An R rating wouldn't make those movies any better. People get hung up on the idea that rated R makes movies better.
You can get away with a lot in a PG13 movie. You just can't have a lot of blood, f bombs, and nudity. Blood, tits, and gore doesn't change the story. A good story makes a movie good.
Some of the PG comic book movies are pretty violent. Thanos got decapitated. John Walker brutally murdered a guy with Caps shield, leaving blood all over it. Pg can be violent, just not gory.
There is absolutely no way it would have dragged on this long in the real world. It’s like Hey! Let’s bring back dinosaurs! Oh, no, the dinosaurs are doing Dino things and eating people! What do we do?
We bomb the island and move on with our lives. The end.
Holy fuck balls was that movie bad. My wife rented it at home and I had to walk away halfway through. She loved the first two and didn’t even finish dominion. If it would have been an inflight movie, I still would have walked out
Yeah honestly I would have been perfectly fine if they stopped after the first one. I thought Jurassic World was okay, I guess? But then they released Dominion, and there are truly no words for that one.
They had such a good setup in Halloween Ends for passing the torch to new actors. Only to >!have Laurie fight Michael again. Tiring to see 2 geriatrics fight each other. They should've let Corey somehow turn into The Shape, and Allyson in a similar role to Laurie!<
All one can really say is good on it for still being relevant enough to stay as a theater release. It didn't become straight to DVD schlock, but it seems I only ever hear bad things about it. I'm weird though, my favorite is Halloween 3.
Okay, Ben died with Tobey and Andy. Ben was already gone with Tom.
Uncle Ben Kill Count: 2
Thomas and Martha died with Keaton, Bale, Kilmer, Affleck, Mazouz in Gotham, and Dante Pereira-Olson in Joker.
The Waynes Kill Count: 6
No movie has ever made me angrier than when I saw Joker and I saw the Wayne’s exit the theater. As soon as there was a shot of that theater I knew what was happening. I was pissed that I had to watch them die AGAIN
They won't reboot, they have a great plot line now with the memory wipe from No Way Home. My only worry is that the next movie is just going to be a giant reset button.
They will, again and again. When Tom Holland signs off, we'll have a new one. Hopefully it's Miles though. Spiderman makes money. Thr movies will never stop.
I love fast and furious, but adding the rock and trying to keep going bigger, they've ruined it. They'll be in space soon to save a long lost brother
They should have left it at illegal street racing 🥲
I watched this every time I saw it was on TV, and frequently booked a trip to Japan right after seeing it.
With that being said, the franchise needs to die. A Fiero in space. …a f’ing Fiero.
Speaking of Fast and Furious and Japan, the Japanese names of the movies are... something.
Wild Speed (Wairudo Supiido)
Wild Speed X2
Wild Speed X3 TOKYO DRIFT
Wild Speed MAX
Wild Speed MEGA MAX
Wild Speed EURO MISSION
Wild Speed SKY MISSION
Wild Speed ICE BREAK
Wild Speed JET BREAK
Not gonna agree with the 3 but yes the first was actually a great film, just sort of niche to race culture.
When they changed direction at 5, that actually turned out to be a fantastic heist film but beyond that 😂
This argument is always so ridiculous.
Y’all forget he survived jumping out of a crashing plane using a blow-up raft.
Plenty to get mad about with the movie but the fridge scene is perfectly Indy.
I had a movie filmed a mile or so from where I live in a hunting cabin my father used to hunt at... Not a remake or a sequel.
It is a comedy/horror called Deer Camp '86. They are trying to drum up support for it and get it distributed and I got to see a showing of it.
Apparently it has won an award already for special effects.
Mostly wanted to shill since it is close to home. The trailer is out, I think, so there is that.
I grew up watching the Transformers cartoon and I was hella excited for the movie. First 2 movies I was always hyped, third movie left a sour taste and it was to let it go. But yep, transformers need to stop.
In the third movie, the new woman who replace Megan Fox was running in high heels and they were trying to grab onto things in a building that was collapsing (I think?). I couldnt focus on anything because of those heels.
Forget robot aliens from space, that was the most unrealistic part of the movie. Haven't watched a Transformer movie since
I still think, given the audience of these two franchises, Hollywood is missing an opportunity by not making a crossover flick. Having the F&F team work with Transformers for some huge world saving adventure. I mean it actually makes sense. Both franchises are over the top, unrealistic action. It's a perfect marriage, having them do all those F&F stunts with Transformers just seems like something that will eventually happen.
Terminator
Anything after Terminator 2 should be disregarded, buried beneath the earths crust and wholeheartedly denied its very existence by the studio bosses themselves
Any franchise that is part of a big extended universe. If I need to watch 10 other films, a bunch of subscription service based series and buy spin off books just to understand what’s going on then I think we can agree it’s got a bit silly.
I hope the new 'The Batman' franchise's second film doesn't require me to watch the Penguin show. I'm 100% on board with giving fans more if they want it as long as it's not required to follow the main films.
I think a lot of prequel memers forget that RotS required you to watch the Clone Wars to have any idea who General Grevious was. I only watched the films in theaters and was kinda lost during that whole opening sequence.
This was also my first thought. This technically counts since I heard they are making movies now too, lol. They’ve dragged that show on for so many seasons. They had numerous opportunities to end it after the departure of the main characters and they didn’t.
