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Good movies with bad sequels

posted 10 years ago by Shred_Master
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I've been noticing lately that franchises tend to get a lot of hate when the last thing people remember is a bad sequel. This movie, I remember when it came out. Mostly, people agreed that it was a good adaptation. I mean let's face it, this movie is the reason why videogame moves are so popular. Then the sequel came out and my God, what were they thinking? That shouldn't however detract from the quality of the previous film.

Another example of this is with the Spiderman films. Spiderman 1 and 2 are still heralded as classics. However, because Spiderman 3 was so terrible and the reboot is nothing spectacular, people are all of a sudden getting on the let's hate the first 2 as well bandwagon. What is up with this?

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[–] Thenewnexus 10 years ago

I actually thought the sequel was ok

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[–] Torni3945 9 years ago

I think what killed the sequel for this movie was most of the main cast didn't return for the sequel and they killed off Johnny Cage at the beginning of the movie.

[–] Shred_Master 9 years ago

Haha yeah well when they couldn't get Linden Ashby, Bridgette Wilson and Christopher Lambert to reprise their roles, especially when the movie basically reignited their careers, that should've been the first clue it was going to be really bad.

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[–] Torni3945 9 years ago

If it wasn't for this movie I don't think I would know who Christopher Lambert is. I think I only seen him in Mortal Kombat, Highlander movies, and Ghost Rider. I'm sure he is a fine actor, but I'm one of those movie goers he has to be in a genre I'm gonna see and like the movie.

[–] sedativchunk 9 years ago

I liked the sequel because I was a fan of Mortal Kombat, but from a general audience and box office standpoint, the sequel didn't sit well for a lot of people or the movie studio. If it had a better script, kept Linden Ashby and Lambert, I think it would have been OK.

[–] windquake 8 years ago

Lambert wasn't in Ghost Rider. :)

Who were you thinking he played?

I hate IMDB's Signature policy...

[–] Shred_Master 8 years ago

Not the first one but he was in the sequel, Spirit of Vengeance.

I was being patient but it took too long.

[–] destroyaaahhh 9 years ago

I don't fully agree, people still like Jurassic Park even if the sequel was mediocre and the third one was atrocious. Same for Robocop, Jaws and many other examples.

This one is different : I saw it in '95, I was 13 and HATED IT and still do to this day.

WHERE IS THE BLOOD AND WHERE ARE THE FATALITIES ???

I will not let it go until I have my answers !!!! 20 YEARS DAMN YOU ALL !!!!!

Nah just kidding, it kinda grew on me after I saw the other video-game movies that came after: this one is by far the BEST video-game adaptation ever.

I still don't like it much but I have to give it credit for getting the characters right and letting Napalm Death have a song on a movie soundtrack ^^

[–] ResidentEvil1 9 years ago

Mortal Kombat mostly attracted teenagers, and being that, they had to make a PG-13 rated movie. If they used blood, gore and brutal fatalities, it would be an R rated movie.

Anyway. I didn't mind Annihilation. My only beefs are that they killed Johnny Cage (my chosen fighter in the games) too early. Not cool. And I thought they too much cheap special effects they tried to make look believable and it didn't work out.

I did however like the soundtracks of both movie, especially KMFDM. I iPod most of those songs including in-movie soundtrack, and listen to it when I workout at the health club. Some in-movie songs like when Liu Kang fights Shang Tsung or Kahn with the fighting sound effects, that is when I punch and kick the punching bag acting as if I'm in a Mortal Kombat fight. It's fun.

[–] IrinaOma 9 years ago

What are your favorite mk video games? Just curious

By the way, I adore Johnny Cage - my favorite mk fighter but my most chosen fighter in the games is Mileena

[–] Dr_Julius_Strangepork 8 years ago

Ghostbusters 2, Caddyshack 2, Major League 2. All horrendous, vastly inferior sequels, but none of them diminish the originals.

[–] IMDB_Vits 8 years ago

SPIDER-MAN 1 & 2: 9/10
SPIDER-MAN 3: 7/10
MORTAL KOMBAT 1: 4/10
MORTAL KOMBAT 2: 1/10

[–] simbob4000 8 years ago

Bad movie with worse sequel.

I don't think much of anyone agree it was a good adaptation. It was more like: Well, I guess that's as close as they can get with a PG-13...but doesn't it still suck that they aren't really using their special supernatural attacks.

This movie also isn't why video game movies are so popular, they aren't even some popular thing to begin with. If they could be called popular, and they can't, it would be because of the games they're based off of already being incredibly popular.

[–] Shred_Master 8 years ago

Well it wasn't a great adaptation but it was passable. It would have been too much of a risk to make the movie R rated, particularly since video game movies were kind of new territory. Now we have stuff like Resident Evil and they've been trying to make an R rated MK that they can never seem to get off the ground. I guess that's what I was getting at, because of the success of this movie, video game movies are a lot more common than they might have been.

I was being patient but it took too long.