13 unnecessary sequels, reboots, or spinoffs of classic movies (Include comment for or rating of the film(s))
1. Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, Terminator Salvation, Terminator: Genysis, Terminator: Dark Fate (One big mess of a franchise. It should have ended at Terminator 2: Judgement Day)
2. Mary Poppins Returns (The fact that it took 54 years to come up with a sequel should have been a huge red flag)
3. Robocop 2 (Robocop should have ended with Murphy regaining these human attitudes, and some secondary character staying killed, making a certain line bitterly ironical, but the sequels completely blunted the impact(s) of the original's ending. The pure reboot was okay though, taking the concept to a different direction.)
3. Stayin Alive (This dreadful sequel brought Saturday Night Fever's Tony Manero from Brooklyn to Broadway, but the story showed complete ignorance regarding the rigors of being a dancer on Broadway)'
4. Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (Ironically it is also BY FAR the beat SW movie that Disney has contributed since taking over and is a fun ride, but also completely unnecessary. The first couple of lines in the original SW crawl was more than enough for more than 40 years, didn't really need an entire movie to expand on it)
5. Rambo: First Blood Part II, Rambo III, Rambo, Rambo: Last Blood (First Blood was a film that was based on a novel about a Vietnam veteran returning home from battling a war that was deemed unjust, to find himself facing a war from being treated unjustly by his own countrymen. It showed the struggles of one such veteran in John Rambo, with the end scene when he breaks down in the arms of the only person he can trust, his Lieutenant, making a relevant statement and striking a nerve for anyone who had the same experiences. Every sequel afterwards, which came out of Sylvester Stallone's head that turned Rambo into a superhero soldier, lost the point and the plot of that first film and went into brainless action territory, the worst and most unnecessary of them being Last Blood. I always thought First Blood should have ended with John Rambo killing himself that way the novel's writer intended it to end.)
5. Analyze That (This sequel to the hit Analyze This is just a rehash of the first film.)
6. Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (The original Superman movie and it's first sequel are the quintessential Superman films of all. I am not a fan of all the non-Christopher Reeve Superman films. I'll give Superman III a pass, just because I like Richard Pryor, and the Clark Kent/Superman showdown is probably the most epic fight scene in movie history. The fourth film however was just terrible. Awful. Horrible script. Cheap special effects. Nuclear Man has got to be the most uninteresting villain in any superhero film. Even Christopher Reeve was embarrassed by the whole thing. And I'm surprised to this day that Gene Hackman agreed to reprise his role as Lex Luthor in this stinking pile of garbage of a film.)
1. Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, Terminator Salvation, Terminator: Genysis, Terminator: Dark Fate (One big mess of a franchise. It should have ended at Terminator 2: Judgement Day)
2. Mary Poppins Returns (The fact that it took 54 years to come up with a sequel should have been a huge red flag)
3. Robocop 2 (Robocop should have ended with Murphy regaining these human attitudes, and some secondary character staying killed, making a certain line bitterly ironical, but the sequels completely blunted the impact(s) of the original's ending. The pure reboot was okay though, taking the concept to a different direction.)
3. Stayin Alive (This dreadful sequel brought Saturday Night Fever's Tony Manero from Brooklyn to Broadway, but the story showed complete ignorance regarding the rigors of being a dancer on Broadway)'
4. Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (Ironically it is also BY FAR the beat SW movie that Disney has contributed since taking over and is a fun ride, but also completely unnecessary. The first couple of lines in the original SW crawl was more than enough for more than 40 years, didn't really need an entire movie to expand on it)
5. Rambo: First Blood Part II, Rambo III, Rambo, Rambo: Last Blood (First Blood was a film that was based on a novel about a Vietnam veteran returning home from battling a war that was deemed unjust, to find himself facing a war from being treated unjustly by his own countrymen. It showed the struggles of one such veteran in John Rambo, with the end scene when he breaks down in the arms of the only person he can trust, his Lieutenant, making a relevant statement and striking a nerve for anyone who had the same experiences. Every sequel afterwards, which came out of Sylvester Stallone's head that turned Rambo into a superhero soldier, lost the point and the plot of that first film and went into brainless action territory, the worst and most unnecessary of them being Last Blood. I always thought First Blood should have ended with John Rambo killing himself that way the novel's writer intended it to end.)
5. Analyze That (This sequel to the hit Analyze This is just a rehash of the first film.)
6. Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (The original Superman movie and it's first sequel are the quintessential Superman films of all. I am not a fan of all the non-Christopher Reeve Superman films. I'll give Superman III a pass, just because I like Richard Pryor, and the Clark Kent/Superman showdown is probably the most epic fight scene in movie history. The fourth film however was just terrible. Awful. Horrible script. Cheap special effects. Nuclear Man has got to be the most uninteresting villain in any superhero film. Even Christopher Reeve was embarrassed by the whole thing. And I'm surprised to this day that Gene Hackman agreed to reprise his role as Lex Luthor in this stinking pile of garbage of a film.)
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“Let me tell you something you already know. The world ain't all sunshine and rainbows. It's a very mean and nasty place and I don't care how tough you are, it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it. You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life. But it ain't about how hard ya hit. It's about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward. How much you can take and keep moving forward. That's how winning is done!” ~ Rocky Balboa