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Why Are Movie Threequels Always So Terrible?
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The sequels on the other hand...
P2, marred by studio interference.
P3 (and P4), by Coscarelli's interference.
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Back to the Future III. Blech.
07/07/09
1. ROTJ
2. ROTS
3. TESB
4. ANH
5. TPM
6. AOTC
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Star Trek 3 did not suck. Quite the opposite, in fact, it's a good movie with a lot of action and plenty of heart. Just watched it again on Blu-Ray, and was heartily entertained.
Jedi was 2/3 of a great movie.
Not saying that most 3rd installments don't suck. Indeed, they usually do. Just had to take issue with these 3.
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-- except that I think the level of writing in "Last Crusade" showed off a lot of the wit that the late Jeffrey Boam had brought to "Brisco County Jr.," and the Indy backstory was intriguing (enough so to launch a sub-franchise), and many of the set-pieces are among the best in the series: the Nazi book-burning, Henry Sr. bringing down an airplane with a flock of birds, the moment of choice regarding the final destiny of the Grail ...
I think it's a good movie, and is arguably the only good threequel ever made.
(All of this does make me think I need to watch "Son of Frankenstein" again ... if nothing else, I remember Basil Rathbone as being quite wonderful in that...)
07/07/09
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.
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Because trilogies are actually pretty common in the world. Books are written in trilogies all the time.
In fact, I know the word trilogy, but I have no idea for the equivalent word is for two-in-a-series or even four-in-a-series.
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I know, I know, Wiki.
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Also, that wasn't makeup.
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Is that a band or an album?
Never heard of it either way. Any good?
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It wasn't a cockatoo, it was a cockatiel, also known as the Nymphicus hollandicus or the quarrion. This was a play on words, of course, for sex and death, respectively. More specifically the act of being left or being left dead (carrion).
The dissonance of the bongos, obviously, was to set a tone of the rhythms of sex and of death and of life yet not in the "pop" stylings of "rock" (read: mainstream sex/sex as "naughty" and faux rebellious), but in the harsh and painful reality of chaotic beats and sounds.
And of course it had to be over nine albums, although the reason for nine specifically died with the band. This was the perfect symbolism for how although we frequently speak of our brutal existence on this planet (having sex and dying again and again) as being quite short, that the reality is that the living of it seems to be unendurable and never-ending. That the pain continues long past the point that we could imagine to the point that we simply hope for death - which itself lasts forever and is simply nothing more than the cumulative final reality of our despair.
You should try listening to it again.
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And not the crappy-granola-bar-from-the-80s kind either!
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The first two are aces, though.
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