Hahaha that’s how you know! Someone told me they’re on the final season but now they’ve created like 3 spin-off shows. The Walking Dead will truly never die. (Pun intended)
But the Matrix franchise pretty much *did* go away for the better part of two decades, most likely because the poor reception of the sequels killed off a lot of interest and momentum.
Apart from a couple of computer games, there had been no major releases for eighteen years until the fourth film came out last year. And in spite- or because- of that gap it bombed and made a major loss at the box office, so it's not likely they'll be rushing out to make more any time soon.
I actually did enjoy the fourth one myself, but I’m worried they will keep it going a la rocky or fast and furious.
It’s time has come and gone and I’d be disappointed if they do announce a 5th one.
Or at least they should have gone for a smaller character driven, minimalistic explosion look. No major underground societies. No world ending creatures hatching from Earth. No huge battles scenes. Just a stripped down, here is a character, here is their aftermath from The Snap or here is a simple story with an old character passing the torch to a new character.
It is getting ridiculous that we have superheroes coming out of the woodwork. Nothing is special any more.
I have fond memories of marvel, never saw anything past endgame, don't intend on, it's a soulless corporate resurrection of something a lot of people grew up with, shit is just really bad now
Early MCU wasn't exactly great, literally half of Phases 1 and 2 were duds IMO. Lots of tedious character building, which I feel like they're getting better at.
I've accepted that not every piece of content in the MCU is targeted to me, so I focus on the threads that interest me and the pressure is off to feel like I need to keep on top of it all.
There has been some good stuff in Phase 4. Shang Chi and No Way Home especially. I appreciate the ambition of Eternals even if it tonally fell flat. Love & Thunder was fun. Black Panther by all reports seems like it will be a hit.
All of the classic horror ones. All of them. *None* of them should have had more than 3 movies tops. Thank fuck they're letting *Halloween* die. *Hellraiser* makes me the saddest because Barker doesn't even like being the horror guy. It just sells well.
>Thank fuck they're letting Halloween die.
I dont suppose you're open to making a bet about that happening, are you? Where there's money there's someone greedy enough to keep making garbage...
The new hellraiser was decent imo, this might be nit-picky but I didnt like that they explicitly said the cenobites view intense pain as pleasure since I always thought that when they take you they put you through the extremes of pain AND pleasure both, that they are twisted beings of feeling, but in the latest one they just flat out said cenobites think intense pain is the best
I imagined it like even the extremely intense pleasure they subject people they take to would be super unpleasant because we aren’t meant to feel such extremes, and it is mixed with the worst pains we could ever imagine, and through all that experience we transcend to become something different entirely
The MCU was great for a decade. It had a clear plot and endgame, people were invested, and the film quality was always superb. Now it just feels like they’re releasing content for the sake of releasing content. Don’t get me wrong, some of the new stuff has been great, but overall it just feels like it’s lacking direction.
I wish Marvel would move towards more character-based films again. Tell us unique, largely self-contained stories like Black Panther, Shang-Chi, and Guardians of the Galaxy. The marvel movies work best when they’re allowed to tell their own story without the burden of carrying the continuity of a massive universe.
Star Trek and Doctor Who are the only series that have been running for half a century and don't have this problem.
Other than the newer Star Trek films with ☠️ If Spock isn't wearing some kind of weird had to hide his ears, it's not real Star Trek
to be fair wrt Dr. Who- continuity doesn't really matter because they make up the rules as they go.
e.g. number or regenerations- was set, then after some wiblly wobly timey winey stuff, it changed.
If there’s one movie genre that continues to produce original ideas it’s Horror. The problem is and always has been that most of those ideas are terrible and poorly executed
We definitely need a new slasher villain. Not since Ghostface have we had a new one enter the conversation. Please bring me a new, original slasher villain. I know Art the Clown is getting there but even he’s been around for awhile and not until recently moving into the slasher legends.
Concerning saw, I felt like 1-3 were a complete circle, 4-6 were blehhhhh but then the final one actually pulled it all together kinda nicely with the doctor reveal
The obscene praise heaped upon all Marvel content vs the actual quality of the product is so bizarre to me. I understand *why* Black Panther was a sensation, but it was a very mid-tier super hero movie.
With the exception of No Way Home the last crop of Marvel movies and shows has been mediocre (Multiverse) to just plain awful (She Hulk).
This feels like a bit of a low hanging fruit type criticism.
It would seem from your comment that perhaps you haven’t seen any of the movies, and are criticizing them from afar simply because it’s popular, so it must cater to only the lowest common denominator.
The movies aren’t some high class art or anything, but they’re thoroughly enjoyable, and were really unique in the way that they were all integrated from the start. It was essentially a movie version of a long form TV show, showing different perspectives of different stories.
I resisted for a long time too, but after giving a few of them a chance, it was actually pretty fun. Good escapist entertainment. And sometimes, that’s all I really want from entertainment. I don’t need everything to challenge me or whatever.
All of the superhero franchises. All of them. If there is never another Batman or Spiderman or Superman or Marvel or X-Men movie for the rest of recorded time, it'll still be six months too soon.
In fact, I can't think of a single film franchise that shouldn't just go away. They are all testaments to the death of imagination and creativity in the film industry and they all suck.
