10 Costly Mistakes That Doomed Great Movie Franchises

[@jackburton9235]

My mind still cannot grasp the fact Disney had no freaking idea where they were going to take the Disney StarWars sequels.

[@deborahblackvideoediting8697]

Me too. The fact that they didn't have a unified vision of the trilogy - including ONE director, and 3 solid scripts (or at least outlines of the last 2 films - completely blows my mind. It's baffling and so frustrating.

[@brianartillery]

They just wanted Star Wars, and the money it brought in. They really don't care what happens, as long as that cash keeps rolling in. There are enough people out there who will watch anything carrying the Star Wars logo, and pay for it, no matter how poor the actual material is. I was talking to some friends in the pub before Christmas, and we reckoned that, if Disney put out a movie called: 'Jar-Jar: A Star Wars Story', a lot of people would pay to watch it. Disney hated Star Wars in the past, because a new movie, or even a reissue of an old one, would stomp all over anything Disney were showing off at the time. Owning the Star Wars franchise meant that Disney got all the cash. But also got greedy, and flooded the market, somewhat. They probably see that as a minor setback.

[@daniellewis4154]

Look Jack, George Lucas made things up as he went with the original trilogy. Please stop bashing. Star Wars as it’s getting very annoying

[@richtheunstable3359]

​@@brianartilleryI would totally watch a Jar Jar movie.

[@dishmanw]

I blame KK for the Star Wars failure.

[@jackburton9235]

De-aging indie was not the problem with the dial of dysentery.

[@zachtwilightwindwaker596]

That was actually the best part of the movie.

[@mydoggylives]

TRUTH!!!

[@j_edwards6075]

What was wrong with the movie? It was by one of the best movies I've seen this year imo.

[@mydoggylives]

@@j_edwards6075 I can't answer for everyone else but, for me personally, I didn't like how they treated Indy's character. He wasn't the hero of his own movie. They made him a miserable old man who'd basically given up on life at the end, and that's not the way you treat a beloved character. Then there's the character of Helena... whom I enjoyed upon first meeting her... but who turns out to be so narcissistic and self-serving that I couldn't stand her. They try to redeem her at the end, but it didn't work. I just couldn't stand that character by the end of the film, so there was no recovering from that (for ME anyway). I just wanted better for Indy than what we got. They probably should've just left it well enough alone at Last Crusade and ended it there. That's a much better ending than either 4 or 5, in my opinion anyway.

[@zachtwilightwindwaker596]

@@j_edwards6075 What movies did you watch if this was considered your best? There were a lot of movies better than this. The Mario movie was one of them.

[@jamesianhutchison1165]

There's a reason they called it The Dark Phoenix *SAGA*. It's never, EVER, going to work as a one shot film. If they try it again, then it needs to be its own spinoff trilogy. At least. Also, in Alien³'s defence, Weaver wanted out. She asked for Ripley to be written out. Which is why so many of us were shocked when Resurrection happened and she was onboard.

[@vetarlittorf1807]

Dark Phoenix wasn't supposed to be one film. It was supposed to be a whole trilogy directed by Bryan Singer. That's the whole reason why the X-Men cast renewed their contracts which doesn't expire until 2027 (meaning Marvel is not allowed to recast the characters until then). But then Fox was put up for sale, so the studio lost faith, Singer left and allowed Simon Kinberg to do whatever he wanted before the rights were transferred to Marvel.

[@rorylynch7775]

​​@@vetarlittorf1807 Singer didn't choose to leave. He was fired due to multiple Sexual Assault allegations

[@vetarlittorf1807]

@@rorylynch7775 Nope. Those were solved in 2014. He chose to leave.

[@stepheneddington1667]

Dark Horse comics did an excellent sequel to Aliens called Aliens: Earth War. It follows Hicks, Newt, and Ripley nearly twenty years after the events of Aliens. It was an amazing story. When Fox made Alien 3, Dark Horse had to reprint the comic and change the names of Hicks and Newt. There were several other great comics from Dark Horse that would have made excellent movies to continue the franchise but Fox was too stupid by not using them. They also ruined the chances of there being a great AvP franchise with the way they did those two movies.

[@Kennyboy0077]

Do you know where to buy it?

[@nosickl]

So Alien's good continuation story got cancelled for the sake of a bullshit sequel long before the same happened to Star Wars.

