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.
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
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
Ghost Rider. First one was goofy action, but still kinda cool. Second one was boring, confusing and lame. But at least it had an exploding bucket-wheel excavator in it, which was the only good scene.
It would be far more interesting to ask, what movie franchise DOESN’T get worse with each new film.
Alien at least had the second film better than the first, which was a hell of an accomplishment since the first film was great. Fortunately they never even made any movies after the second one.
cough alien requeim cough
That’s Aliens vs Predator, not Aliens.
Come on, now. The third was OK, the fourth was enjoyable, and Romulus was phenomenal. It was basically “let’s take the best bits from Alien and Aliens and stick them together” and they did it brilliantly.
C’mon, killing off Newt and Hicks at the start of the third was unconscionable. It’s in the same category as “somehow, Palpatine returned”.
It’s not even slightly like that.
“Somehow Palpatine returned” is lazy writing forced on them due to Snoke dying in the previous film.
Hicks and Newt dying is perfectly reasonable in the world the action takes place in.
Aliens, Terminator 2, The Dark Knight are the first three that come to mind - but yes, in general sequels tend to be inferior.
John Wick? They are not like the best movies in the world but they do get better.
Or which one gets BETTER with each new film.
star wars up until rise of skywalker
now, im going to put some popcorn in the microwave. be right back
i liked TFA. It was a decent flick. But then they just got so. much. worse.
last jedi is my 2nd favorite
TLJ would’ve been a great third film in a trilogy. It absolutely sucks balls as the second film. It killed practically all the story lines from the first, leaving basically nothing for the third, including the main bad guy. Hux would’ve never been a good “ultimate enemy”, and if Kylo Ren became one, it would completely overturn everything the previous eight films worked on.
them’s fightin’ words.
my popcorn is ready
TFA would’ve been a great third film in a trilogy. It absolutely sucks balls as the second film. It killed practically all the story lines from the first, leaving basically nothing for the third, including the main bad guy. Hux would’ve never been a good “ultimate enemy”, and if Kylo Ren became one, it would completely overturn everything the previous eight films worked on.
TFA is the first…
Oh yeah, woops! My bad! I meant to reply here.
If you go by release date then that can’t be true considering the prequels (even though I love them). TFA was also so bland compared to the rest. The Last Jedi was the only decent one since the original trilogy imo.
But oh my god rise of skywalker is so fucking bad.
rise of skywalker was so terrible they should have let rian johnson just do his thing again, even if people hated it like TLJ at least it would have had some thought put into it
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
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.
Taken 3 makes Taken 2 look like Taken 1.
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
Straight Tooken starring Liam Neesons.
Aw, goo godda ge guckin’ gidding ge!
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.
There can only be one good Highlander movie
Nailed it. The first was awesome, the rest were just terrible.
I don’t know what you are talking about… There was the Highlander movie, and then there was the Highlander tv show. That’s all there ever was.
all of it
Not a film really but Marvel films have been in rapid decline since Avengers 1
For me the peak was Endgame
Infinity war was really good. Endgame was a fucking disaster. It was a horribly written piece of shit that proved to marvel that they could make a ton of money off of complete garbage.
Im just sad that they didn’t take the oppertunity tondo something real cool and give us a film or two within the gap that everything got blipped. It made everything feel hollow and consequenceless.
Jumanji
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.
Apparently he’s got sketches of them in his notebooks going back decades.
I was gonna say, how is this entire thread skipping over the take that Blade 2 is a step down from the first? It’s not the craziest movie take I’ve read on here, but it definitely flies in the face of what I understood to be popular opinion.
Yeah, I thought that was the general consensus too, but I couldn’t be sure that wasn’t just an echo chamber I’d created with my friend group.
In OP’s defense, I checked out both movies’ Letterboxd ratings, and Blade 1 is rated at 3.5 out of 5, and Blade 2 is sitting at 3.3, so maybe it is just an echo chamber thing. That being said, I really believe this was not the case 10, 15 years ago.
Having sat with it for awhile now, I’m kind of coming around on the notion. I’d have to do a back to back viewing to confirm, but my current hypothesis is that Blade 1 is an excellent urban action-horror picture. It does everything you’d expect it to do pretty well. Blade 2, being a product of Guillermo’s interests, has this weird, quasi-Shakespearian family drama between Nomac, lady vampire, and the patriarch serving as the emotional spine of the picture. It’s fine, but I remember a lot more about their dynamics than I remember about Blade’s arc, which is maybe not what you want from a Blade movie. Plus, all the extra vampire lore and whatnot makes the picture feel less like urban action-horror and more like a fantasy film, which just so happens to have guns and the occasional unwitting human. Not bad, but it does feel like a dry run for ideas Guillermo would do better in other movies.
It’s got motherfuckin I Against I by Mos Def in it.
Which franchise doesn’t get worse with each consecutive movie?
Terminator. But not for long.
Remember when Sony fucked up the trailer for Genysis and revealed the twist with John Connor?
No. Any pointer ?
Everything is revealed here. It was so bad Sony pulled it but it was too late as all the information got everywhere
Mad Max. Evil Dead.
The Lord of the Rings
Yeah, the last 3 movies and TV series were amazing right? Like I didn’t fall asleep after 30min of each hobbit movie and the first 2 episodes of the series or anything. I have no recollection of anything that happened in any of those movies, other than that it was massive CGI circle jerk slop.
The Hobbit movies are the Hobbit, not Lord of the Rings
Yeah my bad, completely different universe written by a different author of course.
The lord of the rings trilogy could be a single long movie. I feel like it fits but really isn’t in the spirt of the question.
I feel like it needs to be “First movie was so good, so they made a sequel”
I am of the opinion that Fellowship is the best one, but the sequels are by no means bad.
I think the mainstream opinion is that the two towers is the best. I’m curious, why do you favor the fellowship?
This is a bit rambly, but bear with me. I am very much enamored with the Hobbits and the Shire. Though I prefer the theatrical release (the pacing in that version is perfect), Concerning Hobbits is a fantastic inclusion in the extended version and I love getting that extra time in the Shire. There is a feeling of quaint magic in that movie that isn’t present in the other ones. I like that the film is told from the perspective of Hobbits. It makes the world outside the Shire that much more mysterious and foreboding, some of which I feel is lost when the Fellowship splits up. I think Gandalf the Grey is a vastly more interesting character than Gandalf the White. I personally find underground spaces incredibly fascinating, so everything in Moria is just incredible. That moment where they’re surrounded by goblins and you hear the rumble of the Balrog, and the goblins flee and Gandalf is just, “Run.” Ugh, its got a great sense of terror and is just perfect.
Equalizer series stayed consistent. John wick is probably close enough. Being the same movie over and over isn’t the same as declining.
Bourne series too.
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 thankfully dead Snyderverse
Loved it even if I understand it wasn’t for everybody
