It's challenge enough for a film maker is to tell a story using an hour and a half moving images medium. Even more challenge, is to continue telling the story in many other follow-ups. Indeed, movie series are one of the many troubled areas of the cinema, where only a few series come out surviving.
Harry Potter, based off a set of novels by J.K. Rowling, is an easy example if you are in search of a triumphant movie series. Worth to mention are cutting-edge fantasy and sci-fi movies like The Lord of the Rings, Aliens and Star Wars. Horror movies like Halloween and Friday the 13th are the best of their genre, and Bond and Bourne are spy-thrillers' aces to play.
On the other side of the table, however, are troubled series that are not so good, but cinema is still accepting them sequels. Ultimately though, there are some series that we knew as bad ones, but really they are any good. We list them below.
5. TRANSFORMERS
Michael Bay is easily tagged as an all-bombs less-story type of guy. And like a transparent sheet of plastic, his Transformers series reflects that greatly. Bay clung to many flashy action sequences and big explosions but ruined the whole experience with rusty-written characters and underdeveloped plotlines in almost each movie of the series (Transformers currently have 3 movies).
4. UNDERWORLD
Stylishly black, the Underworld series is a tedious mess, bugged by brittle execution and unwittingly exceeded acting. If it's any consolation, Kate Beckinsale kicks ass. She kicks ass good.
3. RESIDENT EVIL
Loud, cheesy and conventional, Resident Evil is a little clunky. Why bother? Many of video game adapts are of same description, anyway. Like Beckinsale, Milla Jovovich is the real entertainment as she tear from limb-to-limb genetically-distorted species. Besides this, Evil, in my honest opinion, had something to make it that rare video game-to-movie that never works but survives.
2. MISSION IMPOSSIBLE
Espionage is the area of its genre in which mind-bending is a staple skill. The movie must be adept in this task. For Mission Impossible, when it was first released in 1996, oozed with staggering action but lacked the mind-bending that it turned out a bit convoluted. The following movies went downhill, but a save from director Brad Bird with the recent Ghost Protocol (the fourth movie) made reminiscing of previous spectacles mandatory. It was so good that it makes you treasure the entire franchise itself.
1. FINAL DESTINATION
Before anyone puts on a one-brow high one-brow low to me, I will make myself clear. Final Destination has its moments, and I remember seeing it as a child, I was wowed by the idea (understand, that I had not honed my skills in spotting bad movies by the time).
While the plot in every movie may be described simply by three words (people die spectacularly), the movie can boast a couple of those deaths that are witty and creative. And the plot can be a little senseless sometimes until the release of Final Destination 5, but it is acceptable by all accounts. Like a puzzle, mysteries are revealed in each movie about death's grand plan, and that's what great about the franchise, people however unfortunately are unlikely to see this.
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