[@williamblakehall5566]

It wasn't CGI I minded in Dial of Destiny. It was Indy getting dragged around by an uninteresting and unappealing character. Indy needs to be in charge of whatever he's doing. Some of the worst movies I know rely on someone off screen grabbing someone and yanking them into the next scene. That was pretty much Dial.

[@zachtwilightwindwaker596]

Jones was too old to do this crap.

[@williamblakehall5566]

@@zachtwilightwindwaker596 Jones? You could set something earlier, after all, like Temple of Doom did. Perhaps we're talking about Ford.

[@zachtwilightwindwaker596]

@@williamblakehall5566 I meant Indiana Jones. I didn't feel like writing the entire name. Ford was also too old for this. I think he did injure himself in that movie for trying to throw a punch or something like that.

[@williamblakehall5566]

@@zachtwilightwindwaker596 Now that I think on it, that movie Solo may have proven the risk of casting anyone not Ford as Han. As goes Han, perhaps also does Indy. Perhaps someone should have decided "Ford or no one else, so if this can't be Ford's and Ford's alone, forget it."

[@zachtwilightwindwaker596]

@@williamblakehall5566 It would have been cool if Solo actually had Ford's face CG'ed on it and maybe voiced by him too. It worked well in Dial of Destiny. Dial of Destiny was not necessary though.

[@unholyperiodza5442]

You forgot bringing Michael Myers back from the dead in every Halloween sequel.

[@HariSeldon913]

Same could be said of Freddy Krueger and Jason Voorhees.

[@unholyperiodza5442]

@@HariSeldon913 Yeah but they really don't have a story arc. Michael Myers had the Strode family.

[@jsmith3946]

@@HariSeldon913 uh Freddy Kruger was never alive in any of his movies

[@mrtelevisionandmovies]

Sad that Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One wasn’t a succes at the Box Office. It was a great movie but sadly released at the wrong time because of Barbie, Oppenheimer and Sound of Freedom. These movies were also great.

[@pattaschner6377]

And it was so much better than any of those movies. It should have done better and I can't wait till part 2

[@jsmith3946]

I would say Tim Burton Batman movies also capture the spirit of the comics before the Spider-Man movies came out

[@defiantmopar]

#7 Respectfully disagree. The beginning of DoD with the younger Indy was the best part of the movie. THAT was the Indiana Jones we love. Everything after that was a mess of a depressed old man being lead around by an insufferable child

[@neoinfinity5204]

The fall of X-men is painful for me especially growing up watching the masterpiece movies and animated shows and crossovers.

[@carriesmigla-didier8900]

I LOVED the cartoon in the 90s!

[@Zombiesnyder13]

The reason why the original SPIDER-MAN trilogy was memorable, was because of the producer LAURA ZISKIN It was because of her and her husband (the screenwriter Alvin Sargent) that the movies had depth She was the only one capable to tell AVI ARAD when to back off Unfortunately, she died in 2011, during the production of TASM1 Without her, there was no one to stop Arad from destroying the franchise Spider-Man was nothing without her

[@machiavelli-arts]

always such a solid presentation from you Gareth!

[@scloftin8861]

Technically, the Hobbit trilogy was pushed by the people with the money. Having had so much success with LotR, they presumed the Hobbit could do the same. Unfortunately, apparently no one with the ability to OK payroll, etc. had ever read the book and were apparently presuming that there was enough material to do a trilogy ... Yeah. Still, beautifully shot.

[@dancinkatieisdrunk]

Yeah, Peter did not want to do three movies. That was all the studios fault.

[@j_edwards6075]

I much prefer the Hobbit trilogy over Lord of the Rings. I can't understand why everyone hypes Lord of the Rings so much, it's incredibly overrated imo. Not gonna deny that Viggo Mortensen's character was the best part of that franchise though.

[@OldManKane]

I got the impression the de-aging of Indie was the best part. It’s everything that happened afterwards that was the issue.

[@Kekkersboy]

The builduo of Ben being the final villain of the Sequel trilogy was so exciting and im so disappointed we never got his proper conclusion.

[@killingragethrowback]

in hindsight, it makes sense the prequels were so political. The Star Wars original trilogy had the structure of a fairy tail but that was with an obviously evil Empire everyone can unite against. The prequels were more how a Republic becomes that evil Empire. Politics was inevitable.

