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5 Hollywood Movie Series that should have Ended a Long Time Ago
By Hari Anil, SiliconIndia
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Friday, 14 October 2011, 23:56 IST |
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Fremont: A successful movie spawning sequels is not a new phenomenon in Hollywood. Many of these sequels have been both critical and commercial success too, at times. Perfect examples would be the Harry Potter series, which collected more than $7.7 billion in the world wide box office and has got an average positive rating of 81 percent from the top critics in the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, and The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, which collected a little over $2.9 billion and got about 96 percent positive reviews from the top critics in Rotten Tomatoes. Toy Story trilogy also stands as a testimonial for this with about $1.9 billion in box office collection and a perfect 100 percent positive reviews from top critics. But this is not the case with all the sequels. Sometimes they just overdo it, and makes the viewers wonder 'why the heck is this series still going on?' The fan base would have expired or is on the verge of expiring and clearly the makers are struggling to find new stories. Let us go through a few of these overkills over the years.
Scream
In 1996, when the first Scream, written by Kevin Williamson and directed by Wes Carven, came, it was well received by the critics and the audience alike. Made from a meager budget of $15 million, the movie collected more than $173 million in the worldwide box office and was given a 75 percent positive rating by the top critics of Rotten Tomatoes. Belonging to the 'slasher film' genre this film has earned a cult fan base ever since. They followed it up with a second movie, which was even better than the first scoring a whopping 94 percent positive rating by the top critics and almost same box office collection. They should have stopped it there, they didn't. They came back with a bad third installment and an even worse fourth part. Both were financial disappointments when compared to the first two movies and the critics had field-days criticizing them.
