Unsurprisingly, the opening box office take wasless than halfof the original’s, on a much higher budget.
Or maybe it’s just not very good, and any other analysis is just overcomplicating matters.
Is it enough of a misfire to join the ranks of cinema’s most harebrained sequels ever?
Because it’s related to the sharks that were killed in the other movies?
Or maybe is possessed?
However, I have seen the house that it built, and it is terrific!"
C-3PO’s memory is erased!)
Luckily, after a few decadesPicardcame along to giveTNGa rather more fitting sendoff.
Nevertheless, the result feels cheap and utterly generic.
Here, the action sequences are excessive to the point of diminishing returns.
Instead, jump ahead toJason Lives, one of the more inventive entries in the franchise.
All that having been said,Superman 4never stood a chance.
Discount effects teams were brought on, and thefilm wrappedin a unfinished state.
Yay for nuclear disarmament, though.
Sounds kinda brilliant, honestly.
The finished product, though…not so much.
And then a bunch of weird shit happens, because of reasons.
Unfortunately, it’s an experiment that doesn’t work as a particularly watchable piece of filmmaking.
If you live by special effects then you die by special effects, and that’s really whereQuantumaniagoes wrong.
What if we just kind of revisit it with the idea that the original exorcism didn’t quite take?
It’s all quite ambitious and impressively atmospheric, but adds up to very little.
Big points for style, but not much else.
The third film, which goes off in entirely different directions, remains sequel to beat.
Here we follow her husband, several years later, having married his co-worker following the Irena’s death.
Why do I say it was ill-conceived then?
I imagine that must’ve amused Val Lewton and company, but maybe not audiences.
