Anybody call for a web-slinger?

03/30/09

Anybody call for a web-slinger?

I can't get excited about sequels anymore - Hollywood churns the damn things out and the vast majority of them are utter failures. Die Hard, Lethal Weapon, Robocop, Superman, Batman, The Matrix, Beverly Hills Cop, Friday, X-Men, First Blood, The Terminator, Toy Story, The Hunt for Red October, The Karate Kid, Planet of the Apes, Psycho, Dirty Harry, Highlander, Rocky, The Howling, Smokey and the Bandit, Halloween, ~~Universal Soldier~~ and even The Godfather all started off awesome and eventually spawned sequels that sucked.

However, I'm unabashedly a Spider-Man fan, and after liking Spider-Man and loving Spider-Man 2, I was - like most Spidey fans - disappointed by the scatter-shot Spider-Man 3.

Sam Raimi acknowledges the problems I had with 3 and is promising fixes:

"The best way for me to move forward on films, I realise... and this was a lesson I had to learn for myself... is that I've gotta be the singular voice that makes the creative choices on the film."

"I love Spider-Man so much that I'd like to continue telling Spider-Man stories but only under those circumstances where I think I can honour him. I don't think I can honour him any other way."

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Comment from: Joon [Visitor]

Keep trashing The Matrix sequels and I'm gonna stop reading your blog.

03/30/09 @ 19:35

Comment from: Ragamuffin [Member] · http://keephip.com

Are you sure you really want to shut this whole thing down? I'm not sure the 4 remaining readers would be enough to keep me doing this.

03/30/09 @ 20:22

Comment from: grygus [Member]

He said eventually... the second Matrix movie was everything a sequel should be, but really are you defending that third film? That was terrible.

03/31/09 @ 19:41

Comment from: Ragamuffin [Member] · http://keephip.com

I indeed liked the second Matrix way more than the first.

03/31/09 @ 20:11

Comment from: grygus [Member]

Everything good about the first movie, only more of it?

I like the first movie the most but wouldn't argue with your position that the second one is better. It made that third movie all the more disappointing to me.

When's Kill Bill Volume 2 releasing?

03/31/09 @ 21:21

Comment from: Ragamuffin [Member] · http://keephip.com

I hear he's working on a script.

03/31/09 @ 21:59

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