What movie franchise gets worse with each new film?
2026-04-29 03:24 UTC
Replies (40)
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@ferricoxide@blahaj.zone 2026-04-29 15:12
@WanderWisley@lemmy.world What percentage of "first movie was based on a popular novel; all subsequent ones were purely the product of screen-writers" movie series didn't fall into the "all subsequent installments suck" trap?
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@hobata@lemmy.ml 2026-04-29 03:34
Is there any what gets better? There are good sequels, but once it becomes movie franchise, it all turns to shit. Sometimes faster, sometimes slower.
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@piskertariot@lemmy.world 2026-04-29 04:07
Home Alone Home Alone: In New York Home Alone: No Macauly Home Alone: There’s a fourth one? Home Alone 5. Home Sweet Home Alone: Exclusive to Disney+
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@thenextguy@lemmy.world 2026-04-29 04:02
Taken 3 makes Taken 2 look like Taken 1.
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@Vanth@reddthat.com 2026-04-29 04:37
Tron. It ends with tossing out the one before and letting Jared Leto get his stink all over it. Marvel Cinematic Universe should have stopped sometime before Phase 4 (Eternals, Black Widow, Wakanda Forever, Multiverse of Madness). The Matrix should have ended at 1. The Jason Bourne movies should have ended when Jason Bourne’s story was concluded, without extending it to Aaron Cross’s story, played by Jeremy Renner.
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@Nightsoul@lemmy.world 2026-04-29 06:48
Star wars Just let characters die.
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@DFX4509B@lemmy.wtf 2026-04-29 04:15
Terminator? T2 is regarded as that franchise’s best flick and it’s only downhill from T3 onward. Robocop as a franchise also infamously went down the toilet after the first movie, each sequel degraded in quality until the complete mess that was Robocop 3 happened.
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@mr_account@lemmy.world 2026-04-29 06:59
Highlander. The first is cheesy but fairly enjoyable, and all the sequels go downhill in fascinatingly bad ways. Unfortunately, I’d like to find the theatrical version of Highlander 2: The Quickening, because I like bad movies and the renegade cut cuts some of the bad
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@MutantTailThing@lemmy.world 2026-04-29 03:45
All of them and no one can convince me otherwise.
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@Danitos@reddthat.com 2026-04-29 07:53
Saw. The first one is a brilliant psychological horror movie. The rest drift more towards body horror, but each one gets worse and dumber than the previous one (except maybe Saw X, the last one)
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@actionjbone@sh.itjust.works 2026-04-29 05:01
Machete. Machete was masterpiece. Machete Kills was so bad that it killed the franchise.
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@blimthepixie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-04-29 07:14
Mad Max? 1 - OK as a prelude 2 - Brilliant 3 - … 4 - Not bad, not bad at all 5 - The Furiosa one was too much CGI. I was far too annoyed by how the vehicles had armour but exposed tyres
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@Zahille7@lemmy.world 2026-04-29 09:16
Nah, Blade 2 still fucks. Blade Trinity is just as rough now as it was when it first released.
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@Simulation6@sopuli.xyz 2026-04-29 20:05
There can only be one good Highlander movie
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@TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-04-29 19:07
Which franchise doesn't get worse with each consecutive movie?
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@InFerNo@lemmy.ml 2026-04-29 18:59
I pray the Spaceballs sequel will be good and i'm not even religious
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@Aerlorn@sopuli.xyz 2026-04-29 19:20
Not a film really but Marvel films have been in rapid decline since Avengers 1
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@100_kg_90_de_belin@feddit.it 2026-04-29 19:17
I would have to say Resident Evil
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@NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world 2026-04-29 18:40
All of them.
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@dashdanw@lemmy.ml 2026-04-29 18:32
all of it
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@BlackLaZoR@lemmy.world 2026-04-29 18:56
Terminator. First was great. Two was a masterpiece. Third was mid. Rest is an utter garbage
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@tiramichu@sh.itjust.works 2026-04-29 14:38
The Matrix. Not sure how that isn't mentioned yet! First movie was a masterpiece that became a classic, the rest were completely unnecessary. When my brother showed The Matrix to his kid, she asked "Is there another one?" and he said "No."
