Woody's Movie Review 9

Now a word about sequels. Sometimes they are fantastic and sometimes even the first movie wasn't great. But as long as the movie industry wants our money they are going to keep cranking them out.

Let's start with some of my favorites.
The "Die Hard" series now in these movies John McLain (Bruce Willis) takes all kinds of bad guys. There is Alan Rickman ("Die Hard"), William Sadler ("Die Hard 2"), Jeremy Irons ("Die Hard with a Vengeance") and Timothy Olyphant ("Live Free or Die Hard"). Now every one of these movies is pure cinematic gold. And if they have to push Bruce Willis around in a wheelchair to make "Die Hard 13 My Social Security Check is Missing" I will probably give up my hard earned cash for John McClain to fight someone his own age maybe Methuselah will be available.

Another one that always gets me is the "Lethal Weapon" series here we double our fun by going with partners Martin Riggs (Mel Gibson) and Roger Murtaugh (Danny Glover). These two also expend large amounts of ammunition and sarcastic comments as they chase criminal scum through 4 movies. Drug smugglers, South African diplomats, crooked former cops and an Asian gang are in the sights of these two; and they always put away the criminals (sometimes they put them away in the morgue) (make that usually).

Now we have the "Back to the Future" franchise. These were good but I prefer the original to the other two; especially that second one.

And how about "Highlander", the quote of the movie is "There can be only one!" After seeing these movies I know it means there can be only one decent Highlander film. Here you have a great movie that is torn down a little by sequels that make no sense. You have dead characters coming back and the whole point of the first movie is disregarded when the second one is made. They should have left it alone.

And in keeping with the statement I made in another Movie Review "Chevy Chase used to be funnier" I give you 2 of my favorite Chevy movies Fletch and Fletch lives. Both are hilarious as Fletch plays a reporter with a knack for disguises working on stories for the newspaper he works for.