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What is this generation's Batman & Robin?


Sure, it's easy to cite a bad superhero film but to be considered the new Batman & Robin would mean it would have to be a)part of an established, and trusted, film franchise and b)leaves a bad taste big enough that the studio has to change direction for any later installments.

My vote is X-Men Origins: Wolverine, originally designed to be a prequel to the X-Men film series that would set up sequels and spin-offs it met terrible word of the mouth that caused Fox to rethink their whole approach, and X-Men: First Class, the following X-Men based film, completely ignored everything X-Men Origins: Wolverine had established. Case in point Emma Frost, seen as a young woman( late teens, early 20's) in XO:W( Set in the 80's I believe) she's used again in First Class, set in the 60's, as a woman in her late 20's to early/mid 30's.

Every X-Men film installment since Origins has ignored it and in the case of Deadpool ridiculed it, Apocalypse re-did certain aspects to it.

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Batman v Superman perhaps.


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The bar wasn't raised too high after its predecessor though, and it won't be ignored continuity wise. X-Men Origins did not live up to even The Last Stand and was so bad every X-Men installment has decidedly wiped it away from continuity.

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Didn't DOFP follow-on from X-Men: Origins with respect to Stryker's origin story?


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Maybe this is a little off topic but for me Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skulls was a huge disappointment after I grew up loving the previous three movies.

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Stryker was portrayed quite younger and his discovering of Wolverine was quite different, if you haven't seen Apocalypse yet they further re-do the origin of the Weapon X program.

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X-Men Origins is probably the best example! Other bad films from the past decade that fit the criteria:

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The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
The Amazing Spider-Man 2
Terminator Salvation
Batman V Superman
Superman Returns
Halloween 2 (2009)

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In all fairness I didn't like The Mummy Returns, Terminator 3 or Man of Steel either.

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Terminator Salvation, that followed 3 very successful films and ended any Terminator critical success.

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I think this year's remake of Ghostbusters could eventually become such, given the vicious negative reception the trailer received.

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