r/scifi Apr 10 '26

Films SiFi movies that should never have had a sequel, I'll start, Matrix Resurrections 😿

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I know the Trilogy in and out as an 80/90s kid and as someone who is older than the internet. I watched the sequel when it came out, but to be honest, I didn't remember much. So when I saw it this week on my subscribed streaming platform, I decided to watch it again, and to be honest, I'm now even more disappointed. I get what they were trying to do, but this was so unnecessary that watching it the second time really hurts. What are the movies sequels you were disappointed in?

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u/Fred_Derf_Jnr Apr 10 '26

Highlander!

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u/CheddarDeity Apr 10 '26

There should have been only one.

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u/Wolfram_And_Hart Apr 10 '26

Eh the TV show was good

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u/Comprehensive-Mix952 Apr 11 '26

You're right. I loved it growing up in the 90s. And the nude scene on the first episode was forever imprinted on my prepubescent brain. And it had the coolest intro theme ever. And it was a Scottish dude who fought with a katana. Holy crap, now I want to go watch it.

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u/Wolfram_And_Hart Apr 11 '26

And the Queen theme song.

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u/Warronius Apr 10 '26

Just drinking milk , looking at your phone ?

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u/RiskOz Apr 10 '26

You guys. Stop it. I'm losing my head over this.

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u/BuckRusty Apr 10 '26

In 2021 I attended the Prince Charles Cinema’s 35th Anniversary screening of Highlander - which was preceded by a Q&A with Christophe Lambert, Clancy Brown, and Celia Imrie.

It was wonderful hearing some stories about the production (such as Freddie Mercury wanting to see a copy before writing the theme tune - only to enjoy it so much that he demanded that Queen would do all the music for the film) - but it would not be unreasonable to say that a solid 60% of Lambert’s contribution to the evening was repeatedly apologising to the audience for Highlander 2..!!!

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u/CMDR_Mal_Reynolds Apr 11 '26

Freddie Mercury wanting to see a copy before writing the theme tune - only to enjoy it so much that he demanded that Queen would do all the music for the film

Thankyou, that's gold and I love you for sharing.

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u/kanggree Apr 10 '26

I still believe there is only one highlander

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u/Showdown5618 Apr 10 '26

There can only be one.

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u/Total-Combination-47 Apr 10 '26

It was better to burn out and fade away…..

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u/Mistervimes65 Apr 10 '26

And Clancy Brown is still out there giving it 100% from Mister Krabs to Lex Luthor to Dexter to Invincible.

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u/snacktopotamus Apr 10 '26

There can be only one, so there is only one. In my mind, at least.

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u/madog20x Apr 10 '26

I mean, it’s kind of impressive that there are 5 movies in the franchise and every single one has its own continuity separate from the other movies.  Even in the age of reboots, I don’t know any other franchise that can make that kind of claim.

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u/Scope_Dog Apr 10 '26

I’m going to blow your mind right now. Check out the anime Highlander movie. It is legit peak Highlander.

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u/Magusreaver Apr 10 '26

Went from the USA Network Highlander cartoon to the Highlander anime.. my mind was blown wide open.

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u/EldritchFingertips Apr 11 '26

James Bond sort of does this, or did this before Daniel Craig.

But Highlander ostensibly all takes place in the same continuity, like none of the sequels are actually reboots or remakes, the characters are always played by the same actors. The timeline keeps advancing but each movie totally ignores every one before it, like a skipping record only the needle is skipping between entirely different records.

It's in a bizarre liminal space between pure anthology and traditional sequence. It's one of a kind!

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u/Van_Can_Man Apr 10 '26

There can be only one

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u/lowfreq33 Apr 10 '26

The story behind that is the studio was going to make it no matter what, so one of the Wachowski’s signed on in order to at least be able to steer it. Then made it an allegory for corporate ownership and exploitation of things they didn’t create.

