Sequels...from Hell!! Posted by Imajica , Tuesday, February 8, 2011 at 6:58 PM, in

I am a sucker for sequels because I always want to know what happens  after the credits finish rolling. Unfortunately when I find out in the dreaded part 2, I am always greatly disappointed that I looked behind the curtain and find out that my imagination is so much better then the reality that the movie studio wants to feed me.  If I am lucky, it turns out to be just a a cheesy and dull knock-off of the original.  However most of the time, it is a clutter f**k of a movie with scenes thrown together that might follow some of the premise of the original movie and it has some the original actors in it (if you are lucky that they even want to show their face in it and if they do they are usually desperate for work.)So here goes....

My Top Worst Sci-Fi Movie Sequels (in no particular order)

S. Darko  - A follow-up to Donnie Darko (which should have never had a sequel) which follows the sister Samantha Darko 7 years later.  They basically try to copy what was done in Donnie Darko and do it badly.  I think that they missed the point of an "original" idea.

Highlander: The Quickening  (on up!) - Let me start off by saying that I love Highlander (the first movie) and the series was great.  The movies after one made no sense and just got worse and worse.   "There can be only one" So  how come at the end of multiple Highlander movies he is the only one, but then there are more immortals in the next? In Highlander 2, when they added the space aspect I had no idea where they were going with that.  I was fine with the Highlands.  I just recently watched the Source again and was disappointed once again.  The ending was horrible with the inspirational music playing as you get to watch a baby in the womb.  I have had enough.

Lost Boys: the Tribe -  I had to put it in here just because it really pisses me off.  The original is a great example of modern day film making.  The original was not Twilight (Thank god!) but a modern day vampire tale with examples of real scary vampires.  Yes, there was some humor in it and you can it is dated but it still has style.  The Tribe was just the OC with vampires in it.  Don't even bother with this one.  

STAR WARS: EPISODE I — THE PHANTOM MENACE - My impression of Star Wars has always been epic battles in space with heroes that you love and villains that you love to hate. I still get so wrapped up in the action that I feel like I am on the Millennium Falcon or the Death Star.  All I remember about Episode one is Jar Jar Binks (unfortunately) and other then that the characters were forgettable.  I understand that it was supposed to be a "different time" in episode one however I felt that Binks was very distracting in the scenes while the other characters didn't inspire me to cheer them on or to cower in their presence like I am sure some kids did when they first saw Darth Vadar.    Binks is no Chewbacca.  I stood in line to see this movie when it first came out and I was hoping for so much more considering that Lucas has had 22 years to think about ideas for the movie. I was very disappointed.





Tell me what you think? Which sci-movies really should have said "There can be only one"??