MSR1701 wrote:And this is why I asked if there was ever a third movie in a Trilogy that worked... My memory is already slipping...
There'd be a lot more, but usually these days movies only remain a trilogy if the third one isn't making a lot of money.
Anyways, Thor: Ragnarok, Avengers: Infinity War, Spider-Man: No Way Home, Captain America: Civil War, Nightmare on Elm Street 3: The Dream Warriors, Goldfinger, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Toy Story 3, the Bourne Ultimatum, Army of Darkness, etc.
Most of the time a third movie only fails because they're just going through the motions. You're just getting a lesser version of what you've already seen.
Or, if they do have new ideas, they haven't bothered to link them to what came before. In a worst case scenario, they give you zero reasons to get emotionally invested, because they simply take brand loyalty for granted.