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powerplantanimations
Jun '23

So like... I just got back from Across the Spider-Verse and... that was a movie. What's interesting though was the guys who directed the first film, I studied for my writing. The guy on this one (Joaquim Dos Santos)? .... I've been learning what NOT to do from this guy.

So in a way, I'm sorta thankful for this movie so I can compare the first with the second? But at the same time the movie seemed a little... in your face? Like the swearing in this film felt like they were like "OH YEAH WE CAN GET AWAY WITH THIS!" and the humor was less refined? One thing that I admired the first movie for was how classy it was and I tried to capture it in my work. This? Ehhhhhhhh....

And I really wanted to love this movie, from the bottom of my heart. First one is my favorite movie ever and it weren't for it, then I wouldn't be here today with my career.

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Stargazer31
Jun '23

Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor. Don't get me wrong, the Chinese setting and expansion into other types of mummies was interesting, but it was so bland compared to the other two. Also, they didn't even include Imhotep!

cherrystark
Jun '23

The first thing that came to mind was The Little Mermaid 2. But pretty much, I'm not a fan of any sequel where the original work doesn't lend itself to sequels. The Mummy set us up for The Mummy's Return. If you watched the Aladinn TV show, then the sequel movies made sense. But when you have 13 Spiderman movies, 87 Marvel movies, and 10 Fast and Furious movies - what's the point?

PrettiMidnight
Jun '23

Atlantis: Milo’s Return. It wasn’t that bad but I was still disappointed by it.

GodbreakerComic
Jun '23

The Dark Knight Rises. Following up one of, if not, the best comic book movies ever with something so bad its hilarious.

Inspector
Jun '23

not really a sequal but the 3-6 seasons of riverdale. What happened?

NickRowler
Jun '23
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I love Wreck It Ralph but the sequel was horrible.

The first film is a story about two outcasts who become friends. There were some video game references but the main focus of the film was the original content.

The second film is a giant ad for Disney and Ebay. The plot is just showing that the two shouldn’t be friends because of how horrible they are to each other. I hate that Disney used the movie to sell Disney Princess dolls. I hate that it’s a children’s movie that educates them about the dark web and claims you can make money by spamming videos on the internet.

Also the dolls are bad.

Lensing
Jun '23

That´s an interesting topic.
In most cases the sequels are worse than the original.
Sometimes a sequel is better than the original.
It can get ridiculous when they produce sequel after sequel.

I loved the original planet of the apes movie from 1968 and the first
sequels were disappointing and then getting more and more ridiculous.
You could see that they had less and less money for the production and
that they were just using the costumes, props and film sets to produce
more movies. Then they started filming a series and after 2 episodes
it seems like they didn´t even bother to have a script or director and then
just let the actors randomly decide what happens in the episode. The
first 2 episodes had a story and then they just filmed 10 more which
don´t follow the story and were very similiar. It´s really trashy

darthmongoose
Jun '23

Disenchanted.... Ugh, I mean... I knew it probably wasn't going to be good, but I watched it anyway and... what a confused mess of a movie. It can't decide who the protagonist is, what the message is, it looks so cheap, the songs aren't even close to the first and the animated sequences look worse than episodes of an animated series. It really didn't need to exist, and I hoped I'd be proven wrong going in with that opinion, and they'd do something interesting with it, but nope, no, it really doesn't need to exist.

LunarScyphozoa
Jun '23

Not exactly a sequel despite what the trailers implied and the fans hoped, but lazy in space. It completely missed the point of the original and it’s cozy near conflict-less weirdness, and instead added so many new characters, drama, got rid of all the personality of the main characters that they didn’t make unlikable, and honestly I feel like whoever wrote it read the Wikipedia summary of bee and puppycat and went from there. The animation is absolutely gorgeous and that’s the only good thing I can think of in that show.

AxemanRifflord
Jun '23

Recently watched Child’s Play 2. The original wasn’t some A24 horror masterpiece, but it was certainly tighter than its (first) sequel (of many... why so many tho?).

Child’s Play (1988) kept its stakes personal, the main two characters being a boy and his mother. The final confrontation takes place in their apartment, which, on top of being the home of the protagonists, has been set up throughout the film. The first victim is the mother’s friend from work. The cop who killed Charles Lee Ray, playing a role in starting the events of the film proper by doing so, sticks around, helping defeat the family Chucky later in the film. Every protagonist had more of a motivation than just “I prefer non-death, thank you.”

Also Chucky is dead at the end of the first film. They killed him. For good. Obviously the sequels exist but the film makers went out of their way to finish what the first film started. The reading that Chucky could come back is only substantiated by the existence of sequels. Could probably end my argument here: It’s bad because it’s a follow up to a decidedly self contained story.

i’ll elaborate anyway

Aside from bringing Chucky back (through contrived means), where the second film really starts off the wrong for me is putting the kids mom in a psychiatric ward off screen. A character the first film puts a lot of stake in the audience to get invested in is just thrown away, never to be brought up again. She’s not even dead.

Her son Andy (ha) returns. He’s still the protagonist. He gets adopted by foster parents. So you were supposed to care about the protagonists of the first film... kinda???

The closest the film got to killing a character I actually cared about was the foster father... because I thought they were setting up a character arc for him. He’s put off by the fact that Andy believes a killer doll is after him. Meaning he’s both not doing a great job helping Andy defeat Chucky but also creates a schism between him and Andy that felt deeper. Like they knew the first was based on the relationship between a parent and their child. Nope. They do set up a found family thing between Andy and his foster sister, even if her “they all sent me back, the only person I can rely on is myself” speech calls attention to the disregard of how that theme was established in the first film.

The final battle takes place in the toy factory that repaired Chucky. Sure, the violence inflicted on Chucky is more interesting than it it was in the first film. But since the actual set piece itself is not set up throughout the film, they have to set up all the ways Andy and his foster sister use the machinery against Chucky the second before they use it. I get that it would be really confusing if they just knew how everything worked... Because the setting wasn’t set up earlier like the apartment in the first movie.

I’m gonna rest my case now while I’m ahead. This was more in depth than I thought it was going to be.

C.E.Wells
Jun '23

In most recent memory, History of the world part 2. It was just nick kroll humor and I cant stand him. An incredible let down. It had good moments. I actually enjoyed the civil war stuff but I grew up with the original and this was not that. at all.

DasIstWunderblyat
Jun '23

Nothing beats the classic 2004 SpongeBob movie.
The second was "Okay" and the third was "No, what."

thepenmonster
Jun '23

I think only one movie featuring a member of the Skywalker clan was worth watching...

powerplantanimations
Jun '23
NickRowler

Wreck It Ralph 2 is worse when you realize that it was going to give more screentime to the other video game characters, include Link, and explore games like Blizzard. It was clear that this film was ruined by studio interference.

@darthmongoose You just reminded me that Enchanted got a sequel for Disney +. What you said pretty much matches what's been going on with a lot of Disney + shows. I think Imma watch it though just to see how it pokes fun at old Disney tropes. I remember the original doing it in a non-Dreamworksy/cynical way? Like the original still did it in a cute and innocent fashion. We're living in a post-Tangled/Wreck-It-Ralph 2/Chip 'n Dale era so I'm wondering it's going to be a little more aggressive with it.

@katycoolnin Toy Story 2 rocked :v