Sequels that in our mind "Never Happened"

OU812

Just converting some of my collection & the last batch I did were the Batman movies.

Now I've not seen them in a while, but I just clicked on Batman Forever, remembering it as being one of the better of the series. Five minutes in, It's ****. Overacting & "old" batman style sound effects, horrible neon colours against "Dark Gotham". They're about as far from the original Burton directed ones as the newer ones are.

The same with Superman III & IV. Never happened as far as I'm concerned. I do have a fondness for "Superman Returns" & keep that.

Die Hard 5 is the same. Utter, utter ****. Four I'll just about allow because it's in the same vein (mostly) as the other three. In fact, cut out the surfing the harrier scene & it's not a bad flick.

Pirates of the Carribean 4, turned it off half way through. 2 & 3 would have been ok apart from the fact I hate one story spread out over two movies.

Indiana Jones 4... Do I even have to... ?

So what it it for you? Not wether or not they should have been made, just that you exclude them from your collection because as far as you're aware they "never happened"

SVG

As far as I'm concerned the Matrix didn't have any sequels. They only exist in a false alternate reality.

iDave

Star Trek prequels, Vulcan was never sucked into a black hole as far as I'm concerned.

jasonbourne.cs

the Bourne Legacy ...... i liked Renner but it was just such a terrible disjointed movie trying to shoe horn itself into an already closed off trilogy

pixelburp

Alien Resurrection. #3 isn't half as bad as its reputation would have you believe - much of that due to the various shenanigans that happened behind the camera & with the studio - but the fourth Alien movie is just so bad on nearly every conceivable level: script, direction, tone, art design, cast - everything went wrong. Not even the sheer power of Ron Perlman can save this stinker. Mind you, I'd still watch Resurrection sooner than either of the AvP movies, so perhaps it doesn't count after all...

beakerjoe

Any of the Transformer sequels. I had high hopes after the first Film, but the 2 that followed were god awful. I will still see T4 in hope that it might resurrect the franchise but i have no high expectations for it.

Id rather a Reboot

krudler

Indy 4 for me as well, it was on recently and its just awful stuff altogether. There's one scene I really like when Indy and Jim Broadbent's character are talking in his house and the bike chase is cool but the rest is compeltely soulless, I dont want to see an Indy movie where he complains about being old all the time, it's not the years, it's the mileage.

miralize

Twilight 2, 3, and 4 were so poor, but then again, the first one was pretty ****e too* :pac:




*Judging by reviews I've glanced at

fluke

I know someone posted Alien Resurrection (which is worthy of the thread) but for me Alien 3 is the first movie sequel I would go to for non-canon or never happened sequels. At least the first two feel like they take place in the same universe.

Oh and Rocky 5 is pretty awful. Even Rocky Balboa in 2006 sidesteps 5.

Dermighty

Anything after The Matrix

Anything after the original Star Wars trilogy.

Anything after Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade

Anything after Predator

Anything after Terminator 2 Judgement Day

Anything after Alien Resurrection

krudler

fluke wrote: »

I know someone posted Alien Resurrection (which is worthy of the thread) but for me Alien 3 is the first movie sequel I would go to for non-canon or never happened sequels. At least the first two feel like they take place in the same universe.

Oh and Rocky 5 is pretty awful. Even Rocky Balboa in 2006 sidesteps 5.

Rocky Balboa was good!

GerB40

Home Alone 3 was a fcuking abomination. Especially after the genius of the first two.. Never happened

Dozen Wicked Words

Sequels to Dirty Dozen and the Magnificent Seven have been erased from my memory.

grames_bond

you could exclusively deal with this thread referencing sequals made of Jim Carrey movies without Jim Carrey

If we are including prequals: "Dumb and Dumberer" and "son of the Mask"
Just sequals: Evan Almighty

fluke

krudler wrote: »

Rocky Balboa was good!

Yeah I know. It's great. Rocky 5 is not though and and Rocky Balbo (or Rocky 6) ignores the events of 5.

Ipso

Dermighty wrote: »

Anything after The Matrix

Anything after the original Star Wars trilogy.

Anything after Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade

Anything after Predator

Anything after Terminator 2 Judgement Day

Anything after Alien Resurrection

I thought Predator 2 was quite good.

beakerjoe

Ipso wrote: »

I thought Predator 2 was quite good.

i concur, i liked predator 2, was very different to the first one but i still enjoyed it. Especially since Gary Busey is in it

Robocop 3, 2 was watchable but 3 is an abomination.

