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.