TMC
11-05-2022, 08:27 PM
Halloween Ends sure dropped the ball alright.
BY JACK POOLEY
NOVEMBER 4TH, 2022
Landing a trilogy sure is tough - by the time any movie series reaches three films, fan expectations are so high and so firmly set that it's incredibly easy for filmmakers to lose sight of what the audience wants. Or, perhaps, they just don't care about what fans want to see.
Delivering a trilogy-capping film that pays off the established characters and story arcs is incredibly challenging for even extremely talented writers and directors, hence why fans are so often left underwhelmed.
But then there are those trilogy-ending movies that didn't just mildly disappoint: they were bad enough that they forced fans to reconsider just how much they liked the two previous films in the first place.
These threequels all categorically failed to satisfy fans or even service the existing characters, themes, and general ideas on the most basic level.
Each left large swaths of the fandom frustrated that things sputtered out in such dispiriting, even boring fashion, leaving them to consider the many better ways things could've actually been wrapped up.
Regardless of where these series went afterwards, these contained movie trilogies all flopped big time at the most crucial hurdle...
10. The Star Wars Sequels (https://whatculture.com/film/10-movie-trilogies-that-had-the-worst-endings?rf=homepage)
9. The Mummy (https://whatculture.com/film/10-movie-trilogies-that-had-the-worst-endings?page=2)
8. X-Men (https://whatculture.com/film/10-movie-trilogies-that-had-the-worst-endings?page=3)
7. Jurassic Park (https://whatculture.com/film/10-movie-trilogies-that-had-the-worst-endings?page=4)
6. The Hangover (https://whatculture.com/film/10-movie-trilogies-that-had-the-worst-endings?page=5)
5. Sam Raimi's Spider-Man (https://whatculture.com/film/10-movie-trilogies-that-had-the-worst-endings?page=6)
4. RoboCop (https://whatculture.com/film/10-movie-trilogies-that-had-the-worst-endings?page=7)
3. The Divergent Series (https://whatculture.com/film/10-movie-trilogies-that-had-the-worst-endings?page=8)
2. David Gordon Green's Halloween (https://whatculture.com/film/10-movie-trilogies-that-had-the-worst-endings?page=9)
1. Poltergeist (https://whatculture.com/film/10-movie-trilogies-that-had-the-worst-endings?page=10)
BY JACK POOLEY
NOVEMBER 4TH, 2022
Landing a trilogy sure is tough - by the time any movie series reaches three films, fan expectations are so high and so firmly set that it's incredibly easy for filmmakers to lose sight of what the audience wants. Or, perhaps, they just don't care about what fans want to see.
Delivering a trilogy-capping film that pays off the established characters and story arcs is incredibly challenging for even extremely talented writers and directors, hence why fans are so often left underwhelmed.
But then there are those trilogy-ending movies that didn't just mildly disappoint: they were bad enough that they forced fans to reconsider just how much they liked the two previous films in the first place.
These threequels all categorically failed to satisfy fans or even service the existing characters, themes, and general ideas on the most basic level.
Each left large swaths of the fandom frustrated that things sputtered out in such dispiriting, even boring fashion, leaving them to consider the many better ways things could've actually been wrapped up.
Regardless of where these series went afterwards, these contained movie trilogies all flopped big time at the most crucial hurdle...
10. The Star Wars Sequels (https://whatculture.com/film/10-movie-trilogies-that-had-the-worst-endings?rf=homepage)
9. The Mummy (https://whatculture.com/film/10-movie-trilogies-that-had-the-worst-endings?page=2)
8. X-Men (https://whatculture.com/film/10-movie-trilogies-that-had-the-worst-endings?page=3)
7. Jurassic Park (https://whatculture.com/film/10-movie-trilogies-that-had-the-worst-endings?page=4)
6. The Hangover (https://whatculture.com/film/10-movie-trilogies-that-had-the-worst-endings?page=5)
5. Sam Raimi's Spider-Man (https://whatculture.com/film/10-movie-trilogies-that-had-the-worst-endings?page=6)
4. RoboCop (https://whatculture.com/film/10-movie-trilogies-that-had-the-worst-endings?page=7)
3. The Divergent Series (https://whatculture.com/film/10-movie-trilogies-that-had-the-worst-endings?page=8)
2. David Gordon Green's Halloween (https://whatculture.com/film/10-movie-trilogies-that-had-the-worst-endings?page=9)
1. Poltergeist (https://whatculture.com/film/10-movie-trilogies-that-had-the-worst-endings?page=10)