It's sad to see so many good titles get ruined because of this

Who pays to watch these things? Like Fast and Furious part 47 is clearly making money as is Comic book hero vs other comic book anti-hero part 32.

I know I'm old, but I can't even name the year when I last paid to go see a movie.

See, I actually think the F&F franchise is the exception here. The first one is just about some folks who like cars stealing DVD players. If it had just been that movie, I think it would have been mostly forgotten. It's not bad, but it's not iconic on its own. With each subsequent one they continue to lean harder and harder in to ridiculousness to the point where suddenly we have Tyrese and Ludacris in SPACE. To me the franchise is an example of how to do the action movie right: with a huge amount of self awareness and never taking it too seriously. They know what kind of movies they're making.
- The first one is just about some folks who like cars stealing DVD players
  
  Not even... CRT TV/VCR combos
- yeah fast and furious is basically anime and i love it for that

Toy Story 4, Toy Story 5...

Which wouldn't be so bad if they did more of a reboot with entirely new toys to keep the stories separate.
- Or just leave a franchise to conclude and take that time and money to create something new.
I remember seeing Kung fu panda in the theater with my niece, walking away thinking, well that was a nice complete story and forgetting about it.

There is a 4th one now???
- The 3rd one is actually pretty good

Lord of the Rings, the moment it was infested by the malignant growth of WB.

What? The LotR series is an amazing accomplishment. Probably the best trilogy of all time, and the highest grossing trilogy of all time.
- It's probably in reference to The Hobbit movies - which were...less than great.

The Matrix Resurrections?

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- And yet there are rumors that they're going to force another one! I figured that would have stopped them in their tracks, but the studios are relentless.
- And honestly that made it work for me. Not that alone, it was a work of art in its own right, not just one more part. More like a spinoff if that makes sense. It has a very different setting and stuff, I like it
I liked all the references to the Matrix Trilogy being a trans allegory but I see the movie separate from the original three. It's not head canon for me.

Felt this with MGS4.

Ending: You’ve been going too long, Snake - given too much. Quit smoking. Live your life. Don’t look back. Don’t turn out like me.

MGSV trailer: HERE WE GO AGAIN

Like River Song coming back to Doctor Who for no reason and destroying the whole idea

To hear Russell Crowe tell it, Gladiator 2 may suffer from this

They're making a Gladiator Two? WTF? Why? How? Let me guess, he knocked up Commodus' sister when she visited him in prison and the kid will be betrayed by the Senate and have to fight its way back into power?
- I think it's Joachim Phoenix's character's son, but yeah...
I met someone who worked on this movie and she says 2 is gonna be pretty okay-ish, not bad but nowhere near as good as the original.
- If even the people making it are like "it's pretty mid", it was probably a waste of time lol

Godfather 3…. why?!

Highlander 2: The Shittening

All of the sequels are weird since the first film is literally about the end of the immortals, but among the billion sequels and TV show, Highlander 2 is definitely the weirdest. I like how the rest of the sequels 100% ignore it.

Like: suddenly they're aliens and Sean Connery can be resurrected by shouting his name, and he can project a force from his hand, but it'll make him die again, and Connor is a scientist who made a shield to replace the Ozone in the future but the Ozone layer is actually fine so they have to destroy the shield generator in a Cyberpunk dystopia.

There's not enough cocaine on the planet to explain that script.
Oh, there’s a Highlander 4 in the works. It’s not dead yet. One saving grace is that it has Cavill in it, I liked his Witcher quite a bit, so I have hope for the Highlander 4.
- There's already 5 Highlander movies. The reboot would be the 6th
- Isn't this going to be a complete reboot? Cavill will be great in it.

Why are you watching a sequel you didn't want?

It can shit on the original, loved canon by people citing and making memes about the crappy sequel. Examples: The Matrix, Star Wars
- Oh no, not memes!
Because as a fan I'm contractually obligated to consume and enjoy all related content, rave about it online, and buy $100 worth plastic waste a year.

Grim Fandango'd

All the terminators after 2

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They should have spent the budget on something that was original and took a risk. We can watch a shitty reboot or a shitty original - and some of those original movies that are panned as not good at least have a shot at maybe becoming a cult classic or a fan fave.
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- Sometimes sequels are how movies get made at all.
  
  There's a story about the suggested sequel to the gladiator that has Maximus traveling through fucking time. The reason that movie was pitched was because the director and the writer specifically did not want to make that movie. But the contract for the Gladiator required a multiple movie deal if it was successful. So they pitched the craziest shit imaginable and the studio let them out of the contact.
  
  A lot of movies are made this away. Original IP doesn't get picked up unless a studio thinks they can milk it.
They do if they retcon things that happened in the good installments, like MSG4 explaining all the cool and unexplained stuff from the previous three by saying "nanomachines did it" except the one thing that would have made sense to be nanomachines, which turned out to be a case self-hypnosis.