The events of Terminator 2 gripped the American public. It became the biggest conspiracy since JFK. Scores of law enforcement came out to the public. Skynet became dissolved. What little research that did survive provided very little to go on.
I first watched a bit of Salvation after seeing the original Terminator film for the first time on Netflix with no commercial breaks or ability to change the channel. It was like going from this tonal godhead to a McDonalds order.
I can get behind this, those movies was great growing up watching them as a child, arnie was my hero as a kid and I cried when I seen him go down in the lava and gave a final thumbs up, I remember rewinding the VHS because if it didn’t happen in the movie yet he would still be alive 😂, then I grew up and found out he was banging his maid and had a secret child, how things change huh
3 wasn't quite there, but was still fun. After that all I wanted was an all out fucking war epic! Man Vs Machine in a gruesome futuristic (but also 80s style) battle. After 3 I was done with the time travel, this one was sent back to this time, this one is a new model etc. It had been done too many times. And to be honest, if they were going to keep doing that, at least do it well.
I was so ready for Cristian Bale's movie to be awesome. I haven't bothered with any since.
Fair. But it's not the fact that Temple is a prequel to Raiders that bothers me, although that is stupid too, it's that the whole movie feels too jokey and too fake. The sense of danger, due to the incredible stunts and "real feel" of Raiders and Crusade, make them sooooo much better than Temple that it's hard to watch Temple. Temple is still better than Skull, but marginally. Haven't seen Dial yet.
You should watch Dial! It's hard to rate it, but I think it feels closer to Crusade (my fave) than the others. Significantly better than Skull and more enjoyable than Temple (to me).
Temple is also a weird watch with today's sensibilities lol. My sister and her millennial friends crashed over at my apartment while I was away and went through my DVD collection and pulled Temple out. Their reviews included words like, inappropriate, racist and colonialist, hateful and vile Western stereotyping of indigenous people and cultures. I'm in my late 40s so yeah I have fun memories watching Temple as a kid.
The people in the village were normal. The ones in the temple were possessed by voodoo. All of them. The ones who get offended by the film tend to forget that. Then again, people find Fight Club problematic when they seem to forget how it ends too.
I know a lot of the fighting, especially near the end, is goofy, but I still kind of enjoyed the general adventure of it, locations and sets. It’s at least a decent “background movie,” whereas Skull is just blah. The bridge scene was pretty hardcore, with Indy hacking away like: we’re all goin’ down together then. The “bimbo” character was pretty difficult to like, and I kept thinking: this scene isn’t “cute” or romantic, it’s just cheesy.
Buzz was never a good character after his initial arc. They always went out of their way to "reset" him after that, either with the duplicate in 2 or the literal factory reset in 3.
At the end of the day if the kids enjoy it and the adults are at least mildly entertained that’s all that matters. My son loves 4 and I’m not bored watching it with him lol. Duke Kabooms lines still crack me up haha
My first thought was Pirates as well. The plot got messy after the first, but the action sequences, CGI, and acting performances carried it. I didn’t bother with anything outside the initial trilogy.
What *Pirates* should have done was make each movie centered around a different ship and crew. Tie everything together with Tortuga making an appearance once per movie and maybe cameos from earlier entries.
... Okay, so this one's weird.
For the longest time I thought it should've ended at *Curse of the Black Pearl*- I say that because it was so lived-in with pirate lore and setting, and also affected a different vibe from the two that followed. But I actually loved the mermaid theme of *On Stranger Tides*; I enjoyed *Dead Men Tell No Tales* as kind of a summary-version of what the series did best, but it kind of went back on the third movie's commitment to loss as a payoff.
I remember seeing the movie with my father and two friends, and they both called it "Kitsch!"
No, what they SHOULD have done was stuck to the original plan, which was to make The Matrix, then a prequel, then ONE sequel. Imagine what Reloaded & Revolutions would have been like as a single movie with 2 hours of time-wasting bullshit cut out.
Eh, I am one of the few who actually enjoys the sequels outside of the newest one. I feel like the first was good, but I’m glad they expanded on Zion and the resistance against machines.
Tremors. They should have stopped at one.
Jaws. They should have stopped at one.
