Worst sequels in cinematic history (that you love or hate)

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  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    Nothing beats the modern sequels to old Disney classics. Attrocious.
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    The sequel to Batman Forever?
  • DarthDimiDarthDimi Behind you!Moderator
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    Highlander 2... wow! What a mistake on so many levels, yet delicious on so many more. Having spent years hating this film and subsequently discovering the Renegade Version, it's now one of my absolute guilty pleasure films. They totally screwed up Ramirez' story but Connery has some truly great "fish out the water" moments.
  • BondJasonBond006BondJasonBond006 on fb and ajb
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    Nothing beats the modern sequels to old Disney classics. Attrocious.

    True with the exception of Aladdin and the King of Thieves, that one I like very much.
  • bondjamesbondjames You were expecting someone else?
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    Speed 2 is bloody horrendous imho. Dafoe hamming it up like no tomorrow, Sandra Bullock disgracing herself (she should have been ineligible for future Oscars just because of this film alone) and Jason Patric doing his best to ruin whatever credibility he had established in the prior year Sleepers. Awful film, again imho.
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    Watched Speed 2 again a few months back on Sky. Yeah...pretty stupid.

    Also The Mummy Returns, which came out a year before DAD.

  • bondjamesbondjames You were expecting someone else?
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    I'm surprised someone hasn't chimed in here yet about BvS being their worst and most disappointing, given all the sniping going on in that film's thread.
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    Nothing beats the modern sequels to old Disney classics. Attrocious.

    True with the exception of Aladdin and the King of Thieves, that one I like very much.

    Agreed. The one exception to the rule.
  • HASEROTHASEROT has returned like the tedious inevitability of an unloved season---
    edited April 2016 Posts: 4,399
    Grease 2 - first one is great fun.. the second is just a pale imitator.

    Death Wish 2, 3, 4, 5 - although i love me some Bronson vigilante justice, they are all just exaggerated rehashes of the original.

    The Exorcist 2
    - the original is a classic.. the 2nd film is so bad that the underrated 3rd film is a better alternative.

    Children Of The Corn - the original is a personal favorite of mine, the drop from it to it's numerous sequels is a really steep drop.

    Nightmare On Elm St. Part 2 : Freddy's Revenge - just a piss poor sequel to a classic... and it's easily forgettable sandwiched between 2 superior films..

    Halloween III - although i defend this movie on its own for actually being pretty good.. the fact that they tied this film to the 2 films prior that had Michael Myers by calling it Halloween III, really doomed it from the start.

    Jaws 3 and 4 - I don't mind the concept of the idea behind the 3rd film, but the hokey 3D effects are just hilariously bad..... and the 4th movie is easily one the worst films ever made.

    Jason Goes To Hell and Jason X - the friday the 13th series isn't full of academy award winning material, but easily the 2 missteps in this franchise are number 9 and 10 respectively, with #10 being worse than #9.

    Major League 3 : Back To The Minors - the original is a baseball movie classic, and it's sequel, while not as great, is still a fun entertaining film... the 3rd film in this franchise is often forgotten about, and for good reason - it's atrocious.

    Caddyshack 2 - it's amazing how many terrific first films - classic films - spawned such gutter trash sequels.

    Blair Witch Project 2 - the original movie helped ignite the new era of found footage horror films, and is a personal favorite of mine... the sequel is just weird, and by the end turns into a trashy late night skin-a-max style porno (which wasn't completely bad, but not what i was expecting).

    there are more for sure... i'll post more when i think of them.
  • Indiana Jones. The last one.
  • CommanderRossCommanderRoss The bottom of a pitch lake in Eastern Trinidad, place called La Brea
    edited April 2016 Posts: 8,253
    Transformers 2. The first was just fun for those who loved the eighties series, it had all the right (moralistic) ingredients to bring me back to the Regan era. I was 7 again seeing that film. 2 was.... is..... eh..... what is it?

    And I agree on 'The Mummy Returns'. The first was popcorn fun, 2 was popcorn on the floor of th cinema 5 weeks later.
  • Last_Rat_StandingLast_Rat_Standing Long Neck Ice Cold Beer Never Broke My Heart
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    I like the Transformers sequels. Actually Dark of the Moon is my favourite out of all of them. Even the first.
  • DaltonCraig007DaltonCraig007 They say, "Evil prevails when good men fail to act." What they ought to say is, "Evil prevails."
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    Just for the Egypt sequence, I enjoy rewatching Transformers 2.
  • MajorDSmytheMajorDSmythe "I tolerate this century, but I don't enjoy it."Moderator
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    HASEROT wrote: »

    Death Wish 2, 3, 4, 5 - although i love me some Bronson vigilante justice, they are all just exaggerated rehashes of the original.