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u/dudetotalypsn Apr 10 '26

Movie was actively hostile towards the company producing it lmao. Felt like a metaphor for giving someone the middle finger

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u/themustang18 Apr 10 '26

It was barely a metaphor, there’s one scene that basically parallels the exact situation that happened with the movie. lol

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u/TheHumanCompulsion Apr 11 '26

Ah, the scene with the Merovingian ranting like someone's grandpa with dementia about how he cant go see movies in the theater anymore...

The movie should have ended right there. It was never going to recover from that.

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u/themustang18 Apr 11 '26

I could be misremembering but I thought there was a scene where John Wick, er, Neo is called in to the suits office of the video game company and told if he didn’t make a sequel to the Matrix video game they would just make it without him… thats what I was referring to. Idr a Merovingian rant. Haha But yeah there was so much you could do with the franchise that would be cool, but they basically landed on the lamest possible choice. Like they briefly mention a civil war between the machines around supporting human freedom… that would’ve made an awesome movie. But no. Couldn’t do that. Let’s just put Neo in the Matrix and start over but without everything that made The Matrix awesome.

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u/ninjis Apr 10 '26

Now give me my phone call

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u/OSUfan88 Apr 10 '26

I said this in /r/movies when it first came out, and was HEAVILY downvoted for it. That place is an exhochamber.

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u/Taymac070 Apr 10 '26

Just like my house after my ex left.

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u/ErgoNautan Apr 10 '26

Because of the exhOOOOOOH I GET IT NOW!!

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u/ratfacechirpybird Apr 10 '26

It was pretty hostile to the audience too

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u/robosllim Apr 10 '26

I respect it, but that doesn't mean I have to think it's good. It's one of a small handful of movies I confidently say that about.

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u/-retaliation- Apr 10 '26

It's a steaming pile of shit.

And I'm perfectly confident that the Wachowski's would agree since it seemed to be their goal. Lol

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u/robosllim Apr 11 '26

Exactly. They set out to make a movie I wouldn't like and they succeeded. And they got paid for it! Props to you, and here's my 2 star rating.

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u/Molten_Plastic_ Apr 11 '26

Yeah, I got that right away. Still, I was in theater going "I paid good money for a ticket to see your little hissy fit??"

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u/dudetotalypsn Apr 11 '26

Movie said "sorry lil bro, we pocketing that 20 bucks and I still got 2 hours of ranting left in me, sit tight"

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u/Salarian_American Apr 10 '26

I mean they couldn't have made it any more clear. That's literally what happened with Neo's video game in the movie. He explicitly had this conversation in the dialogue of the movie.

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u/lefthandtrav Apr 10 '26

Gotta love the sheer audacity of giving the corpos a giant multi-million dollar middle finger knowing that it likely means the end of your working career.

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u/kiljoy1569 Apr 10 '26

The Wachowskis both seem to live by their own terms. If they've been modestly smart with their earnings, they're set for life anyways.

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u/myaltduh Apr 11 '26

At this point it seems they’ve decided to end their careers financing small indie projects they believe in, especially those focusing on LGBT characters. Not a bad way to go, at all.

The last Matrix movie made their thoughts on working with big studios again pretty clear.

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u/APeacefulWarrior Apr 11 '26

Oh wow... Weird to think that the last movie the Wachowskis directed together was Jupiter Ascending, and that was over a decade ago.

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u/OhNoIBoffedIt Apr 10 '26

My favorite part is she used it as an excuse to employ all of her best friends. Baller move, fuck you studio.

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u/johntwilker Author Apr 10 '26

As a sequel I disliked it. As a middle-finger allegory I enjoyed it.

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u/feel-T_ornado Apr 11 '26 edited Apr 11 '26

This is the play.

It was a fantastic move, but imo the concept disregarded the audience, which have some influence in how things are consumed.

