CREDIT: SONY PICTURES
Nothing against Milla Jovovich, but how many Resident Evil movies are we going to be subjected to?

Am I the only one who remembers a time when you could go to a movie theatre, be enchanted by the story you saw on the screen and leave desperately longing for more? Am I also the only one who has noticed that when you actually get more — a lot more — the magic starts to wear off?

When I was a teenager and watched Alien for the first time, I thought it was fantastic! It was creepy, it was deeply unsettling and I wanted more! Then I watched Aliens, which was still phenomenal, then Alien 3, which took a sharp turn for the worse, and then finally Alien: Resurrection, which was, by all accounts, terrible. Then this year came Prometheus. I know, I know, it wasn't "officially" an Alien prequel, but whether it was labeled that way or not, it had the same aliens, the same ship and was on the same planet. That spells "prequel" pretty clearly.

Don't get me wrong, I thought Prometheus was a well-done flick. It's just that I didn't get that same sense of unsettling shock when the aliens started to attack the crew. Seeing face-huggers just isn't the same when you've seen them a dozen times before.

The same rings true for the Resident Evil franchise. The first film — and even the second film to a lesser degree — were enjoyable pieces of zombie-infused cinema. But now, with the fifth flick in the series hitting theatres, I have to ask, do we really need to see Alice fight the Umbrella Corporation for the umpteenth time?

I understand that film studios like to take an idea that works and run with it; they think this will make them the big bucks. But when you look back on the most popular (and by "popular," I of course mean profitable) films in cinema, they prove to be original. Well, okay, Avatar wasn't all that original, but at least it wasn't Avatar 17. Gone With the Wind is still the highest grossing film of all time, not Gone with the Wind V: Rhett's Revenge. The same sentiment applies to Titanic, which holds its own in terms of box office totals, being that it was an original film, not a second-in-the-series type of film.

My point is this: I am sick of seeing so many sequels. Yes, The Hangover was funny. The fact that in The Hangover 2 the characters all acknowledged it was literally the same story again did not redeem the overdone plot. I miss longing to see more of a story; I miss having a little something left up to my imagination.

Maybe it's just me. Maybe I'm just old school. Maybe I just like wondering what Ilsa's life was like when she left Casablanca and not having it waved in my face. I'll tell you one thing, though; I will be glad to see the day when the film industry finds its creative juices again and can make more original flicks and fewer follow-ups.