Dermighty

Ipso wrote: »

I thought Predator 2 was quite good.

I'll have to amend my post so:

Anything after my post in this thread

ronoc 1

i thought predators was decent,its not a film to remember in years to come but i thought it was fairly solid.

A-Trak

Ipso wrote: »

I thought Predator 2 was quite good.

I was about to post that word for word.
Predator 2 is quite good, on canon and shows some great pred tech along with the xenomorph skull.

Edit - I'm not the only one so. Note to self, read entire thread before jumping to Danny Glovers defense

johnny_ultimate

Frankly, I don't think cinema would be the lesser in the absence of the first sequel either, but Tetsuo: The Bullet Man is a disgraceful abomination. More so because Tsukamoto knows better (Kotoko proved that). It's such a half-assed, limp attempt to recapture the raw, visceral insanity of the first film, but self-sabotages at every single opportunity. Tetsuo is a definitive DIY, devil may care independent film - the sequels had bigger budgets but massively diminished returns.

Jonny Blaze

Can't believe no one's brought up the Godfather 3?

Coppola even came out and pretty much said flat out that it was just a money spinner!

GhostInTheRuins

Deleted User wrote: »

Robocop 3, 2 was watchable but 3 is an abomination.

This gets my vote. What a way to piss all over a great film. 3 is the worst sequel of any film ever.

Daemos

Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows

Lacked all of the charm, wit, intelligence and enjoyability of the first. The Asylum's version was better than it, which I think says a lot

krudler

Jaws 3 and 4 too, Jaws 2 is actually not that bad, only for its iconic predecessor it's a perfectly watchable creature feature B movie, stupid shark death though. Jaws 3 is so bad it's good cheese and awful special effects, including a shark that can swim backwards, but 4 is an abomination.
Mrs Brody flies to Caribbean to get away from a shark, seemingly forgetting that being on any sort of solid land is adequate protection from a Great White. Worse effects than the first movie, Michael Caine missed his Oscar acceptance due to filming it, and has claimed to never seen it since making it. The only good thing about the movie is the score, which was a decent rendition of the utterly iconic Williams theme.

Bacchus

iDave wrote: »

Star Trek prequels, Vulcan was never sucked into a black hole as far as I'm concerned.

Sorry to be a pedant but the new Star Trek films are not sequels/prequels. They are an alternate timeline, so by their own definition, they never happened in relation to the originals series/movie.

X-Men 3. Loved the first two. The third was awful, convoluted mess though. Between it and Wolverine Origins, the continuity has been totally screwed up :mad:

Jurassic Park 3. Second one kept things fresh and was enjoyable. 3 was a bore though and looked cheap in comparison.

QikBax

Shawshank Redemption 2: Revenge of the Warden in Space was truly awful as well.

I mean cryogenicaly freezing Andy & Red and waking them up on Mars in 2525 sounds like a great idea but the execution was terrible.

Thanks a lot Darabont.

boris232

iDave wrote: »

Star Trek prequels, Vulcan was never sucked into a black hole as far as I'm concerned.

Totally agree - Ruined Star Trek canon as far as I am concerned. Even the sequel was a wash out

Bacchus

boris232 wrote: »

Totally agree - Ruined Star Trek canon as far as I am concerned. Even the sequel was a wash out

But Star Trek canon is untouched The new Star Trek movies are clearly set in an alternate timeline. The Star Trek universe has been pretty much exhausted at this point on the big and small screen. The only way forward was a 'reboot' and as reboots go, this was a rather clever one.

GerB40

jamc wrote: »

Shawshank Redemption 2: Revenge of the Warden in Space was truly awful as well.

I mean cryogenicaly freezing Andy & Red and waking them up on Mars in 2525 sounds like a great idea but the execution was terrible.

Thanks a lot Darabont.

I actually googled that to see if it really made it. Fcuk me I'm gullible in the mornin..

Homeward Bound 2.

Why would you near ruin one of my top childhood movies you bastards.

jasonbourne.cs

star wars : holiday special ,I suppose not technically a sequel ..... :rolleyes:

miralize

Community season 4! (Not a film, and not bad imo , but people will agree)

e_e

Battle Royale 2, I just watch to laugh at it really. Kitano's scene is the only great thing in the film.

Zubeneschamali

Highlander 2.

2010 - OK flick considered on its own, but not a worthy sequel.

