The most ill-conceived, misguided movie sequels screaming
  • Rolando@lemmy.worldEnglish
    67·
    2 months ago

    From the article:

    • Jaws: The Revenge (1987)
    • Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019)
    • Star Trek: Nemesis (2002)
    • Independence Day: Resurgence (2016)
    • Coming 2 America (2021)
    • A Good Day to Die Hard (2013)
    • Friday the 13th: A New Beginning (1985)
    • Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987)
    • Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 (2000)
    • Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (2023)
    • Highlander II: The Quickening (1991)
    • Exorcist II: The Heretic (1977)
    • Curse of the Cat People (1944)
    • Blue_Morpho@lemmy.worldEnglish
      383·
      2 months ago

      Quantumania wasn’t bad. It just wasn’t great. There are many Marvel and DC sequels that were worse both critically and financially.

      • grayhaze@lemmy.worldEnglish
        61·
        2 months ago

        We enjoyed Quantumania, but that could have been influenced by us watching it in a 4DX cinema. Sure there were issues, but it can’t really be criticised for setting up Kang as the next big bad as that was the plan at the time.

        • Blue_Morpho@lemmy.worldEnglish
          14·
          2 months ago

          But the list is supposed to be the absolute worst sequels, not a random list of not great sequels.

          • MeekerThanBeaker@lemmy.worldEnglish
            6·
            2 months ago

            Yeah… and Coming 2 America wasn’t as awful as many on that list. I was pleasantly surprised despite the stupid title name. No where near as good as the original, but better than expected.

            I can’t recall Star Trek Nemesis, but I’ve seen all the Star Trek films and I never thought any were bad enough to be put on this list.

      • MimicJar@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        2 months ago

        I’ve seen technically less than half but “Coming 2 America” is on my TODO list, so more than half eventually. Of the nearly half I’ve seen… I’ve seen worse.

    • bitflag@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      2 months ago

      Looks about right. Those that I have seen on this list were mediocre at best, and a far cry from the quality of the previous movie(s) which would have been fine being left alone.

  • Magister@lemmy.worldEnglish
    162·
    2 months ago

    Independence Day 2 is one of the worst movie ever. And why Charlotte Gainsbourg was here? She’s useless, her character is useless, and she’s a bad actress.

    • Nuke_the_whales@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      2 months ago

      I honestly pressed stop, and turned off the movie when the scientist who clearly died in part 1, sits up in a hospital bed after being in a coma for decades and can talk and communicate just fine and somehow knows aliens are coming. I didn’t want to see anything beyond that point

      • angrystego@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        2 months ago

        Wait, there’s more Brent Spiner in the second one? I still won’t give it a try, but I do feel slight temptation.

        • harrys_balzac@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          3·
          2 months ago

          He is probably the best part of the movie.

          The plotlines for the younger characters are just standard tropes. It’s like they tried to jam every trope in there. Potential love triangle. Risk taker gets someone killed. By the book leader has to learn to loosen up.

      • tabris@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        2 months ago

        I saw it in the cinema with friends, we all realised how shit it was pretty quickly, but I burst out laughing when the alien queen went on a rampage. It was so bad. “Look at its widdle legs!”

  • eightpix@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    2 months ago

    Compared to all of the other ones, Mission: Impossible 2 was the absolute worst of the bunch.

    John Woo tried — he really did — but that script was brutal.

  • steeznson@lemmy.worldEnglish
    51·
    2 months ago

    Lazy listicle. However I am happy Exorcist 2 exists because it meant that we got Exorcist 3 which is phenomenal.

  • Rob@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    2 months ago

    On the other side of the spectrum, I really like Patrick H. Willem’s take on the best sequel ever: Mamma Mia 2.

    Not the best movie that is also a sequel, but biggest improvement over the original.

    • zod000@lemmy.mlEnglish
      2·
      2 months ago

      I agree, I mean, it is objectively bad, but it is almost enjoyable with the right mindset.

  • zod000@lemmy.mlEnglish
    31·
    2 months ago

    That is a solid list, but I nominate Lawnmower Man 2 as possibly the worst sequel of all time. The first movie was actually pretty great for it’s time, but the sequel is just a nonsensical train wreck. Just take my word for it and don’t watch it.

    • mPony@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      2 months ago

      The first movie was actually pretty great for it’s time

      Goodness. Did we see the same movie? Even with the better-than-Money-For-Nothing graphics the first one was not all that great of a movie to start with. Plus it tried to cash in on the hot streak that Stephen King stories were on at the time: the movie had nothing to do with the short story of the same name.

      Still, I do not doubt your claim that the sequel was horrible.

      • zod000@lemmy.mlEnglish
        2·
        2 months ago

        Yes, we saw the same movie, but I really liked it. The actual Stephen King story is basically unrelated, it was a bizarre couple page short story about a weirdo that mows lawns with psychic powers and then ate the lawn clippings (yes really!).

        As for the sequel, just imagine that whatever you would have rated the first movie out of 10, adjust it down by 8 points. Yes, you can go negative :)