10 Deadly Sins Committed By Most Films

6. Gluttony

There is such a thing as having too much. Americans, however, aren't so keen on moderation when it comes to fried foods, so when it comes to films we enjoy, we need at least five more just like them with sequels. The studios and directors are only so glad to give them to us. Enter the deadly sin of gluttony. Let's not get into the whole sequel thing... actually on second thought, let's. A Good Day To Die Hard is, besides being another creative way to say Die Hard 5, another sequel and I can't blame Bruce Willis. He's been doing it since 1988 and I don't think he's lost a step, although he may have lost all his hair. My only complaint is the sequels are getting more and more ridiculous. The last one was with McClane's daughter and now his son? In Russia? But I know people will be in line to see this one. Die Hard is a classic movie with a memorable character who seems to get better with age, but when's the stopping point? Is John McClane going to go shoot terrorists in North Korea with his grandchildren next? Here is the problem with most films. Most films are sequels or a continuation of some other established storyline or character and it appears that the pattern with sequels is they get worse and worse down the line. For example, This Is Forty wasn't met with the critical or box office success that Knocked Up was. Even though it was about secondary characters, who added more depth and story to the main characters in Knocked Up, the movie itself was somewhere in between a meditation on mid-life crisis and a commentary on broken families. And it wasn't as funny. The deadly sin of gluttony comes close to the deadly sin of sloth in Hollywood, but the difference is the demand for it. We all demand sequels or prequels or spinoffs to the movies we love and want to see more of. This is why there are 23 Bond movies so far with more on deck; it's why Spider-Man was rebooted five years after its last sequel; it's why we end up hating ourselves after eating that pint of mint chocolate chip. Our eyes our bigger than our stomach and the guilt of most films these days is one that we are partially responsible for. Hollywood is responsible for the rest of the guilt because as sin begets sin, the next one on our list is a huge reason why Hollywood will forever churn out sequels...