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<blockquote data-quote="Spells &amp;amp; Karma" data-source="post: 390614" data-attributes="member: 23">It&#039;s a tricky one. Naturally, the powers that be will want to include as many familiar ingredients as possible - and the audience will feel disappointed if they&#039;re not there - and they&#039;ve done a great job of that here. But of course it&#039;s the presence of those ingredients that makes it so unlikely.I remember when Jaws 2 was shown on TV back in the Eighties, the voiceover on the promos asked &quot;Can lightning really strike twice?&quot; And that&#039;s exactly what so many sequels are about: that an improbable event occurring to a certain group of people can happen to the same group a second or even third time.Yes. A number of these scenes could be inserted into the original as part of an &quot;extended TV cut&quot; or something and it would be hard to tell.It didn&#039;t help that the &quot;fresh&quot; twists that differentiated this from the original just didn&#039;t appeal. The only part that worked was the retread, which was still far inferior to the original. It&#039;s a lose/lose situation.Now there&#039;s something that gives a film a USP.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Spells & Karma, post: 390614, member: 23"] It's a tricky one. Naturally, the powers that be will want to include as many familiar ingredients as possible - and the audience will feel disappointed if they're not there - and they've done a great job of that here. But of course it's the presence of those ingredients that makes it so unlikely. I remember when [I]Jaws 2[/I] was shown on TV back in the Eighties, the voiceover on the promos asked "Can lightning really strike twice?" And that's exactly what so many sequels are about: that an improbable event occurring to a certain group of people can happen to the same group a second or even third time. Yes. A number of these scenes could be inserted into the original as part of an "extended TV cut" or something and it would be hard to tell. It didn't help that the "fresh" twists that differentiated this from the original just didn't appeal. The only part that worked was the retread, which was still far inferior to the original. It's a lose/lose situation. Now [U][I]there's[/I][/U] something that gives a film a USP. [/QUOTE]

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