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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 wasnβt 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.
The Matrix.
Not sure how that isn't mentioned yet!
First movie was a masterpiece that became a classic, the rest were completely unnecessary.
When my brother showed The Matrix to his kid, she asked "Is there another one?" and he said "No."
I can respect the fourth one. Sure, it was a terrible movie but it feels like a deliberate piss take on the idea of reviving the franchise. And I can respect that.
I'm glad I'm not the only one thinking that. It was so bad, so so bad... But yeah I couldn't help but feel the wachowski sister that did it (if I'm not wrong the other one didn't participate) just dit it to spite the studio for trying to make a moneygrab movie.
Having said that, despite the 2nd and 3rd movies not being great by any means compared to the first one, I do still enjoy them, like a guilty pleasure kinda thing.
IIRC in the first half hour they explicitly shit talk the execs wanting a sequel so it's quite obvious it's a middle finger to Warner bros.
The Animatrix was a good take on other parts of the universe.
I saw the original Matrix like once and never watched the sequels, so I sat down and watched them all recently. The hate for the sequels is way overblown. Apart from the bad CGI in the second, I thought they were great sequels that took the story in interesting directions.
The problem I have with the Matrix sequels...1. they're too far up their own ass. The original was a little up its own ass but it was up the part of its own ass that mattered for the story it was telling. Reloaded and Revelations are up their whole ass. "Love is a word." π 2. The original is a very straightforward hero's journey in which deciding to answer the call is the ultimate key to the hero's power. The sequels are about fate and inevitability and how basically no decision can ever matter. So we're sorry to have bothered you.
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.
I'm of the opinion that the Austin Powers series got better with each film.
It would be far more interesting to ask, what movie franchise DOESN'T get worse with each new film.
Aliens, Terminator 2, The Dark Knight are the first three that come to mind - but yes, in general sequels tend to be inferior.
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.
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Fast and Furious Franchise
Jumanji
Any of the classic Disney animated movies. First movie is a ripoff of classic fairy tales so most of the heavy lifting writing wise was done for them, the instant Disney has to write the whole thing is when it goes to shit. If it's "Disney presents [insert fairy tale here] 2" you know it'll suck.
honestly, star wars. I'm a HUGE star wars fan, but they're the same movie repeatedly. blow up death star, blow up bigger death star. blow up BIGGEST death star. BAM. 9 movies.
The actual question should be: which doesn't?
Yeah, that's all I can think of right now.
Lord of the Rings barely counts, because not only were all three books out and classics before the movies started (obviously), but the three movies were basically worked on at the same time. It's nuts, but somehow they managed to do it.
So it's not like they released the first, got crazy hype, and then phoned everyone up and said "electric Boogaloo, you in?". They'd already shot most of the second and third by the time the first came out, as I recall.
Also I really liked Glass Onion π
Most all of them?
Which franchise doesn't get worse with each consecutive movie?
The Land Before Time
John Wick.
Also Star Wars, but they had at least three good movies.
Marvel movies.
At this point Jurassic Park movies are whatever. The first one is awesome, the sequels disappoint.
I was like 9 when Jurassic Park came out. My impression of any movie will never be topped simply due being a jaded old man now. The Jurassic World movies arenβt as good but itβs still dinosaurs. Iβm entertained for a couple hours and thatβs enough.
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
maybe despicable me?
(this is from a Movie critic opinion btw.)
Saw. The first one is a brilliant psychological horror movie. The rest drift more towards body horror, but each one gets worse and dumber than the previous one (except maybe Saw X, the last one)
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!
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.
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.
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+
Tron. It ends with tossing out the one before and letting Jared Leto get his stink all over it.
Marvel Cinematic Universe should have stopped sometime before Phase 4 (Eternals, Black Widow, Wakanda Forever, Multiverse of Madness).
The Matrix should have ended at 1.
The Jason Bourne movies should have ended when Jason Bourne's story was concluded, without extending it to Aaron Cross's story, played by Jeremy Renner.
Nah, Blade 2 still fucks.
Blade Trinity is just as rough now as it was when it first released.