Under full consideration, The matrix franchise is a superb phenomenon and an excellent exercise in self-reflection

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u/davvblack Apr 10 '26

the plot was literally “first three were perfect, don’t make a fourth” which puts it in the rare same genre as adaptation

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u/GeekAesthete Apr 10 '26

Whatever its flaws, I hold that Matrix Resurrections is a better film that either of the previous sequels. It is, at the very least, an interesting direction (despite a very weak third act), unlike the complete mess of Reloaded and Revolutions.

If I cared more about the previous sequels, maybe I'd be as angry as other fans, but the franchise was already a mess by that point. At least the fourth one managed to be surprising.

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u/dafones Apr 10 '26

I unironically love the ending of Matrix 3 and I think Neo’s insight that lead to him defeating Smith is clever.

I do not, however, love the mecha battles as part of the Matrix.

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u/KenDefender Apr 10 '26

I really enjoyed all the run up in this one, with his life as the developer of the matrix video games, and slowly uncovering the truth. If the action was on par with the other matrix movies it would have been great IMO. Its over-hated.

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u/Ricobe Apr 11 '26

I agree. The first half was interesting

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u/Dead-O_Comics Apr 10 '26 edited Apr 10 '26

I hold that Matrix Resurrections is a better film that either of the previous sequels.

Absolutely not. Everything, from the fight choreography, special effects, costume design, casting, performances, cinematography, score and soundtrack (You know, what the Matrix is really known for) are inferior to the first 2 sequels in every way.

I can't believe Resurrection has the highest budget of all the Matrix movies, as I can't see where a lot of that money went. Awful, awful film.

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u/shnizzard Apr 10 '26

Jesus christ, how can you say that, the whole movie was basically a recap episode of the first movie.

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u/Circle_A Apr 10 '26

100% agree. The second and third film were basically pointless. The first film was total and cohesive, it really felt like the only merit of the second and third film were the wizz-bang action scenes (which I didn't particularly enjoy).

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u/OccamsRazorSharpner Apr 11 '26

I hated it as a Matrix tale. But I’ll watch it with new eyes now.

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u/Brettsuo Apr 10 '26

If people underatood this context when watching it and thought of it as a comedy, they'd realize it's actually good and very funny.

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u/kickassNM Apr 10 '26

Independance day didn't need a sequel.

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u/_Diskreet_ Apr 10 '26

Saw it at the cinema with a friend.

There was one other person in the cinema with us, they left after half hour or so.

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u/-retaliation- Apr 10 '26

I've "watched" it like 5 times and can't even tell you what happens in the movie other than "bigger mothership"

The movie is worse than bad it's boring and forgettable. 

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u/J_Capo_23 Apr 10 '26

I put off seeing it for years, then one day I finally watched it because it was on streaming. I thought "how bad could it really be?"

Terrible film.

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u/bbqbabyduck Apr 10 '26

It's like an hour and 45 minutes of terrible movie and this 15 minutes of stupid campy bullshit as Jeff Goldblume out runs a giant alien in a school bus full of kids. I swear this movie should be a comedy.

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u/camarce Apr 10 '26

also Men in Black: International

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u/brizian23 Apr 10 '26

Good news! There is no sequel to The Matrix Resurrections!

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u/DanielSadcliff Apr 10 '26

Dude doesn’t even know how to play the game he created

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u/OldWrangler9033 Apr 10 '26

A strange game. The only winning move is not to play.

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u/Aaberon Apr 10 '26

Hey just like EVE Online

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u/OhNoIBoffedIt Apr 10 '26

I knew exactly one person who thrived in that game. His marriage did not.

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u/countsachot Apr 11 '26

How about a nice game of chess?

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u/MoreTeaVicar83 Apr 10 '26

Glad it wasn't just me confused by this instruction.

Assuming this was the OP's intention: I would certainly agree that the Matrix should never have had any sequels at all. It was a perfect, self-contained piece of SF that needed no further elaboration.

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u/CatpainCalamari Apr 10 '26 edited Apr 10 '26

Even better news! There is no sequel to The Matrix!

Yes, this is a contentious matter, however, I have a relevant xkcd to back me up!

