The first Jurassic Park movie is all time one of the greatest films ever made with the special effects still holding up to this day. The 2nd film was still very enjoyable in my opinion but it was just a cookie cutter sequel not bad, not good. The 3rd film wasn’t great at all. But compared to the rest of the series the 3rd film is basically the godfather.
As another personal pick the 1st blade movie is a hood classic good. The other 2 not so much.
Not a film really but Marvel films have been in rapid decline since Avengers 1
For me the peak was Endgame
Infinity war was really good. Endgame was a fucking disaster. It was a horribly written piece of shit that proved to marvel that they could make a ton of money off of complete garbage.
Im just sad that they didn’t take the oppertunity tondo something real cool and give us a film or two within the gap that everything got blipped. It made everything feel hollow and consequenceless.
Desperado?
Was pretty popular when it came out but I haven’t heard a peep about it since. The first movie “El Mariachi” was low budget af
Machete.
Machete was masterpiece.
Machete Kills was so bad that it killed the franchise.
So Machete Kills did exactly what it promised, it sounds like!
Guardians of the Galaxy, The Hangover, Star Wars, The Fast and the Furious, there are so many. Once that cash cow starts squirting powdered milk out of its teats they just keep squeezing.
See, The Hangover is hard to categorize like that, because it’s the same movie every time.
Guardians, absolutely. First was brilliant, second starts to fall to Marvel tropes, and by the third I just couldn’t wait for it to be over.
I really like guardians. At least when it came out. And i dislike everythimg CP is in generally. But it kinda works. I love the colourful space, the places they go, the aliens, the humor is barable, because it’s not overplayed yet. The rest of the franchise feels like it was written by AI that scraped twitter to see what people who also like minions liked about it.
Taken 3 makes Taken 2 look like Taken 1.
People talk about Taken like it’s a good movie. I saw it recently for the first time, and just the fact that they tried to make the protagonist scary and capable is just hilarious to me. Yeah okay let’s pretend he can run and fight, as a goof.
I also dont care for any of the John Wick movies. ¯_(ツ)_/¯
The fight scenes with Keanu kill it for me. Besides the complete absence of plot and characters.
I can’t help but think of Steven Seagal fighting guys who are just flipping themselves.
I loved the first one - thank goodness he saved his daughter and got her back to the safety of the good ol USA!
It was like a 1.5 hour long ioke with that as the punchline
Straight Tooken starring Liam Neesons.
Aw, goo godda ge guckin’ gidding ge!
Home Alone
Home Alone: In New York
Home Alone: No Macauly
Home Alone: There’s a fourth one?
Home Alone 5.
Home Sweet Home Alone: Exclusive to Disney+
You forgot Home Alone: Fallout (the Macaulay comeback)
Rome Alone
2 Home 2 Alone
The Home Alonity
Home Alone: The Movie
Home Single Rated-X
KISS saves Home Alone
Home Alone meets The Blue Falcon and Wondermutt
the list goes on, lotta spinoffs
Oh my, I watched one of the newer ones once and it was awful.
Land Before Time
Terminator? T2 is regarded as that franchise’s best flick and it’s only downhill from T3 onward.
Robocop as a franchise also infamously went down the toilet after the first movie, each sequel degraded in quality until the complete mess that was Robocop 3 happened.
Evil Dead, Evil Dead 2, Army of Darkness.
Do these count as a counterexample?
2013 slaps you shut your whore mouth! /s
Also Evil Dead is something that has never had a bad iteration. Fight me.
The 2013 one is fine, but to say it’s better than the originals is a bit of a reach.
To me they’re not sequels maybe that’s the difference. Raimi has been open about handing young directors the keys to see what their vision is. If anything I view ED as more of an anthology at this point all the same and yet all different
Is there any what gets better? There are good sequels, but once it becomes movie franchise, it all turns to shit. Sometimes faster, sometimes slower.
Terminator 2 was better. Ouija 2 was better. Empire strikes back. Back to the future 2.
I can’t think of any more.
Alien and Aliens. But only because Aliens was deliberately a different genre: so it’s a bit of a stretch.
Indiana Jones got better and better for the first 3. Then dumb.
If the Cornetto trilogy counts I think hot fuzz was the peak.
Terminator 2 was better.
I see this view everywhere all the time, but personally I strongly disagree. Terminator 2 is good no doubt, but the original had a sense of dread and urgency literally from start to finish that is unmatched in any of the sequels, in my opinion.
Terminator 2 is the perfect sequel - expands on the original and shakes things up while maintaining the general feel. I don’t think it would be as highly praised if it wasn’t a followup on the first movie. It would still be a great movie in a vacuum, though, don’t get me wrong.
As such, it’s pretty hard to compare the movies, it will always come down to personal taste.
