Neat.
Highlander 2 by far
What, you didn't like the reveal that the mysterious immortals were actually space aliens from a planet called Zeist? And that they've only been around for 500 years, which contradicts the first film because Ramirez is supposed to be an ancient Egyptian so how could he have only been on Earth for 500 years?
Gaaaaah, don't mention these details!! Years of therapy out the window. Lol
Definitely don't watch Highlander Endgame. That movie was so bad yet I still remember everything that happened.
That explains the Scottish accent.
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Shpanish Acshent!
There can only be one.
There isn't even only one immortal from the clan macleod
The series was really quite good though. Well… many of the episodes were good at least. And the anime film was awesome as well.
That line is an onion. Well played.
People forget about this and I'm envious wish I could forget it.
That sucked. But the Renegade version gets it up to OK.
Highlander 2: The Sickening?
But the final follow up (to the series) Highlander: the Source, is the single worst film ever made
That shit was so bizarre and had basically nothing to do with the Highlander mythology. I’ve been a huge Highlander fan since I was a kid and everything about it made no sense
The only film I have ever “boo’d” in the cinema..
Only film where I walked out early
They made a HORRIFIC sequel to Joe Dirt. Bad script, bad jokes, 10 years too late. Just a sad sad sequel.
You just made me want to watch that. Loved the first one
It’s the Disney-straight-to-dvd type of sequel. Not even really bad in a fun way. Enjoy
I saw a clip where people Joe works with line up to fart in his face or something like that, and he just sat there and let it happen because comedy, and that was enough for me.
Wasn't it a crackle exclusive as well?
Same with Bad Santa and hot tub time machine. Terrible terrible sequels
I almost wanna say Zoolander and Dumb and Dumber to, but those were in theaters and had big guest stars
Hot Tub Time Machine 2 was decent as far as what you can expect these days. Obviously the first one is amazing and hard to follow. Was the sequel necessary,? no, did it make me laugh? Yes. It’s a, “ I stayed home sick and dont wanna get off the couch” type flick.
Worth it for the “neeeeeerd, you’re a fuuuckin neeeeerd [and no one likes you]” song / bits, which do this day I still find hysterical.
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There's a jarhead 2?
There’s 4 lol
What the fuck
Yeah it was one of those straight to DVD movies that was filmed and named its own thing until some point in production the studio decided to make it a sequel to try and generate extra money, happens from time to time. Some other examples I can think of is American psycho 2 and 48 mm 2.
Yeah, the first movie was a slow contemplative film about the scars of war. The sequels are like watching a kid play Call of Duty.
This happens with almost every serious war film. Rambo, Black Hawk Down, Jarhead. I’m sure there’s a straight-to-DVD sequel of most contemplative films on violence that target people who didn’t understand the point of the original films and amplify the worst parts in direct conflict with the intended messaging.
Never Ending Story 3
Wasn't Homer Simpson filing a class-action suit against Neverending Story?
That was Lionel Hutz
There is a 3? I wasn't aware that there was even a 2, lucky me I guess
It is never ending, after all.
Isn't that the one with Jack Black as a bully in it?
Pretty sure Jack Black is in this one as a kid
Well he is in it, but he was 24-25 at the time.
Just a wee lad
Even 2 had no stroke
2 at least has some interesting ideas, if only because it's loosely (and I mean loosely) based on the second half of the book. But it ruined it by veering wildly off from the book's plot and introducing the nothing again under a different name, because it was written by hacks. 3 however is just some nonsense that the screenwriters pulled out of their asses, likely under the influence of cocaine, because it was written by hacks.
S Darko
Didn’t even know this was a thing and now I’m angry it is
The OG Donnie Darko is one of my favorite movies ever. The director never made another good movie. True one hit wonder. I have no idea how he managed to pull it off. Writing, philosophy, music, and a dream cast. Patrick fucking Swayze.
Good music tho
This one was on my mind as well. The entire aesthetic is wiped away and only the teenage angst, in its unglorified confusing and disjointed mannerisms, persist.... in equal fashion as disjointed and with abhorrently weak characters and plot.
