Films that should never have sequels

As we all know there have been a lot of films that have been milked to death time and time again, just to rake in the money.

Jaws is a typical example, The Omen is another and also the Halloween films. When are film makers going to realise that doing these endless sequels is just a big waste of time, and concentrate on producing high quality films?

Police academy!

why?

Reminds me of a story. When the stage play "The Madness of George III" was made into the film the decision was made to retitle it "The Madness of King George" as it was thought that the American audience would assume the original title was the third film in a series and be put off from watching it, not having seen Madness I and II.

It's like those Halloween films with Mike Myers, what are we on now Halloween 1000 Myers back from the dead again? how many times does it take for someone to die? Apparently quite a lot in the film industry. Lisa x

Batman & Robin
Poltergeist II onwards
Friday the 13th (from the first one)
Speed 2
The Son of Kong
The Fly II
Nightmare on Elm Street II onwards

jadda, jadda, jadda

I must be the only one that actually like speed 2, that was probably because the lead bloke was hot though.

Remember The Net that starred Sandra Bullock? well they did a sequel that was dire to say the least!

I liked Speed 2.

Did you really Angus, or are you taking the Mickey? Lisa x

No, I mean it.

being ex-Navy I enjoyed the boat-type thriller.

The ending was a bit corny though but overall it was entertaining.

I liked Under Siege as well although Under Siege 2 was a bit "so what?"

steerpyke wrote:

Reminds me of a story. When the stage play "The Madness of George III" was made into the film the decision was made to retitle it "The Madness of King George" as it was thought that the American audience would assume the original title was the third film in a series and be put off from watching it, not having seen Madness I and II.

Same reason a lot of them would not go and see Malcolm X.

Tha explains why Space 1999 failed.

Not only the film but the DVD Box set had very poor sales.

At 19.99 it seemed a bargain!

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Reminds me of a story. When the stage play "The Madness of George III" was made into the film the decision was made to retitle it "The Madness of King George" as it was thought that the American audience would assume the original title was the third film in a series and be put off from watching it, not having seen Madness I and II.

I wonder how they got the green light for Se7en

Final destination and it's sequels are even worse, as are the scary movie ones! Lisa x

Godfather 3 should not have been made and Lethal Weapon was pants after number two.

NO WAY DUDE!!!!!

Lethal Weapon quadology and Die Hard trilogy were the greatest movies ever made and I will not hear another word against them!

No problems with Die Hard but Lethal Weapon went downhill on the last two.

STOP IT!!!!!!

LALALALALALALALALLALALALL

I agree that the Die Hard ones remained good, but the Lethal Weapon ones weren't so good latterly.

Like I said the film industry sees that a film is a hit, and then keeps milking it for all that it's worth. Lisa x

SOB

Here's a tissue Angus, don't cry. You've got to admit though that the last couple of Lethal Weapons outings weren't as good as the previous ones.

What about the Jaws films for what name sake, we all new what would happen. You get some idiot say 'oh look a shark' and the next minute the rubber shark would devour them. The characters in those films were just so thick and unbelievable. Lisa x

Original LW was the best as was DH1 but I could sit through them all for hours.

Angus wrote:

I liked Speed 2.

I like speed too...but thats got nothing to do with films, just a general observation.