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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 wasnโt 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.
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!
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)
Nah, Blade 2 still fucks.
Blade Trinity is just as rough now as it was when it first released.
Terminator. First was great. Two was a masterpiece. Third was mid. Rest is an utter garbage
Same with Nolan's Batman
Ghostbusters. Some late 80's exec in tv and film was obsessed with putting babies in everything and the second movie got shanked in a dark alley by them.
John Wick.
Also Star Wars, but they had at least three good movies.
Marvel movies.
I thought John Wick maintained the same level through all the sequels.
Also, you're telling me that Thor (1) is better than Infinity War?
Yeah I think anyone who thinks John Wick got worse over time was probably a teenager when the first one came out. They're all schlocky action films. The fourth one at least has some unique set pieces
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.
Which is why I liked Andor and especially Acolyte so much. Finally a new perspective.
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.
Anime has entered the chat.
Tokyo Ghoul. Amazing first season. Body horror, depression, and zombie stuff all rolled into one. Masterpiece. Season 2 came out ahead of the rest of the books and it sucked. Seasons 3 and 4 adapted the second book series, but they speed ran it and only hit highlights and it was confusing AF.
Promised Neverland. Also amazing first season. Thriller with children trying to escape an orphanage that has a dark secret (revealed in first episode). They had like 5-7 seasons' worth of content and started to do a second season, but the funding (and creativity!) ran out so they speed ran the rest of the manga, and it was so bad, the directors had their names taken off the billing.
"Second season when?" has become a trope due to so many with excellent first seasons followed by terrible ones. Attack on Titan almost counts. First season was awesome, we called it Japan's answer to The Walking Dead when TWD was decent. Second season took 4 years and sucked, but season 3 more than made up for it. Season 4, "the final season," "the final season part 2," "the final season for realz this time", "the final season trust us we can see the finish line" and "the final chapters" sucked, though.
Pretty much all of them. Successful first movie, sequels that repeat the formula while entirely missing the point.
All of them.
