Top 30 Movies That BOMBED So Hard They Had To Cancel The Sequel

[@WatchMojo]

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[@fabriciolima25]

The mummy and Godzilla suprised me

[@greatzez]

King Arthur, I really enjoyed it.

[@jcj268]

I don’t understand why Ghostbusters 2016 received so much hate. It was ok 👍

[@cyclopstb]

I wanted a Superman Returns sequel for years. I wanted to see Superman gets revenge on Lex Luthor.

[@buffalobilly6046]

The disdain for Ghosbusters was NOT NOT unfair. That movie sucks. And it sucks really bad. And it has nothing to do with gender and everything to do with bad acting, writing, and directing.

[@lawrencemills354]

John Carter was seriously under rated and a very good movie. I’d love to see it make a comeback along with Taylor Kitch.

[@missfunkster]

This! i don't think it had the right marketing :/

[@ameliajones9827]

I couldn’t agree more! That film deserves better than a bad reputation.

[@buffalobilly6046]

so YOU are the reasons movies are so awful now?

[@DavidRay_40]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@celieboo]

I completely agree!

[@THANATOS-PRIME]

Green Lantern is actually a guilty pleasure for me, but I can definitely see why people don’t like it. I’m honestly surprised that the league of extraordinary gentlemen didn’t make the list given all the hype that movie had behind it and how much Fox really wanted to make a franchise out of it

[@GLJosh]

Solo was hurt by The Last Jedi's reception. The Mummy was hurt by trying to make a Dark Universe launch point instead of a solid movie.

[@ameliajones9827]

Last Jedi’s reception?

[@brandonrobinson529]

@@ameliajones9827 Star Wars Fans: Hold My Beer

[@sharknadoman1015]

I thought Solo was a good movie. It still is to me.

[@StarwarsFan-3131]

Solo probably would have also done better if it hadn’t been released so close to Avengers Infinity war which was the must see movie at the time

[@acornatom]

Last Jedi was dire. Lots of people who hated that took it out on Solo I liked Solo.

[@ShoaibKhan-wv8zc]

John Carter was a good movie

[@dishmanw]

The problem is that they made John Carter into an emo. Fans of the books hated it, and people who weren’t fans of the books didn’t care.

[@jeremywilliams5141]

The Marvel films Madame Web and Kraven the Hunter were both planned to have sequels. But the sequels were either canceled or abandoned due to both films flopping.

[@cameronjr8]

NGL but Madame Web is one of the movies fans NEVER asked.

[@total2blue]

I was expecting those to be honourable mentions, but no mention of them.

[@johnmacinnis4380]

Those were both Sony films, not Marvel.

[@jeremywilliams5141]

@johnmacinnis4380 I don't mean Marvel as in Marvel Cinematic Universe. I know they're not MCU movies. But they are based on Marvel Comics characters.

[@PoliteWerewolf]

It says a lot that the head of the studio said that those movies were good, and he didn't understand why they bombed, then was almost immediately fired.

[@frankieseward8667]

The fact battlefield earth had a seqiel planned says alot

[@fmcevoy1]

It hadn't been audited.

[@jumugama]

AAAGH I LOVED SERIES OF UNFORTUNATE EVENTS

[@CandiceVidito32]

Green Lantern bombed so much that it got made fun of in Deadpool 😂

[@Funny.Man-101]

May have been a bad movie but the ring is a pretty cool prop to own.

[@Cheez_Doodlezz]

And in sonic 3 😂

[@Kagetora-]

​@@Funny.Man-101 true

[@total2blue]

It was funny seeing Ryan Reynolds go after his alternate self. 😆

[@DarthKilaj85]

In multiple Deadpool movies

[@Sharingan1989]

John Carter could’ve been an awesome trilogy but alas it was canned I mean John Carter wasn’t bad but some people are over critical!

[@r.lyster8280]

And who knows what they spent the marketing money on. It certainly wasn't on letting people know about the movie.

[@SeahawksFTW2014]

Loved this one for sure

[@BIGDADDYTEXAS1969]

Sahara was a great movie. Can’t go wrong with Steve Zahn and a killer soundtrack.

[@michaelgrubbs5821]

one of my favorite movies and Steve and Matthew have great chemistry together

[@brandonrobinson529]

⁠@@michaelgrubbs5821 same

[@bursegsardaukar]

The worst part of Ghostbusters (2016) is that they accuse the people that don’t like the movie as being misogynistic.

[@BalorShield]

alot of them were criticizing and trashing it before it even came out, the only detail they knew of, was it was an all female Ghostbuster team.

