Worst Sixth Film In A Series

taking my boy to see Star Wars III was equal parts boredom and tedium

Star Trek VI is by far the best film here

Oh shit and i just voted for it oops >:(

Chucky didn't tap out at five! There are currently seven! Seven Chuckys!

Wild Bikini is dreadful but maybe so were the other 5 (!? dear god) beach party films.

Aside from the gasp-inducing oversight of Curse of Chucky (which really is much better than the sixth entry of the Child's Play series had any business being), the only big omission I can think of off the top of my head is House of Frankenstein.

OHMSS is the best film here so Shakey’s misvote is okay

I was gonna say the same about Chucky. Also that, Madea and Rocky are the only series where all the films are by the same person (and Stallone taps out with #7) (I’m not counting the Tolkiens bcz of adaptation).

aside from Diana Rigg and maybe the luge chase, i find OHMSS close to unwatchable. Lazenby is a smug clown.

it also doesn't have any lines as good as "Please, Captain... not in front of the Klingons."

Lazenby is painfully uncharismatic but Diana Rigg makes up for a lot and I think it's one of the better looking Bonds on the whole

in fact, i've only seen 3 of these, like any person who values their time, and my vote goes to Sith. (i abstain, actually)

yeah I’ve only seen Bond, Furious & Trek, have no way of picking a worst

do intend to see Fallout bcz of McQuarrie’s twitter Q&As, but am queasy abt giving a slaveowner money, and can’t be arsed stealing #5 to find out what’s happening

Chris Morgan is now on his seventh Fast as writer, but only started with #3 and IIUC fronts a writers room these days

re: chucky etc., for whatever reason i decided in an earlier edition of this poll to not count direct-to-video entries. i actually now think that was probably a mistake, but i'm sticking with it.

star trek vi and OHMSS are probably the only two here that have people who'd consider them the best in their series (or, let's say, a decent number of fans who'd put them in the top three). haven't actually watched trek VI all the way through since the theater, but i've watched the ending battle on youtube many a time. "fire!" i also remember the wolverine being a nice, self-contained adventure. like thank god they got one competent film of this excellent wolverine actor just doing wolverine shit. the harry potter is good, i think, but they're all pretty good.

hobbit and sith are pretty dire, both the third outings in overstuffed CGI prequel trilogies nobody wanted, limping to the end with no enthusiasm. hobbit III can't be worse but it might actually be more boring with all the talky talky subplot stuff revolving around treacherous lake-town politicking. who could ever give a fuck?

never got all the way through muppets from space but the very idea of gonzo being an alien really offended me...i can't really reconstruct why, now. speaking of which it's possible that alien: covenant pissed me off the most of any of these. hard to be surprised after prometheus but it is a very mean-spirited film and everything that it thinks is clever is actually stupid and insulting. fassbender and some of the landscapes offered a few minutes' pleasure, i'll say that.

I've only seen the Bond, Potter and Star Wars films (and maybe the Pink Panther one). OHMSS is my very favourite 007 (despite Lazenby), Half-Blood Prince devotes too much screen time to dumb (and sexist) romantic comedy, but Sith is definitely the worst, mostly thanks to some of the most ear-bleedingly awful dialogue in film history.

My husband loves The Undiscovered Country. I'll watch it one of these days.

Lazenby's from my home town.

Not a good thing. Its a shithole.

star trek vi is also notable for being a very strong return to form, after what remains the nearly undisputed low point in a series that includes ten entries plus three reboots. usually once something starts getting really bad at 4 or 5, it's only further downhill from there.

I'm voting "Revenge of the Pink Panther"

Revenge of the Pink Panther is flattered somewhat by comparison to the next three films in the series

I actually did see Revenge of the PP; I thought that title was one of the post-Sellers paste-up jobs, but that was next. It was mediocre.

I've seen 5 of these - Fast Six / Harry Potter / Hobbit / Star Wars / The Wolverine, and I will probably see the Alien / Mission Impossible / Bond / Resident Evil / Star Trek at some point.

The worst is probably the Hobbit - it's between it and Star Wars, and Episode III has some style and vision in its futile box-ticking exercise.

re: chucky etc., for whatever reason i decided in an earlier edition of this poll to not count direct-to-video entries. i actually now think that was probably a mistake, but i'm sticking with it.