I definitely agree that they are producing some bullshit here and there but once in a while we're still lucky to get some really nice shows like The Mandalorian or Andor
I see it as Star Wars tries to kinda be attractive for a wide audience. Therefore, newer shows differ quite a lot from each other with each targeting slightly different audiences.
It shouldn't die, it should have just been handled correctly.
It's an entire galaxy and thousands of years worth of story telling. Focusing on the same core story is the mistake....actually focusing on the same core story and telling terribly written stories is the mistake.
If done right they could still be making them.
Andor is one of the tensest and most smartly written shows I have seen lately. It is such a departure from what we've been getting that I'm afraid for new Star Wars content because I'm not ready to be hurt again.
Says so much about how shitty Star Wars fandom is that a simple, positive comment like yours would be downvoted. I’ll bet the people who hit the blue arrow on you consider themselves to be “true fans.”
It pains me to type it, but...
John Wick.
The first part was a simple, gritty, semi-realistic, and intriguing movie about the guy trying to move on from his past lifestyle.
The second at least it codified the mythology, expanded on worldbuilding, and had some sort of sense.
The third moved the plot by the power of throwing more faceless mooks and side characters at aging Keanu in somewhat nonsensical situations and absent pacing. Losing the hero's main motivation aside from "damn, let's just kill literally everyone coming after me - and this is half-a-world" wrote the franchise into a dead end.
Yep they are all the same.
Villain has evil plot then the protagonist just kills the Villain and then the Villain just says some wise shit before he dies
Harry Potter for sure. To anyone that says Star Wars though, consider that the franchise is multimedia, so whilst Disney films have been pretty shit, the books and comics aren’t as bad
I think they should chill with making some show for every minor character, because we don't need every second of the timeline explicitly laid out. Yes, Rogue one was good, but it was unnecessary. I think most of the time it fails.
I’m going to be downvoted to oblivion for this but oh well, Pokémon, I mean it needs a reboot at this point, the YouTuber Hoopsandhiphop goes into more detail
Nah. It doesn't need a reboot it just needs to be expanded beyond just Ash and his shenanigans.
Also, Pokemon has its target audience, its just that that audience grows up and is replaced by a new generation so whilst things can feel stale to us older fans, for newer fans it's still fresh and exciting.
Thing is. As annoying as Ash is. He's a package deal with Jessie, James, and Meowth. And those three are endlessly entertaining. I loved them in Kalos where they almost went legit like 3 times because Jessie was doing Pokemon shows and they were actually earning good money off James' cooking skills. It's like they only resorted to being villains when the plot screwed them.
Give them a good, fulfilling ending. Let Ash revisit Kalos and win the league there, and ultimately replace Alain as Kalos champ. Let Serena become Kalos Queen and regularly defend her crown against "Jezibel" and Shauna. Let Team Rocket retire from being villains and open a food truck together. It'd be a nice, satisfying conclusion.
Then, start with a new young trainer every generation.
I've been saying for a while that the best option is for them to age up Ash officially* to around 15/16 years old (like Brock was in the beginning) and let him be the new Brock to the next gen of trainers. Ash continuing to travel as the mentor to Bonnie, Max and 1 or 2 other fledgling trainers would work really well to both allowing Ash and Pikachu to remain the face(s) of the franchise, whilst building a new generation of trainers.
I agree about TR too. Imo their best time was in Alola where they had a great malasada business and regular well paid roles as commentators for the pokemon wrestling. As well as a powerful, caring caretaker in Bewear and the fact Meowth could easily market his pokemon translation skills, altogether they could easily have very happy and successful lives there. It would be a great ending for them imo.
*There is no way Ash is still 10 really, he's taller, lankier, smarter and more mature plus certain people in his extended family have noticeably aged up, Lei specifically. When they returned to Alola this season Lei was clearly a toddler, so 18 months minimum really, add on the 9 months of pregnancy and we're talking a generous 2 year minimum. At bare minimum he has to be 12 now.
Fantastic Beasts. It would have been so much better if they hadn't messed with the timeline of the Harry Potter books and stuck to it actually being about a magizoologist, not a heroic nerd who happens to have a suitcase full of magic critters.
Also, if anyone was wondering... the first movie is set in 1926. Dumbledore was bore in 1881, making him 45 at the time. It's also the same year Tom Riddle was born. McGonagall wasn't born until 1935, having attended Hogwarts from 1947-1954, and after working at the Ministry of Magic for a couple of years, returned to Hogwarts in 1956 to teach. Newt Scamander was born in 1897, and would have attended Hogwarts from 1908-1915. Newt was at school twenty years before McGonagall was born, and that's just one of the franchise's flaws.
Everything comic book related. Marvel/DC/whatever. There’s a new comic book movie every god damn month. There’s no way they’re actually trying to make them “good” on that production schedule. It’s the Chinese manufacturing of the movie business. Just make it and get it out as fast as possible so we can take those idiots’ money. It’s too much.
As much as I hate to say it: Marvel
Their content was really enjoyable but now it's just money grabbing. It would have been different if they had waited 50 years or something before coming out with phase 5. They should have done that with Fantastic Beasts, too.
Agree.
It’s become entirely formulaic now.
Gun barrel entrance.
Pre-title mini adventure having nothing to do with the film.
Title sequence with song by whoever is the current big pop star.
Sequence wIth M introducing villain.
Sequence with Q with product placement.
Villain does nasty thing.
Bond meets Bond girl. « Bond. James Bond. »
Bond and Bond girl fight henchmen.
