CP3S said:

TV's Frink said:

TheBoost said:

no one cared

This. And why care now?

Not to start anything, but here is another example of if it isn't relevant to you, it doesn't need to be talked about at all attitude. I just don't get where this attitude comes from.

There are a ton of threads with discussion I would be hard pressed to care any less about, as such, I just don't click on them. I think people would get more than a little annoyed with me if I jumped into every sports thread and asked "Who cares? Why does this matter?" etc. Asterisk obviously started the thread because it is an interesting topic to him.

I think you've misunderstood my point (can't speak for Frink... if he has one)

I'm not saying I don't care. I'm saying that Romero and the audience of the day didn't care.

And I'm not arguing that the idea of sequals didn't exist in the 70s. They made almost 30 "Blondie" movies in the 40s! Just that the modern notion of the hit franchise, where every filmmaker claims that they have a trilogy in mind, and almost all actors in genre pictures are tied to multi-picture contracts, wasn't the standard in the late 60s.

"Planet of the Apes" was a hit, and they quickly made a string of cheaper and cheaper sequals. If you want convoluted reasoning, look at the fuzzy continuity of those films, just made a year or so apart.

"NOTLD" was a hit, and Romero didn't revisit it for a decade. And it was set in the 70s because it wasn't "PART II" of a single story set in 1968... it was just the sequal being made in the 70s.