Top 10 Most Disappointing Third Installments in Movie Franchises
I while back, I did a list showing how good third movies in franchises could be. But, even those are very good movies, most of them suck. Yep, the second movie usually sucks, but third movies almost 100% suck. It really is the minority that are good. Some of them had tons of potential but failed, and even some due to a studio intervening. Most of these movies suck.The first two Sam Raimi 'Spider-Man' films were amazing. I love both of them and have seen both quite more than a few times. Now, Spider-Man 3 came round. I can safely say it was pretty bad. The first thing some scenes are horrendous and whoever put them in there needs a supervisor for life as the dance scene is on par with some Batman & Robin scenes. Venom is a terrible villain, and the fact that plot kind of sucked is mind boggling to me. Harry Osbourne is a ok villain, and the Sandman is also a bad villain in my opinion. The fact that the movie messes up so many things that should have really worked in my eyes, makes it one of the most disappointing movies of all time.
It's not bad, but easily the weakest of the Raimi movies. The story is a little cluttered, and I sometimes get bored. However, it's mostly to blame the studio for, and even then, I'd say it's a good movie for what it has. I'd rather watch it over the Marc Webb or MCU movies
Ok, if I'm going to be honest, I disagree with almost everything on this list, Spider-Man 3 is in my opinion one of the greatset movies of all time and honestly my favourite of the Raim,i trilogy for some reason, I really liked Sandman as a villian and he was well-developed, and Venom was pretty awesomne too, and Harry was amazing as an villian
This was a downgrade from the first two solid movies, but it is still a big guilty pleasure.
I really like the first two 'Shrek' movies. I find them pretty funny. However, I highly dislike the third movie, Shrek The Third sucked hard. Heck, it even had very good potential considering the plot was really good for the movie on paper. However, this turned out to be Dreamworks Animation's most disappointing and maybe worst sequel they have ever done in their history. And remember, Dreamworks needs 1919191919 sequels in their history to make them to stop making sequels to every movie of theirs that does well (nearly). It wastes my personal favourite Shrek character (Puss in Boots). The villain is reused from the previous film which is Prince Charming, I wish that we had another famous Disney character like Snow White, Belle or Cinderella as the villain as they could have been far more entraining in the role, and the villain does feel very reused. The humour sucks. It sucks pretty hard in my eyes. For those reasons and more this is the worst 'Shrek' movie.
I'm one of the few who think that the Sure I movies get better as they progress, with Forever After being the pinnacle of ogreness.
I thought it was a good movie although not nearly to the standard of the first two.
Honestly, the best Shrek movie in my unpopular opinion (come at me haters)
The first Godfather movies are among with some of my favourite movies. In a matter of fact, they are my favourites. The first two are the definition of a perfect film. The first one shows how good a film can be, and the second shows how good a sequel can be. The third showed us that third movies in franchises usually suck hard. Now first of all the deaths have changed from the previous movies. The deaths in the first two felt quiet, in this people get shot in a thing you might see in your typical action movie. The fact that this movie sucked, and the Al Pacino did not give a marvellous performance, along with the fact that Sofia Coppola cannot act.
Yep, this was pretty gosh-darn disappointing. Especially the daughter's performance. She really hurt the movie, I think.
Indeed, this is the biggest disapointement because of how nearly perfect the first two movies are.
Not a terrible film but nepotism in a crucial role creates a black hole.
I love the first two 'Alien' movies. I believe Alien is one of the best horror films I have seen, and Aliens is one of the best action movies I have seen. On paper we have David Fincher (Fight Club, Se7en) and a very good plot on paper as well. This could have been good. The key word is "good" because the structure is so messy and goes all over the place and that in the end it just is a terrible movie. However, this shows how much of an issue it is when studio intervene with movies. Fincher should have been allowed to take whatever direction we wanted to take it in as a whole. Combined with the fact that the thrills and scares did not scare as much people as before, makes it very disappointing.
Seriously underrated, it's better than Alien in my (minority) view.
Should be number 1 alien should have ended after aliens this is a obvious cashgrab
A movie about the dark phoenix saga should not have been bad. In fact, it should have been very good. Unfortunately, this movie sucked pretty hard. The first thing is killing off half your characters, and replacing them with mostly bad characters. Because I really like Beast. Now, second of all, they are too many new characters. The franchise grew and grew until it just got too crammed for its own good. The start of the movie is a mess, 20 years ago, to 10 years ago, it really should just pick up itself as was failing already. The direction is missing Singer's versatility in the role. However, the climax was also pretty fun but again, this was nowhere near as good as X2 turned out to be and won't get you attached like X2 did.
Apart for everyone dying, I didn't find it that much of a bad movie
Actually my favourite X-Men film, but I'm not a series fan.
That movie is an unintended song reference (The Last Stand by Saboton).
The order of of the movies is the order of how good they are. The first being the best.
Compared to the first two it kind of sucks...
I'm putting this lower on the list, as if it did look that colourful, we should kind of been expecting it to suck pretty hard. And it sucked harder than that. First of all, the Riddler is your typical Jim Carrey character and is completely devolved from the cartoon and the comics as a whole. However, Val Kilmer in my opinion, was a bad Batman. Two-Face was such a bad villain and was severely overacted and it felt like the villains were trying to be funny but considering how dark the previous film was, it really did not suit the franchise. Did I mention the romance? The romance is one of the most atrocious romances I have ever seen in filmmaking. Chris O Donnell is a horrendous Robin and somehow devolved in the atrocious sequel 'Batman & Robin'
So bad! Val Kilmer is the worst Batman ever! That's what makes it bad. Also, Bat-nips, Bat-ass, and Riddler-Crotch-grab. It's super cheesy. I mean, Batman and Robin was worse, but this one was just as bad as I saw it. I can't even bare to watch it.
