Originally posted by: Marvolo Co, don't take this the wrong way, but do you have a sequel phobia?
In some ways I do because I have seen so many sequels, and I believe ESB is the only sequel to ever match the original, and that goes for Aliens & Godfather II also. Don't get me wrong there are good sequels, but for replay value they just don't have 'it' that the originals always have. What makes a great movie to me is that when you are watching it, the movie has pure magic from start to end, and sequels rarely have that, cause I believe it is impossible to conjure up magic everytime you shoot a movie.
I am old enough to let alot of these movies series sink in and after a good 10-15 years, the original just stand out now as SO much better, and the sequels just seem inferior now, or to me a waste of time, cause in some ways it denegrates the original work. I don't get jazzed for sequels anymore, cause I learned my lesson from years past. I was hyped for the PT, hyped for BTTF sequels, hyped for Temple of Doom, and hyped for The Terminator sequels, and though they all range from bad to very good sequels, I really don't revisit them years later unless they are on cable and I am channel surfing. But when it comes to popping in a DVD, I can watch BTTF, SW, ESB, Raiders, Jaws endlessly cause they have that magic everytime you watch them.