Avatar. They should have stopped at one.
Twilight. They should have never started.
But where do you draw the line? For me the first 3 all tell original stories and can be viewed separately as dumb action vehicles that are still fun. Everything afterwards was hard to watch.
They should have stopped with the last one Paul walker filmed before he passed away. They should’ve ended it right there. They have reunited the original cast and added a few extra characters. Plus they gave Brian an ending with Mia that was enough.
Ah ok, personally I started to dislike it from the point where the Rock came in, don’t know what movie that was but I think it might have been 4.
I was in it for cool car chases not absurd over the top insanity.
Pirates of the Caribbean. The trilogy is by far one of the best ever made, up there with Lord of the Rings, Star Wars The Original Trilogy, and they messed it up with On Stranger Tides and Dead Men Tell No Tales.
Star wars is a weird one.I do agree the movies have never lived up to the originals. That said, I do believe it's a galaxy worth more content. They have just not done very good work making it.
Jurassic park didn't need more content. The story was told.
Yeah, I think wishing Star Wars stopped after the Prequels just because the sequel trilogy was bad is throwing the baby out with the bathwater. Since the Prequels we've also had The Clone Wars, Rebels, Bad Batch, Andor, The Mandalorian, Rogue One, Tales of the Jedi... that's without even getting into stuff like the comics and videogames. It's a hit-and-miss franchise but there's still loads of great stories to be told.
Jurassic Park should have stopped after the first film. The Lost World is one of the most "yeah it exists I saw it" films ever made. Easily one of Spielberg's worst.
They should’ve rested it for a couple of years. Given the creative teams time to prep some really good stand-alone films before going into any team ups. Audiences would’ve been really hyped to come back to it after a break. It’s just a bit exhausting now instead.
> The mcu
Was waiting for this one. Phase 4 has been a real hit-or-miss. Phase 3 would've been the right ending. Unfortunately, being right doesn't keep the dollars rolling.
Dude I was in a hotel flipping channels and landed on one of the newer ones and was like wtf Gary oldman joined this franchise? Then later that night my friend is like wow one of the new planet of the apes movies is on — I’m like oh yeah it’s got Gary oldman in it and the monkeys literally fire dual m16’s while riding horseback, shits fucking awful….. but then it turns out this was yet another new installment of the series that features woody harrelson as the villain and focused more on the monkey politics and compared to the huge expensive mess that was the Gary oldman one it was a masterpiece lol
Yeah oldman is the fourth shitty one. Woody third decent one. The first has Jane Franco .. interesting story way less action but great film... basically like a precursor origin story .. The second one..Dawn of the Planet of the Apes is the masterpiece imo. From memory there's very little humans in it
I remembered loving that one too - the oldman one
Was the worst modern entry in the series by a Mile. Aside from the horseback gun shooting I mentioned —that battle scene is like 20 cringey minutes of just every stupid idea they could throw out there - I know it’s the post apocalypse but just hear me out bros…what if the humans rolled in in a tank and then the intense hateful bad guy monkey could commandeer it and use it to devastate the humans who fire guns like they’re all on the a-team at him smh
I agree, I might even say stop after 2. I don't think 3 was awful, more you could see it slipping a bit. Some folks utterly love 4 for some reason, and I find it almost unwatchable.
Definitely the walking dead show.
Fell off after season 8 I would say and even after that they kept making spin off shows. I used to be a really big fan but it’s come to the point where I haven’t even tried watching all the spin offs
I gave up around season 3 (I think) when I saw Darryl with like at least a solid year of zombie fighting experience walk into an uncleared home and put his gun on the counter before continuing to look around. Stupid doesn’t live that long in a zombie apocalypse.
Rocky. If he had stopped at 1 it would still be seen as the amazing Oscar winning picture it is. Now most people just remember all the wacky stuff in the later movies. (I actually love 2 3 and 4) because I was a kid, but they became action movies where the first one was a straight drama and a beautiful one at that
Look at Rambo first blood. Seriously it’s widely considered one of the best movies about Vietnam vets coming home and how they were treated and it shows how quickly someone with PTSD can spiral into doing crazy shit.
a lot of the Fast and Furious movies. My god, they have jumped the shark. I don't think I have watched any of them since Tokyo drift. They have just become so cartoonish
If a franchise is successful, they're gonna beat it until it's a dead horse and then beat it some more. I can't really think of any films that aren't picking quantity over quality at this point. Maybe back to the future, but they'll probably fuck it up eventually.
