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.
The thankfully dead Snyderverse
Loved it even if I understand it wasn’t for everybody
Taken 3 makes Taken 2 look like Taken 1.
Straight Tooken starring Liam Neesons.
Aw, goo godda ge guckin’ gidding ge!
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
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+
Oh my, I watched one of the newer ones once and it was awful.
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
You forgot Home Alone: Fallout (the Macaulay comeback)
Rome Alone
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
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.
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.
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.
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
Animatrix is cool as fuck tho
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.
Resident Evil, Underworld
Did you all know that there are three Sandlot movies? Oh, and the third involves time travel.
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
Land Before Time
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!
Pirates of the Caribbean, I turned the last one off after 15 minutes
For some reason as a kid one of the two original sequels was too fantastical for me. I rememer coming with a group a birthday party and saying how it seemed less realistic.
Like it never was realistic, skeletons captaining a boat and such but damn one of them took me out of the vibe I guess.
I thought Dead Man’s Chest was mostly as good as the first one, but after that — meh.
Yeah, #2 and #3 I actually liked (I think of them as one movie split in two episodes), #4 I managed to endure the Disney™ Silliness™ til the end, but #5 was way too much right from the start
Pretty much all of them. Successful first movie, sequels that repeat the formula while entirely missing the point.
Aliens.
Was one of the few exceptions to this for a long time.
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.
All of them.
