Comments on: Unlucky Number Three https://unwinnable.com/2012/12/20/unlucky-number-three/ Stories about Culture Mon, 24 Dec 2012 05:05:06 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Brian https://unwinnable.com/2012/12/20/unlucky-number-three/#comment-46111 Thu, 20 Dec 2012 22:30:19 +0000 https://unwinnable.com/?p=38892#comment-46111 In reply to Rob Haines.

Completely agree, Rob. Coppola made GF3 because he needed money. James Cameron had nothing to do with T3. And I think it definitely has to do with wanting to out do the previous installments. TDKR is a great example of that. I love the movie, but it's all about making the story bigger than the previous installments.

]]> By: Rob Haines https://unwinnable.com/2012/12/20/unlucky-number-three/#comment-46104 Thu, 20 Dec 2012 18:17:31 +0000 https://unwinnable.com/?p=38892#comment-46104 Could the weakness of most third installments be a consequence of using up the best ideas in the first two films, compounded by the requirement of escalation: that the third film must be bigger, more exciting, with more explosive set pieces?

If this is the case, it's conceivable that Toy Story 3 bucked the trend simply because it was given time. Pixar didn't churn out a third film just because TS2 had done well for them; they waited, until they had the right plot & set pieces, and enough new ideas that it didn't come across as a melange of possibilities discarded from its predecessors.

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