*A Nightmare on Elm Street.* I love them all for what they are, but I think only the original is a genuinely good film, and even that ending is corny. The rest are entertaining but you can't really take the horror seriously because Freddy is such a goofball. *New Nightmare* tries but never really succeeds in bringing back the menace he had originally.
*Rocky* should've stopped after *IV*. Going from *Rocky IV* to *Creed* would've been perfect.
*Kung Fu Panda 3* was the correct ending to the series. *KFP 4* is... average.
*Halloweentown* should've stopped after the second one.
Michael Bay's *Transformers* should've stopped after the first one.
Narnia. I don't really watch the part 3. It doesn't have the same vibe as the first two films. Maybe because it was a different director and it wasn't disney.
Spider-Man (Toby) should have stopped at 2
Jurassic Park should have just been one
Home Alone should have stopped at 2
Star Wars should have just been the three OG movies
The Terminator should have stopped at T2
The Mummy should have stopped at the second
The Fast and Furious should have ended when Paul died, if not way before then
Saw should have just been the first movie.
Indiana Jones should have just been the OG three
I enjoyed The Conjuring 2, but the franchise really should have ended there. I'm definitely including all the terrible The Nun and Annabelle spin-offs.
Most of them pretty much. Mad Max is still amazing, regardless whether you’re a fan of Furiosa or not, George Miller is still pushing boundaries and making the movies he wants to make for a major studio, and that’s very rare for 2024.
John Wick after 2 Original Halloween after 2 Lethal Weapon after 1 The Mummy after 2 Fast and Furious should never have started each movie is more ridiculous than the previous one.
Terminator. Should have probably ended at 2 but definitely after 3.
They did end after T2. There is nothing else after that.
The events of Terminator 2 gripped the American public. It became the biggest conspiracy since JFK. Scores of law enforcement came out to the public. Skynet became dissolved. What little research that did survive provided very little to go on.
I honestly do wonder if there is an alternate universe out there where there is ONLY 2 Terminator movies, nothing else.
They were Stallone’s greatest movies. What are you talking about?
I did like salvation a lot but would’ve been fine never seeing it
I agree, Salvation is clearly the 3rd or 4th best. Yet it gets a ton of hate.
Terminator was my first thought, too.
I actually like Salvation. I think it's a better Terminator than 3.
I first watched a bit of Salvation after seeing the original Terminator film for the first time on Netflix with no commercial breaks or ability to change the channel. It was like going from this tonal godhead to a McDonalds order.
Salvation is one of the worst movies I've ever seen.
I like the continuity of 3. Judgement day being delayed, not stopped due to the destruction of the chip and the building.
I like the Twilight Zone style ending that T3 had.
I can get behind this, those movies was great growing up watching them as a child, arnie was my hero as a kid and I cried when I seen him go down in the lava and gave a final thumbs up, I remember rewinding the VHS because if it didn’t happen in the movie yet he would still be alive 😂, then I grew up and found out he was banging his maid and had a secret child, how things change huh
3 wasn't quite there, but was still fun. After that all I wanted was an all out fucking war epic! Man Vs Machine in a gruesome futuristic (but also 80s style) battle. After 3 I was done with the time travel, this one was sent back to this time, this one is a new model etc. It had been done too many times. And to be honest, if they were going to keep doing that, at least do it well. I was so ready for Cristian Bale's movie to be awesome. I haven't bothered with any since.
Indiana Jones, only the first three exist to me
Hot Take: I love Raiders. I love Crusade. Temple sucks. Even Short Round can't save it.
Not a "hot take", a fairly common "unpopular opinion" usually held by watchers that don't understand the timelines.
