What do you consider to be the worst franchises EVER

Orange Julius

Pirates of the Caribbean.

First response is always a stupid cunt.

Are you new here? That's the way its done, moron.

Divergent needs to up near the top of that list.

Really OP? I like the first Independence Day because of Jeff and Will. I completely forgot that Harvey Fierstein is in too.

I went into a Pap Murphy's Pizza here in a little northern Caulifornia town. Awful. There were flies around the toppings!! Did not partake.

The first Independence Day was horrible in a thousand different ways but the effects were better than the CGI shitfest that was part 2. Will was the only good thing about it.

Well, first of all, two films don't really make it a franchise.

I think you must have at least 3 films before you can call it that.

Secondly, the first Independence Day is great! It's a silly, dumb pop corn movie but it's lots of fun and well made, for what it is.

It's the only decent movie Roland Emmerich has ever made.

All the franchises are soulless trash that is best avoided.

My pick for the worst franchise would be....

the bloody Lord of the Rings/Hobbit films.

So long. So boring. So devoid of any fun.

Oh, and the MCU films.

For the same reasons.

Saw. The first one was great & it went downhill mighty fast. After they promised 6 or 7 was the last one, oops, they did it again!

R11 x 100!

Marvel disney

The Dallas Cowboys. Oh, you meant MOVIE franchise.

R9 the producers were planning a new trilogy with the CGI shitfest of Part 2. So fuck you, it is a franchise. There is no rule that says you need more than two to be a franchise. Usually the producers plan on more but then the film bombs. Like with the 4 films from Cameron's Avatar he has been working on for how long. They have spent a billion on the four sequels. No way they are getting it back.

The Jurassic Park franchise. The first one is very entertaining but the films that follow get progressively shittier. I can't think of a franchise with a worse record.

Any number of horror franchises, ala Saw.

Independence Day is one of those "USA, USA, USA! We're #1!" patriot schlock fests Team America (and Mars Attacks) made fun of.

My pick would be 50 Shades of Gray. Both the novel series and the movie adaptions. And I write this as a gay man, but women deserve so much better lurid sexual romance novel entertainment.

The Kingsman franchise. They were just so corny.

Ruby Tuesday.

Conversely, I rather enjoyed Bennigan’s.

Pitch Perfect

Pacific Rim. It's even worse than Transformers movie franchise circle jerk led by Michael Bay. Honorable mention of another straight circle jerk schlock fest called Fast & Furious.

Breeders, amIrite?

Jaws 2-4

Transformers. Like watching a computer game.

Bond (after Moore packed it in)

Star Wars (after the original)

Iron Man

Avengers

Fast and Furious

R22 the first PP was fine. I don't know why they're doing a series with Bumper of all people.

Gidget Goes to Hell

Fast & Furious. Nothing better exemplifies how much Hollywood has lost its way in the past few decades. Dull, noisy rubbish. Very little plot, style or reality, more of a computer game than a movie. It’s like the film business wants to die.

Barely bearable when Paul Walker was at least in them to look at. Now all there is to see is geriatric Vin butching it up in a sweaty vest. No thanks.

Helen Mirren is supposed to be planning to be in one. Not even that will make it watchable.

The Godzilla movies

Each one is worse than the one before it.

The last really good one was Ghidorah, the 3-Headed Monster

You leave Godzilla alone!

While it has now been deemed not on point - the 1st Independence Day was great fun. Poor Harvey going out the way he did. They used to play it every Thanksgiving and it would be hell getting anyone to the dinner table until the blowing up parts were over. LOL! Careful cooking timing was required.

I had no idea there were so many Godzilla flicks. Recently discovered the Comet channel to watch X-Files and Battlestar Galactica and well it took me down some other avenues. Some hilarious old horror/monster movies.

[quote]You leave Godzilla alone!

I wish contemporary filmmakers would leave Godzilla alone!

Seeing the original Japanese version of the first Godzilla film (with no dubbing or Raymond Burr) was a revelation. The way the film opens on a black screen with Godzilla screaming must have been terrifying when it was new. Eventually the series got sillier as it became a kiddie series, but the 1990s reboots really worked for me and I think Shin Godzilla's evolution from a gilled aquatic larva to a land animal is truly inspired.

Avengers

You probably get that I'm talking about the Toho Studios Godzilla franchise. I don't think taking Japanese monsters and ghosts out of their original cultural contexts and plopping them into American settings really works, though there are certainly enough people who can't read subtitles to make it well worth remaking them in English.

R32, ooooohhh Rodan. Now he was scary. Gozilla vs. Rodan. Bring it on. I better go check Comet.

Only the lumbering Godzilla is acceptable. As a child I worried out my means of escape. To the sides and behind him. It's like the now running Zombies. How are you supposed to escape fast moving and agile monsters. I have a feeling that Fauci and some perverse Gain of Function has been at work here.

Tyler Perry's Medea

Republican presidential candidates and their campaigns - getting progressively worse every 4 years.

[Quote] Barely bearable when Paul Walker was at least in them to look at. Now all there is to see is geriatric Vin butching it up in a sweaty vest. No thanks. Helen Mirren is supposed to be planning to be in one. Not even that will make it watchable.

The movies are completely ridiculous but i watched them for Paul and Sung. And Helen has already been in a few of them.

Another vote for Jaws 2-4. Absolutely awful.

Almost any slasher multiple movie, I'm not a fan of the jandra.

Jaws 2 had some fun dialogue. And the "special effects" from Jaws 3 are a riot.

