Shay <sha### [at] nonenone> wrote:
> Bill Pragnell wrote:
> >
> > More generally, I think people tend to start watching movies with far too much
> > 'expectation' baggage, whether that be 'fanon' (good word!), hype, familiarity
> > with the adapted source material, or whatever.
>
> I don't believe that's more true for sequels. I think sequels just suck.
>
> More money, more people involved ==> More fights, more sex, more humor,
> a wider demographic range for the characters, and more car chases are
> added not to make the movie better for the original fans, but to make it
> "good enough" for the widest possible range of people.

Or more jokes per frame in the case of Shrek 2.

Anyway, I think Terminator 2, Shrek 2 and Aliens are good examples of exceptions
to the general sequel-suckage rule.

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