[@jaffrry5120]

@@BalorShield Yeah I can kinda attest to this. I watched the trailer when it came out and it seemed just like a normal trailer, but somehow it has a lot of dislikes. I refuse to believe there isn't a bit of misogyny for its reception. Like you can think of the trailer as a bit corny but reaching a million dislikes I feel like is something else.

[@CuddyFox]

What happen to Ghostbusters is people want to see the fan favorite 1980s Ghostbusters. It will never be the same, since a few actors from the movie passed away.

[@ariekabana8843]

Its another marry sue character Like how the heck igon granddaughter suddenly expert in fixing proton pack and shooting particle thrower😊😊

[@BlackDragonRuler]

That and they made a corny movie. They tried to cram a bunch of comics that are kinda funny but not really funny it was forced and didn’t seem fluid like the first.

[@1415reynolds]

I just watched Ghostbusters Afterlife again last night and really like it. Ghostbusters frozen empire was terrible.

[@digitalcurrents]

They could have had an old actor travel back in time to assemble their younger selves as a Ghost Busters team. Dexter: Original Sin is doing this prequel concept very well.

[@total2blue]

It was a horrible movie regardless. I gave it a shot and went to see it in the theatre, afterwards I wished had stayed home.

[@michaelpuskas8484]

Just out of curiousity. how do any of the executives who green-lighted this crap still have jobs?

[@ianperley233]

Rich people can only fail upwards. The rest of us, not so much.

[@katedresser8378]

John Carter had a horrible marketing campaign.

[@robynwolph3836]

Where's Super Mario Bros 1993?

[@SkydrawnIV]

Honestly, I will never understand why people didn't like TASM2, everyone gave such a great performance, and between Garfield and Stone - you can't possibly achieve greater chemistry.

[@donaldfinch1411]

I saw PAN in the theater. Twice. AND bought the DVD. Rumor has it that a treatment was written for a trilogy, or at least a sequel. I'd love to know where they would have taken the story. A WRINKLE IN TIME was so incredibly awful that the remaining books will probably never be filmed. And passing the DIE HARD torch to Jai Courtney didn't happen.

[@DasKame]

Can'T wait to see all of these try to reboot again in 5 Years

[@davidmoreno9302]

😂

[@AntonioRego-k9d]

What about the Cat in the Hat, it Bombed so hard that it didn’t get a sequel?

[@total2blue]

They had no choice in the matter even if they had wanted to do one. The widow of Dr. Seuss was so upset with how the 2003 live action adaptation of The Cat in the Hat was done that she forbade any future live versions of her husband’s works.

[@dinero-dn7ts]

i am number four and mortal engines should have had sequels but Eragon 1000% should have had a 2nd movie

[@mimcduffee86]

Plus side, Eragon is getting a short series with Paolini as co-writer. It'll will most likely crash and burn though since it will have the name Disney attached and people simply can't handle that anymore.

[@dinero-dn7ts]

@@mimcduffee86 😂😂man is that the plus side

[@dinero-dn7ts]

@@mimcduffee86 but yes plus side i have something to look forward to

[@JamieVideoGamer]

Ghostbusters had a lot of issues especially as it was reboot. Doesn't help that the returning original cast member were given random and small roles. Also people complain about white washing but won't complain if they race swap a character that was originally white from the original source material? Yeah that is hypocrisy right there.

[@waheedabdullah6371]

Why couldn't Winnie the Pooh Blood and Honey be one of them?

[@deweycheetumhowe]

Because brainrot viewers made it successful

[@Reaperguy67]

When it comes to movies like that. It ruins classic Disney movies by the way.

[@donaldroman2717]

Because the sequel was better than the original

[@markzuckergecko621]

@@waheedabdullah6371 it was completely nuts, but I liked it more than most of the uninspired horror slop that's the same as everything else. At least it was something different.

[@waheedabdullah6371]

@@donaldroman2717 it was still bad though

[@trinaq]

Ghostbusters 2016 had some potential, but it seemed to be composed of mostly improvisation. Kate McKinnon was a Saving Grace.

[@markzuckergecko621]

Yea I've always liked her more than Kristen Wigg, there's nothing wrong with Wigg, I just don't think she's great as a lead. I know I'm probably in a minority there, because she's a lot more notable than McKinnon, but I thought the movie would have been better if their roles were swapped.

[@WilsTube]

yeah honestly, Wiig and McKinnon were among some of the biggest highlights of GB2016. And had they had a more clear idea for the reboot beyond it being all-female, it probably would’ve done better.

