10 Movie Franchises That Became Parodies Of Themselves

7. Twilight

Twilight could have been an interesting movie franchise that sat nicely next to The Hunger Games as a competent young adult adaptation. Things didn't go that way, and you know who's at fault? You. Yes, you, sat there posting pictures of Gone Girl writing "still a better love story than Twilight". The people who often get blamed for Twilight's creative failure on the big screen are the screaming, rabid fans so enveloped in their love of Jacob and Edward to notice any of the beloved series' flaws. But the real culprits are the equally rabid haters. Once it became apparent the films only needed to play to the teenage girl audience, with no care for anyone over the age of seventeen, the films stopped giving a s**t about what any one else thought. And thus it just added even more stares and moping and pesudo-cool; all the stuff that was restrained in the first movie but hilariously mishandled in later films. The films, coming from poor sources, would probably have not been brilliant either way, but it wouldn't be in such a laughable result if people hadn't been as rampant in their reaction to it's popularity. The Hunger Games, Divergent, The Maze Runner and The Fault In Our Stars all boast incredibly strong fan bases and yet there the general audiences can overlook that and enjoy their respective films on their own merits.