10 More Movies That Tried To Exploit Nostalgia (And Failed)

[@ExtremeMadnessX]

Predators was great. The Predator was true failure.

[@DOG-mm3sg]

I agree. I thought it was the same exactly what a predator film should be

[@cameronhermann9400]

At least Prey was good

[@michaeldixon3440]

I loved it. My only complaint, and it’s a big one, is the final fight. They should have had the sniper go into more detail about how Arnold beat him and then it would have made sense.

[@grimmwicked313]

The predator wasn't as bad as the AvP movies I also liked the predator more than predator 2. Not a big fan of predator 2 concrete boogaloo

[@corpusvile1]

Was just about to say pretty much this and I honestly don't get the apparent dislike Predators gets. While I do think it's the weakest outa the first three, it's still solidly entertaining and I found it much better than Prey. The Predator was indeed absolutely awful.

[@Rand0m_H3r0]

So wrong about Predators!

[@N3m0_o...]

The predator tries to be much more nostalgic than Predators and is far worse...Predators is a great movie, I love it!!😅🤗

[@BChuck3085]

I loved Predators.

[@Paul_Simon]

So did I.

[@DOG-mm3sg]

Same

[@jglp892]

That’s what scout master Kevin used to say

[@BChuck3085]

@jglp892 what?

[@BChuck3085]

@jglp892 you weird af

[@MafistoOU812]

When Whatculture admits Predators is a good movie but then nit picks it to fill out their list.

[@dylan.t180]

Men In Black International was gifted to me as part of a radio contest and I still feel ripped off watching it

[@gregorymeyer1798]

Hilarious when you get something for free and it still wasn't the cost of admission 😂

[@Deznaj666]

Sue them for wasting your time.

[@WinstonSmith19847]

I got the first Harry Potter film in a gift pack from work and only ended up watching it because I got bored one day and had nothing better to do.

[@gregorymeyer1798]

@WinstonSmith19847 lol, I'm a fan of HP but I still don't watch the first one.

[@WinstonSmith19847]

@gregorymeyer1798 I think I have seen all of them now they are OK but I'm not a big fan it's my stepmother that's the Harry Potter superfan.

[@chasehlee7197]

So there seems to be 3 issues. 1) they try to make it too similar 2) they try to make it too different and 3) they don’t have Will Smith in them.

[@Deznaj666]

I miss Will Smith like a slap in the face.

[@drunkunkle8077]

Predators was awesome

[@Nosmo90]

4:30: I’m confused; how the hell does The Predator jeopardise the position of Predators in the canon?

[@WinstonSmith19847]

Star Trek ( 2009 ) Leonard McCoy getting his nickname Bones because his wife took everything in a divorce when clearly he got the nickname Bones because he was a doctor.

[@wcoleman99]

And Into Darkness just gave us a lame version of Wrath of Khan.

[@videokage]

I enjoyed Solo. It helped that I really didn’t think of it as a backstory for Han Solo, but rather a fun heist movie. Forcing a backstory of iconic characters tend to just ruin the character.

[@Wisani]

You chose the wrong Predator movie to be on this list. The 2018 Predator movie tried to mine nostalgia and failed miserably.

[@Jimmy_Dylan]

This guys logic and reasoning is all over the place. Its almost like they just want a reason to not like stuff. Oh wait, i forgot i was on the internet.

[@Macca-95]

They need a reason to dislike stuff, but they also need a reason to give excuses for things (ghostbusters).

[@Jimmy_Dylan]

Idk, you like what you like. But when ones reasons for disliking something is the exact opposite of the reason you dislike something else. (I.e. it's too different/it's not different enough.) People tend to take one less seriously

[@metoo7557]

All they had to do for Terminator Genesis is make a movie about the terminators going after the top leaders other than John in the rebellion, and darken it down to the level of the first one and it probably would have done pretty well. they wanted to ride the high of T2, and instead of making a good story, tried to se.xulaize it

[@Brad772006]

I really like this concept you have here. That sounds like a film I would enjoy watching.

[@tyroneross2433]

Let's just say this, hollywood thinks movie-goers are stupid and willing to part with their money for whatever is on the big screen. I can't see how this industry can sustain itself by consistently wasting money with negative returns.