    3 & 4 are Death Wish films I like most, followed by 1, 2 and lastly 5.
    HASEROT wrote: »
    Jason Goes To Hell and Jason X - the friday the 13th series isn't full of academy award winning material, but easily the 2 missteps in this franchise are number 9 and 10 respectively, with #10 being worse than #9.

    Those two attract more ire than any other films in the series. They are either hated for being too different, or because they are Friday The 13th films. Jason Goes To Hell is one of my favourite entries. The opening and closing sequences are the best in the series. What's in between, I can appreciate for trying something different. Jason X has some of the most inventive kills (that is what the series is all about) in the series. But the film paints the series into a corner. A new sequel would have to screw with any continuity the series has, and act as though Jason X didn't happen.
  • DarthDimiDarthDimi Behind you!Moderator
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    I appreciate Jason Goes To Hell as a film that tried to breathe fresh air into the series, with Jason X being just silly OTT fun IMO. But I'm also more than happy to have FvJ to look forward to each time I revisit the series. :p
  • HASEROTHASEROT has returned like the tedious inevitability of an unloved season---
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    JGTH - i admire the attempt at something new more than i do it's execution... the only memorable part from the movie, for me, was Freddy's glove dragging Jason's mask down into the ground - and the Necromnomicon from Evil Dead gets a nice cameo in this movie as well.... but i just can't get passed the whole "Jason is a parasitic worm" thing... admittedly, the beginning is good, and the end is good - but that's because it has Jason, the man you bought your ticket to see.

    JX - god where do i start... this is the DAD of the Jason franchise as far as i'm concerned.... Crystal Lake Research Facility? When in the hell did this happen???? - and some research facility, kind of just looks like an empty basement - complete with leaky water pipes that wont stop dripping.. i normally don't get hung up over set design - but com'on, it's so cheap looking for some "high tech" security / research facility, that even the guys at Asylum Films would've thought twice about it.... there should be a rule: "If your film is under X amount of dollars for production budget - nothing trying to resemble high tech." ...... So once the inevitable happens, and Jason breaks loose - he gets frozen, then thawed out aboard a not too convincing space ship in the future - along with the girl who conveniently got frozen with him - this is where the movie starts circling the drain faster than the last time i took the Browns to the Super Bowl... the CGI effects were extremely dated, even by 2002 standards.... i could literally sit here and spin yarns about how terrible this movie is - but i will save that for another time.....
    ..... what i will leave you with, is that even my 9 year old niece, who loves watching these movies with me - even she said this movie sucked... when your "scary slasher movie" can't phase a 9 year old, then you know it's terrible.
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    Two Jakes is okish, though in comparison to Chinatown vastly inferior.
  • BondJasonBond006BondJasonBond006 on fb and ajb
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    BvS

    The laughing stock of this movie year.
    And considering MoS wasn't received well that's quite an achievment.


    Mortal Kombat Annihilation

    While the first one is a cult movie the second one is just crap.
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    /\ Did BvS swindle you or something, never seen so much hate toward a film.
  • BondJasonBond006BondJasonBond006 on fb and ajb
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    It was supposed to be the greatest superhero movie ever or at the least a very good one.
    MoS was better.
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    A Good Day to Die Hard - a really bad film that lived up to the terrible reviews. Anyone know who Bruce Willis is playing in this film?
  • JohnHammond73JohnHammond73 Lancashire, UK
    edited May 2016 Posts: 4,151
    How about:

    Teen Wolf Too
    Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 (although not a fan of the first, this was truly terrible)
    Son Of The Mask
    Basic Instinct 2
    Weekend At Bernies' 2
    Jaws: The Revenge
    Robocop 3
    Honey I Blew Up The Kid
    The Rage: Carrie 2
    Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd
    The Crow: City of Angels
  • Mendes4LyfeMendes4Lyfe The long road ahead
    edited May 2016 Posts: 8,395
    BvS and MoS are both sh#t!
  • TheWizardOfIceTheWizardOfIce 'One of the Internet's more toxic individuals'
    edited May 2016 Posts: 9,117
    BvS

    The laughing stock of this movie year.
    And considering MoS wasn't received well that's quite an achievment.

