With all of the recent flops, I feel like it's time to update the list. So far I have (in no particular order):
Concord, Dustborn, Ghostbusters (2016), Matrix (edit) Resurrections, Terminator Dark Fate, Watchmen (HBO), Joker 2, Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, The Acolyte, Willow, Rings of Power, Saint's Row, Forspoken, Starfield, Unknown 9 Awakening, Flintlock, West Side Story, Charlie's Angels, Onward, Turning Red, Luca, Soul, Elemental, Lightyear, and Wish.
Edit: add Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League, Borderlands (2024), Cowboy Bebop (Netflix), Resident Evil (Netflix), Witcher: Blood Origin, Wheel of Time[?] (Amazon), Agatha All Along, Star Wars Outlaws, Velma, and The Marvels.
I enjoyed the sequel for what it could have lead up to (raised great questions and expanded the lore), but they shit the bed with the third one. Never even bothered with the 4th
The freeway scene is still one of the best action sequences in movie history.
But man is it a slog to watch through all of the pseudo-philosophical garbage to get to it.
Yeah. Second place goes to the Neo vs Smith zergrush scene. It mostly still holds up today when rewatching. The philosophy was dry, but laid a great foundation for the third to go wild with, but they apparently were more focused on being trannies than answering the questions their own movie asked.
Normally, I'd agree with you, but in this case, I feel like leaving the philosphy open-ended works better in this case. it makes you think about the questions asked, rather than having the answers spoonfed to you by somebody who took a philosophy 101 class to get their screenwriting major...
I agree. I think that they could have left the philosophy open with ending it how they did -- I was completely fine with ALL of that.
What I was not fine with was how they got there. They should have had a cool action sequence involving Seraph and the Agents. We all wanted to see it but never got to see it (they even teased it in the film with the short exchange between Smith and Seraph).
The whole mech sequence was pretty cool, and the final fight was okay. But it just felt like too much of the film was detoured from getting to its finale in a satisfying way.