Movies ruined by sequels
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Soul_Venom — 4 years ago(April 02, 2022 10:38 AM)
I can't just ignore the rest. Take Aliens for example. A fine franchise. Yet Ridley Scott ****ed it up with Prometheus and Covenant. And because he did so future Alien movies will take his ****ed up content into account thereby tainting the franchise in all future installments. This also diminishes the pleasure of past installments due to bitterness over his stupidity.
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ToastedCheese — 4 years ago(April 02, 2022 10:40 AM)
I liked
Prometheus
, Scott attempted to take something back to the beginning and make it new and fresh. I found it visually strong and impressive. I saw it as its own entity and not a part of the first 3 Alien films.
Covenant
took it where I didn't expect it to go, or what the ending of
Prometheus
promised. It sold out for cheap action/horror thrills.
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Soul_Venom — 4 years ago(April 02, 2022 02:49 PM)
I like some of the old fan fiction that portrays the xenomorphs as a species that evolved to the point where it killed almost everything else on it's homeworld, a large geothermally active rogue planetoid. As a result of killing all potential hosts it had evolved a morph capable of acting as a host which could survive the birthing process. The a radical faction of the prometheans who were in the midst of a civil war discover the rogue planet in the middle of a nebula. Upon realizing how lethal the species is they attempt to weaponize them by modifying the species to make they controllable. They unleash the modified version but miscalculate and lose control resulting in their species near eradication. This genetically modified version is what we are familiar with. The more lethal version, which includes a morph that allows self replication, is still out there on that lost planetoid.
The special morph was larger than a drone but smaller than a queen and meaner than either. Is had a hump like a hunchback with a 'blowhole' on it like a whale. It had large jaws that could hyperextend like a shark. It did not have the 2nd pair of inner jaws but rather a neck like a snapping turtle. The face-huggers would attach themselves to the 'hump'. Newborns would bust out of the hump thru the exo-skelton. The incubator morph is not a willing host and would live on the periphery of the hive where drones place eggs to ambush it. It is temporarily incapacitated by pain when the newborns emerge or it would kill those too.
There is one other lifeform on the rogue planet. A lichen like organism that consumes rock and forms the hives the Aliens live in. The slime the xenomorphs excrete rapidly accelerate the lichen growth. Lichen spores live on the xenomorphs body and the two species exist symbiotically.
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/. — 3 years ago(April 04, 2022 04:48 AM)
I don't think bad sequels always ruin the originals, only that they can. Jaws is a forward enough premise (Shark attacks people) you can't really retroactively **** up what made the original good.
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MovieManCin2 — 4 years ago(February 23, 2022 01:20 AM)
Sequels only ruin
themselves.
If the original was good, it's still good. Watch the original, and ignore the sequels.
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Soul_Venom — 4 years ago(February 23, 2022 03:28 AM)
For every movie that seems like it would have been better as a one off there was the possibility that with a better, director, script, cast what-have-you that the sequel COULD have been good.
THAT is how bad sequel harm more then themselves. They close off the option of what could have been.
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