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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mark" data-source="post: 168493" data-attributes="member: 5">Nope.  Can't agree with that at all.  What he did, IMO, was take an otherwise obscure genre, previously confined to B-movies, the small screen and pulp fiction books and mainstream it for an extremely wide audience appeal.  He then capitolized on that effect through tie in products (with the foresight of genius and despite conventional marketeer's nay-saying).  Unfortunately, he followed it up with one good sequel (arguably better than the first movie), a second mediocre sequel (already showing his storytelling wasn't maturing with his audience) and poorly received prequel (that was trying to recapture the experience of the first movie).What he failed to realize is that his audience, by the time of the prequel, was much more technologically savvy and flooded with other (movie and television) products in that genre.  His emulators also had the advantage of an ever-growing technological support system which he, himself, helped develop (or, more properly, was developed in support of him and needed more to do when he was done with them).  He seemed to have forgotten that it was the story that drew us all in, and the special effects that sold the products.  He dressed up his first story, a good one, and reaped the harvest.  He dressed up his sequel, a weak story, and didn't achieve a "second coming".His audience, now a generation older, was also jaded by the kind of mob mentality that the internet fosters.  When something is good, it is treated to raves, when bad, to rants.  The internet is prone to highlight the extremes of opinion.  The actual breadth of middle-ground thinking is never accurately represented online.  The larger the weight on either side of the extreme, is usually (for right or for wrong) the mob that wins the virtual shouting match.Personally, I'm from the middle-ground of thinking.  Like Henry, I'll wait and see (probably enjoying the next movie).  I've enjoyed all of them thus far, to varying degrees.  I can't really be "monumentally" disappointed because I've never let my expectations get all that high.Just my opinion, of course. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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