Movies

I think movies thrive or suffer depending on the mindset of who made them. Movies that are created to tell a story thrive, while those that are created only to make money suffer.

When James Cameron created the two canon Terminator movies, he did so to tell a story from an image he saw in a fever dream. T3 and beyond were created by Hollywood to milk a profit from the first two.

When Peter Jackson created the original LOTR trilogy, you could tell how much love he had for it by all the work, detail, and heart that went into each movie. The Hobbit trilogy had great special effects, to be sure, but lacked all the heart the first set had had. Jackson simply made it to milk the cash cow of the original. 

The Rurouni Kenshin trilogy had so much love and thought put into it that it made my heart ache. I could tell that Otomo loved what he was doing and really wanted to breathe life into Kenshin. My only hope is that his heart is still in it with the new Jinchuu Arc movies.