[@digitalcurrents]

There were so many better ways they could have female Ghostbusters instead of gender-swapping the original characters. Why reboot something when you don't have any respect for the source material?

[@gw7477]

No it didn't

[@Dead-fire]

Kate McKinnon and Chris Hemsworth actually did carry

[@MADBD619]

If only they did a little bit better with most of them. I’d REALLY would like to see as to how the story would end with most of these movies right here!

[@Animeguy300]

Green Lantern definitely didn’t a sequel

[@Charmeleon64letsplayer]

I’ll say that Eragon wasn’t bad, but it also could have been a lot better. We’ll see how the Disney+ revival does.

[@X2011racer]

The guys behind Eragon went on to make Norm of the North, and they were also behind The Legend of Spyro 3D. A fourth draft of the entire film script clearly shows that it's a lot worse than it looks, which may be why it was canceled.

[@Jeremiah_Rivers76]

The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed, never to see a sequel to _The Dark Tower._ What a snooze-fest that movie was.

[@therealdannyfenton]

I actually liked Solo

[@RandomRay1]

So your saying we couldn't get a jack and Jill sequel or cats sequel 😂

[@davidhileman8567]

"The Last Airbender": the movie worth not just 5 Razzies, but also a whole produce aisle of rotten fruits and vegetables to throw at! Or what other specific foodstuffs to throw at it? Possibly *CABBAGES?*

[@Desaki65]

The Mummy could have had a chance if the studio hadn't wanted Cruise so desperately that they made it Mission Impossible: This One Has A Mummy. If they'd just written an actual horror movie? Meh, at least this dud had the studio farm out reboots, giving us The Invisible Man.

[@RavynArcadia]

Solo wasn't bad.

[@RichardSeebald]

I was hoping for Miles Teller to make a comeback in the MCU as the Maker don’t you think?

[@kieronragoonath4385]

4:00 “Showgirls” (1995) also had an NC-17 rating

[@itzthecuz2742]

Jumper could of been a great series

[@fmcevoy1]

I found "Green Lantern" and "Han Solo" both watchable.

[@xt7519]

Well, you had me until the Ghostbusters being 'unfairly' panned by fans. Good grief...seriously?

[@MichaelNixSpain]

18:26 - A Bat Credit Card?!?

[@Cornhollo26]

They gave him a bat credit card?!

[@genoinjian7729]

Tom cruise in The Mummy is good 😂

[@parkerthomson7130]

Exactly Mojo, can we all agree the fact that 98 Godzilla also has by far the worst design in the entire Godzilla franchise even toho Godzilla is his original studio producer even crap with a film itself too

[@BalorShield]

have you met hanna barbara's Godzilla and Godzooky??

[@BalorShield]

or even how Godzilla looked like in Son of Godzilla and Godzilla vs megalon? atleast 98 Zilla was kinda threatening looking. kinda

[@olvialee7221]

Green Lantern was pretty much a disappointment to me in 2011, including The Last AirBender and The Golden Compass

[@Its_Only_Money]

I thought #6 was going to be Terminator: Dark Fate

[@ff3player]

Genisys was 1000x better than Woke Fate

[@justsomeguy9073]

@@ff3player Genisys is still a sh!t movie

[@ff3player]

@@justsomeguy9073 I still would rather watch Genisys over Woke Fate

[@justsomeguy9073]

@ff3player I rather not watch either.

[@X2011racer]

​@@ff3playerAre you just saying that because the T-800, A.K.A. Carl, got fat?

[@olvialee7221]

Very hilarious, WatchMojo people. The Amazing Spider-Man 2 is already a sequel. What do you mean cancel the sequel when it’s already a sequel? I think you meant thirdquel

[@mimcduffee86]

Very hilarious that you think a sequel can't have a sequel despite it fitting the definition perfectly. Then again, English clearly isn't your native language considering you think "threequel" is a word, so maybe it's not your fault.

[@jacobdrolet4262]

I really enjoyed like mortal engines,immortal instruments city of bones and John Carter too.

[@walterbrown2425]

7:31 there was a second Independence Day?!?!?!

[@MichaelNixSpain]

I kinda would've loved to see more Unfortunate Events movies from Paramount.

[@X2011racer]

Well, Netflix's A Series of Unfortunate Events does cover the books that Paramount's film never covered, and even added a new epilogue with Lemony Snicket (played by Patrick Warburton).