[@tskmaster3837]

Hollywood is usually right about people being stupid. All the top movies of 2024 are member berry movies. "Remember Wolverine? Remember the Wicked musical? Remember Moana and Inside Out? Remember Dune?" Leaving this comment on the ones that don't work is itself dumb, right?

[@Aldragon]

⁠@@tskmaster3837packing in legitimate sequels with hack job follow ups is a crime. Do not compare Dune part 2 with the rest

[@Nosmo90]

They’d get a better idea of what audiences want and don’t want if they could account for repeat viewings of films by audience members.

[@Azralzer]

I think Alien Romulus should have replaced Covenant on the list. Aside from a few good scenes the second half of Romulus was mostly recreating iconic parts of the four original movies and even used a few of the older movie dialog lines that just made it cringe worthy. Plus bringing back a dead actor through CGI for half the movie was probably a bad idea and disrepectful in my opinion.

[@jabgamings]

Normally I'd agree with the last part but they did get permission from his estate before using his likeness

[@dawncline9376]

I enjoy pixels

[@Toledotourbillion]

Hellboy the Crooked man was a crooked show. It used our yearning for Del Toro's classics to sell its own cheap dollar store version.

[@Deznaj666]

It looked like a fan movie. Can't believe they did that to the character.

[@Nosmo90]

I’ve yet to see Hellboy: The Crooked Man, but I find it difficult to imagine it being worse than the 2019 film.

[@Toledotourbillion]

@@Nosmo90 it's up there. Maybe worse.

[@chingma8064]

That film was an ashcan copy

[@Bloodartist]

Solo was a great Star Wars movie, and subtly very influential in terms of lore. I totally disagree that it was unnecessary, we needed more movies about something other than jedi vs sith. However, I dont disagree that it tried to tick one too many boxes. The infamously ignorant Kessel Run comment should've been left in the past and forgotten. On the other hand, it had several cool easter eggs that only true star wars nuts would notice.

[@matrixguardian4539]

Has anyone ever said “There’s too much originality! I want more familiarity and nostalgia!”? (Jokingly asking)

[@Jamal-bl7yh]

Dragon Ball Evolution Justin Chatwin as American Goku was weaker than Homer Simpson In The Simpsons Movie with Power Rangers level bullies that "make me pay Geeko" line belongs In a Saturday morning cartoon not a Dragon Ball live action movie

[@RichardBarron_]

Independence Day 2026, 30 years later, Will Smith returns.

[@justsaying14]

That's gonna definitely slap audiences into admiration 😁👍🏻

[@lcramer6]

I enjoyed the Ghostbusters reboot. I really developed an affection for it after I read the comic spin offs. Those were great.

[@olraz75]

I LOVE PIXELS!!! That movie is awesome and pure fun. Getouttahea!

[@patrickdoyle6201]

Im not saying that MIB: INTERNATIONAL was enjoyable BUT i can't figure out why it didn't work. I respectfully can't imagine that Taika is what made Chris & Tessa work so well together

[@Deznaj666]

They build a movie around these two and it didn't work at all.

[@patrickdoyle6201]

@Deznaj666 RAGNAROK DISAGREES!😉

[@blind87us]

Yall got it wrong predators was good.

[@Devil-Made]

What’s with the background music?? This sounds gross. Please stop.

[@Deznaj666]

Doesn't fit the subject at all.

[@jacko666]

Thank you. Way too loud, and not backgroundish

[@robertohull5048]

Every predator movie had merit except the predator. TMNT is simply underrated and pixels tried its best and solo could have been so dope

[@MU-oi1su]

Tessa Thompson was forced on us everytime Hollywood had a chance for a while, and I'm so happy that seems to finally be over.

[@Deznaj666]

I do like her in Creed. She was totally miscasts as Valkyrie though, which was a clear DEI casting. Can't even remember her in anything else. I've forgotten she was in MIB:I.

[@kanedaku]

@@Deznaj666 She was absolutely great as Valkyrie in the third film. Sucked in the fourth, but the film wasnt great.

[@masudashizue777]

Making sequels should be a capital offense.

[@kanedaku]

"Cameos by the Stay Puft Man and Slimer..." This in the same list as the actors who portrayed other *characters* in Ghostbusters... _CAMEOS...._

[@TheToonMonkey]

This is a very Hemsworth (3) Emilia Clarke (2) heavy list. Just saying.

