By Anthony Jauregui
Senior Reporter
With the recent release of Oliver Megaton’s “Taken 3,” I’ve come to realize that Qui-Gon Jinn, also known as Liam Neeson, needs to stop making movies, especially ones that require the athleticism of a 19-year-old Chinese gymnast.
More importantly, Hollywood needs to stop wasting their money on failsafe remakes and sequels of already perfected movies, such as Jurassic Park and Batman. The lack of creativity that thrives in Hollywood is what gives us movies like “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,” where April O’Neil spends more time breathing hard than reporting like she’s supposed to. Nonetheless, the influx of remakes and sequels in Hollywood nowadays aggravates me and it should aggravate you.
A childhood classic like the Ninja Turtles is what we expected when we watched the newly revamped version starring Megan Fox and Will Arnett, but that is not what we received. What we got was a huge disappointment.
Now, “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” is an easy target to make fun of and get angry at, but what about the doomed “Jurassic World” that’s set to release in June 2015? The film which stars Chris Pratt can’t help but worry me of what lies in store for the film.
A range of emotions hits me in the heart thinking of what this film do to my pre conceived notions of what Jurassic Park was for me as a child. However, with that in mind, I understand why these movies are being made: to target and please a new audience!
These films aren’t being rebooted, revamped and redone for the hell of it; they’re being remade for new, young audiences, and for the conglomerates that are the movie studios. My beef isn’t with sequels, remakes or revamps, it’s with movies that are done, and should stay done, but are added a sequel just because the first one was good.
“Taken 3” should have been done at “Taken.” At this rate, the story line is going to continue with Slovakians taking Liam Neeson’s cousin’s boyfriend’s mom’s sister’s husband. For the sake of good movies that everyone loves, don’t make unnecessary sequels.