[@LHRKiiDfLaSh]

The Amazing Spider-Man 2’s performance wasn’t the reason that the follow up were cancelled it was because Garfield missed a conference call with Sony higher ups because he was “sick” but they viewed it as out right disrespect so they fired him which led to the marvel/sony deal

[@Jamal-bl7yh]

Underdog (2007) I've Said This Before But Underdog should've been a DreamWorks animated film afterall The Bee Movie (2007) & Shrek The Third (2007) were nothing to write home about but we got this Disney nonsense now the character Is Returning In a TV Reboot animated by a French studio

[@tuckerbowen4626]

i'd go to the trouble of listing all the movies that bombed at the time but are hailed as masterpieces today, but at this point i know that nobody ever actually listens

[@deandre6559]

Ghostbuster 2016 was not met with an unfair amount of disdain. It was a terrible idea that spawned a terrible movie. it rightfully died. Why does Mojo make it sound unfortunate that it failed?

[@BalorShield]

i still dont get why the prequel movies Apollo 1-12 never got released.

[@patredding]

I didn't know there was another "Mummy" movie and it had Tom Cruise in it. I must've been visiting Jupiter that year.

[@genoinjian7729]

Brandon Roth played a good super man

[@jamiethal1319]

Routh.

[@BalorShield]

but not a great Superman

[@Raven6794]

Some of these suffered from their over inflated budgets more than the quality of the movies themselves.

[@dishmanw]

I liked Jumper.

[@Redditfanboy-v2s]

Great list Watchmojo

[@LeonardoKlotz]

AVI ARAD has ruined so far... * Borderlands * Kraven The Hunter * Daredevil (2003) * The Punisher (2004) * Elektra (2005) * Fantastic Four (2005) * X-Men: The Last Stand * Spider-Man 3 * Bratz (2007) * Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance * The Amazing Spider-Man 2 * Ghost in the Shell (2017) * Venom: Let There Be Carnage * Uncharted (2022) * Morbius * Venom: The Last Dance And now he's gonna ruin... * Legend of Zelda * Naruto As long as Arad lives, there's no hope

[@HeelSection3825]

I think it's funny AF that there's even a movie called "Mortal Engines"?!? Are you kidding me???😂😂😂

[@douglasmonroe7417]

Well that and people are still dealing with the awful sequel trilogy and how it handled characters like Luke Han and Leia. Spoilers, it only gets worse from here. Acolyte.

[@bryancaron1664]

King Arthur was severely underrated!!

[@lambeauoriginal9062]

1998 Godzilla was a great kaiju film.

[@batboylives]

Too many sequels these days, like every movie needs three parts. MCU did a bunch and it worked, same for star wars and LOTR/Hobbit. Never watched Harry Potter or transformers 3 to whichever part they at now. Like Vin Dissel and fast and the furious. 5 movies or more is way too much.

[@njt002]

I actually think a Green Lantern sequel with Ryan Reynolds would make a ton of money now.

[@BalorShield]

it should def not take itself seriously for it to be watchable.

[@njt002]

@@BalorShield In the end credits, we see Deadpool wake up from a dream and he says "What the fuck was that about?!!"

[@parkerthomson7130]

I will remember this for sure all these movies. Some of them are not even bad films which means that it’s not like when they bomb that doesn’t make them automatically bad films. They are somewhat all right or some cases may OK who knows it’s just the fact that the critic fans just did not approve over them

[@BrandonPettitt-bw1mj]

I have to say that Godzilla from 1998 was an okay movie but its animated series was much better than the movie Godzilla The Animated Series was absolutely fantastic. Green Lantern was a terrible mistake that movie absolutely horrible and lame I prefer the Green Lantern animated movies over the live action movie and I hope that if they do a reboot of Green Lantern that they will get the story right and find a person who can play Hal Jordan perfectly.

[@bnashee]

To be fair, Eragon fans hated that terrible movie too. Nobody is mourning the sequels to that thing.

[@BobbyMoore2-mp8wb]

Godzilla 98 and Godzilla the series was awesome 😎

[@yabadabadoo7213]

90% of these movies definitely deserved a sequel. Just because a movie didn’t make money doesn’t mean it wasn’t good there are a lot of classic movies that supposedly bombed in the theater but are cult classics now.

[@Zandersaurus]

For the 1998 Godzilla they’ve made a animated tv series that’s a continuation with the same characters, the Godzilla that hatched in the end of the movie and they even brought back Godzilla as a half cyborg

[@jayl3gend958]

Spider-Man 4 is confirmed ✅

[@andrewp.stewart4585]

_Speed Racer_ was so underrated

[@Clouds_RUs]

How was GhostBusters "UNFAIRLY" criticized? They took a wildly loved franchise and thought "hey it's an all male cast so lets change that 1 singular thing and call it a movie".

