Sequel Better Than The Original

[WhiteTiger]

My wife and I were having a rainy day conversation, and were talking about going to see "Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice". I mentioned that I'd heard that it was pretty good, but most folks felt that it "didn't QUITE" measure up to the original.

My wife quickly stated that it's a very rare sequel that is better than the original, and that set us along a path to figure out which sequels were better. There are a lot of factors to figure in, of course, but...it's an interesting question I thought I'd share here.

We were talking movies, so I only thought of those. We also agreed that 'any' sequel would count, not just a direct sequel, so you could count any of the 8 Rocky sequels, for instance. We also considered release order. So "A New Hope" would be considered the start of Star Wars, and anything after that is a sequel.

I'm curious about folks thoughts on this.

[Erick Estrada]

Empire Strikes Back

[Muta]

Terminator 2: Judgement Day

[OutOfTheCube]

Mad Max did it twice, with The Road Warrior being a superior sequel and Fury Road being the best in the franchise later.

[Cecil Terwilliger]

There’s not many.

X2. T2. Wrath of Khan. Maybe godfather 2 but I prefer the original. Most consider 2 superior though.

I also think Fury Road was better than any of the original mad max movies.

And this is a bit different but Blade Runner the Final Cut is far, far superior to the original and director’s cut.

[Cappy]

There is an argument Back to the Future II is better than the original. It's at least as good.

[getbak]

Toy Story 2.

[KTrain]

Toy Story 2 is better than 1 and Toy Story 3 is better than 2.

Thor: Ragnarok is better than the first 2 (and then they took a few steps back).

[LGA]

Godfather Part II

[ResAlien]

Evil Dead 2

[nik-]

spice level: mild

Aliens

[undercoverbrother]

Originally Posted by OutOfTheCube

Mad Max did it twice, with The Road Warrior being a superior sequel and Fury Road being the best in the franchise later.

I appreciate you leaving Mad Max Thunderdome out of your post

[nfotiu]

Any sequel with Robin Dunne in it.

He had pretty good stretch there with Cruel Intentions 2, American Psycho 2, The Skulls 2, Au Pair 2

[Ped]

Originally Posted by nfotiu

Any sequel with Robin Dunne in it.

He had pretty good stretch there with Cruel Intentions 2, American Psycho 2, The Skulls 2, Au Pair 2

American Psycho 2 had nothing to do with American Psycho, really - they just chose to market it that way.


Full of Canadian actors, though

[Ped]

Final Destination 2
Maybe 5, too
The Dark Knight
Spiderman 2 (with Doc Ock)
X2
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

[FlamesAddiction]

The Dark Knight
Paddington 2
Dawn of the Dead
National Lampoons Christmas Vacation

Does Silence of the Lambs count as a sequel? Or is it like a James Bond thing where the movies have the same characters but stand alone for the most part?

[Puppet Guy]

Superman II
Bride of Frankenstein

[PepsiFree]

This thread is making me think that sequels are actually better than the original pretty often.

[Cali Panthers Fan]

Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers...but it's close.

[undercoverbrother]

Originally Posted by PepsiFree

This thread is making me think that sequels are actually better than the original pretty often.

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