Tuesday 11 April 2017

SEQUELS ARE USUALLY RUBBISH

Have you noticed that most sequels especially film ones are usually crap?

I'm thinking here of all the follow-on Alien films, the appalling Halloween and Jaws spin-offs, and anything featuring Bruce Willis and Mel Gibson.

There have been some good ones though like Godfather 2 and Trainspotting 2 (T2), but these are few and far between.

Robert, that increasingly isolated born again Christian, when he said recently that he reads the New Testament more than the Old Testament, got me thinking about the relative merits of The Bible 1 (Old Testament) and its sequel Bible 2 (New testament).

The more I thought about it I became aware that Bible 1 is more like an action adventure film full of action, violence and sex with a minimal amount of touchy-feely stuff):

Bible 1 has it all



And Bible 2 is like a chick flick. Touch-feely, wan, boring.


Bible 2 is boring

I mean you only have to look at the lead characters:

Bible 1 God

Bible 2 God

I know which one old Richard would want to go and see and end up, under sufferance, being dragged along by Shelley to see.

I reckon that Charlton Heston's version of the Bible 2 story was much, much better:



Interestingly enough the remake of Ben Hur in the 1950s was better than the (still good) original but the recent remake of the remake is crap.


Bible 2 is only livened up at the end with the psychotic and perhaps psychedelic ravings of John in The Apocalypse. Good stuff this which is like looking at a Grunewald or Bosch painting.


7 comments:

Robert and the Catholics said...

ok here we go...
1. "Robert the isolated born again Christian" never doubted and never felt the need to be re baptized! Robert also has a full social life with many acquaintances and is happily married.
2. "The more I thought about it I became aware that Bible 1 is more like an action adventure film full of action, violence and sex with a minimal amount of touchy-feely stuff)" yes you and the author of the "Lord of the Rings".
3. "And Bible 2 is like a chick flick. Touch-feely, wan, boring". You need to check out RBB's Angry Jesus.
4. "Bible 2 is only livened up at the end with the psychotic and perhaps psychedelic ravings of John in The Apocalypse. Good stuff this which is like looking at a Grunewald or Bosch painting". Paintings don't always say a thousand words. Apocalypse is about the return of Jesus the Christ. At the end we have all that lovey dovey stuff forever again. Sounds like a happy ending to me!

THE CURMUDGEON said...

"Sounds like a happy ending to me!"

Look, are you still going to those Thai Massage parlours?

Robert and the Catholics said...

No. A good subject for your next post dear friend.

THE CURMUDGEON said...

Richard?
Help!
Robert is going all grandmotherly on me.
Can you enter the conversation and do your usual putdowns and scathing observations?
It's lonely up here.

Richard (of RBB) said...

I'm here!
Charlton Heston is (was) a bit of a dick who is (was) big in the US gun association. His best film was 55 Days at Peking. Kirk Douglas was better in biblical films. When they gave out the Oscars for best writer for Bible 2, they had to wait a few hundred years for the writers to be born.
Religion was 'invented' thousands of years ago by people who did not have scientific explanations for some pretty straightforward things.
Why didn't the bible contain a recipe for Panadol? Think of the suffering that could have been avoided!
Hope that helps.

THE CURMUDGEON said...

"Hope that helps."

Well, frankly. no.

Richard (of RBB) said...

Mr Hard To Please.