David Mamet
‘And the motion picture megaliths, having earned more money than they could have foreseen with the original, begin eating their own entrails in a frenzy to earn all the rest of the money with the sequel. And they collude and scheme and test and confab to make sure that each moment of the film is recognizable as that moment that should take place at that time, in a sequel to a film whose franchise is so important that nothing must be risked that might endanger its success.
Professor Rhine might watch the film, as did I, in wonder. It contains not one moment of jollity, humor, or respect for the audience that paid for their inclusion. How hard those executive, cosupervising, and coexecutive producers must have labored to create a product bearing no trace whatever of the human.’
