It's sad to see so many good titles get ruined because of this

See, I actually think the F&F franchise is the exception here. The first one is just about some folks who like cars stealing DVD players. If it had just been that movie, I think it would have been mostly forgotten. It's not bad, but it's not iconic on its own. With each subsequent one they continue to lean harder and harder in to ridiculousness to the point where suddenly we have Tyrese and Ludacris in SPACE. To me the franchise is an example of how to do the action movie right: with a huge amount of self awareness and never taking it too seriously. They know what kind of movies they're making.

Which wouldn't be so bad if they did more of a reboot with entirely new toys to keep the stories separate.

I remember seeing Kung fu panda in the theater with my niece, walking away thinking, well that was a nice complete story and forgetting about it.

There is a 4th one now???

What? The LotR series is an amazing accomplishment. Probably the best trilogy of all time, and the highest grossing trilogy of all time.

My favourite part of this movie was that they directly call out WB by making an unnecessary sequel mandate part of the plot.

I liked all the references to the Matrix Trilogy being a trans allegory but I see the movie separate from the original three. It's not head canon for me.

They do if they retcon things that happened in the good installments, like MSG4 explaining all the cool and unexplained stuff from the previous three by saying "nanomachines did it" except the one thing that would have made sense to be nanomachines, which turned out to be a case self-hypnosis.

They should have spent the budget on something that was original and took a risk. We can watch a shitty reboot or a shitty original - and some of those original movies that are panned as not good at least have a shot at maybe becoming a cult classic or a fan fave.

They're making a Gladiator Two? WTF? Why? How? Let me guess, he knocked up Commodus' sister when she visited him in prison and the kid will be betrayed by the Senate and have to fight its way back into power?

I met someone who worked on this movie and she says 2 is gonna be pretty okay-ish, not bad but nowhere near as good as the original.

All of the sequels are weird since the first film is literally about the end of the immortals, but among the billion sequels and TV show, Highlander 2 is definitely the weirdest. I like how the rest of the sequels 100% ignore it.

Like: suddenly they're aliens and Sean Connery can be resurrected by shouting his name, and he can project a force from his hand, but it'll make him die again, and Connor is a scientist who made a shield to replace the Ozone in the future but the Ozone layer is actually fine so they have to destroy the shield generator in a Cyberpunk dystopia.

There's not enough cocaine on the planet to explain that script.

Oh, there’s a Highlander 4 in the works. It’s not dead yet. One saving grace is that it has Cavill in it, I liked his Witcher quite a bit, so I have hope for the Highlander 4.

It can shit on the original, loved canon by people citing and making memes about the crappy sequel. Examples: The Matrix, Star Wars

Because as a fan I'm contractually obligated to consume and enjoy all related content, rave about it online, and buy $100 worth plastic waste a year.

I actually quite like 3, if only for the ending.