HONDO74 wrote: If Hollywood thinks they can make some more money off of it they will continue to milk it. I thought Aliens was just as good as Alien, But then it went downhill.
It's the rare series that can sustain itself with good movies and even if the 1st sequel is just as good as the 1st movie, that's often not good enough since the sequels are always compared back to the 1st very subjectively.
As for the Alien franchise, got to have Sigourney Weaver or it's a loss.
Kind of like planet of the apes.
There's a good example of sequels going downhill really fast from what was not that high a starting pojnt to begin with....and then let's start the whole thing over again -- Hollywood unable to be bothered to come up a new idea or make use of any of the great stories down the street in the library that have never been put to film - serious rick avoidance, too.
And now Disney is going to milk Star Wars as long as they can.
Well, for what that cost them to obtain, they almost have to get that cash cow bottled up - what's the take on Rogue 1? It's already grossed over a billion....... Pretty good cow!
But then it does keep a lot of people employed. And now China wants in on the action. Its getting too expensive to make movies in Hollywood.
Getting? A lot moved to Canada years ago -- filming in the US just got too expensive.