OK it’s worth a rewatch then
Sure, but there are like 6 more movies. And they do not get better
Mad Max
I’m sure there are people who will argue that Back to the Future Part II was the worst of the trilogy. Part III might be the best.
I can agree that part 3 might be the best one as an adult, but as a child that flying DeLorean and hoverboard was the shit in part 2 even though it did have a darker tone.
Here I was thinking the OG is where it’s at. TIL
Definitely terminator 2. As well as the original Star Wars trilogy and back to the future trilogy are the few that I consider good all the way through.
Spiderman 2 was arguably better than Spiderman 1. 3 was worse tho.
And being extremely malicious, I like two towers and return of the king more than the fellowship of the ring :)
I’d argue the original Evil Dead trilogy get progressively better with each movie.
I’m of the opinion that the Austin Powers series got better with each film.
Are you trolling? I cant tell, i guess.
Yeah, 2 was just 1 again, with all the same jokes but in reverse. But 3 was legitimately different and better, so it saved the whole thing!
Not a fan of the Scream movies, but just saw a video of a guy talking about how each one gets better than the last one mainly because they are self aware of being sequels and use that to enrich the narrative
Guessing from the reviews on Scream 3 and Scream VII, I’d say there are exceptions.
James Bond. Because each bond had it’s fans.
Bronson, Moore and Connery are my Bond trifecta.
I lost interest after Brosnan and haven’t seen another Bond film since Die Another Day in 2002. I’m cool with it.
You should watch Casino Royale, even if you don’t watch the others.
Charles Bronson IS James Bond, to me. He embodied the role.
Is Bronson mistype or did I miss something?
Yeah it’s a typo. I posted this late.
Evil Dead, at least for me. I enjoyed the first movies but absolutely love Army of Darkness.
The James Bond franchise gets better over time arguably. It has ups and downs, but I definitely wouldn’t say it’s downward trend overall.
Mad Max.
Toy Story 3 and 4. Far superior to 1 and 2 if you put aside the groundbreaking CG of the first.
Dark Knight
It being filmed together is it being a 6+ hour movie in 3 chapters. I think it’s a single project not successive films. Just how I frame it, I concede to technicalities if you must
I watched them back to back once and can confirm. They work perfectly as a single long movie.
So long as you can put yourself in the headspace, the fast and furious movies do get better when you realize that every movie is the exact same film (besides Tokyo drift anyway), but with higher stakes than the last one, to kind of absurd levels - starts with street racing, ends up in space, through so many movies.
But that’s kind of a meta analysis based on what they are, not the actual quality, none of them are amazing, but fine if you can turn your brain off for a bit
Not true at all.
Theres an argument that The Godfather Pt 2 is the best of the 3
Sister Act 2
Franchises where the second film is more broadly acclaimed than the first: Star Wars, The Godfather, The Dark Knight, arguably Alien, Terminator, Star Trek, Paddington, Rocky, James Bond, The Pink Panther, Mad Max. Ones where the third film is the most acclaimed: arguably Indiana Jones, maybe Toy Story, LOTR (kind of all a merged movie so doesn’t count), The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, Star Wars prequels
Ouija 2 Origin of Evil by Mike Flannigan is the rare exception where the sequel trounced the OG in every way.
The Librarian also all three movies are good, with the third being arguably the best.
so most franchises usually have a product Decline?
The Sergio Leone trilogy with Clint Eastwood arguably gets better. The first one was almost a shot-for-shot remake of Yojimbo - good but derivative. The third movie stood up well against the early ones and the music was maybe the best.
Die Hard 3 is arguably the best of the 3.
Top gun I guess. Second one was better than first one.
Tron, if you care about the music. Going from peak (Wendy Carlos) to peak (Daft Punk) to peak (Nine Inch Nails) even if the movies are bad.
All of them.
Star wars
Just let characters die.
Long ago, in a galaxy far away…
…in this specific area, only pertaining to these 2-3 groups of people and no one else, anywhere else, ever despite there being an entire galaxy to fuck about in and about 20k years worth of lore.
Which is why I liked Andor and especially Acolyte so much. Finally a new perspective.
Did you all know that there are three Sandlot movies? Oh, and the third involves time travel.
All of them and no one can convince me otherwise.
Alien and Terminator have absolutely amazing second films, after that it slides off.
Empire strikes back too
Star Trek? (Specifically the original series movies)
Godfather II
I felt bad for Lost World, because Crighton went out of his way to write a novel that was a sequel to the first movie, not the first book, and then Spielberg just basically ignored it like it never happened.
I wanted to not see the chameleon dinosaurs, damn it!
The upside is that the movie is good and the book is great and one won’t spoil the other.
I thought the book was fine - it felt a lot more annoying to read than the first book for some reason. I was so tired of the baby T-Rex by the end.