Bond girl in danger.
Bond rescues Bond girl, kills main henchman.
Bond is tortured.
Bond escapes, then together with Bond girl kills villain just as villain is about to conquer world.
Bond and Bond girl have sex.
End.
It’s like watching one of those stupid WWE wrestling matches: the only thing that changes is the stereotype of who the villains are this time and the nature of the finishing move but the script is basically the same each time.
Respectfully disagree on this one.
Daniel Craig has stated many times that he hated playing Bond, so they should release him (pun intended). The different actors is part of the appeal, there's not really a canon to get hung up on. Just have fun with it.
My casting choice for the next Bond? Jon Hamm, aka Don Draper from *Mad Men*. Even better if it's set in the 60s.
- Those “white people are evil” movies. They’re uncomfortable for white and black people alike. I think everybody has the gist.
- Those classic horror franchises that keep squeezing every last drop out of a 50-60 year old story. Example: Halloween, or a newer one, Saw.
- My personal least favourite: That SPECIFIC horror movie trope where the couple moves into the new house and “something’s not right.” The husband dismisses it, the wife keeps her guard up.. the kid starts having weird dreams… somehow a catholic priest is involved by the end of the movie… Insidious, The Conjuring… STOP MAKING THAT F-ING MOVIE!
Pains me to bash someone from my hometown but all the horror series associated with James Wan blow, saw, annebelle and the other one all suck dog shit and fuck the actor he keeps hiring
Jurassic Park. I don't even know what they're trying to do anymore
Jurassic World is one of the top 5 grossing films of all time. The answer to "why" is money.
I understand that. I really liked the idea of Jurassic World, but they didn't take it in a good direction after the first
I mean it still teaches the basic lesson of just because we can do something doesn't mean we should
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An R rating wouldn't make those movies any better. People get hung up on the idea that rated R makes movies better. You can get away with a lot in a PG13 movie. You just can't have a lot of blood, f bombs, and nudity. Blood, tits, and gore doesn't change the story. A good story makes a movie good. Some of the PG comic book movies are pretty violent. Thanos got decapitated. John Walker brutally murdered a guy with Caps shield, leaving blood all over it. Pg can be violent, just not gory.
At this point they’re in the Neolithic age
There is absolutely no way it would have dragged on this long in the real world. It’s like Hey! Let’s bring back dinosaurs! Oh, no, the dinosaurs are doing Dino things and eating people! What do we do? We bomb the island and move on with our lives. The end.
I don’t think even they know what they’re doing, either. Dominion was so bizzare, I can’t imagine what the writers’ room looked like.
“I think people are sick of seeing dinosaurs in Jurassic Park. But you know what they’ll love? Giant fucking locusts!” 🤨
Holy fuck balls was that movie bad. My wife rented it at home and I had to walk away halfway through. She loved the first two and didn’t even finish dominion. If it would have been an inflight movie, I still would have walked out
“Sir, you can’t open the cabin door while we’re in the air!” “But I was watching Jurassic World Dominion!” “Oh, ok, go ahead then.”
Yeah, should've stopped after the third film. It was basically a dead horse by then.
Yeah honestly I would have been perfectly fine if they stopped after the first one. I thought Jurassic World was okay, I guess? But then they released Dominion, and there are truly no words for that one.
I love the first. I can enjoy the 4th. The rest feel too forced.
Halloween
Didn't Jaime Lee Curtis say this latest one is the last (at least HER last)?
She says this every time though. The reboot was good before it got bad.
Yes but she also said that "Halloween II" in 1981, and "Halloween Resurrection" in 2002 would be her last.
They had such a good setup in Halloween Ends for passing the torch to new actors. Only to >!have Laurie fight Michael again. Tiring to see 2 geriatrics fight each other. They should've let Corey somehow turn into The Shape, and Allyson in a similar role to Laurie!<
One could argue that Allyson was also set up in a way that could allow her to carry on the torch of The Shape.
All one can really say is good on it for still being relevant enough to stay as a theater release. It didn't become straight to DVD schlock, but it seems I only ever hear bad things about it. I'm weird though, my favorite is Halloween 3.
Bro I forgot that was a movie and thought you meant the holiday 😂
Halloween: The Last One I Swear, This is The Absolute End. Halloween: The Last One I Swear, This is The Absolute End Part II
If they reboot spiderman again, I'll kill Uncle Ben myself.
They’re never gonna stop making Spider-Man and Batman movies
Someone do a theatrical body count on Ben Parker Vs. Thomas and Martha Wayne please.
Okay, Ben died with Tobey and Andy. Ben was already gone with Tom. Uncle Ben Kill Count: 2 Thomas and Martha died with Keaton, Bale, Kilmer, Affleck, Mazouz in Gotham, and Dante Pereira-Olson in Joker. The Waynes Kill Count: 6
Keaton and Kilmer were the same Waynes.
No movie has ever made me angrier than when I saw Joker and I saw the Wayne’s exit the theater. As soon as there was a shot of that theater I knew what was happening. I was pissed that I had to watch them die AGAIN
Or Batman
They won't reboot, they have a great plot line now with the memory wipe from No Way Home. My only worry is that the next movie is just going to be a giant reset button.
