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Star Wars? Empire Stikes Back was our fave...
Alien or Aliens? The more the merrier we say...
Beverly Hills Cop? Number 2 did it for us...
Our list went on (I think).
Even when you look at films with only one sequel it is usually the better of the two. Toy Story 2 and The Lost World both spring to mind.
I'm sure if we thought about it longer we could have proved ourselves wrong but out glasses were growing empty and the bar was calling us once again.....
Over to you guys!
Better
Scream 2 was better than Scream 1 (for on it had Sarah M Gellar in it, Swing!!!)
Aliens was better than Alien (more action and killing!!!)
Austin Powers 2 The spy who Sha**ed me (more funny than the first, Yeah BABY YEAH!!!)
Star Trek First Contact was better that Star Trek Generations (i know it’s not a trilogy but they were the first two films to involve the next generation crew)
Terminator 2 was better than Terminator 1 (More Action, more gore, better effects, oster la vista baby BANG!!!)
Die Hard 2:Die Harder was better than Die Hard 1 (It’s a close shave but i think the second was better)
Worse:
Mission Impossible was far superior to Mission Impossible 2 (which was pants!)
Blair Witch Project was better than Blair Witch Project 2 (What the hell were they thinking when they made these films!?!)
Robocop 1 was better than Robocop 2 (the second was really pants!)
Jurassic Park was better than The Lost World (seen it all before and the T-Rex running around in the city was kinda.....well, pants!!!)
I know some of you will disagree but there are a few examples. The thing that really gets me is when they just make the same film over and over and over again (Police Academy, Halloween, Nightmare on Elm Street, Friday the 13th, etc) These films should be burned and then the director given a good kicking so he/she is unable to make anymore. Right i'm done, i'm going to lie down now with a big bag or popcorn :D
Darkreaper
I can still think of more examples where the second of three films (not two or four or whatever, as some people have suggested - since when is Police Academy a trilogy?) is better than the others than not, though.
Although many films have quality sequels they never live upto the original.
For example:
Die Hard 2 never quite hit the button and as for Karate Kid II, well the one saving grace was the final fight scene.
And, in many cases the sequel is just a re-hash of the original.
md
Ghostbuster 2 was terrible!
md
I thought "Batman Returns" was better than the original "Batman", although after that it went downhill, the films werent dark enough anymore.
Superman 2 was better than the first, but only just, 2001 was a completely different film to 2010 and I wouldn't like to decide between them. Nightmare on Elm St got increasingly worse as it went on until the last one.
I think it's a mixed bag really.