Movie Franchise Killers

[HellbirdIV]

Starship Troopers 2. The first movie is actually one of my all-time favourites because it is silly, shooty, alien-killy funtimes. The second film - Indeed, the fact that they made a sequel to a movie so poorly recieved should have been an indication - tried to take the first movie seriously, as if it had been anything else than a hilarious hour-and-a-half dakkafest with some tits abound, and wrote itself accordingly.

The end result was something of a cross between all the things people hated about the first movie - Over the top acting, ridiculous plot - and combined it with some kind of vaguely Alien-inspired bollocks about claustrophobic environments, the flickering lights of the USS Kill Beast Buffet, and some yotz about mind-control and zombies... Or something. I don't even know anymore, it was just painful to watch. They threw in some tits and blood too, but that really just made it more evident they had no idea what made the first movie such a glorious feast to the eye.

 

[nashty13]

Alien vs Predator *shudder*

 

[Eclectic Dreck]

Alien 3 was so bad that I still haven't seen Alien Resurrection, despite the fact that the first two movies in the series are my favorite horror and one of my favorite action movies, and despite the fact that it was directed by one of my favorite directors.

Alien is my favorite horror film of all time. Aliens was, for quite some time, my favorite movie of all time. Alien 3's use of CGI for the alien somehow made it less convincing (it turns out a tall man in a rubber suit can be more convincing than CGI - who knew?), but at least it was well paced and provided a suitable conclusion for the series. Alien: Ressurection was basically just a terrible movie all around. Most of the plot points made little sense, the movie relied even more heavily on CGI (essentially, the only non CGI part of the flim was the human characters and the props they were actually holding), the pacing was incredibly poor and most of the acting was unconvincing.

Alien vs. Predator simply made it worse by combining two franchises and then committing the same sins as Alien: Resurrection. I never saw AvP 2 but I suspect it was somehow worse.

 

[mercswithmouths]

Casino Royal and Quantam of Solice.

Merc 1 is a huge Dragon Ball fan and has been turned off the film, just by the trailer.

 

[Fiskmasen]

Bryan Singer had a good thing going with the first two X-Men movies - enter Brett Ratner who tears it all down and pisses on the broken pieces of what could've been a great trilogy.

Blade: Trinity is also the perfect example of why someone who's just written screenplays never, ever, should direct movie in an already established franchise.

 

[Cartman2nd]

Well Kingdom of a Crystal Skull was such crap I cant believe it's only been mentioned twice.

 

[Mykonos]

"Wolverine Origins! Finally! The first Movie-game to be better than the movie!"

 

[McClaud]

Any old James Bond flick post Roger Moore (and even some of Roger Moore's were pretty bad).

The new James Bond, though, seems to revert to the feel of the books. That is, there is less gadget fuckery and massive explosions retardedness for more thinking and character growth.

 

[jamie3001]

jaws 3

 

[blackcherry]

Quantum of Solace. Of the new style of bond movies it completely killed the premise of the Casino Royale, in that in this Bonds world you have to do as much talking as killing, because there are consequences.

QoS just decided 'Well the audience complained about having to think in CR, so lets cut that bit out and have bond killing anything that so much as moves. In a big doom lair in the desert.' This from a director and writer famed for being good at doing the whole talky bit as well as action.

*Sigh*

 

[dontworryaboutit]

"If it ain't broke, don't let George Lucas near it."

 

[xChevelle24]

I don't know, maybe I have issues but I felt that Matrix Reloaded and Matrix Revolutions were pretty good films, but whatever.

 

[dwightsteel]

I'm making a prediction here:

Terminator: Salvation

Given the nightmare fuel premise of the first two films and their ultra violent execution, their reputation let the Terminator name largely survive 3 intact.
Unforunately, any chance to repair the damage done by that P.O.S of a film have been ruined, ruined by a phrase that should strike the fear into all movie goers.

PG-13

Seriously, how in the name of all Skynet do you make a PG-13 TERMINATOR MOVIE?

Anyway.

Ok, I can totally understand if you didn't like the movie after watching it, especially after going in last night. But I totally take issue by you judging the movie based on it's MPAA rating. Thats asinine and naive. This new movie is at least AS violent as it's predecessors. They took a few more language considerations, but swearing would have been offputting in this variation as it is, but that is it. This is just as bad as telling people how bad a movie is based on a review of a friend. You're taking information that only reflects an aspect of the film to judge it's worth. It's like a jock picking on the nerdy kid because he likes Dungeons & Dragons, when you know full well that the jock never even sat a game.

 

[Sparrow]

X-Men 3.

First was alright, second was meh, third sucked ass.

I've liked all the Matrix sequels though.

 

[iain62a]

Spoiler: I saw the Matrix being mentioned, and thought of this. It's related to the thread too

But anyway, the fourth Indiana Jones film.

It murdered my childhood.

 

[ntomlin63]

I guess i am the only person on earth that liked Highlander II, oh well,

I think the worst sequel of all time was the superman one was it 3 or 4, when he decided to round up all the nukes and get rid of them.

 

[Zykon TheLich]

Alien is my favorite horror film of all time. Aliens was, for quite some time, my favorite movie of all time. Alien 3's use of CGI for the alien somehow made it less convincing (it turns out a tall man in a rubber suit can be more convincing than CGI - who knew?), but at least it was well paced and provided a suitable conclusion for the series. Alien: Ressurection was basically just a terrible movie all around. Most of the plot points made little sense, the movie relied even more heavily on CGI (essentially, the only non CGI part of the flim was the human characters and the props they were actually holding), the pacing was incredibly poor and most of the acting was unconvincing.

Alien vs. Predator simply made it worse by combining two franchises and then committing the same sins as Alien: Resurrection. I never saw AvP 2 but I suspect it was somehow worse.

Indeed, this is pretty much my answer too. Alien 3 may not have been a great movie but at least it felt like an alien movie.

Alien ressurection wasn't an alien movie IMO, it tried too hard to be cool and failed miserably. Lots of posing and bullshit.

AvP was pretty much the same thing, except it brought 2 franchises closer to the brink rather than just 1.

 

[Thegoodfriar]

Jar jar binks killed a franchise, that and bad acting.

 

[chefassassin2]

Well Kingdom of a Crystal Skull was such crap I cant believe it's only been mentioned twice.

I agree that Kingdom of the Crystal Skull sucked hard, but it didn't ruin the franchise for me. It's just a really crappy movie, but I can still watch the others with no problem.