I didn't name any kids "Junior", either
Here's a movie tidbit for you, what with the recent release of Indiana Jones and the Walker of Doom (credit to Patrick for that). I don't watch sequels. I consciously avoid them. If you can't get your point across in one movie, I am not interested in parting with more dollars while you fumble around trying.
Of course, there have been a few exceptions over the decades. I watched Godfather II and it was worth it, yet I have studiously avoided Godfather III. I have seen all three Terminator movies (although I think the third was a let-down and just proved my rule - I knew better going in). Someone gave me Star Trek IV as a birthday present once and I dutifully watched it and then wished I hadn't and ended up giving it away (and yes, yes, I know about The Wrath of Khan - I am just not interested). And then there was a recent attempt at watching Be Cool, which was just execrable and I had to stop within the first 20 minutes.
So, along with all the other ways I don't fit into society, I have never seen:
- Any Star Wars movie besides the first, er, I mean the fourth one (it was the first when I saw it in the theater in 1977).
- Any Star Trek movie besides the first one (at least, not willingly).
- The second and third installments of LoTR.
- Christmas Vacation or any of the ones following.
- Any Indiana Jones movies after the first one.
- Ditto Rocky.
- Any post-First Blood Rambo movies.
- James Bond movies since I was a kid.
- Any besides the first Matrix, Batman, Road Warrior, Alien, Austin Powers, Blade, Silence of the Lambs, Mission Impossible, Shrek and Robocop for me, thanks.
It's a wonder I can hold a conversation at all!
4 comments:
I quibble with not seeing LOTR 2 and 3, because it's a three volume story as written.
Did you stop reading at LOTR 1, throw up your hands and mutter "harumph!" when you saw 2 and 3 on the library shelf? :)
Aaron,
True, and some day I may relent on LoTR. But only on that one.
But even so, that brings up another point - outside of a few SciFi series I don't do sequels in books any more, either. Oh, sure, there was a time when I was heavy into SciFi and fantasy that I thought series were great - why should the fun ever end? Then I realized that many of the series sucked the further they went on and were really just there to vacuum money from my wallet. The canonical example of that is "Dune", of course. There are many others.
Well...guess I know what not to talk to you about. I'm racking my brain, and most of the movies I come up with are...sequels. :D
For me...I've had some of the best times watching sequels, even when they are corny.
I am one of those freaks who saw Indy Jones at midnight last week. Worth it. :)
Jeff,
It's OK - I know I am the outlier on this.
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