Sequels that are better than the first ones.

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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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