Opening a sequel with scenes from an earlier film. Superman 2, Karate Kid 2, Star Trek 3. I don't need a reminder what happened in the previous film. Films aren't TV series.
Well, back in the days before you could marathon the previous movie(s) on VHS or DVD or streaming, it actually was kind of useful to have a recap. That's why re-using footage from the end of the previous movie at the beginning of the current one fell by the wayside after the 80's.
Opening a sequel with scenes from an earlier film. Superman 2, Karate Kid 2, Star Trek 3. I don't need a reminder what happened in the previous film. Films aren't TV series.
Opening a sequel with scenes from an earlier film. Superman 2, Karate Kid 2, Star Trek 3. I don't need a reminder what happened in the previous film. Films aren't TV series.
Opening a sequel with scenes from an earlier film. Superman 2, Karate Kid 2, Star Trek 3. I don't need a reminder what happened in the previous film. Films aren't TV series.
Villains who are misunderstood because someone wasn't nice to them earlier in life.
Absolutely agree. Understanding the motivations of a villain CAN under some circumstances be very interesting and add a dimension to the character, but very often it's done on a very simplified level. A hurt B, so B is now hurting everybody else, or something like that. And yes, it seems to create justification, as if it's only a logical consequence to turn serial killer after you've been bullied. No, it is not.
Some villains are best allowed to be just evil.
But sometimes we need to know the heartbreaking motivation that turns a person into a psychopathic evil genius....
...when the good guys have a shoot-out with the bad guys, but the main baddie is just maimed and slips away so he can have a final confrontation with the hero later on.
Woman breaks engagement to her fiancee and runs off with a man she just met.
Always find this dickish, especially since said woman usually does this on the day of the wedding, screwing over dozens if not hundreds of family and friends who probably flew from all over the country/world on their own dime to see her get married. But we're supposed to find it "romantic". I'd be like, "Fuck YOU, sis, you owe me two thousand dollars in plane ticket fees!"
Or a man & woman hate each other, they row & bicker throughout the film, & in the last shot kiss & they're an item...forever. Ah, they loved each other all along, but didn't know it. I think I've pointed this out before, it's somewhere in the old scrolls of this thread.
Lovers awake in the morning after a passionate night, with hair/makeup still perfect, decide to go one more time, no fear of one of the kids walking in on them, no worries about being late for work, no "Oooh, stubble!", no "Oooh, dragon breath!".
Since we are on the lovers theme, the man and woman fall in love by the end of the first film. When the sequel begins, they're having relationship troubles and are at each others throats if not already separated. Just so they can come together again at the end of the second film.
Since we are on the lovers theme, the man and woman fall in love by the end of the first film. When the sequel begins, they're having relationship troubles and are at each others throats if not already separated. Just so they can come together again at the end of the second film.
Exactly! It worked for the first three Die Hard films, at least in a get-rid-of-Bonnie sort of way.
Lovers awake in the morning after a passionate night, with hair/makeup still perfect, decide to go one more time, no fear of one of the kids walking in on them, no worries about being late for work, no "Oooh, stubble!", no "Oooh, dragon breath!".
Yup, sex isn't a messy business in the movies, in fact you can even keep your underwear on.
