Movie Sequel Poll

crazymancometh · Post by **crazymancometh** » Fri Apr 26, 2002 11:45 pm

Today jason X premiered at theatres I for one knew nothing bout it til I ran across a trailer for it tonight.looked like a good flick.But I mean there was nine before it.So my poll is For you to list your favorite movies that had sequels that was also good.And favorite movie that you could'nt stand the sequel.Ans list the film series that most annoy you with the continuos flow of sequels*Friday The 13th,Nightmare,Scream etc. etc*

Favorite Series Of Sequels:The Halloween Movies
Last Picture Show,Texasville
48 hours and Another 48 hours
Lethal Weapon

Best Movies That Had Horrible Sequel:Lonesome Dove
Friday
Beverly Hill Cops
Rambo
Scream
I Know What You Did..

Worst Series Of Movies:Back To Future
Karate Kid
Rocky
Die Hard

Aragorn Returns · Post by **Aragorn Returns** » Fri Apr 26, 2002 11:48 pm

back to the future is soooo great! i would so put that on my favorite series sequel list! also i would put star wars for sure. also indiana jones, all those are excelent. ack, karate kid wasn't all that great, but the sequels are soooooooooooo terrible, i can't even stand it.

crazymancometh · Post by **crazymancometh** » Fri Apr 26, 2002 11:51 pm

Originally posted by Aragorn Returns
back to the future is soooo great! i would so put that on my favorite series sequel list! also i would put star wars for sure. also indiana jones, all those are excelent. ack, karate kid wasn't all that great, but the sequels are soooooooooooo terrible, i can't even stand it.

Yea omitted Star Wars as thibnkiin everyone would know it was great lol.....Great choice Aragon

Tamerlane · Post by **Tamerlane** » Fri Apr 26, 2002 11:53 pm

Like AR I enjoyed Back To The Future, as well as Godfather and Star Wars.

Worst sequels, well I've seen all the Tarzan movies made in late 1950's I think? I wouldn't exactly recommend them though

Thankfully I've never seen the Karate Kid series.

Mr Flibble · Post by **Mr Flibble** » Fri Apr 26, 2002 11:59 pm

Aliens. The first two were great, but Alien3 should never have been made, and Ressurection was just pointless.

Geckopat · Post by **Geckopat** » Sat Apr 27, 2002 12:54 am

fav sequel StarWars, Die hard, Mummy and 'The Omen'

worst sequel Batman, RobotCop and 'Iron Eagle'

p.s. I'm going to the World Premiere Of Spiderman.
i really hope it would'nt be a let down.

Aragorn Returns · Post by **Aragorn Returns** » Sat Apr 27, 2002 12:57 am

ah, batman wasn't all that bad, the thing is too many people try to take it serious, the tackiness is supposed to be funny. i didn't really like the second mummy, not so good i don't don't think.

Tamerlane · Post by **Tamerlane** » Sat Apr 27, 2002 1:29 am

Here are two more nominations for worst sequels. Blair Witch 2 and Babe 2

Talk about destroying two hugely potential franchises while they are not even in their prime.

Georgi · Post by **Georgi** » Sat Apr 27, 2002 6:39 am

Blair Witch 2... Why would someone even want to make a sequel when the originality of the first one is what made it so famous... it's hardly original the second time around...

Grease 2

Sooo lame (and yes dammit, the first one was a classic!

)

Batman - not all the sequels were that bad, but Batman and Robin was... Certain movies do lend themselves quite well to the franchise, and superhero movies are the main one IMO - whether comic book ones like Batman, Superman, X Men (I know the sequel hasn't been made yet, but I'm betting it will be good), or the action hero ones like Indiana Jones, James Bond (I can't believe nobody mentioned James Bond yet - #20 out this Christmas, isn't it?)

Jurassic Park - two bad sequels

Star Wars - great sequels, shame about the prequel

Agree with Mr Flibble about Alien/Aliens...

Other good sequels: Terminator 2, Austin Powers TSWSM, Blade 2...

I'm going to go out on a limb and predict that a great sequel will be... The Two Towers

HighLordDave · Post by **HighLordDave** » Sat Apr 27, 2002 7:19 am

My favourite sequels:

Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
Aliens
T2: Judgement Day
Desperado
Back to the Future III
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Return to Savage Beach

Good movies that never should have had a sequel:

Friday the 13th - the first one was actually pretty scary, but the remaining movies beat the series to death
Highlander - "there should have been only one"
Rocky - People forget how good the first Rocky movie was becasue the rest were so bad, but the original Rocky deservedly won Best Picture in 1976
Silence of the Lambs
Jurassic Park
Psycho
Nightmare on Elm Street - Original premise cool villain, should have stopped after the first one

Generally bad series of movies:

All of the odd-numbered Star Trek movies
All of the Star Wars with the word "Phantom" in the title - George's obsession with eye candy undermined all of the other important things (like character development and the plot) in what should have been a very good movie
Anything starring Dona Speir as Donna Hamilton

Tamerlane · Post by **Tamerlane** » Sat Apr 27, 2002 7:21 am

They did a sequel for Grease

Another great sequel Toy Story and the Naked Guns

Further candidates for worst sequels. Police Academy, thank heavens I still a toddler in the 80's.

