• Blaze@discuss.tchncs.deOPEnglish
    565·
    1 year ago

    I’ll start: The Stars Wars postlogy was such a disastrous cash grab that it doesn’t exist in my head cannon.

    This whole thing was a mess.

    • maegul (he/they)@lemmy.mlEnglish
      132·
      1 year ago

      I think I’m still in kinda disbelief that that happened. Like, maybe don’t take me too seriously, but the true sign that the world is going to shit was right there with The Force Awakens. When Star Wars devolved to a totally fluffed up cash grab that we all ate up, that was the sign that we’d lost the plot.

          • thecrotch@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            1·
            1 year ago

            Jedi and Empire were written specifically around driving toy sales. And the reason we waited for 20 years for the prequels was because Lucas wanted the toy contracts to run out so he could get a bigger slice. Story took a back seat to merchandise from the very beginning. The man practically invented selling out.

    • UlyssesT [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      5·
      1 year ago

      What if the Jedi returned… and then were wiped out off-camera? And the Republic returns, and is blown up by a single big boom boom blast? galaxy-brain What if everything is reset because Abrams bashes other people’s toys together while making explosion sounds until they break? so-true

  • AndreyAsimow@lemmy.worldEnglish
    302·
    1 year ago

    Matrix: Resurrections

    Totally unnecessary sequel to a not so great 3rd part of a great franchise.

    I felt unsafe watching it the whole time.

    • nieceandtows@programming.devEnglish
      142·
      1 year ago

      I went in after not having watched any matrix movies in a very long time, and enjoyed it. I think people overprepared for the movie by watching all matrix movies back to back, and the movie ended up recapping the previous movies for 1/3rd of the runtime. It’s a true reboot for a new generation where you don’t need to have watched any of the previous movies. It’s enough if you just knew about them. That’s what I think.

      • maegul (he/they)@lemmy.mlEnglish
        41·
        1 year ago

        I went in not expecting anything good of it (I think I had an intuitive hunch about exactly where it was going to come from) and ended up really enjoying it. I wouldn’t really recommend it to anyone and don’t think it’s “good” … but as a long time Matrix fan I feel like I could get where the film was coming from, and while watching it in the cinema, that was a unique experience.

        Also, the idea of the new matrix being based not on consent to a fantasy but constantly unmet but tantalising satisfaction … I felt that and it was a good extension to the trilogy IMO.

  • kd637_mi@leminal.spaceEnglish
    221·
    1 year ago

    The Starship Troopers sequels. Which don’t exist, but if they did they would be awful enough to pretend they don’t.

  • Hundun@beehaw.orgEnglish
    212·
    1 year ago

    Every home alone past 2, every terminator past 2, the latest Matrix practically apologizes for its own existence. Examples are too numerous, the entire hyperreality we exist in is built on pointless repetition and self-cannibalization.

    Our world is running out of resources to turn out profit, so it had started digesting itself and feeding us its over-processed and over-produced communion, like a sleezy street-food vendor dousing their meats in spices, so we don’t smell how spoiled their paska is.

    That is why everything revolves around the nostalgia: it’s not us who are stuck in the past, it’s our culture experiencing rigor mortis, and we treat it as the final chance to see its original form, as if the chicken in our tavuk durum hasn’t been rotting since yesterweek.

    • NickCudawn@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      I know this is probably one of those ‘fun facts’ that everybody knows but learning that it wasn’t written or made as a sequel and the studio shoehorning that in after the fact to market it makes it a lot less atrocious. It’s still not a great movie but not as offensive as it would’ve been had it been made as a sequel from the beginning.

  • CeleryFC@beehaw.orgEnglish
    15·
    1 year ago

    Less of a sequel, but all the remakes of 80s/90s classic movies are awful and do nothing but bastardize the legacy of some incredible pieces of art. The Karate Kid, Total Recall, and Point Break top the list.

    • Muddobbers@infosec.pubEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      Fun to watch once, but definitely not a “rewatch every Christmas” kind of fun movie. So much bad crap just happens over and over again and it just doesn’t feel like a happy story!

      • Deftdrummer@lemmy.worldEnglish
        22·
        1 year ago

        I’m in the minority but I don’t even watch the original anymore. It’s dated even if people act like it isn’t.

        Give me some bad Santa / Jim Carey’s Grinch any day of the week.

        Bonus unpopular opinion: Mariah Carey’s “all I want for Christmas” is not a Christmas song. Not in the traditional sense. Not at all.

  • UlyssesT [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    9·
    1 year ago

    Hot take that might get some shit, but I’ll say it anyway:

    The Matrix.

    The first movie, if it was the only one, was such a sleek tight narrative with such a satisfying ending that left so much open to the imagination that arguably the movie would have more cultural impact today if it stopped there.

    • P03 Locke@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      31·
      1 year ago

      The Matrix Reloaded was full of action scenes that still haven’t been matched, and I liked the story, even if it was a bit bonkers at times.

      The Matrix Revolutions was… disappointing. Big battle scenes had already been overdone at that point, the story was just getting stretched too thin, and dialogue was laughable at critical moments.

      • UlyssesT [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        Reloaded had some great setpieces, and maybe “worst” didn’t really apply to the sequels as the thread requested, but I still feel the original could have stood on its own, maybe timelessly.