R41, I think I still have my cheap paper 3D glasses from that movie. I remember I wore red princess heels. Those were the days.

R42 you're one of the lucky ones.

I hate the term franchise for movies.

The Witchcraft franchise is bananas.

Twilight is inert and bloodless Harry Potter is twee and nerdy

With the criticism of the LOTR films on this thread, it's probably just as well that all the Prancing Ponies have died of old age by now.

R46 I feel like the decapitation in Breaking Dawn makes up for the lack of gore.

Twilight and Fast and Furious.

I also don’t think many of these qualify as “franchises”, many are just movie series. Or, in the case of ‘Independence Day’, simply two movies. But whatever.

R50 - Well aren't you the life of the party.

Wrong Turn

The first one wasn't even good. To me, it felt like the poor man's Hills Have Eyes or Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Somebody must like them if there are 7 of them now, but they're not for me.

R52 - But is it a "franchise" franchise or a "series" franchise?

R50 really needs to know.

What is the difference? R50 R53

R54 - Ask R50. She's the self-appointed hall monitor.

Jaws 3 was epically bad but you did get a young(er) Dennis Quaid squeezing in and out of a tight wet suit. Oh the tingles I remember watching that...

R51 you better believe it, bitch!

I hate it when a franchise is too franchise-y.

This.

[quote] Twilight is inert and bloodless Harry Potter is twee and nerdy

I disagree. I think Twilight is ert.

Franchise should probably just be used for movie series just obviously made for money and no other reason like when a movie is successful then a whole series of films are created to exploit that success.

All the horror films like Elm Street, Scream, Halloween, etc are franchises.

Harry Potter and Bond and LOTR are all based on books in a series.

Though streteching out The Hobbit to THREE fucking terrible films is pure cash grab.

In the case of Twilight, that's a terrible book franchise turned into a terrible film franchise. But, since only people with the mentality of a Down's Syndrome 12 year old like the books or films, does it really matter?

The Hobbit movies are the worst offender to me because they took a beloved childhood novel (Tolkein's best, imho) and shat it out over three installments like a bad burrito that just won't let go of you. I'm sure the Twilight and 50 Shades series were objectively worse because there was never anything worthwhile to adapt in the first place, but they don't have that same feeling of betrayal and wasted potential.

Right now I am watching Terminator genisys and it has to have the worst collection of fucking repulsive turds in any movie. I desire to stab Emilia Clarke 100 trillion times with the sharpest sword ever. Jai Courtney as well. Always hated that turd. Old Schwarzenigger is just horrible. Having Emilia cunt Clarke come back as an SJW is like getting fucked with an entire porcupine.

Porky's and Porky's Revenge. It got bad after that.

The parody moves: Scary Movie, Disaster Movie, Date Movie etc etc

Any Marvel crap. Twillight.

R66 Agreed. Robert Pattinson never failed to attack how awful/brain dead Twilight was. Staying in high school for a thousand years is totally cool!

R63 I love how they didn't give a shit and basically spoiled the whole movie in the trailers.

R67 Robert talked shit about the Twilight films multiple times during interviews.

R68 That is what I said, you fucking moron. Learn how to understand English. Eurotrash.

Jaws, Pirate's of the Caribbean, every horror franchise ever made.

That is just stupid. Friday the 13th had a couple good movies, including the original. Nightmare on Elm Street also had a few that were really good, especially the original.

All the Amityville and Conjuring films, all a product of the first paranormal hucksters, The Warrens

Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, Batman, Supreman, Spider Man, The Fast and the Furious. . .

Hooters

The Matrix series always sucked. Anything with Keanu sucks.

The Trump Organization. A brand that promises and delivers shit.

R76 Get a life, you psychotic troll.

"The Jurassic Park franchise. The first one is very entertaining but the films that follow get progressively shittier. I can't think of a franchise with a worse record."

I'd agree, but the first one is so good that I can't place the whole franchise as the worst. Some franchises don't have ANY good movies. And Jurassic Park and one GREAT one.

Deadpool. I can't believe it has an 8/10 on IMDB. I couldn't even make it through the first 15 minutes. And to think there are sequels!

[quote] "Saw. The first one was great & it went downhill mighty fast."

I remember thinking two things while watching the first film at a friend's house, R12: that it was way too much like "Se7en" to be interesting, and I couldn't get over Tobin Bell's casting, because he's a terrible actor.

Every additional film was just an excuse to exploit torture. Boring.

Spider Man. Do we really need the 5000 reboots? Enough

Ant-Man - who cares?

Fast and the Furious - people will watch anything, I guess

Never have watched any of the Fast and Furious movies, seems like a bunch of muscle heads

[Quote] The Matrix series always sucked. Anything with Keanu sucks.

First movie is great. The sequels were a convoluted mess.

[Quote] Never have watched any of the Fast and Furious movies, seems like a bunch of muscle heads

For the most part it is, the cast gets more diverse with each movie. I used to think Vin was hot, but now i prefer Paul and Sung.

I was thinking of food franchises. Carry on.

R84 Jesus, what a fucking genius.

The Hellraiser movies. The first two were classic modern horror but the movies started going downhill afterward - introducing new Cenobites when the originals, especially Pinhead, were so great; new and strange powers about the puzzle box; taking the movie into space (?!?)

Franchise my asshole!!

the Scream movies are terrible and don't hold up

The NERD movies (Revenge of the Nerds, Nerds in Paradise, The Next Generation, Nerds in Love

The Kennedy, Kardashian, and Trump families. Did I miss any other deserving manufacturers!?