Just when you\u2019re braced for emotional resolution, you get the dreaded words: \u2018To be continued \u2026\u2019 Hollywood needs to stop this now<\/p>\n
I\u2019ll never forget my experience of taking my seven-year-old to see. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse in the cinema, and I don\u2019t mean that in a good way. The little fellow enjoyed it enormously \u2013 we devoured a half bucket of pick\u2019n\u2019mix and cheered at the spidey-dino \u2013 and then, right at the climax, decided he needed to go to the loo. We rushed out, did the thing as fast as a seven-year-old can, rushed back \u2013 and everyone was leaving. \u201cIt finished just after you left,\u201d said a sympathetic fellow parent, as the cinema staff vacuumed up popcorn. \u201cI think there\u2019s going to be a sequel.\u201d<\/p>\n
Maybe I\u2019m an idiot \u2013 I definitely still don\u2019t understand how a multiverse works \u2013 but I sort of think this ought to be illegal, or at least a matter for trading standards. As far as I can remember, it was heavily implied that this was going to be a self-contained story. To make matters worse, this trend seems to be gathering steam \u2013 Dune<\/a> got away with it because nobody expected Denis Villeneuve to cram all that delicious spice into one film, but when even Fast X is leaving you without any emotional resolution, you know something\u2019s rotten in Hollywood. And now there\u2019s Wicked<\/a> \u2013 famously based on a show that\u2019s already split into two parts but still lasts less than three hours. I\u2019m not sure who\u2019s to blame for this \u2013 Kevin Feige? George Lucas? \u2013 but at least I know going in that Star Wars and Marvel are never, ever going to end.<\/p>\n Joel Snape is a writer and fitness expert<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Just when you\u2019re braced for emotional resolution, you get the dreaded words: \u2018To be continued \u2026\u2019 Hollywood needs to stop this now I\u2019ll never forget my experience of taking my seven-year-old to see. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse in the cinema, and I don\u2019t mean that in a good way. The little fellow enjoyed it enormously … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31306\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}