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Post by Cela on Aug 5, 2012 15:03:12 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. The World is not Enough was hands down the worst Bond film of the series. Then came Die Another Day...
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Post by Citizen Snips on Aug 5, 2012 15:11:50 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. Along the Taylor Kitsch lines, Battleship had a sequel stinger but it's highly unlikely it gets a sequel either.
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Post by The Line on Aug 5, 2012 15:28:26 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. Along the Taylor Kitsch lines, Battleship had a sequel stinger but it's highly unlikely it gets a sequel either. Perfect solution: John Carter vs. Battleship: Sequel Harder
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Post by Jonathan Michaels on Aug 5, 2012 16:23:48 GMT -5
I can't believe I'm the first to say this (unless my find feature wasn't working right): Yeah, there was a good idea, let's take Johnny Cage, who killed GORO handily in the first movie and have him die like a punk in the first five minutes of the sequel.
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Post by DiBiase is Good on Aug 5, 2012 16:28:23 GMT -5
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. The World is not Enough was hands down the worst Bond film of the series. Then came Die Another Day... I think The World is Not Enough isn't that bad. It's not one of the better Bonds but it's better than Tomorrow Never Dies (which is absolute dogshit). Brosnan made 1 good Bond film, 1 ok Bond and 2 awful ones.
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Post by bibboid on Aug 5, 2012 16:41:56 GMT -5
The Last Airbender The Golden Compass The Spiderwick Chronicles Lemony Snickets Series of Unfortunate Events
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Post by Cela on Aug 5, 2012 16:45:16 GMT -5
The World is not Enough was hands down the worst Bond film of the series. Then came Die Another Day... I think The World is Not Enough isn't that bad. It's not one of the better Bonds but it's better than Tomorrow Never Dies (which is absolute dogs***). Brosnan made 1 good Bond film, 1 ok Bond and 2 awful ones. See, I loved Tomorrow Never Dies, but hated how World appeared to be trying to sensitize Bond and make him more metro, also the Money Penny love subplot was getting a little heavy handed.
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Post by The Gambler Fan on Aug 5, 2012 17:06:05 GMT -5
Terminator Salvation. Terminator 3 was awful and it really killed the franchise. However, Salvation made me to never want to see another Terminator movie again and that is sad because the first two are two of the best movies i ever saw.
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Post by bigbadbull on Aug 5, 2012 17:17:38 GMT -5
I think The World is Not Enough isn't that bad. It's not one of the better Bonds but it's better than Tomorrow Never Dies (which is absolute dogs***). Brosnan made 1 good Bond film, 1 ok Bond and 2 awful ones. See, I loved Tomorrow Never Dies, but hated how World appeared to be trying to sensitize Bond and make him more metro, also the Money Penny love subplot was getting a little heavy handed. TWINE was very good in its first hour, the movie lost steam when Denise Richards appeared and the movie wanted you to take her seriously as a nuclear physicist. The main villian had a great gimmick, but it was hardly played up.
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Post by Baldobomb-22-OH-MAN!!! on Aug 5, 2012 17:56:20 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. the funny thing about John Carter is, it didn't actually do all that terrible at the box office. the problem was the movie already cost so damn much money that Disney almost lost their shirts on it and it was nigh-impossible to recoup the money they'd put into it. the movie was already doomed before it even came out.
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Post by Baldobomb-22-OH-MAN!!! on Aug 5, 2012 17:59:51 GMT -5
See, I loved Tomorrow Never Dies, but hated how World appeared to be trying to sensitize Bond and make him more metro, also the Money Penny love subplot was getting a little heavy handed. TWINE was very good in its first hour, the movie lost steam when Denise Richards appeared and the movie wanted you to take her seriously as a nuclear physicist. The main villian had a great gimmick, but it was hardly played up. also, they gave her the asinine name "Christmas Jones" just so they could make a terrible non-joke at the end of the movie.
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Post by A Platypus Rave is Correct on Aug 5, 2012 17:59:52 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. Green Lantern is getting a sequel.
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Post by Rorschach on Aug 5, 2012 23:04:50 GMT -5
Since the last Jaws movie, we've discovered that those goddamn things jump out of the f***ing water to kill you. They're even MORE evil now, yet that movie was so bad, they just can't reboot the franchise. There is a global wide push to stop shark fishing/fining. And to dispel the false notion that they are man eaters and monsters. I don't think any studio would want to be responsible for the backlash that another "killer shark" movie would cause. I agree, and I also think the absolute deluge of "killer shark"/"shark attack" movies that have gone direct-to-video without so much as a whiff of real money-making potential in the last few years has put ANY plans Universal may have had to reboot/remake/3D-ize the JAWS series on permanent hiatus.
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Post by Danimal on Aug 6, 2012 3:58:45 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. the funny thing about John Carter is, it didn't actually do all that terrible at the box office. the problem was the movie already cost so damn much money that Disney almost lost their shirts on it and it was nigh-impossible to recoup the money they'd put into it. the movie was already doomed before it even came out. I just didn't get their thinking. Spending an insane amount of money on a flick with zero star-power or buzz( see Cameron's decade-taking creation Avatar) about a character much of the target audience doesn't know? Really? How does that make sense? The only way that movie was going to make money was if it flat-out kicked-ass, and it didn't.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 6, 2012 8:14:12 GMT -5
Im convinced we were gonna get a sequel to Super Mario Brothers but it bombed
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Post by Baldobomb-22-OH-MAN!!! on Aug 6, 2012 10:14:31 GMT -5
Im convinced we were gonna get a sequel to Super Mario Brothers but it bombed it ended on a pretty blatant sequel hook. to this day I have no idea what audience the filmmakers were going for with that film. the subject matter is too dark, scary and f***ing weird for the kids who'd ostensibly want to see a Super Mario movie, and the source material was from a video game that most of the intended demographic would write off as "kids stuff". forget Rob Liefeld, the Super Mario Bros. movie is the definitive "90s anit-hero" crap.
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Post by Hanzo on Aug 6, 2012 11:15:13 GMT -5
Highlander 2: The Quickening. And it was all downhill after that.
If you ask me, Highlander never needed a sequel to start with.
The TV series was decent, but I wish none of that other stuff would have been made and that Highlander would have just stood on it's own. The 1986 film is my favorite movie ever.
I mean, come on, the last movie that came out didn't even get a direct to DVD release. It debuted on the Sci-Fi Channel.
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Post by Hanzo on Aug 6, 2012 11:17:05 GMT -5
I can't believe I'm the first to say this (unless my find feature wasn't working right): What a fitting tag line.
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Post by Welfare Willis on Aug 6, 2012 14:23:15 GMT -5
Thinking about it, I expect most comic book movies to try and make a sequel. So I'd put Jonah Hex and Dylan Dog in this catagory.
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Post by flatsdomino on Aug 6, 2012 14:52:59 GMT -5
Spider-Man 3 DEFINITELY counts.
After the HUGE critical and commercial success of the second one, it almost seemed UNFATHOMABLE that the third film would bomb so bad that the franchise would have to be rebooted. Hell, after the second one, the sky seemed to be the limit for Raimi's Spider-Man franchise. And then, in one film, the whole thing ground to a screeching halt in a way that usually takes a franchise at least two movies to bleed everything out of it. It was just strange how dead in the water the franchise was after that, when two years prior it looked like we'd be getting Raimi Spider-Man films into the next decade.
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