MovieTickets.com asked over 32,000 filmgoers which movie without an existing film franchise they’d like to see turned into a sequel. Here’s a look at the Top 5:
1. The Hangover (37%)
2. District 9 (27%)
3. G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (21%)
4. Watchmen (8%)
5. Paul Blart: Mall Cop (7%)
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Paul Blart? We are the stupidest nation in the world.
LOL!
We get it, that movie sucks.
how so? I mean why is the entire nation stupid when only 7% of those polled said they wanted a sequel for his movie???
Yes,i think we are.
Mall Cop made the poll cause obviously now there’s not going to be a “Just Married 2.”
I think the fact that the Watchmen is now considered a nom-franchise property dictates why there should be no sequel.
Body of Evidence or Swept Away. That Madonna can really act.
Blue Blazer Regulars of the world, unite! Let’s push Buckaroo Banzai vs. The World Crime League, the sequel promised in the end credits for The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension, to the top of this list!
Hangover? G.I. Joe? Blart? Oh, spare me, please.
So ok then what’s on your list, naysayer?
I don’t think that District 9 was as good as I was expecting it to be, but that’s the only one out of that list that I think could have a decent sequel. Though I would be worried that the next movie would lose all the nuance of the first one, and just become another “alien invasion” film.
This list made me sad.
“The people” will get exactly what they deserve.
Kevin James will do Blart 2, 3, and by 4 he’ll be in London or Paris or Japan to extend the franchise to its hopeful demise.
G.I. Joe was tripe. But what did anyone expect?
Alan Moore is sitting somewhere, laughing, that Watchman was the “best” adaptation of his work and still didn’t break even. And it wasn’t because it didn’t stick to the letter of his writing. Its time had come and gone.
District 9 was an almost perfect sci-fi allegory. But they left it open-ended (don’t they always these days) for a sequel.
Since it’s the most successful R-rated comedy of all time, The Hangover will get its followup. Sigh. And I’ll see the film even if it’s a fraction as funny as the original.
GI JOE???????????? you’ve got to be kidding me.
Movies from this year? Damn. I was so hoping to theorize about a Kiss Kiss Bang Bang sequel. Tell me that wouldn’t be awesome.
Hangover was a great movie but I really wouldn’t want to see a sequel. And G.I. Joe was a disgrace. Way too many special effects and it lacked a decent story.
The Hangover was not funny at all. All throughout the entire movie the characters are killing themselves trying to be funny but FAIL. Zach Galiafinakis is NOT FUNNY!
Thank you! Someone else with some sense.
In order of intelligence
1) District 9
2) Watchmen
The rest is better best left dead.
I think people are confused on the term franchise. Clearly, GI JOE is clearly an intended franchise. We’ll see a sequel with or without this poll.
Paul Blart? Really? I’d rather see another Observe and Report.
How about Pineapple Express? I wouldn’t mind seeing Steve Zissou again. Life Aquatic II?
How is GI Joe not considered a franchise? Just because there’s only one movie so far doesn’t make it one. The only reason it was made in the first place was to make it a franchise.
Paul Blart gets a hangover when joining with the Watchmen against the District 10er aliens decimating Team G.I.Joe. Price tag? $300M. Projected box office? One MILLION dollars!!!
As for the movies, The Hangover and Paul Blart were both awful and unfunny. G.I. Joe was awful, Watchmen was boring, and District 9 was overrated.
The Hangover and District 9 were the only two good films on this list. Neither were written nor made to be anything other than stand alone films. Both were great sleeper discovery hits with relative unknowns. That experience can’t be recreated. Nor do either film beg for continuing adventures of the main characters – it’s not like Men in Black. Sequels would ultimately tarnish the memory of the original films and be an almost certainty of being mediocre. Therefore, since this is Hollywood, both will probably happen. The only quality, recent non-franchise films I’ve seen this last year that I can even remotely imagine sequels for would be Inglourious Basterds and Let the Right One In.
Bullshit on G.I. Joe, I don’t believe it for a second.
GI Joe is the third biggest DVD release of the year. People like the movie.
Why not “Eastern Promises”? with Viggo as the London Russian Mob boss now? Why is this country so LAME?
Since the total comes to exactly 100, that means this was a fixed, multiple choice poll?
That only one person even questioned how the “poll” was conducted shows why this country IS lame. (Or is it just the people in it?) Can’t we just put a moratorium on sequels all together? I guess there just aren’t enough whore houses and casinos in which to throw away our money.
District 9 is the only semi-decent film on that list. Paul Blart? wtf?
Sorry, how is gi joe not a franchise?
The Cove 2: Revenge of the Fallen
BRILLIANT!!