
TERMINATOR
After Terminator 2: Judgment Day, James Cameron left the director’s chair and took all the credibility with him. Nobody even remembers Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines. The latest two, Terminator: Genisys, and Terminator: Salvation before it, are actually rated PG-13. The movies about murderous, time-traveling androids now aren’t violent enough for an R rating. That’s really all the information you need to understand what a cash grab these things are now. Although we did get the Christian Bale on-set freak out from one of those last two, so that one was wasn’t totally pointless.

THE FAST AND THE FURIOUS

PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN

THE EXPENDABLES

SAW
The first Saw movie had a great new concept for the horror genre and a fantastic twist ending that few saw coming. The sequels tried to repeat the same formula, only the audience is already anticipating the twist, making the misdirection increasingly more difficult to pull off. As a result, the plots got more complicated and unbelievable, while the violent gore went well beyond scary and into sickening. But like clockwork, around Halloween every year, they cranked out another, even calling one Saw 3D: The Final Chapter in 2010. Saw VIII is currently in development at the time of this writing.

FINAL DESTINATION

STEP UP
Step Up is a movie about a street-tough doing community service at a dance school that he vandalized. Fortunately, he looks like Channing Tatum, and—you won’t believe this—he dances very well! Somehow still riding on the explosive success of Tatum’s career (although he only appeared in the first one), the franchise has enjoyed five Step Up movies, with a sixth in development at the time of this writing. That means, as a viewer, you’re supposed to believe there have been six scenarios in the world in which a criminal is accidentally discovered to be a wonderfully artistic talent and is given one chance by a beautiful stranger to improve his life. Turn on the house lights and go home Step Up. The dance is over.

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I saw two Indiana Jones ones, and the first two Terminators. As to the rest, I have no idea, and no desire to find out more.
I feel fortunate that I’ve never seen any of those Step up ones.