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entertainment.timesonline.co.uk - 2/7/2009
20 sequels that were better than the original
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Sequels are all too often dismissed by cineastes as being recycled piffle for the great unwashed. Movies with a number in the title rarely win awards, but we, the great unwashed, keep going to see them. Why? Because they re great: Here are 20 movies that were at least as good as, if not better ...

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SF Tidbits for 2/7/09
SF Signal — ... the classic Star Trek Communicators. [via Tim!] John Markley of the blog Vast and Cool and Unsympathetic responds to James Enge's Black Gate post about readers and asks: What aspects of fiction are the primary sources of enjoyment, and what aspects are secondary or in the realm of peripheral details or nitpicking? Lists: Apex lists The Best Short Fiction You're Missing Out On. Times Online lists 20 sequels that were better than the original. [via Bill Crider's Pop Culture Magazine ...

Daily Scan for 02.09.09 - Kim Dishes on Lost's Jin, Hatch Dishes on Battlestar's Zarek
SciFi Scanner — ... • The Times Online's list of twenty sequels better than the original is absolutely insane. Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey? ...

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