hollywood sequels part II (unsuccessful)

first of all, is it just me or is that cgi baby packing way too much heat in that diaper?

so the point of these posts was to illustrate what everybody already knows. hollywood sequels are unnecessary and rarely work. lately it seems this message is more lost than ever because we are constantly barraged with sequels, remakes and worst of all, spinoffs that nobody is asking for. as i stated in part I, out of the 29 sequels released in the past year and a half, only five have made more money than their predecessor. that means that 24 sequels or spinoffs failed to even generate as much interest as the original in the theaters, despite the chance of gaining innumerable amounts of new fans from tv, dvd's, and time. hollywood just has no clue which movies need another chapter and which ones need the book to be fucking closed for good on. here is a list of the top 10 worst offenders. the sequels nobody really asked for, cared about, or saw. the percentage represents how much of the original's audience it retained.

10. Scooby Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed 51.1%
9. Bridget Jones: Edge of Reason 50.9%
8. Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London 47.5%
7. Seed of Chucky 40.0%
6. Anacondas: Hunt for the Blood Orchid 35.9%
5. SuperBabies: Baby Geniuses 2 28.4%
4. The Whole Ten Yards 24.6%
3. Elektra 23.0%
2. Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights 11.5%
1. Son of the Mask 9.6%

some of those original movies weren't even that successful. did the 30 million that baby geniuses made really warrant a sequel? the top 2 should be a great big warning sign to two things. 1. don't wait over a decade to release a sequel. 2. have at least one person in front or behind the camera come back. hollywood may think those things don't matter, but i think audiences do. beauty shop, miss congeniality 2, the ring two, and be cool are all a quick exit from the theaters away from joining this list as well. never before have sequels been in so much abundance and been so soundly ignored by audiences. can i be foolishly optimistic and think that this might signal and end to uncreative recycle jobs and a new renaissance of independent, original filmmaking? short answer- no