I think the worst sequels are the ones that undercut somehow elements of the original. Highlander 2, with its space-alien bullshit. Lethal Weapon 2 had perfectly evil villains, but no, they had to have been responsible for the death of Mel Gibson’s character’s wife prior to the first film, too, swapping a legit accident/trauma for the character for another dumb revenge plot.
And I guess Rise of Skywalker is low-hanging fruit here, but I can’t be bothered wasting energy on it anymore.
I liked that aspect of Lethal Weapon 2 and I don't think it necessarily undercut the original, i'm with Moviebob on Rise of Skywalker in that I think it's perfectly fine.
I'm going to sound like a big Millennial here, but "The Dark Knight Rises" disappointed me in a big way. I remember when "Batman Begins" came out, after the hiatus for the character, it felt more than fresh. It felt mythic and modern. Then when "The Dark Knight" came out...whoa. I don't think many expected it to be as good as it was, I certainly didn't. I was hooked to this world. I wanted Nolan to make 9 movies. When it was announced that Nolan would make a third film, I began declaring that his trilogy would be one of the best trilogies ever produced
Then "The Dark Knight Rises" actually came out...
I think the script is really messy. I think it's a weird story. I like Tom Hardy in the movie, but he has a really weird scheme in the film. A decade later, I think the third film has aged the least well. I think "Batman Begins" and "The Dark Knight" flow well but "Rises" just feels clunky and sloppy. I will not act like I know Nolan, but it just didn't look like his heart was in it.
It was crushing to me based upon how strongly I responded to his first two films.
I thought Rises was perfectly fine, but definitely had some pacing issues(that scene with Batman in that prison seemed to drag on forever) and some clunky scenes(WTF was Nolan going for with that "Star Spangled Banner" scene?)
[EMBARGOED UNTIL MONDAY]...yes!!!! Can't wait till I see your review on this...by far one of my most anticipated of 2021 along with Halloween Kills and Dune.
Most disappointing sequel has to be Highlander 2. Just a total misstep from conception to execution. Actually I can’t remember if it was a poorly made film, since I’ve refused to watch it since seeing it in the theatre, but the whole idea of explaining a unexplainable supernatural phenomenon as a sci-fi concept totally missed the point. It’s there in the soundtrack album, he says it in the film, it’s a kind of magic, not some alien b.s..
i'd definitely recommend watching the Renegade cut of that film as it fixes a lot of the issues the original release had.
For me the most disappointing sequel was Howling New Moon Rising, the other sequels were fun(even part 2) but this film was just boring and filled with terrible country music and very little Werewolf action.
The most disappointing sequel? It isn’t one film but 3. And that’s the Star Wars sequel trilogy. Yikes. I mean...wow. Here’s the biggest “gimmie” in film history and they just struck out. Some great characters and decent ideas but a nothing story. It hurts sometimes to think about.
I love the prequels and I remember the hype. But the story everyone wanted was to see the story of Luke, Han & Leia continue. We got a sequel trilogy and Luke is a supporting character in just 1 of the 3 movies. 1. Han got more screen time than Luke.
Man. It goes the heart good to see “Ghostbusters 2” in bold. I seriously think that movie, as imperfect as it is, is one the most underrated comedy sequels of all time. If they had nailed the climax? It would be more well regarded film and I’m glad it’s stock has gone up bit by bit over the years. Ghostbusters 2 is hilarious. Peter Venkman holding a public access television show about the paranormal? *chefs kiss*. Peter Macnicol(spelling?) is soooo good as Janosz. And Vigo, underused though he may be, is one helluva a villian. He’s creepy. Super creepy.
You know what I love about those movies? The characters. I could watch those guys hang around & investigate cases all day. Honestly the stuff with the proton packs is cool, but I just LOVE that Ray & Egon live at the fire house and have no lives outside of that. Watching them talk about what they want for dinner? I love that shit. Love it. Love seeing Ray’s Occult store. I’m glad the sequel wasn’t all Ghostbusting action. I know that’s what fans wanted but I just love the characters. There’s something magical that happens when Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis & Bill Murray are on screen together. I lament the 3rd Ghostbusters film we never got.
