Subpar Sequels: Overall

C.S.Strowbridge · Post by **C.S.Strowbridge** » 2002-12-03 04:54am

neoolong wrote:
C.S.Strowbridge wrote:
Raxmei wrote:I think Tremors 3 wasn't as good as Tremors 2. It was too goofy.
I hear the Sci-Fi channel is turning Tremors into a TV Series.
Yup. It has it's website at scifi.com up and everything. It brings back Burt and another character. Burt is basically a mercenary monster hunter for the government. And so on.

Burt? Working for the Government? That's not right.

Post by **The Yosemite Bear** » 2002-12-03 06:30am

Iron Monkey II

Don't watch it.

Warspite · Post by **Warspite** » 2002-12-03 09:56am

(Sigh...)

*Digs up hole, where old movies go to die. Picks up two, cleans spiderwebs and dust.*

OK, these ones are really old:

The sequels to Planet of the Apes (the original one). The end in the first one is one of the best of all times, why should they mess up with it, by sending a second spaceship, and later, by sending the monkeys back in time??

Crap...

irishmick79 · Post by **irishmick79** » 2002-12-03 10:09am

Major League 2. Good god was this a brutal movie. The first one was a classic comedy about baseball, and one of the few movies I can watch twenty times in a row and the jokes don't get old. The sequel was just bad pun after bad pun, and a badly done retread of the original.

I don't think I even need to mention the atrocity that is Batman Forever.

neoolong · Post by **neoolong** » 2002-12-03 10:37am

C.S.Strowbridge wrote:
neoolong wrote:
C.S.Strowbridge wrote: I hear the Sci-Fi channel is turning Tremors into a TV Series.
Yup. It has it's website at scifi.com up and everything. It brings back Burt and another character. Burt is basically a mercenary monster hunter for the government. And so on.
Burt? Working for the Government? That's not right.

He did in Tremors 3. It's to protect his home. So the government doesn't go in and take over because of El Blanco and any other "protected" animals.

Sonnenburg · Post by **Sonnenburg** » 2002-12-03 11:56pm

neoolong wrote:
Tsyroc wrote:
Slartibartfast wrote: I'm not entirely sure which one is the second...

The suckiest one. Connor starts the movie old and then some more aliens from his homeworld show up and after he kills one of them he's immortal again. There's also some sort of laser sheild protecting the Earth because the ozone was toasted.
I heard it was changed to some time travel thing for VHS release. Still didn't make it not suck.

The way I understand it, there are two versions: The Quickening, and The Renegade Version. The Quickening is the one where the immortals come from another planet, The Renegade Version is the one where they are sent into the future (so they're from Earth's really distant past). Both have more plot holes than any ten Voyager episodes (shocking, I know).

Here's some great logic form the movie: there's this protective shield in place created by "a team of international scientists" because that's the only team of scientists you ever see in a movie. They create this shield to protect earth after the ozone layer is lost and then they.... turn it over to a corporation? Uh, yeah, okay. Maybe you could argue that this was done by some corporation, but I seriously doubt that, when the fate of everyone on earth is at stake, we're going to put our hope in McDonald's. Then there's the complaints about price fixing and monopoly. Of COURSE it's a monopoly, there's only one shield! And what about the price fixing? Hey, don't pay what you think is unreasonable. What're they gonna do, turn it off? And that's even getting into the whole fact that with a shield separating us from the upper atmosphere the ozone should repair itself... which it does, but nobody thinks of this? And we're not even twenty minutes into the movie yet! Argh!!! Add in a fan-fetish clearly lifted from Blade Runner, Michael Ironside (whom I usual enjoy) aping the Kurgen, the humliating treatment of a gifted actor like Sean Connery, and an unnecessarily drawn out scene of a man getting his nuts crunched and you've got Highlander II: The Search For Crap.

THEHOOLIGANJEDI · Post by **THEHOOLIGANJEDI** » 2002-12-04 12:08am

beyond hope wrote:The entire parade of "Friday the 13th" movies

As silly as they are, I actually enjoy watching them for nostalgia. They used to scare the crap out of me and my siblings back when we were kids in the 80's.

Kosh_The_Vorlon · Post by **Kosh_The_Vorlon** » 2002-12-04 01:27am

C.S.Strowbridge wrote:
Raxmei wrote:I think Tremors 3 wasn't as good as Tremors 2. It was too goofy.
I hear the Sci-Fi channel is turning Tremors into a TV Series.

Yes, they are..Instead of, you know, saving Farscape, they're making Tremors and that utterly, utterly stupid "Dream Catchers."