Jaws 3D
― Steve Shasta, Wednesday, 30 July 2008 01:58 (fifteen years ago) link
Tempted to write-in Die Hard 3.
― Rock Hardy, Wednesday, 30 July 2008 02:00 (fifteen years ago) link
Revolutions was a huge disappointment because I'm one of those guys that actually really liked Reloaded
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 30 July 2008 02:01 (fifteen years ago) link
wtf rock hardy DHWAV is a blast
are all the movies on this list supposed to suck? I liked Exorcist III quite a bit as a teenage horror buff, but I haven't seen it since. I also don't think Batman Returns was bad as a whole.
I voted for the Matrix 3 mainly because the sequels were so unnecessary. they ruined a potential sci-fi classic, along with any chance for the video game spin-offs, animated shorts, or any potential comics to succeed. it was a catastrophe. i haven't seen a potential classic die so badly because of sequels since Back to the Future.
― rockapads, Wednesday, 30 July 2008 02:03 (fifteen years ago) link
I added any movie generally considered to be bad, and in some cases, I used a few that were on the fence.
Also, it was Batman Forever (which was hoooooooorrrible) not Batman REturns (which hasn't aged well).
Exorcist III wasn't terrible, but it was extremely boring and had a ridiculous ending.
― Bo Jackson Overdrive, Wednesday, 30 July 2008 02:05 (fifteen years ago) link
the thing is the 2nd movie in at least half of these series sucked, too. was anyone serious let down by Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause!?
― some dude, Wednesday, 30 July 2008 02:08 (fifteen years ago) link
lol, I admit that one was a reach. aftera while I was cramming wikipedia's trilogy list in there
― Bo Jackson Overdrive, Wednesday, 30 July 2008 02:09 (fifteen years ago) link
Going through the appropriate IMDB page, I realize that I've generally liked the third movie in a series or I haven't made it that far. Aside from those I've actually liked, Halloween 3 and Superman 3 are two of my favorite bad movies.
I guess I have to go with Spider-Man 3, which was terrible, but I seem to be in a serious minority of people who weren't all that crazy about the other two. But it looks like there are a lot of horrendous options just over the horizon (Ace Ventura, Jr.? Really?).
― Deric W. Haircare, Wednesday, 30 July 2008 02:12 (fifteen years ago) link
I kind of liked Spiderman 3...it did also have one of the most ridiculous moments in comic book movie history (Tobey McGuire 70's dancing down the street after unleashing black spiderman)
― Bo Jackson Overdrive, Wednesday, 30 July 2008 02:13 (fifteen years ago) link
revenge of the sith really needs to be on here. just sat thru that dvd for curiosity's sake and it's just infuriating. tho i did never see the second one, which i heard was maybe worse
― goole, Wednesday, 30 July 2008 02:14 (fifteen years ago) link
i always forget there were three austin powers movies
Omen III : The Final Conflict (although none of the omen films are any good)
― velko, Wednesday, 30 July 2008 03:01 (fifteen years ago) link
uh.....majorly disagree w/ that (not the third one, but the first was awesome)
― Bo Jackson Overdrive, Wednesday, 30 July 2008 03:24 (fifteen years ago) link
Halloween III not on this list = sham!
― David R., Wednesday, 30 July 2008 03:26 (fifteen years ago) link
there's yer "Other" option! :)
― Bo Jackson Overdrive, Wednesday, 30 July 2008 03:30 (fifteen years ago) link
star trek III: the search for spock might well be the only good "third" movie
― J.D., Wednesday, 30 July 2008 03:36 (fifteen years ago) link
Inspector Clouseau should rank up here (non B.Edwards/non P.Sellers)
― Steve Shasta, Wednesday, 30 July 2008 03:47 (fifteen years ago) link
xp: I'd take Goldfinger over your Trekky shlock, bub.
― Steve Shasta, Wednesday, 30 July 2008 03:48 (fifteen years ago) link
Jaws 3D was so boring
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Wednesday, 30 July 2008 03:48 (fifteen years ago) link
i never saw the Crow 3 (or 2) but i'm just going to assume it's the worst on the list.
― Jordan, Wednesday, 30 July 2008 03:57 (fifteen years ago) link
I liked the 3rd matrix film more than the 2nd one. Mainly because of that godawful boring motorbike chase scene in the 2nd one.
― Trayce, Wednesday, 30 July 2008 04:07 (fifteen years ago) link
to be the worst third film i think it has to be the biggest drop-off from the first two. if the second film sucked, who cares if the third one did too? on that basis i vote alien 3 -- it's a long way from the worst film on the list, but it's not very good, and the first two are classic.
