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.
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.
Nah, Blade 2 still fucks.
Blade Trinity is just as rough now as it was when it first released.
John Wick.
Also Star Wars, but they had at least three good movies.
Marvel movies.
I’ll grant you Marvel, but the end of JW4 was epic.
The actual question should be: which doesn’t?
The planet of the apes movies, it’s a trilogy and actually very good
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.
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
Saw. The first one is a brilliant psychological horror movie. The rest drift more towards body horror, but each one gets worse and dumber than the previous one (except maybe Saw X, the last one)
Highlander. The first is cheesy but fairly enjoyable, and all the sequels go downhill in fascinatingly bad ways. Unfortunately, I’d like to find the theatrical version of Highlander 2: The Quickening, because I like bad movies and the renegade cut cuts some of the bad
Pretty much all of them. Successful first movie, sequels that repeat the formula while entirely missing the point.
I agree, there are a few sequels I liked on their own merits. But the majority of the ones are just as you said.
That said, I have a weakness for space ship drama. Can’t be too much of that. So some sequels really don’t need much of a plot, rhyme or reason. I’ll spend my money on them.
Aliens.
Transformers, the Bay ones.
You can argue that the very first one was an honest attempt. But things immediately goes down hill once you get to Revenge of the Fallen. And it just doubles down and doubles down every entry that you would think it is a contest of how many stupid ideas can they get away with and do get away with per entry. I got off at Dark of the Moon because I’ve seen enough stupid that I didn’t care of the other ones.
The Hobbit Trilogy
If you continued on, like I did, into the trilogy of this series, you’ll know. An unnecessary, shoe-horned angle of a dwarf and a elf affection. I don’t need to say more.
I enjoyed the 4 hour Hobbit fanedit though I cannot remember which, or the name
Tbh, the first Transformers is one of my favorite watch-it-when-it-rains-blockbuster, the story is not that bad and the score is just perfect.
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.
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.
Sure, but there are like 6 more movies. And they do not get better
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.
Alien and Aliens. But only because Aliens was deliberately a different genre: so it’s a bit of a stretch.
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.
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.
Top gun I guess. Second one was better than first one.
I’m of the opinion that the Austin Powers series got better with each film.
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
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.
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
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.
I’d argue the original Evil Dead trilogy get progressively better with each movie.
Theres an argument that The Godfather Pt 2 is the best of the 3
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 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.
Tron. It ends with tossing out the one before and letting Jared Leto get his stink all over it.
Marvel Cinematic Universe should have stopped sometime before Phase 4 (Eternals, Black Widow, Wakanda Forever, Multiverse of Madness).
The Matrix should have ended at 1.
The Jason Bourne movies should have ended when Jason Bourne’s story was concluded, without extending it to Aaron Cross’s story, played by Jeremy Renner.
Endgame was iconic, genuinely fun and an incredible accomplishment. I would love to have ended there, even have the spiderman movie to show the repurcussions and coking to terms with what happened and showing that the universe continues. It would be a great cap to end with what ended up being a spiderman origin film.
I liked Loki and a few others, could have been considered spinoffs in the vein of dealing with the aftermath.
Then reboot
The Matrix should have ended at 1.
1000000000000%.
It was supposed to be.
They wanted to make 3 movies but they were told to do one so they squished it into a single movie. When it did really well they were told they could make the other two and they had to come up with new stories.
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.
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
Oh my, I watched one of the newer ones once and it was awful.
I’m tempted to say the Rocky series, given Rocky V. But the fact is, III and particularly IV rocked!
