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

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.