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Lorendiac
05-05-2006, 01:50 PM
You may nominate three different movies at this stage.

Which ones caused you the most disappointment when you sat down to watch them for the very first time?

The basic rule is: Each thing you nominate has to be at least #2 in a series. Or any higher number. For instance, Highlander 2 would qualify as a candidate, but so would Batman and Robin, which was the fourth in a series!

Right now I'm just asking for "nominations." If I get enough feedback to suggest that people are actually interested in this subject, I'll later put together a Poll that will list a bunch of the most popular nominees and then invite everybody to vote for just one as being the Biggest Disappointment on the ballot! :)

No limits on genre: You are free to nominate a sequel from a superhero series, fantasy series, science fiction series, cop series, comedy series, horror series, whatever! I'm not fussy! Likewise, it can be animated or live-action, and it can be a "straight to video" production instead of something that was released on the big screen in thousands of locations.

However, there has to have been at least one previous movie. The first movie to be based on an old TV series doesn't count. (Example: Charlie's Angels is not a valid candidate, but its sequel, Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle would be an acceptable nominee.)

Chiasm
05-05-2006, 02:40 PM
Not sure if you were nominating ones yourself with your bold listed ones or not but Highlander 2 was certainly disappointing.

Does Star Wars: The Phantom Menace count since it is technically a prequel?

And lastly I must vote for Star Trek IV. i know for some reason people like this movie but it was always my least favorite of the Star Trek movies.

Lorendiac
05-05-2006, 02:58 PM
Not sure if you were nominating ones yourself with your bold listed ones or not but Highlander 2 was certainly disappointing.

Does Star Wars: The Phantom Menace count since it is technically a prequel?

And lastly I must vote for Star Trek IV. i know for some reason people like this movie but it was always my least favorite of the Star Trek movies.

No, I wasn't committing myself yet. I don't even know what my "Top Three" (or should that be "Bottom Three"?) will be. Just providing any crazy examples that popped into my head to illustrate my points :)

SW: TPM was released after three other films in the same series. Therefore, viewers had some strong expectations for it based on their previous experiences with the "previous" films. If they were disappointed, it was because of the contrast with their expectations from older films. That makes it a "sequel" as far as I'm concerned, no matter when it was supposed to be happening! :)

I remember Star Trek IV. I liked some of the humorous parts the best, but the overall plot didn't do much for me.