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They both have a sequel. But it's so not in lign with the quality of the original that people prefer to ignore their existence
I think we should add gladiator 2 to this list.
Absolutely. That sequel was atrocious
Haven’t seen it yet. I heard good things tho?!
You heard lies
🤣🤣🤣
Big Fat Lies.
reminds me Big Fat Liar should be on this list... a sequel was never made.
There was a “sequel” a remake rather that was horribly made but okay. Instead of a movie, it was about a video game and the essay is the same practically
I’m afraid I blue myself
We were not entertained.
Nah man, I'm pretty fuckin far from being entertained
Everything is relative. It’s Oscar-winning quality compared to American Psycho 2.
It’s much worse than the original, but it was “just ok”, compared to the original, which was “one of the best movies ever made”.
Yeah
I mean there’s a sharknado in the coliseum.
Low point. I literally almost walked out (should have in hindsight).
I still don’t know why the movie was made. It was fine in a way, just unnecessary.
It's not that bad but it's basically just the first movie again with maximus split into two characters. It's more unnecessary than bad.
Should have just picked a different time in Rome’s lengthy history, rather than linking it to the first movie.
I liked the movie overall, but definitely think they spent way too much time trying to connect it to the first one like making Maximus’ armor somehow magically block a direct stab with a person’s full body weight despite that never being the reason why anyone liked Maximus
Very much a solid movie that’s let down by beating the audience over the head with “passing the torch”. Would’ve been miles better if they didn’t make him Maximus’ son. Don’t even get me into that, I think him being Maximus’ son kinda wrecks Maximus’ family man persona from the first one and makes all of his mourning his wife and son feel cheap as since their kids are the same age it would mean he was actively cheating on her when he was with her. It’s clear they had a relationship but I always assumed it was before, and that her kid genuinely wasn’t his
First one is a masterpiece, second is simply entertaining.
It's worth the watch mostly for Denzel Washington and for the fight scenes.
So...you were entertained
I was in fact not entertained
Yes. Yes, I was.
I never saw it but someone said it was like they took his Lorenzo character from Training Day and teleported him to ancient Rome and won't be able to not think that now.
That's actually pretty accurate.
Gladiator 2 is like rancid bathwater that had a raccoon drown in it and has been stagnant since 2018
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Gladiator 2: Step gladiator
You don’t have to threaten me with a god time
It was fine, if you just want a historical drama set in Rome about Gladiators
Its story is lil messy, some of the acting isn't top tier and large things aren't historically accurate... It's fun though! Everyone wants to shit on things nowadays though
>>It was fine, if you just want a historical drama set in Rome about Gladiators
IT WAS NO FUCKING SPARTACUS. Now THAT was ENTERTAINMENT,
"Once again, the gods spread cheek to insert cock into the noble asrse of Batiatus...!"
It looks particularly bad by virtue of being a sequel to a masterpiece.
It’s just Ridley Scott doing what he does best, taking a really good story idea and getting a little loosey-goosey with it
It was fine at best. I was lead to believe it was horrible. It wasn’t
Anything less than perfection is horrible per social media these days. I remember when things were rated on a scale.
It was a decently executed terrible idea, which didn’t change the fact that it was a terrible idea.
What sequel?
The production value was good, but the story was shite. I felt zero empathy or emotion when he lost his wife, and apparently so did he. Literally cracking a joke within 45 seconds of his wife's death.
Were you not entertained?
My brother and I will watch any old muck. He loved that first movie. Could quote every part of it. What anchorman was for us, gladiator was for him.
He walked out half way through it. I was shocked. It must have been truly really bad.
Truly. Among the few movies I started and didn't finish. Waste of time.
I didn’t watch it. That film had no need for a sequel.
They should have filmed Nick Cave's script.
[Cave] talked about how is was his close friend Russell Crowe who approached him to write the script. “He, eventually, rang me up and asked if I wanted to write Gladiator 2 (laughs) and for someone who had only written one film script, it was quite an ask”, Cave recalled.