[@peachysbaby3088]

Exactly 💯

[@Zombiesnyder13]

AVI ARAD worked on the first X-MEN movies as executive producer But for the 3rd movie, he decided to step in as the main producer That's why we got a movie done by a director with no passion, and a limited story overstuffed with characters, just so he could sell more toys

[@jeffreyallpow4517]

The "Franchise" philosophy of film making is what is killing off good film making. The original Alien and Star Wars were not made as the first installments of a half a dozen movies to be made over the course of fifteen years. They were cutting edge, great one off movies made by directors who never thought they were going to be making any more than that one film. The movies were huge hits first, and then came the sequels because peopled desired more. Now everything is planned too far in advance by the studios. You've got to have one good movie before you can have three...

[@malalford]

Dead reckoning f'd up. Tom Cruise couldn't keep his movie in IMAX theatres for more than a week, because when Avatar 2 came out, it took priority since it was filmed with IMAX proprietary cameras. He was livid. Also, that big ticket stunt of jumping a bike off a cliff was kinda pedestrian compared to what we're used to from him. Personally, I prefer his chaotic precision driving.

[@rome8180]

I personally thought The Force Awakens also sucked. And I'm always surprised when I hear Star Wars fans who liked it. It was a completely generic, paint-by-numbers rehash of the original trilogy. It took zero risks, so I had zero emotional attachment. What we need is new characters, new themes, and new stories. We don't need rehashes. After The Last Jedi took some risks and failed, Disney seems to have learned the wrong lesson. The best Star Wars content since the original trilogy is Andor. And that show took a ton of risks. Do more of that. I don't need Star Wars to have a plan. I need it to have some balls.

[@j_edwards6075]

*And Rogue One being one of the best Star Wars themed content we've seen. If they ever plan on making more movies I'd love to see an old republic, or the beginning of the Jedi/ Sith. If we got to see force users in their absolute prime.

[@HariSeldon913]

Some of the characters killed off screen between movies were because the actors didn't want to return. The one I can say for sure is Newt from Aliens as the actress left the profession.

[@TrueMithrandir]

yeah, but still a stupid way to get rid of a character, just say she was dropped off at Earth or something, simple as that

[@unklesalty3732]

Henn couldn’t play Newt by the time 3 went into production because she’d literally aged out of the role. Unfortunately we’ll never know if recasting Newt would’ve worked in 3.

[@melissawickersham9912]

Even some characters who were killed *on screen* were because the actor wanted it that way. Case in Point: Han Solo being killed off in the Disney Star Wars sequels.

[@cholatepnabangchang4834]

The reason MIB worked in the first place was because America is full of oddballs who can sort of get along in the society (and maybe even thrive in it), that's why it was such a joy to imagine that certain celebrities and weirdos we meet down the street might actually be from another planet. They took that away in International and focused more on meh plots and large scale action-y CGI.

[@aliyuyammah7574]

That’s not the reason for the MCU snowballing

[@___________________.]

It’s arguably not the main reason, but it’s definitely part of it

[@jasewildheart]

Phoebe Waller Bridge was the problem witt Dial of Destiny. That and making Indy a loser

[@magstheonlyone]

"Pumping out too much BAD content" .MCU

[@carriesmigla-didier8900]

So the worst part of Spiderman 3 was the whole bad Peter is somehow jazzy/hipthrusty/trying to be a Travolta Saturday night fever-esque weirdo. I mean how does Venom make you that frickin weird?

[@JediRevanMunro]

9:30 Hicks is alive, just played Aliens: Colonial Marines. the body in Alien 3 is a double. The game retconned Hicks' dead from Alien 3.

[@joshualastine7666]

Would we be talking about Marvel fatigue if the projects they put out were any good? Eternals, Moon Knight, SheHulk, Secret Invasion all had good ideas behind them the execution was just poor

[@biocapsule7311]

That is the whole point, too much content means quantity over quality. And that's on top of covids and strikes derailing most of their plans. Apparently it wasn't even Fiege's idea to have so many, but rather Disney wanted it. As the triangle of production goes, time-cost-quality, choose 2.

[@earlchatterton9133]

Of course there was a backlog of MCU stuff because of Covid. If the movies were released as originally intended, things probably would have more time to breath and have longer legs. I do think there has been too much Disney + stuff though. I generally liked the shows, but there's not enough special about them because there's always another one like a month later. I want more specials like Guardians and Werewolf By Night though!

[@___________________.]