[@BalorShield]

i mean.. if just changing the characters was the only reason people shit all over the movie before watching it, then i can see why some might think it was unfair. from what i can see with the trends set by audiences snd internet commenters, they hate it when an IP gets drastic changes (why not just create a new thing) , and they hate it when its the same old shit as before.(why bother making a new one thats just like the old movies rehashed)

[@tylergoodman3560]

The Last Airbender is a mockery of the OG. 🎉

[@CandiceVidito32]

Avatar: The Last Airbender cartoon was way better than the live action movie

[@deweycheetumhowe]

​@@CandiceVidito32 Cartoon was better than the live action series as well.

[@tylergoodman3560]

@CandiceVidito32 Exactly; I grew up watching that series. Not a bad episode in memory. 🎉

[@ff3player]

@@tylergoodman3560 There is no The Last Airbender movie in Ba Sing Se

[@tylergoodman3560]

@ff3player Agreed. 🎉

[@carson11100]

The Golden Compass….. my God… they honestly thought they would go somewhere with that one? 🤣

[@TonyTheTiger94]

Speed Racer is a good film, especially for 2008 standards. I had a wild ride watching.

[@nyralotep]

Battlefield Earth was great with the RiffTrax treatment

[@lukedaley17]

I thought Solo would be a success financially. Obviously I was proved wrong.

[@marcuswalker3409]

What about the 2017 Power Rangers movie? That film flopped so hard that there was no hope for the sequel!

[@batboylives]

Godzilla was awesome, knew there would be a movie on this list that I liked.

[@jfwfreo]

Whoever thought that casting George Clooney (of all people) as Batman was a good idea is an idiot.

[@duckmartin9853]

It's too bad we didn't get a jumper trilogy i absolutely love that movie along with john carter and the amazing Spider-Man. But i do hope in the future we could get more of those movies along with battle of Los Angeles !!😢

[@SeahawksFTW2014]

I wasted a comment on I Am Number Four and then they got to Jumper and I was like daaaaamn 😂

[@mattk2740]

Even though it was semi successful, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe should be on the list.

[@JKo96-nc]

John Carter IS GOOD!!

[@LauraFunFunFloweries]

I didn't even know there was a second, Independence Day

[@Only.The.Best.]

King Arthur was great too

[@owenbondurant9788]

I liked solo😊

[@Daeduluus]

Lets be serious Solo bombed solely because of The Last Jedi being so horrible people were telling Disney with their wallets that they screwed up badly

[@petermiller4953]

I'm surprised that Borderlands didn't land here!

[@NelsonCosta-c8s]

Eragon, I Am Number Four and Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant deserved continuations...

[@BobbyMoore2-mp8wb]

Green Lantern and Speed Racer was awesome 👏🏿

[@andrewdykes3840]

I quit watching when she said "unfair amount of disdain" about Ghostbuster 2016. It wasn't unfair. That production got everything it deserved.

[@brockwiththepot]

Green lantern suffered from not be written by anyone remotely familiar with it. I'm not even a green lantern fan and I know parallax as the main villain in the first movie is completely out of touch with reality. Thats like having Thanos be the main villain in the first Ironman movie.

[@Justsomerandomguywhocomments]

Is anyone getting tired of just remaking older lists by just extending them by adding 5-10 new entries? Come on watchmojo make up your mind!

[@xyzzyx7812]

#10 did NOT bomb, just did meh

[@ricardostormsurgesilva284]

These guys do realize that Zilla managed to get a series right?!

[@Maykay524]

Yes I did know that and I liked it! Also you missed Rose McGowan as an actor

[@CarlosMendoza-es4rx]

You Forgot Super Mario Bros Movie 1993 Live Action.

[@SeahawksFTW2014]

Heyyyy now back up off Live Action Mario Bros 😂 child me loved that shit

[@zogkuma]

The remake of Nightmare on Elm Street was a real flop. So bad that no one dares speak of it; not even Spirit Halloween. Lmao 😂

[@genoinjian7729]

I’m a Native American Indian & Jonny Depp playing an Indian is just fine with us. We don’t cry like this he woke cult does. Bring back are Washington Redskins, Clevland Indians & are mascots.

[@rodneymcdermott5303]

You’ll generally find that the people crying the most about it being offensive aren’t even the the race they are claiming is offended 😂

[@kittylover62]

Glad to hear that. We need more people like you to be more vocal about these changes.