Mr Sleep · Post by **Mr Sleep** » Sat Apr 27, 2002 5:06 pm

Re: Re: Movie Sequel Poll

Originally posted by HighLordDave
Psycho

I am glad someone mentioned it

The sequels to this great film are nothing but appaling. They taint everything that was good about Psycho, they also destroyed Anthony Perkins career (although some say Psycho itself did that) A pox on all 3 of the sequels....

Georgi · Post by **Georgi** » Sat Apr 27, 2002 7:55 pm

Originally posted by Tamerlane
They did a sequel for Grease

Yeah, you didn't know? Michelle Pfeiffer was in it.

@Sleepy but which is worse, the Psycho sequels or the Psycho remake?

Morlock · Post by **Morlock** » Sat Apr 27, 2002 9:51 pm

Originally posted by Georgi

@Sleepy but which is worse, the Psycho sequels or the Psycho remake?

I was spared of either!

In the same vein- Which is worse, the planet of the Apes sequels, TV show or the remake?

EMINEM · Post by **EMINEM** » Sat Apr 27, 2002 9:55 pm

Best sequel? Probably Aliens. So many elements of Half-Life, and also Half-Life: Opposing Force, originated from of Aliens I'm suprised james Cameron didn't sue for copyright infringement.

Worst sequel? Probably Phantom Menace, considering its lineage.

Morlock · Post by **Morlock** » Sat Apr 27, 2002 10:17 pm

Originally posted by EMINEM

Worst sequel? Probably Phantom Menace, considering its lineage.

Actualy, I think, considering the lineage- it was not as bad as it could have been. You have to allow at least one of the prequals to be bad- since you have the story dictated to you. George couldn't have made Anakin 20 out of comfort. And Anakin is the main flaw in the movie.

@HLD: I don't think its fair to put 'Hannibal'- which IMO had some charm (and Anthony Hopkins

) on the same list as 'The Lost World' or 'Rocky 2-5', which had nothing positive in them.

Someone here actualy saw Blair Witch 2???

About James Bond- IMO you can devide by actors:
Sean Connery- Great
George Lazenby- Good, but we have to see more of him to judge
Roger Moore- ranging from OK to very good
Timothy Dalton- One was OK, one was bad
Pierce Brosnan- They took out almost everything that made Bond Bond. Now its just a logo, and some action hero who has the same name.

My Favorites: 'From Russia with Love', 'You only live twice', 'Diamonds are forever' and 'Goldfinger'.

In James Bond 20 'Die another Day'- nothing is left to identify Bond as Bond. Even Q isn't there- Desmond Llewelen(SP), who played him, died in a car accident last year. At least thay replaced him with someone who can do justice as a replacment- John Clease. I thought that was sort of coincidential that out of the 19 movies, they had Q train a replacement in the last one, which happened to be a few weeks before the actor died.
Something fishy is going on, if you ask me.

Tamerlane · Post by **Tamerlane** » Sun Apr 28, 2002 12:46 am

Originally posted by Morlock
Someone here actualy saw Blair Witch 2???

Well I can confidently say that it was a rental. Plus I didn't choose the movie, I have no say in movies now. Ever since that fateful day I chose Freddy Got Fingered.

Georgi · Post by **Georgi** » Sun Apr 28, 2002 6:56 am

Originally posted by Morlock
Pierce Brosnan- They took out almost everything that made Bond Bond. Now its just a logo, and some action hero who has the same name.

I disagree. I think Timothy Dalton could have been a good Bond but the scripts he good weren't so great... and he was at that point where they were trying to update Bond a bit and so he had to be a bit less of a womaniser etc. With Brosnan I think Bond regained the hard edge that Connery had.

In the same vein- Which is worse, the planet of the Apes sequels, TV show or the remake?

Well, I have only seen the "reimagining"

as Mr Schumacher likes to call it... but the rest would have to be pretty bad to compare

Mr Sleep · Post by **Mr Sleep** » Sun Apr 28, 2002 1:14 pm

Originally posted by Georgi
@Sleepy but which is worse, the Psycho sequels or the Psycho remake?

The Sequel's actually

I didn't mind Vaughn's performance although he was a little too much of a leading man, my main problem with the remakes was Anne Heche; she was just plain bad.

@Bond, Goldeneye is incredibly hackneyed and i prefered the Dalton James Bond movies, the reason i hate Goldeneye so much? It is basically due to Ms MoneyPenny suddenly becoming a feminist. I have no problem with the idea they just handled it really badly

@Dalton, i also think he was quite good, perhaps a little too intense for the role. The ironic thing is that he was up for the part in the original Bond movie and only 30 years later did they give him the job

Georgi · Post by **Georgi** » Sun Apr 28, 2002 7:39 pm

Originally posted by Mr Sleep
The Sequel's actually I didn't mind Vaughn's performance although he was a little too much of a leading man, my main problem with the remakes was Anne Heche; she was just plain bad.

I just see the whole thing as, well, rather superfluous. What's the point, when there's no way it was going to improve on the original...?

And must I mention their *ahem* alteration in the scene where he's watching her get undressed... No need!

Is Licence to Kill the one where Bond punches M etc.? I thought that was just ridiculous...