10 Sequels To Popular Movies That Nobody Watched

The Coen brothers' 1998 classic, The Big Lebowski, is an enduring mainstay in the conversation of great cinema. It's inspired not only a popular festival in LebowskiFest but also spawned a religion in Dudeism. How many movies can say that? Okay, so Star Wars has Jediism, but how many other movies can say that?

While it may not have produced big numbers at the box office, the movie has since garnered a huge cult following that can't get enough of The Dude's chilled out, endlessly quotable misadventures. Backed by a stellar cast firing on all cylinders, it remains one of the Coen Brothers' most beloved creations.

22 years later, John Turturro, who played Lebowski side character Jesus Quintana, wheeled the character out again for a sort-of-sequel that he wrote and directed. Carrying the same meandering energy as the source that inspired it, critics found that the character wasn't interesting enough to carry a movie and the jarring tonal inconsistencies made for unpleasant viewing. Audiences surely would have felt the same had anybody watched it, with the box office figure of $64,648 making The Big Lebowski's $46.7 million look positively gargantuan. But you know, that's just, like, my opinion, man.