Ah Trilogies. Some magnificent, others trash. There are a lot of Trilogies out there, ones that people can't stop talking about. For instance-Spider-man 3, X3-The Last Stand, The Matrix, and so on. Many Trilogies have a trend where the first is awesome, the second blows it out of the water, and the third is trash. Its either because the first two films did so well at the box office that Filmmakers must've thought, 'oh hell, we don't need to give the people what they want. So hey, let's create one of the worst movies ever and disappoint them all. Won't matter. It'll still make a killing at the box office.'
My top five choices for disappointing closings on trilogies.
5. Return of the Jedi
In the last movie of the Star Wars Saga, Return of the Jedi actually starts out pretty well. I love the whole desert scene where our favorite characters are about to be eaten by a monstrous beast. But where this movie down fall occurs is the ewoks. Really? Lucas went with Teddy Bears to defeat the Empire? When you look at them you gotta cringe. Even as a kid I hated it. But hey, made a TON in merchandise. If there were no Ewoks, Return of the Jedi would be one of my favorite movies. The whole ewok thing just sucks and it should've been left out.
Don't get me wrong. I thought the movie was pretty good. Just the whole Teddy bear thing was bad. Alone, Return of the Jedi is a giant. But when it stands up next to it's predecessors, it's weak. The lightsaber fight in the end thankfully recovered the movie for me. A-
4. Jurassic Park 3
While Jurassic Park was a groundbreaking achievement in movie history as far as special effects go, and The Lost World (my all time favorite movie) achieved great box office numbers and a positive audience response, Jurassic Park 3 rolled along. I had such anticipation for this movie before it came out but when I watched it, it became ever clearer that this movie was going to disappoint. When I was a kid I was a dinosaur expert nerd, and I didn't like the fact that they kept saying Spinosaurus was the biggest meat eater that ever lived. Nope. T-Rex was ladies and Gents. They only went with Spino because they felt that they needed a new carnivore on the big screen that would carry them like the T-rex. Yeah, that turned out real great. The audience practically hated the movie and It fell short behind the first two. Joe Johnston's most clueless direction ever, and even though the Dinosaurs look great, you can see what I mean when the actors come on screen. At least Spielberg knew how to make them look like they weren't robots. Horrid movie.
3. X-men 3: The Last Stand.
Bryan Singer's X-men was fantastic. His X2 was so, so, much better. When I first saw the poster where Wolverine's class are placed infront of the X-men logo, I nearly wet myself in excitement. So when it was released, I got my popcorn and my large beverage and sat down to enjoy what I thought was sure to be the best Xmen movie. I was wrong. There were several scenes that weren't needed and the fact that they killed off Charles?! Damnmit. The special effects maybe awesome, but killing off some much needed characters really sucks. I mean, Cyclops basically had a cameo in this movie. He had more screen time in X-men Origins: Wolverine. Huge disappointment. I guess that's what you get when Bret Ratner directs your movie. Stan Lee was disappoint.
2. The Matrix Revolutions
The Matrix was the Inception of its time-made people wonder, 'Is my world real? Or am I in the Matrix? The action was intense and groundbreaking and it made the movie unforgettable. The Matrix Reloaded made the most $$$ in the trilogy, but it still disappointed it's fans. But the fans couldn't prepare themselves for the biggest disappointment of 2003-Matrix Revolutions. While the whole Sentienal battle sequence still makes me go, 'Sweentess', the acting and the characters are as wooden as Louisiana backwoods redneck house. The ending with Neo and the machine is terrible. The whole he can see without his eyes is shit considering his ability isn't devoloped well at all. And in the end, all this movie has going for it is its special effects. And Keanu Reeves' career wasn't too colorful after this movie. Don't blame the guy.
1. Spider-man 3
When I saw the midnight showing to this movie back in 07, I thought how the heck could Sam Rami done so right with Spider-man 2 and go so wrong with Spider-man 3? Sandman's character was pointless and they didn't need to make him the killer of Uncle Ben. Harry's death wasn't sad at all, by the time that scene rolls around your thought process is, 'is this movie over yet?!' I loved the Black suit however, and the design of Venom was perfect. but Topher Grace as Venom?
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I guess Donna wouldn't be too proud that her boyfriend Eric grew up to be Spider-man's enemy. Grant it, there are way, way many more movies out there that are worse than Spider-man 3, but Spidey's third installment has the most diappointing ending in my book.
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