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The Matrix Resurrections?
I liked all the references to the Matrix Trilogy being a trans allegory but I see the movie separate from the original three. It's not head canon for me.
Highlander 2: The Shittening
All of the sequels are weird since the first film is literally about the end of the immortals, but among the billion sequels and TV show, Highlander 2 is definitely the weirdest. I like how the rest of the sequels 100% ignore it.
Like: suddenly they're aliens and Sean Connery can be resurrected by shouting his name, and he can project a force from his hand, but it'll make him die again, and Connor is a scientist who made a shield to replace the Ozone in the future but the Ozone layer is actually fine so they have to destroy the shield generator in a Cyberpunk dystopia.
There's not enough cocaine on the planet to explain that script.
To hear Russell Crowe tell it, Gladiator 2 may suffer from this
I met someone who worked on this movie and she says 2 is gonna be pretty okay-ish, not bad but nowhere near as good as the original.
If even the people making it are like "it's pretty mid", it was probably a waste of time lol
Since everybody knows it's going to be mediocre, they should have just used the budget to make a historically-realistic movie about something in that era.
Yeah, but it's not like anything interesting and movie-worthy ever happened back then.
Bit later but im juat ginba drop one of my favorite qoutes from antiquity. "Give me back my Legions"
Seriously id kill for a movie about the Battle of Teutoberg Forest.
There's a short 1 season long series called "barbarians" which is supposedly pretty good. I don't know if they made a session 2, but I know that season 1 had a conclusion and all historic advisors left work for season 2 because it became ridiculous.
Lord of the Rings, the moment it was infested by the malignant growth of WB.
What? The LotR series is an amazing accomplishment. Probably the best trilogy of all time, and the highest grossing trilogy of all time.
It's probably in reference to The Hobbit movies - which were...less than great.
And Rings of Power, which was also...less than great.
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Sometimes sequels are how movies get made at all.
There's a story about the suggested sequel to the gladiator that has Maximus traveling through fucking time. The reason that movie was pitched was because the director and the writer specifically did not want to make that movie. But the contract for the Gladiator required a multiple movie deal if it was successful. So they pitched the craziest shit imaginable and the studio let them out of the contact.
A lot of movies are made this away. Original IP doesn't get picked up unless a studio thinks they can milk it.
Sometimes sequels are how movies get made at all.
I say this with the utmost respect to "the industry": If all you have is a shitty moneygrab sequel or reboot "or nothing," make nothing. Get back to the goddamn writer's room, take a walk to your local comic shop and look for something creator owned that hasn't been adapted if you have to, there's plenty good shit, worked for Invincible, but for "Bob's" sake stooooop with the bullshit.
Not that it matters to me, I gave up on them in about 2010, and they'd have to pay me to watch their garbage now.
Who pays to watch these things? Like Fast and Furious part 47 is clearly making money as is Comic book hero vs other comic book anti-hero part 32.
I know I'm old, but I can't even name the year when I last paid to go see a movie.
See, I actually think the F&F franchise is the exception here. The first one is just about some folks who like cars stealing DVD players. If it had just been that movie, I think it would have been mostly forgotten. It's not bad, but it's not iconic on its own. With each subsequent one they continue to lean harder and harder in to ridiculousness to the point where suddenly we have Tyrese and Ludacris in SPACE. To me the franchise is an example of how to do the action movie right: with a huge amount of self awareness and never taking it too seriously. They know what kind of movies they're making.
The first one is just about some folks who like cars stealing DVD players
Not even... CRT TV/VCR combos