I can respect that. FWIW, Curse is one of only a handful of direct-to-video movies I would ever recommend in good conscience.

futile box-ticking exercise indeed... of all of these i'd say hobbit was the most dependent for its ticket sales on "well... i saw the other ones so... i guess?" obviously sequels rely on this in general for some of their turnout but even star wars here mustered a well-edited trailer suggesting an exciting and intense film righting the boat at last. it turned out this was all smoke and mirrors relying on mcdiarmid's one great scene in the film, but you could arrive at the theater slightly pumped for what might unfold. (i skipped it til dvd, mind you.)

I would also submit for approval The Avengers and, as I just discovered the existence of this film series yesterday, La Casa 6 (AKA House II: The Second Story).

The Sixth Sense might be the best.

I decided not to include the Marvel films because they include separate, distinct series so that the same film would count in multiple polls - is this Iron Man 3 or Marvel 7? Anyway, nobody says "hey you wanna go catch Marvel 7 this weekend?" Weirdly, I doubt any of the individual lines, except maybe Avengers, will ever actual get to a sixth film without a reboot, retitle, or crossover/combo titles.

Also, they're all demonstrably far worse than any of the films included in this poll, so it wouldn't really be a fair contest.

Sorry, could you repost that? My eyes were rolling to such an extent that I couldn't quite read what you wrote.

yeah come on

https://www.allaboutmovies.com.au/media/k2/items/cache/e4dd5028ecd080055754b64a1e0a81fa_XL.jpg

Godzilla franchise has a similar problem to Marvel inasmuch as there is a central series of Godzilla flicks but also films for other monsters that get pulled into the mix down the line (eg Mothra, Rodan, Varan).

How about Song of the Thin Man

Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly said that "Saw VI is the thinnest, draggiest, and most tediously preachy of the Saw films. It's the first one that's more or less consumed by backstory—which is to say, it's one of those hollow franchise placeholders in which far too many fragments from the previous sequels keep popping up in flashbacks." He said, "If your goal is to do a quick study for a round of Saw Trivial Pursuit, then this may be the movie for you. If you're looking to be jolted into fear or queasy laughter, skip this sequel and hope that the producers get their sick act together next time."

the real creepy twist is that all of the saw sequels are equally terrible. i think i've seen most of two of em and there was no telling any of that gross mean shit apart. with wiki's aid i can confirm that I saw saw iii and already the "plot" parts between the torture porn were needlessly convoluted flashback fests revolving around the expansion of mr. saw's evil family. what an awful series.

Saw 1 and 2 were mildly entertaining, but I was howling at Saw 3, and never watched another one.

I can't stand how the movie always seems to frame Jigsaw as the "real hero". It never poses him as contradictory, and the people he kills are always *bad people", even though he himself pretty much leaves an innocent girl for dead at the end by making her part of the trap, knowing her father will fail the test and that nobody will be able to find her.

Also arrives at its twists disingenuously. The twist is that the nurse is actually the protagonist's wife, when we were mislead into believing she was the wife of the guy who had a cameo at the beginning. Except that this guy said "I want a divorce" - who breaks up with their girlfriend by saying "I want a divorce"? At least use "unreliable narrator" framing if you're gonna do that.

and it wasn't even that great of a twist. requires Whiney's WHO GIVES A SHIT reaction

I would have had more respect for Saw if like other torture porn, it just admitted what it was, rather than trying to add bullshit freshman level psych exercises into the fray

who breaks up with their girlfriend by saying "I want a divorce"?

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John Lennon broke up the Beatles by saying that!

yeah but it's metaphorical in that sense!

The longer these 'Worst Nth Film In A Series' go on, the more likely the answer is 'Police Academy N'.

Police Academy 69: In Your Face

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I'm wondering, given how godawful a theatrically-released film series often becomes once it's grown to six or more installments, just how apocalyptically abysmal some of the unmentioned direct-to-video franchises (eg Children of the Corn, Puppet Master) are by the time they reach that milestone.

(I just learned that there are seven Evil Bong movies. God help the human race.)

Is Trek 6 not the one with the dumb rocket boots sequence at the start? Hated that as a kid iirc, but just saw VI is playing here on 70mm soon

That's 5. 6 has magnet boots.

6 is pretty good. 5 is a piece of shit.

How about Song of the Thin Man

Ha! I was actually looking for this one to vote for it.