Moon knight is way better than, and doesn’t belong in the same tier as the rest of those examples, but I agree with your overall point

[@fabiorabelo3506]

Digital and de-aging are absolute NOT the responsible for the gigantic failure of Indiana Jones . the responsible are the TERRIBLE TERRIBLE TERRIBLE script .

[@stuartbagley2586]

Am I the only one who thinks critics harp on CGI way too much? I don’t think general audiences care about practical effects v. CGI as much as they think. Every critic seems to think that CGI is ruining lives and audiences do not like CGI, but good or bad, most of the highest grossing movies are CGI laden extravaganzas!

[@sharebear421]

Not a movie but killing Jimmy in boardwalk empire really set the show on a downward spiral. That and cancelling and time jumping the last season

[@carriesmigla-didier8900]

Oh and I LOVED XMen the cartoon from the 90s, but even then I hated the Phoenix nonsense. I never liked the character Jean Gray. She was always all "oh its so hard to use my psychic powers, ouch" and leading on 2 guys. Yuck. No thanks. I'd rather see Gambit and Rogue and Storm and the rest- but that's me.

[@Miller54K]

The Force Awakens was hot garbage from the start. Rey being able to do a difficult Jedi power without even knowing about it. Why would she try a Jedi Mind Trick without even knowing it was a thing??? Making Han Solo a deadbeat dad. Repackaging A New Hope with a bigger, scarier Death Star. Making Rey a mary sue. I could go on and on. That trilogy was doomed after the first movie.

[@disciple68]

0:58 I for one did NOT walk out of The Force Awakes with a smile on my face. All that I could think of is that "they just remade Episode IV: A New Hope."

[@Vim-Wolf]

Disney/Marvel, absoluteley. I'd been enjoying the films - have the entire first block of phases up to endgame on Blu-Ray - and then suddenly a load of content shifted over to TV on subscription only, which you HAD to see to understand a lot of what is going on in the films. The occasional spinoff with semi-related but not vital material is fine (I'm looking at you the awesome Agents of Shield) but now just too much too far. Pretty much the same with Star Wars too.

[@WhatTheFirstAidSpray]

Phew, so much to unpack RE Alien. The problem with the Alien series is not that it kills off beloved characters, though that doesn't help matters much. Alien3 had far better versions of the movie proposed, and it was the drawn out and mishandled nature of the path that led to the version we got that was the core problem. Then with Alien Resurrection, the story was fumbled and it was very much a product of its time. Fast forward to Prometheus, and the fan backlash that it wasn't enough of an Alien movie led to Covenant being made as very much an Alien movie rather than the exploration of the Engineers that it was originally intended to be. Cue more fan backlash that it wasn't Prometheus enough. Shaw's death was the result of the intended story thread being severed. Hicks and Newt died because there had to be no way of corroborating Ripley's story. And Ripley had to be shoehorned back into Resurrection because they wanted her star power and the legacy behind her appearances in the franchise, thus making her death pointless in 3. The writers just didn't have much of a coherent story to tell after Aliens, and have been fumbling their collective way through the sequels and spinoffs ever since.

[@sinswhisper9588]

in defense of the use of de-aging and other cgi in the latest Indy adventure Harrison is approaching his 80's ... and even action stars can only do so much as they approach that age

[@tay-dor7147]

I don't think it was a case of too much content for Marvel. It was a case of poor storytelling, prioritizing agendas over story.

[@ste4392]

Making the hobbit a trilogy wasn't Jackson's idea

[@LadyKattrina84]

I think The Marvels suffered from the strike more than anything. They weren't allowed to advertise for it, there was little hype because no one saw anything about it. I've heard a lot of good stuff about the movie, and the only people I have seen moaning about it were people who don't like all-female lead cast movies anyway. Not saying everyone who didn't enjoy the movie is like that, just saying the ones I personally have seen have been of that opinion.

[@MontChevalier]

Way to have a roundabout way of calling people who don't like it misogynists. Real argument that.

[@LadyKattrina84]

@@MontChevalier Is reading comprehension hard? I said not everyone is like that but the people I encountered didn't like it cause of the female cast. Because they WERE misogynists.

[@MontChevalier]

@@LadyKattrina84 I have doubts. You're just a misandrist.

[@jackburton9235]

Deeply likable Tessa Thompson??? LMFAO!!!

