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 would argue that Blade II is the better movie. Guillermo del Toro is a much more interesting director, and the Reapers are basically a dry run for his take on Vampires in The Strain.
JP went from a Dinosaur Movie to a very generic monster movie with the exact same plot every time.
Greedy evildoer wants SuperDino for nefarious purposes and must be defeated. Repeat.
The Matrix.
Not sure how that isn’t mentioned yet!
First movie was a masterpiece that became a classic, the rest were completely unnecessary.
When my brother showed The Matrix to his kid, she asked “Is there another one?” and he said “No.”
I can respect the fourth one. Sure, it was a terrible movie but it feels like a deliberate piss take on the idea of reviving the franchise. And I can respect that.
The thankfully dead Snyderverse
Loved it even if I understand it wasn’t for everybody
Pirates of the carabian.
The first was a masterpiece in comedy.
The second and third were good but I would still rate them slightly worse each gen.
I am indifferent to 4 and hate 5I thought 3 was a deal better than 2. 2 was generic Hollywood schlock that dragged in the middle; 3 at least attempted some interesting things, and even bordered on artsy at times.
1 was, of course, the best. Haven’t seen 4 and 5.
The first movie was a complete package that told a story well, and where it ended was the right place to end it all.
But of course, money.
Really tarnished my feelings about the first movie and I don’t think I could even watch it the same way anymore.
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I’ve always thought that the series should’ve ended at the 5th movie.
Serenity.
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Tokyo Ghoul. Amazing first season. Body horror, depression, and zombie stuff all rolled into one. Masterpiece. Season 2 came out ahead of the rest of the books and it sucked. Seasons 3 and 4 adapted the second book series, but they speed ran it and only hit highlights and it was confusing AF.
Promised Neverland. Also amazing first season. Thriller with children trying to escape an orphanage that has a dark secret (revealed in first episode). They had like 5-7 seasons’ worth of content and started to do a second season, but the funding (and creativity!) ran out so they speed ran the rest of the manga, and it was so bad, the directors had their names taken off the billing.
“Second season when?” has become a trope due to so many with excellent first seasons followed by terrible ones. Attack on Titan almost counts. First season was awesome, we called it Japan’s answer to The Walking Dead when TWD was decent. Second season took 4 years and sucked, but season 3 more than made up for it. Season 4, “the final season,” “the final season part 2,” “the final season for realz this time”, “the final season trust us we can see the finish line” and “the final chapters” sucked, though.
Is AoT actually finished and released at this point? I stopped watching after the final season part 1 because I felt so betrayed and said to myself I’d only ever watch it again when I can actually finish the storyline
You should watch it, it’s awesome and the ending is better than the manga. Not perfect but improved to be good enough
Yeah the last episode came out in November '23
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.
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.
Best GB since the original. Blows #2 or any of the other modern ones out of the water by a long shot.
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 thought John Wick maintained the same level through all the sequels.
Also, you’re telling me that Thor (1) is better than Infinity War?
I’ll grant you Marvel, but the end of JW4 was epic.
The actual question should be: which doesn’t?
I haven’t seen fourth, but Kung fu Panda was one of the best trilogies ever.
I haven’t seen Toy Story 4 yet but the original trilogy was awesome
- The Lord of the Rings was very consistent. Many people think that Return of the King is the best one.
- Knives Out had a rather disappointing second part but the third one is amazing.
Yeah, that’s all I can think of right now.
Glass Onion was disappointing?
Lord of the Rings barely counts, because not only were all three books out and classics before the movies started (obviously), but the three movies were basically worked on at the same time. It’s nuts, but somehow they managed to do it.
So it’s not like they released the first, got crazy hype, and then phoned everyone up and said “electric Boogaloo, you in?”. They’d already shot most of the second and third by the time the first came out, as I recall.
Also I really liked Glass Onion 😛
Like bttf 1 and 2 where filmed back to back and then released a year apart from each other. That was ambitious. Nothing based on books or prior proof. They just knew they had such a banger they did 2 movies right out of the gate.
2 and 3, not 1 and 2
Well fuck
Knives Out 2 is by far my favorite and I love all three. I’ve only laughed that hard at a movie a handful of times.
My main criticism about Glass Onion is that the twist only works because Blanc knows something from the start that the audience can’t really figure out on their own. I prefer detective stories where the main character has the same opportunities to gather information as I have and if I pay close enough attention, I can figure out most of what happened before the big reveal.
But I’m glad that you liked it. Shows that the series caters to different tastes.
Terminator 2 is always the classic example, been downhill since then though
The planet of the apes movies, it’s a trilogy and actually very good
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)
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.
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.
