20 Movie Sequels Everyone Knew Were A Huge Mistake (But Still Got Made)

14. The Godfather Part III

Now in total fairness to The Godfather Part III, it's decisively the best film on this list, because while the long-awaited threequel was a pale shade of its all-timer predecessors, it's still a relatively decent - if very flawed - film on its own terms.

But it's also a film that only got made because Francis Ford Coppola was broke following the failure of his 1982 musical fantasy One from the Heart - something Coppola himself freely admitted on the DVD commentary.

This wasn't a film made because of any real creative impetus, but simply because a man had bills to pay - always a ripe condition for making great art.

Throw in the deeply disappointing absence of Robert Duvall in the role of Tom Hagen and Coppola's last-minute decision to cast his own non-actor daughter, Sofia, in the role of Mary Corleone, and it wasn't tough to anticipate what was coming.

Again, The Godfather Part III is a perfectly fine crime drama on its own, but arriving in the wake of two peerless epics? It can't help but be totally deflating to watch.