[@MMLynnmarie]

I was thinking that myself. Like when did that happen. I haven't liked her since her Veronica Mars episodes. 😂

[@BigBubbaloola]

In defence of Paramount here, the industry had zero clue that Barbieheimer was going to stellar at the box office. Same goes for Sound of Freedom. *Every* metric going pointed to Barbie not doing great, Oppenheimer doing OK and Sound of what now? The only reason why those films did what they did (outside of their quality etc) was because of their unexpected viral campaigns. Then add on that people do not have as much cash since Covid started and they are much more selective. So they plumped for the films that had the most press.

[@jackburton9235]

Too much product is not the problem with the M-SHE-U.

[@___________________.]

It’s a problem, but it’s not the main problem

[@MMLynnmarie]

Pushing out too much crap product was the problem. Plus neutering male characters to boost female characters didn't help.

[@timidwolf]

Lol, not EVERYBODY came out of TFA smiling. What wasn't a direct copy/paste of the original, was either canon breaking or completely nonsensical. Most SW fans saw the cracks straight away!

[@petern326]

the throne room scene in the Last Jedi is so fantastic in every way

[@sirtaelellevalerie1056]

Unless you look carefully. Then you can see bad choreography.

[@___________________.]

@@sirtaelellevalerie1056it’s one of those once you see it you can’t unsee it things

[@Zombiesnyder13]

If Sony greenlits TASM3 or SPIDER-MAN 4 They'll have to get rid of AVI ARAD Or it will be just another failure

[@hunterolaughlin]

Maybe for the better to keep those projects cancelled.

[@radrno7]

And Amy Pascal. People keep forgetting she's the other main problem with Sony. It's because of her we got horrible movies like 'Ghostbusters' (2016) and 'Men In Black: International' (2019), and it's because of her that Sony keeps trying to put themselves into Disney movies. And yes, she's been around since the original Spider-Man trilogy, so she's to blame just as much as Avi Arad.

[@RidireOiche]

Let me be blunt: I am not convinced the MCU is failing simply because it favours political messaging over compelling storytelling, makes television into homework, lacks a focal protagonist(s) to bring the series together in light of the departure Ironamn and most of the Avengers, or that Disney is oversaturating the market; rather, I suspect it is due to the intervals between individual hero films growing too long. It sounds fantastic to have three films and five series a year, but then you realise that none of the heroes in those films or shows will see their personal story directly progress for another five or six years.

[@nosickl]

The Hobbit should have been adapted into only one movie, two at most. The stretched out trilogy was a soulless cashgrab.

[@lookinforthe70s]

Star Wars jumped the shark after the first trilogy. I don't even consider the following films the same franchise as the first 3.

[@andrewberna4045]

Avi screwed up the 90s cartoon and Spidey 3. I bet he’s going to ruin the new trilogy too. “We need to make action figures!”

[@mskrisclark684]

Favorite seen from the Star Wars sequels, easy: "Chewy we're home".

[@Urapuppy]

Star Wars has always had politics, so it’s kind of disingenuous to say people didn’t like it “getting political” in the prequels.

[@jakenorton8393]

Everything has politics, there's a difference between politics and an agenda

[@radrno7]

There's a difference between "getting political" and "getting boring/bad".

[@baronvonyossi681]

I'm pretty sure they're talking about the endless Senate hearings, council meetings, and trade negotiations that took up a good chunk of the prequels' run time, not the "blargh they're pushing an agenda!" nonsense that people are generally blathering about when they bring up "politics in movies" these days

[@davelightsaber1621]

thank you for saying crystal skull is a credible entry ! 🙌🏽

[@gideonfloyd7366]

The one thing that aggravates me the most is when she claps her hands together in unison with her speech to show that she's pissed off. I leave in a heartbeat💯💯🙄

[@antney7745]

Who?

[@azozeto]

Also trying to create in a three years what Marvel had created in 10 + years: the Snyderverse.

[@alphaomega2117]

The problem with Mission Impossible is it's never been very good. They have been a series of entertaining set pieces strung around fairly lame plotlines and a leading man who has sort of aged out of being believable in the role. At a certain point you get a bit sick of a franchise built around set pieces and want a more coherent plot that carries some weight but a bit like the Fast Franchise they have come to rely of the set pieces so much that everything in a film is done to get to the next one rather than the set pieces being the result of a natural organic plot.