Return of the Jedi: horribly disappointing after Empire Strikes Back, even though it's like Hitchcock crossed with Kubrick compared to the prequel drivel.

Welsh Megaman

As far as I'm concerned, there ain't no 'Weekend At Bernie's 2' and there never was!

Lucena

Dozen Wicked Words wrote: »

Sequels to Dirty Dozen and the Magnificent Seven have been erased from my memory.

Do you mean Dirty Baker's Dozen and The Magnificent Eight?

krudler

Bacchus wrote: »

But Star Trek canon is untouched The new Star Trek movies are clearly set in an alternate timeline. The Star Trek universe has been pretty much exhausted at this point on the big and small screen. The only way forward was a 'reboot' and as reboots go, this was a rather clever one.

Exactly, the Abrams reboot was quite cleverly done without interfering with the previous films, its a new timeline to do what they want in. I really hope they don't just use the "ah sure we'll ask Old Spock what the story is" routine again.

K.Flyer

The Blues Brothers "2000" Did not need to happen!

ugly_mug

dirty harry sequels were poor movies , original is a classic

Ross_Mahon

X-Men: The Last Stand
Quantum of Solace
xXx²: The Next Level
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines
Jurassic Park III
Resident Evil: Retribution
Crank 2: High Voltage
Every American Pie sequel

bnt

Jonny Blaze wrote: »

Can't believe no one's brought up the Godfather 3?

Coppola even came out and pretty much said flat out that it was just a money spinner!

I knew someone would bring it up, just so I could disagree with them. For starters, it was never supposed to be "Part III", the film company slapped that label on it against Coppola's wishes. The real name is "The Death of Michael Corleone", and I'm quite happy he made it, overall.

GerB40

bnt wrote: »

I knew someone would bring it up, just so I could disagree with them. For starters, it was never supposed to be "Part III", the film company slapped that label on it against Coppola's wishes. The real name is "The Death of Michael Corleone", and I'm quite happy he made it, overall.

It was still utter sh1te..

SimonTemplar

Alien3. I hate that they essentially negated Ripley's struggle in Aliens by killing Newt. I also dislike the direction they took her character. As far as I'm concerned, they are only two alien movies.

Robocop 2,3. Awful messy crap compared to the genius of the first.

Jurassic Park 3. Ugh, whoever thought those Kirbys and the stupid "phone ring inside a dinosaur" gimmick suited that world should never be allowed write another script. I know The Lost World has a lot of problems, but at least it feels like a genuine continuation of the original's story and not a cheap exercise in profit making.

Diamonds Are Forever. I watched the Bond films in order prior to Skyfall's release last year and I'd forgotten what an absolute stinker this film is. Most people associate Roger Moore with 70s cheese and silliness but it started here with Connery's Diamond Are Forever. It is actually depressing to watch Connery, who defined Bond with his excellent performances in the 60s, be involved with such a poor film. It is almost like a parody of Bond. And Blofeld in drag. WTF!

Irish Guitarist

Wes Cravens New Nightmare and Freddy Versus Jason.

Alien Versus Predator.

karaokeman

For all those mentioning Star Wars Episodes I-III, this thread should be renamed "Sequels/Prequels that in our mind Never Happened".

In the Shrek series, only the first and the second are canon imo.

DeVore

Blues Brothers 2000

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Padraig Mor

Irish Guitarist wrote: »

Wes Cravens New Nightmare and Freddy Versus Jason.

Alien Versus Predator.

:eek:

Wash your mouth out with soap! New Nightmare is fantastic! In fact, studio imposed final reel aside, I reckon it's the best of the series and a really fresh take on the whole Freddy thing. No, really!

MrStuffins

The Exorcist 2
The Fly 2
The Crow 2
Taken 2

eviltimeban

American Psycho 2 - not that it had anything to do with the original, save for a reference to Patrick Bateman and a flashback scene showing someone else playing him. Even Mila Kunis was apologetic for starring in it.

The Transporter 2 - the first one was pretty cool but the 2nd and 3rd were pretty pointless.

Mission Impossible 2 - I loved the first one but never had any interest in II, III, IV, what are we up to now?

Ghostbusters 2 - no need for this at all.

Speed 2 - ditto.

Spider-man 2 - that was truly awful. I remember squirming in my seat watching that one.

Ocean's 12 - though I like Ocean's 13, I thought this movie was a confused, awful mess of a thing.