He then went on to describe the story. “Well, that’s where it all went wrong (laughs). ‘Hey Russell, didn’t you die in Gladiator 1?’ ‘Yeah, you sort that out.’ so, he goes down to purgatory and is sent down by the gods, who are dying in heaven because there’s this one god, there’s this Christ character, down on Earth who is gaining popularity and so the many gods are dying so they send Gladiator back to kill Christ and his followers.”
You can see why it was a tough sell.
Cave continued: “I wanted to call it Christ Killer and in the end you find out that the main guy was his son so he has to kill his son and he was tricked by the gods. He becomes this eternal warrior and it ends with this 20 minute war scene which follows all the wars in history, right up to Vietnam and all that sort of stuff and it was wild. It was a stone cold masterpiece.”
This is what I want for all unnecessary sequels and adaptations. They try to make it fit with the most generic rehashes of the original for money and I can't be arsed to care about any of them. If you're going to do something completely unnecessary you need some spectacle
You must love Highlander 2. It's equal parts unnecessary and batshit insane.
Come on, you don't just call it "Highlander 2", you call it "Highlander 2: The Quickening". The subtitle deserves to be included every single time.
As man, that would have been awesome!
Good lord, that is brutally awful!
And Highlander 2 as well. Should've been only one...
There must be only one
What is Highlander 2?
I thought it went Highlander -> Highlander 3 for reasons unknown and unknowable.
Titanic 2 was also a thing. Sharknado levels of stupidity. It was like a late night public access "action" "movie" with 1980s level CGI and an absolutely diabolical plot.
It was actually quite entertaining for all the wrong reasons. Kinda like laughing at a caricature of a farting donkey.
If James Cameron did a sequel and made it about the Titan it would probably go hard af.
But that was a low-budget Mockbuster and not a real Sequel.
I'm looking at the poster and the smoke stack has a frowny face and, AND the tagline goes "lighting never strikes twice" hahahahahahahahaha
I watched the whole series durring shark week once. It was great the whole way through!
Joker 2 as well
It wasnt as bad as everyone said it is.
Was it was we wanted it to be? Nope. Was it better or as good as the first one? Nope. Could it have been much better had they gone a less risky route? Yup!
But I'd say on it's own, it's still a fun watch.
And highlander
There can should have been only one
We might have to add megamind in there too
You know who ruined it for me? Denzel Washington and Reddit. Someone made a joke about him when the trailer released, telling the Gladiator "You are my N*" like in Training Day and it never left my head. I realy like him, but I hated him in G2
Lol wtf American Psycho has a sequel? I think it says everything about it when i never heard about it.
It's just a random crime movie with a totally different plot, that they put the American psycho title to raise sales. There isn't any returning actor in it
'The Rules of Attraction' is more of a sequel, it's about Batemans brother and the book was written by Brett Easton Ellis.
Its not as good as 'American Psycho', but way better than 'American Psycho 2'
What are the rules? 1 and 2?
Isn’t she someone who escaped Bateman and then kills him in the beginning?
Yes, but Bateman is not Christian Bale, just a faceless actor
Mila Kunis plays the main character. That goes as well as you'd imagine for a movie about a serial killer.
And William shatner is in it!
Shut up Meg!
She wasn’t even made aware that it was an American Psycho sequel until after the release
Mila Kunis is the psycho. The trailer kinda tells you everything you need to know, it sets up a pretty shitty movie.
Rules of Attraction is in the same universe. Sean Bateman is Patrick Bateman's brother. Not sure if sequel or prequel as far as timeline goes.
If I remember correctly, it was pretty fuctup, but not at all similar to AP in content
spelling line as lign is so fucking wild to me. but then aligned is spelled like that. I'm trying to wrap my brain around it.
Oh, I only ever heard that expression, never seem it written, tough it was in lign
no it's "line" as "in line" basically like a queue or a literal line
it' supossed to mean that 2 things are "in order" like they are next to each other aka in one line
granted, definition wise it could seem to come from "aligned" but it's more closely releated to smth like a queue line
Seen, thought
Looks fign to me
mild chuckle.
