• UKFilmNerd@feddit.ukM
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    4 days ago

    Bending the rules a bit here. I know it is not a true sequel, but it’s part of a trilogy. Hot Fuzz is better than Shaun of the Dead. Also, except for the second film, I think the Mission Impossible series just gets better with every entry.

    • ᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ 帝@feddit.ukM
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      4 days ago

      I know it is not a true sequel, but it’s part of a trilogy. Hot Fuzz is better than Shaun of the Dead.

      I think we’ll have to agree to disagree here.

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      4 days ago

      For a while, Mission Impossible kept getting better, but Dead Reckoning was absolute dog water and it killed all my interest in the franchise forever.

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        About two years ago, I watched all six, as there were then, over the course of a couple of weeks. For me, the second film stands out as being the weakest.

        I think I need to watch Dead Reckoning (formerly part 1) again as I was slightly disappointed seeing that.

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          I think Dead Reckoning is a good, and poignant, concept, but I think it suffers from weak writing.

          It suffered a bit from the same issue as the video game Uncharted 3, where they wrote the action set pieces first, then wrote the story to fit them together. I’m not sure if that’s what happened in the writing of Dead Reckoning, but that’s how it felt.

          Overall I still liked it, and look forward to the next one, but it isn’t as strong as the previous 3 films.