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Any recommendations from those to MEGAN or it's sequel? Largely blocked it out of my mind because of the tiktok, Zoomer rot that was playing in my mind.
 
Kyria the Great said:
Any recommendations from those to MEGAN or it's sequel? Largely blocked it out of my mind because of the tiktok, Zoomer rot that was playing in my mind.
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The first one isn't really worth the time investment. M3gan is the only likeable character, the plot and contrivances are just stupid, and it is squarely in the PG-13 realm gore/killing-wise. I give it credit for killing off the kid bully, but it still feels pussified since M3gan just semi-caused it instead of doing it. But that was the only scene with any soul to it at all. It's really just not worth the time investment (not checking, but I remember it was waaaay longer than the 75 minutes it should've been.

Not sure on the sequel. Someone here said it was far more sci-fi than horror, and that seems to ring true.
 
Your Starter for 10 said:
The first one isn't really worth the time investment. M3gan is the only likeable character, the plot and contrivances are just stupid, and it is squarely in the PG-13 realm gore/killing-wise. I give it credit for killing off the kid bully, but it still feels pussified since M3gan just semi-caused it instead of doing it. But that was the only scene with any soul to it at all. It's really just not worth the time investment (not checking, but I remember it was waaaay longer than the 75 minutes it should've been.

Not sure on the sequel. Someone here said it was far more sci-fi than horror, and that seems to ring true.
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Honestly hearing the sequel doing more Sci-fi action rather than horror is disappointing.
 
Kyria the Great said:
Honestly hearing the sequel doing more Sci-fi action rather than horror is disappointing.
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I guess they're doing a Terminator and changing genres, and that a shame because I think the first Terminator is a really nice slasher movie with a robot as a slasher. There are a good number of killer robot horror movies, but so many of them can be cheesy for the general audience. It's a shame because if there is one kind of slasher type that has the easiest explanation of a sequel it's a robot. Just have someone rebuild it after every movie. It has the risk of becoming repetitive but that's true of any slasher movie.

Any way I here some weirdos want to make M3gan a gay icon, like they tried to do with the Babadook or Pennywise from the new movie before he ate the fag. Hey if troons and queers want to be associated with monsters go for it.
 
I haven't seen any Megans. My niece went as her for Halloween a year or two back.
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gag juxtapositing her with one of the Metal Heroes
 
When did horror films become Franchises? Most horror series have 2 good movies then a bunch of bad sequels. Alien, Terminator, Predator and that's just the big 3. Everything trying to be a franchise instead of a good stand alone movie makes the first movie bland.
 
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About a hundred years ago
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Almost literally. Bride of, Son of, Ghost of and Castle Frankenstein started coming out after the original's success. Between 1935 and 1945 9 Frankenstein sequels/sidequels/chainquels came out. That's not even counting the crossovers with Dracula and Wolfman. Or it may count a little since I think Castle Dracula counts as a Frankenstein sequel.

So yeah, basically since the beginning of horror movies they've been trying to franchise.
 
Kyria the Great said:
Any recommendations from those to MEGAN or it's sequel? Largely blocked it out of my mind because of the tiktok, Zoomer rot that was playing in my mind.
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They're worth a watch, but the second one is very much not a horror movie at all and is action-oriented. The 1st is basically modern Chucky made by Blumhouse while also being female. The movies make me think there would be a great Chucky/M3gan crossover but it would have to be non canon to make the most sense.
 
Your Starter for 10 said:
Almost literally. Bride of, Son of, Ghost of and Castle Frankenstein started coming out after the original's success. Between 1935 and 1945 9 Frankenstein sequels/sidequels/chainquels came out. That's not even counting the crossovers with Dracula and Wolfman. Or it may count a little since I think Castle Dracula counts as a Frankenstein sequel.

So yeah, basically since the beginning of horror movies they've been trying to franchise.
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Yeah it's amazing Universal did the shared universe before Disney did with Marvel. I have almost all of them on disk and they even have the Abbot and Castelo movies in there too. I think it worked because they weren't trying to make a coherent universe, it was just "Let's make another Dracula movie."


Kofi Drinka said:
When did horror films become Franchises? Most horror series have 2 good movies then a bunch of bad sequels. Alien, Terminator, Predator and that's just the big 3. Everything trying to be a franchise instead of a good stand alone movie makes the first movie bland.
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Not only did horror movies from back in the 30s and 40s become franchises but other movies too. The Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce Sherlock Holmes movies started in 1939 by Fox for the first 2 movies then Universal took over and made 12 more up to 1946 when Basil said that's enough. The Fox movies are based on the book and period pieces, the Universal ones are B movies where Sherlock and Watson are in "Modern" London and sometimes fight Nazis, because the war was happening. Universal even had a little blurb explaining how Sherlock was in the 40s.

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Smash bros style movie. Throw in all the evil toys and have them fight it out.
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They did.
 
Vampirella said:
. I think it worked because they weren't trying to make a coherent universe, it was just "Let's make another Dracula movie."
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They made movies to be enjoyable not to launch a franchise. I was thinking more like the Princess of Mars movie they made trying to launch a series. The young adult movies they released as fast as possible after The Hunger Games and Harry Potter. They try to make a franchise starter instead of a good movie and sequel.
 
Kofi Drinka said:
hey made movies to be enjoyable not to launch a franchise. I was thinking more like the Princess of Mars movie they made trying to launch a series. The young adult movies they released as fast as possible after The Hunger Games and Harry Potter. They try to make a franchise starter instead of a good movie and sequel.
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That's true. Now that I think about it was more like hey lets make a bunch of Dracula movies. Would the old serials like Flash Gordon or The Shadow count as a franchise?

You bring up a good point. What movie kick started the "this will be our new franchise!" shit in movies now? It seemed to start getting really bad after Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter. Harry Potter started that Let's make the last movie 2 parts bullshit. I mean there have been a lot of older movies I remember from the 80s and 90s that ended with sequel bait or a To be Continued/We'll be back endings. Mac and Me and the Mario movies are the two that spring to mind but I know there are more.
 
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