Many thanks to Peter Jackson for raising the bar for ongoing sagas; after all, The Lord of the Rings does kick ass, plus it involves hunky men.

But the rest of you are pushing it.  Case in point: The Matrix; a nerd and conspiracy theorist dream come true, but did it really need two other movies?

Scream, hey that was a fun horror flick.  Why’d you bugger it up by making into another dreaded trilogy?

How many times does Bruce have to Die Hard?

That damn Alien just won’t die.

And the most embarrassing of all: The latest Star Wars Trilogy; so very, very wrong.  Someone needed to set down with George Lucas after the first film aired and explain that if he valued what little dignity he had left and his knee caps then he would trash the two later movies.  Instead he went on to make a film about C-Span and called it Attack of the Clones I believe.  For shame.

Harry, Harry; eventually everyone reaches that dreaded point of overexposure. Taking on an ambitious Septology is drastically pushing the limits of sagas.   

Occasionally a double feature can be successful.  Look at Kill Bill Vol. 1 and Kill Bill Vol. 2, and the Godfather saga before someone had the bright idea to go for a third movie.  Oh Francis, Francis, Francis.  *shaking head*

So very often sequel after sequel is code for: I’m sorry, this is all we got.