• Got_Bent@lemmy.world
    38·
    5 months ago

    Who pays to watch these things? Like Fast and Furious part 47 is clearly making money as is Comic book hero vs other comic book anti-hero part 32.

    I know I’m old, but I can’t even name the year when I last paid to go see a movie.

    • PoopingCough@lemmy.worldEnglish
      16·
      5 months ago

      See, I actually think the F&F franchise is the exception here. The first one is just about some folks who like cars stealing DVD players. If it had just been that movie, I think it would have been mostly forgotten. It’s not bad, but it’s not iconic on its own. With each subsequent one they continue to lean harder and harder in to ridiculousness to the point where suddenly we have Tyrese and Ludacris in SPACE. To me the franchise is an example of how to do the action movie right: with a huge amount of self awareness and never taking it too seriously. They know what kind of movies they’re making.

      • businessfishEnglish
        3·
        5 months ago

        yeah fast and furious is basically anime and i love it for that

    • Wogi@lemmy.world
      7·
      5 months ago

      I remember seeing Kung fu panda in the theater with my niece, walking away thinking, well that was a nice complete story and forgetting about it.

      There is a 4th one now???

  • rtxn@lemmy.worldEnglish
    22·
    5 months ago

    Lord of the Rings, the moment it was infested by the malignant growth of WB.

        • ChapulinColorado@lemmy.world
          5·
          5 months ago

          The most boring movie I have ever watched. Even with work paying for the tickets I still feel I’m owed something for wasting my time watching them. I didn’t come back for seconds.

          • Blackmist@feddit.ukEnglish
            3·
            5 months ago

            A 300 page children’s book pointlessly and agonisingly squeezed into about 8 hours of terrible CGI cinema.

            That fucking barrel ride scene is a travesty.

      • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        5 months ago

        And yet there are rumors that they’re going to force another one! I figured that would have stopped them in their tracks, but the studios are relentless.

      • lugal@sopuli.xyz
        3·
        5 months ago

        And honestly that made it work for me. Not that alone, it was a work of art in its own right, not just one more part. More like a spinoff if that makes sense. It has a very different setting and stuff, I like it

    • 🦄🦄🦄@feddit.de
      2·
      5 months ago

      I liked all the references to the Matrix Trilogy being a trans allegory but I see the movie separate from the original three. It’s not head canon for me.

  • Katana314@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10·
    5 months ago

    Felt this with MGS4.

    Ending: You’ve been going too long, Snake - given too much. Quit smoking. Live your life. Don’t look back. Don’t turn out like me.

    MGSV trailer: HERE WE GO AGAIN

  • lugal@sopuli.xyz
    9·
    5 months ago

    Like River Song coming back to Doctor Who for no reason and destroying the whole idea

    • Glytch@lemmy.world
      3·
      5 months ago

      They do if they retcon things that happened in the good installments, like MSG4 explaining all the cool and unexplained stuff from the previous three by saying “nanomachines did it” except the one thing that would have made sense to be nanomachines, which turned out to be a case self-hypnosis.

    • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
      1·
      5 months ago

      They should have spent the budget on something that was original and took a risk. We can watch a shitty reboot or a shitty original - and some of those original movies that are panned as not good at least have a shot at maybe becoming a cult classic or a fan fave.

    • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      5 months ago

      They’re making a Gladiator Two? WTF? Why? How? Let me guess, he knocked up Commodus’ sister when she visited him in prison and the kid will be betrayed by the Senate and have to fight its way back into power?

    • twinnie@feddit.uk
      2·
      5 months ago

      I met someone who worked on this movie and she says 2 is gonna be pretty okay-ish, not bad but nowhere near as good as the original.

        • Rolando@lemmy.world
          2·
          5 months ago

          Since everybody knows it’s going to be mediocre, they should have just used the budget to make a historically-realistic movie about something in that era.

          • NABDad@lemmy.worldEnglish
            4·
            5 months ago

            Yeah, but it’s not like anything interesting and movie-worthy ever happened back then.

            • vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works
              2·
              5 months ago

              Bit later but im juat ginba drop one of my favorite qoutes from antiquity. “Give me back my Legions”

              Seriously id kill for a movie about the Battle of Teutoberg Forest.

              • wieson@feddit.de
                2·
                5 months ago

                There’s a short 1 season long series called “barbarians” which is supposedly pretty good. I don’t know if they made a session 2, but I know that season 1 had a conclusion and all historic advisors left work for season 2 because it became ridiculous.

    • chiliedogg@lemmy.world
      5·
      5 months ago

      All of the sequels are weird since the first film is literally about the end of the immortals, but among the billion sequels and TV show, Highlander 2 is definitely the weirdest. I like how the rest of the sequels 100% ignore it.

      Like: suddenly they’re aliens and Sean Connery can be resurrected by shouting his name, and he can project a force from his hand, but it’ll make him die again, and Connor is a scientist who made a shield to replace the Ozone in the future but the Ozone layer is actually fine so they have to destroy the shield generator in a Cyberpunk dystopia.

      There’s not enough cocaine on the planet to explain that script.