The only necessarily great part of this movie is Kiss From a Rose, which I did not expected to be associated with THIS.
This and Batman & Robin are huge guilty pleasures of mine.
I love the original 'Jurassic Park' and I enjoyed 'Jurassic Park: The Lost World', however, the third movie was pretty awful. We receive Alan Grant yet again, my personal favourite 'Jurassic Park' character, and he does one really good line that really does suit his character really well. In fact, the ending makes no sense. So at the end, they go on the helicopter, but fly next to the dinosaurs that were trying to kill them and seem kind of happy about it. That makes no sense and the director should have realised that much sooner. The movie's structure makes no sense, and it has some nice action scenes, but they all have nice action scenes in them.
Overhated in my opinion, Honestly the most entertaining of the trilogy, it just felt more intimidating (The Lost World is amazing too, and the original is also very awesomne)
CGI is terrible.
Although this shifted the Terminator franchise from Horror/Thriller to Action/Adventure, it was still a decent Terminator installment. You can tell that they were at least trying to replicate the terror of a robotic assassin with the TX. Not the best Terminator at all, but far better than its sequels.
Please don't hate me for this, but it's the best Terminator movie
At least it did something different from, the typical Michael Myers formula.
The worst Halloween movie next to Resurrection!
Look, it's not a bad movie by any means, but once I saw it, I found it a good example of a movie that had an amazing concept, but it was ruined by some stupid and disgusting scenes, on top of that, it doesn't have any of the charm the first two had (Toy Story 2 may remain as one of the best movies of all time and the best Pixar movie tied with Wall-E)
I did really like this movie and felt it closed off the trilogy well, but wasn't as good as the other two. - SailorSedna
The other two are amazing but this one kinda sucked.
It was nominated for best picture
Don't PUT HERE ITS WIRTTSN BY WES CRAVEN YOU DORK!
The squels are stupid as ever (maybe not The new nightmare)
But Kinda Weird to watch.
Bloated mess with lame dialogue. All of the characters are two dimensional hence why I didn't care when they died.
Lol, all the kid visitors disrespecting opinions, YOU GUYS ARE VOTING FOR IT!
What? It's the best movie of all time (in my opinion)
EDIT: Opinions change
This is the best movie of all time! Why would you even pit this on the list?!
This movie was good, it was sad at the beginning but things got happier quickly, and we finally got to see Kermit and Miss Piggy get married! - SailorSedna
Dude this is the only good Thor Movie in the first place. So how can it be the worst? lol.
That's just because James Cameron isn't here to direct it
I really like the first two 'Blade' films. I personally enjoy the second one more, but I still really like the first movie. But Blade: Trinity, sucked got damn hard. Luckily we still get Wesley Snipes as Blade. You are up against Dracula, how was this not brilliant and good? Well Blade, is a supporting character unfortunately we have to focus on the other two who are not at all interesting or engaging in the slightest. Now, Dracula is also a bad villain, he looks atrocious and that he is wearing a tan. There isn't even that much needed to pull off a good Blade movie, but they failed miserably and is an interesting failure of a movie.
This was a horrible movie that paled in comparison to The Matrix.
What a cop out of an ending.
Cop out Garbage.
Better than the first, but I still think Cars 2 is slightly better (which is a masterpiece by the way in my opinion)
Sucks animation ever Cars 2 is so Dope and Perfect
This was great.
The three new kids?
I know people say revenge is the worst, heh... Not to me
A new hope was good, empire was badass.Return however was pretty much OK and i...I wanted more from that film.Revenge of sith is better in my opinion
No way does this deserve to be on the list.
Thought it was great in my opinion
Was an excellent movie.
This started the downhill of the quality of the 'Pirates of the Caribbean' movies. It puts a not so good love between Elizabeth and Will, and places it as more important as Jack Sparrow, one of Disney's best characters they have created of the 21st century, and maybe of all time. 'Dead's Man Chest' which I did really like by the way, ended on a cliffhanger, and unfortunately 'At World's End' turned out to be massive, big disappointment. There is a bad parts which do not mix with other parts of the film. It also showcasing all of the special effects, and I do mean all of them. And Depp only has a little charm to the role this time.
Definitely the weakest PotC movie. Felt way too long and not particularly interesting. The other movies are all masterpieces though
Only liked the first one to be honest.
Still a great movie but I think it's the weakest out of the Lyrical Nanoha movies so far due to how it felt like a 1-hour-long trailer for the next movie (Detonation) and the rushed M. Night Shyamalan-esque plot twist at the end (SPOILERS: The pinkish-orange-haired girl who was helping one of the pink-haired girls [the one who got a schoolgirl outfit] turned out to be the main villain and wasn't helping her save her and her sister (the other pink-haired girl)'s planet but was trying to awake some ancient demon. It was something that we didn't see coming [except for the scene where she awakened Stern, Dearche, and Levi earlier in the movie] and Nanoha for some reason has the Formula mode even though it was made just for the 2 pink-haired girls that were fighting over their dying planet.).