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1->It's time for my pound of flesh!
2-->-- '''Psychos''', ''VideoGame/{{Borderlands}}''
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4->It's time... for THREE pounds of flesh!
5-->-- '''Psychos''', ''VideoGame/{{Borderlands 2}}''
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7->The mistake is to lazily tell stories about ever-larger powers and effects, and so start an 'arms race' of Realms Shaking Events each trying to outdo the last.
8-->-- '''Ed Greenwood''', interview in ''Kobold Quarterly #3''
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10->You know how Super Mario went from [[VideoGame/SuperMarioLand Land]], to [[VideoGame/SuperMarioWorld World]], to [[VideoGame/SuperMarioGalaxy Galaxy]] and now they've sort of written themselves into a corner? I can't help thinking this franchise is taking a similar path, and once they get to ''Arkham Universe'' you can't rely on suspension of disbelief to explain how the Joker [[JustForFun/RecycledInSpace can pay for a space program]].
11-->-- '''''WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation''''', ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamCity''
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13->The ''Die Hard'' movies keep getting bigger in scope. First one: stuck in a building. Second one: stuck in an airport. Third one: stuck in New York City. Fourth one: stuck....in ''the entire eastern half of the United States''. And then the fifth one now is... ''Russia''? All of Russia, somewhere in Russia? And Russia is quite bigger than the U.S., geographically speaking. So the next one is: [=John McClane=] [[FauxHorrific stuck on Earth]].
14-->-- '''''[[WebVideo/RedLetterMedia Half in the Bag]]''''' on the ''Franchise/DieHard'' franchise
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16->Kersey travels from town to town, and inevitably is forced or talked into taking up arms against the scum. As is usually the case, the first film is both stronger and subtler than those that follow. In the original, Kersey is physically and emotional vulnerable. After his first encounter with a mugger, he runs to his bathroom and throws up... he arms himself with a simple revolver, while in the later films he leaned on [[{{BFG}} increasingly outrageous ordnance]] (as we shall see).
17-->-- '''Jabootu''' [[http://www.jabootu.com/deathwish3.htm on]] ''Film/DeathWish 5''
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19->So this is "raising the stakes" in a ''Weekend at Bernie''[='s=] sequel, issit? Having [[ARareSentence a voodoo curse...\
20...animate a dead body...\
21...when music is playing.]]\
22Sigh. Wha--How would they even top that in the third one? They would have to have him a {{cyborg}}.
23-->-- '''{{WebVideo/MikeJ}}''' on ''Film/WeekendAtBernies 2''
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25->You know a lot of people hated ''Film/TheDaVinciCode'' but I liked it well enough. Its by no means a great movie, but its not ass either. It's a standard follow the puzzle adventure movie which works well enough. You have a theory of the Catholic Church which is crackpot to say the least in real life but in terms of a fictional movie world works to add a sense of drama... Sadly this is the weaker of the two efforts by ''[Ron]'' Howard. The story is about a particle of antimatter which is stolen and if released from its protective case [[HiroshimaAsAUnitOfMeasure it will be like 9/11 times a million]]. Wait, before I go any further: '''antimatter!?''' Since when did Dan Brown write for ''Franchise/StarTrek''?
26-->-- '''[[WebVideo/TheSpoonyExperiment Miles Antwiler]]''' on ''Literature/AngelsAndDemons''
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28->You know how in a sequel, you have to keep making everything bigger and better? Even when it doesn't make sense, a.k.a. the "[[Franchise/{{Terminator}} Why Didn't They Just Send The Liquid Metal Terminator The First Time]]" principle?
29-->-- '''''{{Website/Cracked}}'''''
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31->''That is definitely...bigger than the last one.''
32-->-- '''David Levinson''', ''Film/IndependenceDayResurgence''
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34->If Ahab had killed Literature/MobyDick and then survived to ''Moby-Dick 2'', would he have had to kill [[SerialEscalation an even whiter whale]], with even more [[{{Foil}} canvas-like elements projecting his character flaws back upon him]] [[RecycledScript as he attempted to slay the sins handed down from Adam on down, until his heart bursts again like a cannon upon the mirror of his own soul?]] ...I dunno, maybe?
35-->-- '''Plague of Gripes''', ''[[https://youtu.be/uPwVuC3YOrc Power Levels are Stupid]]''
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37->Writer/director Creator/GeorgeMiller and his co-scripters, Brian Hannant and Terry Hayes, followed precisely the template that can normally be counted upon to produce the very worst, most imbecilic sequels. They basically just made a movie that was ''more'' of whatever ''Film/MadMax1'' had been. ''The Road Warrior'' has bigger and more complex action set-pieces, a faster pace, an even weirder cast of characters operating within a setting of even greater dysfunction and hostility, and stunts that have raced on past the merely dangerous into the country of the nearly insane. I think the reason it works here despite its near-perfect record of failure otherwise is because it dovetails so neatly with the movie’s premise. ''Mad Max'' was about a man fighting a losing battle against entropy in a society doing the same on a larger scale. ''The Road Warrior'' shows what happens after entropy has triumphed, both in Max’s life and in the world he inhabits. It stands to reason that all of the things that served in the first film as signs and symptoms of social and psychological disintegration — the violence, the disregard for human life and safety, the personal freakishness of nearly everyone who passed in front of the camera — should take on monstrously exaggerated forms now that the forces of chaos and decay have completely slipped their leashes. Of course, it also doesn’t hurt that Miller has had two more years in which to think about how to do this sort of thing, or that the astonishing profitability of ''Mad Max'' made the sequel look like a safe enough bet to justify a nearly tenfold budget increase. Miller had plenty of time to figure out what he was going to do for an encore, and he didn’t have to cut any corners in making it happen.
38-->-- '''Scott "El Santo" Ashlin"''', [[http://1000misspenthours.com/reviews/reviewsh-m/roadwarrior.htm on]] ''Film/MadMax2TheRoadWarrior''

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