― tipsy mothra, Wednesday, 30 July 2008 04:21 (fifteen years ago) link
D3 is really quite amazingly bad, even in comparison to the bad first two.
The first Mighty Ducks movie: they win some local tournament D2: they win the World Championship of the World for Forever D3: they get fat and old and win another local tournament
― abanana, Wednesday, 30 July 2008 04:47 (fifteen years ago) link
oh great. thanks for fucking spoilers >:O
― wilter, Wednesday, 30 July 2008 04:51 (fifteen years ago) link
he just freed up three spots in your Netflix queue
― Bo Jackson Overdrive, Wednesday, 30 July 2008 04:53 (fifteen years ago) link
-- Rock Hardy
-- El Tomboto
One of these people is OTM, and it's not Tombot. Die Hard 3 was the first thing I looked for when I opened this thread -- the first 20 minutes were OK, even engaging, but the rest of the movie was one of the most horrific trainwrecks I've ever seen (if you can call something a "trainwreck" when it's closer to "are you people even fucking TRYING to make a movie here?").
― Charlie Rose Nylund, Wednesday, 30 July 2008 04:58 (fifteen years ago) link
I haven't seen half of these movies, but I had to vote for X-Men 3... because it deserves it.
― Nhex, Wednesday, 30 July 2008 05:14 (fifteen years ago) link
I thought everyone agreed Die Hard 3 was better than 2.
I think Return of the Jedi should've been on the list, it's pretty much the consensus that it's the worst of the original three movies. (And it is the third film in the series, it's just not numbered so.)
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 30 July 2008 06:47 (fifteen years ago) link
(And it is the third film in the series, it's just not numbered so.)
oops sorry.
― wilter, Wednesday, 30 July 2008 06:49 (fifteen years ago) link
BTTF3 nowhere near deserving of such an early pick in this thread. It's overly schmaltzy admittedly, but it's a fun film nonetheless, with a whole load of nice touches.
― krakow, Wednesday, 30 July 2008 06:57 (fifteen years ago) link
*is
I agree with Tombot. Die Hard with a Vengeance is awesome. scores better than the somewhat ridiculous Die Hard 2: Die Harder (which I enjoyed, despite the farfetched plot)
― Bo Jackson Overdrive, Wednesday, 30 July 2008 12:06 (fifteen years ago) link
is alien 3 the david fincher one? that was pretty terrible
― n/a, Wednesday, 30 July 2008 12:09 (fifteen years ago) link
I liked Exorcist III quite a bit as a teenage horror buff, but I haven't seen it since.
ISTR this being actually pretty good, although George C. Scott -- who was great great great, I love George C. Scott -- was no Lee J. Cobb. But it's got Dourif!!!
Of the one's I've seen on this list, I vote Godfather III.
― Pancakes Hackman, Wednesday, 30 July 2008 12:14 (fifteen years ago) link
no Return of the King? hmm.
went for Batman Returns off the list, would have gone for Matrix Revolutions except that, contrary to Tom's opinion, i found it a huge improvement on reloaded.
i think second movies are generally so shitty that i can't be bothered to watch the third- this is the case for Spiderman and Pirates of the Caribbean- if i'd seen them i'm sure they'd be high on my list.
I haven't seen the first of the Once upon a time.... series, but Mexico sure was a turd.
― darraghmac, Wednesday, 30 July 2008 12:23 (fifteen years ago) link
Return of the King was the best of three LoTR movies.
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 30 July 2008 12:25 (fifteen years ago) link
well, no, but even so is the poll relative or standalone? because it's still a shittily written and badly acted pantomime.
― darraghmac, Wednesday, 30 July 2008 12:26 (fifteen years ago) link
Terminator 3 guys
― sonderborg, Wednesday, 30 July 2008 12:42 (fifteen years ago) link
Voted Goldmember even though I haven't seen it, just because I hate Michael Myers so, so much.
― Oilyrags, Wednesday, 30 July 2008 14:23 (fifteen years ago) link
Matrix: Revolutions probably the most disappointing (but still like several scenes) - same goes for ROTS i guess but that has the slight 12A excuse
― blueski, Wednesday, 30 July 2008 14:50 (fifteen years ago) link
i loved the first two POTCs but not the third much at all. are third acts just that bit more predictable generally? do we have a thread for good threquels?
