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In 1999 a tiny little independent film called The Blair Witch Project was released.
就在1999年，独立电影《女巫布莱尔》一开始只是一部小成本电影。
And it went on to be this smash hit.
不料，电影上映后轰动一时。
It made $250 million dollars worldwide.
该电影在全球斩获了2.5亿美元的票房。
It also got rave reviews. Even from Roger Ebert.
对该电影的评论也是好评如潮，美国第一影评人Roger Ebert也不例外。
He called it “an extraordinarily effective horror film”
他曾评论该电影是一部“无比逼真的恐怖电影”。
It was actually one of the most successful independent films ever made.
事实上，该电影也是有史以来最成功的独立电影之一。
Riding on this success, its sequel, Book of Shadows: Blair Witch II was released just a year later.
继该电影成功之后，一年后，该电影的续集《女巫布莱尔2:影子之书》也上映了。
It was like universally hated by every single critic.
结果，基本上没有一个影评人不讨厌这部续集。
Someone called it "a club footed vomit launch of teen horror cliches"
有人甚至说，该电影“就是一个剧组拍的老掉牙又令人作呕的年轻人恐怖电影”
It was bad. Really bad.
那确实是个烂片，很烂很烂的烂片。
And it got us wondering what are the best and worst sequels of the past 20 years?
我们不禁会想，过去20年最好和最烂的续集都有哪些。
So anytime you google search a film, you’ll immediately be presented with it’s metacritic rating.
只要上谷歌搜索一部电影，第一条就是该电影在metacritic上的评分。
You have all these movie critics all around the united states and they use different systems to review movies.
这些影评人来自不同的地方，他们用来评分的系统也不一致。
Metacritic normalizes these rankings on a 1-100 scale,
Metacritic实行1-100分的评分机制，
putting more weight on critics with more clout.
影响力越大的影评人的影评越被看重。
Zachary, my colleague here, was given a data set of 13,000 films from Metacritic
我在VOX的同事Zachary从Metacritic那里找到了1.3万部电影的资料，
and found every movie with a sequel since 1996. That's 532 films total.
从1996年以来每部有续集的电影都有，一共是532部。
We wanted to know like what were the films that did really really well at the first time around
我们想了解的是那些第一次表现非常非常出色
and then just totally changed the second time around.
但第二次烂得一塌糊涂的那些电影。
In other words, the biggest disappointments.
换句话说，就是那些最让人失望的电影。
That’s where films like Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 comes in.
也就是《女巫布莱尔2:影子之书》那样的电影。
So the original got a score of 81 points.
第一部《女巫布莱尔》在Metacritic上的得分是81分。
You know if you don’t believe in the Blair Witch then why did the hell you bother to come?
我说，你要是不相信女巫布莱尔真的存在，那你干嘛还来？
I thought the movie was cool.
因为我感觉那部电影还不错啊。
The sequel got a score of 15 points. The 66 points less.
该片的续集的Metacritic得分只有15分，比第一部少了66分。
Or take Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, the first Mandarin language film nominated for Best Picture.
我们再来说说首部提名奥斯卡金像奖的华语影片《卧虎藏龙》。
It went on to win Best Foreign Language film.
该片还荣获了奥斯卡最佳外语片奖。
Well, 16 years later, Netflix released a sequel, in English.
然而，16年后，Netflix为该片拍了续集，影片语言变成了英语。
The orginal got a score of 93.
第一部《卧虎藏龙》的得分是93分。
The sequel? So unfortunately it fared much worse.
续集呢？非常不幸，续集的评分比第一部低得多。
Too much blazing flame! It got 47.
与你无关！只有47分。
So on the flip side you have films that did really poorly the first time around
另一方面，也有一些电影第一部表现很差，
and somehow miraculously did better when they were made into a sequel.
但在后来的续集中却奇迹般地好转了。
This is like a really small contingent of all the sequels we looked at.
但在我们所考察的所有这些带续集的电影中，这类电影非常非常少。
Less than 25 of the 532 films were improvements.
一共532部，只有25部电影的续集是在往好的方向发展。
Outside of movies like The Dark Knight and Kill Bill vol 2,
除了《黑暗骑士》和《杀死比尔2》
most of these movies were tremendously bad to begin with.
这类电影第一部大都非常烂。
Like for instance Garfield got a score of 27.
比如《加菲猫》的第一部就只有27分。
Awe good boy! See I knew you could do it if you put your mind to it.
好孩子！我就知道，只要你用心 你就能做到
It’s not that hard to improve on that.
这样的分数要想提高也不是什么难事。
Like Garfield Part 2 got 37 which is still pretty bad.
《加菲猫2》虽然得了37分，但还是很烂。
You are not bad, I'm sure, You've noticed that.
你不差的，我相信，你自己也知道的。
The worst ones fall into 1 of 3 categories.
Metacritic上最烂的影片可以分为三类。
It’s either a horror, comedy, or action film.
要么是恐怖片，要么是喜剧片，要么是动作片。
So I wanted to see is that just a bigger indication of how critics rate those movies.
所以，我就在想，影片的类型是否是影评人评分时最重要的标准。
What I did is like I looked at a randomized selection of 200 films from every single genre on metacritic.
所以我就从Metacritic的每个影片类型里随意选出了200部电影。
And then averaged out the score for each genre.
然后算出了每个影片类型下影片的平均分值。
This chart reveals that the genres with the worst sequels also fair pretty badly amongst critics in general.
从这张图我们可以看出，续集总是扑街的影片类型一般也不大受影评人的喜欢。
Despite all of this, Hollywood loves making them.
尽管如此，好莱坞还是爱出续集，
So much so that this year alone an unprecedented 37 sequels will be released.
数量之多，今年一年就有37部好莱坞续集电影要上映。
The reason? Money.
为什么？圈钱呗。
The average sequel makes 8x the average original release.
一般而言，续集的票房是首部影片票房的8倍之多。
That’s $160,000,000 dollars over the $20,000,000 original.
好莱坞首部影片的票房平均在2000万美元，续集的票房平均就是1.6亿美元。
Grown Ups, the Adam Sandler movie which was rated an abysmal 30% on metacritic received 270 million dollars worldwide.
亚当·桑德勒主演的喜剧《长大后》，评分只有30的烂片，票房却达到了2.7亿美元。
Its sequel, which somehow dropped 11 points still managed 247 million dollars worldwide. It was a box office hit.
该片的续集，评分虽然只有19分，国际票房也有2.47亿美元，甚至还成了票房冠军。
Audiences literally had no reason to give Grown Ups 2 a chance. And yet they did.
这样的烂片，完全不值得观众为其贡献票房。但他们还是贡献了。
Roger Ebert famously said No movie executive was fired because he greenlit a sequel....
在评论该片时，Roger Ebert说了那句名言：没有一个电影制作人会因为出一部续集就被开除……
But movie critics despair of sequels as betraying a lack of imagination and originality.
但影评人对续集已经不抱希望了，觉得续集往往不仅缺乏想象力，还缺乏原创性。
If you have any doubts about how true that is? give Grown Ups 2 a whirl.
要是你不信，看看《长大后2》你就知道了。
