The Final Destination, New Line Cinema’s
fourth stab in the Final Destination series, remained at #1 at the box office last weekend. Its current total of just over $50 million domestically, puts it on pace to be the most successful movie in
FD franchise history - not by much, but it’s still a net loss for discerning filmgoers nationwide. This news is too surprising. In the battle between intelligent filmgoers and Hollywood executives, most of the time, stupidity wins. Recent insanely successful dumb sequels include:
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (which made over $828 million worldwide, despite abysmal reviews), and
Indiana Jones: and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull ($786 million worldwide, despite
Harrison Ford needing an assistant to crack his whip at this point. However, sometimes (on very rare occasions) when Hollywood recycles garbage in the form of half-baked sequels, we punish them for it. We take a stand. We boycott their bulls*t. I mean, seriously?
Free Willy 3? How many times are we gonna have to free this whale? Maybe he’s meant to die. The following graphic features notable sequels that bombed at that box office over the last 20 or so years, taking into account box office (adjusted for inflation) and Rotten Tomatoes reviews. Most of the films we included made under $35 million. A few (
Blair Witch 2,
Analyze That), made over $35 but were still considered bombs because of the significant drop in sales from their predecessor. Bombs away!
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