Sequels and series

Posted on November 19, 2010

I’ve been watching a lot of sequels lately and trying to do haiku for each film in different series. Sometime after finishing volume 2 of Review Haiku I’ll probably do a separate book where the haiku of film series are compiled. At the moment though, there are a lot of film series where I’ve only watched one or two films, and some series where I haven’t watched any. I still haven’t seen any of the Harry Potter films :-/

One question to resolve is if a series is supposed to have a minimum number of films. There are lots of trilogies, but what about those with two films? Could they really be considered film series? Before Sunset came out nine years after Before Sunrise, but I don’t think it was originally intended to be a series. I think it just occurred the people involved that it might be nice to see what the main characters were up to several years later. Kill Bill is sometimes described as one film in two parts, further muddying the waters.

Another question is what to do about unofficial or non-canonical films. There are many films in the James Bond series, but there are also a few films that weren’t official parts of the series. I’m inclined to include them, but put them as extras or mark them as separate somehow.

Luckily there’s plenty of time to decide. Until then, I’ve got plenty of movies to watch.

Film buff

Posted on July 11, 2009

A few months ago I began adding Apture links to the website. I had seen it on a few other sites and it was interesting that you could get a glimpse of a web page without having to open another tab or window. When I found out they linked to IMDB, I was sold on it (it’s also free).

After working with it awhile, some issues are apparent. Apture works very well with Wikipedia, @Twitter, and some other sites, but it doesn’t seem to work consistently well with IMDB. I can get Apture to work with Rotten Tomatoes, but I have to manually add the links, because they are not in Apture’s system yet. It’s sort of strange that a site that is in Apture’s system, doesn’t work well with it, yet a site that isn’t in the system, does.

However, IMDB is is more comprehensive in it’s listings than Rotten Tomatoes. I admit, there are some pretty obscure films on this site, and they sometimes test the comprehensiveness of websites. Right now, IMDB lists Urban Scenze, Vol. 2, but not Urban Scenze, Vol. 1, while Rotten Tomatoes doesn’t list either one. The All-American Girl is listed on IMDB, but not at Rotten Tomatoes. However, that one was rated X and I think Rotten Tomatoes doesn’t create pages for films with that rating. I may be wrong, of course.

Despite all that, I will keep adding Rotten Tomatoes and IMDB links to the Review Haiku, because they are probably are the best places to turn if you want further information on any given film. In the future, I may add different links, if the movies are difficult to find for rental or purchase.

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