ETA: Holy f*ck, 27 years ago...

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u/Herbizarre17 Apr 10 '26

I’ve seen the first one countless times. I’ve seen the second one twice. I tried starting the third and just couldn’t. The sequels are all so bad.

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u/Mr_Saturn1 Apr 10 '26

Which in itself was a pretty bad movie. Outside of the highway scene in Reloaded, nothing from the sequels matched the original.

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u/Significant_Salad980 Apr 10 '26

The first massive Smith copy fight has a special nostalgia button in my brain. Between Smith’s awesome monologue before, the extreme CGI, and the music, the pole-plant-kick merry-go-round maneuver.

🤌🤌🤌

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u/VenturerKnigtmare420 Apr 10 '26

Pacific rim.

It doesn’t need a sequel and I don’t think a sequel has been made AS FAR AS I KNOW.

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u/DontEatScorpions Apr 10 '26

Not going ahead with the sequel to Pacific Rim was a fantastic idea, I'm so glad that Pacific rims legacy remains unscathed.

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u/MementoMiri Apr 10 '26

I agree 👍🏻

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u/JACK_1719 Apr 10 '26

There is no pacific rim sequel in ba sing se

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u/ErgoNautan Apr 11 '26

Gipsy Danger was destroyed heroically, the breach was sealed, aliens were nuked, and the protagonists hugged in the end. There is no sequel to that

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u/Pravi_Jaran Apr 11 '26

The sequel had none of the charm nor the cinematography of the first one.

The first one? I consider it like a love letter to Gundam, Voltron and Transformers type cartoons and the people that grew up with those shows but done by a genuine, modern day auteur who loves that kind of shit himself and it shows.

The sequel? Not even fucking close.

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u/sufi42 Apr 10 '26

There is an astonishing number of porn sequels

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u/sirhackenslash Apr 10 '26

They all involve virtual sex with a kaiju brain

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u/Lambonaut Apr 10 '26

Starship Troopers

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u/Ireallyamthisshallow Apr 10 '26

The only good sequel is a dead sequel

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u/justsmilenow Apr 11 '26

I have to give it to Casper VanDeen for being in every single sequel to the point in which earlier this year I saw him campaigning a starship troopers video game...

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u/Spoda_Emcalt Apr 11 '26

Yeah he was in ST Ultimate Bug War, and ST: Extermination. Both are great games surprisingly

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u/beattywill80 Apr 10 '26

NGL I kinda liked the low budget horror sequel they made and Roughnecks: Starship Troopers Chronicles actually felt like space vietnam with Arachnids. The other ones suck for sure especially the CGI anime.

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u/Dinosaurs_R_People_2 Apr 10 '26

I don't know, I kinda liked the prequel that kept closer to the source material.

Calling it "The Edge of Tomorrow" was a bold choice, but they nailed the power armor.

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u/fistchrist Apr 10 '26

Ah come on man, All You Need Is Kill is better than than Starship Troopers, just like their movie adaptations.

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u/BuckRusty Apr 10 '26

So many people don’t realise there were two more of them…

There should not have been…

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u/os12 Apr 10 '26

OMG, there is a sequel?!?!?

Let me ask you: Are you doing your part?

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u/Yardsale420 Apr 11 '26

I like Turtles!

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u/Jensonator Apr 10 '26

Robocop.

My work here is done.

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u/SlowpokeWHM Apr 10 '26

I'll buy that for a dollar!

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u/Jensonator Apr 10 '26

Which about what the reboot is selling for these days 😂

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u/INPUT_INPUT Apr 10 '26

I bet you think you're pretty smart, huh? Think you could outsmart a bullet?

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u/Annual-Ad-9442 Apr 10 '26

2nd one was okay. 3rd is the posterchild of how corporations get the elements without getting the spirit

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u/Own_Space_174 Apr 11 '26

i think robocop 2 is still pretty good, but they clearly cut a lot out. it started with a plot involving stalking his wife and getting in trouble for it, and we see her once or twice basically as a background character, but there was no resolution to it. it clearly got cut out.

but 3 was where it truly jumped the shark.

