Top 10 Movie Franchises And TV Shows that Got Worse Over Time
Several Movie Franchises and TV shows have declined in quality over time. They usually start off with a promising future but eventually start to bore their audiences by keeping their low quality content running for too long. So this is a list of Movie Franchises and TV shows that severely declined in quality over time.Vote for the movie franchise or TV series that disappointed you the most as time went by. Thank you.
The Fairly OddParents is an American animated television series created by Butch Hartman for Nickelodeon. Unlike SpongeBob (which has been improving a lot) and Family Guy (which has quality all over the place as of Season 7, but overall mediocre compared to excellent first six seasons), it just kept getting worse and worse.
Kept adding unnecessary characters until it finally got cancelled
The Simpsons is an American animated sitcom created by Matt Groening that originally started on April 19, 1987 as shorts on The Tracey Ullman Show. It got its own series on December 17, 1989 and is still running as of 2023, making it the longest running animated sitcom. It is about a man named Homer Simpson and his family (wife Marge and children Bart, Lisa and Maggie and pets, Snowball II and Santa's Little Helper) going through a long series of misadventures. What started off as a great show, it slowly started losing it's steam when it approached it's 10th season. The current writers are clearly experiencing a lack of ideas and the newer episodes seems to impersonate a failed imitation of its younger self. Every show needs to end at a certain period, and while this show fairly entertained a large amount of audience in it's hayday, it's high time that this show needs to call it a night and move on.
It's not as good as it was, but it's still good.
SpongeBob SquarePants is an American animated television series created by marine biologist and animator the late Stephen Hillenburg for Nickelodeon. SpongeBob is currently the most popular show on Nickelodeon, as well as the longest running show, running for 23 years, and is beginning its 13th season. The show revolves around a sea sponge called SpongeBob SquarePants and his adventures under the... read more What started off as a great show for kids, the writers turned to a more mean-spirited humor as they ran out of ideas when time passed by. And since season 3, every trivial concept seemed to get the full episode treatment.
The first four seasons were awesome, the fifth one was OK, but the 2 after were full of horrendous righting and poorly-done humour.
The first 4 seasons were amazing, but starting at season 5, the show went downhill.
The original Transformers was actually one of the highlights of the summer of 2007. Little did we know the stark downward spiral the franchise would take two years later when Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen crash landed in theaters nationwide. It still had the jaw-dropping CGI of the original, but the human characters quickly became insufferable and the Transformers themselves curiously turned into racial caricatures. And if Revenge of the Fallen wasn't bad enough, 2011’s Dark of the Moon came out to similar disgust among the fan base. At last, Paramount hired Michael Bay again for yet another Transformers movie, bringing the grand total up to four movies in eight years.
The first movie and Dark Of The Moon were the only good movies. Revenge Of The Fallen and Age of Exctinction were not even that good and The Last Knight was just atrocious.
You may say I have bad taste in movies. in my opinion, I like the first 3 movies. The 4th one was okay. And the 5th movie The Last Knight was terrible so don't get me started.
The only good one was Dark of the Moon. The rest was terrible (Revenge of the Fallen was alright in some parts but still)
Jaws was never intended to be a franchise, but the desire from Universal to make a quick buck quickly bastardized the concept and led to serious overkill. In just 12 years, the series had gone from revolutionizing the entire movie business to delivering a cinematic turd that is still frequently mentioned as a contender for the title of worst movie ever made.
One & two were brilliant, the 3rd one was disappointing to its prequels but still not bad. The 4th one was just a mess from top to bottom
The Big Bang Theory is an American sitcom created by Chuck Lorre and Bill Prady, both of whom serve as executive producers on the series, along with Steven Molaro, and also some wasted guest stars from time to time. The show started off great with a group of nerdy scientists with their dorky humor. However as seasons passed by this kind of humor was over-used and quiet frankly started getting bland and derivative. It just wasn't satisfying the average viewer anymore. Not to mention the over emphasis on romantic relationships between the characters that was prioritized above the humor factor.
Started off quite unique, if stereotyped. After a few seasons it became "Friends" with nerd jokes. It has never recovered.
Friends with geek jokes
Two and a Half Men is an American television sitcom that began broadcast on CBS on September 22, 2003, and ended on February 19, 2015 after twelve seasons. It started off as a great show highlighting Alan's miserable life with Charlie's excellent deadspan humor along with a some adorable quick-wits by the 10 yr old Jake. It continued this way until the end of the 8th season, where Sheen was fired off the set with a great animosity and they killed off the Charlie character. From there the show started going down the rails. While one might think Ashton Kutcher's arrival might save the show, he just wasn't able to replace the old Charlie. From then the show's humor got more evil and mean-spirited rather trying to be just funny. Apparently they thought turning the show's humor more grotesque will buy them new audiences.
Not until Charlie left, then...
Game of Thrones is an American fantasy drama television series created by David Benioff and D. B. Weiss. It is an adaptation of A Song of Ice and Fire, George R. R. Martin's series of fantasy novels, the first of which is titled A Game of Thrones.
It's just Game of Thrones for kids now.