Also? The production of Ghostbusters 2 was fucking INSANE. They were still rolling film on sequences involving VFX 2 months before release. 2 months! Back in the analog days. Crazy. Ivan Reitman took it to the wire. That subway sequence with the ghost train? Wasn’t in the script. That was a reshoot. Same with the “Winston saves the GBs from a fire” sequence. The climax with Vigo as scripted is criminally short, so they reshot it and added a few things. Reitman wanted to add more but ILM literally refused because they couldn’t guarantee the quality of the work.
Fun fact. Dennis Murren has stated that out of all the films he’s worked on, one of the hardest was Ghostbusters 2. Because of the schedule.
BLUES BROTHERS 2000. I knew it wasn’t going to be the same without Belushi, but I (very naively) thought at the time that there must have been a good reason to get everyone back together. No. No, there was not. The musical sequences are fair to good but the story was awful. I recently let my oldest watch the original (he loved it) and when he expressed interest in the sequel, I told him that would be time he would never get back. P.S. if memory serves, James Belushi was going to be in the film but pulled out at the last minute and they rewrote the film as a result. Does anyone know if that’s true, and if so, does a draft of that screenplay with his involvement exist?
Saw that one as a kid and didn't really get it, later rewatched it as an adult and I like it a bit better now. I did hear that about James and that's a bummer, he would've been a perfect choice.
Hellraiser 3 was my 1st memory of being truly disappointed in a sequel. So much potential thrown away, and they managed to get even worse with the follow ups.
I’ll never forget, January of 2013, walking out the theater after seeing Texas Chainsaw 3D.
The franchise was already in a sorry state of decay, so I wasn’t expecting a masterpiece, but I was excited at the notion of wiping away the sequels and getting a film made by fans of the original.
By “fans”, they must have meant the oscillating kind. What a train wreck. It felt like each scene was another body blow from the script. I don’t think there’s a single moment of the script that makes any kind of logical sense.
Is it the worst film ever made? I don’t know. But it is the the angriest I’ve ever been walking out of a movie theater.
This is off topic from the question but I noted you rewatched and enjoyed THE ANIMATRIX and, by coincidence, I just finished some some contract work for the upcoming blu-ray release of Katsuhiro Otomo’s MEMORIES. Koji Morimoto directed, imo, the best segment of ANIMATRIX, “Beyond”, and if you missed MEMORIES he also directs a crackingly good haunted house story called “Magnetic Rose” in that anthology film.
I'm going to assume the spirit of the question and say - without question - The Phantom Menace. I was never so hyped for a film in my life so almost by default it tops my "most disappointed se/prequel" list. I actually kinda like the movie now despite its faults. But man... that one scarred me. Now, no matter how hyped I am about a film now, I remember TPM and how no matter how good something may look, no matter how much I get excited... there is always the very real possibility my heart can be broken.
... Coming to America is one of my all time favorite comedies and I'm straight up dreading this watch. I can quote the original backwards and forwards. I think Murphy and Landis (and yes, Baker) are working at a very, very high level. And they weren't alone. I could watch a spinoff movie of just the barbershop (those were some funny old actors, I tell ya, I wonder where they found them), John Amos and Frankie Faison and be happy.
I wish I loved Dolemite is My Name as much as everybody else but I got really worried about Coming to America 2 as soon as I saw it. I'm a Craig Brewer fan and I thought Dolemite should have been a goldmine of comedy. But it just didn't look like Brewer was the guy who was going to exploit those opportunities to their fullest. I liked Eddie in it. But I didnt get the laughs I thought I'd get from the film. I liked the movie (and given the reaction, I'm going to give it another chance), but I was more muted than everyone else. I prefer Bowfinger in the making-of-a-movie Eddie Murphy genre ;)
Man, most disappointing sequels, and we’re talking a direct sequel and not something like Rocky V or Star Trek V?
Hmmm. I’d had to go with three recent films, two involving (or not involving Guillermo Del Toro) and one involving a guy who’s film I believe is EMBARGOED UNTIL MONDAY.
Pacific Rim Uprising. After the fun and amazing Pacific Rim, that film was just a big turd floating in the toilet bowl of cinema.
