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What Should Be Limited?

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What Should be Limited?
Olaf’s Frozen Adventure, Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle, Pitch Perfect 3, Fifty Shades Freed, The New Mutants, and Avengers: Infinity War. These are seven out of the seventeen movies that appear when googling “movies coming out soon.” They stretch over various genres including comedy, action, children’s movies, musicals, and drama, however there is one common thread connecting all these movies; they are all either spin offs or sequels. In an age of advanced technology and the ability to spread ideas rapidly why is it that the media industry keeps returning to the same ideas. Why are over 41 percent of the movies that show up after searching for “movies being released soon” spin offs or …show more content…

Pitch Perfect 2 received a 66% on Rotten Tomatoes, which is a full 14% decrease from the previous movie. The movie was poorly written in comparison to the original and was rushed. The quality decrease from the original to the sequel shows the need for limitation. People spent their hard earned money to go see this film with the impression that they’d enjoy it since they enjoyed the first one and were severely let down. Universal should have recognized the downgrade in value and never produced this movie, however they knew people would see the movie after the successfulness of the first movie. With Pitch Perfect 3 coming out soon, one has to wonder if this sequel will follow in the footsteps of the second movie or if they’ll step up their game in hopes of turning around the franchise. Too often sequels are made because studios know they can make money on them with limited effort if the previous movie did well. This needs to be changed; sequels should be produced if they’re well written, not rushed or used as a way to make a quick buck. If a studio can not do this than they must not produce the sequel. Another problem with sequels is they can be unoriginal and repetitive. This seems especially true in action and adventure series that tend to follow a very specific formula for their plots, however this trend can be viewed in numerous genres. One example being

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