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Posted: 6/2/2020 12:42:54 PM EDT

One that immediately jumps out to me is Mission Impossible 2. It opened with a pointless car chase that had Tom Cruise in a car chase with a love interest, and they were bashing supercars pointlessly. There was over the top action sequences with a lot of stupid stuff, basically if the characters were flatter than NES sprites, and since it was a John Woo movie there were slow motion dove shots that were filmed in an industrial basement.

Posted: 6/2/2020 12:44:20 PM EDT

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You are right about MI 2. That one stuck out like a sore thumb.

As far as worst of the franchise, I think we just saw one with The Predator.

Posted: 6/2/2020 12:45:19 PM EDT

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Alien 3
Alien Resurrection

Prometheus
Covenant

Posted: 6/2/2020 12:47:27 PM EDT

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Jaws 2 kinda sucked. Jaws 3D sucked hard, but at least it had the hilarity of 3D effects.

Then there’s this turd

How BAD is Jaws: The Revenge?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTpwrOMBFi4

Posted: 6/2/2020 12:49:37 PM EDT

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Bad Boys For Life
Live Free Or Die Hard
Tremors: A Cold Day In Hell

Posted: 6/2/2020 12:50:53 PM EDT

[#5]

I almost forgot about Die Hard. How far that franchise has fallen!

Posted: 6/2/2020 12:52:05 PM EDT

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Everything after Aliens.

The first one isn't as good as its sequel, but it was a good horror movie. And without it, there is no sequel, so it gets the nod.

Posted: 6/2/2020 12:53:40 PM EDT

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Godfather III

Oy vey!

Posted: 6/2/2020 12:58:11 PM EDT

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Every Lethal Weapon after the second one.

Every Alien after the second one.

Every Die Hard after the original one.

Every Predator after the original one.

Every Terminator after the second one.

Posted: 6/2/2020 12:59:07 PM EDT

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Rocky 5

Posted: 6/2/2020 1:27:49 PM EDT

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I don't know, but it's not Sharknado 2: The Second One, or Godzilla vs Mechagodzilla.

ETA

"Something's wrong, Anguirus would not attack his friend Godzilla! "

Posted: 6/2/2020 1:37:16 PM EDT

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Highlander: The Quickening.

Posted: 6/2/2020 1:40:45 PM EDT

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Halloween 3 The Season Of the Witch

Anything after the first Howling

Posted: 6/2/2020 1:41:44 PM EDT

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The Force Awakens
The Last Jedi
Rise of Skywalker

Seriously, no one was going to post these shit movies?

Posted: 6/2/2020 1:42:43 PM EDT

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Matrix 2 and 3

Posted: 6/2/2020 1:43:06 PM EDT

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Every Star Wars after the first Star Wars now titled Episode IV.

I've said it. Now I'm free. Star Wars is dead.

Posted: 6/2/2020 1:43:52 PM EDT

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Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

Posted: 6/2/2020 1:44:52 PM EDT

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Ghost busters

Posted: 6/2/2020 1:46:54 PM EDT

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Every Star Trek after 4.

V could have been good but it needed one last rewrite.

VI was "The Federation was wrong to fight the Klingons to ensure freedom."

The Next Gen films were just Picard is an action hero with CHI space battles and no real.story beyond the tired old Revenge trope.

Posted: 6/2/2020 1:48:08 PM EDT

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All Star Wars movie after the first three releases.

Posted: 6/2/2020 1:49:51 PM EDT

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I could have gone without being reminded of that flaming pile of crap

Posted: 6/2/2020 1:50:26 PM EDT

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A View To A Kill

Posted: 6/2/2020 1:50:48 PM EDT

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Every fast and furious sucked.

Posted: 6/2/2020 1:52:00 PM EDT

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After watching them all, when Rambo went rioting in Teasel Town with an M60 they could've saved the film for something else.

Posted: 6/2/2020 1:54:12 PM EDT

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Anything after the first John Wick.

Holy shit, what a pile of garbage 2 and 3 are. The first was a novel concept and executed very well. The two sequels take that concept and just make it a farce, with half the people on the planet apparently involved in the trade. Hey, opinions vary, but if you like either one, you are wrong. That's just a fact. Proven by science.

Same thing applies to the Matrix franchise.

Posted: 6/2/2020 1:55:29 PM EDT

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ESB was awesome. You fail.

Posted: 6/2/2020 1:55:57 PM EDT

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The second one was particularly cringy.

Posted: 6/2/2020 1:56:41 PM EDT

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Raiders of the Lost Ark

Posted: 6/2/2020 1:57:17 PM EDT

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Every Star Wars after the first Star Wars now titled Episode IV.

I've said it. Now I'm free. Star Wars is dead.

ESB was awesome. You fail.

I'm actually surprised at the number of people who love ESB. When it first came out there was a huge backlash over Darth Vader being Luke's father and the fact that the movie didn't have much of an ending. I was so disgusted with it I didn't even see ROTJ until it went to the dollar theater.

Posted: 6/2/2020 1:57:45 PM EDT

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What a way to fuck up a profitable franchise.

Posted: 6/2/2020 1:57:53 PM EDT

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Can't believe it wasn't the first post

Posted: 6/2/2020 1:58:32 PM EDT

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Those last couple of Star Wars movies were pretty unbearable.

Posted: 6/2/2020 1:59:20 PM EDT

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Highlander 2,3,4,5, etc. Loved the first one.

Posted: 6/2/2020 2:06:04 PM EDT

[#33]

Troll 2

Posted: 6/2/2020 2:08:25 PM EDT

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Star Trek 5. It was even worse than any of the reboot nonsense.

