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Post by TCM on Aug 5, 2012 4:08:20 GMT -5
The Green Lantern and The Green Hornet. 1st of all, The Green Hornet was so bad the film studio released it in JANUARY!A comic book movie in January! That's all you need to know. The Green Lantern was bad, too. Was Green Hornet THAT bad? I remember being entertained by it. I'm sure it does no favors to the Green Hornet franchise, but there were worse movies that month IMO, never mind that year.
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Post by juvijuiceisloose on Aug 5, 2012 4:34:16 GMT -5
The Green Lantern and The Green Hornet. 1st of all, The Green Hornet was so bad the film studio released it in JANUARY!A comic book movie in January! That's all you need to know. The Green Lantern was bad, too. Was Green Hornet THAT bad? I remember being entertained by it. I'm sure it does no favors to the Green Hornet franchise, but there were worse movies that month IMO, never mind that year. It wasn't the worst comic book movie ever, but it was still lacking of what made the series great. The casting didn't help, either. I just couldn't get into Seth Rogen and Jay Chou as Britt Reid and Kato. I would've much preferred Kevin Smith's version with Jake Gyllenhaal as the Green Hornet and Zhang Ziyi as Kato's daughter and the Green Hornet's new sidekick. To me it just seem like Seth Rogen was playing Seth Rogen in a mask.
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Post by Mighty Attack Tribble on Aug 5, 2012 7:37:42 GMT -5
Super Mario Bros. - a movie so bad it not only killed the possibility of a Mario movie franchise, but any movie based on Nintendo's intellectual properties.
The A-Team - as much as I enjoyed it, the lack of critical and box office success killed all possibilities of a sequel.
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Post by Push R Truth on Aug 5, 2012 8:33:31 GMT -5
Krull sucked so hard they didn't even have a franchise to kill.
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Post by dlg3000 on Aug 5, 2012 8:36:07 GMT -5
I agree with Superman 4 and the He-Man movie. They were bad enough to not kill a franchise but to have me regret watching a movie.
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Post by darthalexander on Aug 5, 2012 8:42:29 GMT -5
The reboots to Friday the 13th, Nightmare, and Halloween seemed to do a great job killing (pun intended) their franchises.
Too bad because there was some potential there. I know many hated the first Halloween by Zombie but I liked it. Too bad the second one was godawful.
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Post by CMWaters on Aug 5, 2012 8:47:51 GMT -5
I can't believe I'm the first to say this (unless my find feature wasn't working right):
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Post by bitteroldman on Aug 5, 2012 8:48:56 GMT -5
Obviously by putting the phrase "The adventure begins" in the title of the movie there were plans to make this a franchise. Poor box office receipts and mixed reviews meant that the adventure began and ended at 1 film
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Post by Rolent Tex on Aug 5, 2012 9:02:23 GMT -5
The Green Lantern and The Green Hornet. 1st of all, The Green Hornet was so bad the film studio released it in JANUARY!A comic book movie in January! That's all you need to know. The Green Lantern was bad, too. Was Green Hornet THAT bad? I remember being entertained by it. I'm sure it does no favors to the Green Hornet franchise, but there were worse movies that month IMO, never mind that year. It was that bad. Even my father, who loves hims some crappy ass movies, watched it and then told me he could see why it didn't make any money since it was a steaming pile. Since, you know, Seth Rogen just screams rich playboy.
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Post by Talent Name on Aug 5, 2012 9:44:11 GMT -5
Can't believe I am the first to say this Punisher: War Zone.
