Random Movie Sequels Came Out So Long After Original That No One Cared Anymo (13 items)

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  (#5) Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps

  • Charlie Sheen, Shia LaBeouf, Susan Sarandon, Carey Mulligan, Michael Douglas, Josh Brolin, Oliver Stone, Eli Wallach, Frank Langella, Vanessa Ferlito, Austin Pendleton, Natalie Morales, John Bedford Lloyd, Julianne Michelle, Erin Wyatt

  Sequel to: Wall Street (1987)

  Year released: 2010

  Gap: 23 years

  Wall Street seemed to embody the high-energy, high-stakes mood of New York City's Wall Street in the '80s. While 2013's The Wolf of Wall Street replicated this, too, it would be hard for a film to feel as authentic as 1987's Wall Street. The film had mostly favorable reviews and a good box office showing, but Michael Douglas's performance (which scored him an Academy Award) is the film's most memorable aspect.

  The 2010 sequel received mixed reviews, with many critics deeming it unnecessary. But what proved especially tricky for the sequel was the social climate had dramatically changed. After 2008's Great Recession, Gordon Gekko's "Greed is good" motto didn't have the same ring to it.
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  (#3) Dumb and Dumber To

  • Jim Carrey, Kathleen Turner, Jeff Daniels, Laurie Holden, Rob Riggle, Carly Craig, Rachel Melvin, Steve Tom

  Sequel to: Dumb and Dumber (1994)

  Year released: 2014

  Gap: 20 Years

  The year 1994 belonged to Jim Carrey. He starred in Dumb and Dumber, Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, and The Mask. So it's safe to say 1994 audiences were responding to Carrey's cartoonish, theatrical brand of comedy. Specifically, critics praised Dumber and Dumber for being a "relentlessly dumb comedy," and it was a huge box office success.

  The 2003 prequel, Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd, didn't have the original's stars and involved almost no one who made the first film. The true sequel came in 2014 and didn't fare much better than the prequel. Critics noted the brand of comedy wasn't as refreshing as it had been in 1994, and audiences mostly ignored the film during its time in theaters.
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  (#4) Independence Day - Resurgence

  • Liam Hemsworth, Jeff Goldblum, Bill Pullman, Jessie Usher, Maika Monroe, Travis Tope, William Fichtner, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Judd Hirsch, Brent Spiner, Sela Ward

  Sequel to: Independence Day (1996)

  Year released: 2016

  Gap: 20 years

  Independence Day was the highest-grossing film of 1996, bringing in a reported $817 million at the box office. It was also the film that cemented Will Smith as a blockbuster powerhouse. It was an odd choice to make a sequel 20 years later without Smith. Both Jeff Goldblum and Bill Pullman reprised their roles, but it wasn't enough to save a sequel without Smith. The 2016 film made $389 million at the box office. That sounds decent, but the original outearned it even before being adjusted for inflation.
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  (#13) Tron: Legacy

  • Olivia Wilde, Jeff Bridges, Cillian Murphy, Serinda Swan, Michael Sheen, Garrett Hedlund, Yaya DaCosta, Beau Garrett, James Frain, Christine Adams, Bruce Boxleitner, Donnelly Rhodes, Thomas Bangalter, Jack McGee, Jeffrey Nordling, Edie Mirman, Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo, Belinda Montgomery, Brent Stait, Patrick Sabongui, John Reardon, Ron Selmour, Michael Teigen, Conrad Coates, Mi-Jung Lee, Steven Lisberger, Matt Ward, Dan Joffre, Owen Best, Dean Redman, Catherine Lough Haggquist, Mike Ching, Shaw Madson, Dawn Mander, Elizabeth Mathis, Aaron Toney, Christopher Logan, Kofi Yiadom, Dale Wolfe, Anis Cheurfa, Shafin Karim, Rob Daly, Joanne Wilson, Kate Gajdosik, Kis Yurij, Amy Esterle, Allen Jo, Thomas Bradshaw, Odain Watson, Darren Dolynski, Sheldon Yamkovy, Cody Laudan, Will Erichson, Zoe Fryklund, Michael Logie, Kim Do Nguyen

  Sequel to: Tron (1982)

  Year released: 2010

  Gap: 28 years

  While Tron's story didn't reinvent the wheel, it was a landmark work for computer animation. The long-awaited sequel premiered and suffered from the same problems as the original: amazing visuals, lackluster story. Though the sequel brought in $400 million at the box office, the reported budget was $170 million. While the film earned back its budget, the box office performance was underwhelming.

  Unfortunately, in the 28 years it took to make the sequel, the creators' ability to develop characters or deliver a compelling plot didn't improve. Even if the visuals are phenomenal, audiences generally want some sense of a story.
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  (#9) The Strangers: Prey at Night

  • Christina Hendricks, Martin Henderson, Bailee Madison, Lewis Pullman

  Sequel to: The Strangers (2008)

  Year released: 2018

  Gap: 10 years

  Very loosely based on the Manson Family murders, 2008's The Strangers effectively scared the pants off audiences by featuring a group of masked murderers who preferred to torture their victims - a couple at a secluded cabin - through slow-paced scare tactics before finally and quite brutally murdering them. Though the body count was low for a horror film, the game of cat and mouse brought terror and dread to audiences through casting the murderers in shadows and playing a country song on repeat. With a budget of $9 million, the film made more than $82 million at the box office.

  The sequel bucked the quiet, slow-building horror of the first film for an '80s-style slasher movie that made a measly $27 million at the box office and disappointed critics and fans of the original's tact.
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  (#2) The Rage: Carrie 2

  • Mena Suvari, Zachery Ty Bryan, Rachel Blanchard, Amy Irving, Jason London, Charlotte Ayanna, Emily Bergl, Eddie Kaye Thomas, Dylan Bruno, J. Smith-Cameron, Justin Urich, Robert C. Treveiler

  Sequel to: Carrie (1976)

  Year released: 1999

  Gap: 23 years

  Carrie is a landmark pop culture film, with the image of Carrie covered in pig's blood serving as the grimmest representation of being a high school outsider. Not to mention it was the first Stephen King book adapted into a movie. The film was a box office success and critically acclaimed, even receiving Academy Award nominations for Sissy Spacek's and Piper Laurie's performances.

  Critics and audiences alike widely panned the sequel, The Rage: Carrie 2, which lost money by making just $17.8 million on a budget of $21 million. All in all, it was a bomb. Critics even commented that the film was painful to watch because the entire time, the sequel reminded them what a masterpiece the first film was. The 2013 reboot didn't fare much better than the sequel, either.

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