I recently watched the follow-up movie to Independence Day.
They tried to parallel events and lines in the script, but it didn’t work. The movie came across as too scripted and stilted.
Several years ago I watched a couple of the Twilight movies. One has the vamp falling in love with the girl. The next has the werewolf falling in love with the girl. It seemed that a quick search (vamp) and replace (with werewolf) and wallah! a new script for a new movie.
I don’t even try to keep up with many of these franchises these days.
I do watch Screen Junkies’ “Honest Trailers” though (and they plot kill, so don’t watch them if that bother you and you haven’t seen a film or read a novel or seen the original of a reboot).
They tackled the Twilight films early on (if I recall what I’ve seen listed online) but I’ve had no interest in trying to see those films summarized. I did watch the SJ synopsis of the plot turns in the Pirates of the Caribbean (I’ve only ever seen the first in that franchise and don’t think I’m interested in riding out all of the plot turns). I watched the SJ synopsis of the Transformers movies and can’t say I see any point to spending any of my time even trying to watch one of them; I’m clearly not the intended audience. Same with the Fast & Furious series (I haven’t even tried to watch those summarized).
I saw the original Independence Day, watched the SJ trailer for the sequel and don’t care to try to see it. And their reviews aren’t always negative and I don’t like some of the films they champion but that’s true of any critics.