2. Stop Optioning Sequels To Terrible Movies
The next couple of years will see the release of some
awful sequels to terrible films that both critics and fans hated, but which rode the crest of a clever marketing wave to take a baffling amount at the box office. Unfortunately that's the way Hollywood rolls - commercial viability and potential profit are far more important concepts to the men with the green lights than creativity or artist integrity. That's why we'll have as many Paranormal Activity sequels it takes to burn the concept out entirely, and why Vin Diesel will continue to carve out a "career" making Fast & Furious sequels between failed attempts to make something worthwhile. What Hollywood fails to recognise is the fact that as film-lovers we should be treated like gourmets, and not like pigs at the trough: success and appreciation of a particular thing does not automatically mean that we want to gorge on it until we can take no more nor abide the very idea of it. So, please Hollywood, change the way you think. A film property's viability should run out when there are no good ideas, not when the audience gets so sick of the bad ones they simply stop believing in the property. That's how once popular franchises end up as jokes, squeezed of all appeal. Are you unhappy with the way Hollywood keeps making terrible and unnecessary sequels? Well, have we got a treat for you! Here's
10 Awful-Sounding Sequels That Have No Business Being Made to stoke your fires.