    I thought MoS was utter dogshit so gave BvS a wide berth but given you think it's so awful I'm beginning to think it might actually be half decent.

    One film I haven't seen here which certainly deserves a spot is DAD.

    Not sure it counts as although its part of an ongoing series it's not really a sequel to anything. Still it's very poor so deserves a place on this list surely?
  • BondJasonBond006BondJasonBond006 on fb and ajb
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    BvS

    The laughing stock of this movie year.
    And considering MoS wasn't received well that's quite an achievment.

    I thought MoS was utter dogshit so gave BvS a wide berth but given you think it's so awful I'm beginning to think it might actually be half decent.

    One film I haven't seen here which certainly deserves a spot is DAD.

    Not sure it counts as although its part of an ongoing series it's not really a sequel to anything. Still it's very poor so deserves a place on this list surely?

    If DAD counts then DAF would as well. And AVTAK.
    And LTK.
    Not sure we should go there.

    The S in Bull v Shit is worse than in MoS, by far.
    Batfleck is brilliant though!
    And WW.
    Overall it's the worst one since Batman & Robin.
  • TheWizardOfIceTheWizardOfIce 'One of the Internet's more toxic individuals'
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    BvS

    The laughing stock of this movie year.
    And considering MoS wasn't received well that's quite an achievment.

    I thought MoS was utter dogshit so gave BvS a wide berth but given you think it's so awful I'm beginning to think it might actually be half decent.

    One film I haven't seen here which certainly deserves a spot is DAD.

    Not sure it counts as although its part of an ongoing series it's not really a sequel to anything. Still it's very poor so deserves a place on this list surely?

    If DAD counts then DAF would as well. And AVTAK.
    And LTK.
    Not sure we should go there.

    The S in Bull v Shit is worse than in MoS, by far.
    Batfleck is brilliant though!
    And WW.
    Overall it's the worst one since Batman & Robin.

    Ok I'll wait for it on an illegal download then as charisma free Cavill does nothing for me. How did this guy get so close to being Bond FFS?

    Perhaps we should only say Bond films are eligible if they are somehow connected to a previous one then so that they can be classed as sequels?

    So that would mean:
    FRWL
    TB
    YOLT
    OHMSS
    DAF
    TMWTGG
    MR
    FYEO
    QOS
    SP

    Of these I would say only DAF, TMWTGG and in some people's eyes maybe MR could be up for discussion but as the thread title is 'worst sequels in history' then there are probably no Bond films eligible as even DAF and TMWTGG are way better than dreck like Indy 4, Superman 4, Jaws 4 and Episode I (does a prequel count as a sequel? Or is the Phantom Menace the first film now and Episodes IV, V and VI the sequels?)
  • Mendes4LyfeMendes4Lyfe The long road ahead
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    BvS

    The laughing stock of this movie year.
    And considering MoS wasn't received well that's quite an achievment.

    I thought MoS was utter dogshit so gave BvS a wide berth but given you think it's so awful I'm beginning to think it might actually be half decent.

    One film I haven't seen here which certainly deserves a spot is DAD.

    Not sure it counts as although its part of an ongoing series it's not really a sequel to anything. Still it's very poor so deserves a place on this list surely?

    If DAD counts then DAF would as well. And AVTAK.
    And LTK.
    Not sure we should go there.

    The S in Bull v Shit is worse than in MoS, by far.
    Batfleck is brilliant though!
    And WW.
    Overall it's the worst one since Batman & Robin.

    Ok I'll wait for it on an illegal download then as charisma free Cavill does nothing for me. How did this guy get so close to being Bond FFS?

    Haha, he's the Trump of the Bond world. =))
  • GoldenGunGoldenGun Per ora e per il momento che verrà
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    As a sequel Exorcist II: The Heretic fails completely. Nevertheless, it's a fun picture if you like weird style-over-substance eurohorror. Worst of the series I'd say is Exorcist: The Beginning.

    Halloween III: Season of the Witch, again, fails as a sequel. But on its own its a pretty effective 80's horror flick. The worst of the bunch is definitely Halloween: Resurrection though
  • Mendes4LyfeMendes4Lyfe The long road ahead
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    Ghostbusters 2

    Can't decide if it wants to be a remake or a sequel, fails at both.
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    Ghostbusters 2

    Can't decide if it wants to be a remake or a sequel, fails at both.

    Let s hope Ghostbusters 3 knocks it out of the park!
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