Admittedly, it’s difficult to have a sequel to anything actually be better than the first, especially when it comes to comedies, but The Hangover: Part II missed the mark by such a wide margin, you really can’t help but look at its enormous box office return of almost $600 million and feel that audiences were cheated out of their money by an inferior product. With the increasing importance of foreign markets, it no longer seems to matter if a blockbuster movie receives positive reviews or not; as long as foreign audiences find it appealing, it will still make money even if domestic audiences are less than enthused. Once your device is calibrated, you can use it to test or play whatever games you find or create. If you need to find a specific email, you can use the search function within your inbox. To insure that the program would succeed, Cooke looked at similar programs that the air force had and decided that the program needed three things done: Use only commissioned artists, keep all of the sketches that the artists drew while they were observing, and give artists an idea of how to represent NASA, but still let them create whatever they wanted.

Some things are best left to professionals. Still, Warner Bros. really didn’t enjoy the fact that its big superhero tent pole release wasn’t a universal crowdpleaser like Marvel’s Avengers films and changed things up quite a bit with Batman v Superman’s sequel, Justice League, by making it a more fun, humorous viewing experience overall. Ironically, Justice League failed to match the box office numbers of its predecessor, suggesting that either audiences were put off by the film’s changes or were so burnt by Batman v Superman that they decided to skip Justice League entirely. Released in March 2016, Zack Snyder’s sequel to Man of Steel was highly anticipated given that it involved Batman and Superman punching each other in live action. Despite its commercial success, no sequel or reboot has ever materialized, though Shyamalan is apparently still interested in doing one. Despite being one of the worst movies of 2016, Suicide Squad finished its successful theatrical run with a worldwide haul of $746.8 million, prompting WB to almost immediately greenlight a sequel. Suicide Squad should have had a relatively straightforward story: a ragtag team of villains is quickly assembled to fight a significant threat that can’t be handled by the many superheroes flying around in the DC universe.

And while David Ayer’s film technically delivers on that premise, Suicide Squad is totally bogged down with extraneous tangents and a muddled plot that ends up making no sense if you think about it hard for more than five seconds. While Shyamalan seems to have gotten his filmmaking career back on track thanks in large part to the excellent 2017 thriller Split, The Last Airbender fans still only have his crummy movie when it comes to live action adaptations of their beloved franchise. The film that killed what little dignity the Die Hard franchise had left, A Good Day To Die Hard was rewarded for its terrible use of the Die Hard brand by earning back its budget three times over, thanks in large part to overwhelming success in foreign markets. The problem is, rather than make a worthy follow-up to a legitimately good, original comedy film, the creative team took the easy route and made The Hangover: Part II an inferior retread of the first. Despite being one of the worst-reviewed films of 2014, TMNT managed to make almost half a billion dollars at the worldwide box office. 1 spot in its opening weekend despite negative reviews and went onto gross over $100 million at the domestic box office, finally settling at $168.2 million.

Thankfully, the franchise has proven to be one of diminishing returns, as the 2013 sequel performed significantly worse, earning over $200 million less than its predecessor and the third movie, Smurfs: The Lost Village, did even worse. Having his film panned by critics did little to dissuade Sandler from making a sequel in 2013 or celebrating his “accomplishment” by purchasing a Maserati for each of his co-star buddies. Based off of a Disney World attraction and featuring a career-defining performance from Johnny Depp as the flamboyant pirate Captain Jack Sparrow, The Curse of the Black Pearl – the first Pirates of the Caribbean film – was a surprise hit with critics and audiences alike when it was released in 2003. Since that time however, Disney has squandered its cash cow and turned it into a tired franchise for Depp to continue doing his song and dance long past its sell-by date.