High concept films were introduced
easily categorized characters
Stylish and Slick Production Styles
Don Simpson
Flashdance
Top Gun
Teenage Comedy became a significant Target Market
e.g.
Porky's
Revenge of the Nerds
Screw Balls
John Hughes
coming of age films
Sixteen Candles
Breakfast Club
Weird Science
Ferris Bueller's Day off
Sequals everywhere
Many sequels were made using the same stories to generate large amounts of income with little creative effort put forth.
Horror
John Carpenters
Halloween (1978) plenty of sequels
Friday the 13th
Action
Rocky
Terminator
Indiana Jones
Die Hard
Lethal Weapon
Animation
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Tron
Has there been a Sequel that is worse then its original film?
Ice Age
vs
Ice Age (2, 3, 4 ... and 5?)
2002
Directors: Carlos Saldanha, Chris Wedge
20th Century Fox Animation
The original Ice Age movie was one of my favorite animated films as a child. I enjoyed the fresh story and dynamic characters that were bought to life. However, as the franchise continued movie after movie got progressively worse. to the point where watching Ice Age Continental Drift was actually physically painful. The films have been targeted towards a very young audience which leaves the older generation bored and unamused with continuous repetition of the same jokes and story line.
Has there been a sequel that is better then the original?
Terminator
vs
Terminator 2 (Judgement Day)
1991
Director: James Cameron
Although the next sequels did not rate as high Terminator 2 was my favorite out of the trilogy ( I don't include the next two) Better graphics, story line and drama then the original. But the story was always set up to have a sequel.
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