Sequels that are better than the first ones.

Firsted: Curse of the Cat People, For A Few Dollars More, Desperado, Toy Story 2
Seconded: Addams Family Values
Thirded: T2, um Gremlins 2

Godzilla vs. the Smog Monster > Godzilla vs. King Kong.

More recently Blade 2 splattered the first one with that super vamp thing Joss Whedon copied.

I agree with this. II is exactly the same as I, except he wins. I like III, when he's taken over Hulk Hogan's knee like a pansy.

And I second the vote for the Bond films.

How about the Benji movies?

And damn, now I'm craving a sushi dinner followed by a viewing of Lethal Weapon II.

They have a different sequence for the TV version.

Toy Story 2 seconded, as is Drunken Master II.

They better hurry up before 1984 ends. Oh.

SUPERMAN II

my man. poster of it in my bathroom.
u hear about the 'green' edition anthony? some hardcore '..2' fans are putting together a version without dick lester's scenes, extra footage they found etc.

heh he probably doesn't even come on this board anynore.

other votes:

'lethal wepaon 2' yes agreed.
'empire strikes back' obviously
'naked gun 2' also.

"Admit you love Superman II, inhabitants of planet Houston, and I will alow you to live."

Here's a graph that shows how much better or worse sequels were as compared to the original:

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I don't get the idea on this thread that Babe: Pig In The City is superior. Maybe if what you like in a movie is wacky set design and the potential for drinking games based on 'spot the background goth' it is the better movie.

After the Thin Man

Boxer's Omen is way way way better than Bewitched.

I like Once Upon A Time In China 2 and 3 better than the original.

Exorcist 3 >>>>>>> Exorcist 2 btw

Well, yeah.

I'd have much more time for an 'Exorcist 3 > Exorcist 1' argument than the insane 'Exorcist 2 > Exorcist 1 (or much of anything)' argument Alfred has put forward.

On the horror front, I have basically zero time for any of the Child's Play films with 'Child's Play' in the title but I think all of the subsequent Child's Play films with 'Chucky' in the title are good-to-great.

child’s play 2 is great but otherwise you’re right

I was 13 when Raiders came out, I hadn't seen the antecedents!

well Morbius was 13 when Stagecoach came out, so you can understand why he feels this way

child’s play 2 is great but otherwise you’re right

(& I was like yep that looks like a brad opinion, checks out)

Rocky iii ✓✓✓✓✓✓✓

Wrath Of Khan was my first ever in-cinema experience of looking at my watch at the end credits and being flatly baffled as to where 2 hours had gone. i don't just mean 'oh it flies by!' i mean literally dumbstruck and perplexed that time could even move so fast. i was only a kid but even today it seems to have incredible pacing, i think partly it's because Khan actually takes a time (half an hour maybe?) before he even rocks up. it's a *masterpiece* of structure.

Problem Child 2 probably is the best of the trilogy btw

Iron Man 3 is much more fun the first two, how did it get to be divisive? Is it the Kingsley stuff?

I think a lot of people have issue with that plot twist, yeah - I personally thought it was great, the idea of a 'created enemy' fascinates me and is something I can totally buy if it is done well (which I thought it was here).
In this case, there will always be comic book fans who are disappointed that they didn't get the villain closer to the source material. (For those, there's a must-see one-shot special with Kingsley called All Hail The King, which is included on the Thor 2 Blu-ray.)
But I think a problem for many was that Guy Pearce's Aldritch Killian wasn't an impressive enough main villain.

I've also more than once heard people having problems with the final battle, for being too CGI-heavy and/or because Tony couldn't get access to his armor for so long, his entire house is destroyed and then is suddenly and conveniently able to call on an armor-army from an undamaged storage section in the end. But he needed to re-establish contact beforehand & the storage was pretty much a vault, I personally don't doubt that he couldn't have done so earlier.

I love the movie and I personally even prefer it over the first Iron Man, I've seen acclaim, but I know I've often seen people list it low as well.

Amazon recently recommended me the Home Alone box set. There are five of those films but I was only aware of three.

Problem Child 2 probably is the best of the trilogy btw

take it to the controversial opinions thread buddy

Amazon recently recommended me the Home Alone box set. There are five of those films but I was only aware of three.

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daniel dild-shoeis to thread

Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey

PB2 is the one where Junior says "Can we go home now? These people are dicks" and so is clearly the best

also I can't remember which one they overkill the "Bad to the Bone" hook in, that's p great

also Gilbert Gottfried's character becomes a maniacal dentist

After the Thin Man

I must protest; the Thin Man franchise is my go-to example of diminishing returns.

The second one is the best iirc

I've never seen any of the Problem Child films (and probably never will), but the episode of Gilbert Gottfried's podcast with the writers of those films (Scott Alexander and
Larry Karaszewski--who would go on to write Ed Wood and The People vs. Larry Flynt) has some great behinds-the-scenes stuff on how the second film in that series, in particular, came to be.

gremlins 2

yes for real even though Gremlins 1 is a classic Gremlins 2 is so good