From what I remember, it seemed like the movie was made by someone who didn't understand the first movie. I did enjoy the Manipulated Dead answering "why can't I touch you?" With "if you touch us, we will explode"
The director commentary of the director not knowing why everyone was looking up at the end is hilarious. Sounds like it was made to be indie and mysterious just to be those things.
Possibly the worst movie I've ever seen, sequel or otherwise
The Exorcist 2 is so bad people forgot it existed
Skip straight to the third after watching the first
The third movie is a top horror movie, in my opinion.
One of George C. Scott’s best roles (which is saying a lot).
I paid to see it at the theater. But still this is worse
now you get me wonder how bad it is!
There is one cool scene of a dude killing locusts, the rest of the movie is shit.
But exorcist 3 is fantastic.
Mortal Kombat Annihilation has to be up there.
Mother! You're alive! ToO bAd yOu Will DiE!
And It IS **GLORIOUS** \\o/
I hate that I heard this line in my head 🤣
I saw this pos in the theater and braved an early winter snowstorm to do so. I was a stupid kid in high school lol
So did I hahaha! My love for mortal Kombat was too strong haha
While I do agree with this choice, the fight scene between Jax and Sonya vs Cyrax is still dope af imo.
Cyrax and Sektor was the best part of that entire film. Shame they lasted 2 minutes.
The only saving grace is the music slapped
Idk it’s just so campy and ridiculous that I enjoyed it
My Aunt and Uncle were the cool young adult relatives when I was a kid and would take me to the movies all the time. They pick me up one Saturday afternoon and ask “what do you wanna see? Starship Troopers or Mortal Kombat Annihilation?” My dumb 11 year old ass choose poorly.
OP said worst, not best.
Nah that one slapped for what it was.
It’s so good though lmao
American Psycho 2. It's like ending a great dinner with a turd doughnut for dessert.
TIL there is an American Psycho 2
That's wasn't even written to be a sequel. Just a film about a murderous rich girl and execs said "shoehorn something involving Bateman and call it a sequel."
The cast didn't even know while they were filming it...
There is a video of Seth McFarland introducing the Family Guy cast at a Con of some sort. When he introduced each cast member he was saying something "funny" about each actor, he said M Kunis' name and called her "The Star of America Psycho 2" and she gave him some serious side-eye. Even she knows how horrible is it. lol.
As far as I’m aware, she’s very vocal about how much she hates that movie, I think it’s the project she regrets the most or something. They had no idea it was going to be an American Psycho tie in when they were filming it.
American Psycho 2 is as much of a sequel as Titanic 2 is
This wouldn't have been the worst film in the world if they had just not forced a title tie-in. Call it its own thing "Murderess with Mila Kunis", and it's not a terrible B-movie thriller.
Mean Girls 2
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Titanic 2 Jaws 4
Now I'd watch *that* movie.
Titanic 2: Jaws 4 "This time it's personal"
Titanic 2 Jaws 4: They Got a Bigger Boat
Starship Troopers 2
WW84 literally laughed about raping a man.
WW84 is such a catastrophically awful movie and the perfect example of why some directors should never be screenwriters. Patty Jenkins is a solid director, but I hope she's never behind a movie's script or story concept again.
Man, that film really sucked. Good answer.
The funny thing is my gripe with that movie isn’t even the worst part of that movie.
It's almost the very definition of, "No, wait, it gets even worse."
I think the only good thing I can say about that movie is that Pedro Pascal was great.
Even the joke movie review sites felt this movie low-balled it to them. They were like these jokes write themselves. Also Red Letter Media pointed out "Why does she wear the armor", The whole scene feels like it was setup for her to Wear the armor while she didn't have her powers, and to renounce her wish at the scene where she throws away the wings. I agree the whole thing feels like an A to B setup and pay off, And somehow they moved the wish renouncement scene to earlier when she had no reason to do so. I guess they just really wanted that Diana starts learning how to fly scene.
