Worst sequel in movie history.

[Viking Bastard]

He started off as the 2nd best Bond after Connery, but now, IMHO, he sits at the bottom, below even Moore.

I'd say he's still the second best Bond. In fact, the only (possibly)
redeeming feature of the movie was Brosnan (along with his ultrakewl
stonecold line "I never miss."). Brosnan's great.

DAD was going so well for half the movie. I was giddy with excitement
(I'm a big Bond fanboy) and then they went to Iceland and the movie
turned into Charlie's Angels. I freaked out. Literally. I was just angry. To
have my little loveable country linked to this travestry.

*SOB*

I'm getting over it, slowly, but it has taken a lot of drugs and group therapy.

 

[Villano]

I'd say he's still the second best Bond. In fact, the only (possibly)
redeeming feature of the movie was Brosnan (along with his ultrakewl
stonecold line "I never miss."). Brosnan's great.

DAD was going so well for half the movie. I was giddy with excitement
(I'm a big Bond fanboy) and then they went to Iceland and the movie
turned into Charlie's Angels. I freaked out. Literally. I was just angry. To
have my little loveable country linked to this travestry.

LOL. Charlie's Angels! That didn't even occur to me, but you're right.

I personally love how, when he was in the jet car, going 100 mph, trying to outrun the laser, the beam is about 10 ft behind him. But then when he stops at the ravine, the beam is now 100 ft away and going all of 2 mph.

The only good part about the movie is the death of the villain. Too bad it was wasted in a terrible film.

Of course, the movie features the worst Bond theme ever and a cameo by its singer, Madonna. The minute she appears onscreen, the film screeches to a halt. You have A-level actors and then, dropping into the middle of it, someone who's at the level of a 9th grader performing in her first school play.

And the next film, Mariah Carey is supposed to sing the theme and have a part! Argh!

BTW, the reason that I consider Brosnan worse than Dalton and Moore is that 1.) he's a big enough star to turn a film down, 2.) he wanted to quit after Tomorrow Never Dies but came back to make The World Is Not Enough (which means he must have liked the script), and 3.) he keeps pushing to add more "drama" to Bond and "update" him.

Basically, Brosnan wants the lovestory drek in TWINE and XXX-like action in DAD. But, simply put, that's not Bond. Bond does what it does well. When you try altering that formula, well, you end up with the last 2 films.

 

[Klaatu B. Nikto]

Ok, maybe I'm backpedaling a bit but Black Mask 2 did have some semi decent fight scenes. However, they went WAY overboard with the rubber monster costumes and CGI.

As for Iron Monkey 2, keep fast forwarding til you get to a fight scene and when its over, repeat for the next one. IIRC, the last one was pretty good.

The worst Bond film? Casino Royale with and by Woody Allen but it's not a sequel so it could be disqualified.

I'd have to say A View to a Kill. Christopher Walken was wasted as a villain and it had Grace 'She's a MAN BABY!' Jones to boot.

I can't really say which Bond movie is worse because I kinda like the whole series tho it's gone downhill lately. Bond movies are just an excuse to do an even better stunt than before like the 'loopty loop' jump over a river (Man With the Golden Gun), the 18 wheeler on 9 wheels (License to Kill) or the boat across land stunt (Live and Let Die I think), which is also in Guiness IIRC.

Back to bad sequels:
Friday the 13th: Jason Takes Manhatten, where most of the movie takes place on a boat.

Halloween 3, which doesn't have Michael Myers but some weird Halloween mask conspiracy.

 

[blackshirt5]

Exorcist 2. Definitely Exorcist 2.

Sequels like Speed 2, the follow up to Mortal Kombat, et cetera, don't count because the predecessors weren't worth the effort either.

Exorcist 2 at least had the advantage of a hot teenaged Linda Blair in it.

I don't know what this Highlander 2 crap you people are talking about is.

 

[TiQuinn]

Let's see...

Beverly Hills Cop 2 and 3
Rambo, First Blood Part 2 and Rambo 3
Conan the Destroyer
Next Friday, Friday after Next
Another 48 Hours
Creepshow 2

 

[FraserRonald]

Hi again,

Thanks, FraserRonald. The sacrifice is appreciated - about two hours of your life you'll never get back, whatever it cost to borrow the video, and the potential therapy sessions truly bad movies can cause...

The pain lessens as the days go by and the memory fades.

I did borrow it from the library so I'm not out money.

I'd hoped they'd be able to do something decent with it, but when all you can do is edit existing footage, I suppose your options are pretty limited.

Anyway, thanks again!

No worries. In all honesty, watching the train-wreck that is a movie/TV movie/straight-to-video/whatever called Netforce (reviewed in the same issue) made my pure, unadulterated hatred of The-Quickening/Renegade-movie-that-claims-link-to-Highlander lessen . . . for about five minutes!

Edit: One borrows from a library, one does not rent. Perhaps my recovery isn't complete!

 

[Klaatu B. Nikto]

Though if we're busting on Bond films (sequels I suppose they could be considered), how can anyone miss Never Say Never Again. That movie looked to be a deliberate effort by Connery to kill the franchise by making the worst movie ever. It was a horrendous re-make of Thunderball. I can recall nothing positive gained from sitting through that one.

The remake was the result of a court case over who owned the Bond franchise. MGM still owns it but the writer/producer of Thunderball was granted sequel rights to Thunderball. Thus Never Say Never Again.

You'd have to dig to find the original ruling but I found an E! news article from 1998 about 'round 2'. Oh, the other studio hoping to start its own James Bond franchise is Sony.

http://www.eonline.com/News/Items/0,1,3951,00.html

 

[Welverin]

[Sequels like Speed 2, the follow up to Mortal Kombat, et cetera, don't count because the predecessors weren't worth the effort either.

But it's all about how bad the sequel is the quality compared to what it's a sequel to isn't important, just how bad it is.

Too bad, this year's Phone Booth was awesome.

Yep, but it's the principle of the matter, and occasionally such things will happen (I also refuse to buy any games from EA, the bastards).

 

[billd91]

Die Another Day was pretty bad, too, but looks like Citizen Kane considering what it followed. Brosnan said his next Bond will be his last, and I'm hoping it is. He started off as the 2nd best Bond after Connery, but now, IMHO, he sits at the bottom, below even Moore.

I agree that Connery is the best Bond, especially in Goldfinger. Now THAT'S a Bond picture! But I have two minds about Roger Moore. In his first couple Bond films, I thought he was very good. It was in the last ones, starting with Moonraker, that I think he was awful. I might be willing to give him a pass on For Your Eyes Only, but definitely not Octopussy or View to a Kill.

BTW, I know guys who were big fans of Highlander (we watched it a lot, along with Akira, in our dorm TV lounge) who came out of the theater crying when they saw Highlander 2. By the time they returned to the dorms, they had sufficiently regained their composer to vehemently denied having seen Highlander 2.
It's the kind of situation in which a DM has a TPK that really disturbs his players and then backpedals and says, "OK, it was all a dream..." Or like when BA says "It's OK, it never happened" when Bob's character had a Deliverance moment while playing with Nitro.

 

[Ashrem Bayle]

Hehehe. The fact that a large number of Highlander fans refuse to aknowledge that Highlander 2 even exists is a testament to it's suckiness.

How about the fact that the other Highlander MOVIES refuse to acknowledge it exists?