The Hobbit Trilogy. This is cheating a bit, and honestly, I could put the Star Wars Sequel Trilogy here, but I love Tolkien far more, and my love for LOTR cannot be measured by normal human measurement (both book and film). So although they perfectly cast Bilbo and brought back Sir Ian as his preferred version of Gandalf, the entire trilogy is a misstep. Firstly, with Jackson acquiescing to WB and making it an overstuffed trilogy and not the duology (An Unexpected Party & There and Back Again) it should have been. Then, with all the unnecessary story additions needed to fill out three films, Jackson, Walsh, and Boyens just made a lot of bad decisions. Their additions to story in LOTR were informed mostly by Tolkien, but many of their additions here were not and they don’t fit. The less said about the Elf-Dwarf romance, the better. Just so disappointing.
And then there’s BvS, a movie that is just so relentlessly bleak and ugly and hopeless, after Man of Steel ended on such a hopeful note. And it doesn’t make sense for it to be. Batman’s change in character motivation really isn’t given enough explanation (he doesn’t care about criminal collateral death now because Joke killed Robin, but it’s not fleshed out in the story). The film is also bad due to WB’s meddling and rushing. If we got a true MoS sequel, say where Brainiac comes to earth and steals a city and Superman actually fails to stop him, then everyone’s attitudes towards him as a hostile alien magnet and whatnot would make sense. It would make more sense for Batman’s character, too, had the random guy who got killed in Zoe and Clark’s battle was Lucius Fox instead. Then there’s the worst part of all (no, not Martha), and that’s this film’s terrible Lex Luthor. I don’t know what the hell Jesse Eisenberg is doing in this film, but every big acting choice he makes is wrong. It’s a terrible performance not redeemed by anything. I was so excited after Man of Steel, a movie I love and will vigorously defend from the people who don’t understand it, but BvS is just a terrible movie. And it makes me incredibly sad.
Coming 2 America was mostly inoffensive, and that’s actually what makes it bad. Great comedy should be always be a little “offensive” to everyone’s sensibilities. That means it’s pushing the edge and making us confront things about ourselves maybe we don’t want to confront. And that’s maybe the worst aspect of wokeism... this idea that people should never be offended or uncomfortable.
I think BvS gets far too much underserved hate, I saw the directors cut and loved it and am super pumped for Snyder's Justice League, I liked Eisenberg's take on the Joker, It was fitting to go in a Mark Zuckerberg-esque direction with him. I definitely don't think all comedy has to be offensive to be funny(though I do love me some Carlos Mencia)
"Wokeism" really dude? Spare me the alt-right histrionics.
And Mel Brooks, Richard Pryor, George Carlin, Joan Rivers, Rodney Dangerfield, and just about every great comedian ever would disagree with you. As would the relatively inoffensive comedians like Jerry Seinfeld. But what would I know?
Carlin as in the same Carlin that stood up for women and minorities and called out other comedians for punching down? Wow way to make an ass of yourself nazi.
Offensive means offensive to sensibilities other than your own as well as your own. So while Carlin might not have upset your sensibilities, he upset the sensibilities of others and it was good.
You know what’s also good? When Dave Chappelle or Bill Burr upsets YOUR sensibilities and offends you.
It’s all good. It’s all okay. Because either it’s all okay, or none of it is.
Your continued use of the ad hominem as argument fallacy is hilarious, by the way. Is that a bit?
Nah the only one using "ad-hominem" here is you nazi troll, anyone unironically using stupid terms like "wokeism" is a brain-dead moron who canot be taken remotely seriously. BTW Burr and Chappelle have both called out racist trolls like you, so again good work on making an ass of yourself Stephen Miller.
Ah I see you're one of those idiot South Park fans, that explains a lot. That shows pathetic transphobic nonsense and Matt and Trey's "caring about things is stupid!" attitude is not what this country needs right now.
Oh, and as for COMING 2 AMERICA: I've only made it halfway through, and while the great production value on the costumes helps a lot, it's most definitely a disappointment. I agree that Landis, for all his personal flaws, had a knack for directing comedy that helped that first one soar which is woefully absent this time. And though I understand them focusing on a newer generation of characters, the son and daughters are simply uninteresting and flat characters, no matter how much the movie tries to fool me otherwise. But to his credit, Eddie does seem to be trying, and I hope he can strike gold again like he did with DOLEMITE; I just don't think it's gonna happen if he keeps trying and failing to recreate his glory days like this.
I thought they were pretty interesting characters and I think you should at least finish the film before judging them. I for one do want a Beverly Hills Cop 4.