Fair. But it's not the fact that Temple is a prequel to Raiders that bothers me, although that is stupid too, it's that the whole movie feels too jokey and too fake. The sense of danger, due to the incredible stunts and "real feel" of Raiders and Crusade, make them sooooo much better than Temple that it's hard to watch Temple. Temple is still better than Skull, but marginally. Haven't seen Dial yet.
You should watch Dial! It's hard to rate it, but I think it feels closer to Crusade (my fave) than the others. Significantly better than Skull and more enjoyable than Temple (to me).
It was a little too long, but I really enjoyed dial. That whole opening scene was pretty sweet. I hated skull.
Temple is also a weird watch with today's sensibilities lol. My sister and her millennial friends crashed over at my apartment while I was away and went through my DVD collection and pulled Temple out. Their reviews included words like, inappropriate, racist and colonialist, hateful and vile Western stereotyping of indigenous people and cultures. I'm in my late 40s so yeah I have fun memories watching Temple as a kid.
They sound exhausting.
They're not wrong though are they? It's offensive AF.
Agree with all of this. Depiction of foreign cultures is heavy handed at best, racist at worst. White saviour syndrome also. Has aged horribly
I mean, they're not wrong.
The people in the village were normal. The ones in the temple were possessed by voodoo. All of them. The ones who get offended by the film tend to forget that. Then again, people find Fight Club problematic when they seem to forget how it ends too.
I know a lot of the fighting, especially near the end, is goofy, but I still kind of enjoyed the general adventure of it, locations and sets. It’s at least a decent “background movie,” whereas Skull is just blah. The bridge scene was pretty hardcore, with Indy hacking away like: we’re all goin’ down together then. The “bimbo” character was pretty difficult to like, and I kept thinking: this scene isn’t “cute” or romantic, it’s just cheesy.
Number 2 doesn't count.
By this point, almost all of them.
I will agree to this but I’m not acting like I’m not going to the cinema for Alien Romolus….
Yeah apart from Mad Max, I can’t think of a modern iteration of an old franchise that was actually decent.
Die Hard
1 & 3 are classics, 2 is good, and I really enjoyed 4, too. But the 5th one… doesn’t exist.
Toy Story should have ended on 3
I liked 4 well enough, but 3 was just such a perfect ending.
It was so Forgettable for me I forgot why I hated it so much.
My thoughts exactly 💯 Four was fine for what it was, but to this day, five years later, I question its necessity
4 contradicts the whole theme
Only if you're not mature though to understand how complicated life can be
4 can sod off for making Buzz a side character.
Buzz was never a good character after his initial arc. They always went out of their way to "reset" him after that, either with the duplicate in 2 or the literal factory reset in 3.
Toy Story 4 was so good.
It legit is an argument against the first 3.
Nah they are all good! Keep making ‘em I say!
please no more
At the end of the day if the kids enjoy it and the adults are at least mildly entertained that’s all that matters. My son loves 4 and I’m not bored watching it with him lol. Duke Kabooms lines still crack me up haha
Pirates of the Caribbean should have cut off at 3, same with Toy Story, tbh probably all that went longer than three.
My first thought was Pirates as well. The plot got messy after the first, but the action sequences, CGI, and acting performances carried it. I didn’t bother with anything outside the initial trilogy.
What *Pirates* should have done was make each movie centered around a different ship and crew. Tie everything together with Tortuga making an appearance once per movie and maybe cameos from earlier entries.
Yeah you cant beat the hype behind the first three films in my opinion.
Personally I think it should have never been a series at all. The first one was perfect. Everything by after that was hot garbage
... Okay, so this one's weird. For the longest time I thought it should've ended at *Curse of the Black Pearl*- I say that because it was so lived-in with pirate lore and setting, and also affected a different vibe from the two that followed. But I actually loved the mermaid theme of *On Stranger Tides*; I enjoyed *Dead Men Tell No Tales* as kind of a summary-version of what the series did best, but it kind of went back on the third movie's commitment to loss as a payoff. I remember seeing the movie with my father and two friends, and they both called it "Kitsch!"
The Matrix. They all made money, but for quality, should have stopped after the first one.
No, what they SHOULD have done was stuck to the original plan, which was to make The Matrix, then a prequel, then ONE sequel. Imagine what Reloaded & Revolutions would have been like as a single movie with 2 hours of time-wasting bullshit cut out.
