He always planned to do not just one, but a whole series of them.
I spent about a decade thinking everyone considered Zoolander a huge critical failure. A movie that made money, but was massively hated. Like Transformers 2.
I was shocked to learn that there are people who liked it. To be fair, I have never seen it.
Yeah, he’s going to film 3 of them together. I think he thinks it was well received and loved. It wasn’t. It just made a lot of money for some reason. It is good, but I re-watched it about 2-3 months ago and I really was surprised how dull it was.
I won’t go see a sequel at all. Certainly, it should have come out 2 years after the original at the latest.
I think the third Mummy movie took too long. If it had been sooner, it may have been Stephen Sommers directing and Rachel Weisz starring in it, and may even have been good.
I am still waiting for the third National Treasure movie, which ought to have been made by now as the others were popular enough to warrant it.
I don’t think the issue is if a movie is wanted or unwanted, just if it’s good. All the movies listed here are mediocre to bad movies that would have let down audiences whether they took 1 or 10 years. More people might have gone to see the second Zoolander or Boondock Saints movies if they came out quicker, but that would just mean more disappointed people leaving the theaters.
Probably doesn’t qualify, but when I encountered “Titanic 2” that seemed like the most unnecessary sequel ever.
“Grease 2” took four years, but the six minutes I saw sucked anyway–despite a delicious Michelle Pfeiffer.
No, it’s not whether it’s good, it’s whether it makes money. Hollywood would be perfectly ok with scads more film viewers leaving disappointed than only a few viewers leaving disappointed.
Wow, I’m pretty surprised to see that I’m the first to mention this one (thought it would have been said right after the OP) "Godfather 3"
I wonder what gave him that idea? Maybe it was being the second highest grossing film of all time?
But eight years is a long time to have a sequel. Can you imagine a high school senior getting exciting about a sequel to a film he saw in 5th grade that doesn’t begin with “Long ago in a galaxy far away…”?
Why have sequels at all? How many times have Star Trek, Batman, Superman, and Spiderman bee rebooted?
Well, it did really sink at the box office.
Speaking of sequels that took too long … Independence Day 2 is coming soon. I suspect it will be going away rather quickly.
It was a movie with a lot of funny, memorable bits. The plot and characters were silly and there’s no deep story, but it was a great fun movie that you could reference with friends (‘Blue Steel’).
I think people liked going to see the new state of the art effects on a big screen and (mostly) in 3-d, but nothing more. I went and saw it and was quite happy with it, it was a fun experience, but nothing about the movie stuck with me other than ‘cool effects’. It seems like he thinks it’s more like Star Wars, that people really loved and want to see more of, but I don’t get the impression that it clicked like that for anyone.
Isn’t there a new Bridget Jones movie coming out?
I really liked Zoolander, but poor Ben Stiller has aged badly since the original.
I hope they make movies of all of the Chronicles of Narnia books, it doesn’t seem right to just make some, and then , ‘ah, the hell with it’, leave the series incomplete. Like The Golden Compass movie with Nicole Kidman, those are very popular books, there should be movies to go with them.
And I predict right here and now, in the next few years, there WILL be another Ace Ventura movie with Jim Carrey. (So many of our fine thespians make a hit movie when young, don’t want to be typecast, ferchrissake, they have SO much more talent than that!..and then years go by and they want to hopefully squeeze out one more big paycheck. Crawling back to the original movie…)
I don’t how much it was wanted, but
The Mask of Zorro (1998) $250,288,523 worldwide
The Legend of Zorro (2005) $142,400,065
Quatermass and the Pit (known in the USA by the confusing title Five Million Years to Earth) (1967) is the third film in the Quatermass series, coming out ten years after Quatermass 2 (AKA Enemy from Space) (1957).
I don’t know how many fans were clamoring for it, but the Quatermass films were pretty much self-contained; you didn’t have to see the first two to appreciate or understand this one. It’s pretty good – on my Top Ten science fiction films.
They waited another twelve years after this for The Quatermass Conclusion (1979) – an awful movie (although I’ve only seen the cut version released in the US).
I seriously doubt that anyone was eagerly anticipating these. Again, this last film stands on its own. (They followed it with another remake of the original Quatermass film in 2005)
I’m not sure people were yearning for a Godfather III. I guess in 1975 or 1976 they might have been, but I can see people feeling that 2 ended with the corruption of Michael and the story was kind of over.
It’s the highest grossing, not second highest. Yeah, I mean it obviously made money, but it has not faired as well over time. A long wait has made it non-existant.
Here is an article about how while it was big, it left no cultural footprint.
Oh, yeah. I was excited for a sequel in 1999 and 2000, but the delay made it way too late. And the sequel was terrible, which made it even worse.
I LOVED that movie!
But here’s a note to any Hollywood types who are clearly not bright enough to listen. If you cannot get the original core group of actors…DO NOT MAKE THE SEQUEL.
Already mentioned was The Sting 2, with Jackie Gleason and Mac Davis*. Mac Davis, fer crissakes! Even if was a year after the first, that turd was gonna bomb.
[sub]I have nothing against Mac Davis. Loved him in North Dallas Forty. But he sounds like a good 'ol boy, and any role he gets should be in that vein. [/sub]
Not out yet (or even done) but Avatar 2 is going to have missed it’s window. Hellboy 2 is another one…I really like the character, but taking too long between movies so that by the time the second one came out I was just not as into it.