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.
Meanwhile, in 2016…
Nah, Blade 2 still fucks.
Blade Trinity is just as rough now as it was when it first released.
Star wars
Just let characters die.
I’m tempted to say the Rocky series, given Rocky V. But the fact is, III and particularly IV rocked!
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
Taken 3 makes Taken 2 look like Taken 1.
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.
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.
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.
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!
Top gun I guess. Second one was better than first one.
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’d argue the original Evil Dead trilogy get progressively better with each 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.
James Bond. Because each bond had it’s fans.
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.
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 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!
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+
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
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!
All of them and no one can convince me otherwise.
Alien and Terminator have absolutely amazing second films, after that it slides off.
Godfather II
