I can't see how anyone could perceive this to be a bad thing.
Thanks should be directed toward Box Office Mojo writer Brandon Gray, then, for putting on his lab coat and black-rimmed glasses, picking up a clipboard, and staring intently at "information" and "numbers" while occasionally letting out a "Hmmm..." or "Fascinating..." before jotting down illegible notes that turned into an article proclaiming 27 sequels are coming out in 2011. That's more than any year prior, with nine second movies, five third movies, five fourth movies, five fifth movies, two seventh movies, and one eighth. The last record for sequels was 2003, which had 24. Drop some knowledge, Professor Gray:
To reiterate, six movies are sequels to movies that came out last year. That's quick!The majority of sequels are repeats of the last two years: Eight movies follow 2009 movies, while six follow 2010 movies. Sequels to 2006 movies are the next best represented at five. The longest time between sequels will be The Muppets' 12 years, followed by Scream 4's 11 years, Rise of the Apes's ten years and around eight years each for Spy Kids 4 and Johnny English Reborn. None of those are a match for the waits for last year's Tron Legacy (over 28 years) and Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (nearly 23 years).
Those numbers don't count a number of series reboots and other things that do not include a number or cleverly-written subtitle to a name you've heard of, and the article skips a few likely sequels that currently lack release dates, so it might actually be more like 30. Still, there's a bunch. I don't hate sequels with nearly the passion of others, but it's maybe getting a touch ridiculous that we're being so thoroughly inundated with unoriginal things. Whadda you guys think? Is this too much? Or does it even matter?
Most sequels are annoying, pointless and are just terrible compared to the first movie.
I hate it when they make sequels to already good movies!
Mean Girls, The Hangover, Happy Feet, Cars.
Final Destination should've ended and Fast and the Furious just keeps making pointless sequels!
Also, another Johnny English. I liked the first.
Hell yes! Probably my favorite animated movie. The animation was a bit rough but the characters were great because they were so weird. That bunny...very effeminate. I'm kinda shocked this is actually getting a sequel.
Cars 2
Sherlock Holmes 2
Mission: Impossible: Ghost Protocol
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
Scream 4
Fast Five
...on DVD
The other part is fucking stoked for Fast Five.
Yeah and FUCK YEAH!!!.
Also I'm so happy that they decided to call Piranha 3d 2 Piranha 3DD.
Why do you care about the artistic statement and integrity of The Fast and the Furious series? What is your problem with them making another Final Destination movie? What the hell, guys? These are not movies where you care about the characters or the story, it's a movie where you go to see a) The Rock and Vin Diesel doing military shit and maybe some cars? and b) people die in incredibly unlikely, hilariously Rube Goldberg-esque ways.
I tend to look at stuff like the Mission: Impossible series and famous, mainstay franchises like that as a sort of "genre delivery system". I want to watch a movie about spies, so they made one and called it Mission Impossible 4. Okay cool whatever, let's go Tom Cruise do some spy shit.
I hate pointless sequels and money grubbing as much as the next man, but when the sequels are well-made and adequately entertaining (Mission: Impossible 3 springs to mind!) I can't hate them on principle, because the movie was good so who cares!
Also I read comic books so it's like, hey, Superman has been alive for like sixty years and people have told uncountable stories with him, but you can't just go "okay Superman is done cancel Superman let's make a new superhero" because that would be crazy and stupid. I guess I just have a higher tolerance for that stuff!
I remember enjoying the first one but that was like 8 years ago!
Come on Hollywood have you really run out of ideas?