Patterning
Jun. 24th, 2019 08:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
migmitYou know, it seems like this thing is repeated often enough — not sure if anybody noticed this before.
Here it is: let's look at The Matrix. What we have here is a very solid first movie — that could just stop there, it did not require sequels. Then there was a second movie, which would be pretty forgettable, if it didn't have a very well done action sequence — the highway chase (and I don't mean Neo's antics going in parallel to that, those were totally pointless). And then there was a third one, which is a total mess that looks like it was drunkenly assembled from various parts pulled out of a recycle bin — and I don't mean that icon on the Windows desktop.
Then there are Pirates of the Caribbean. A very solid first movie, that could stop just there and did not require sequels. Then a second movie, which would be pretty forgettable if it didn't have a very well done action sequence — this time a three-way duel. And then — a third one, which is a recycled mess again. They didn't stop there either, but everything else is more or less an official fanfic.
And then there is How to Train Your Dragon. A very solid first movie that did not — you guessed it — require sequels. Then a second movie, which, again would be forgettable without an action sequence — Drago's attack on the Dragon Island. And, capping it, a recycled mess.
So, is it some law about that? Or a mind-controlling alien switching between different directors and making them repeat the same structure? What's going on?
Here it is: let's look at The Matrix. What we have here is a very solid first movie — that could just stop there, it did not require sequels. Then there was a second movie, which would be pretty forgettable, if it didn't have a very well done action sequence — the highway chase (and I don't mean Neo's antics going in parallel to that, those were totally pointless). And then there was a third one, which is a total mess that looks like it was drunkenly assembled from various parts pulled out of a recycle bin — and I don't mean that icon on the Windows desktop.
Then there are Pirates of the Caribbean. A very solid first movie, that could stop just there and did not require sequels. Then a second movie, which would be pretty forgettable if it didn't have a very well done action sequence — this time a three-way duel. And then — a third one, which is a recycled mess again. They didn't stop there either, but everything else is more or less an official fanfic.
And then there is How to Train Your Dragon. A very solid first movie that did not — you guessed it — require sequels. Then a second movie, which, again would be forgettable without an action sequence — Drago's attack on the Dragon Island. And, capping it, a recycled mess.
So, is it some law about that? Or a mind-controlling alien switching between different directors and making them repeat the same structure? What's going on?
