recently , every flick seems to be a sequel or reboot — but it does n’t halt there . Because the motion-picture show industry is increasingly dependent on creating franchises , we ’re seeing some bastardize form , that are just designed to keep franchises alert . Here are six newfangled case of picture that we ’re already tired of .
1) The Sidequel
deterrent example : The Bourne Legacy , 300 : The Rise of An Empire , Sin City : A Dame to stamp out For , arguably Paranormal Activity : The Marked Ones
There ’s nothing wrong with a twist - off , per se . Some great movies have spawned decent spin - offs . But a “ sidequel ” is a spinoff that does n’t have enough confidence to cut the cord and live or die on its own . A “ sidequel ” is a movie that ’s both prequel and sequel , showing what happened before and after the in the beginning , superior film , and it often engages in a stack of unpointed link up - the - dots natural action . Plus because these movies seldom sport the real stars of the early motion picture , there ’s often some hilarious “ Gallic farce ” staging . Leonidas ? You just pretermit him , he was here a 2nd ago . Jason Bourne ? He just expire that way of life — if you hurry , you might capture up with him .
2) The Sequel That Sets Up Spinoffs
Examples : Iron Man 2 , Spider - Man 3 , Amazing Spider - Man 2 , arguably X - Men Origins : Wolverine
This is the job with the “ mega enfranchisement ” construct — if you ’re not measured , you wind up with private installments that do n’t stand on their own , because they ’re too busy assay to arrange up other potential franchises . Iron Man 2 pass so much time trying to establish SHIELD and tip at Thor and other next movies , it lose some all important impulse in the 2d human activity . And two unlike Spider - Man sequel have been chevvy by this “ backdoor airplane pilot ” syndrome : Spidey 3 was derailed partly by the need to prepare up a Venom spinoff , whereas Amazing Spider - Man 2 became bloated due to the need to lay the groundwork for Sinister Six ( and possibly a Felicia Hardy fomite . ) The first Wolverine moving picture tried , ineptly , to place up a Deadpool spin - off and introduce Gambit , whereas the most late X - Men flick may have been try ( more successfully ) to lay the groundwork for a Quicksilver franchise of some sort . Anyway , when a pic jump getting overstuffed with outside shite in the Hope of setting up a slew of lucrative twist - offs , then it often gunks up the body of work .
Even though I remainoptimistic about DC ’s picture show design , it ’s concern that Batman v. Superman is on the face of it going to usher in a billion surplus heroes , so they can spin off into their own vehicles . But we ’ll have to hold back and see !

3) The Remake In Name Only
Examples : RoboCop , Invasion , Total Recall , Death Race , Day the Earth Stood Still , I Am Legend
These are basically remakes that capitalize on a democratic ( or dear ) title while pluck out everything that in the beginning worked about it . In the case of the late RoboCop , it could have been a jolly decent film on its own merits , but it suffered by the draw equivalence to the 1987 classic — this is one typesetter’s case where a film might have done intimately if they had n’t even called it a remake . In other cases , though , the new versions could n’t fend on their own no matter what they tried , because their only sparks of brilliance amount from the early versions . Why bother to remake Death Race 2000 without the canonical conception of the cross - country race where you run over guiltless multitude ? Why remake Invasion of the Body Snatchers without , you get laid , Body Snatchers ? And so on . What ’s the point in using the name if you ’re not going to use the actual construct ?
4) One Book Becomes Multiple Films
lesson : Harry Potter , Twilight , Hunger Games , The Hobbit , Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them , Divergent
This is probably rationalise in some cases ( both the final Harry Potter Word and the third Hunger Games account book are moderately massive and would be hard to accommodate into a undivided film ) but this trend has clearly incur out of hand . As testify by the Hobbit trilogy . Also , the Fantastic Beasts trilogy , which is at least loosely base on one slim ledger — but possibly with a ton of Modern stuff from J.K. Rowling , so we ’ll see how that go . Having sat through both Breaking Dawn film , I ’m not convinced Bella and Edward ’s marriage ceremony and honeymoon needed that much covert time . It ’s hard not to mistrust , after a while , that this “ adaptation sprawl ” is drive by the need to keep a cash cow going as long as possible , rather than the want of the story .
5) The Prequel That Explains Something Nobody Needed An Explanation For
example : Oz the capital and Powerful , Annabelle , The Thing , Paranormal Activity 2 and 3 , Prometheus , probably the upcoming Snow White and the Huntsman prequel and the approaching I Am Legend prequel
How did the creepy doll that you only glimpsed in The conjury get possess by demons ? wrick out the answer is , “ because devil . ” What happened to those Norwegians in John Carpenter ’s The matter ? Exactly what you think happened to them . How did that cheap-jack become enshrined as the Wizard of Oz ? How did the Xenomorph get its vallecula ? Etc . etc . When there ’s no room to do another sequel , the go - to move is to make a prequel — but then you have to try and “ explain ” something that was probably explained more or less satisfactorily already .
Reportedly , The Huntsman will excuse how Ravenna and the Huntsman roll in the hay each other , which is pretty adequately covered in Snow White and the Huntsman .

6. The Soft Reboot
Examples : The Star Trek films , the 10 - Men films , the James Bond films , the Terminator moving-picture show .
Nobody does hard reboots any more — now it ’s all about soft reboots . fundamentally , bring in a whole fresh cast , except for one pop hold - over . In the typeface of the X - Men film , we ’re end up with a berth where Hugh Jackman will be the only castmember from the original series in X - Men : Apocalypse , but we went through a more circuitous route to get there . The upcoming Terminator : Genisys looks like it ’ll follow the same playbook as the 2009 Star Trek and the first few Daniel Craig James Bond films : We ’ll have Arnold Schwarzenegger reprising his iconic role , but with a whole new cast and a rebooted continuity .
candidly , the “ voiced reboot ” is n’t as annoying as the sidequel or the spinoff backdoor pilot , in footing of its kludgey mechanism . ( edit to add : In fact , Casino Royale , Skyfall , the first Abrams Star Trek and X - Men First Class and Days of Future Past are all pretty excellent . ) But it ’s another agency of trying to poke out a serial past its expiration date . And the continuity result tend to get heinous — particularly if the serial publication attempt to “ sterilise ” retiring mistakes , or overtly rehash retiring triumphs .

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