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.

  • piskertariot@lemmy.world
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    22 days ago

    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+

  • SGforce@lemmy.ca
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    22 days ago

    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

  • jordanlund@lemmy.world
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    22 days ago

    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!

    • Klear@quokk.auEnglish
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      22 days ago

      The upside is that the movie is good and the book is great and one won’t spoil the other.

      • hakase@lemmy.zip
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        21 days ago

        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.

    • FatVegan@leminal.space
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      22 days ago

      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.

      • SharkWeek@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        22 days ago

        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

        • No1@aussie.zone
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          21 days ago

          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.

  • pjwestin@lemmy.world
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    21 days ago

    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.

    • wewbull@feddit.ukEnglish
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      20 days ago

      Apparently he’s got sketches of them in his notebooks going back decades.

    • redhorsejacket@lemmy.world
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      21 days ago

      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.

      • pjwestin@lemmy.world
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        21 days ago

        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.

        • redhorsejacket@lemmy.world
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          20 days ago

          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.

      • Test_Tickles@lemmy.world
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        21 days ago

        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.

    • limer@lemmy.ml
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      22 days ago

      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.

    • Butterphinger@lemmy.zip
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      22 days ago

      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.

  • No_Money_Just_Change@feddit.orgDeutsch
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    21 days ago

    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 5

    • tiramichu@sh.itjust.works
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      21 days ago

      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.

    • fireweed@lemmy.world
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      21 days ago

      I 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.

      • Zahille7@lemmy.world
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        21 days ago

        I see 2 and 3 as one continuous story. Lord Cutler Beckett is basically the personification of capitalism and industrialism. He spends his time killing or taking over these “free” people who all do whatever they want whenever they want with no masters and no one telling them what to do, and subjugating them under the yoke of the changing new world.

        Idk I’m kinda high right now. I like Beckett as a villain, because he represents certain aspects of the human spirit and he is at the end just a dude. He’s not an immortal squid-man and he’s not an undead were-skeleton.

    • pjwestin@lemmy.world
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      21 days ago

      I actually thought 4 was better than 2 and 3. Not that 4 was very good, but I thought 2 and 3 suffered from an attempt to, “trilogize,” the series and make it a grand epic. It was clear by the end of the third movie that they didn’t know where they were going with all of the plot threads they’d set up like Calypso, the Brethren Court, the Jack/Elizabeth/Will love triangle they were hinting at…just way to many ideas and very little payoff. At least 4 told a coherent story in one movie, even if it wasn’t a very good story.

  • CerebralHawks@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    22 days ago

    Anime has entered the chat.

    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.

    • bluesheep@sh.itjust.works
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      22 days ago

      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

    • DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      21 days ago

      Psycho Pass

      Season 1 is one of my favorites sci-fi crime cyberpunks shows …and it just got worse after that…

      I only own S1 Blu-ray and forget the other seasons existed.

  • Inucune@lemmy.world
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    22 days ago

    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.