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.
I pray the Spaceballs sequel will be good and i’m not even religious
They already fucked up the name so we’ll see
Most all of them?
Serenity.
I’m tempted to say the Rocky series, given Rocky V. But the fact is, III and particularly IV rocked!
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I’ve always thought that the series should’ve ended at the 5th movie.
It should have ended at the -1th movie
I joke. I ironically love those films because they are terrible.
Nobody likes the tuna here, asshole!
The first movie was serious, but as they progress they lean in on the silliness. Going to space was the cherry on the cake.
The goddamn spinoff dealing with a rogue supersoldier, and the two leads basically being superhuman already.
I only watched a couple minutes, but that was more than I could handle.
Mad Max?
1 - OK as a prelude 2 - Brilliant 3 - … 4 - Not bad, not bad at all 5 - The Furiosa one was too much CGI. I was far too annoyed by how the vehicles had armour but exposed tyres
I think the mad max movies are like the James Bond’s movies were every other movie is good.
Idk, 1 and 3 are the worst ones and imo 4 is the best. Even in your list it’s not exactly a decline.
I would have to say Resident Evil
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
Terminator. First was great. Two was a masterpiece. Third was mid. Rest is an utter garbage
Same with alien
Romulus is phenomenal. If you haven’t already, I do recommend watching it. Through the whole thing I felt like I’m watching the best bits of Alien and Aliens stitched together.
Alien 1 vs Alien 2 is such an interesting split. The first is so full of dread and so claustrophobic. The second is like an action horror movie. The vision of Ridley Scott and James Cameron couldn’t be more different but both are great movies.
Imo that’s exactly why the Allen franchise is/was so great. Each movie was something different, with a different director.
I really don’t know what went wrong so hard with Alien 4. On technical side it was amazing. Acting was great with so many stars. The plot was so bad tho, I still can’t believe they greenlighted such a horrible writing.
I really enjoyed the Dark Watsit, the one with Mackenzie Davis.
Same with Nolan’s Batman
Ghostbusters. Some late 80’s exec in tv and film was obsessed with putting babies in everything and the second movie got shanked in a dark alley by them.
Meanwhile, in 2016…
2016 was great. Unpopular opinion, but true.
Best GB since the original. Blows #2 or any of the other modern ones out of the water by a long shot.
I am an unabashed fan of Ghostbusters 2016. The scene with Holtzmann and the pistols gives me tingles. Kevin is just a gem.
I don’t know, I see it as a missed opportunity.
A cast I genuinely adore let down by some poor directing choices and a fairly limp script.
Everyone deserved a better film than that.
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
Nah, Blade 2 still fucks.
Blade Trinity is just as rough now as it was when it first released.
There is only one Matrix film.
Didn’t they recently make or announce a new one?
I think I’ve already seen people giving a bad review to the new one a few years ago.
I feel like the matrix 2 is similar to jurassic park 2. Very clearly inferior, but enjoyable enough to not be a complete waste of time.
I’m saying that, I’ll say that JP 2 is better than matrix 2. I’ll happily watch JP 2 again, probably with my kids at some point, but if not then on my own… But I would be happy whether I see matrix 2 again or not.
I very much enjoy Matrix 2… It has some amazing fight scenes (neo vs the vampires), some cool new characters (The Merovingian, the Twins, Persephone, Niobe…) and I think it’s a fun movie, even though it’s clearly not as deep as the first one.
It’s a shame they never released a third one though 🙄
It also has orgasm cake scene which is funny as shit
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.
Die Hard 3 is arguably the best of the 3.
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.
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.
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!
Theres an argument that The Godfather Pt 2 is the best of the 3
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.
I’d argue the original Evil Dead trilogy get progressively better with each movie.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Sister Act 2
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 :)
so most franchises usually have a product Decline?
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.
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.
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.
OK it’s worth a rewatch then
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.
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.
Here I was thinking the OG is where it’s at. TIL
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.
Sure, but there are like 6 more movies. And they do not get better
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.
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Indiana Jones got better and better for the first 3. Then dumb.
If the Cornetto trilogy counts I think hot fuzz was the peak.
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
Top gun I guess. Second one was better than first one.
Toy Story 3 and 4. Far superior to 1 and 2 if you put aside the groundbreaking CG of the first.
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