Sparked today by listening to Daft Punk's music for Tron: Legacy, a sequel made nearly 30 years after the original film.
It would definitely be one of my favourite belated sequels because it really surprised and enthralled me in various ways. I couldn't believe the success of the photoreal, younger Jeff Bridges for instance; loved the idea of Clu as the baddie; and I thought Olivia Wilde was the best thing in it, looking perfect – and so slightly unreal – and playing Quorra with an open, inquisitive nature.
I suppose another important one would be the Doctor Who minisode The Night of the Doctor, in which Paul McGann finally got to return to the character on screen 16 years after his single appearance in Doctor Who: The Movie and a wealth (and I mean wealth ) of audio dramas. Nearly everything about the episode was perfect, but it firmly demonstrated what had been lost by McGann never having been able to play the Doctor in a full TV series.
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull would be one of my least favourites. What particularly bothered me was that the methodology espoused by Spielberg in the infancy of the production, i.e. doing things the old-fashioned way, seemed to get kicked into touch by the time he was making it, and it became a CGI playground and therefore less satisfying and tangible than the other films.
It would definitely be one of my favourite belated sequels because it really surprised and enthralled me in various ways. I couldn't believe the success of the photoreal, younger Jeff Bridges for instance; loved the idea of Clu as the baddie; and I thought Olivia Wilde was the best thing in it, looking perfect – and so slightly unreal – and playing Quorra with an open, inquisitive nature.
I suppose another important one would be the Doctor Who minisode The Night of the Doctor, in which Paul McGann finally got to return to the character on screen 16 years after his single appearance in Doctor Who: The Movie and a wealth (and I mean wealth ) of audio dramas. Nearly everything about the episode was perfect, but it firmly demonstrated what had been lost by McGann never having been able to play the Doctor in a full TV series.
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull would be one of my least favourites. What particularly bothered me was that the methodology espoused by Spielberg in the infancy of the production, i.e. doing things the old-fashioned way, seemed to get kicked into touch by the time he was making it, and it became a CGI playground and therefore less satisfying and tangible than the other films.