Gabe... Your annoying... Simply put... You post these ridiculous post as if your opinion is the end-all-be-all of everything, however the posts in question are never anything more than an angry fanboy's ranting...
However I'll address your post... Sequels can be great, true... But so can anything, and most of hte itme Sequels are simply fun, not great. Let me take the Die Hard series for example, all of the sequels(Even the dreadful part 2) are fun, some more fun than others, but none of them ever match the first one? Why? Because the story should of ended at one. The story was so perfect, the action, great... But the minute a sequal was made, it simply became John McClane on another adventure... Don't get me wrong I love having the sequels as a fan... But a sequel is more or less a desert, something enjoy every now and again. Sometimes you get a sequel that surpasses the original, most of the time because the original set the bar far too low ala Spider-Man 2, in which the character is furthered. But again this is rare... And then let say you get a decent sequel, it's rarely possible to get a good movie after that. Spidey 3, X-Men Last Stand, Terminator 3, etc... Why? Because there are far too many hands in the frickin pot, the minute you make an adaptation, sequel, your hands are tied.... Your answering to 100 frickin people...
So again... Gabe had you read my post and not posted one of your patented "I'm right but with no actual reason behind it" posts, you'd see that what I was getting at, is that by going a route which simply is inspired by these movies you want remade, etc... Film-makers are given more freedom to express themselves thus giving us better movie experiences.
