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Sequels are Seldom as Good as the Original
I can’t remember the last time I saw a sequel and said that it was better than the first movie.
Yes I can, maybe not better, but just as good.
It happens in Hollywood all the time, an unexpected movie tops the charts and the exec’s say, alright, great lets make a part two. They have no idea what the new movie will be about but they do know that name recognition alone will sell tickets. For example “Jaws” was a great movie that scared the socks off of everyone, I remember I was twelve when this movie came out, and I would get scared swimming in our swimming pool…LOL. “Jaws 2″ had no where near the same effect on me and just seemed more fake.
It seems as if scarey movies are the biggest culprit of this phenomenon, but its not just limited to them. For example I loved the movie “City Slickers” it was hilarious, a great concept that really hadn’t been explored for a long time, Billy crystal was awesome. But part two “The search Curly’s Gold” or whatever it was just didn’t seem as good to me.
While there are some movie makers that have a clear idea going in that there will have to be a sequel, because there is just not enough time to tell the whole story in one showing. Like “The Lord of the Rings” trilogy, this has got to be the best example of sequels ever. Director Peter Jackson, Knew the only way to make these movies great were to film them back to back to back, and the finished product is his proof.
George lucas a very good film maker in his own right, took the sci-fi gender one step further than it had ever been. The first three “Star Wars” films (which were actually episodes 4, 5 and 6) with Harrison Ford and Mark Hamil were awesome, every time a new one came out the new technology in each movie awed audiences around the world. Even though they weren’t filmed back to back to back, they were made close enough together to keep the magic flowing. However, He then waited along tome before making episodes 1, 2 and 3, the fact he had to let movie technology catch up to be able to make them wasn’t the problem. To me personally, I didn’t care for the acting or the way it was written. Aniken Skywalker just seemed to be a Whiner, and because I knew that he would grow up to be Darth Vader it just didn’t fit.
Another one of George’s success’ is the “Indiana Jones” series, now the first was absolutely great, but you know what I’ve noticed in all these movies that get sequels? In the second and subseqent movies it’s as if the actors are over acting, like they’re trying to force the character out. I also noticed this in the sequel to my favorite movie “National Treasure”. Now don’t get me wrong I liked the second movie too, I even went out and bought it right away on blue ray, I just think that there are parts where Nicholas cage is over acting, or forcing it.
I could go on and on about a whole slew of movies, these are just some of the ones off the top of my head. So any how, just a few things I wanted to get off my chest. Leave me some feed back I’m interested what you think. Maybe I’m looking to much into this.