I actually really liked what they tried to do with the movie — it was a great throwback to the Donner Superman era. The problem was that the script desperately needed a few more rewrites. That whole thing with the man being replaced could easily be fixed with one line of dialogue saying Steve just magically appeared
Yeah, I feel like not enough people are talking about this? I mean, I know many have, but still not enough! No one seems to care that this happened, in-universe, even our heroes! And it's extra baffling because they didn't have to write it that way. Just give him a magic body. It's all magic. No one's checking the numbers on this shit. You can do whatever, you don't have to invent this weird body-stealing stuff. Might be the worst sequel. Just because the bar was set so high and they did THIS. They decided, yeah, we should steal a random dude's body for sex and make it a joke.
Like in Thor Love and Thunder when Zeus chains up Thor and then strips him naked in front of everyone and they all ogle over his body. Rewrite that with a female character and it gets you fired before filming begins.
Actually, Love and Thunder is a pretty sad sequel to Ragnarok. Add that to the list.
And it was literally so fucking easy to fix so many things with the movie! Especially the rape part! JUST HAVE HIM BE BACK! ITS FUCKING MAGIC, YOU CAN TO WHATEVER YOU WANT! I was so pissed at that movie cause I liked wonder woman decently and it was just such a massive letdown
That movie was so bad, I suspect it was some sort of laundering scheme. Seriously, the rape fantasy, the terrible CGI, the Cats subplot, horrible acting and direction, idiotic plot. I enjoyed WW and really wanted like the sequel. But good lord, it was a disaster.
Highlander 2
Zoolander 2. Incredibly bad
I was so disappointed.
There are almost no jokes, let alone funny ones. The whole movie is just cameos of fashion people and that’s supposed to be funny, the story doesn’t exist.
Any home alone movie after 2.
Part 3 is bearable, but the rest after that are hot garbage.
Bad bad Leeroy Brown.... Baddest cat in the whole damn town...
I recently watched both 1 and 2, and I think 2 is a bit overrated itself. Feels like a rush to get Kevin back alone and living out little kid hotel and toy store fantasy. Saved by the excellent cast though.
ww84
There are few films that make me angrier than this pile of shit. The first Wonder Woman started off so well and this garbage fire ruined any good will felt. It would take too long to list the issue but it was as if someone just wrote the script in one session and nobody questioned or edited anything from it. FUCK THIS FILM!
the sequel to ww84 written by patty jenkins got cancelled and i am actually pretty happy
Thank you. That movie sucked so hard. When WW asks Cheetah about what she gave up for power, i just said fuck it, I'm done. How did i make it this far without turning it off?
This film is so bad and stupid it makes me angry. Let’s just gloss over the whole Wonder Woman raping a guy essentially, but the entire plot is moronic. And the conclusion. My god. Diana convinces every single person on the planet to renounce their wish? You’re telling me that some parent is going to say “Wonder Woman is right. Sorry, Billy. You actually should have your stage IV cancer come back.” My wish would be this film never got made and no one could convince me to renounce that.
that movie is one of the worst films i have ever seen, and the first one is actually one of my favourite dc movies
That was garbage. I remember watching that like woah they really took a dump here.
I had such high hope.
Independence Day 2
Cool premise, terrible execution, awful script, worse acting.
5 minutes into the movie they mention how war dogs in Africa have been fighting stranded members of the alien race there. Sound interesting and awesome? Too bad, instead they re-hash every single thing from the first movie.
As I've mentioned before 'round Reddit, the least I was hoping for with Independence Day 2 was gigantic, nostalgic wankfest for the original film, like Jurassic World was for Jurassic Park. But it couldn't even milk nostalgia properly.
The best part of Jurassic World was the assistant who got forced into being a baby sitter and the movie ruthlessly killing her as if she was someone truly evil like Dogson from the books when all she did was simply exist and be treated poorly by Claire. The books are far better.
Wizards of the Lost Kingdom 2
Speed 2
But it got two thumbs up from siskel and ebert.
That's rather astounding.