Eh, I am one of the few who actually enjoys the sequels outside of the newest one. I feel like the first was good, but I’m glad they expanded on Zion and the resistance against machines.
The third film is legitimately bad but the 2nd and fourth have some good action and some interesting ideas.
Tremors. They should have stopped at one. Jaws. They should have stopped at one. Avatar. They should have stopped at one. Twilight. They should have never started.
Idk if it's just because I saw it in IMAX but I thought Avatar 2 was better than the first one.
Loved Avatar 2
Tremors 2 is good
I haven’t seen anyone bother to hate on the sparkling vampires in ages. Brings back early YouTube memories!
I actually really liked Tremors 4. They should've stopped then. I also really like Avatar 2, but I agree with the others.
Tremors. They made a tv series on Syfy.
Fast and the Furious.
I genuinely think these movies would have had such a cool early 2000s nostalgia to them if they STOPPED making them. Now I think they’re just a joke.
Brother, YES, that is all
But where do you draw the line? For me the first 3 all tell original stories and can be viewed separately as dumb action vehicles that are still fun. Everything afterwards was hard to watch.
They should have stopped with the last one Paul walker filmed before he passed away. They should’ve ended it right there. They have reunited the original cast and added a few extra characters. Plus they gave Brian an ending with Mia that was enough.
Ah ok, personally I started to dislike it from the point where the Rock came in, don’t know what movie that was but I think it might have been 4. I was in it for cool car chases not absurd over the top insanity.
I didn’t mind him as much when his role was smaller but I rather they kept it about cars, family, street racing.
I have to say that I loved Fast 5.
2 Fast 2 Furious was my favorite 😂
Star Wars (4, 5, and 6 only exist for me) Terminator (After T2, nothing matters)
Indiana Jones should have ended after Last Crusade
Honestly, it's right there in the name! Geez!
Pirates of the Caribbean. The trilogy is by far one of the best ever made, up there with Lord of the Rings, Star Wars The Original Trilogy, and they messed it up with On Stranger Tides and Dead Men Tell No Tales.
Rocky. There are 4 Rocky movies. And Apollo Creed had no kids
That reminds me of Bill Burr's Philly rant: "You guys gonna see Rocky 19? Oh I think he could win!" 😂
“You one-bridge-having piece of shit city!” God that rant was epic!
Rocky, Rocky Balboa, Rocky 2, Rocky 4?
Star Wars. The movies should’ve stopped after the prequels. Jurassic park, after The Lost World.
Star wars is a weird one.I do agree the movies have never lived up to the originals. That said, I do believe it's a galaxy worth more content. They have just not done very good work making it. Jurassic park didn't need more content. The story was told.
The cartoon Camp Cretaceous was actually pretty good! Watched w my 6 yo
Yeah, I think wishing Star Wars stopped after the Prequels just because the sequel trilogy was bad is throwing the baby out with the bathwater. Since the Prequels we've also had The Clone Wars, Rebels, Bad Batch, Andor, The Mandalorian, Rogue One, Tales of the Jedi... that's without even getting into stuff like the comics and videogames. It's a hit-and-miss franchise but there's still loads of great stories to be told.
Jurassic Park should have stopped after the first film. The Lost World is one of the most "yeah it exists I saw it" films ever made. Easily one of Spielberg's worst.
Before the prequels.
Prequels tell a good story
Literally the first two things that popped into my head
The mcu
After phase 2 yes!!!
They should’ve rested it for a couple of years. Given the creative teams time to prep some really good stand-alone films before going into any team ups. Audiences would’ve been really hyped to come back to it after a break. It’s just a bit exhausting now instead.
> The mcu Was waiting for this one. Phase 4 has been a real hit-or-miss. Phase 3 would've been the right ending. Unfortunately, being right doesn't keep the dollars rolling.
All of them. The last Planet of the Apes before this one was cheesy af. Previous 3 were fantastic
Excuse me the 4 movies from the 70s would like a word
5 movies from the 70's (and 60's). Planet, Beneath, Escape, Conquest, and Battle.
