• Daft_ish@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Why? The first one was very experimental. They release a second one they are given two bad choices. They continue the original cinematic vision but being a sequel the plot suffers and it fails or they try something new and it falls flat.

    Why ruin a perfectly, self contained, what I would consider masterpiece by trying to expand the universe.

    I would be ok with exploring the world some more but maybe in more traditional heros tale type outline. Even then half the audience will think your getting, excuse the bad joke, “district 10.”

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      6 months ago

      Most sequels are sub-par, agreed. But this story does seem half-finished at the end of the film, a sequel would practically write itself.

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      Not just experimental, but an afterthought made with leftovers of a partially made movie that production failed on.

      The location, props, cgi, and even parts of the story were the scraps of the Halo movie that Peter Jackson started to make before abandoning it.

      The result was an excellent movie, but the circumstances of slapping a new coat of paint onto a half produced film make for a very unique and hard to replicate product.