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• Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Nah, I’m coming down hard on sequels for their own sake. I only really want to see a sequel to anything if the writer has something to say. With some sequels the point of the thing is the spectacle itself (looking at you, John Wick), so that’s alright I guess. There’s room for sequels, but it has to have some reason to exist beyond bankability.

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  • fishpen0@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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    • glimse@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yesterday was a good Lemmy day for me. I had another great series of conversations on another post with people I didn’t agree with and everyone was respectful of each other’s opinions.

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    • Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yeah I think that’s how people normally act, the toxic online dynamic is hardly inevitable, like we’re evolving into crabs or something

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  • glimse@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Ooh my bad, then we are absolutely on the same page. There’s plenty of good sequels but the majority are worse than the original (in my opinion at least)

    You nailed it with the last sentence. Some sequels are made for the love of it and that doesn’t necessarily mean they’re good films BUT the cashgrab films almost never are.

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    • Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It’s a shame the spotlight is being monopolized by big studios doing reboots and sequels in an age of democratized creative tools and access. Indie and low budget should be having a renaissance. There’s some good stuff coming out of Bollywood too now.

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      • glimse@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        One of my favorite movies I watched recently was Anyone Else But Me by Joel Haver and it only had a $4000 budget. A good script and good actors go such a long way

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