From the Diaries a few years back..obviously, but no less true today.
I hate sequels. I assume they are fun for the reunited cast and lucrative for the producers, but they are generally awful for the audience.
Just mentioning City Slickers 2 or Highlander 2: The Quickening, evokes that sickening feeling of being duped by a dreadful second production.
The problem with sequels is that there is usually no more story to tell. The original film had a beginning, a middle and a definitive end. But as quick as you can say "box office grosses," writers are being hired to resurrect dead characters and figure out ways of doing the same successful story over again...yet...um...differently.
Where will it end? Can we be saved from Gump 2: Forrest Through the Trees and Notre Dame 2: Return of the Hump?
We can.
It seems George Lucas has figured out how to give people more of what originally delighted them. We now have Star Wars: The Special Edition. Opening on January 31, this re-mastered version of the 20 year-old hit has added scenes, improved visual effects and better sound. Scenes with Jabba the Hut, Boba Fett and a more "scummy and tyrannical" Mos Eisley space port promise to greatly enhance the ground-breaking original. What fun!
We need a new cinematic saying: "What goes around comes around in the director's digital re-master with additional scenes," (DDRAS). The rule should be: If the story isn't truly over, do the sequel; but if it's over, do a DDRAS.
And who says it has to stop with just one re-mastering of the original? The Star Wars trilogy invites a host of possible "alternate versions" for re-release. Next are just a few I've come up with.
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