Reddit user One-Carpenter-6436 recently asked AskReddit,
"What is an amazing movie that has a god-awful sequel?"
The question has over 40,000 upvotes, and WOW there really are an astonishing amount of spin-offs that should have never happened. Prepare your eyes for these half-baked plots and obvious studio cash grabs.
1. Mean Girls
"Mean girls."
"God, the second movie is completely awful. It feels like a Disney Channel movie and it misses the point of the first movie."
2. Phantom of the Opera
"Phantom of the Opera. Ik technically it's not a movie movie, but Love Never Dies sucks."
"I never knew about this sequel so I just read the Wikipedia page...
The sequel was delayed because Lloyd Webber's six-month-old kitten Otto, a rare-breed Turkish Van, climbed onto Lloyd Webber's Clavinova digital piano and managed to delete the entire score. Lloyd Webber was unable to recover any of it from the instrument.
ALW should have taken this as a sign to scrap it!"
3. American Psycho
"American Psycho 2. Didn't even start as a sequel but they decided to make it one for a quick buck."
"Mila Kunis (who played the protagonist) said that it was a different project when she signed up for it, which later got re-edited. When there were rumors that they might make a third one, she said: "Please - somebody stop this. Write a petition."
4. The Crow
"The Crow."
"The disrespect to Brandon Lee."
5. The Land Before Time
"The Land Before Time. Think there’s like 15 sequels."
"Narratively the first Land Before Time is leagues ahead of all the others. The latter movies have some great songs though. I still find myself singing “Big Water” decades later."
- Isiildur
6. Pacific Rim
"Del Toro was ready to go on the sequel but the studio dragged their feet so long, he was no longer available. Still can’t get over how they did Mako Mori dirty."
- freedraw
"The worst thing for me is how they messed up the sense of scale. The action in the first worked so well because it all felt heavy and meaty and rooted in reality.
The camera angles from the ground gave a real sense of scale, and the slow but powerful movements of the Jaegars with the thrusters on the arms and s***, made it all feel right.
The sequel was like Transformers with everything moving too fast and easily."
7. The Mask
"The Mask."
"In an interview about Son of the Mask, Jamie Kennedy (star of the movie) called it “The crappiest piece of crap in the crap store.”
8. Highlander
"Highlander."
"The combination of factors that made the first one a hit was very unlikely to be repeated.
- A cool but underdeveloped mythology.
- Sean Connery and Clancy Brown drinking before the job.
- Tons of sillyness and humor.
- A crazy director."
- Ramoncin
9. Donnie Darko
"Donnie Darko. S.Darko was trash."
"Donnie Darko was great. Not sure why they even thought of making a second film. It's not like some of the other movies on this list that were major hits, so it made fiscal sense to milk the IP. Donnie Darko was a more of a cult hit from what I gathered."
- Crohnite
10. The Mask of Zorro
"The Mask of Zorro (with Antonio Banderas, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Anthony Hopkins) is one of my favorite movies of all time. Literally Top 5 for me. The follow up, The Legend of Zorro, is one of my Top 5 disappointments.
I don’t know why, I guess it’s just like a paint-by-numbers rehash. All the excitement, the freshness, the adventure, the heart, it’s all gone in the second one. It’s like the actors and writers came back and said “All right I guess we gotta do this again then.”
"It was the addition of the child actor sub-protagonist that made it weak. Especially that sequence where the kid was “sword fighting” with his teacher and all of the kids were cheering him on. And then he jumped out the school and blew a kiss to the crowd. Holy cow that film was cringe."
11. Jarhead
"Jarhead."
"Jarhead is a sad one. The original is based on a dude's memoirs while the rest are generic "SUPPORT THE TROOPS!" action movies about militants storming an embassy or pilots being shot down."
12. Independence Day
"Independence Day. Twenty years we waited, and that's the best they got?"
"Independence Day. It's like they threw the sequel script together during a cheap cocaine bender."
"I worked at the VFX studio that did the majority of the effects for the sequel. It was a complete mess from start to finish. There was constant "Wouldn't it be cool if..." happening, meaning the film mutated into a strange parody of itself."
- Uily
13. Mulan
"Mulan."
"Scott Gwin, writing for CinemaBlend:
""Mulan II is a direct-to-DVD disgrace that takes everything excellent about its predecessor film, rips it to shreds, and uses it for rat cage lining.""
- bigtcm
14. Titanic
"Titanic 2..... Let that sink in..."
"I f***ing love Titanic 2. Especially when you realize they only had enough money for about 50 extras, so you constantly see people die, only to see them running around a few scenes later. It's a masterpiece."
15. Grease
"Grease. Even white gold hates the sequel."
"I'm sorry; you don't like watching Shooter McGavin singing about reproduction?"
Please, forgive me for putting this list together and don't bother to watch any of these cinematic astrocities.
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