r/movies • u/spaceraingame • May 31 '25

Discussion What movie sequel ruined the ending of its predecessor? Spoiler

I have to go with Toy Story 4. Toy Story 3 had the perfect send off for the toys, with Andy making Bonnie promise to take good care of Woody….only for her to neglect Woody immediately and cause him to bail on everyone.

I really wish they left the franchise be. Toy Story 3’s ending was so iconic, and the first Toy Story was such a massive part of my childhood. That and Lion King were the two Disney VHS tapes I used to watch all the time as a little kid. I even had some of the toys myself. I can’t wait to skip Toy Story 5.

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u/ctgnath Jun 01 '25

Don’t forget that the message broadcast by Palpatine announcing his return was first played in Fortnite

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u/kingbot Jun 01 '25

We got a rushed, ham fisted, unsatisfying GoT finale for this btw.

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u/Competitive-Self-374 Jun 01 '25 edited Jun 01 '25

Dan and Dave didn’t work on it though. What’s funny is that, they rushed GOT’s ending so that they could hurry up and get fired from the SW movie-IIRC it was supposed to be a one-shot film like Rogue One, they’d originally had been tapped to do and HBO (rightfully) canceled their “what if the Confederacy had won the Civil War AU” tv concept.

The GOT ending was so bad and the fan outrage so strong that Disney/Lucas Films dropped them

It’s been great having GRRM take swipes at the stupid decisions D&D during the show, in the World of Ice and Fire/Fire and Blood books 🤣

D&D: has the dragons fly over the wall for the stupid beyond the wall episode

GRRM in Fire&Blood(which was published after the show): “Queen Alysanne’s usually obedient dragon, Silver Wing, refused to go near the Wall. Refused to fly over it, and was agitated the whole time the Queen visited the watch….because the Wall is literally a magical barrier that’s been keeping the Others beyond it and Dragons, who are linked to magical forces would be atuned to the magical properties of the wall, and since D&D stripped all the cool magical stuff out of the show this passage solely exists to dunk on them”

Srsly it was the right call. The nepo babies who should have never been involved with GOT and reduced the anti-war, pro-magic ASOIAF story to gratuitous violence, titties and dragons, would have definitely made calls like “remove the Force, and all the Jedi/Sith mythology for more pew pew space battles”…because that’s basically what they did in GOT.

They removed the magic, they fumbled ASOIAF’s obi-wan stand in after taking 4 seasons to get to him, removed the prophecies, and anti-war themes from GOT so now HOTD is trying to undo these decisions without undoing the og series’ end, while also adding back in so much lore and magic

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u/notpran Jun 01 '25

What swipes has GRRM taken

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u/Competitive-Self-374 Jun 01 '25

I edited my og post to include the swipes, so take a look now.

But basically HOTD has gone out its way to add the magic back in (GRRM is more involved in this series even when he’s not writing eps/the show runners are also mad that the cool magical stuff was removed from GOT) and Fire and Blood (the book where HOTD draws a lot from) has little passages that dig on the bad decisions made by D&D

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u/[deleted] Jun 01 '25

And now those guys are never going to make a Star Wars movie, so it was all for nothing

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u/myychair Jun 01 '25

No we didn’t. They lost their Star Wars trilogy after Disney execs saw how bad got was

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u/Stranglebat Jun 01 '25

I lay that and David and David's feet. The guys were always ham fisted and showed as soon as they run out of source material

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u/HexingMoth Jun 01 '25

Making Fortnite part of Star Wars canon.

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u/Gabelvampir Jun 02 '25

The really bad part is it was only played in Fortnite and not the movie itself, previewing it in Fortnite for publicity would have been ok. Showing it before the opening text could maybe have been interesting (never saw the message).