Weissmuller's Tarzan series also missing from the poll.

I fell off the thin man series before getting to the song of the thin man. They got me pretty bad pretty quickly after the first one.

Only ones I've seen: Star Wars, Potter, Bond, Police Academy, Wolverine.
Can't remember Police Academy at all. Weren't they all worse & worse rehashes of the first one? If so, it might be deserving of a vote.

Can hardly remember Bond, but I think I liked it. Didn't this one feature some off-beat humor?

I liked Wolverine, except for the Viper character & actress.

Don't really hate but also don't care too much for the Star Wars prequels in general. The first one obviously has many flaws but there were parts I liked alright. I disliked II more. Episode III, I actually thought was quite good, even if the stupid "NOOOO!" scene stuck with me most. I do recall enjoying the movie when I saw it in the cinema and leaving in a good mood.

That leaves Potter 6, which I thought was pretty dull and one of, if not the, weakest of the eight. I strongly disliked the Snape development in the story, even if it was subsequently cast in a different light (and I -did- like movies 7 and 8!). That whole business with the 'half-blood prince', which even is the title of the move - even with the character's development, this bit didn't seem to matter at all. It's all probably much better in the book (which I never read) but this movie just frustrated me.
Potter gets my vote. (My Potter movie ranking from best to worst: 4-7-1-8-2/5-3/6)

nah the half-blood prince thing is dumb in the book too, as with the previous book's "but i don't WANNA go to protect-myself-from-mind-control lessons! you're a JERK!" she was really relying on harry being a stubbornly idiotic adolescent to keep the plot going for a while there. not totally bad characterization but not super fun to put up with for five hundred pages. OTOH you get all that fun stuff with harry and dumbledore off gathering clues in dangerous locales together, which was a really refreshing change-up in the formula imo, even more than V's thing where dumbledore's effectively absent and the officious new teacher (effectively the new administration) is the main antagonist.

Oh duh, there's one more I've seen: The Hobbit. And while I really enjoyed quite a lot of it, I thought it fell apart so badly pretty much from when the titular battle starts that I might even have considered voting for it - but Potter 6 would have 'won' anyway.

half-blood prince is my second favorite after azkaban: it's the only one to actually show you something (the cod-shakespearian roundelay of dumb crushes and love-potion intrigue) worth lifting a finger to save from wizard fascism. (only in 6 and 3 are the kids shown experimenting w recreational drugs, which would obv be happening all the time.) the part where everybody collaborates in wiping the wizard swastika from the sky is lovely. i didn't see any of the movies after this one tho.

voted the hobbit even tho i haven't seen it.

Voted Alien Covenant, as its the film whose distant ancestors mean the most to me, so it's the biggest disappointment. Not objectively the worst thing on the list, though.

Survival of the Dead does have a laughably awful bit where the heroes hide from the villains by ducking down out of camera view, even though they would still be easily visible to the actual baddies, waiting for a bit, and then standing up into view again.

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hobbit for some reason pisses me off more, but in the end it has to be star wars

i feel like inasmuch as aesthetic objectivity exists, which it doesn't, Hobbit 3 is the most worthless thing on the list, but i hear less irl from fans of H3 than i do from Star Wars apologists.

every movie i've seen here is at least pretty good, especially the bond and friday the 13th entries which are two of my favorite movies of all time. (i enjoy the relentless nihilism of alien covenant sue me.) but this is prob curse of michael myers for me

Leonard

You might be right about Halloween, Brad. I've seen 4-6 relatively recently and could not tell you one solitary thing about any of them. They featured Mike Myers, I guess. I think 6 is the one with Paul Rudd.

Fuckin' Final Nightmare, though. Ugh. What a steamy pile. This is a toughie.

Nahhh, at least Final Nightmare took a chance on being weird, with Roseanne & Tom and Alice Cooper and the 3-D. None of it worked at all but minor points for effort. Halloween 6 was just people collecting a paycheck for boring the pants off of everybody.

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Ouch. Not a surprising winner, but I'm impressed Hobbit and Alien got votes. I wish I'd included the Hobbit films in the last two polls though I think this is surely the worst of them. Prometheus, interestingly, got no votes last time.

Prometheus is far too funny to be the worst of anything

I’m more struck that someone looked down this list and picked Fast 6!