12 Upcoming Movies That Have Ignored Massive Mistakes

6. Being Overly Reliant On Nostalgia - Creed II

The Lesson: Star Wars: The Force Awakens

Now, there's no reasonable way to call Star Wars: The Force Awakens a bad movie, but it is perhaps the ultimate emblem of Hollywood's current obsession with cynically milking audience nostalgia for every drop it's worth.

The movie would've been infinitely more interesting if it didn't use classic iconography as a crutch, and as such The Last Jedi was a far more refreshing film, if only because it dispensed so aggressively with so much of the pandering nostalgia-bait.

Though details are still pretty light on the upcoming Creed sequel, the fact that Dolph Lundgren will reprise his role as Ivan Drago suggests the movie's going to be a bit of a nostalgic victory lap for the series (as these films have been for years, honestly).

Drago is such a fundamentally silly part of Rocky "lore" that this could upset the balance and make the entire movie too referential for its own good. Creed did a great job deepening the meaning of the previous Rocky films, but without director Ryan Coogler, it's hard to have much faith here.

Even if the movie ends up decent, don't be shocked if the biggest complaint is that it dines out on the series' past - its most ridiculous past, no less - a little too eagerly.