Sorry for bringing back bad memories, ArrMatey! and Kimstu! I honestly wish I hadn’t read it again, and I am going to get rid of the copy I have so I won’t be tempted again.
I haven’t read any of the other Earthsea stuff, mostly because I got so burned by Tehanu that I didn’t want to risk further disappointment. I’ll see if I can track down “The Bones of the Earth,” though. That sounds promising.
I agree with the other posters who say that Transformers 2 is the worst movie ever, especially in relation to the size of the budget.
Whether or it’s the worst sequel, however, is debatable because the quality of the first one wasn’t exactly bar-setting. For that, I would have to go with… (cue drumroll)…
Alien 3, especially for those of us who saw the coming to Earth trailer. My wife walked out of the theater so pissed I thought she would have an aneurism (sp).
This.
The tone shifted from cool to cute, the formula was auto-derivative and not well executed. It just became campy. Duffy had like 10 years to work on that script and it looks like he shit it out in an afternoon. It’s just bad
I agree with this. Alien is an very good movie, I consider Aliens as even better (though an action movie instead of a plain horror movie). Alien 3 and Alien 4 are better left unseen.
Also: Terminator 3. Just as with the Alien franchise, we got 2 good movies before the series took a nosedive. The moral here: James Cameron can make a good sequel, but you should let the series stop when he does.
No, you’re all wrong. The all time worst sequel is Grease 2.
You apparently haven’t seen WarGames 2: The Dead Code.
The two main characters, the guy and his sister, are the kids of Jason Patric’s character, and the main vampire guy was the brother of Kiefer Sutherland’s character (also his real life half-brother) but they didn’t spell this out explicitly enough for most people, I guess. In any event, it’s not even close to the original, but as direct to video sequels and direct to video vampire movies go, it’s not too bad. I’d watch it again.
As for the ending
The alternate ones were even more interesting, IMO, revealing that the brother of Feldman’s character was now a vampire, and heading back into town
Apparently it did well enough that there is another DTV sequel coming out sometime this year.
minor spoiler re: the ending of the 2nd movie and casting of the 3rd
Corey Haim had nothing to do with the new one, even before his untimely demise, so it likely doesn’t have anything to do with following up on their confrontation at the end of 2
Pretty much exactly what I was about to say. It’s like the two movies didn’t exist in the same universe. Not that I’d call the original Blues Brothers realistic by any stretch, but it established a set of rules and remained consistent with them. The zombies, levitations, people turning into rats, et al, of BB2K didn’t fit with that at all.
I stop short of considering it the worst sequel ever, though, because the musical numbers were outstanding – at least as good as in the first.
I needed eyewash, brain bleach, and an MIB flashy thingy to expunge the horror that was Babe 2: Pig in the City from my mind. Even that didn’t work entirely, though, and I suspect that the resulting misfiring in my neurons is somehow responsible for the subsequent epidemic of childhood obesity, the increase in sunspots, and the endless progression of unspeakable films starring obnoxious talking animals.
The horror…the horror…
I tried to watch S Darko. It was so horrible that I think I made it about half an hour in before just having to stop.
Re: Jurassic Park
Maybe I work with substandard scientists and engineers, but I see stupid mistakes on a fairly frequent basis. A film in which people do implausible and dumbass things, especially under stress, pretty much mirrors reality as I experience it.
That mistakes I meant are mostly in the design of the park. The one that really gets me is the electric fences. Even absent sabotage, those were a stupid mistake. Some of the dinos could easily charge through even a working electric fence. Had they built real concrete barriers, the dinos would have been contained. Of course, then the movie would have only lasted ten minutes. But, I’ve always said if the only reason you can give for somebody doing something stupid is ‘it is necessary to the plot’ then you have failed as a writer.
For examples of fine writing see Aliens “Take off and nuke the place from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure.” Naturally, they’re prevented from just taking off.
Or Army Of Darkness- Instead of just turning his back on a supposedly destroyed monster “It’s a trick. Get an axe”
No one’s mentioned it yet so I’ll throw out Son of The Mask.