Worst sequel ever?

Your comment about Star Wars is correct except in my opinion, Sith was good. Not as good as Empire of course, but at least as good as Jedi. This movie however...
I just don't know.

JPC

The Two Jakes compared to Chinatown would be my example, but this movie was weak. The best part was Charlie Sheen's cameo. This flick should really have continued the Bud Fox/Gordon Gekko dynamic.

I did think Josh Brolin was good though.




S.F.W.

Pirannah 2 was pretty bad, but this was worse...

I'm surprised that nobody has mentioned Godfather III. To go from the two Godfather movies which are usually listed in the top 10 of all time to that piece of dreck is a huge drop.

But WS:MNS is close. I was gigantically disappointed. I could have written a better script in a weekend. All Stone needed to do was to take a classic play about money like Shakespeare's "The Merchant of Venice" and adapt it to the 21st Century. After all, the first Wall Street was basically Goethe's "Dr. Faust" adapted to the '80's.

Mission Impossible 2 is terrible.

I think people put too much affection into the original Wall Street movie when they grade the sequel.

Yes, it contains Shia LaBeouf and a short-haired Carey Mulligan, which a surprisingly large number of haters seem to have an issue getting over. However, it also contains some class A acting from actors like Langella and Douglas. Not to mention Brolin, whom I enjoyed as a villain. And Eli Wallach was funny with his bird references and whistling all the time.

Is this movie amazing? Certainly not. It doesn't even have the $300 million CGI to fall back on. Is this movie good? I definitely think so.

Maybe I'm just a sad excuse for a man, because I notice a lot of people nagging on Mulligan's scenes, but the bit in the end, where the song "Home" by Brian Eno and David Byrne comes on, had me choking up a bit. Emotional scene more or less regardless of the acting taking place. That's what music does to a movie.

And about the pace of the movie, I really didn't feel like it was boring. The old movie had boring moments, being almost 2½ hours long and all, but like the sequel, the plot interested me and I don't suffer from ADD, so I guess I've got an advantage.

This movie is not as bad as people say it is. When people claim it as the worst sequel ever, it speaks tons of their memory of the old Wall Street movie. I watched it last night before watching the sequel and, old movie making aside, it's not that amazing.

I get that old movies become cult, especially if they're bad, but come on, people. Have you actually seen Wall Street lately?

This movie deserved more than 6.4, that's all.

Nice list (esp nightmare 2. don't even get me started). I guess it comes down to your definition of a terrible sequel. If we are just talking about awful movies that happen to be sequels, I'm sticking with weekend at bernies 2. If we are talking about sequels that rip out your soul because you loved the preceding films so much, my off-the-top-of-my-head list is as follows:

Godfather 3

Terminator 3

Alien 3

The matrix 3

X-men 3


See the pattern? Hollywood: stop at 2!


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