Sequel: The Sequel

With the success of Paranormal Activity Hollywood has decided to make sequels from it. Due to the movie being made with a budget of $15,000 and making at total of $107,918,810 during its time in the movie theater it has become a box office hit. Unfortunately the Hollywood execs are more concerned with making money than actual stories. For example the Saw franchise was originally intended to end with the third movie due to the main antagonist death. However the Hollywood execs and all their brilliance decided to make more sequels and drag out a story that had already finished. As much as I like the first 3 Saw movies they should have stopped at three and not have gone to seven. While I have never seen Saw 7 (and never intend to) I heard that the movie was left open ended. If this is in fact true then somebody deserves to get slapped for leaving it open ended. There are only so many times stories, movies, books, TV shows, etc. can be told and should be told. Financially it makes sense to milk a franchise for what it is worth but personally I think the Hollywood execs should stop looking to milk movies and start creating new and original movies. Unfortunately milking franchises has been the goal for the past few years.  Movies like Rocky, Rambo, Terminator, Shrek, The Mummy, and Indiana Jones all have one thing in common, they have sequels that should have never been made. I want to say that the Hollywood execs have learned their lesson that movies shouldn’t have a sequel unless it was always intended to have one, however this is not true. It seems like everyday I hear about another sequel that will be coming out soon. While I don’t like sequels I do plan on seeing Paranormal Activity 4 this coming October because I am excited to see where they take the story to.

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