Worst Sixth Film In A Series

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

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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!