Chris
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Someone asked "how can one film (sequel) ruin the original"
It's like this:
I love Highlander (the original) but I cannot discuss with anyone Highlander without either thinking of the crappy sequels myself or having someone reference it. A sequel builds on the good will of the original, and a bad sequel can taint that original because it can change the way you view the original film.
Some sequels cna change the meaning of the original film (see Back to the Future) which is sometimes OK (I liked the way Back to the Future did it) sometimes not OK (see: Gremlins sequels, Highlander) in which you now know more about the purported "history" of a character and so now they have, in effect, changed the point of the original (in some ways, the same could be said of 2010)
Some sequels amount to going back and drawing a mustache on the Mona Lisa, IMHO That's the point of the thread.. what sequels do that for you
It's like this:
I love Highlander (the original) but I cannot discuss with anyone Highlander without either thinking of the crappy sequels myself or having someone reference it. A sequel builds on the good will of the original, and a bad sequel can taint that original because it can change the way you view the original film.
Some sequels cna change the meaning of the original film (see Back to the Future) which is sometimes OK (I liked the way Back to the Future did it) sometimes not OK (see: Gremlins sequels, Highlander) in which you now know more about the purported "history" of a character and so now they have, in effect, changed the point of the original (in some ways, the same could be said of 2010)
Some sequels amount to going back and drawing a mustache on the Mona Lisa, IMHO That's the point of the thread.. what sequels do that for you