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.
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 aren’t as good but it’s still dinosaurs. I’m entertained for a couple hours and that’s enough.
Jumanji
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.
Alien has been in slow decline but it’s steady, the puppy dog alien of alien:earth was the latest offender.
Also: do we really need so many terminator movies?
Both of those make a strong case for the second one being better than the first.
But yeah, they definitely drop off a cliff.
The Land Before Time
all?
Most all of them?
There is only one Matrix film.
I feel like the matrix 2 is similar to jurassic park 2. Very clearly inferior, but enjoyable enough to not be a complete waste of time.
I’m saying that, I’ll say that JP 2 is better than matrix 2. I’ll happily watch JP 2 again, probably with my kids at some point, but if not then on my own… But I would be happy whether I see matrix 2 again or not.
I very much enjoy Matrix 2… It has some amazing fight scenes (neo vs the vampires), some cool new characters (The Merovingian, the Twins, Persephone, Niobe…) and I think it’s a fun movie, even though it’s clearly not as deep as the first one.
It’s a shame they never released a third one though 🙄
It also has orgasm cake scene which is funny as shit
Didn’t they recently make or announce a new one?
Yeah but it was pretty clear the Wachowskis didn’t want it made and Lana only did it because they would have done it with or without them.
I think I’ve already seen people giving a bad review to the new one a few years ago.
maybe despicable me?
(this is from a Movie critic opinion btw.)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.
If you take each trilogy as a set, sure.
But Empire and Return were both amazing films that one-upped the original.
And I think Clones was better than Phantom.
The final trilogy was a straight fucking cliff both by itself and in comparison to the other trilogies.
Hmm… Kind of a weird take considering the Prequels had no blowing up of any super weapons, and the Sequels had only one, in the first film.
They blow up a huge space ball in Episode I
Well, yeah, but it’s no super weapon, it’s one of thousands of control ships.
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.
Cinderella 3 is amazing though /s. It’s great for a laugh on Halloween.
It would be far more interesting to ask, what movie franchise DOESN’T get worse with each new film.
John Wick? They are not like the best movies in the world but they do get better.
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.
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.
cough alien requeim cough
That’s Aliens vs Predator, not Aliens.
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
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
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
TFATLJ 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.
There can only be one good Highlander movie
I came here for this.
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.
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 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.” 🙄 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.
I think some of the fights just started feeling extra stupid. In particular I’m thinking of the multiple smiths in the park and the final one with him in the rain.
Yeah, the multiple smith fight is the most egregious. Trim that down and take out the most offensive CGI and I feel like Reloaded would have been vastly improved.
As much as I personally love all the over-the-top action, I agree on the first Smith fight in the park. It’s about 3 minutes too long imo.
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.
Eh. A bad movie is a bad movie, regardless of what the footnotes say.
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.
The 2nd and 3rd ones are still fun, action-packed movies with ground-breaking effects. The Matrix set an impossibly high bar and it was not originally planned to be a sequel, let alone a trilogy. They also whipped them together much faster, so in that context, I think they did a great job.
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.
Personally I was surprised that they even allowed it since it was so explicit about it. Lol
Huh. Douglas Adams did something similar when his publisher kept pressuring him to make another Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy book.
“STOP MAKING ME WRITE THESE”
There are four of them ?
unfortunately, yes.
Friend, let me save you a couple of hours and a lot of pain.
There are only 3.
Literally.
The first thing I thought after I finished watching the 4th one, was that it didn’t happen.
The Animatrix was a good take on other parts of the universe.
I’m sorry to be the bearer of bad news but there’s a fifth one in production right now lol.
don’t even get me started on resurections. Holy shit. It is bullshit that that movie is now canon :/
I’m not 100%, but I’m pretty sure Lana undertook it to destroy the series and get the movie studio to stop asking for sequels. It’s like the central theme of the movie.
The latest Gundam series is like that. The GQUUUUX one. “LET THINGS DIE AND MAKE NEW THINGS INSTEAD” says the original Gundam from the original series in the same art style while looking directly into the camera.
It’s obvious if you watch the movie
that would not surprise me
Universal Soldier