When Saw first hit the screens in 2004, audiences had hardly seen anything like it before. The first installment of the Saw franchise made was praised for its psychological horror elements, with the Jigsaw Killer drawing comparisons to John Doe in Se7en.
The success of the first Saw movie was massive, making over $100 million against its comparatively low million dollar budget. The success of Saw resulted in an onslaught of sequels, with a new movie released annually for the next six years. The pressure of the franchise’s release schedule, however, resulted in steady decline in story quality. Fans and critics began to dismiss the series, no caring for the direcrion the series was taking.
While its self-titled debut was fairly entertaining & its sequel Rise of the Machines took it to another level with a standard blockbuster that had a great ending, Salvation took the 'future war' concept fans wanted to see and executed it terribly, while Genisys was just a mess from top to bottom.
Good news, I just heard that not only has James Cameron got the Terminator franchise back, he has declared Terminator 3 - Genisys non-canon. - SailorSedna
Salvation wasn't bad but definitely the worst of the series
This haunting series follows the thrilling yet terrifying journeys of Sam and Dean Winchester, two brothers who face an increasingly sinister landscape as they hunt monsters. After losing their mother to a supernatural force, the brothers were raised by their father as soldiers who track mysterious ...read more.
Family Guy is an American adult animated sitcom created by Seth MacFarlane for the Fox Broadcasting Company. The series centers on the Griffins, a family consisting of parents Peter (Fat, Idiotic Dad) and Lois (Nagging Bitchy Wife), their children Meg (Socially Awkward Daughter) Chris (Fat, Idiotic Son), and Stewie (Sociopathic and Genuine Infant); and lastly Brian (Anthromorphic Pet Dog). The show... read more I don't know what happened to Family Guy. Seasons 1-6 were pretty good and it could be an insightful, funny and even intelligent show. But it has gotten really bad since season 7. Family Guy is now one of the worst cartoons you will ever watch, the show is now a disturbing & unfunny shell of it's former self.
Just to point out how different pre-season 7 and post-season 7 Family Guy are, watch Road to Rhode Island, PTV and Airport '07 then (if you really want to) watch Seahorse Seashell Party, Screams of Silence: The Story of Brenda Q and Brian's A Bad Father. It's like watching two different shows but with the same characters and setting.
Want to know how bad it has become? Even Seth MacFarlane thinks the show should have ended by season 8.
While the first six seasons were great, its quality's been fluctuating since then. We have the more mediocre but passable seasons (Seasons 7, 8, 9 and 11), and then the really bad ones (Seasons 10, 12 and 13).
The first one was epic! Too bad there is nothing else to say.
Weeds is an American dark comedy-drama television series created by Jenji Kohan for Showtime. Its central character is Nancy Botwin, a widowed mother of two boys who begins selling marijuana to support her family.
Superman is a comic character. And probably the first powerful superhero in the fictional world. The character was created by writer Jerry Siegel and artist Joe Shuster, high school students living in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1933. It was published by DC comics. The first animated superhero movie was superman. ...read more.
Pirates of the Caribbean is a dark ride attraction located in various Disney parks, including Disneyland in California and Walt Disney World in Florida. The ride takes visitors on a boat journey through various scenes that depict a pirate-infested Caribbean island. Originally conceived by Walt Disney himself, it has inspired a highly successful film franchise and remains a staple attraction for park visitors. This is one of those classic "the originals were great but the new ones are just okay."
Darth Vader is a Star Wars character and the main antagonist of the first three original Star Wars films and the main protagonist of the Star Wars prequel trilogy under his original name Anakin Skywalker. He had been trained as a Jedi but defected to the Sith lord and Galactic Chancellor Palpatine. He adopted the name Darth Vader, and was placed in a suit after his legs were cut off and his body was burned after a fight with his former master Obi-Wan Kenobi on the planet of Mustafar. He returned to the light side upon feeling conflict when finding his son Luke and turned stopped the now emperor Palpatine from killing him. In the original trilogy, Vader was physically portrayed by David Prowse and voiced by James Earl Jones. Honestly don't agree, the franchise as gone up and done, the original was great, the prequels were ok, outside of episode three which was great, and the new trilogy was great/good/ok depending on the fan and the episode your talking about
Disney was a mistake for Star Wars, they ended Lucasarts and messed up the canon by removing everything cool. or changing the cool stuff like Thrawn and messing him and his arc beyond recognition.
I am obsessed with Star Wars, but Disney is milking this franchise to DEATH!
Total Drama is a Canadian animated comedy television series which is a homage and parody to the conventions commonly found in reality television. Once the third season ended this show got terrible. The new contestants weren't as good as the old ones and when they brought back the old contestants their personalities were changed so much they felt like lesser versions of themselves.
The only good seasons were the first, third and fourth ones. The others were pretty bad.
Many felt the movies were unnecessarily violent and that their storylines often fell apart due to unresolved cliffhanger endings and the complete abandonment of, what audiences assumed were, staple characters to the franchise.
Winx Club is an Italian animated television series directed, created and produced by Iginio Straffi and his company Rainbow S.r.l.