Who pays to watch these things? Like Fast and Furious part 47 is clearly making money as is Comic book hero vs other comic book anti-hero part 32.
I know I’m old, but I can’t even name the year when I last paid to go see a movie.
Toy Story 4, Toy Story 5…
Which wouldn’t be so bad if they did more of a reboot with entirely new toys to keep the stories separate.
Or just leave a franchise to conclude and take that time and money to create something new.
Which is what Pixar explicitly did until Disney commanded they make sequels.
I remember seeing Kung fu panda in the theater with my niece, walking away thinking, well that was a nice complete story and forgetting about it.
There is a 4th one now???
The 3rd one is actually pretty good
The Matrix Resurrections?
I liked all the references to the Matrix Trilogy being a trans allegory but I see the movie separate from the original three. It’s not head canon for me.
Like River Song coming back to Doctor Who for no reason and destroying the whole idea
Felt this with MGS4.
Ending: You’ve been going too long, Snake - given too much. Quit smoking. Live your life. Don’t look back. Don’t turn out like me.
MGSV trailer: HERE WE GO AGAIN
Everyone forgets PEACE WALKER
Godfather 3…. why?!
Grim Fandango’d
All the terminators after 2
I actually quite like 3, if only for the ending.
It was quite a cool ending to be fair
To hear Russell Crowe tell it, Gladiator 2 may suffer from this
They’re making a Gladiator Two? WTF? Why? How? Let me guess, he knocked up Commodus’ sister when she visited him in prison and the kid will be betrayed by the Senate and have to fight its way back into power?
I met someone who worked on this movie and she says 2 is gonna be pretty okay-ish, not bad but nowhere near as good as the original.
If even the people making it are like “it’s pretty mid”, it was probably a waste of time lol
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Sometimes sequels are how movies get made at all.
There’s a story about the suggested sequel to the gladiator that has Maximus traveling through fucking time. The reason that movie was pitched was because the director and the writer specifically did not want to make that movie. But the contract for the Gladiator required a multiple movie deal if it was successful. So they pitched the craziest shit imaginable and the studio let them out of the contact.
A lot of movies are made this away. Original IP doesn’t get picked up unless a studio thinks they can milk it.
So they have to game their contracts to not be forcefully made to milk a franchise. Sounds like a lovely industry. Maybe it should be torn down and a wave of small creators and indie studios will revive the golden age of film as art instead of being products to milk.
So those indie films definitely still get made, sometimes. But there’s a big fucking asterisk attached to that. Fox searchlight and another of similar firms will buy movies that have already been made and give them a wider audience. A24 also produces films that would traditionally fly the insie circuit. But for the most part, these movies are being paid for by the people making them, and whether or not they ever see that money returned is purely a matter of luck.
Kevin Smith has a long story about how he managed to finance one of his movies only because he’d done a shitty Bruce Willis movie. And relatively speaking the movie the financed was peanuts compared to what some can cost.
Sometimes sequels are how movies get made at all.
I say this with the utmost respect to “the industry”: If all you have is a shitty moneygrab sequel or reboot “or nothing,” make nothing. Get back to the goddamn writer’s room, take a walk to your local comic shop and look for something creator owned that hasn’t been adapted if you have to, there’s plenty good shit, worked for Invincible, but for “Bob’s” sake stooooop with the bullshit.
Not that it matters to me, I gave up on them in about 2010, and they’d have to pay me to watch their garbage now.
They do if they retcon things that happened in the good installments, like MSG4 explaining all the cool and unexplained stuff from the previous three by saying “nanomachines did it” except the one thing that would have made sense to be nanomachines, which turned out to be a case self-hypnosis.
