It amazes me how many now classic and great movies came out in the 80's and 90's

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Would any of you consider Riddick a movie franchise? It has 3 movies, an animated special, two highly regarded video games and an upcoming film that who knows when it'll release but it'll eventually come out. I know it has a small fan base but I personally love it and so does Vin Diesel which is why this became a movie franchise instead a one off horror-scifi movie.

Originally Posted by Andrew NDB

*The Crow opinions*

The first movie has its "off parts" but overall you can overlook the parts that don't work but man edit/change a few parts and it'd easily be one of the best movies ever made.

City of Angels is terrible, it's a far less interesting remake of the first film except it's a sequel since it has the girl from the first team in a totally depressing role that makes the first movie worse off.

The other two sequels I can't remember much about them except that they both had interesting ideas that would've made great movies but the execution was so bad that it was all wasted potential.

I still need to see the TV series and apparently there was a planned Rob Zombie sequel set in the future that never happened, I would've loved that. There's been a remake planned for quite a while and I'm sure it'll come out one of these days but as much potential as the franchise has I think they'll mess it up again.

Originally Posted by CyberCubed

It's weird when we think of movies we also only think of the big name Hollywood franchises.

I mentioned in my post counting big hollywood movies it was alright but yeah tons of great indie and foreign films that came out during the period they just aren't huge franchises, closest one I can think of is Donnie Darko since it did end up getting mainstream success.

Originally Posted by Andrew NDB

I wouldn't. And if it came out in '99 that means it filmed in '98.

It still came out in 99 and only became a hit once it hit DVD so basically the impact it had began in the 00's which is why it even got a sequel in 2003 which by then it was a household name. The impact was not done in the 90s so I consider it a 00's franchise but opinons will differ.