Worst Film to Kick Off a Cinematic Universe

[Dark Raven]

Ah, good ones. If we expanded it to TV shows as well you could have NBC's Expanded Chicago Universe, the Law & Order Universe. The latter could include Homicide, The Wire and even The X-Files, since Detective Munch appeared in those shows too.

There's JAG, NCIS, Hawaii Five-0, Magnum PI and Macgyver.

 

[2kt09]

@Deck Rickard more poll options

 

[Drizzle]

Shouldn't it be Rogue One in the Star Wars spot on the poll since it was the first Star Wars film to branch off from the main saga (not including the Clone Wars animated film or Ewoks movies from the '80s)? The Force Awakens was just a sequel and therefore another part in the main saga.

 

[Micromind]

One can also think of Prometheus as a start of new shared universe.

 

[Asr]

One can also think of Prometheus as a start of new shared universe.

If Prometheus counts, then so should Alien vs Predator (2004), which was released way before, along with AvP: R (2007), and thus indirectly, all of the Predator and Alien movies would be part of the shared universe.

There's definitely some unexplored territory there, crossover or otherwise, considering there hasn't been a single Predator or AvP movie set in the distant future yet (although I have no idea when Predators 2010 is supposed to take place, was that ever established in the movie btw?), while all of the Alien movies have been set in the distant future. The Alien/Predator CU is practically begging for a movie set in the future timeline of Alien, but apparently FOX will never get that clue...

As far as ranking AvP 2004 at starting a shared CU, I'd probably rate a few of the others mentioned in the thread below it, but it's definitely near the bottom for me. Just a huge wasted opportunity on a movie that could have been so much better and basically made a mockery of both the Alien and Predator franchises.

 

[Deck Rickard]

Ugh, yeah, I guess the Alien and Predator universe should be added here, though much like some of these others, it’s debatable which film should be listed as the kickoff film. I guess AVP? Man, that universe might take the cake for me as the worst shared universe because neither franchise has had a good movie since the 1980s, yet they keep pumping those turds out. The last Alien film was so bad it made me agressively angry while watching it. It was as if Ridley Scott thought he didn’t make the humans stupid ENOUGH in Prometheus and he doubled down on the idiocy. If those people are truly our future, we are so screwed.

 

[Drizzle]

Ugh, yeah, I guess the Alien and Predator universe should be added here, though much like some of these others, it’s debatable which film should be listed as the kickoff film. I guess AVP? Man, that universe might take the cake for me as the worst shared universe because neither franchise has had a good movie since the 1980s, yet they keep pumping those turds out. The last Alien film was so bad it made me agressively angry while watching it. It was as if Ridley Scott thought he didn’t make the humans stupid ENOUGH in Prometheus and he doubled down on the idiocy. If those people are truly our future, we are so screwed.

Predators was alright.

 

[Deck Rickard]

It was okay but I have a hard time calling it good, especially with the SHOCKING TWIST(!) with Topher's character at the end. That was so laughably bad.

 

[2kt09]

...the Jump Street franchise is the only 80s franchise that managed to stay afloat.

 

[Steyin]

I haven't seen The Mummy and would vote for it....but Ghostbusters 2016 was just so godawful that it gets my vote.

 

[Deck Rickard]

I though Ghostbusters got a little too much hate but the movie really went off the rails at the end. Ghost Thanksgiving balloons? WTF? Do balloons die in that world?

 

[Micromind]

Yeah Ghostbusters (2016) is the worst.

Some other movies could be included as they were made to restart the dead franchises like Independence Day: Resurgence and Terminator Genisys.

 

[Deck Rickard]

Yeah, but this thread is for movies intended to kick off multiple films that are interlinked but not direct sequels to one another.

 

[Mandon Knight]

The Mummy director opens up about his "painful" time on the movie

 

[Deck Rickard]

Should Unbreakable or Split be added to the poll? Or is that simply a trilogy and not really a shared universe?

 

[Spider-Fan]

I would wait on that and see. Currently, I would say trilogy. But my opinion may change after Glass.

 

[Mandon Knight]

To be fair, trilogy or CU, Unbreakable is hardly going to qualify for this poll, surely ?

 

[Deck Rickard]

Yeah, it's for sure a great movie but I'm trying to be fair here (hence the reason Iron Man is on the poll). Of course, I have met people who couldn't take Unbreakable seriously due to all the comic book talk.

 

[KaijuDude1992]

I voted for The Mummy 2017. As much as I didn't like Ghostbusters 2016 that movie was so much worse IMO. I mean if ID:R could be counted I would have probably voted for that one, but since its not listed on the poll hands down its that movie.

 

[Deck Rickard]

Yeah, nothing about The Mummy was good. Although Tom Cruise's scream in the trailers (but not in the actual movie!) did give birth to some of the funniest memes in the past few years.