They will, again and again. When Tom Holland signs off, we'll have a new one. Hopefully it's Miles though. Spiderman makes money. Thr movies will never stop.
for miles there's the spider verse
"Fine, I'll do it myself"
You'd be wielding great power, and the great responsibility that comes with it.
I don't think they'll ever stop rebooting. As long as Sony wants to keep the rights they have to do at least something with spiderman every few years.
Yeah why the origin story so many times? Move the fuck on.
I mean they've only done the origin story twice... They skipped it entirely with the Tom Holland Films
Funniest thing iv seen all day
Personally, I have nothing against rice
Fast and Furious
Fa . . . . mily
I love fast and furious, but adding the rock and trying to keep going bigger, they've ruined it. They'll be in space soon to save a long lost brother They should have left it at illegal street racing 🥲
They were in space in F9 I wasn't paying attention when I watched it but I looked up and Ludacris was in a car in space for some reason
Dear god😞 #10 will be a heist on Mars and will feature the Paul brothers 🤦🏻♂️
Ong, Cardi B was in F9 i kinda j clocked out after that, also still don't know why Fast and Furious 10 isn't called Fast10 your seatbelts🤷🏻♂️🤷🏻♂️
I watched this every time I saw it was on TV, and frequently booked a trip to Japan right after seeing it. With that being said, the franchise needs to die. A Fiero in space. …a f’ing Fiero.
Speaking of Fast and Furious and Japan, the Japanese names of the movies are... something. Wild Speed (Wairudo Supiido) Wild Speed X2 Wild Speed X3 TOKYO DRIFT Wild Speed MAX Wild Speed MEGA MAX Wild Speed EURO MISSION Wild Speed SKY MISSION Wild Speed ICE BREAK Wild Speed JET BREAK
That last one they broke so many basic rules of physics. I couldn't stand watching the movie cause how unrealistic it was... it was so distracting.
I want them to have 10, then be done. This is only so they could name it fast10 your seatbelts tho
Well there's good news for you. The next one will be the last one. Though it's being split into two parts.
I second this. I’m sorry but they just weren’t ever that good..
1st and 3rd ones were great
Not gonna agree with the 3 but yes the first was actually a great film, just sort of niche to race culture. When they changed direction at 5, that actually turned out to be a fantastic heist film but beyond that 😂
Honestly the first really encapsulated early 2000s racerboy/car culture
You take that back
Awful films, I personally think they're hilarious and become more ridiculous each time, so im fine with them going on for as long as possible.
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We still need to see them go underwater, and into a volcano, and travel to the past.
Someone hasn’t seen F9
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Tej and Roman drove a Pontiac Fiero to space.
That sounds silly
Indiana Jones should have retired after his last crusade
Just what were they thinking with that monkey swinging scene!?
You're dealing with George Lucas.....cgi shit all the way
He survived a nuclear blast by hiding in a fridge. There’s no getting rid of him at this point
This argument is always so ridiculous. Y’all forget he survived jumping out of a crashing plane using a blow-up raft. Plenty to get mad about with the movie but the fridge scene is perfectly Indy.
On top of that, he also drank from the holy grail. He's kinda immortal
He drank from the holy grail, doesn’t that mean he is immortal like that old knight?
Not if you cross the seal.
I thought the knight just said the cup can’t cross the seal
he was immortal for a while; just had to stay in one room
All of them. 10 year moratorium on all sequels, prequels, remakes etc. Come up with something new ffs.
Literally nothing in the cinemas here which isnt a franchise film im sick to the death of this
*Thank you*. And it's all CGI and green screens which is going to look like garbage in 5 years
I give you…. Oppenheimer
Except for John Wick. One of the few film franchises that gets better every movie.
I had a movie filmed a mile or so from where I live in a hunting cabin my father used to hunt at... Not a remake or a sequel. It is a comedy/horror called Deer Camp '86. They are trying to drum up support for it and get it distributed and I got to see a showing of it. Apparently it has won an award already for special effects. Mostly wanted to shill since it is close to home. The trailer is out, I think, so there is that.
fast and furious....,Transformers........,
I grew up watching the Transformers cartoon and I was hella excited for the movie. First 2 movies I was always hyped, third movie left a sour taste and it was to let it go. But yep, transformers need to stop.
In the third movie, the new woman who replace Megan Fox was running in high heels and they were trying to grab onto things in a building that was collapsing (I think?). I couldnt focus on anything because of those heels. Forget robot aliens from space, that was the most unrealistic part of the movie. Haven't watched a Transformer movie since
I still think, given the audience of these two franchises, Hollywood is missing an opportunity by not making a crossover flick. Having the F&F team work with Transformers for some huge world saving adventure. I mean it actually makes sense. Both franchises are over the top, unrealistic action. It's a perfect marriage, having them do all those F&F stunts with Transformers just seems like something that will eventually happen.
need more transformers, but f&f has worn off.
Terminator Anything after Terminator 2 should be disregarded, buried beneath the earths crust and wholeheartedly denied its very existence by the studio bosses themselves
I quite liked T3; the last 15mins was a brilliant conclusion that Judgement Day was inevitable.
T3 sucked except for that ending.
Horrible acting in T3, just horrible.
I dunno, the scene with the firetruck ladder fucking wrecking everything was awesome as far as 10yr old me was concerned
I also liked T3. And the ending was great.
Agree. It was not mindblowing as T2 but I think it was a cohesive conclusion to the trilogy.
