The more I see in life, the more I'm convinced that 99% of the people who are given credit for the success of things are idiots who either got lucky using a shotgun approach or they have a knack for picking very talented people who can make their products not suck. I think this failure to understand is part of why so many sequels are awful, which is sad both because it means that we have to suffer through bad movies that could've been really good, and because listening to interviews with the people who are supposedly responsible for a great movie makes me want to track them down and beat them with a blunt object.
Posted by matt at November 7, 2003 12:56 PM