slapolakinkaido wrote:

If a movie series ends up with three or more movies in the series, the third movie always seems to be where it goes downhill. The third Lord of the Rings movie, I also thought was the weakest Back To the Future 3....the worst in that series .

They might go downhill, but they are not certainly the worst. LOTR is debatable as is BttF, since a large number of people prefer the 3rd movie over the 2nd. Also I guess I am biased since I HATED the LOTR movies altogether.

slapolakinkaido wrote:

Oh, Exorcist III, Rocky III, and the third Batman movie (although the second one wasn't that much better).

Exorcist II was far worse.
Rocky IV and V were much worse IMO
Batman Forever wasn't nearly as bad as Batman and Robin

The BIGGEST example of this was Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III. What a pile of shit.

Wait I take that back...Austin Powers Goldmember is one of the worst things known to man. This movie made me believe that humor was dead.

I don't think X-Men 3 was mentioned, but it was pretty bad.

I concur with Syd about Jurassic Park 3, however the 2nd movie was almost as bad. Almost.

Spiderman 3 was laughably bad, not that I was a fan of the other 2, but this was shit.

I watched about 10 minutes of Addams Family Reunion before I turned that shit off.

Maniac Cop 3, but it's not like the other 2 were flat out horrible.

Critters 3 was probably the worst.

Porky's Revenge? WTF?

Look Who's Talking Now....bleh.

Crocodile Dundee in Las Angeles...I mean did anyone care about Dundee 15 years after he was popular?

Child's Play 3 was also just weird...I haven't seen Seed of Chucky, so I can only go by this and it was ridiculously bad even for a Chucky movie.

Army of Darkness...while I could sit through the first 2 Evil Dead movies and just roll my eyes...this one just pissed me off. Nothing made sense scene for scene and the only funny scene came at the very end of the movie.

I never saw it but Honey We Shrunk Ourselves was like the last live action movie Rick Moranis did, so I can only assume it sucked so bad that he quit movies because of it.

I could also make the argument for Episode III, due to the fact that it tries desperately to tie all the loose ends together to fit with the original trilogy, however each of the prequels were bad for different reason, but I digress.

Disagreed on a few of those, Syd.

Batman Begins was simply the better Batman story, since there was actually a story for Bruce. Dark Knight missed this, especially after Rachel's death...he seemed to get over it quickly and continued to go through the motions. I still liked Dark Knight a lot though.

Alien was better than Aliens because I felt the threat of one Alien was better than hundreds of them. When you add more aliens in there, you have to dumb them down as well as provide for a higher body count. Alien I think had like 6 characters, and every time someone died, you felt pretty bad for them, since you've been with them for the whole movie and got to know them better. Aliens had a large group of soldiers who were nothing more than meat. I can't stress enough that killing off people who we know nothing about is a bad thing for a film maker to do, since if we don't know the characters, then we don't care that they died. I liked Aliens, but it was an entirely different movie than Alien, which in a way, was a good thing.

While I agree that Ra's Al Ghul left a lot to be desired, I could almost say the same thing with Two-Face. With his apparent death, it really left me with a disappointment feel that we only get to truly see Dent's transformation and destruction so late in the movie. I mean, I would've liked to at least maybe see him as the lead villain in the next movie, although with how things go down, I'd rather not now. I just come back to Bruce Wayne though, it's as if he didn't really have a story or any real growth in this movie, something we got a shitload of in Batman Begins.

Also if you want to call them technical "sequels", the Dollars trilogy got better with every movie.

Depends on the movie, Dick Tracy for example, while not a cinematic marvel, it was awesome to see all the villains on the big screen.