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@pjwestin@lemmy.world 2026-04-29 16:48
I would argue that Blade II is the better movie. Guillermo del Toro is a much more interesting director, and the Reapers are basically a dry run for his take on Vampires in The Strain.
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@RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 2026-04-29 16:07
JP went from a Dinosaur Movie to a very generic monster movie with the exact same plot every time. Greedy evildoer wants SuperDino for nefarious purposes and must be defeated. Repeat.
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@mazzilius_marsti@lemmy.world 2026-04-29 14:01
cant believe im scrolling 1/2 way down and couldnt find ~~The power of family~~ Fast and Furious Franchise
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@Rivermoonwolf@lemmy.world 2026-04-29 15:39
The thankfully dead Snyderverse
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@No_Money_Just_Change@feddit.org 2026-04-29 13:38
Pirates of the carabian. The first was a masterpiece in comedy. The second and third were good but I would still rate them slightly worse each gen. I am indifferent to 4 and hate 5
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@RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 2026-04-29 12:29
Serenity.
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@Inucune@lemmy.world 2026-04-29 10:42
Ghostbusters. Some late 80's exec in tv and film was obsessed with putting babies in everything and the second movie got shanked in a dark alley by them.
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@cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-04-29 11:03
Anime has entered the chat. Tokyo Ghoul. Amazing first season. Body horror, depression, and zombie stuff all rolled into one. Masterpiece. Season 2 came out ahead of the rest of the books and it sucked. Seasons 3 and 4 adapted the second book series, but they speed ran it and only hit highlights and it was confusing AF. Promised Neverland. Also amazing first season. Thriller with children trying to escape an orphanage that has a dark secret (revealed in first episode). They had like 5-7 seasons' worth of content and started to do a second season, but the funding (and creativity!) ran out so they speed ran the rest of the manga, and it was so bad, the directors had their names taken off the billing. "Second season when?" has become a trope due to so many with excellent first seasons followed by terrible ones. Attack on Titan almost counts. First season was awesome, we called it Japan's answer to The Walking Dead when TWD was decent. Second season took 4 years and sucked, but season 3 more than made up for it. Season 4, "the final season," "the final season part 2," "the final season for realz this time", "the final season trust us we can see the finish line" and "the final chapters" sucked, though.
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@FatVegan@leminal.space 2026-04-29 09:30
John Wick. Also Star Wars, but they had at least three good movies. Marvel movies.
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@warm@kbin.earth 2026-04-29 07:23
The actual question should be: which doesn't?
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@jordanlund@lemmy.world 2026-04-29 04:26
I felt bad for Lost World, because Crighton went out of his way to write a novel that was a sequel to the first movie, not the first book, and then Spielberg just basically ignored it like it never happened. I wanted to not see the chameleon dinosaurs, damn it!
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@Denizenn@mastodon.social 2026-04-29 10:58
[@WanderWisley](https://lemmy.world/u/WanderWisley) Halloween
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@Pyrixas@piefed.social 2026-04-29 06:38
Transformers, the Bay ones. You can argue that the very first one was an honest attempt. But things immediately goes down hill once you get to Revenge of the Fallen. And it just doubles down and doubles down every entry that you would think it is a contest of how many stupid ideas can they get away with and do get away with per entry. I got off at Dark of the Moon because I've seen enough stupid that I didn't care of the other ones. The Hobbit Trilogy If you continued on, like I did, into the trilogy of this series, you'll know. An unnecessary, shoe-horned angle of a dwarf and a elf affection. I don't need to say more.
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@pH3ra@lemmy.ml 2026-04-29 05:33
Pirates of the Caribbean, I turned the last one off after 15 minutes
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@finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world 2026-04-29 07:33
I'm tempted to say the Rocky series, given Rocky V. But the fact is, III and particularly IV rocked!
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@ZeroCool@piefed.ca 2026-04-29 05:02
Did you all know that there are three Sandlot movies? Oh, and the third involves time travel.
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@Crewman@sopuli.xyz 2026-04-29 04:54
Land Before Time
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@hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-04-29 04:54
Resident Evil, Underworld