Movies ruined by sequels
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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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Vlad. — 4 years ago(March 20, 2022 01:50 PM)
You can change the meaning of the events in the originals via the existence of sequels. Fight club apparently had sequels (I think novels not movies) and they gave a name to the narrator. Something pussy like Milton. Ruined it.
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Jan_El_Senor — 4 years ago(March 23, 2022 10:23 PM)
Then just ignore the sequel and the new meaning it ascribes to the events in the original. It's not that hard.
I mastered this ability ever since
Highlander 2
came out….
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/. — 4 years ago(April 02, 2022 02:56 PM)
Is this true though? How about Alien vs Aliens? Both great movies in their own right, but in the first film the Alien is shown to be highly intelligent, curious, and sadistic - it's implied it isn't just hunting for food but deriving enjoyment from the killing. It's an enigma. Then the sequel drops and it's an oversized bug. You can't really walk that back and the Alien as an entity hasn't been creepy since.
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/. — 4 years ago(April 02, 2022 07:06 PM)
All mental??? Feeding your own testicles into a woodchipper and not succumbing to the pain is "all mental" (I mastered this after Prometheus dropped). Watching Alien and being wholly unaffected by the abysmal sequels is mental illness. What has been seen cannot be unseen, you goddamn ******! You think I can look at the gigantic fossilized corpse of the Space Jockey sitting in its gay little chair and not irrevocably now see it as a 10' tall bald albino retard wearing a suit? Fucking kill yourself, cocksucker. By the way, Highlander 2 is canon, you stupid mother ****er. Fuck you.
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WarrenPeace — 4 years ago(February 23, 2022 03:37 AM)
The Thing prequel.
Anthony Cocks has no ****ing clue what he is talking about praising that trash heap.
We got the backstory already in the first one.
Every Alien based movie after Aliens.
Not really a fan of the Predator series but when they had A v P, that was getting ridiculous and dumb.
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