{"id":1448,"date":"2007-05-26T08:18:34","date_gmt":"2007-05-26T08:18:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2007\/05\/26\/bittercon-three-strikes-and-yo\/"},"modified":"2007-05-26T08:18:34","modified_gmt":"2007-05-26T08:18:34","slug":"bittercon-three-strikes-and-yo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2007\/05\/26\/bittercon-three-strikes-and-yo\/","title":{"rendered":"BitterCon: Three Strikes and You’re Out"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m not particularly pining for WisCon, but for those who are, let me throw out a movie topic for discussion:<\/p>\n

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Three Strikes and You’re Out: Why Do Third Movies Suck So Much?<\/strong><\/p>\n

It’s a well-known phenomenon in genre film: in a series of movies, the third movie is almost always where the series goes off the rails. Examples abound: X-Men 3<\/cite>, Superman 3<\/cite>, The Matrix Revolutions<\/cite>, Return of the Jedi<\/cite>. What are some of the reasons for this problem? Are tthere examples of film series that avoid it? Can the Star Wars<\/cite> prequel trilogy be thought of as following this trajectory in reverse?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Comments are open. Go nuts.<\/p>\n

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(This topic has nothing whatsoever to do with any movies currently in theaters. Nope. Not at all.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m not particularly pining for WisCon, but for those who are, let me throw out a movie topic for discussion: Three Strikes and You’re Out: Why Do Third Movies Suck So Much? It’s a well-known phenomenon in genre film: in a series of movies, the third movie is almost always where the series goes off… Continue reading BitterCon: Three Strikes and You’re Out<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","category-sf","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1448\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}