10 Famous Movies That Ruined The Reputations Of Classic Films

2. The Matrix Sequels Make Everyone Forget The First Matrix Felt So Original

Any fan of the Wachowski Siblings' 1999 martial arts-sci-fi hybrid will be used having to clarify their love; "I really like The Matrix... the first one, not the sequels." Most of the time a bad sequel doesn't have to have an effect on what made the original so great; Predator 2, Alien 3, Spider-Man 3, Die Hard 4/5 and any Disney DTV release haven't dented the reputations of their respective originals. Not so with The Matrix. Reloaded and Revolutions were shot back-to-back and released within six months of each other to capitalise on the success of the original.

In reality it only served to allow fans to see the series collapse in on itself at alarming speed. Everything - the CGI, the length of action sequences, Neo's powers, the plot's needless complexity - is turned up to eleven, but with an amp that couldn't take the strain. Some people would defend them, but few would claim they come close to the original.

What made them have such a bad effect, however, was that the sequels probed backwards into the history of the titular computer program and thus managed to cheapen the plot of the original. Turning everything into a fight between two immensely powerful beings, it leaves us with an initially self-contained film turned into a bit of a mess.