Are These Really The 8 Worst Movie Sequels Ever?

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I met Aaron Chumbris at a recent writer’s conference we attended in Eastern Pennsylvania. Aaron’s a nice guy who likes to write about figments of his imagination such as the ones appearing in his YA fantasy novel Duality. He’s also joined us in the world of Twitter, so give him a follow before you check his website.

Aaron thinks that some movie sequels are just terrible and wrote this guest post to prove his point.

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Police Academy Sequels

Police Academy gave us some classic cinematic characters: Bubba Smith’s imposing officer Hightower, the firepower-obsessed Tackleberry, and the ever-popular sound effects-based talents of Michael Winslow’s Larvell Jones. It also gave us a deluge of increasingly crappy sequels. I may be willing to vouch for the original trilogy, but beyond that I’ll probably change the channel on even the most boring and rainy Sunday afternoon.

The Godfather Part III

I love the first two Godfather films and believe they are among the greatest to ever to grace a movie screen. Yet I don’t think comparison is the biggest weakness of Part III. The biggest flaw is the story: who wants to see Michael Corleone as a legitimate businessman? We all know that’s the direction he wanted to go, but fate intervened and he became far more ruthless than his father, spilling the blood of his own brother. What made Michael great was his tragic perversion of the American Dream, a man who tried to reverse the inevitable path of his family’s legacy and paid a heavy price for his failure. Part III just drags out his suffering, making the audience suffer in the process.