The Reunion Show

greed |grēd| noun intense and selfish desire for something, esp. wealth, power, or food.
Yes, Believe it or not but the entertainment industry is fueled by greed. Sometimes an actor wants to relive the glory days or sometimes they want the money they spent on silk pajamas and wooden rocking horses back. Either way they are motivated by greed and their own self ego. Case in point:

• Terminator 3 (2003) Schwarzenegger takes on a time traveling babe all the while covered head to toe in leather.
• Rocky Balboa (2006) and John Rambo (2008) Remember when Sylvester Stallone, or Sly, did cool movies like this.
  
• Live Free or Die Hard (2007) Bruce Willis plying the one man army facing off against computer hackers. Evidence proving all you need is a name to sell a movie.

Say... Weren't these guys involved in some kind of project years back?

(Combined these men are 170 years old.)

• Indiana Jones IV (2008) Harrison Ford was born in 1942, right around the time of the 2nd world war.

• The Re-Teaming of Van Halen (?)

You have to wonder: how are these movies getting made, and why are they getting made now as opposed to, gee, i don't know a year or two after the last sequel? Than I think about it and it becomes pretty clear. Arnold, Sly, Ford and Bruce are capitalizing on the downfall of the movie. Crap is being made thus movie goers are seeing crap therefore expectations are low creating the prefect time to introduce an old face.

The Current Box Office Standings ending on feb. 19th. With average critic rating out of 100%: (Taken From rottentomatoes.com)

1	new	Ghost Rider	1	$45.4M	$52M	$14.4k	3619	27%
2	new	Bridge to Terabithia	1	$22.6M	$28.5M	$9.1k	3139	84%
3	1	Norbit	2	$16.8M	$62M	$6.4k	3138	9%
4	new	Music and Lyrics	1	$13.6M	$21.4M	$5.4k	2955	64%
5	new	Daddy's Little Girls	1	$11.2M	$18.8M	$6.2k	2111	24%
6	new	Breach	1	$10.5M	$12.3M	$8.2k	1489	81%
7	2	Hannibal Rising	2	$5.4M	$22.9M	$2.1k	3003	16%
8	3	Because I Said So	3	$5.1M	$34.3M	$2.5k	2446	6%
9	5	Night at the Museum	9	$3.7M	$238.5M	$2.4k	2042	45%
10	4	The Messengers	3	$3.8M	$31.1M	$2k	2183	12%

Point is, unless the industry stops making crap and maybe decides to take a chance with an independent movie, all we can do is look forward to more and more sequels to 70 & 80's action movies.