It's an easy target, but I'd go with Son of the Mask. I was obsessed with the original film as a kid, and seeing that teaser trailer in front of Return of the King gave my young heart hope that perhaps New Line was confident in this sequel even without Carrey aboard. Unfortunately, it was one of the very worst things made by a major Hollywood studio, with every scene of loud and cheap CGI antics designed to rip apart your soul. Just abhorrent in every regard. I give a runner-up honor to Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2; it's far from godawful, but after the first one was such a delightful surprise, it was disheartening to see the sequel fall for all the tricks that its predecessor avoided. And I wanted to throw the annoying Steve Jobs lookalike villain into a fiery pit every moment of that movie.
I certainly hope that things go for the best with these reopenings, even though history has proven my hopes wrong several times over. As unfortunate as it is that Biden's common sense isn't shared by certain governors, I feel way better with these vaccines rapidly being deployed, and compared to where we were one year ago, that feeling of hope means a lot. I for one will remain hesitant to go back to a movie theater for a bit even though I got my vaccine, but I still look forward to heading back sooner than later. If I can wait to watch INFINITY WAR until it hit video, I can certainly do the same for BLACK WIDOW.
I actually didn't mind that movie too much, not the best sequel for sure but not really worthy of being on IMDB's top 100 worst list like it was for so long. As a Looney Tunes fan I got a kick out of all the cartoony over-the-top gags.
So many sequels that disappointed me, but the one that takes the cake, even though now I respect moments of it...Matrix Reloaded. I remember me and my group of friends just staring at each other opening night after the credits with deer in the headlights expressions and just being bummed afterward.
I think the worst sequels are the ones that undercut somehow elements of the original. Highlander 2, with its space-alien bullshit. Lethal Weapon 2 had perfectly evil villains, but no, they had to have been responsible for the death of Mel Gibson’s character’s wife prior to the first film, too, swapping a legit accident/trauma for the character for another dumb revenge plot.
And I guess Rise of Skywalker is low-hanging fruit here, but I can’t be bothered wasting energy on it anymore.
I liked that aspect of Lethal Weapon 2 and I don't think it necessarily undercut the original, i'm with Moviebob on Rise of Skywalker in that I think it's perfectly fine.
Perfectly fair.
I'm going to sound like a big Millennial here, but "The Dark Knight Rises" disappointed me in a big way. I remember when "Batman Begins" came out, after the hiatus for the character, it felt more than fresh. It felt mythic and modern. Then when "The Dark Knight" came out...whoa. I don't think many expected it to be as good as it was, I certainly didn't. I was hooked to this world. I wanted Nolan to make 9 movies. When it was announced that Nolan would make a third film, I began declaring that his trilogy would be one of the best trilogies ever produced
Then "The Dark Knight Rises" actually came out...
I think the script is really messy. I think it's a weird story. I like Tom Hardy in the movie, but he has a really weird scheme in the film. A decade later, I think the third film has aged the least well. I think "Batman Begins" and "The Dark Knight" flow well but "Rises" just feels clunky and sloppy. I will not act like I know Nolan, but it just didn't look like his heart was in it.
It was crushing to me based upon how strongly I responded to his first two films.
I thought Rises was perfectly fine, but definitely had some pacing issues(that scene with Batman in that prison seemed to drag on forever) and some clunky scenes(WTF was Nolan going for with that "Star Spangled Banner" scene?)
[EMBARGOED UNTIL MONDAY]...yes!!!! Can't wait till I see your review on this...by far one of my most anticipated of 2021 along with Halloween Kills and Dune.
Most disappointing sequel has to be Highlander 2. Just a total misstep from conception to execution. Actually I can’t remember if it was a poorly made film, since I’ve refused to watch it since seeing it in the theatre, but the whole idea of explaining a unexplainable supernatural phenomenon as a sci-fi concept totally missed the point. It’s there in the soundtrack album, he says it in the film, it’s a kind of magic, not some alien b.s..
i'd definitely recommend watching the Renegade cut of that film as it fixes a lot of the issues the original release had.
For me the most disappointing sequel was Howling New Moon Rising, the other sequels were fun(even part 2) but this film was just boring and filled with terrible country music and very little Werewolf action.
It still doesn’t fix that the “Immortals are aliens” terrible decision.
