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Why Are Movie Threequels Always So Terrible?

By Charlie Jane Anders, 4:04 PM on Tue Jul 7 2009, 134 views

Movie sequels that don’t suck are rare creatures — like flying unicorns — but they do exist. But nobody’s ever been able to find an example of a third movie in a series that didn’t self-immolate. Why is that?

After yesterday’s list of sequels that don’t suck — and I still cling to RoboCop 2, although maybe I should watch it again — people asked for a list of threequels that do suck. Which seemed kind of pointless, because that would be the same as a complete list of threequels. Search For Spock? Sucked. Return Of The Jedi? Blew. Spider-Man 3? Superman III? RoboCop 3? X-Men 3? It’s making my head pound just to list them. Alien³?

via io9 – Why Are Movie Threequels Always So Terrible? – Movies.

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