2. No More Franchises
The problem with franchises/sequels is that the more exposure the audience has to the villain the less frightening they are, leading the franchise to becoming more ridiculous eventually falling into self-parody. Jaws is a good example of a brilliant movie followed by terrible sequels which rehashed the same plot points, yet missed what made the first movie so scary - the brilliant use of point of view shots combined with a sinister musical score, as well as great acting and a fully realized location. The first sequel Jaws 2 is pretty much the same movie as the first where a Great White Shark attacks the same beach community (pushing likelihood but go on). Yet Jaws 3D (of course it's 3D) is the point of the franchise when things go delightfully insane. As it is set in a water park where Chief Brody's sons just happen to be working and another great white shark has come looking for blood. (There is other dangerous marine life, why not a giant squid?) This brings us to Jaws 4, The Revenge (The Revenge? I don't like where this is going) where a Great White Shark (sigh) has declared a blood feud against Brody's family. When it ambushes Sean Brody, it causes Ellen Brody to flee to the Bahamas to see older son Michael, only for the shark to track them there. This of course raises the question of how a shark could track her so far. (Seriously, did it hire a private detective? Was it sitting at the back of the plane wearing a coat, hat and sunglasses pretending to read a newspaper?) While not all franchises go completely insane like Jaws, nearly all suffer from rehashing the same plot points as the originals. Halloween became about a cult worshiping an immortal Michael Myers, and Jason Voorhees took Manhattan before ending up in space. However despite everything I have said I would pay a lot of money to see Jaws 5, Jaws goes to Space or as it should be called Space Jaws 3D.