• Rolando@lemmy.world
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    From the article:

    • Jaws: The Revenge (1987)
    • Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019)
    • Star Trek: Nemesis (2002)
    • Independence Day: Resurgence (2016)
    • Coming 2 America (2021)
    • A Good Day to Die Hard (2013)
    • Friday the 13th: A New Beginning (1985)
    • Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987)
    • Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 (2000)
    • Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (2023)
    • Highlander II: The Quickening (1991)
    • Exorcist II: The Heretic (1977)
    • Curse of the Cat People (1944)
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    Independence Day 2 is one of the worst movie ever. And why Charlotte Gainsbourg was here? She’s useless, her character is useless, and she’s a bad actress.

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      I honestly pressed stop, and turned off the movie when the scientist who clearly died in part 1, sits up in a hospital bed after being in a coma for decades and can talk and communicate just fine and somehow knows aliens are coming. I didn’t want to see anything beyond that point

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        Wait, there’s more Brent Spiner in the second one? I still won’t give it a try, but I do feel slight temptation.

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        I saw it in the cinema with friends, we all realised how shit it was pretty quickly, but I burst out laughing when the alien queen went on a rampage. It was so bad. “Look at its widdle legs!”

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    Compared to all of the other ones, Mission: Impossible 2 was the absolute worst of the bunch.

    John Woo tried — he really did — but that script was brutal.

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    On the other side of the spectrum, I really like Patrick H. Willem’s take on the best sequel ever: Mamma Mia 2.

    Not the best movie that is also a sequel, but biggest improvement over the original.

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      I agree, I mean, it is objectively bad, but it is almost enjoyable with the right mindset.

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    Lazy listicle. However I am happy Exorcist 2 exists because it meant that we got Exorcist 3 which is phenomenal.

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    That is a solid list, but I nominate Lawnmower Man 2 as possibly the worst sequel of all time. The first movie was actually pretty great for it’s time, but the sequel is just a nonsensical train wreck. Just take my word for it and don’t watch it.

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      The first movie was actually pretty great for it’s time

      Goodness. Did we see the same movie? Even with the better-than-Money-For-Nothing graphics the first one was not all that great of a movie to start with. Plus it tried to cash in on the hot streak that Stephen King stories were on at the time: the movie had nothing to do with the short story of the same name.

      Still, I do not doubt your claim that the sequel was horrible.

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        Yes, we saw the same movie, but I really liked it. The actual Stephen King story is basically unrelated, it was a bizarre couple page short story about a weirdo that mows lawns with psychic powers and then ate the lawn clippings (yes really!).

        As for the sequel, just imagine that whatever you would have rated the first movie out of 10, adjust it down by 8 points. Yes, you can go negative :)