{"id":6,"date":"2006-12-04T21:08:02","date_gmt":"2006-12-05T05:08:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/grosscomplement\/2006\/12\/04\/just-wondering-about-sequels\/"},"modified":"2006-12-04T22:46:13","modified_gmt":"2006-12-05T06:46:13","slug":"just-wondering-about-sequels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/grosscomplement\/2006\/12\/04\/just-wondering-about-sequels\/","title":{"rendered":"Just wondering&#8230; about movies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Claims Gui: &#8220;Sequels are always terrible.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I certainly buy that sequels are typically worse than the original film. We should probably chalk this up to regression to the mean, before we try any fancier explanations.<\/p>\n<p>Also, it&#8217;s hard to say whether sequels are actually worse than the <em>average<\/em> movie. Most of us are only aware of a biased subset of the movies that get released, hopefully a subset biased towards better movies. [Depends on your friends, right?]<\/p>\n<p>The average movie may well be worse than we think. Since we are conscious of sequels (and watch them on airplanes) because of their famous big brothers&#8212;not their quality&#8212;they look bad when compared to our usual, biased sample.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Claims Gui: &#8220;Sequels are always terrible.&#8221; I certainly buy that sequels are typically worse than the original film. We should probably chalk this up to regression to the mean, before we try any fancier explanations. Also, it&#8217;s hard to say whether sequels are actually worse than the average movie. Most of us are only aware [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":754,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[411,139],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-observations","category-psychology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/grosscomplement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/grosscomplement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/grosscomplement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/grosscomplement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/754"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/grosscomplement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/grosscomplement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/grosscomplement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/grosscomplement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/grosscomplement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}