In unique and discrete instances like this, I’d advise that you discreetly keep them to yourself or at least exercise more discretion before sharing.
I had to redesign the sign, realign, and reassign tasks for the sovereign's campaign, or he'd arraign me for my malign, unbenign design and force me to resign.
Megamind fits right in
It has button of doom, its kind of sequel
"In lign"
That spelling of Line has GOT to be illegal.
Completely unlike The Matrix, which is a great stand-alone movie and definitely never got any sequels, let alone one more than 20 years later.
Anyone else think this whole 'shame there wasn't a sequel to x' thing to be incredibly unfunny and annoying
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Realistically only Pacific Rim has an actual sequel that was developed to be a continuation of the story from the get go. The American Psycho "sequel" is an entirely different movie that ended up getting shoehorned as a sequel via reshoots and stuff due to some executive deciding that it'll make more money that way
I didn't know American Psycho had a sequel
Ignorance is bliss as Cypher said in the movie The Matrix that also has no sequel.
Honestly I think Pacific Rim 2 is much more of a sequel than American Psycho 2.
With PR2 they at least set out to make a sequel, with AP2 they took a random movie script and just slapped the name on to it.
Like Donnie Darko then?
Wait is that what the sequel is? I've heard of it but was suspicious because Donnie Darko is such a self-contained narrative with no real space for a continuation.
Independence Day 2? Yeah that would be cool if it ever happened. To bad it never happened.
Maybe Mean Girls 2 should be here
Gotta add the second boondock saints
Both movies do have sequels, however they are both really bad compared to the original. The joke is that the sequels are being ignored in order to preserve the greatness of the original.
The sequel just made the original better showing how bad the movie could had been
Ooo, i like this take :)
Kinda like how I ignore the Disney Star Wars trilogy
the sequels are nothing like the original
Is Chris Griffin hitting that wax pen?
Dab pen is always the term I've known
"Humm technically it’s oil and not wax sooooo…" 🤓
American psycho have a sequel?
Yes, but it's about a female who wants to get into the FBI
So basically doesn't have anything to do with the first movie?
yes "The screenplay for the film, entitled The Girl Who Wouldn't Die, originally had no association with Mary Harron's American Psycho) (2000)."
I guess a new adaptation is in the works. I hope they don’t screw it up. Maybe it will be set in the 90s.
If we're lucky they'll do a shot for shot remake of the original.
And she manages to kill Patrick Bateman within like the first 10 minutes of the movie lol
It's also considered a horror/comedy
so like the original?
Not sure why you’re getting downvoted when American Psycho is a black comedy.
yeah its a intentionally hilarious movie
No no, American Psycho is a100% serious movie and Patrick Bateman is based and redpilled and a male role model
.... literally the entire point of the first movie was Patrick Bateman.... I'll swap this from my "almost certainly don't watch" mental list to my "certainly don't watch" mental list
“a female”
Yeah a woman, girl is much suited
big incel vibes
Yeah, Meg played the lead role (Mila Kunis lol)
why isn't Megamind on this list
And Joker
And The Mask
Heroes (its a series on mutants with great season 1)
I enjoyed season 2, but that's where it ended.
S4 is my favourite, I really liked Robert Knepper's character
And Starship Troopers
And Kingsman
And Jarhead
I remember watching the mask 2 but it was a kind of pirated movies box so it was dubbed in a random language and I kept trying to figure out what was going on
BRUH I was like TF he's talking about, and TIL there was in fact a Megamind sequel last year 💀
On the subject of Pacific Rim...
Has anyone else seen the awful rip off Atlantic Rim?
Watch at your eyesights peril lol
I remember a coworker who couldn't understand why I was so enthusiastic about Pacific Rim, he said it was one of the worst films he'd ever seen, which seemed odd to me because our tastes usually aligned.
Turned out he'd seen Atlantic Rim.