[@antonfowler6582]

Lord of the rings was three books so three movies . The hobbit was ONE book so it should have got ONE movie

[@charlestownsendfilms]

"Deeply Likeable Tessa Thompson" 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@kevinrandol2954]

Graveyard Shift is way better than it gets credit for, great call out Lance! Best rewatch in years!

[@manaash4316]

I can't help but laugh when people say that star wars became political. Like, did you watch the originals? At all?

[@knowbody44]

Man... Whatcultue just won't let Alien 3 alone! U gotta remember that there was a big gap of time between 2 and 3 and franchises weren't like how they are today with its continuity. Back in the day we just went along with the story, today all u guys do is question the story

[@John-tc9gp]

Revisionist. Force Awakens was not universally embraced.

[@ChaoticYak1]

I didn't like it. Or rather, I hated the way it ended and The Last Jedi ruined whatever goodwill I had for it retroactively.

[@TrueMithrandir]

lol it wasn't all Jackons fault to make the HObbit into 3 movies, y'all need to do some more research before doing these

[@thomashernandez6536]

I miss peak what culture and the quiz style shows.

[@jetfan925]

Why you miss their peak?

[@fabiorabelo3506]

More bad interpretation, the problem with MCU are not C@ping Feige or too much content, it is using people that DO NOT like comics to write the scrips ... ( a frind of mine just pointed out that the responsibility must go to Cr@ping Feige, because he allow this BAD writers to do ... well ... write all of this trash, and he is right )

[@hunterolaughlin]

I’d add the Toy Story series on this list for constantly milking the franchise. While I didn’t mind Toy Story 4, even I have to admit a part of its existence was probably Disney wanting to make more money with the IP and this is still continuing with Toy Story 5 despite Pixar stating 4 would be the final film in the series.

[@___________________.]

Toy story 4 was a great movie, but it still didn’t need to exist

[@zachtwilightwindwaker596]

-Is there really no Dead Reckoning part 2? -De-aging Jones was a mistake? That was the best part of the movie. -I did like the inclusion of Venom and Spiderman having a dark side. Didn't the Nostalgia Critic actually like the third movie as well? -7:39 Can you not do that in the middle of the video? I almost thought it was over. -Dark Phoenix didn't need to happen. -The thing that sucks about the Fast series is that they ended the last one on a cliffhanger. Did they plan on making another entry? -I actually watched most of the Marvel movies in theaters. Moon Knight was pretty good. Was I the only one who liked She-Hulk? The Marvels was better than I expected. Didn't exactly have high expectations for it. -12:44 How is that a problem? The Hobbit did feel kind of unnecessary. There are three parts so we can make more money!

[@___________________.]

Dead reckoning part 2 will just have a new title. It’s still the same movie

[@j_edwards6075]

Agree to everything you just said lol. Spitting facts here.

[@jackcoogan310]

Rian Johnson’s ego got in the way and he completely threw off the continuity of the sequel trilogy. Don’t get it twisted, episode 7 wasn’t any good, but at least JJ Abrams had a vision. If Abrams directs episode 8, the series had a chance. Sadly, Rian Johnson hates Star Wars and its fans

[@stevennabours1320]

100%. It's all Ruin Johnson's fault for the ultimate failure of the sequel trilogy (in og fan eyes).

[@davisphillips993]

Johnson does not hate Star Wars. He loves it; he just got carried away with his vision and made a few too many controversial choices. And for the record, Episode 7 *was* good. It had great action, solid performances, and a nice nostalgic feel. It was just a little *too* nostalgic, copying much too heavily from the original Star Wars.

[@davisphillips993]

Yes, it was a mistake for Johnson to make Luke so unlikeable for most of TLJ. Yes, the movie should’ve gone through a rewrite to eliminate some pointless story threads. But Johnson is not solely to blame for how the Sequel Trilogy turned out.

[@NightHawke]

@@davisphillips993 I'd hate to see what he'd do to a project he hated! 🙄

[@melissawickersham9912]

The main problem with the Star Wars sequel trilogy is that there were too many people at the helm with differing visions of what the plot was going to be. Plot mistakes like Retconning Rey’s family from just being nobodies to being essentially related to the Big Bad and bringing Palpatine back to life when there is essentially no foreshadowing for it are the signs that there were more than one script writers and editors that were writing contradictory plot lines.

[@jyveturkey1894]

Yeah. Too much content is the problem with the mcu. Sure.

[@sumpop420]

Deaged indie was the best part of d.o.d...