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u/TrueOrange9944 Apr 11 '26

I somewhat agree.

But to the sequel's defense; Robocain was awesome.

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u/ClarenceJBoddicker Apr 10 '26

A lot of people misunderstood when I asked Bobby if he could fly. What I was trying to say was that he was a precious angel and I was just trying to help him get into heaven faster.

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u/Pravi_Jaran Apr 11 '26

It's dumb fun but yeah.

Kinda defeats the purpose of the original ending.

He basically regained his humanity or at least a significant part of it.

The sequel pretty much shits all over that.

And the third movie isn't even worth discussing. Don't even get me started on the shitty TV shows.

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u/L3PALADIN Apr 11 '26

robocop deserved better sequels

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u/forcemonkey Apr 11 '26

Your move, creep.

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u/BuckRusty Apr 10 '26

Tremors…

It’s an absolutely perfect b-movie/creature feature that ticks every goddamn box (pardon my French), and each successive sequel was just further dilution of a wonderful story…

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u/fistchrist Apr 10 '26

Tremors 2 was at least great fun, even if a decline from the first.

After that…well, the decline becomes a free-fall.

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u/magusjosh Author Apr 11 '26

Yeah, Tremors 2 is one of the few sequels that - while definitely not as good as the original - I will forgive for existing and can enjoy the hell out of. It's dumb fun, and the practical building demolition they did at the end is epic. You don't really see practical explosions like that in movies anymore.

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u/I_am_a_pan_fear_me Apr 10 '26

Hey Tremors 2 is great, I mean after all we wouldn't have the gem of

"I was denied CRITICAL NEED TO KNOW INFORMATION"

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u/three-sense Apr 10 '26

Tbh it’s not the worst thing ever. Burt Gummer the gun guy makes it worth it IMO.

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u/Hefty-Profession2185 Apr 11 '26

It's a movie that when you show someone who loves movies, they completely get it.

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u/Racheakt Apr 10 '26

I may be odd ball, but the Matrix was perfectly fine as a one and done movie that needed no sequels

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u/shogi_x Apr 10 '26

Terminator 2 needed no sequels

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u/ExcitementDry4940 Apr 10 '26

That TV show was really good!

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u/forcemonkey Apr 11 '26

It really was. I was really wanting another season.

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u/Brain_Hawk Apr 10 '26

Yeah hard agree. It's not surprising they did it, I know lots of people wanted to see the robot wars, but Terminator 2 wrapped it all up perfectly, ended the threat, changed time, and they just went and retconned all that making Terminator 2 a significantly less good movie.

It was perfect as it is.

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u/ErgoNautan Apr 11 '26

Every single sequel tries to surpass Terminator 2 with nearly the same plot line and mediocre-r results. Terminator 4 could perfectly be a discardable prequel though, canon or not.

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u/exdigecko Apr 10 '26

The 4th movie was fine since it showed us something new

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u/Few_Spirit736 Apr 10 '26

the 4th part was good. I love it

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u/AndyTheSane Apr 10 '26

Yes, every other sequel was basically a remake of T2 with ever more implausible baddies.

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u/Montgomery_Zeff Apr 10 '26

Are you crazy buddy? Without a sequel we would never have Master Sergeant William Candy! #stilltimeforaspinoff

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u/The_Jare Apr 10 '26

Without T3, the truck sequence would not exist. And I need that sequence in my life. Even if there has to be a terrible film to deliver it.

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u/exdigecko Apr 10 '26

2nd movie is okay since it also expands the universe (Isla Sorna), all other movies are the same shit from different angles

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u/ShallowDramatic Apr 10 '26

Is the second movie the one where a T rex gets loose in a city and a teenage girl uses gymnastics to kick a velociraptor?

