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.
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.
Toy Story 3 and 4. Far superior to 1 and 2 if you put aside the groundbreaking CG of the first.
Die Hard 3 is arguably the best of the 3.
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
Terminator 2 was better. Ouija 2 was better. Empire strikes back. Back to the future 2.
I can’t think of any more.
Godfather part 2 edges out the original.
Part 3 was a turd.
Mad Max
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
Alien and Aliens. But only because Aliens was deliberately a different genre: so it’s a bit of a stretch.
Sure, but there are like 6 more movies. And they do not get better
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.
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.
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.
I’m of the opinion that the Austin Powers series got better with each film.
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!
Are you trolling? I cant tell, i guess.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
BronsonBrosnan, Moore and Connery are my Bond trifecta.I lost interest after
BrosnanBrosnan and haven’t seen another Bond film since Die Another Day in 2002. I’m cool with it.Is Bronson mistype or did I miss something?
Yeah it’s a typo. I posted this late.
Charles Bronson IS James Bond, to me. He embodied the role.
You should watch Casino Royale, even if you don’t watch the others.
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.
Top gun I guess. Second one was better than first one.
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.