No matter how the second version defiled the first, we will forever have “Sweep the leg!”
Alien[sup]3[/sup] not only ruined Aliens, it also ruined the Aliens comics Dark Horse was publishing where all those characters killed off at the start survived and made up the main cast.
Just pray Ticketbastard never figures out a way to get their sticky fingers into the movie theater business. $10 is high, but it’ll easily be 2-3 times that if they ever get the chance.
Breakin’ 2: Electric Boogaloo the gang dances to stop the demolition of a community center. Although you might suggest that this is a self-less act, the characters don’t grow. Their dances don’t become more wack. They don’t rebel fearlessly against a dance instructor. They don’t crush a rival dance crew.
The original, Breakin’, was an elevating, ground breaking, take no prisoners, thrill ride. But, Booglaloo, well, if your TV spontaneously catches fire, there’s a reason. Be thankful.
They already have, ever hear of Fandango? Not quite as bad, tho.
Max, I wrote my contribution off-line before I managed to see your post here. I’m just going to hijack your reply and note…
This will probably be a surprising nomination because, yeah, the sequels made lots of money. Nevertheless I’ll list my reactions to
Terminator (1): Great temporal paradox, perfectly sealed. A soldier in a futile future war volunteers to go back in time to save [the mother of his best friend?] because he’s fallen in love with her, just by seeing her picture. She falls in love with him, too, but by the end of the tale, he’s dead and she’s carrying his kid. In the epilogue, she’s remembering him and – snap! – someone takes a picture of her which she’ll give to her son, which he’ll share with a (friend?) soldier who becomes so smitten that he volunteers to go back in time to save her life. Even Ahhnold’s funny accent worked because it seemed to emphasize that the T100 didn’t enunciate like real humans.
Terminator 2: Don’t get me wrong. It was a great movie with a great message (during our Cold War nuclear showdown) and I saw it at least 4 times in the theaters with different people. But it should never have been made. It was completely unnecessary and destroyed the temporal loops that were very nicely closed in the first movie.
Terminator 3: Okay, so to fix the holes created by T2 (and, yeah, he made a lot of them) we return to John Connor and lead the audience to the beginning of the Skynet Cybergeddon. The movie closes with the franchise sort-of back on track and sort-of explaining why Arnold kept showing up. But it only needed to be made because T2 was made. So neither sequel should have been made.
Terminator 4: Geez! Leave it alone already! I didn’t even bother to find out when or where this was showing.
–G!
Actually, it was pretty good. It was kinda the “Rogue One” the Terminator franchise; it was a side-issue, sorta. And it had some very nice bits. (The cameo appearance of the CGI Schwarzenegger was a delight!)
This is silly. It’s fiction, not history. The sequel didn’t “happen” any more than the original did. A story is a story. The entire idea of “canon” is bunk.
Never saw “The Mask 2”, but the original had always left an opening for a sequel.
Assuming they could’ve gotten Jim Carrey again, 13-year-old me always figured Hollywood would churn out a “Mask 2” in which Stanley and his now-wife Tina somehow manage to retrieve the mask in Edge City again.
In that same vein, I’m surprised they never made a sequel to Jumanji since the end was open ended. They could have had an entirely different cast encountering other creatures from the game. Maybe the original didn’t make enough money to bother making a sequel.
Of course, the more that I think about it, it would probably have a similar story, action and ending then the original, so I guess I’m glad they never made one.
Jumanji had a (sort of) sequel called Zathura. It is a retelling of the story using sci-fi elements instead of “jungle” themed elements.
Oh, there’s gonna be a sequel. With The Rock, Kevin Hart, Jack Black and, apparently, Karen Gillan’s legs.
It looked decent until i read this: It-girl Bethany (Madison Iseman ) becomes a bookworm professor (Jack Black);
Jack Black can be Ok if kept under tight control. Seeing him try to play a girl in a mans body will be so bad, i am throwing up a little in my mouth as a type this. 
What Highlander 2? It doesn’t exist.
I would willingly forgive a sequel to any movie if it stared Karen Gillan’s legs.
These didn’t really “ruin” their predecessors but they were big disappointments:
Far Away, So Close! (sequel to Wings of Desire)
Leningrad Cowboys Meet Moses (sequel to Leningrad Cowboys Go America)
What Becomes of the Broken Hearted? (sequel to Once Were Warriors)
And of course, the Robocop sequels.
I would have mentioned Highlander 2, except that film doesn’t exist.
The explanation given for that costume is that she’s playing the character from the game, and she herself (in the movie) doesn’t like the costume.
Every sequel, prequel, nyquil follow-on to Star Wars. the original was a campy big budge movie that didn’t take itself seriously. Everything after that was sci-fi Spinal tap.
Any accolades for those movies fall under a golden arch of 100 billion sold. They SUCK and deserve a lifetime achievement award for movies most viewed by teenage boys.
I got talked into seeing the one where Harrison Ford dies and it was all I could do not to cheer his demise.