Movie Series Where They Had Too Many Sequels

[iowajerms]

Revenge of the Nerds

only needed one

 

[Edisto_Tiger]

Weekend at Bernies

 

[Berkeley_Blues]

With the exception of the Godfather and a couple others, making a series of movies is a really bad idea -- if movie quality is a motivating factor.

I would argue that the concept of sequels is badly flawed. In most cases Studios are just trying to squeeze more money out of movie goers.

Starting with movie II in a series -- we get a diet of excrement while paying the same price as the original.

 

[Tomhusker]

I'm not a huge fan of it either, but I thought it was a well made movie. Even if the story of the movie was fictional, they did do a lot of work and spent a lot of money trying to make it as accurate as possible.

Translated: Chick flick that is too fucking long, but you gotta watch it if you wanna get laid that night.

 

[Edisto_Tiger]

Translated: Chick flick that is too fucking long, but you gotta watch it if you wanna get laid that night.

I took my wife to see that on our first date. Worked like a charm. Just a word of caution though, it only works that first time. Haven't had the same results the couple times I've watched it with her since then.

 

[Reverend Jim]

I didn't even realize A Christmas Story had a sequel. It is our family tradition to watch this Christmas morning while we open presents.

There was actually a sequel to a Christmas story before the 2012 Christmas story 2.
It was called My Summer Story (It runs in the family)
It Runs in the Family (1994) - IMDb
The same guy narrated it. That's the only thing good I can say about this movie.

In 2012 the abomination Christmas Story 2 came out (right to DVD, what does that tell you)
A Christmas Story 2 (Video 2012) - IMDb

 

[iowajerms]

Karate Kid
Kickboxer
Ong Bak
Best of the Best

 

[iowajerms]

Back to the Future

 

[ladyrockess]

Shrek II was awesome. I don't know what y'alls are talking about. Shrek III and IV I could've done without.

 

[Kid Vicarious]

Back to the Future

Although that might change with BTTF4 coming out.

 

[SEC Official]

Poltergeist... little girl died while they were making the 2nd one and they kept on... it sucked balls.

 

[beardown07]

read the first page...that's plenty....someone mentioned Jaws...sequels suck in general, but on a tangent of sorts....Jaws is the most influential movie ever made.

 

[Midnightangel]

With Back to the Future - they had to make three.

Originally it was one script. Take all three of those films and try to squeeze them into one. Well, originally, that's the way the writer did it.

Robert Zemekis realized that's way to much to try to squeeze into one 2 hour film. Had he have done that he'd have ended up with a Roland Emmerich 4 hour movie and it would have been chopped up crap.

So he made it into 3 films.

 

[IndyAndy]

All of the Planet of the Apes sequels.

 

[MilkSpiller22]

There is a huge difference between bad and unwatchable... Movies like Back to the future 3 was awful but it was still entertaining...

 

[bigred472]

Revenge of the Nerds

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Did we really need sequels to the first Alien move?

 

[NickVT10]

Weekend at Bernies

Without the second one we wouldn't have the famous "Bernie" dance.

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Back to the Future

I liked all the back to the future movies...

 

[NickVT10]

The Pirates of the Caribbean series coulda stopped before and I wouldn't have minded. They are reaching more and more

 

[iowajerms]

read the first page...that's plenty....someone mentioned Jaws...sequels suck in general, but on a tangent of sorts....Jaws is the most influential movie ever made.

I'm not talking about the quality of the sequels, but whether or not they are needed for the story. For instance, Terminator only had 2 that were great. But the 3rd and 4th ones helped tell the story of 1st and 2nd, and ones they will make will do the same, even though they will never live up to it.

 

[ThruTheEyesOfRuby]

Horror movie sequels are usually awful. It's probably easier for me to mention sequels I actually liked for that genre, which I used to be a fan of. The two that come up right away are Exorcist III (The 2nd one was god-awful) and the original Evil Dead series.