It’s crazy that it took so long. It was supposed to come out under a year after the 2nd one, and at this point I forgot what even happened in the last one.

This is the part where Disney blames bigots rather than admitting they just made a bad movie people never wanted to watch

I have zero clue how they’re going to make a sequel. It was clearly supposed to be a one-and-done story.

But I did say that for Inside Out and got pleasantly surprised for the sequel so I might give Pixar some benefit of the doubt.

sure, but it was fanfiction in the sense that the whole story is centered around fan service. It was mostly “hey, that character you like is back!” and “oh my god, the villain people like made an appearance for 3 minutes!”. It didn’t feel like its own movie, just a collection of “give the fans what they want” scenes.

Spiderman no way home. Everyone was raving about it, when I finally got around to watching it, it turned out to be high-budget fanfiction.

A mix of half the movie being porn, the plot centering around a child in an adult woman’s body doing nothing but having sex, the overall message being “women having sex with everyone makes them grow as a person”.

Poor Things. Watched it in the cinema and it was just disgusting, I don’t care how critically acclaimed it is.

Sounds good, time to see what the hype is all about.

The entire point of fanservice was to give small nods to people who are really familiar with a franchise, but we’ve reached a point where studios are so creatively bankrupt that the entire move is just fanservice because they literally don’t want to bother making anything original.

Matrix 4 is a prime example. A total wankfest of “Remember this? Remember this? Remember this?”. What were they thinking?

Another non-superhero example was Kingsman 2, when they brought a popular character back to life just to exist in the movie again. A lot of recent sequels feel like they’re just digging out parts of the previous movies and just doing them again. I’ll see Beetlejuice Beetlejuice when it hits digital but I also am extremely suspicious it’s going to just be “Beetlejuice 1 again”.