Posted: 6/2/2020 2:09:05 PM EDT

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Quantum of Solace is fucking awful. Moonraker is ten times better, and Moonraker is terrible.

Posted: 6/2/2020 2:09:19 PM EDT

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Every Star Trek after 4.

V could have been good but it needed one last rewrite.

VI was "The Federation was wrong to fight the Klingons to ensure freedom."

The Next Gen films were just Picard is an action hero with CHI space battles and no real.story beyond the tired old Revenge trope.

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Star Trek 5 was a turd in every time line.

Edit: and Star Trek 4 was not nearly as good as everyone acts like it is.

Posted: 6/2/2020 2:10:26 PM EDT

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Comedy - Caddyshack 2
They should be ashamed of themselves.

Oscar winner - The English Patient
Zzzzzzzzzzz

Horror - Revenge of the Creature 3D
They should have let the Creature die in the first one.

50's B-movie - The Giant Claw
Decent, except for the battleship-sized rubber flying turkey vulture looking thing

Overall - Plan 9 From Outer Space
They told me it was really, really bad. It was far, far worse than that.

Honorable Mention - Night of the Lepus
Giant rabbits run rampant? Really?

Posted: 6/2/2020 2:12:39 PM EDT

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Worse than Live and Let Die? No way. It's not the best Bond flick but it is not Live and Let Die bad.

Posted: 6/2/2020 2:12:52 PM EDT

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Exorcist 2 was other level awful.

Two scenes stand out: a teenaged demon possessed Linda Blair seducing Richard Burton, and James Earl Jones dressed up as a six foot locust.

It's so bad it couldn't even form a cult following.

Posted: 6/2/2020 2:13:43 PM EDT

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Agree, but I have to say the Director’s cut of Alien 3 was waaaaaay better than the theatrical.

Posted: 6/2/2020 2:20:04 PM EDT

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Worse than Live and Let Die? No way. It's not the best Bond flick but it is not Live and Let Die bad.

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Quantum of Solace is fucking awful. Moonraker is ten times better, and Moonraker is terrible.

Worse than Live and Let Die? No way. It's not the best Bond flick but it is not Live and Let Die bad.

Live and Let Die is way better than QoS, because it wasn't boring. QoS is boring a stupid, with "stakes" that nobody cares about, no real point, no character development and no fun action. LaLD is cheesy and terrible, but it has a point, stakes that you can care about, and some characters you might also care about - plus some fun action.

Posted: 6/2/2020 2:21:29 PM EDT

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Agree, but I have to say the Director’s cut of Alien 3 was waaaaaay better than the theatrical.

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This is true. I remember HATING it the first time I saw it, but when I saw the director's cut many years later, I thought it was okay. Not great, but okay.

On the other hand, I actually LIKE Alien Resurrection. As long as you view it as a very different type of movie from Alien/Aliens, it's pretty fun and enjoyable.

Posted: 6/2/2020 2:24:02 PM EDT

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Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo

Posted: 6/2/2020 3:02:22 PM EDT

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Live and Let Die is way better than QoS, because it wasn't boring. QoS is boring a stupid, with "stakes" that nobody cares about, no real point, no character development and no fun action. LaLD is cheesy and terrible, but it has a point, stakes that you can care about, and some characters you might also care about - plus some fun action.

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Quantum of Solace is fucking awful. Moonraker is ten times better, and Moonraker is terrible.

Worse than Live and Let Die? No way. It's not the best Bond flick but it is not Live and Let Die bad.

Live and Let Die is way better than QoS, because it wasn't boring. QoS is boring a stupid, with "stakes" that nobody cares about, no real point, no character development and no fun action. LaLD is cheesy and terrible, but it has a point, stakes that you can care about, and some characters you might also care about - plus some fun action.

Totally agree about Quantum.

That said; I think I’m the only one here in GD who loved ‘Skyfall’. James Bond’s walking away from the life, Ralph Fiennes’s character introduction, the end of Mrs. M. I even loved Javier Bardem’s over the top villain.

Plus, Naomie Harris & Berenice Mahrole scratch several eye-candy spots for me quite nicely.

Posted: 6/2/2020 3:03:57 PM EDT

[#45]

Cars 2

Posted: 6/2/2020 3:05:54 PM EDT

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Totally agree about Quantum.

That said; I think I’m the only one here in GD who loved ‘Skyfall’. James Bond’s walking away from the life, Ralph Fiennes’s character introduction, the end of Mrs. M. I even loved Javier Bardem’s over the top villain.

Plus, Naomie Harris & Berenice Mahrole scratch several eye-candy spots for me quite nicely.

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I liked SkyFall, but at times it was almost like two different movies had been spliced together, so I think it could have been better.

Posted: 6/2/2020 3:07:53 PM EDT

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The Chronicles of Riddick and Riddick both sucked fat donkey cock compared to Pitch Black

Posted: 6/2/2020 3:09:11 PM EDT

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I liked SkyFall, but at times it was almost like two different movies had been spliced together, so I think it could have been better.

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Totally agree about Quantum.

That said; I think I’m the only one here in GD who loved ‘Skyfall’. James Bond’s walking away from the life, Ralph Fiennes’s character introduction, the end of Mrs. M. I even loved Javier Bardem’s over the top villain.

Plus, Naomie Harris & Berenice Mahrole scratch several eye-candy spots for me quite nicely.

I liked SkyFall, but at times it was almost like two different movies had been spliced together, so I think it could have been better.

I can see that.

I still haven’t watched Spectre, nor do I plan to. It sounds like they wanted to make a Cold War-era Sean Connery Bond film 50 years after the fact.