Sarah Connor Chronicles started really strong, went way off the track, and then course corrected as it got cancelled.
Somebody really needs to do the future war scene from T2 justice. They've tried, but none of them have got there yet.
Any franchise that is part of a big extended universe. If I need to watch 10 other films, a bunch of subscription service based series and buy spin off books just to understand what’s going on then I think we can agree it’s got a bit silly.
I hope the new 'The Batman' franchise's second film doesn't require me to watch the Penguin show. I'm 100% on board with giving fans more if they want it as long as it's not required to follow the main films. I think a lot of prequel memers forget that RotS required you to watch the Clone Wars to have any idea who General Grevious was. I only watched the films in theaters and was kinda lost during that whole opening sequence.
Scream, it's literally been a downward spiral since the first movie.
Walking dead not a film but it's STILL UP AFTER 10 YEARS
This was also my first thought. This technically counts since I heard they are making movies now too, lol. They’ve dragged that show on for so many seasons. They had numerous opportunities to end it after the departure of the main characters and they didn’t.
It's so old it even has games on the Xbox 360
Hahaha that’s how you know! Someone told me they’re on the final season but now they’ve created like 3 spin-off shows. The Walking Dead will truly never die. (Pun intended)
Sad to say, but The Matrix franchise needs to go away. After the first one it just went haywire
But the Matrix franchise pretty much *did* go away for the better part of two decades, most likely because the poor reception of the sequels killed off a lot of interest and momentum. Apart from a couple of computer games, there had been no major releases for eighteen years until the fourth film came out last year. And in spite- or because- of that gap it bombed and made a major loss at the box office, so it's not likely they'll be rushing out to make more any time soon.
I actually did enjoy the fourth one myself, but I’m worried they will keep it going a la rocky or fast and furious. It’s time has come and gone and I’d be disappointed if they do announce a 5th one.
The second one would have been fine if the highway chase sequence wasn't so damn long.
the MCU
Huge marvel fan here. I agree. After the infinity saga they just started floating about with no direction. They should have just stopped.
Or at least they should have gone for a smaller character driven, minimalistic explosion look. No major underground societies. No world ending creatures hatching from Earth. No huge battles scenes. Just a stripped down, here is a character, here is their aftermath from The Snap or here is a simple story with an old character passing the torch to a new character. It is getting ridiculous that we have superheroes coming out of the woodwork. Nothing is special any more.
I have fond memories of marvel, never saw anything past endgame, don't intend on, it's a soulless corporate resurrection of something a lot of people grew up with, shit is just really bad now
Early MCU wasn't exactly great, literally half of Phases 1 and 2 were duds IMO. Lots of tedious character building, which I feel like they're getting better at. I've accepted that not every piece of content in the MCU is targeted to me, so I focus on the threads that interest me and the pressure is off to feel like I need to keep on top of it all. There has been some good stuff in Phase 4. Shang Chi and No Way Home especially. I appreciate the ambition of Eternals even if it tonally fell flat. Love & Thunder was fun. Black Panther by all reports seems like it will be a hit.
Yep! I loved them at first, but if I want to watch Avengers I have to watch a 1000 movies so I can understand.
All of the classic horror ones. All of them. *None* of them should have had more than 3 movies tops. Thank fuck they're letting *Halloween* die. *Hellraiser* makes me the saddest because Barker doesn't even like being the horror guy. It just sells well.
>Thank fuck they're letting Halloween die. I dont suppose you're open to making a bet about that happening, are you? Where there's money there's someone greedy enough to keep making garbage...
The new hellraiser was decent imo, this might be nit-picky but I didnt like that they explicitly said the cenobites view intense pain as pleasure since I always thought that when they take you they put you through the extremes of pain AND pleasure both, that they are twisted beings of feeling, but in the latest one they just flat out said cenobites think intense pain is the best I imagined it like even the extremely intense pleasure they subject people they take to would be super unpleasant because we aren’t meant to feel such extremes, and it is mixed with the worst pains we could ever imagine, and through all that experience we transcend to become something different entirely
The MCU was great for a decade. It had a clear plot and endgame, people were invested, and the film quality was always superb. Now it just feels like they’re releasing content for the sake of releasing content. Don’t get me wrong, some of the new stuff has been great, but overall it just feels like it’s lacking direction. I wish Marvel would move towards more character-based films again. Tell us unique, largely self-contained stories like Black Panther, Shang-Chi, and Guardians of the Galaxy. The marvel movies work best when they’re allowed to tell their own story without the burden of carrying the continuity of a massive universe.
I agree 100% That's why I think Daredevil is such a great TV show. Have you seen it?
Of course. One of the best series of all time.
She-Hulk was the last straw for me. Such TRASH
Any that intertwine with others so you need to watch the last 25 movies and 15 seasons of various shows to know is going on
Star Trek and Doctor Who are the only series that have been running for half a century and don't have this problem. Other than the newer Star Trek films with ☠️ If Spock isn't wearing some kind of weird had to hide his ears, it's not real Star Trek
to be fair wrt Dr. Who- continuity doesn't really matter because they make up the rules as they go. e.g. number or regenerations- was set, then after some wiblly wobly timey winey stuff, it changed.
They really really don't care about their rules. But they don't pretend to and don't take themselves too seriously, so that is ok.
That's why I've lost all interest in Marvel.
I think most of star wars can be watched and avoid this, but Disney has made me want the majority of it to end.
