Timber

Talk about soft spot. For whatever reason I've always loved Superman III. It's completely different than the first two but for me it works a a campy "comedy" episode in the series. From Richard Pryor to the weather machine, to the robot at the end, it all works for me.

IV on the other hand has not redeeming qualities.

Inhumans99

Since it looks like DTV sequels can be included in this thread, and although I have brought this up on other threads, I like to think The Hidden 2 is a movie that was never made. I saw Species 2 in theaters, but I can easily and happily forget this film exists, especially as I actually enjoyed watching the DTV sequels to the Species franchise much more than Species 2 (I do not remember the film at all).
Since Alligator is on my mind, I seem to remember watching Alligator 2 many years back just because I saw that it exists, but I remember nothing from the film and can act like Alligator was one and done (which it technically was, since the sequel really has no significant tie-in between the main actors in Alligator and Alligator 2).

Everyone else has already covered stuff like some of the Alien series sequels, some of the Predator series films (Predator 2 is a fave of mine, the rest I can take or leave, mostly leave), some of the Star Wars films, some of the The Matrix films, and other film franchises that I mostly have no say in because they are horror franchises and I mostly do not do horror (I did watch I believe at least the first 4-5 OG Halloween films before they started to get rebooted by Rob Zombie).

It is telling that even though I have a pretty good memory, that I remember pretty much nothing from some of the above films that I watched, which goes to show just how unmemorable they were.

DJariya

I remember this movie popping up on TV in the mid 1980s and seeing it as a kid and then saying....OMG, a new Bruce Lee movie I've never seen, I thought he was dead?

Then I saw it was a mish mash of badly edited clips from previous movies and stunt doubles.

GLSWIA123

Matrix 4.

JeffTheAlpaca

All Julia Roberts rom coms

Wolf359

I know it's been mentioned but seriously, fuck Alien 3. Lots of movies have bad sequels but very few go out of their way to purposely shit on their predecessor.

Josh-da-man

When I finally saw Robocop 2, I was kind of surprised that I didn't hate it. It might be because I went in with really lowered expectations, but I thought it was aggressively okay.

Robocop 3, on the other hand...

MLBFan24

Jurassic Park 3

I’ve tried to watch it 3 times throughout the years and can only get through the first 30 minutes each time. Then I give up. I’ve seen all the other JP films without a problem. JP3 is my kryptonite.

B5Erik

The Batman.

B5Erik

I really enjoy JP3. It's a modern take on the 50's Monster on the Loose movie. I grew up watching those movies and still love them. Great stuff!

JP3 channels that style and modernizes it. With MUCH better effects. It's fun.

CyberpunkCentra

My main problem with those movies is, other than the fact they are just plain bad, they don't take advantage of the Superman lore. All those great characters from the comics like Brainiac, Bizarro, and Darkseid, yet we get some computer, a guy named Bubba, and Nuclear Man. Making them worthless. I can watch a bad comic book movie, like Batman Forever and Batman & Robin for example, if it at least has some fan service.

Josh-da-man

I think Superman III was to feature Brainiac at one point, but Warners didn't want to pony up the cash for a big special effects extravaganza, so they settled on Richard Pryor.

It's also how Paramount seems to have run the Star Trek movie franchise; the initial pitches and scripts are for these big ambitious films, then they get whittled down and compromised by the bean counters, and you end up with stuff like Star Trek V: The Final Frontier, Star Trek Generations, and Star Trek Insurrection.

CyberpunkCentra

WB was just being cheap. Yes, recent versions of Brainiac looks expensive to do now. But at that time, they could have gone with an actor with green make-up, or Brainiac in his robot form done in puppeteering.

PhantomStranger

The cost is why we've never gotten a Superman-in-space movie away from Earth, and why we keep getting Zod and Luthor as his villains on screen.

GLSWIA123

You haven't seen it.

CyberpunkCentra

7 or 8 Superman-related movies now and STILL no Brainiac.

Alan Smithee

The 1997 Special Editions and any further "revisions" of the Star Wars Trilogy.

IBJoel

Mikezilla3k

I think the Vera Webster was meant to be the Brainiac character at the end of the film,.