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I'll start: The Stars Wars postlogy was such a disastrous cash grab that it doesn't exist in my head cannon.
This whole thing was a mess.
I think I'm still in kinda disbelief that that happened. Like, maybe don't take me too seriously, but the true sign that the world is going to shit was right there with The Force Awakens. When Star Wars devolved to a totally fluffed up cash grab that we all ate up, that was the sign that we'd lost the plot.
Bravo! You nailed it.
Thanks ha ha
They were far better than the prequels and original ones
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...
Highlander 2 was ssssssssssooooooooooooo bad.
I was told there could be only one.
They LIED
Less of a sequel, but all the remakes of 80s/90s classic movies are awful and do nothing but bastardize the legacy of some incredible pieces of art. The Karate Kid, Total Recall, and Point Break top the list.
Boondock Saints ,2
The Starship Troopers sequels. Which don't exist, but if they did they would be awful enough to pretend they don't.
You scared me. Don't do that.
In that vein:
Romeo and Juliet II: Friar Lawrence Strikes Again
American Psycho 2.
Yeah, there's a direct to video "sequel"
Isn't that girl from that 70s show in it?
Yeah
Blues Brothers 2000
Oh, jesus, I just remembered!...
The cute but completely and totally unnecessary A Christmas Story Christmas!
Fun to watch once, but definitely not a "rewatch every Christmas" kind of fun movie. So much bad crap just happens over and over again and it just doesn't feel like a happy story!
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.
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.
Naughty Nurses 2.
Crotch Capers 3 was way better.