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What movie franchise gets worse with each new film? (thelemmy.club)
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The first Jurassic Park movie is all time one of the greatest films ever made with the special effects still holding up to this day. The 2nd film was still very enjoyable in my opinion but it was just a cookie cutter sequel not bad, not good. The 3rd film wasnโ€™t great at all. But compared to the rest of the series the 3rd film is basically the godfather.

As another personal pick the 1st blade movie is a hood classic good. The other 2 not so much.

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[โ€“] 65 points 4 months ago (24 children)

The Matrix.

Not sure how that isn't mentioned yet!

First movie was a masterpiece that became a classic, the rest were completely unnecessary.

When my brother showed The Matrix to his kid, she asked "Is there another one?" and he said "No."

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  • [โ€“] 26 points 4 months ago (11 children)

    I can respect the fourth one. Sure, it was a terrible movie but it feels like a deliberate piss take on the idea of reviving the franchise. And I can respect that.

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  • [โ€“] 11 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    I'm glad I'm not the only one thinking that. It was so bad, so so bad... But yeah I couldn't help but feel the wachowski sister that did it (if I'm not wrong the other one didn't participate) just dit it to spite the studio for trying to make a moneygrab movie.

    Having said that, despite the 2nd and 3rd movies not being great by any means compared to the first one, I do still enjoy them, like a guilty pleasure kinda thing.

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  • [โ€“] 3 points 4 months ago

    The 2nd and 3rd ones are still fun, action-packed movies with ground-breaking effects. The Matrix set an impossibly high bar and it was not originally planned to be a sequel, let alone a trilogy. They also whipped them together much faster, so in that context, I think they did a great job.

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  • [โ€“] 4 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    There are four of them ?

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 4 months ago (1 child)

    Eh. A bad movie is a bad movie, regardless of what the footnotes say.

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  • [โ€“] 0 points 4 months ago

    I said I can respect it, not that it's good. It feels like a deliberate attempt to torpedo the revival of a series that really didn't need to be revived. That's what I can respect, not the movie on its own merits.

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  • [โ€“] 19 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    I saw the original Matrix like once and never watched the sequels, so I sat down and watched them all recently. The hate for the sequels is way overblown. Apart from the bad CGI in the second, I thought they were great sequels that took the story in interesting directions.

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  • [โ€“] 10 points 4 months ago

    The problem I have with the Matrix sequels...1. they're too far up their own ass. The original was a little up its own ass but it was up the part of its own ass that mattered for the story it was telling. Reloaded and Revelations are up their whole ass. "Love is a word." ๐Ÿ™„ 2. The original is a very straightforward hero's journey in which deciding to answer the call is the ultimate key to the hero's power. The sequels are about fate and inevitability and how basically no decision can ever matter. So we're sorry to have bothered you.

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  • [โ€“] 3 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    I think some of the fights just started feeling extra stupid. In particular I'm thinking of the multiple smiths in the park and the final one with him in the rain.

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  • [โ€“] 4 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Yeah, the multiple smith fight is the most egregious. Trim that down and take out the most offensive CGI and I feel like Reloaded would have been vastly improved.

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 4 months ago (4 children)

    don't even get me started on resurections. Holy shit. It is bullshit that that movie is now canon :/

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  • [โ€“] 6 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    I'm not 100%, but I'm pretty sure Lana undertook it to destroy the series and get the movie studio to stop asking for sequels. It's like the central theme of the movie.

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