― blueski, Wednesday, 30 July 2008 14:52 (fifteen years ago) link
the inclusion of a standard 'character arc' over three installments is getting really old and cliched at this stage, I think, as well as the inevitable doubling/tripling of 'bad guys' at every juncture.
― darraghmac, Wednesday, 30 July 2008 14:55 (fifteen years ago) link
One of these people is OTM, and it's not Tombot.
crazy talk, DHWAV is great as a standalone or as a sequel.
― darraghmac, Wednesday, 30 July 2008 14:56 (fifteen years ago) link
Alien Vs. Predator would be the third Predator movie, right?
― Oilyrags, Wednesday, 30 July 2008 14:57 (fifteen years ago) link
3rd Godzilla movie: Godzilla Vs. King Kong (although the franchise plumbed much stinker depths later)
― Oilyrags, Wednesday, 30 July 2008 14:59 (fifteen years ago) link
-- Oilyrags, 30 July 2008 14:57 (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Link
hmm, technically....
― darraghmac, Wednesday, 30 July 2008 15:01 (fifteen years ago) link
AvP isn't terrible, just not good.
it seems that comeback/resets tend to work better, but you can only consider those after the character was already done to death i guess. and yeah some of them are still shit.
― blueski, Wednesday, 30 July 2008 15:02 (fifteen years ago) link
T3
― dan m, Wednesday, 30 July 2008 15:04 (fifteen years ago) link
not the worst on this list by a long shot, but i'm giving it to Godfather 3 just because of the precipitous drop in quality between the original and it's third. I'd say Back to the Future 3 deserves mention, too. Again, not horrible, but compared to how much i liked the first, it's pretty abysmal.*
*should note i've never seen any Die Hards, any Matrices or Jaws 3D (another I suspect would be in the running)
― will, Wednesday, 30 July 2008 15:04 (fifteen years ago) link
ahh, The Lost World. I wish it was a third film just so it could be on this list.
The movie famous for a young girl gymnast ACTUALLY SOMERSALTING AND KICKING OVER A DINOSAUR THAT WEIGHS SEVERAL TONS
― Bo Jackson Overdrive, Saturday, 2 August 2008 03:25 (fifteen years ago) link
The Schumacher Batmans I am now considering as their own separate thing, so now since 1989 there have been 3 sets of 2 Batman movies. Thus, Batman Forever is not the 3rd film of this series, but is rather the 1st in its own series. (I realize it was billed as the third and fourth upon their release, but Burton's and Shumacher's visions were so far apart from each other that in retrospect it doesn't make sense to group them together.)
― billstevejim, Saturday, 2 August 2008 04:16 (fifteen years ago) link
disqualified
― Bo Jackson Overdrive, Saturday, 2 August 2008 04:55 (fifteen years ago) link
OCEAN'S THIRTEEN
― Mr. Snrub, Saturday, 2 August 2008 05:59 (fifteen years ago) link
Matrix wins!
― Bo Jackson Overdrive, Saturday, 2 August 2008 06:52 (fifteen years ago) link
this really should've been won by a series where the 2nd was good enough that the 3rd could be considered a letdown.
― some dude, Saturday, 2 August 2008 14:32 (fifteen years ago) link
take it to appeals!
― Bo Jackson Overdrive, Saturday, 2 August 2008 15:14 (fifteen years ago) link
lest we forget the other 'number 3s in 3-D' from the micro-genre:
Amityville 3-D: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FM0SWbO_VxE "...as the horror reaches out beyond the edge of the screen"
and also:
Frday the 3th part 3-D! : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8WcC4pS_tU "and now you can't even keep him on the screen"
Boy had i forgotten about the early 80s 3-D revival. What brought that on i wonder?
― piscesx, Saturday, 2 August 2008 23:38 (fifteen years ago) link
Yeah, yknow, at the time my feeling was that Matrix Reloaded was a letdown from the first but KINDA okay, so then Revolutions was just so unspeakably bad and stupid that it really stood out. But I'm watching Reloaded on TV right now and it's just as uninvolving and inept as Revolutions, just it's uninvolving dialogue scenes rather than uninvolving CG. I think it really benefited from the sense that all this portentous crap was going somewhere; knowing that it's not, it's REALLY tedious to sit through all the portents. So I think if I could I would go back and change my vote from Revolutions to Superman 3 or BTTF3.
― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 2 January 2010 05:05 (fourteen years ago) link
Noted.
― System (s1ocki), Saturday, 2 January 2010 08:27 (fourteen years ago) link
i don't hate jackson's LOTR trilogy as much as i used to. all wounds really do heal with time.