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Post by DiBiase is Good on Aug 5, 2012 9:54:09 GMT -5
Die Another Day. Yes, so it caused a reboot rather than kill the franchise dead. But considering the original series had been around for 40 years (with mostly the same canon) having to reboot that is just as bad as killing it dead. I'm a huge Bond fan and I actually walked out of the cinema when the invisible car turned up. I've watched it since (and as I'm a completist, I have the DVD) and it's just awful. A henchman with a name that goes beyond camp and into stupid territory : Mr. Kill. Halle Berry kicking a blade into someone's chest and then exclaiming "bitch". Pierce Brosnan being shit (even by his standards), the awful Madonna cameo (and theme song). Yeah, I'm glad that piece of shit will always go down as the film that caused forty years of Bond history to be rewritten. When the best thing you can say about it, is that it led to the awesomeness of Casino Royale, then you know you have a shit film.
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Post by Baldobomb-22-OH-MAN!!! on Aug 5, 2012 10:03:33 GMT -5
/\speaking of Die Another Day the studios were convinced that Halle Berry's character was going to be a huge hit and planned a series of spinoff movies about her. then the movie came out.
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Post by Citizen Snips on Aug 5, 2012 10:33:21 GMT -5
Daredevil struggled, but may have gotten a sequel. Elektra murdered the franchise. Haven't heard much, if any, talk of rebooting it.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 5, 2012 11:00:17 GMT -5
Die Another Day. Yes, so it caused a reboot rather than kill the franchise dead. But considering the original series had been around for 40 years (with mostly the same canon) having to reboot that is just as bad as killing it dead. I'm a huge Bond fan and I actually walked out of the cinema when the invisible car turned up. I've watched it since (and as I'm a completist, I have the DVD) and it's just awful. A henchman with a name that goes beyond camp and into stupid territory : Mr. Kill. Halle Berry kicking a blade into someone's chest and then exclaiming "bitch". Pierce Brosnan being s*** (even by his standards), the awful Madonna cameo (and theme song). Yeah, I'm glad that piece of s*** will always go down as the film that caused forty years of Bond history to be rewritten. When the best thing you can say about it, is that it led to the awesomeness of Casino Royale, then you know you have a s*** film. It was strange to see what I consider a quite good Bond film in "The World is Not Enough" that had a lot of great classical Bond elements in it and then get such a weak follow up.
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Post by agent817 on Aug 5, 2012 11:06:00 GMT -5
Can't believe I am the first to say this Punisher: War Zone. That one was a reboot, not a sequel to the 2004 film. I personally like both films, but unless War Zone was supposed to be the start of a new series, you might be right. It was released at a really bad time of the year (It was released during the holiday season, I was lucky that I even got to see it at the cinema), it wasn't received well by critics either. At least the 2004 film had a theatrical run that lasted a month. Over here, the 2008 film was here for 2 weeks.
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Post by The Line on Aug 5, 2012 12:16:04 GMT -5
It still might be too early to say 100%, but I'm pretty sure the planned sequel for John Carter will never be made thanks to how poorly the first one did at the box office.
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Post by h on Aug 5, 2012 12:41:27 GMT -5
The Land Before Time XIII.
The first twelve were just fine, but that thirteenth really pushed things over the edge.
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Post by The Ichi on Aug 5, 2012 13:18:54 GMT -5
I can't believe I'm the first to say this (unless my find feature wasn't working right): That has to be the most fitting tagline ever.
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Post by Talent Name on Aug 5, 2012 13:56:13 GMT -5
Can't believe I am the first to say this Punisher: War Zone. That one was a reboot, not a sequel to the 2004 film. I personally like both films, but unless War Zone was supposed to be the start of a new series, you might be right. It was released at a really bad time of the year (It was released during the holiday season, I was lucky that I even got to see it at the cinema), it wasn't received well by critics either. At least the 2004 film had a theatrical run that lasted a month. Over here, the 2008 film was here for 2 weeks. It was originally intended to be a sequel the original but so much stuff happened they decided to reboot it, and it failed miserably but Marvel has the rights again so lets see what happens
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Post by Hurbster on Aug 5, 2012 14:19:44 GMT -5
Krull sucked so hard they didn't even have a franchise to kill. No way man, Krull was awesome.
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