Sequel Criticism Quotes

There are writers out there who say they're writing a second series, and then you pick it up and it feels exactly the same, only the lead character is blonde instead of brunette.

I think a sequel is a waste of money and time. I think movies should illuminate new stories.

It's always an enormous pressure when you do a sequel. The demands are so high, and it's expensive.

I am a fan of sequels even though they are inevitably awful.

Believe me, sequels are just as hard to make as original films.

A sequel is going to be a pressure no matter who directs it. A sequel is only made when the original film works.

People will turn their noses up at a sequel or that type of thing, but Pixar really works hard - if they're making a sequel - to make a sequel an original movie, to make it an original story.

In my opinion, where comedy sequels tend to go bad is that they get sillier and lighter.

Sequels are desperate.

It's tough to make a sequel that stands up to the original especially one that has, over the course of time, become a bit of a cult favorite.

The only remarkable thing about Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather, Part II is the insistent manner in which it recalls how much better his original film was. Even if Part II were a lot more cohesive, revealing and exciting than it is, it probably would have run the risk of appearing to be the self-parody it now seems…Its insights are fairly lame at this point.

I think true connectivity is something that is rare in sequels. I mean I love the first 'Die Hard' film; you won't find a bigger 'Die Hard' fan than me. But I feel like with the sequels, they're just taking that character and dropping him in different scenarios. There's no real connective tissue.

I don't want to speak for everyone, but I think it really picks up where the other film left off. It's true to the format. A lot of times, sequels get overblown for the sake of doing it. Even in the trailer, 'there's eight people in the house', that's just the worst thing you can promote in a sequel. Two people, now there's eight, it's like Jurassic Park with the dinosaurs playing video games.

I'm an audience member too, man. I hate shitty sequels.

I never wanted 'Toy Story 3' to feel like another sequel just grafted on. We all know that if you put 3 after your title, it typically means garbage, and we knew that going in.