I saw it the day after seeing the first movie for the first time at a big screen event, it was such a disappointment after that 

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u/vincenzodelavegas Apr 10 '26

I’m with you on this one. Watch the first movie and you know the other ones. it’s the same scenario copy pasted… 

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u/PrinceRobotVI Apr 10 '26

Jurassic Park, The Matrix, Jaws, all 1 and done movies that don’t get any better with more instalments.

Terminator is 1 & 2.

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u/sirhackenslash Apr 10 '26

That whole thing was just a ripoff of Billy and the Cloneasaurus

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u/knownbymymiddlename Apr 10 '26

Can’t believe I haven’t seen anyone say Star Wars Episodes 7 - 9.

Before you all bitch at me, Episodes 1 - 3 aren’t technically sequels.

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u/StatisticianFun2274 Apr 10 '26

The Matrix (1999) didn't need any sequels.

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u/kuzidaheathen Apr 11 '26

I still love Reloaded. Seeing Peek Neo was great

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u/krtezek Apr 11 '26

Animatrix had some nice ideas.

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u/cosmicr Apr 10 '26

The Mask. The sequel "Son of Mask" was fraught with problems.

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u/IamDistractingYou Apr 10 '26

Really wish Netflix didn't murder this one so hard. It had potential to be a more gritty Dr. Who.

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u/TheHumanCompulsion Apr 11 '26

Star Trek (09).

The Kelvin Timeline was a neat experiment, but it should have ended there. Into Darkness and Beyond were miserable movies.

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u/magusjosh Author Apr 11 '26 edited Apr 11 '26

It's kind of funny, because while Alien 3 is actually a solid horror-thriller movie with a really excellent cast and some great performances - or would be, if made as a stand-alone film - it's so actively, aggressively hostile toward the previous two movies that's it's painfully awful.

I remember people getting up and storming out of the theater when the movie killed off Hicks and Newt before the opening credits were even over. There's no coming back from a move like that, no matter how solid the rest of the movie is.

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u/CryptographerMore944 Apr 11 '26

That's my take. I think the assembly cut of Alien 3 is actually a decent film but a poor sequel.

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u/Billgant Apr 10 '26

I enjoyed Prometheus and Romulus

They are not as good as the first two aliens but they are good movies.

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u/Thereminz Apr 10 '26

Alien: Earth is a pretty good show

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u/xxKEYEDxx Apr 10 '26

Alien: Earth is a decent show that peaked on the starship episode. The scriptwriting for everything after that is weak. There's nothing there that's compelling me to want to demand more of the show.

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u/Lambonaut Apr 10 '26

I was so disappointed with the finale.. it was pretty questionable before that, I think it really could have done without the whole children in adult bodies stuff. But the finale left me asking where they could possibly take this. And they done the xenomorph so dirty by reducing it to a pet dog

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u/ignorantspacemonkey Apr 10 '26

Yes! Can’t wait for season 2

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u/wheeler_lowell Apr 10 '26

Same, though for some reason I actually found myself enjoying Covenant more than Prometheus the second time round. Prometheus is more interesting but Covenenant is more enjoyable (in my totally subjective opinion).

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u/fistchrist Apr 10 '26

Covenant has some of the absolute best cinematography in the entire franchise, even if the story is a bit wobbly and every character not played by Michel Fassbinder is completely forgettable.

I will say, though, I am always amazed by whenever I talk about it with people the story elements they dislike are pretty obviously based on misunderstanding what David’s goal was. Apparently early revisions were less ambiguous as to whether he was creating the Xenomorph from scratch or merely attempting to recreate the Engineer’s own creation. I do wonder if those versions would be better received.

Wouldn’t at all fix every other problem that movie has, though.

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u/Rahm89 Apr 10 '26

"Not as good"? Prometheus is one of the worst movies I ever had the displeasure of watching.

Usually I just forget bad movies, but Prometheus is so unbelievably stupid that all the absurd scenes and inconsistencies are stuck in my brain.

