2011 - the year Hollywood runs out of ideas...

[acroyear]

Sony Announces 'Men in Black 3'! - Cinematical:

Are you excited for a new Men in Black movie? Did you dig the first two? Which project are you looking forward to the most: Ghostbusters 3, Men in Black 3, Spider-Man 4 or Where Have All The Original Ideas Gone?

The one exception in all this? Pixar with The Bear and the Bow. But even Pixar wonn't dodge the sequel bandwagon forever (Toy Story 2 I almost don't consider a sequel in that most of the plot was written for Toy Story 1), as we know of Toy Story 3 and Cars 2, and a Monsters 2 may be on the storyboards...

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Re: Sorcerers...

[blueeowyn.livejournal.com]

It can focus on how they meet and start to work together and on what happens after the famous scene (the 2 sentence blurb I found didn't make me think it was the same story but...)

Re: Sorcerers...

[acroyear70.livejournal.com]

which brings me to a rant i just had on a blog about the Captain Nemo preview that Disney's been trying to get together for a while now: movies can make better "art" if they DON'T tell us everything. the movie world can be better if we don't know everything. there's not always an f'in' need for a "prequel" scene to a well-known story.

and this is most definitely one of those times.

as i said, it is taking an absolutely perfect gem (original story, Dukas's score, the "new" Mickey, and all of the love that Walt put into Fantasia) and destroying it by padding it with everything that is utterly irrelevant to that story. Short stories work BECAUSE they're not novels, and can almost never be made better with all the padding a novel (or a 2 hour film) requires.