Worst Third Film in a Series

Alien 3 is actually quite good. Nice looking and it's reasonably well-paced and acted. The Jesus ending is kind of tiresome, I guess. And compared to film #4 it's practically a work of genius.

POTC3 is really really bad too.

props to Alien3 for trying to do something a bit different tho. "no guns", strong female lead character now BALD. uh, that may be it.

CROCODILE DUNDEE 3 people

i mean i enjoyed the first one tho many didn't

He never even went to Scotland!

which will happen first? Ghostbusters 3 (or a redo) or Gremlins 3 (they are currently featurng in an ad here in the UK, still looking pretty good and suggests they're on for a comeback)

also heeeeeeeeeey wait THIS isn't the original cover art!
http://www.lovefilm.com/lovefilm/images/products/7/34577-large.jpg

ground-breaking use of Photoshop motion blur there

i never saw the Crow 3 (or 2) but i'm just going to assume it's the worst on the list.

This was exactly my conclusion on this one

also, this:

goldmember is the best of the austin powers

-- rent, Wednesday, 30 July 2008 18:53 (22 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

i remember renting critters 3!

that's when dicaprio was up-and-coming tiger beat heart throb on growing pains

From Ebert's 'D3' review:

``You've never heard of the Anaheim Mighty Ducks?'' asks Charlie, the team's top scorer. ``They named a pro team after us!'' He uses this as a pick-up line with a cute brunet. Maybe it would have worked even better if he'd added, ``And the same company that owns the team produced all three Mighty Duck movies, in a transparent exercise of cross-promotion!''

With the 3-D revival in effect we need a re-release of D3. D3-3D, dude!

all you that voted Terminator 3 are excommunicated from this poll

Abbott is generating overwhelming evidence for D3

terminator 3 was shit!

Terminator 3 was solid. at least it had the balls to end the world, unlike the copout that was Terminator 2 (not that I didn't enjoy it)

it was shit and terminator 4 will be EVEN SHITTERER

It was complete crap. Alien Vs. Predator was better.

i disagree. Terminator might be the tightest trilogy going all in all.

describing anything with such a nonsensical plot as the Terminator series as "tight" is.... a stretch

i said 'tightest'. this is relative.

Terminator 4 will rule. Non-tightly.

ok ok LOTR is better

i like Alien3.

I liked Exorcist III too, when it came out. We paid to see PUmp up the Volume and snuck into Exorcist III afterward, and it was the more entertaining of the two.

DHWAV is even better than the first one.

Alien vs. Predator=for people who buy New Found Glory cds

No idea who that is, but T3 was boring. Arnold hasn't made a good movie since Commando.

Commando fucking blew. even when I was trying to enjoy it for its ridiculousness

I'm joking about Commando (Arnold was good in Terminator and basically nothing else), but T3 still sucked.

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Oh WTF!

http://i2.iofferphoto.com/img/item/451/138/36/o_house_3.jpg

OK, what the fuck is wrong with you people who don't like Commando. It's got DAN FUCKING HEDAYA as a Latin American heavy fer crissakes. It's got little hairy-armed Alyssa Milano, it's got "Remember when I said I'd kill you last? I lied," and it's got Arnie shoving a pipe through a guy.

but he's called John Matrix. the best bit is when he breaks dude's neck and then gets off the plane as it takes off.

let off some steam bennett

Arnie's best line is in Red Heat: "He lives here."

Doesn't really work out of context.

Neverending Story III...dammit, shouldn't have left that one off...

now, who's going to start the spinoff thread about worst sequels?

but he's called John Matrix. the best bit is when he breaks dude's neck and then gets off the plane as it takes off.

"My friend is dead tired."

voted other because you didn't include the third Highlander movie. i once paid to rent that on VHS and it was so shitty that it got turned off after 15 minutes and was returned unwatched (so, yeah, i'm assuming that it didn't get any better)

the one-liners in Commando are transcendent. that movie is amazing in every way.

Die Hard With A Vengeance is the best in the whole series!! wtf.

Most of these benefit from being the 3rd film in a series of ridiculous, low-expectations-generating movies. If the 3rd Matrix movie was anywhere as good as the promise of the 1st it would've been incredible instead of poop drippings.

Best part of Commando: When John Matrix and the girl need armaments for their suicide mission, so they break into a sporting goods store, which just happens to stock an arsenal of grenades, automatic rifles & rocket launchers.

Also, RE: "Remember when I said I'd kill you last? I lied." - "What happened to Sully?" "I had to let him go."

Fact: The script for the original Die Hard was originally intended as a Commando sequel.

is that true or is it an urban legend? reason I ask is that Die Hard's plot came from a book titled Nothing Lasts Forever.

BJO, I'm pretty sure it's true. The book was probably adapted as a Commando sequel at first. I will try to find information to verify this.

was just curious. I mean, it was a loose adaptation after all (character's names were changed and a lot of other stuff too, from what I heard...)

rong

The movie is based on a 1979 novel by Roderick Thorp titled Nothing Lasts Forever, itself a sequel to the book The Detective, which was previously made into a 1968 movie starring Frank Sinatra.

(I knew this already but just c/p'd)

didn't I just say the movie was based on that book?

From IMDB

John McTiernan was originally going to make Commando 2, but Arnold Schwarzenegger turned the role offer down. Commando 2 was transformed into Die Hard (1988) and Schwarzenegger was the first actor offered the title role, but he again declined. Eventually Bruce Willis would get the part after Sylvester Stallone, Burt Reynolds, and Richard Gere were all offered the role.

I found that earlier...the only thing that bothers me about it is I did a yahoo search containing the words "Commando" and "Die Hard" and only found that IMDB article and some other fringe fansite's info.

plus no mention of the novel...hmm. the MYSTERY REMAINS!

T3 for me. I'm a hater.