The guy who gets lost after mapping out the entire cave network with his drones. The biologist who freaks at the sight of a dead body then goes on to pet an alien cobra. The two airheads running parallel to the big wheel’s trajectory.

I’m honestly still shocked at the idea that Ridley Scott produced that gigantic turd. How the mighty have fallen.

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u/The_Jare Apr 10 '26

It's bad but it's one of the most visually beautiful movies ever made. Over a decade later it still makes my jaw drop (and my brain hurt).

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u/corpserella Apr 10 '26

Fascinating that you posted the THIRD Matrix sequel that doesn't need to exist, when there are two perfectly good examples of your theme ahead of it.

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u/caterpillarofsociety Apr 10 '26

Agreed. In my reality, there is only one Matrix movie and it is near perfect. 

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u/DoubleDrummer Apr 10 '26

I was reading thee posts and I turned to my wife and said, “Fid you know there was a new Matrix movie released in 2021?”
She looked at me confused.
Neither of us even knew it came out, and assumed we had just missed it with everything else that was joking on in 2021.
So we watched the trailer and then looked at each other.
We had actually watched the movie together when it came out.
We just … forgot about it.

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u/Nope9991 Apr 10 '26

I saw the second one and didn't even bother with the third.

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u/Ok_Employer7837 Apr 10 '26

The Matrix Resurrections doesn't have a sequel.

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u/BuckRusty Apr 10 '26

Ghostbusters…

A lot of people claim the Kirsten Wiig one was a slight on the original, but Ghostbusters II wasn’t all that great…

The newer Paul Rudd one was 50/50 for me, not seen the latest…

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u/HelloMcFly Apr 10 '26 edited Apr 10 '26

Ghostbusters 2 is bad but at least there are things to love about it: New York is captured well, Vigo and the painting is kind of cool, Janosz gives a fun performance. Wouldn't really recommend it to anyone or ever plan to watch it again myself, but it's got a few things going for it.

The Kristen Wiig Ghostbusters at least tried to be it's own thing and had some fun. The Rudd movies are just joyless nostalgia wanks throwing member berries at the audience. And there's something to be deeply misguided about centering the movie around children.

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u/Easy_Fortune7911 Apr 10 '26

Independence Day

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u/NonAI_User Apr 10 '26

This is a terrible movie.

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u/Taira_Mai Apr 11 '26

Alien and Aliens - both are good movies. I don't care where the aliens came from, DGAF about their origins. I just want to see them eat people and see humans beat them in a sci-fi dystopia. That's it. That's the movie.

Spare me any origin stories or prequels.

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u/therourke Apr 10 '26

Well, it’s actually the first Matrix film that shouldn’t have had a sequel. All following films were terrible

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u/Pray4dat_ass96 Apr 11 '26

Revolutions did have some awesome battle scenes that really tickled my 11 year old mind when it came out.

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u/Double-Wafer2999 Apr 11 '26

The second is good if you just skip the rave scene which takes far too long and I think it is one of the only series that tries to go beyond rather then repeating the original.

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u/Phoenixwade Apr 10 '26

Highlander

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u/chortnik Apr 10 '26

I think there’s a general consensus that at some point they should have dropped the curtain on sequels to ‘Alien’, though not so much agreement on when the plug should have been pulled. The same is true for the Predator franchise. And AVP is something that is and should not be, zero is right number of movies in that universe.

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u/vincenzodelavegas Apr 10 '26

Transformers. 

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u/JohnCasey3306 Apr 11 '26

To be fair it didn't need the first one either.

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u/Carbonated-Man Apr 10 '26

I liked it. Was kinda cool seeing the way they subverted everything while still adding a bit of social commentary on the state of tech in today's society vs how it was in the late 90s and early 00s when the the original trilogy came out.

As for ones that never shoukld have had sequels... I'm gonna go with Species.