[@MMLynnmarie]

He'd be canceled if he said a woman was the worse part of the movie. Especially if he said an insufferable, unattractive, selfish woman. Smh

[@sanddagger36]

you think the de-aged indy was the problem with Dial of Destiny? If you ask people they will tell you the opening of the movie was the only enjoyable part

[@briseyk1]

Too much poor content is the problem with the mcu

[@sarahprice659]

Yup! I don’t think I have ever agreed with all of the choices in one of these videos before. (and I liked some of Marvel’s excesses very much! But too much work to keep up with it!)

[@johnmchugh5418]

I love the Hobbit

[@j_edwards6075]

Better than Lord of the Rings imo.

[@sinswhisper9588]

pretty sure with the star wars sequel praise yall are out of touch with the fans ... did you not see the same movies we did??

[@sheilaholmes996]

Men In Black:International was a major disappointment.

[@jasewildheart]

Dead Reckoning was awful not strong at all. And Tessa Thompson isn't remotely likeable.

[@KDubOriginal]

I love the sequel trilogy, those are my favorite Star Wars movies!

[@steveallsopp4434]

EP8 needs to be deleted from all History!

[@d-fyant1925]

I’m in the minority here but I loved Prometheus and Alien Covenant. Especially the latter. The death scenes were at their best in that one! Nothing will ever beat Aliens though.

[@rorylynch7775]

The only good part of those movies is Micheal Fassbender.

[@d-fyant1925]

@@rorylynch7775 you won’t find any deaths more gory than Covenant. That movie was great! And of course Fassbender is great in them both. Although his best role will always be in Inglorious Basterds for me. I stand by Covenant. Good movie.

[@rorylynch7775]

​@@d-fyant1925 the deaths are gory yes, But in both films, the crew are so stupid, I simply don't like or care about any of the characters

[@warwolf88]

blaming the failure of the dial of destiny on visual effects is the dumbest thing i have ever heard it couldnt be that it was a woke nightmare that completely emasculated indiana jones

[@paradoxworkshop4659]

While it would have been impossible to recast Newt with Carrie Henn, in agree that simply killing off Hicks was cheap. That said, having multiple characters who have already dealt with the aliens would kill the lone hero that nobody believes vibe.

[@danielsantiagourtado3430]

Love your content guys😊😊😊❤❤❤

[@joenesvick7043]

I liked Dial of Destiny more than Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, some of the "haters" didn't even try it, one can't know they hate a movie unless they watch it 🙄 Fans that grew up with George's originals weren't kids anymore when George's prequels came out, so they may have been disappointed if they didn't go in with the "I'm no longer a kid" mindset, but the targeted audience loved Jar Jar Binks as even the bonus materials on the blu ray pointed out if anyone else bothered to watch any of that. So I do tend to wonder if kids enjoyed the Disney sequels, guess we'll find when they're old enough to use the Internet Just Newt really, People only hate DAVID FINCHER'S Alien 3 because it killed off Newt when Carrie Henn was retired from acting anyway, they kinda had to write the character out of the franchise. At least Hicks survived, according to a video game people hate and I never played, but surely Hicks surviving is the game's redeeming factor right. Ripley was cloned, Hicks survived, and the Newt actress retired. So why do people want some retcon, I mean is Carrie Henn going to come out of retirement, well I once heard an actor say acting is like riding a bicycle lol 🤪 I was definitely upset about the beautiful Noomi Rapace being written out like that in Covenant, unlike Newt, I'm sure she's still in the business. If we actually got some resolution to that cliffhanger, now don't expect Katherine Waterson to get better treatment I enjoyed The Hobbit, I always watch the extended editions before Lord of the Rings extended editions. So are haters at least judging the extended editions, I've noticed many out there tend to judge movies nowadays by their theatrical versions alone

[@RS8XB]

The Last Jedi wasn't terrible Men in Black Int. was so bad I stopped watching 1/2 way thru. 3:09 purple alien looks a bit like Jamie Lee Curtis Mission Impossible 8? Didn't see yet, it's not adding anything new, just reheating old food. Dial of Disaster proves Harrison Ford will do anything for money. Sean Connery did the same in the later years like in Dragon Heart. Worst Spiderman ever! X-Men: Woke Phoenix crippled the franchise with bad acting and worse writing. Girl power ensured I'd never see another one in the franchise. Alien Covenant killed yet another perfect female lead. She was absolutely great and they threw it all away. Endgame was the last MCU movie I saw all the way through. Marvels was designed to be garbage. The Hobbit was 3 great movies of joy.

