Tuesday, May 29, 2007

Sequel Mania

With the flood of "Part Three" Movies this year, movie goers have been waiting in anticipation for some gratifying big-screen entertainment to break free from mundane routine of everyday life. However, it seems that movie producers have run out of imagination, while their focus has shifted from creativity to lucre. I guess its when the movie producers try to ape blockbuster hits like Star Trek, Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings without concrete substance that they fall flat on the face.

While Spider-man 3 was just-another-superhero-movie depicting the conflict between good and evil, Shrek the Third was stretchy and boring. Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End was also a let down in spite of its stellar cast and mammoth sets.

I wonder how Ocean's Thirteen, Fantastic Four, Die Hard and Bourne Ultimatum will turn out to be. It's rather hard to predict, let's just wait and watch.

5 comments:

Potpourri Promenade said...

Ocean's Thirteen: I enjoyed it.

Although it wasn't too different from the first two as far as the story goes, it still had that impish charm and sharp wit.

Amrapali said...

Ocean's Thirteen is good .. it lived up to it !!

Chaitanya said...

I looved Ocean's Thirteen, also Pirates of the Carribean (though "some" found it gross) and by the way does anyone have the Star Trek seasons? The original series?

trendwhizo said...

Ocean's thirteen was cool - !

I went for a private screening of the movie Transformers last week due to a high school buddy who works for MTV here in the city.

Ratings:
Graphics: 10/10
Storyline: 5.5/10

+: Awesome graphics
-: Product Placement overdone
-: Production appeared rushed to get the July 3rd release.

Potpourri Promenade said...

I agree with you Manik, on the Transformers review. I loved the graphics but the movie was too long... I kinda got bored mid-way.

Ratatouille was AWESOME !