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Sequels as good as the original

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5810Singer

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Can anyone think of any sequels that were as good as or better than the movies they followed?

This ain't a great start, but.....Bill And Ted's Bogus Journey is at least as good as Excellent Adventure.


I'm sure you can all think of better ones.
 
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Hmm, good question.

I'd suggest that the second Italian Job was pretty good. The chase sequence of the first couldn't be equalled, but I enjoyed the film. And of course it had a certain miss Theron in it :D

I'd argue that Casino Royal was as good as any Bond before it.

Hmm, probably loads, but not sure atm.
 
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Squawk said:
Hmm, good question.

I'd suggest that the second Italian Job was pretty good. The chase sequence of the first couldn't be equalled, but I enjoyed the film. And of course it had a certain miss Theron in it :D

I'd argue that Casino Royal was as good as any Bond before it.

Hmm, probably loads, but not sure atm.
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Hmm, Bond films...I forgot about franchise series films, I'm not sure that they should count.

On the same tack do "re-imagined" or "retconned" movies really count as sequels?
After all it wasn't called "The Italian Job 2", they tried to forget the original and start from scratch, just like Star Trek and Halloween.
 
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I'd say Casino Royal staring Daniel Craig was much better then Casino Royal staring David Niven and Peter Sellers, though not technically a sequel.


I'd say Superman 2, and Star Trek 2 were both better then their original movies
 
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As good or better? :)

I thought "Terminator 2" and "Aliens" were better than their predecessors.

The first Terminator had a somewhat low budget-y feel to it, and I suppose you could say the scale of it wasn't large enough, given its subject matter. Terminator 2 certainly had scale, and while budget as such shouldn't matter, I think it was justified in T2. Things were over the top, but didn't seem gratuitous. There were so many memorable scenes in T2. The characters are great, too. I like how Sarah Connor isn't just a typical "scared screaming woman from a horror movie" anymore - although I love her scared reaction in T2 when she sees the Arnie Terminator come out of the elevator for the first time in the mental hospital.

And Alien was, to me, just a horror movie in space. There was a lot of suspense from the people running around on that big ship, being picked out one by one, but it's fairly easy to build up suspense like that in movies. It's mostly cheap tricks; scary music/sounds and then a shock!
The sequel may have taken some of the mystery out of the universe established by the first one, but that doesn't bother me in the least - mystery is fairly easy to establish, anyway: just don't reveal everything!
Aliens had plenty of memorable scenes and characters, too, and a bit like in T2, the female character really steps up and kicks ass in this one, which we don't see enough of, I think. (And no, female heroins in tight clothing using sub-par martial arts doesn't count.)

The following sequels were major disappointments to me.

I'd also agree with Toy Story 2 being better, although the first one was great, too.
The fact that Toy Story 2 was able to not only live up to, but supercede its prequel, is to me quite an achievement due to the nature of the movie. By that I mean the slightly gimmicky nature of it. Toys that are alive? How novel! But it stops being novel in a sequel, so from there on it has to be less gimmicky and more story.
A lot of movies suffer from this. T2 and Aliens took the sequel way beyond their prequels and didn't just live off of the "gimmicks" established in the first one.
 
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The Dark Knight beats Batman Begins. I would call that a sequel ;) Both are awesome though! =D
 
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Josan said:
The Dark Knight beats Batman Begins. I would call that a sequel ;) Both are awesome though! =D
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That's right, forgot about that. Maybe because the first one is really good, so you can hardly say that it's "worse" than the sequel. But the sequel is just such a damn good movie that it IS actually better than the prequel.
 
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The Bourne Supremacy..

Actually the whole Bourne trilogy is amazing! Very fun to watch.


but I got to give it to Peter Jackson. The adaption of the Lord of the Rings is just...incredible.


and yes The Dark Knight was awesome..but it was awesome because Christopher Nolan is awesome. Watch his other films. I recommend to watch Memento. To me, it is my favorite..you have to see it.
 
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Momento is very good but I don't like it a bit. I mean, it's terribly depressing.
 
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Ninja Terminator is slightly better than Golden Ninja Warrior, and is a little more coherent. There's even a Garfield phone involved. And inexplicably, small robots handing out death threats. Not sure it's a direct sequel or if it just uses the same footage as was seemingly popular in Hong Kong at the time (it's hard to tell because neither film makes any sense).
 
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Aliens
Terminator 2 (Actually all the Terminator movies were better than the 1st)
Road Warrior

As someone mentioned earlier the entire Bourne trilogy rocked.
Still waiting for the last installment, The Bourne Redundancy. (Matt told that joke).
 
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The Lost World: Jurassic Park.
Terminator 2 (the third, while awesome, was a dissapointment, because how can you ever top a liquid metal terminator?)
Empire Strickes Back
The Dark Knight
Lepruchauns 4: Lepruchauns in Space (Ok, im kidding, and Ive never seen any of those movies, but I heard about it a while back and just thought Id drop it somewhere)

Thats it for me, Im not really a movie person, and I usually detest sequels because anymore they are about trying to make the same money the originals did.
 
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Star Trek 2: Wrath of Kahn was better than the first. The odd-even rule more-or-less held until the festering pile of crap that was Star Trek 10.
nasher168 said:
Grimstad said:
(Actually all the Terminator movies were better than the 1st)
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I would dispute that with the latest one...
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Never saw T4. I made a point not to after surviving the train wreck of T3.
 
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