The First Ghostbusters movie was an instant classic the day it was released, it has become some families yearly Christmas movie, but the sequel to it was not as big of a success, and neither has anything been before it. The last Ghostbusters movie was an epic failure, it was a movie that wanted to capitalize on the name only and not live up to the expectation of its fans.
The Ghostbusters movie was not the only one to fall to crappy sequels that couldn't live up to the hype. The predator movies fell to this scenario as well, with the first movie being a hit and the rest of them slowly getting worse with each reiteration.
What I can't figure out is that when you have a great show with incredible ideas and a well written story, why can't a proper sequel that builds upon the first movie be better than the original and push the story even further. This almost never seems to happen and I think it's because the second movie is looking for a free ride, and expects to be a hit just because the first one was.
This has been a trend since the first television was invented and for some reason nobody has learned from the mistakes of the past because they keep repeating themselves over and over.
Some sequels are on the horizon, a new Avatar movie in in the works, and I'm hopeful that it will do the first movie justice and not be an action packed shit show that just wants to build upon the success of its predecessor. I'm hoping that the producers are taking the time to expand upon an already great story.
The infinity war 2 is another movie I am impatiently waiting for, Marvel has done an excellent job of keeping the continuity in their movies, even going as far as linking them all together, an incredible feat in my opinion.
Hopefully the cash cow era of using another movie's success to make money on a terrible sequel is over and some people down in Hollywood have learned their lesson from the new examples out there. This is me being naive I think.
Scott Goerz