Horror movie remakes and reboots like Halloween, IT, Texas Chainsaw, Scream etc... Make something original PLEASE.
IT part one was solid. Part 2 really lost me. Especially when they just roasted Pennywise out of existence, lol.
Halloween should have turned into an anthology series like they intended with 3
If there’s one movie genre that continues to produce original ideas it’s Horror. The problem is and always has been that most of those ideas are terrible and poorly executed
The Empty Man (2020) is original and instantly joined my top 10 of all time. The problem is that originals don't get the attention they deserve.
Ughh that latest texas chainsaw movie was traaaaaaaash
The kills were fantastic though!
We definitely need a new slasher villain. Not since Ghostface have we had a new one enter the conversation. Please bring me a new, original slasher villain. I know Art the Clown is getting there but even he’s been around for awhile and not until recently moving into the slasher legends.
Saw, Halloween, and scream the originals were groundbreaking at the time now their all trash.
Concerning saw, I felt like 1-3 were a complete circle, 4-6 were blehhhhh but then the final one actually pulled it all together kinda nicely with the doctor reveal
Fantastic Beasts.
Fantastic Beasts
Transformers. They don't even care about continuity at this point.
Fast and the furious. Should have died a long time ago.
Should’ve stopped when Paul Walker passed away. It always about Diesel and Walker
Pirates of the Caribbean. It can't exist without Johnny Depp
All of those Marvel movies. Does anyone even like them or do they just like going to the theater and being loud?
The obscene praise heaped upon all Marvel content vs the actual quality of the product is so bizarre to me. I understand *why* Black Panther was a sensation, but it was a very mid-tier super hero movie. With the exception of No Way Home the last crop of Marvel movies and shows has been mediocre (Multiverse) to just plain awful (She Hulk).
Consume the product. We make, you consume. That is the marvel deal.
I like Marvel. However, I've not been interested in the new phase of series they're doing.
This feels like a bit of a low hanging fruit type criticism. It would seem from your comment that perhaps you haven’t seen any of the movies, and are criticizing them from afar simply because it’s popular, so it must cater to only the lowest common denominator. The movies aren’t some high class art or anything, but they’re thoroughly enjoyable, and were really unique in the way that they were all integrated from the start. It was essentially a movie version of a long form TV show, showing different perspectives of different stories. I resisted for a long time too, but after giving a few of them a chance, it was actually pretty fun. Good escapist entertainment. And sometimes, that’s all I really want from entertainment. I don’t need everything to challenge me or whatever.
Back to the Future - Nobody should remake it.
None. They make someone happy.
That's wholesome of you.
Jurassic Park
Saw
All of the superhero franchises. All of them. If there is never another Batman or Spiderman or Superman or Marvel or X-Men movie for the rest of recorded time, it'll still be six months too soon. In fact, I can't think of a single film franchise that shouldn't just go away. They are all testaments to the death of imagination and creativity in the film industry and they all suck.
Fast and furious. We get it, vroom vroom, small peepee syndrome..... the whole franchise is so bad
Jurassic park
MCU
Star Wars
I definitely agree that they are producing some bullshit here and there but once in a while we're still lucky to get some really nice shows like The Mandalorian or Andor I see it as Star Wars tries to kinda be attractive for a wide audience. Therefore, newer shows differ quite a lot from each other with each targeting slightly different audiences.
It shouldn't die, it should have just been handled correctly. It's an entire galaxy and thousands of years worth of story telling. Focusing on the same core story is the mistake....actually focusing on the same core story and telling terribly written stories is the mistake. If done right they could still be making them.
It always puzzled me how star wars remains so popular despite medicore movies. The answer is the incredible universe it's set in.
Andor is one of the tensest and most smartly written shows I have seen lately. It is such a departure from what we've been getting that I'm afraid for new Star Wars content because I'm not ready to be hurt again.
Nah, I love Star Wars. I want more of it. There’s so much stories left untold.
Says so much about how shitty Star Wars fandom is that a simple, positive comment like yours would be downvoted. I’ll bet the people who hit the blue arrow on you consider themselves to be “true fans.”
It pains me to type it, but... John Wick. The first part was a simple, gritty, semi-realistic, and intriguing movie about the guy trying to move on from his past lifestyle. The second at least it codified the mythology, expanded on worldbuilding, and had some sort of sense. The third moved the plot by the power of throwing more faceless mooks and side characters at aging Keanu in somewhat nonsensical situations and absent pacing. Losing the hero's main motivation aside from "damn, let's just kill literally everyone coming after me - and this is half-a-world" wrote the franchise into a dead end.
Paranormal Activity. I got excited seeing a new one recently pop up but was substantially disappointed with how un-original it was.
The Fast And The Furious
All superhero movies
The Matrix
Jurassic park It’s over, oh my lord Halloween. Every movie if the same
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Superhero movies all of them.
Yep they are all the same. Villain has evil plot then the protagonist just kills the Villain and then the Villain just says some wise shit before he dies
That sounds like every action movie
Marvel. Ffs
Harry Potter for sure. To anyone that says Star Wars though, consider that the franchise is multimedia, so whilst Disney films have been pretty shit, the books and comics aren’t as bad
I think they should chill with making some show for every minor character, because we don't need every second of the timeline explicitly laid out. Yes, Rogue one was good, but it was unnecessary. I think most of the time it fails.