The most disappointing sequel? It isn’t one film but 3. And that’s the Star Wars sequel trilogy. Yikes. I mean...wow. Here’s the biggest “gimmie” in film history and they just struck out. Some great characters and decent ideas but a nothing story. It hurts sometimes to think about.
I love the prequels and I remember the hype. But the story everyone wanted was to see the story of Luke, Han & Leia continue. We got a sequel trilogy and Luke is a supporting character in just 1 of the 3 movies. 1. Han got more screen time than Luke.
Ugh
Man. It goes the heart good to see “Ghostbusters 2” in bold. I seriously think that movie, as imperfect as it is, is one the most underrated comedy sequels of all time. If they had nailed the climax? It would be more well regarded film and I’m glad it’s stock has gone up bit by bit over the years. Ghostbusters 2 is hilarious. Peter Venkman holding a public access television show about the paranormal? *chefs kiss*. Peter Macnicol(spelling?) is soooo good as Janosz. And Vigo, underused though he may be, is one helluva a villian. He’s creepy. Super creepy.
You know what I love about those movies? The characters. I could watch those guys hang around & investigate cases all day. Honestly the stuff with the proton packs is cool, but I just LOVE that Ray & Egon live at the fire house and have no lives outside of that. Watching them talk about what they want for dinner? I love that shit. Love it. Love seeing Ray’s Occult store. I’m glad the sequel wasn’t all Ghostbusting action. I know that’s what fans wanted but I just love the characters. There’s something magical that happens when Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis & Bill Murray are on screen together. I lament the 3rd Ghostbusters film we never got.
Also? The production of Ghostbusters 2 was fucking INSANE. They were still rolling film on sequences involving VFX 2 months before release. 2 months! Back in the analog days. Crazy. Ivan Reitman took it to the wire. That subway sequence with the ghost train? Wasn’t in the script. That was a reshoot. Same with the “Winston saves the GBs from a fire” sequence. The climax with Vigo as scripted is criminally short, so they reshot it and added a few things. Reitman wanted to add more but ILM literally refused because they couldn’t guarantee the quality of the work.
Fun fact. Dennis Murren has stated that out of all the films he’s worked on, one of the hardest was Ghostbusters 2. Because of the schedule.
BLUES BROTHERS 2000. I knew it wasn’t going to be the same without Belushi, but I (very naively) thought at the time that there must have been a good reason to get everyone back together. No. No, there was not. The musical sequences are fair to good but the story was awful. I recently let my oldest watch the original (he loved it) and when he expressed interest in the sequel, I told him that would be time he would never get back. P.S. if memory serves, James Belushi was going to be in the film but pulled out at the last minute and they rewrote the film as a result. Does anyone know if that’s true, and if so, does a draft of that screenplay with his involvement exist?
Saw that one as a kid and didn't really get it, later rewatched it as an adult and I like it a bit better now. I did hear that about James and that's a bummer, he would've been a perfect choice.
Hellraiser 3 was my 1st memory of being truly disappointed in a sequel. So much potential thrown away, and they managed to get even worse with the follow ups.
I’ll never forget, January of 2013, walking out the theater after seeing Texas Chainsaw 3D.
The franchise was already in a sorry state of decay, so I wasn’t expecting a masterpiece, but I was excited at the notion of wiping away the sequels and getting a film made by fans of the original.
By “fans”, they must have meant the oscillating kind. What a train wreck. It felt like each scene was another body blow from the script. I don’t think there’s a single moment of the script that makes any kind of logical sense.
Is it the worst film ever made? I don’t know. But it is the the angriest I’ve ever been walking out of a movie theater.
This is off topic from the question but I noted you rewatched and enjoyed THE ANIMATRIX and, by coincidence, I just finished some some contract work for the upcoming blu-ray release of Katsuhiro Otomo’s MEMORIES. Koji Morimoto directed, imo, the best segment of ANIMATRIX, “Beyond”, and if you missed MEMORIES he also directs a crackingly good haunted house story called “Magnetic Rose” in that anthology film.
I'm going to assume the spirit of the question and say - without question - The Phantom Menace. I was never so hyped for a film in my life so almost by default it tops my "most disappointed se/prequel" list. I actually kinda like the movie now despite its faults. But man... that one scarred me. Now, no matter how hyped I am about a film now, I remember TPM and how no matter how good something may look, no matter how much I get excited... there is always the very real possibility my heart can be broken.