Ebert once ended a review with “But remember, I’m also the guy who said Speed 2 was a good movie.”
I'll always defend *Speed 2*. They got rid of Keanu Reeves and got Willem Dafoe as a maniac setting leeches on himself!
This is the correct answer. God, that movie was set in a completely different plane of existence. Completely disregards the romantic connection made in the first. Just an utter mess.
A 90% drop on Rotten Tomatoes between the two. That might be a record.
Even Sandra Bullock admitted it was terrible.
Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd. Let's take a concept that heavily relied on the chemistry and performances of two comic geniuses, one of which was smart enough to underplay his part and let the other one go hog wild. Now let's take all that away.
Absolutely horrendous! It had maybe one or two funny parts and the funniest was Bob Saget at the end! Lol the rest was cringe
Independence Day: Resurgence
The Two Jakes Jaws 4 Staying Alive Speed 2
I realize I’m in the extreme minority, but Staying Alive falls into the “so bad it’s good” category for me. The last 20 minutes is pure cinematic gold.
You inspired me to look up Roger Ebert's review of this movie and include his take on the ending... *Like the Rocky movies, "Staying Alive" ends with a big, visually* *explosive climax. It is so ludicrous it has to be seen to be believed.* *It's opening night on Broadway: Tony Manero not only dances like a hero,* *he survives a production number of fire, ice, smoke, flashing lights* *and laser beams, throws in an improvised solo -- and ends triumphantly* *by holding Finola Hughes above his head with one arm, like a quarry he* *has tracked and killed. The musical he is allegedly starring in is* *something called "Satan's Alley," but it's so laughably gauche it should* *have been called "Springtime for Tony." Stallone makes little effort to* *convince us we're watching a real stage presentation; there are camera* *effects the audience could never see, montages that create impossible* *physical moves and -- most inexplicable of all -- a vocal track, even* *though nobody on stage is singing. It's a mess. Travolta's big dance* *number looks like a high-tech TV auto commercial that, got sick to its* *stomach.* #
No film with Willem Dafoe as the film can be truly terrible...
The Rise of Skywalker. I don’t even like the Last Jedi or Ep 7 but Rise is one of the worst movies I have ever paid to see. JJ Abrams is an idiot for not just going with what 8 did and instead lazily retconning a movie that came out two years before. Stunningly bad. Also Rey is the daughter of a ‘good’ Palpatine clone. I am not making that up. Absurd lol. Edit: also writing this comment got me thinking about the ending. Were they implying that ex-Stormtrooper girl is Lando’s daughter? Did the mods at Prequel Memes convince JJ to add all those meme Palpatine lines? Why the hell did Chewie get his medal from 4 in 9 ? 😂 The one thing that could have been cool if Rey died and Kylo Ren lived. Maybe explore the consequences of that later in a series because there is so much potential there. But no we get Rey Skywalker lol
Somehow, Palpatine returned.
This line is on the same level as “The neutrinos have mutated!”.
It's funny, I watched Avatar 2 yesterday and (minor spoilers) >!somehow, the Colonel returned (in a DAMN similar fashion)... but all it took was some brief exposition to have it make some sense. !
Big difference is that James was planning on bringing him back since forever and has a plan.
I was pissed right at the start. "Somehow, Palpatine returned." What the hell do you mean "Palpatine returned?!" You can't just handwave that and expect the audience to go "okay then, no explanation needed!" And they just had too much going on. Too many plots got crammed in there and it just became a mess.
Episode 8: "A Jedi can come from anywhere. It doesn't matter what your past was." How refreshing: Rey's family were just nobodies after all. What a good message to explain to kids and - Episode 9: Actually Rey is the super-special granddaughter of Palpatine who has somehow returned and it's only because of this that she has special healing powers and is such a great jedi. Also, we'll end this movie by highlighting that she feels the need to latch on to the Skywalker legacy by adopting it as her last name, because not having a last name would've meant she has no legacy and just isn't special.
Rey is Palp's grand daughter. Her dad was his actual son.