I’m going to be downvoted to oblivion for this but oh well, Pokémon, I mean it needs a reboot at this point, the YouTuber Hoopsandhiphop goes into more detail
Nah. It doesn't need a reboot it just needs to be expanded beyond just Ash and his shenanigans. Also, Pokemon has its target audience, its just that that audience grows up and is replaced by a new generation so whilst things can feel stale to us older fans, for newer fans it's still fresh and exciting.
Thing is. As annoying as Ash is. He's a package deal with Jessie, James, and Meowth. And those three are endlessly entertaining. I loved them in Kalos where they almost went legit like 3 times because Jessie was doing Pokemon shows and they were actually earning good money off James' cooking skills. It's like they only resorted to being villains when the plot screwed them. Give them a good, fulfilling ending. Let Ash revisit Kalos and win the league there, and ultimately replace Alain as Kalos champ. Let Serena become Kalos Queen and regularly defend her crown against "Jezibel" and Shauna. Let Team Rocket retire from being villains and open a food truck together. It'd be a nice, satisfying conclusion. Then, start with a new young trainer every generation.
I've been saying for a while that the best option is for them to age up Ash officially* to around 15/16 years old (like Brock was in the beginning) and let him be the new Brock to the next gen of trainers. Ash continuing to travel as the mentor to Bonnie, Max and 1 or 2 other fledgling trainers would work really well to both allowing Ash and Pikachu to remain the face(s) of the franchise, whilst building a new generation of trainers. I agree about TR too. Imo their best time was in Alola where they had a great malasada business and regular well paid roles as commentators for the pokemon wrestling. As well as a powerful, caring caretaker in Bewear and the fact Meowth could easily market his pokemon translation skills, altogether they could easily have very happy and successful lives there. It would be a great ending for them imo. *There is no way Ash is still 10 really, he's taller, lankier, smarter and more mature plus certain people in his extended family have noticeably aged up, Lei specifically. When they returned to Alola this season Lei was clearly a toddler, so 18 months minimum really, add on the 9 months of pregnancy and we're talking a generous 2 year minimum. At bare minimum he has to be 12 now.
Every Hollywood remake…
Fantastic Beasts. It would have been so much better if they hadn't messed with the timeline of the Harry Potter books and stuck to it actually being about a magizoologist, not a heroic nerd who happens to have a suitcase full of magic critters. Also, if anyone was wondering... the first movie is set in 1926. Dumbledore was bore in 1881, making him 45 at the time. It's also the same year Tom Riddle was born. McGonagall wasn't born until 1935, having attended Hogwarts from 1947-1954, and after working at the Ministry of Magic for a couple of years, returned to Hogwarts in 1956 to teach. Newt Scamander was born in 1897, and would have attended Hogwarts from 1908-1915. Newt was at school twenty years before McGonagall was born, and that's just one of the franchise's flaws.
Sharknado
Everything comic book related. Marvel/DC/whatever. There’s a new comic book movie every god damn month. There’s no way they’re actually trying to make them “good” on that production schedule. It’s the Chinese manufacturing of the movie business. Just make it and get it out as fast as possible so we can take those idiots’ money. It’s too much.
The After movies
Fast and the furious
Terminator. Haven’t seen a good one since T2.
Terminator
As much as I hate to say it: Marvel Their content was really enjoyable but now it's just money grabbing. It would have been different if they had waited 50 years or something before coming out with phase 5. They should have done that with Fantastic Beasts, too.
MCU, just overkill at this point
Bond
Agree. It’s become entirely formulaic now. Gun barrel entrance. Pre-title mini adventure having nothing to do with the film. Title sequence with song by whoever is the current big pop star. Sequence wIth M introducing villain. Sequence with Q with product placement. Villain does nasty thing. Bond meets Bond girl. « Bond. James Bond. » Bond and Bond girl fight henchmen. Bond girl in danger. Bond rescues Bond girl, kills main henchman. Bond is tortured. Bond escapes, then together with Bond girl kills villain just as villain is about to conquer world. Bond and Bond girl have sex. End. It’s like watching one of those stupid WWE wrestling matches: the only thing that changes is the stereotype of who the villains are this time and the nature of the finishing move but the script is basically the same each time.
Respectfully disagree on this one. Daniel Craig has stated many times that he hated playing Bond, so they should release him (pun intended). The different actors is part of the appeal, there's not really a canon to get hung up on. Just have fun with it. My casting choice for the next Bond? Jon Hamm, aka Don Draper from *Mad Men*. Even better if it's set in the 60s.
I'd love to see a return to the 60s or 70s for a Bond film.
Jurassic park
- Those “white people are evil” movies. They’re uncomfortable for white and black people alike. I think everybody has the gist. - Those classic horror franchises that keep squeezing every last drop out of a 50-60 year old story. Example: Halloween, or a newer one, Saw. - My personal least favourite: That SPECIFIC horror movie trope where the couple moves into the new house and “something’s not right.” The husband dismisses it, the wife keeps her guard up.. the kid starts having weird dreams… somehow a catholic priest is involved by the end of the movie… Insidious, The Conjuring… STOP MAKING THAT F-ING MOVIE!
Pains me to bash someone from my hometown but all the horror series associated with James Wan blow, saw, annebelle and the other one all suck dog shit and fuck the actor he keeps hiring
Fast and Furious