CHARLESTON, S.C. - Alright Charleston, we're in for a chilly weekend. Football season is effectively over. Baseball season is a long way away. And we aren't close enough to March Madness to start getting brackets on the brain.
We need a film festival!
After digging through the DVD collection in the CCPL catalog, a theme has emerged: films that killed their franchises.
Many of these films also pair nicely with the Superhero Training Academy that just happened at Main Library because they feature plenty of superheroes.
Let's jump into the list!
In the Terminator franchise, James Cameron created something that has and continues to influence modern science fiction. What's not to love about killer robots from the future and trying to save the world from a mechanical apocalypse? In Terminator 2, fans of the franchise got to see John and Sarah Connor prevent Judgement Day. Then there was Terminator 3, the underperforming third installment with bad reviews that put the franchise on hold for several years. Then there was Terminator: Salvation, which was meant to be the first in a new Terminator trilogy but failed.
And along came Genisys. Problems started early for Genisys. A trailer gave away a key plot point, which angered fans. Then the film copies the plot of the first film, but makes editorial decisions that mean the events of the first two films never happened. Of course, Arnold Schwarzenegger is in the film, both as his original Terminator self and as an older, graying Terminator. But how do robots with synthetic skin and hair age? Well, with lazy screenwriters explaining it as flippantly as possible. Sarah Connor even nicknames him "Pops" at one point.
There are cameos of previous films' Terminators, but they'reempty shells of their earlier selves and are quickly discarded.
There have been rumors of a reboot led by Cameron for years, but so far that red glowing eye hasn't flickered to life.
This is the second movie in Sony's reboot of the original Sam Raimi trilogy (more on the death of the Raimi Spider-Man later).
8. Star Trek: Nemesis /search/eds/details?.&db=cat05846a&an=ccp.312768&isbn=0792187040
7. Alien: Resurrection /search/eds/details?.&db=cat05846a&an=ccp.462851
6. Batman & Robin /search/eds/details?.&db=cat05846a&an=ccp.433046&isbn=9781419812996
5. Spider-Man 3 /search/eds/details?.&db=cat05846a&an=ccp.492320&isbn=9781424887613
4. Green Lantern /search/eds/details?.&db=cat05846a&an=ccp.512302&isbn=0780662024
3. Scream 4 /search/eds/details?.&db=cat05846a&an=ccp.511397
2. Daredevil /search/eds/details?.&db=cat05846a&an=ccp.318027
1. Superman IV: The Quest For Peace /search/eds/details?.&db=cat05846a&an=ccp.318322&isbn=0790752468