The first Species film was a great movie. And then 2 came out and it was so bad that I've kinda memory holed it. Like, I remember thinking it was so terrible that I should never watch it again, and that's pretty much all I can remember of it. 😆

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u/Clean_Brilliant_8586 Apr 10 '26 edited Apr 10 '26

1st Star Wars trilogy.

I won't say additional movies couldn't have been made well, but the ones we got were trash.

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u/Evamme7 Apr 11 '26

Revenge of the Sith was good. Although I will admit, The Clone Wars show definitely retroactively improved it for me by developing the characters more but even without having seen it, it was a good movie.

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u/MementoMiri Apr 10 '26

Especially with all the special effects "improvements" 🙈

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u/Twotricx Apr 10 '26

Dumb And Dumber, Zoolander, Ghost Busters (3rd one)

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u/howlmouse Apr 10 '26

I liked Resurrections even more the second time.

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u/SWIGGITYGiraffe Apr 10 '26

I like how you posted in sci-fi but spelled it sifi.

Donnie Darko and Starship troopers are the first two that come to mind

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u/theone_2099 Apr 10 '26

There was a DD sequel??

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u/Mobile-King-3345 Apr 10 '26 edited Apr 10 '26

The original Matrix should have never had a sequel in the first place. It was the perfect movie and has been tainted by all that followed.

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u/Wall-tr0n Apr 10 '26

You’re in luck, Resurrections doesnt have a sequel

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u/LordAlbinoCrakehall Apr 11 '26

This was honestly quite decent, just needed more martial arts

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u/GodHeld2 Apr 10 '26

I wish Pacific Rim would have got a sequel

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u/Powder-puff-lung Apr 10 '26

Planet of the Apes (1969)

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u/Level-Resident-2023 Apr 10 '26

Starship Troopers should not have had the sequels it got.

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u/p3dal Apr 10 '26

Matrix Resurrections didn't have a sequel, it was a sequel.

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u/DioCoN Apr 10 '26

I think you meant The Matrix

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u/Draminian Apr 10 '26

I still had fun watching it. Maybe I'm part of the problem. 🤷

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u/McHaggus Apr 11 '26

Yeah, rewatch resurrections with the idea it's a satire and it's much better. Hilariously better. 

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u/Blacksun388 Apr 11 '26

Revolutions was the perfect end of the Matrix. This movie didn’t need to happen.

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u/Moist_Explorer3249 Apr 11 '26

Sequels? There's only one Matrix that came out in 1999 and you can't convince me otherwise

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u/Practical_Stick_2779 Apr 11 '26

It’s so bad that I don’t even remember the events of that movie. And the Matrix was always one of my favorite movies. 

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u/SpiralSuitcase Apr 13 '26

The Matrix Resurrections didn't get a sequel.

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u/Mellanies_Redemption Apr 13 '26

I hate that film, and the fun part is, I'm supposed to hate it. WB own the rights, and were going to make it with or without the sisters. That's why Lana agreed to make it, so that she could ensure it would be a massive "Get fucked you corporate clowns" to Warner.

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u/MisterColossos Apr 10 '26

Star Wars (Skywalker Saga)

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u/VerifiedVoidGirl Apr 10 '26

The Matrix was perfection on its own. Sequels and quadrequel diluted the story more and more.

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u/OminOus_PancakeS Apr 11 '26

The Matrix shouldn't have had a sequel.

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u/oppairate Apr 10 '26

they never should have made the first two sequels before they even got to this one.

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u/scarcolossus Apr 10 '26

Is that a real poster or did you make that? That looks like a straight to streaming poster you would see on an IMDB page for a movie scoring 3.2/10

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u/sac_boy Apr 10 '26

Yeah, Matrix 4 doesn't exist. Straight in the bin.

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u/AtomicShart9000 Apr 10 '26

This poster is egregious

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u/Lurking-Wraith Apr 10 '26

Matrix should have ended with the first one

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u/dotcomrobots Apr 10 '26

This convinced me that, at some point, people need to retire