Have been rewatching Breaking Bad. I rushed through it the first time and felt an interest in looking over it a second time, so downloaded some hi def copies. It's a very cool show.
Anyway, I don't know what started it but a few weeks back I decided to rewatch some classics. I started with Phantasm, aka Never Dead, from 1979. There were three sequels. I watched them too. I became compelled. I was attempting to find out what was the message, what was the rationale? A mythology develops when movies move into sequel land.
I moved on to Hellraiser. This is even more piquant since Pinhead is such a chatty character, always explaining stuff, the mythology should be easy to follow. There are eight Hellraiser movies. The first two are very good for the genre. The rest, not so much.
Next, some old favs, Satisfaction from 1988 and featuring a hot, young Justine Bateman, and then Shopping, a tad more contemporary, squeaking into the world in 1994 and featuring Jude Law and Sadie Frost and a very dated soundtrack. That's what's good about Satisfaction, the soundtrack survives the years.