10 Movie Franchises That Can't Be Good Again (And Exactly Why)

Nobody would've believed that a series of movies that seemed to be just another generic adrenaline-fuelled spectacle could become a franchise with so much heart and thrill. However, sometimes the strength of the underlying messages can't save a franchise that has simply had its day.

The problem is, the franchise feels very of its time and not necessarily made to have lasted as long as it has. Whilst there is certainly praise owed to the studios, the action scenes have bordered on ridiculous in later sequels, and the themes the movies are trying for seem to be increasingly harder to decide. One minute, The Fate of the Furious reads as an intense thriller with serious undertones, then Vin Diesel just casually wins a drag race in a flaming car...IN REVERSE.

The latest movies have frequently fallen towards a self-parody of their former glory and the franchise as a whole just cries out for it's formerly smaller scope, with a focus on characters that felt grounded in realism. With the latest movie essentially enrolling the team in the same school of espionage and infiltration as James Bond, and ridiculous action sequences that could work in a Mr Bean sketch, it is hard to see the franchise ever returning to the humble roots it suited.