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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.
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.
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.
Alien and Aliens were different types of movies. Horror vs Action. That's why Aliens works. It isn't a rehash of the first.
T2 was similar to T1, but a change in dynamics like Aliens did. Sarah Connor was more in charge and knew what to do about Terminators by the sequel.
The Land Before Time
all?
Most all of them?
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.
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."
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.
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.
