Originally Posted by brayzie

That would have been interesting if Danny couldn't get out the film, and that could be part of the conflict, seeing if Danny could ever convince Jack that his world isn't real.

But I didn't like the world of Jack Slater. Using the movie's logic, if Danny is in Jack Slater IV, then we should NOT be seeing the T-1000 in that movie, nor should he see Sharon Stone's character from Basic Instinct. Seeing other film's characters in other unrelated action films was not a common occurrence during that era. And cop action films weren't known for having cartoon characters ala Roger Rabbit in them.

All the bad things about the 90s were evident in Last Action Hero.They were throwing in everything and the kitchen sink.

I was reading an interview with Scott Sanders, the director of Black Dynamite. He said their goal for that film was to make it just 10% more ridiculous than real blaxploitation movies, and it worked.

Last Action Hero though went way beyond that and was just throwing random crap in there to hit audiences over the head with "See, it's not real life!!"

Originally Posted by Jay G.

Harry Potter was the start of building a film franchise by adapting a series of books, although excepting for the final 2-parter, WB never committed to more than one film at a time. The advantage these have is the built-in audience as well as the already constructed story arc, so there's not a temptation to milk the franchise forever (although there is the tendency to split the final book into 2).