― Not a reactionary git, just an idiot. (darraghmac), Saturday, 2 January 2010 09:31 (fourteen years ago) link
BTTF 3 is good.
― Communi-Bear Silo State (chap), Saturday, 2 January 2010 14:15 (fourteen years ago) link
the naked gun 33 1/3 was pretty bad.
― Mr. Snrub, Saturday, 2 January 2010 15:48 (fourteen years ago) link
have there been any GREAT 3rd films in a series? has there been a poll for best?
worst drop off has to be Jedi. the new Star Trek wipes the *floor* with Jedi and i said that as massive fan of the first 3 Star Wars films.
― piscesx, Sunday, 17 January 2010 23:13 (fourteen years ago) link
"have there been any GREAT 3rd films in a series?"
bourne ultimatums.
― free the charmless but occasionally brilliant Dom Passantino (history mayne), Sunday, 17 January 2010 23:16 (fourteen years ago) link
i must watch those.
― piscesx, Sunday, 17 January 2010 23:29 (fourteen years ago) link
its totally batman forever.
oh and yea bourne ultimatum was soooooooo awesome
― Ballistic, Wednesday, 24 February 2010 04:24 (fourteen years ago) link
Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome.
I mean, the second Matrix was shitty as well, no?
Apart from the Godfather, which of these films had a sequel as good/better than the first?
― Slacker Bilk (S-), Wednesday, 24 February 2010 04:32 (fourteen years ago) link
i'll rep for thunderdome. critics loved it, but after the bleak awesomeness of Road Warrior, Tina Turner and some midget who is one half of "master blaster"? I didn't even finish teh movie, and I hear the second half is potentially worse!
― Ballistic, Wednesday, 24 February 2010 04:33 (fourteen years ago) link
batman forever>>>> robocop 3.
I guess you could argue that robocop 3 isn't terrible because it's such a hypnotic trainwreck.
― Matt Armstrong, Wednesday, 24 February 2010 05:07 (fourteen years ago) link
i've never been tempted to watch it
― banaka, Wednesday, 24 February 2010 05:09 (fourteen years ago) link
no return of the king = bjo FUCKIN' UP
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 24 February 2010 05:47 (fourteen years ago) link
Die Hard with a Vengeance is a pretty great 3rd movie
― quiz show flat-track bully (darraghmac), Wednesday, 24 February 2010 09:52 (fourteen years ago) link
yea i mean Samuel L. Jackson!!!11!!
― Ballistic, Wednesday, 24 February 2010 23:27 (fourteen years ago) link
working on the list for a sequel to this thread, which in the spirit of things will probably manage to be both unwanted and somehow disappointing anyway. question: what's the maximum number of poll options? i remember it being 50, is that right?
― tales of a scorched-earth nothing (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 15 March 2017 17:50 (seven years ago) link
"I penetrated your dad's Fortress of Solitude, motherfucker!" would've been the highlight of Superman III.
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 8 February 2018 01:22 (six years ago) link
Watched Superman III with my sibs over the holidays. Love that POS so much.
― I'm very active in the pegasus community (Old Lunch), Thursday, 8 February 2018 01:39 (six years ago) link
perverse
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 8 February 2018 01:42 (six years ago) link
^yes i would totally be down to watch Supes 3 right now. it's probably the Superman movie i've seen the most times. lot of crazy shit to love in that film.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 8 February 2018 01:49 (six years ago) link
shoutout to whoever watched free willy 3
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 8 February 2018 02:10 (six years ago) link
free willy 2 was the first movie where i realized i was watching a bad movie
― adam the (abanana), Thursday, 8 February 2018 02:57 (six years ago) link
Seriously, it's like...maybe stop getting captured already, Willy.
― I'm very active in the pegasus community (Old Lunch), Thursday, 8 February 2018 03:07 (six years ago) link
I freed my willy
― Hi diddley dee, hen fapper's life for me (Neanderthal), Thursday, 8 February 2018 03:16 (six years ago) link
I'll never forget sitting in the theatre watching Made in America (the Ted Danson/Whoopi Goldberg thing, yeah) and the trailer for the original FW showing before the film. As soon as the title flashed on the screen at the end of the trailer, the whole crowd burst out laughing.
― iCloudius (cryptosicko), Thursday, 8 February 2018 03:29 (six years ago) link
free willy - a thirst 4 vengeance, rated R
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 8 February 2018 03:39 (six years ago) link