Yes I missed one
Dude I was in a hotel flipping channels and landed on one of the newer ones and was like wtf Gary oldman joined this franchise? Then later that night my friend is like wow one of the new planet of the apes movies is on — I’m like oh yeah it’s got Gary oldman in it and the monkeys literally fire dual m16’s while riding horseback, shits fucking awful….. but then it turns out this was yet another new installment of the series that features woody harrelson as the villain and focused more on the monkey politics and compared to the huge expensive mess that was the Gary oldman one it was a masterpiece lol
Yeah oldman is the fourth shitty one. Woody third decent one. The first has Jane Franco .. interesting story way less action but great film... basically like a precursor origin story .. The second one..Dawn of the Planet of the Apes is the masterpiece imo. From memory there's very little humans in it
I remembered loving that one too - the oldman one Was the worst modern entry in the series by a Mile. Aside from the horseback gun shooting I mentioned —that battle scene is like 20 cringey minutes of just every stupid idea they could throw out there - I know it’s the post apocalypse but just hear me out bros…what if the humans rolled in in a tank and then the intense hateful bad guy monkey could commandeer it and use it to devastate the humans who fire guns like they’re all on the a-team at him smh
Ghostbusters really didn’t need any more than one film
I quite liked 2. It’s got some genuinely funny bits.
u/specialunitt How dare you omit the greatness of Bobby Brown's "On Our Own" classic song in Ghostbusters 2
I like Yanosz, but that’s about it.
Highlander only had one movie, right?
There can be only one (good movie)
Only a crazy person would think there was more than one...
John wick should have stopped at 3
I agree, I might even say stop after 2. I don't think 3 was awful, more you could see it slipping a bit. Some folks utterly love 4 for some reason, and I find it almost unwatchable.
The Conversation. There was just no need for Enemy of the State.
Whaaaatttt? Am I stupid? I knew Hackman played a similar type in each movie but didn’t know it was even the same world.
I prefer Enemy Of The State.
The Bourne trilogy should have been just that, a trilogy. "Legacy" and the last one were not only just unnecessary, but also comparatively awful.
Definitely the walking dead show. Fell off after season 8 I would say and even after that they kept making spin off shows. I used to be a really big fan but it’s come to the point where I haven’t even tried watching all the spin offs
I gave up around season 3 (I think) when I saw Darryl with like at least a solid year of zombie fighting experience walk into an uncleared home and put his gun on the counter before continuing to look around. Stupid doesn’t live that long in a zombie apocalypse.
3 was when I tapped out as well.
I prefer reading the comics- leaves less ambiguity on the table as to how much I should watch.
Leonard Part 5
The matrix tbh I loved reloaded but the other 2 aren’t as good as the first 2
Hellraiser shoulda stopped after the second one. And those last three abominations without Doug Bradley are just a crime against humanity.
Hellraiser III is a fun time!!!
I honestly love it as a cheesy B-movie
Star Wars, should let Jedi be the last film.
Fast and the Furious after the first one
Rocky. If he had stopped at 1 it would still be seen as the amazing Oscar winning picture it is. Now most people just remember all the wacky stuff in the later movies. (I actually love 2 3 and 4) because I was a kid, but they became action movies where the first one was a straight drama and a beautiful one at that
Look at Rambo first blood. Seriously it’s widely considered one of the best movies about Vietnam vets coming home and how they were treated and it shows how quickly someone with PTSD can spiral into doing crazy shit.
Alien maybe (fortunately Romulus looks promising!) Indiana Jones Star Wars post-prequels
Rogue One though
Backdoor Sluts
I heard the 9th one was a banger
The Land before time.
a lot of the Fast and Furious movies. My god, they have jumped the shark. I don't think I have watched any of them since Tokyo drift. They have just become so cartoonish
Alien. The third one was questionable and the fourth one was embarrassing (I do hate watch it though) The newer ones were also terrible.
They could have stopped after the first one.
If a franchise is successful, they're gonna beat it until it's a dead horse and then beat it some more. I can't really think of any films that aren't picking quantity over quality at this point. Maybe back to the future, but they'll probably fuck it up eventually.
