10 Awesome Movies With Disappointing Sequels

Stan Winston once remarked that he'd worked on movies with better effects than The Terminator, but he'd never worked on a movie with as good a story. That pretty much sums up James Cameron's $6 million movie, but if you want to see the same story mounted a $100 million budget, then Judgment Day is for you. Just don’t expect too many differences.

T2 must also bear the brunt for convincing Arnie that Terminators could be funny. In the first sequel, he gets away with one quip (“I need a vacation!”), but by the time of Rise Of The Machine, he’s content to play off his old catchphrases every few minutes. Until near the end, there was more than a touch of déjà vu to the plot, which was basically a facsimile its predecessor

The dour, humourless Terminator Salvation managed only to polarize audiences, but Terminator Genisys deserves credit for turning the franchise into a Mel Brooks movie, complete with “jokes” about how humanity won’t survive unless Kyle Reese and Sarah Connor get it on.

Please don’t come back, Arnie.