[@Shaderox]

odd that this list included the prometeus & covenant movies in the Alien part, I'd say Romolus went a lot harder on the nostalgia, i appreciate the return to form the movie took but really, almost every noteworthy storybeat and several shots you can put side by side with some from the original movies and it's almost the same. If it was just some callbacks it would just be nostaliga bait but it has SOOO many callbacks to the earlier movies, I mean, if you've seen resurrection you've already pretty much spoiled the ending for yourself the moment early on in the movie when a pregnancy is mentioned, since i can't be the only one seeing that "plot twist" coming from lightyears away the moment it was mentioned in a alien movie..

[@aaronmichael1201]

Josh from WhatCulture is literally my biggest crush.

[@BigEvil6686]

Genisys was brilliant. If the trailers hadn't given the entire movie away, it would have been a MASSIVE hit.

[@rtsharlotte]

A couple of these I would disagree with. Predators was a good movie and I would even say Men in Black wasn't a bad movie I've certainly seen worse

[@bassman8144]

I hate modern Hollywood.

[@DeezMatterz]

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[@mikeerickson5391]

Who the hell put Predators on this list? That was a great movie.

[@Evilkingus]

Chapters, please! It is incredibly annoying when people are not doing chapters in youtube videos.

[@CrankyMoogle]

They won't do it. People have been asking for several years now. They just don't care.

[@NguyenPham-bl6qm]

Should be the Predator (2018) instead of Predators (2010). The latter was surprisingly good!!!

[@killernat1234]

Prometheus was a great film, it’s different to the rest of the films in the franchise but it is a great film

[@sophiev1900]

They really just need to stop making sequels, prequels and reboots. Just go back to being original!

[@JennA-uf6lo]

Everyone I know who has seen Ghostbusters 2016 (actual friends and family) loved it, including myself. I seriously do not understand the hate this movie gets. Also, we liked it MUCH better than Afterlife.

[@RH1812]

Missed Alien Romulus off the list

[@TheWrestlingGameNetwork]

Predators >>> The Predator

[@russellhoyt588]

I hated the 2014 TMNT so much that I never even bothered with the 2016 one, which is a shame because I was looking forward to the big-screen debut of Krang, Bebop, Rocksteady, the Technodrome, etc, but those movies ruined those. For the most part, I actually liked Solo!

[@djmattblack]

I would love to have seen Lord and Millers original version of Solo before they decided to change direction and bring in Ron Howard

[@SomewhatSlightlyBored]

ehrenreich said they basically wrote han like ace ventura. howard's version wasn't great but lord and miller's sounded worse.

[@russellhoyt588]

I don't necessarily mind sequels, or prequels. I think it's ridiculous to believe that every movie should be a one-off, with no continuation before or after it. On the other hand, I am so sick of remakes.

[@FosterWolf]

So, this video was recorded pre-Covid. Good to know.

[@cedricbrookins4851]

Some of this movies are okay. You guy just put stuff on a list for no reason.

[@WinstonSmith19847]

This movie so you only have a problem with one of them.

[@Luvmysippi]

Pixels would've been good if they left the love story out. Especially with Josh.

[@johnmickz0180]

Maybe just don't bring a Hemsworth for a reboot/sequel. Just noticed it now that Chris has been part of MIB, Ghostbusters and Mad Max while Liam is part of Independence Day 2.

[@WraythSkitzofrenik]

Pixels was pretty fun.

[@Deznaj666]

It's not high art, but I did like it. And it has an original concept, a thing most Hollywood movies don't have.

[@Nosmo90]

@@Deznaj666 From what I understand it’s just a (specific) Futurama episode but longer and done sloppily.

[@Luvmysippi]

It would've been good if it was an action movie through and through.

[@76tennboy]

I LOVE PIXELS!!! It’s one of the only Adam Sandler movies that I like.

[@BradleyThomas-oc8nm]

I hope Beetlejuice Beetlejuice is in this list

[@baxterwilson368]

3:00 I like the prequel. It made me laugh more than this one.

[@jermaineallen2879]

Damn I actually enjoyed a lot of these. MIB was fine. Pixels was funny. Solo I enjoyed. Genesys was a good reboot story. Predators. Was expanding in the world. I do wish they stuck with the storyline for covenant though.

[@TheLonelySoulja]

I actually like the Dumb and Dumber prequel.

