Worst Fourth Film In A Series

lol yes those nails

http://www.i-mockery.com/minimocks/superman-iv-quest-for-peace/10.gif

Didn't vote, but I've only seen Conquest of the Planet of the Apes, which is good, and the top two finishers, which ARE NOT *BAD* MOVIES. The others are either from series I had no interest in, or cash-ins you could smell in the next county.

ahh c'mon phantom menace is a disaster. leaden shuffling around, no story, no emotions, pathetic world-building, racism...

one peg down from Return of the Jedi...

when's the last time you watched either? serious question. imho jedi is a pretty good if unfocused kids' adventure movie with some clunky carpentry showing and some pacing/structure issues, but charismatic performances and a ton of craft on the screen, ranking high for the genre and time period. it's nothing on the previous two, but a good afternoon's viewing with very little to outright cringe at. phantom menace is so, so narratively inert and comparing the two really makes me like jedi more since i realize: wow, i know what the characters' motivations are! wow, the people stuck delivering exposition try to make something of it! etc....

to be fair, phantom's still not as bad as the followups. attack of the clones really is like the death of cinema. now i wonder if i should do a 'fifth' thread.

Crystal skull is utter shit.

But most of these movies are utter shit tbf.

Will rep for Bourne 4

pls make a fifth thread doc

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_film_series_with_five_entries

Can't say I have a lot of enthusiasm either way once serieses get to 5.

Revenge of the Nerds 4 deserved to be on this list

xpost You and everyone involved in making the fifth installment of a series.

cool yeah imma get on this later today probs

I think we can avoid the painful poll by collectively agreeing that Seed of Chucky is clearly the best fifth movie in any series.

FYI, that wiki list seems to be for series that tapped out at five installments. The visionaries which exceeded the bounds of sanity to create six or more films have been sadly excluded.

Crystal skull is utter shit.

No film with the fridge scene is "utter shit."

Doc C, I haven't seen Phantom Menace since '98, cuz why would I?

I guess I figured you'd have at least made it out to its original theatrical run in '99 (sorry, couldn't resist).

Yeah, last time round I spent a lot of time in the thick of Wiki pages for 11-installment series and stuff. Think I'll just start from the 4ths and see what got a 5th, with a little skimming around for anything I might have missed.

98/99, same thing :)

I think we can avoid the painful poll by collectively agreeing that Seed of Chucky is clearly the best fifth movie in any series.

Tied with Final Destination 5.

Fridge scene was great. The scene that, had it been excised from Crystal Skull, people *might* have gotten off its nuts a little bit more is Shia with the monkeys.

And yeah the fridge scene and the stuff at Harvard is all solid. Lesser Spielberg but not unrecognizable and some nicely-staged action despite the distracting CGI. It really goes off a cliff hard right after the Harvard chase, though, and the opening stuff at the warehouse is really lacking a sense of magic or larger-than-lifeness.

Spielberg had a number of "It's George's baby" quotes about that one

Shia was George's baby?!

That explains a few things.

I just finished that recent Lucas biography and yeah, Spielberg quotes indicate that -- at least on that particular one -- when it comes to the Indy films he considers himself a for-hire director who executes George's vision, not a collaborator.

I....enjoyed Fast Five. It's still the only FATF film I've seen

Fridge scene is utter shit

THE utter shit

Jeez, how many 5 film series would you even consider watching?

For me... Frankenstein, Dracula, Winners/Gambler, Mr Vampire (first is very overrated but I could deal), Cremaster, Zatoichi, Lassie, Monty Python (this barely counts because I don't consider the live show a proper sequel), Police Story, Once Upon A Time In China, The Street Fighter, Lone Wolf And Cub, Romero's Dead series.

Maybe Gods Must Be Crazy, I gave up early on the first film but the later films are martial arts crossover.

iirc the fifth Friday the 13th is bad but there are some worthwhile ones afterwards

The thread is coming!

I think we can avoid the painful poll by collectively agreeing that Seed of Chucky is clearly the best fifth movie in any series.

Tied with Final Destination 5.

― Anne of the Thousand Gays (Eric H.), Thursday, November 9, 2017 8:10 AM (twenty-two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

both of these posts are extremely otm

iirc the fifth Friday the 13th is bad but there are some worthwhile ones afterwards

― Simon H., Thursday, November 9, 2017 8:30 AM (three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

it features the immortal outhouse death so i can't say it's bad exactly but it's one of the less good ones

the worthwhile friday installments after five are: ... pretty much just jason lives

is that the one that opens with the SWAT team fakeout? that one RULES

no that is jason goes to hell

The 7th is pretty OK, but yeah, that's the last one that's any good.

which, i guess, simon, you are and i are the only two people on earth who think that movie rules xp

imo jason lives is one of the coolest action movies ever made so i'm not knocking it

clearly I'm due a series rescreen

I'm in the obvious minority in thinking that Jason Goes to Hell is the best in the series by far. I mean, it's not good, but it's completely batshit and at least has the bravery to barely be a Friday the 13th movie.

Can't agree with RAG about what constitutes a series

Mission Impossible 5 is good

best fourth film in a series, btw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9FGgwCQ22w

Oh, yes, MI5 was good. And probably Harry Potter 5, as well. They all blur into one movie in my memory, tbh.

o yeah HP 5 was excellent

Darraghmac- what you mean? I only disputed a Monty Python live film.

I'm in the obvious minority in thinking that Jason Goes to Hell is the best in the series by far. I mean, it's not good, but it's completely batshit and at least has the bravery to barely be a Friday the 13th movie.

― Fresh Toast (Old Lunch), Thursday, November 9, 2017 8:49 AM (nine minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

we should start a club

XP maybe a discussion in itself, tbh!?

Frankenstein/Dracula, for instance.....are these coherent 'series' or are they lots of movies with recurring characters, kind of thing....is there a Sherlock Holmes 'series' or just Sherlock Holmes movies...jack the ripper, etc etc

They're sort of coherent. There's a universal series and a Hammer series each of Dracula and Frankenstein and they generally stick to a poorly plotted story.

I'm pretty sure there are Sherlock and Tarzan films that work as a series.

I want it asterisked if allowed

I'd imagine that maintaining some pretense of continuity from installment to installment is a relatively recent feature in the evolution of the film series, and even now only employed sparingly.