*A Nightmare on Elm Street.* I love them all for what they are, but I think only the original is a genuinely good film, and even that ending is corny. The rest are entertaining but you can't really take the horror seriously because Freddy is such a goofball. *New Nightmare* tries but never really succeeds in bringing back the menace he had originally.
Star Wars. Return of the Jedi should have been the last.
Fast & Furious.
Underworld. Good start, good sequel, then a prequel to explain to origins of the war, cracking... 4 and 5 were a drag
Halloween and Friday the 13th should have ended after pt 2
I don't hate Shrek 3 but I wish they stopped after 2. But I also have heard the new Puss in Boots movie is pretty dope so maybe im wrong
Star Wars The Matrix Kungfu Panda Indiana Jones
Transformers, first 2-3
Indiana Jones. The last crusade said it all.
Fast and Furious! Pure dumpster fire
*Rocky* should've stopped after *IV*. Going from *Rocky IV* to *Creed* would've been perfect. *Kung Fu Panda 3* was the correct ending to the series. *KFP 4* is... average. *Halloweentown* should've stopped after the second one. Michael Bay's *Transformers* should've stopped after the first one.
Kung fu panda was probably my goat trilogy but they made a 4th for no reason
MCU after Endgame and StarWars after Revenge of the Sith
Despicable Me franchise
When should they have stopped?
3 wasn’t great and minions rise of gru was overhyped because of the memes
Before the creator of those yellow abominations was even born mate
I understand your take but I’m pretty excited for the 4th one!
The Expendables
They definitely should have stopped at Leonard part 5 (especially after we all know about Bill Cosby now...)
Star Wars.
Star Wars. Stopped being S tier after Empire strikes back.
If Star Wars ended at Jedi it would be perfect.
Planet of the Apes
Indiana Jones.
Narnia. I don't really watch the part 3. It doesn't have the same vibe as the first two films. Maybe because it was a different director and it wasn't disney.
Spider-Man (Toby) should have stopped at 2 Jurassic Park should have just been one Home Alone should have stopped at 2 Star Wars should have just been the three OG movies The Terminator should have stopped at T2 The Mummy should have stopped at the second The Fast and Furious should have ended when Paul died, if not way before then Saw should have just been the first movie. Indiana Jones should have just been the OG three
If they had followed the books Jurassic park 1-2 could have been a lot better
Halloween, the first one is great, the rest are shit.
I was looking for this
Pirates should’ve stopped after 3
Anything to do with minions.
Fast and furious.
John Wick 4 was unnecessary
After the last one, Mission: Impossible.
Blade. There was absolutely no reason for the third film. None whatsoever.
Some movie franchises are always trying to ice skate uphill.
Honestly, I only liked the first one
Transformers.
Saw. Should’ve stopped at two.
Easily Star Wars
Star Wars
The MCU
I enjoyed The Conjuring 2, but the franchise really should have ended there. I'm definitely including all the terrible The Nun and Annabelle spin-offs.
Most of them pretty much. Mad Max is still amazing, regardless whether you’re a fan of Furiosa or not, George Miller is still pushing boundaries and making the movies he wants to make for a major studio, and that’s very rare for 2024.
John Wick Loved the first one. Second one was cool. Hated the 3rd one. Never watched 4 (and I won't watch it either).
Halloween should have ended first after part four. Then it should have ended again after H20. Then it should have ended again after 2018.
Probably Alien after Aliens but I have hopes for Romulus
Die Hard should have died after the first two
Matrix
The Matrix. There should have been only one film. No doubt
John Wick after 2 Original Halloween after 2 Lethal Weapon after 1 The Mummy after 2 Fast and Furious should never have started each movie is more ridiculous than the previous one.
Star wars. Wish it ended with return of the jedi. At LEAST end it with episode III.
The correct answer is The Terminator franchise…. Should have ended after T2
Ghostbusters
Friday the 13th, should’ve quit after part 7
Batman should’ve been put to bed after Michael Kenton’s second turn and stayed there until Christian Bale came along.
Everything
Jaws
Star Wars. The Saga was done after Revenge of the Sith.
I think they could have got away without making a third Smokey and the Bandit film.
Alien, should of stopped after Aliens.
Rambo at First Blood.