[@myndboggling]

I feel like pixels should have never been made using the oldest videogame characters from the 70s/80s. I wouldn't be surprised if somewhere in Hollywood, someone really wants to make a pacman or qbert movie, but how can you? It was never meant to be made to a feature length film. It would've suffered the same way the live action super Mario bros movie, best to just not do it.

[@grimmwicked313]

Predators is the best movie on this list hands down. I actually liked it more than the original tho the original will still be my 2nd favorite.

[@syntrilliumc.e.p.9326]

Rule of thumb: Every movie with Chris Hemsworth sucks.... unless he is playing Thor.

[@ilovedrums1000]

This dude is the ps5 pro loving cringe guy

[@RadoslawBelchnerowski]

Predators movie is awesome❤

[@jetman80pops]

I love Pixals

[@metoo7557]

I'll take everything Disney has put out for Star Wars for $1000 please Alex.

[@mwle07]

Pixels was Awesome don’t include that movie in this List 🎬💯💯💯

[@BThirstyPretzel]

There are a lot of Hemsworths on this list lol

[@monika278bly]

Am I the only one who liked terminator genisys?

[@mwle07]

I like Men in Black International

[@GothPaoki]

D&d 2 had it's moments but they were mostly early and most of the movie was just boring. I think it started quite well i liked that they tried to give a reason as to why this movie was made so much later by attributing it to a prank inside the movie but the last time I laughed was when the cat ate all the birds and that was very early in the movie.

[@cameronbrown8126]

Predators was pretty decent, and I do believe solo will live on to be appreciated more as time goes on, was it perfect no, did it need to exist not really, was it entertaining yes yes it was. And Donald Glover was absolutely perfect as lando

[@drongobum2037]

How is Tessa Thompson still being cast in anything? She’s one of the worst actors constantly landing roles in big movies.

[@henrinune3505]

Bad movies are just Bad movies. Woke makes them even worse.

[@bheast86]

Abrams' Star Trek trilogy was a creative failure on every level, trashing a forty year mythos; Leonard Nimoy brought the 'gravitas', but the movies were too flimsy to bear that weight.

[@baxterwilson368]

4:26 Last year? Is this another recycled video? 🥴

[@stevinharper3551]

I enjoyed Pixels idc if it's bad lol

[@jamespope7669]

Today's pathetic generations version of nostalgia is seeing themselves on screen 😂

[@iconpoet]

What 21 jump street movie did everyone else see cuz the one I saw was PURE CRAP...

[@drunkunkle8077]

Dumb and dumber 2 was great

[@warwolf88]

i watch what culture just hear all their terrible takes on everything

[@ScottFunk-us6ro]

Whatculture forgets that Ghostbusters 2016 was noted for being politically far left (all female cast, all male cast insulted and degraded). And that Thompson is a bad actress at best. Solo, another far left flick, was shown up repeatedly IN HIS OWN FLICK by a female costar nobody (plus it was boring).

[@psfilmsbob]

Pixels? What? Yeah, it's a little Sandler-y, but so what? It's still great.

[@jasoncook7378]

Maybe i have a minority opinion, but i loved Predators.

[@drunkunkle8077]

I liked the covenant and prometheus movies. Didnt fail.

[@Nosmo90]

They absolutely did fail in the writing department i.e. the second-most important department after acting.

[@2trillo852]

……I liked pixels 😒

[@Grovesrussell]

Solo. A bad movie made better by even worse star wars movies.

[@shawnhenderson2091]

Terminator 3 was just a rehash of Terminator 2, more so than Genesis, but with better graphics, that franchise doomed itself the moment they decided to follow up T2 with anything but the war itself in the future, Salvation had the right of it but by then people didn't take the franchise seriously anymore.

[@Nosmo90]

The best thing about Salvation is that makes people remember Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines fondly.

[@shawnhenderson2091]

@@Nosmo90 Ok, not how I remember it

[@erikthompson619]

Everybody does NOT love ”Independence day”. I for one hate it, and have done so since 1996. It’s just big, dumb and cringy, its most impressive feature being the fact that not even such an incredibly likeable lead trio as Will Smith, Bill Pullman and Jeff Goldblum is able to lift it above bloated disasterpiece status.

[@Devil-Made]

You seem like a really fun person.

[@morimo11]

Predators with a better lead would be a much better watch. IMO.

[@cedricbrookins4851]

Some of this movie are okay. You guy just put stuff on a list for no reason.