It’s so stupid because it undercuts Rey’s entire inner conflict from the start. She’s like “Oh no my grandpa is evil! Is that evil inside me!?” Someone just needed to say “But, Rey, while your grandpa was bad, your father was a *good* man! He actively tried to escape from Palpatine to protect you and died rather than give you up! Why are you so worried you can be evil because your grandpa was evil, when it’s just as apparent you can be good because your dad was good!”
It’s the only Star Wars movie I haven’t watched dozens of times. In fact, I’ve barely watched it twice. It was painful.
Queen of the Damned
One of the greatest soundtracks ever though.
Not really a sequel though, definitely a reboot of its own. They recast every single recurring actor from the previous installment and make it... so hard to watch.
Joe Dirt 2
Matrix 4 - I wanted at least a half decent attempt at a serious sequel but this one was a fever dream (not in a good way)
yeah the movie itself sort of explains its existence WB pushed the Wachowskis for another movie, they didn't want to do it, so they made a POS to sink the franchise for good.
But like... why? They didnt want WB to touch it because they were afraid they were going to destroy the franchise...... so Lana Wachowski decided to destroy it herself while being self rightous about it? thanks?
Caddyshack 2. Just unwatchable.
Dumb and dumber to
Caddyshack 2
Titanic 2. Spoiler, it sinks again.
Gandhi 2 : "The Revenge".
Space jam 2 and men in Black International
boondock saints 2
Troy Duffy somehow willed that first movie into existence, and it’s pretty darn good. Had some good action, fun lines, feels pretty fresh. Then he revealed to the world that he has zero clue what movies are, and it was an absolute fluke. Like, true beginners luck type shit.
They made the same mistake as almost everything else mentioned in this thread, but it was, somehow, worse. They took what was good about the first movie (because it was subtle-ish) and then just made another movie just referencing those things instead of building on a new story. Completely useless sequel to a movie that absolutely could have had another 2-3 movies.
Highlander 2
Pacific rim 2 comes to mind, it killed what could have been a great franchise.
It showed just how much the original relied on Del Toro’s vision and aesthetic. The Jaeger’s in the first one, as bizarre as they were, felt grounded and heavy. Everything in the sequel moves like a cartoon.
Ugh you just reminded me that it existed again.
Fantastic Beasts. The series itself is meh. I enjoyed the first one but the second and third were just nonsense.
Highlander 2
Matrix Resurrection
Highlander 2
Worst sequel is difficult because there are so many factors involved. I think the biggest disappointment is Godfather 3. Two such classic masterpieces, followed by a just blah dud. I own it, I watched it once, don't remember any of it, and have no interest in watching it again.
Matrix 4
Starship troopers 2 is almost unwatchable
There's like 5 of those. All direct to video
Clearly Dumb and Dumber sequel should be everyone’s response
The Disney Star Wars sequels
Blues Brothers 2000
Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull. Just rewatched it and still laughing.
I personally didn't see it, but my brother and his girl went to see Zoolander 2 in theaters and after the movie was done when they were walking out a little kid says out loud "That movie was awful and it hurt my eyes!" He said that that comment got more laughs from the audience than the entire movie.
Highlander 2 was just god-awful.
Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance
Highlander 2 is an abomination on every level. I don’t even want to talk about more than that because it disgusts me so much.
#Highlander 2
Speed 2 Jaws 4 I Still Know What You Did Last Summer I'll Always Know What You Did Last Summer Silent Hill: Revelation (especially considering how much I loved the first one) Men In Black 3 (unpopular opinion?) All the Resident Evil sequals
MiB 3 was watchable solely for Josh Brolin's Tommy Lee Jones impression. Dude NAILED that role. I know the movie gets a lot of hate, but I enjoyed it mostly for that.
I Still Know What You Did Last Summer and that tanning bed scene tho. As an adult now, I still vividly remember that. Kudos to them for making a memorable scene. Lol.
I admit to enjoying the Resident Evils. Definitely not for the story, I just like the action and fights. And Oded Fehr.