Man I love The Asylum and their filmography. They are true kino. Who needs Cocain Bear when you have Meth Gator? Also Ape vs Monster is peak too.
I get the feeling you'd probably enjoy Popeye the Slayer Man. New to public domain horror is exploding right now, and I'm all in for bad movies in general lol
I think when it comes to spoof movies the most entertaining ones are the ones Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer made. Stuff like Scary Movie, Meet the Spartans, The Starving Games or my favorite: Superfast!
Oh I dunno... Disaster Movie and Epic Movie were pretty awful
I have. It sucked cause for an asylum film it had pretty good cgi compared to what they normally had. To bad they made the main character an entirely unlikable alcoholic. Best scene is after the monster attacks and the one dude is just walking through a side walk of people that fell down. Like how did they die? They were stepped on. All the buildings around them are still standing.
I saw it on MST3000
just here to add Donnie Darko to the list
Oh yeah, that non-existent sequel is absolutely horrendous.
Why is Highlander not here? It has SEVERAL sequals that I refuse to acknowledge! 😡
I rewatched it a week ago and it's not that great of a film either
I'll never understand the love fans have for Lambert. He really isn't a good actor.
Christopher Lambert himself said the series goes Highlander, Highlander 3.
The Matrix, too.
the Matrix reloaded is a great expansion on the first movie. it isn't as great as the first one but it elevates it. the third one is too blockbuster-action-movie to be goat.
Resurrections however...
Resurrections is a spoof parody of the franchise though, not matrix 4
I pirated that movie and still felt ripped off at the end.
Good, that means the movie achieved exactly what it was going for.
oke, the matrix can be listed as a trilogy.
It’s performative amnesia. They are going “these are great movies and I refuse to acknowledge the sequels because the sequels were shit”.
There can be only one!
Genuinely didnt know that American Psycho had a sequel
There was a movie called, The Girl Who Wouldn't Die, starring Mila Kunis, that had nothing to do with American Psycho. Apparently, during post-production they put a scene in at the start of the movie where the 10-year old version of her character kills Patrick Bateman, and they changed the name of the movie to American Psycho II: All American Girl. That's literally the only connection it has with the first movie.
Add Donnie Darko to this list
Literaly the only way you could know that this even is a joke is if you did understand it.
Ppl on this Subreddit realy are just baiting by pretending to be stupid.
Also, The Matrix :)
The Matrix
Highlander should definitely be on this list!
I didn’t think the pacific rim sequel was that bad. Nowhere near as good as the first and what they did to Mako was unforgivable, but in isolation it’s a decent monster movie
Promised Neverland too :D
Groundhog Day
They both have sequels that tanked so they would have been a great movie on its own
I liked pacific rim 2,pecially because Charlie from it's always sunny was the main bad guy lol
Damn didn’t realise Chris started vaping
The Blues Brothers
Huge letdown watching Kickboxer 2 as a kid
Throw in 300, too!
Boondocks saints has a "sequel" that should have never been made
Highlander 2: The Shittening.
Rules of Attraction will always be considered the true sequel to American Psycho by a lot of cinephiles.
Where pacific rim 4- return of Jesus Christ
Other movies have sequels but they're so terrible the people who have watched them want to forget. I would argue that the first Pacific Rim was just okay and American Psycho (2000) works great as a dark comedy.
TIL there's American Psycho 2
American Psycho is mid at best.
I genuinely didnt even knew an American Psycho sequel was a thing lmfao
They should add trainspotting to this
Fun Fact: American Psycho 2 was originally meant to be a completely different movie called “The Girl Who Wouldn’t Die”.
I see no joke here that needs explaining. I see only facts.
American psycho and Pacific rim have two of the worst sequels ever made, so much so that the respective fandoms act like they don't exist
Add Starship Troopers. And Highlander.
They both have sequel but they both sucks
Add Highlander to the list, please.
No one mentioned Independence Day yet, they also made only one movie which is a good thing I guess
Add Transformers 3 to the list
Also kings men
both have sequels that suck major ass
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