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Maybe that's a better way to put it.
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2 That's hard to say, after 5 movies, good or bad it might have time for Reeves to do other novies 3 So.... why did it die there? Where's part 4? 4 people can argue we didn't need a part 4. Movie franchises get ruined when the one movie so bad it either dies or get rebooted.
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03-22-2018, 05:36 PM | #23 |
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You're missing his point completely.
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03-22-2018, 09:39 PM | #24 |
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The Chronicles of Narnia was ruined with both Prince Caspian and The Voyage of the Dawn Treader. I thought The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe was a faithful adaptation and probably was my favorite film of 2005. Its sequels were just major letdowns. They are apparently going to make The Silver Chair, but I am worried they might not get that one right either.
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As strange as it sounds I am always open to give a chance to any franchise, no matter, how bad the previous outing was. Of course, I do not watch movies in cinema, so I don't pay for them. |
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Well the thread was not specific enough that it's lead to a few similar yet different discussions.
Yeah, most can ignore crap sequels that are on DTV or crap reboots of cool franchises or whatever as in the case of say Batman. But I think Andrew meant a movie franchise that has had miss after miss that you just can't get excited about a new movie in that genre or that the sequels have messed up the continuity so much that even if a decent movie was made enough of the original ideas have been altered so much that you have no interest in. I don't disagree, I always hated people who say even the original is ruined or how Star Wars prequels ruined Star Wars. But with Disney Star Wars I kind of understand, I'm just not into the universe anymore and there's no end to it. What I meant by my post was mostly referring to The Matrix Reloaded, in itself when I re-watched it, it's not a horrible movie, it has enough there to make it a disappointing but alright sequel that lead into the next movie with a bunch of questions. Now Revolutions went for a generic war movie and answered or gave unsatisfying answers to Reloaded, making that movie worse off since now you know all those interesting things that could be expanded were really just crap. It lead to such a bad taste in my mouth I didn't watch The Matrix which was my favorite movie at the time for many many years. When I re-watched it, I had a great time and was able to "separate" it from the sequels but sometimes it happens. I was definitely not meaning to be one of those "MY CHILDHOOD IS RUINED" people, I've always and will continue to find it dumb. Quote:
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Matrix Reloaded and Revolutions (for the record, I actually way more like Revolutions over Reloaded... nothing even happens in Reloaded other than them looking for the Key Master or whatever for 90% of the movie, and he doesn't even end up serving much of a purpose), I find it's much better to imagine them as a single sequel or story broken up into two parts. It isn't hard to imagine a reedit that chops out a little more than an hour of fluff from both movies (way moreso from Reloaded) and combines it all into one movie that would actually be pretty good.
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2. I'm only familiar with the Star Trek reboot movies. The first one was forgettable with Chris Pine being a typical ****boy and that one scene where the woman suddenly strip her whole outfit off was so random like wtf. The sequel with Benedict Cumberbatch was a bit better. 3. Star Wars... yeah, there's no main villain threat like Supreme Leader Snook being killed off so prematurely. Also, Rose being a lame cockblock just threw away the Finn X Poe ship set out in TFA... Lame! 4. Terminator I only enjoy the first two. It gets boring after that. 5. DCEU. Justice League was awful after what WB & Whedon did. |
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Part of the problem with Reloaded that it has a very ****ed up pacing, especially closer to the end. Parts of the story from Reloaded were cut from the movie and told in the game tie-in Enter the Matrix and two shorts from Animatrix. One covers how Resistance have learnt about attack of machines and another tells about origin of this annoying teenager who fanboys Neo. The funny part that even if you play Enter the Matrix before Reloaded (like I did), you still won't get a full picture, because ETM, also, misses some story beats, which were left in the movie. Revolutions, gladly was spared from this problems, and aside from the fact that it pick ups immediately after Reloaded with no explanation about what had happened in the previous movie, it is much more coherent and fun (given that you like Matrix mythology). It kind of reminds me about Quantum of Solace, which picks up immediately after end of Casino Royale. Though, in this case it was not planned this way I believe. |
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03-22-2018, 11:04 PM | #30 |
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I also prefer the first Matrix. The sequels are just meh.
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03-22-2018, 11:08 PM | #31 |
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Everyone prefers the first Matrix.
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03-22-2018, 11:09 PM | #32 |
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I treat Matrix and its sequels, like a very different things. Though I like them all more or less the same.
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More than anything else, though, I think Matrix 2 and 3 show the hazards of rushing out sequels or worrying about "we need to make a trilogy... quickly!" The Wachowskis had a lifetime to devise Matrix 1 and it shows. They spent only like a year or so developing Matrix 2 and 3 (which they shot back to back, to boot)... and it also shows. They should have spent 5 years working on nothing but a strong Matrix 2 and the same for 3.
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Oh, man, I love Superman III for Richard Pryor stealing the spotlight in every scene he's in.
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I LOVE Richard Pryor... but man, in Superman 3... eh, yeah. Bad movie. Superman IV was a stronger movie with a noticeably smaller budget. It's sort of the TMNT III to Superman III's TMNT II.
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03-22-2018, 11:51 PM | #36 |
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I'll confess it's not a good "Superman" movie. Kinda feels more like a sitcom-based feature film with Superman as the guest star.
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It was like they transferred the buffoonery of Luthor and his cronies in I and II onto the whole movie in III and just said, "F*** it."
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03-23-2018, 04:17 AM | #38 |
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some parts arn't bad. an average man saving superman. evil superman versus clark kent. clarks normal life.
other parts are. basically a richard pryor movie.
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03-23-2018, 05:17 AM | #39 |
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In my understanding a franchise goes bad when you don't want to see it continue anymore. In that case Terminator has been ruined since T3, even though Genisys was a surprisingly fun parody. Predator might be on its way to ruination, but I'll give the new one the benefit of the doubt.
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Maybe it's my understanding of the word franchise. I was taking it to mean the entire property itself, and not a specific spinoff of that property.
Are we talking about it as just a singular iteration? Like, that McDonald's on Main Street is terrible I won't visit that franchise again? Meaning that particular store, as opposed to McDonald's and its entirety?
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