Don’t know how many people were clamoring for a sequel to Terms of Endearment (1983) but certainly, nobody cared when The Evening Star was released 13 years later. It was a commercial and critical disaster.
Sort of an inversion: With the 2008 economic meltdown and schenanigans of bankers worldwide, Wall Street 2 seemed like a perfectly-timed sequel, despite the original being 23 years old. Unfortunately, that movie also completely sucked (and hardly referenced the Great Recession at all!)
…not to mention a HORRIBLY miscast Terri Garr. And Oliver Reed in place of Robert Shaw, fer cryin’ out loud.
Even though David S. Ward, who wrote the original Sting. co-wrote the screenplay, this one still stinks. He changed the back stories and the characters of the main players, as was, I supposed, evidenced by his also changing their first names. It doesn’t really feel like a sequel. Worst of all, it doesn’t have the “period” feel that the first film did.
Count me among its fans. Although I can see how it might not be for everyone, I loved the original Zoolander and have watched it several times.
The problem with The Godfather III wasn’t its timing. It was that the movie had nothing to say that hadn’t already been said in the first two movies. It would have been a bad movie even if it had been made in 1976.
The Avatar sequels are going to be tricky. The first one was such a big success because the effects really were phenomenal, and far beyond anything anyone had ever seen at the time. By now, though, they’re not nearly so revolutionary, so the sequels will either have to come up with yet another special-effects revolution, which is unlikely, or just retread the same effects as the first one. If the sequel had come out a year or two after the first, the effects would no longer be revolutionary, but would still at least be new. Now, though…
Sometimes the box office returns don’t justify making the sequels. I would love if they continued making the entire Hitchhikers Guide books into films with the same cast, but it just didn’t do that well in theaters.
I read somewhere that they are already cutting budget for the 4th and final Divergant film. Mostly because no one gives a crap about “Hunger Games Lite”.
I read Gone With the Wind was highest when adjusted for inflation, but no matter.
I’m not sure what “has no faired well” means. That it doesn’t stand up to repeated viewings years later? Perhaps.
I’m going to through in the upcoming Independence Day sequel into the mix as well. Much like Avatar, I feel ID4 was a movie that blew people away the first time they saw it in theaters and then subsequently felt like a made-for-TV movie on later rewatching.
I am SO waiting for this, or a remake. Why do they insist on remaking crap when this is a great story and would be amazing now?
That problem might not be so bad if they come up with a story that’s interesting and original but that might be asking for too much.
Say that to Jurassic World.
I’m going to pretend I never read that.
If they had a story that was interesting and original they should have used it in the first one.
There’s long been talk of a new Bill and Ted movie. Both Alex Winter, who is doing most of the donkey work, and Keanu Reeves keep talking about it.
They’re pretty much going to have to just reboot Buckaroo Banzai before they can hope to do The World Crime League.
I would have really enjoyed a Weekend at Bernie’s 3 if they had made it one or two years after they made part 2.
Well, when your whole plot is “dinosaurs get loose and kill everyone”, you have to leave some time between sequels just so people will forget what happened in the last one.
The marine robots will have even bigger knives and explodier bullets.