[@iconpoet]

I obviously saw different X Men movies than the ones you saw, cuz all the ones I saw were gobbage... And you called PROMETHEUS fascinating???? Am I high, now?

[@waterforgizmo3232]

These are not the reasons these movies failed….

[@Dimetropteryx]

No, fans didn't feel let down over Newt and Hicks being killed, they felt let down by the resurrection of Ripley in the following film. Killing them off was the right call. Prometheus didn't have a compelling lead. It had an unsympathetic beady eyed idiot as a lead.

[@JonsDDVlog]

Hmmm... Just because people didn't go see them doesn't mean that the movies were bad. Mission Impossible - Dead Reckoning - My wife grabbed my arm and didn't let go until the movie was done. It was a good movie. Indiana Jones - The Dial of Destiny - I liked it a lot. Perhaps having the woman compete with Indiana Jones to be the show's lead was the bad idea. Hmmm.2 - The MCU would be still be making amazing amounts of money if they hadn't gone woke. They have access to 80 years of great stories to make movies from. Just keep the quality high and stop selling us your religion and you'll get immediately back to making the big bucks again. As a personal favor, please make a movie about Fantastic Four issue #2.

[@kimthieme4599]

MCU, Indiana Jones and Starwars would be smash hits if they stop prioritate woke crap..and just give the viewers what they want good characters with good backstories.. And don't kill off favorites and then trying to replace them with a more diverse character...

[@antney7745]

What do you think "woke" means?

[@timamherst-clark2699]

Kingdom of the Crystal Skull being a solid enough entry into the Raiders franchise . . . ?! HUH? No, it REALLY wasn't. I'm afraid you & WhatCulture have just lost ANY credibility that you might have had. Indy 4 might just as well have come from the bottom of JarJar Abrams (or one of his former team of scribblers). Based on the dismal reviews, I haven't bothered with the latest Indy - I'm guessing it'll be on telly sometime.

[@hobbs1701a]

Actually, I didn't like The Force Awakens! I found it to be lazy, derivative, and unimaginative! At least the prequels TRIED to be different and original as compared to the original trilogy!

[@melissawickersham9912]

If I am not mistaken, The prequels were written and helmed by the same people who created the first trilogy. The Disney produced sequels were essentially helmed by fans who didn’t really have the same vision or grasp on the fictional world of Star Wars that the original creators did.

[@hobbs1701a]

@@melissawickersham9912 You'd be incorrect! George did the prequels himself! Unlike the original trilogy!

[@melissawickersham9912]

@@hobbs1701a That’s what I was saying: the original people (George Lucas and Lucasfilm) made both the original trilogy and the prequels. Disney and JJ. Abrams/Rian Johnson made the Force Awakens and the rest of the recent sequels. The problem with the Force Awakens is that Lucas handed off the Star Wars IP to Disney and JJ. Abrams.

[@adeptdamage3669]

Last Jedi may have had its issues but, "Rey Nobody" wasn't one of them.

[@Hutchino46]

Gareth..love ya mate..but you gotta work on not flicking off the end of your sentences with "aaa" or "uuhh" its really repetitive and gritting like a california girl using a droning vocal fry all the time :'D

[@darrengriffin8609]

Star wars episode 7 was still a s**t show. Then it went downhill.

[@johnbachman8908]

I will defend to my last day that I really like Alien 3

[@muriok2474]

I hate alien 3 so much, hicks and newt are alive and alien 3 is not canon to me

[@radrno7]

People complain about killing off protagonists in Alien movies when that's literally the point. Alien is not a nice story with a happy ending, it's your worst nightmare. You're stuck with a monster in the middle of cold void of space, death is the best you'll get in an universe where life is to be put through heII because you need work from a murderous company. Survival doesn't mean anything because there's no reason to go through deadly situations just to get a paycheck and still be under that same company. This nihilist view is what makes lovecraftian horror so overwhelming, the realistic nature of dying from anything just puts the alien as a symbol of all of that.

[@RS8XB]

woke culture destroys franchises? no surprises here

[@kambesyes]

Why are people pretending the FoX-men films were good? They had good moments, decent ideas, and two good castings but overall? Not for me. Or the comics they were based off.