... Coming to America is one of my all time favorite comedies and I'm straight up dreading this watch. I can quote the original backwards and forwards. I think Murphy and Landis (and yes, Baker) are working at a very, very high level. And they weren't alone. I could watch a spinoff movie of just the barbershop (those were some funny old actors, I tell ya, I wonder where they found them), John Amos and Frankie Faison and be happy.
I wish I loved Dolemite is My Name as much as everybody else but I got really worried about Coming to America 2 as soon as I saw it. I'm a Craig Brewer fan and I thought Dolemite should have been a goldmine of comedy. But it just didn't look like Brewer was the guy who was going to exploit those opportunities to their fullest. I liked Eddie in it. But I didnt get the laughs I thought I'd get from the film. I liked the movie (and given the reaction, I'm going to give it another chance), but I was more muted than everyone else. I prefer Bowfinger in the making-of-a-movie Eddie Murphy genre ;)
Man, most disappointing sequels, and we’re talking a direct sequel and not something like Rocky V or Star Trek V?
Hmmm. I’d had to go with three recent films, two involving (or not involving Guillermo Del Toro) and one involving a guy who’s film I believe is EMBARGOED UNTIL MONDAY.
Pacific Rim Uprising. After the fun and amazing Pacific Rim, that film was just a big turd floating in the toilet bowl of cinema.
The Hobbit Trilogy. This is cheating a bit, and honestly, I could put the Star Wars Sequel Trilogy here, but I love Tolkien far more, and my love for LOTR cannot be measured by normal human measurement (both book and film). So although they perfectly cast Bilbo and brought back Sir Ian as his preferred version of Gandalf, the entire trilogy is a misstep. Firstly, with Jackson acquiescing to WB and making it an overstuffed trilogy and not the duology (An Unexpected Party & There and Back Again) it should have been. Then, with all the unnecessary story additions needed to fill out three films, Jackson, Walsh, and Boyens just made a lot of bad decisions. Their additions to story in LOTR were informed mostly by Tolkien, but many of their additions here were not and they don’t fit. The less said about the Elf-Dwarf romance, the better. Just so disappointing.
And then there’s BvS, a movie that is just so relentlessly bleak and ugly and hopeless, after Man of Steel ended on such a hopeful note. And it doesn’t make sense for it to be. Batman’s change in character motivation really isn’t given enough explanation (he doesn’t care about criminal collateral death now because Joke killed Robin, but it’s not fleshed out in the story). The film is also bad due to WB’s meddling and rushing. If we got a true MoS sequel, say where Brainiac comes to earth and steals a city and Superman actually fails to stop him, then everyone’s attitudes towards him as a hostile alien magnet and whatnot would make sense. It would make more sense for Batman’s character, too, had the random guy who got killed in Zoe and Clark’s battle was Lucius Fox instead. Then there’s the worst part of all (no, not Martha), and that’s this film’s terrible Lex Luthor. I don’t know what the hell Jesse Eisenberg is doing in this film, but every big acting choice he makes is wrong. It’s a terrible performance not redeemed by anything. I was so excited after Man of Steel, a movie I love and will vigorously defend from the people who don’t understand it, but BvS is just a terrible movie. And it makes me incredibly sad.
Coming 2 America was mostly inoffensive, and that’s actually what makes it bad. Great comedy should be always be a little “offensive” to everyone’s sensibilities. That means it’s pushing the edge and making us confront things about ourselves maybe we don’t want to confront. And that’s maybe the worst aspect of wokeism... this idea that people should never be offended or uncomfortable.
I think BvS gets far too much underserved hate, I saw the directors cut and loved it and am super pumped for Snyder's Justice League, I liked Eisenberg's take on the Joker, It was fitting to go in a Mark Zuckerberg-esque direction with him. I definitely don't think all comedy has to be offensive to be funny(though I do love me some Carlos Mencia)
"Wokeism" really dude? Spare me the alt-right histrionics.
And Mel Brooks, Richard Pryor, George Carlin, Joan Rivers, Rodney Dangerfield, and just about every great comedian ever would disagree with you. As would the relatively inoffensive comedians like Jerry Seinfeld. But what would I know?
