Cinema rant.

I've found out that Spike Lee is planning a sequel to Inside Man...
Well although I'm not all against sequels, that makes me a bit doubtful...
You have some movies that scream for sequels, because they set up characters and a context that can leave place to further developments.
But here, as good as Inside Man is (and believe me, I thoroughly enjoyed this excellent heist movie), where's the space for development?

You have a bunch of guys who set up the perfect bank robbery. Why would they try again?
For Ocean's 11, that's fair enough, the guys are doing it for the challenge. It's not the case in this one...
Well obviously that's assuming that the sequel will be another heist. There's the possibility that the sequel could be completely different, where, say, you would see the guys being chased for what they've done in the 1st one. That could be interesting...
Then again, Spike Lee is not the kind of director you'd expect to make movies "just" for the money... So maybe he's got a good idea.
But at the moment it seems to be part of this seemingly endless flow of Hollywood's sequels...
We'll see.

In the same style (as "rise and fall of independent directors"), the Hughues brothers are going to adapt the series Kung-Fu (the one with David Carradine).
Again I don't really know if I have to be excited at that news... (^_^;