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A couple days ago in the SAW digital offices, I was chatting with Sailor about the Puppet Master franchise given he had just watched some of them in the last month. I ended up googling the series and, to my astonishment, saw that there were fifteen films in the horror franchise. Sailor said he stopped watching the series because the films progressively got worse, which made me ask today’s question: how many instalments in a franchise is one too many?
Sailor said that as long as the films are good, he doesn’t care how many instalments a series has. I countered by saying that a film series would have to have a good reason to go past 10 films.
Granted, let’s set some rules down. We’re talking about franchises that focus on one character (so no Marvel Cinematic Universes in this equation). With that said, although James Bond has 20+ films, the fact that they shift up the cast and tone every decade or so makes it easy for people to jump in at any point.
But for films that have one overarching story over multiple films, when is it too much? I’ll agree with Sailor that quality definitely plays a factor, but is there a point where even if the film is good it is just too much?
So what about you, folks? At what number (if it exists) should a film series end?
I’ll see you in the trenches.