Carlin as in the same Carlin that stood up for women and minorities and called out other comedians for punching down? Wow way to make an ass of yourself nazi.
Here’s what you’re missing:
Offensive means offensive to sensibilities other than your own as well as your own. So while Carlin might not have upset your sensibilities, he upset the sensibilities of others and it was good.
You know what’s also good? When Dave Chappelle or Bill Burr upsets YOUR sensibilities and offends you.
It’s all good. It’s all okay. Because either it’s all okay, or none of it is.
Your continued use of the ad hominem as argument fallacy is hilarious, by the way. Is that a bit?
Nah the only one using "ad-hominem" here is you nazi troll, anyone unironically using stupid terms like "wokeism" is a brain-dead moron who canot be taken remotely seriously. BTW Burr and Chappelle have both called out racist trolls like you, so again good work on making an ass of yourself Stephen Miller.
Ah I see you're one of those idiot South Park fans, that explains a lot. That shows pathetic transphobic nonsense and Matt and Trey's "caring about things is stupid!" attitude is not what this country needs right now.
LOL. Man, you’re hitting all high notes this morning.
Lighten up, Francis.
Oh, there it is.
Spare me the histrionics where everyone who doesn’t think like you is “alt-right.”
Shut up nazi, don't you have another insurrection to go and plan?
LOL. Boy are you barking up the wrong tree.
Whatever you say David Duke
Yeah, it has to be a bit. Though I don’t find it funny, I’m sure fans of serial joke thief Carlos Mencia would.
I really hate my iPhone’s autocorrect, which did a number on this post.
That's why I always write on my desktop PC, I just don't get the appeal of browsing the web on a smartphone. Anyways I agree on The Hobbit.
Oh, and as for COMING 2 AMERICA: I've only made it halfway through, and while the great production value on the costumes helps a lot, it's most definitely a disappointment. I agree that Landis, for all his personal flaws, had a knack for directing comedy that helped that first one soar which is woefully absent this time. And though I understand them focusing on a newer generation of characters, the son and daughters are simply uninteresting and flat characters, no matter how much the movie tries to fool me otherwise. But to his credit, Eddie does seem to be trying, and I hope he can strike gold again like he did with DOLEMITE; I just don't think it's gonna happen if he keeps trying and failing to recreate his glory days like this.
I thought they were pretty interesting characters and I think you should at least finish the film before judging them. I for one do want a Beverly Hills Cop 4.
It's an easy target, but I'd go with Son of the Mask. I was obsessed with the original film as a kid, and seeing that teaser trailer in front of Return of the King gave my young heart hope that perhaps New Line was confident in this sequel even without Carrey aboard. Unfortunately, it was one of the very worst things made by a major Hollywood studio, with every scene of loud and cheap CGI antics designed to rip apart your soul. Just abhorrent in every regard. I give a runner-up honor to Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2; it's far from godawful, but after the first one was such a delightful surprise, it was disheartening to see the sequel fall for all the tricks that its predecessor avoided. And I wanted to throw the annoying Steve Jobs lookalike villain into a fiery pit every moment of that movie.
I certainly hope that things go for the best with these reopenings, even though history has proven my hopes wrong several times over. As unfortunate as it is that Biden's common sense isn't shared by certain governors, I feel way better with these vaccines rapidly being deployed, and compared to where we were one year ago, that feeling of hope means a lot. I for one will remain hesitant to go back to a movie theater for a bit even though I got my vaccine, but I still look forward to heading back sooner than later. If I can wait to watch INFINITY WAR until it hit video, I can certainly do the same for BLACK WIDOW.
I actually didn't mind that movie too much, not the best sequel for sure but not really worthy of being on IMDB's top 100 worst list like it was for so long. As a Looney Tunes fan I got a kick out of all the cartoony over-the-top gags.
Cloudy 2 I can agree on, too many food-puns, AniMat rightfully tore that film a new asshole:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9AZc_PyuFM
So many sequels that disappointed me, but the one that takes the cake, even though now I respect moments of it...Matrix Reloaded. I remember me and my group of friends just staring at each other opening night after the credits with deer in the headlights expressions and just being bummed afterward.
Surprised Reloaded dissapointed you more then Revolutions, that's usually the film I hear everyone dumping on(though I dug it).
Fletch Too is the first one I remember being disappointed in.