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Old 07-14-2015, 09:16 PM
 
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Rocky III better than the first two.
Silence of the Lambs
Superman II
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Old 07-14-2015, 09:51 PM
 
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harry potter
it went good->better->they grew up and aren't cute anymore->bad->just finish series already...
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Old 07-15-2015, 04:21 PM
 
Location: Central Florida
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harry potter
it went good->better->they grew up and aren't cute anymore->bad->just finish series already...
I was a big fan of the harry potter books ( got them for my daughter and got hooked myself lol )
I do admire a lot about the movies, the fact that JK Rowling stayed in control meant the movies never strayed too far from the book in any way and she knew which scenes were important because she knew what would happen in the next books, but I do have to say that I felt many of the movies were made for the fans not the rest of the viewers, my father who did not really read the books had to keep asking me to explain what was happening in the later movies, and sometimes while I love the British Harry and his friends in the later movie were often talking so fast and so softly at times and with such a thick accent I had trouble understanding some of what they were saying. I still loved it but I do agree there should have been a few changes.
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Old 07-16-2015, 03:09 PM
 
Location: Pittsburgh
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Death Wish 3 is the best of that series by far. Bronson is really down to business in cleaning up East New York.


Rocky 3 was the equal to the first of that series.
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Old 07-16-2015, 10:15 PM
 
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The Godfather II
The Dark Knight

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The ones I have seen that I think are just as good as thier first:

Star Wars 2: The Empire strikes back
Terminator 2
Star Trek 2: The wrath of Khan
Back to the future 2
OOh I dunno about that. I love Back To The Future.
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Old 07-16-2015, 10:24 PM
 
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles with Secret of the Ooze
Well, that's about like saying a root canal was better than a colonoscopy.

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Back to the future 2
I'd disagree on that.. I am a huge fan of the BttF trilogy.. But the original was a classic. The sequels, while entertaining and good.. Don't measure up to the first one. I'll agree with you on the rest of your list, though.

I'll throw one out there that hasn't been mentioned.. Austin Powers:The Spy who Shagged Me vs the original Austin Powers international Man of Mystery.. I'm not sold on that, but.. I could entertain the argument over it.. The third one was just a rehash of the second, so... Not a fan of that.
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Old 07-16-2015, 11:29 PM
 
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Desperado (1995) is absolutely better than El Mariachi (1992).
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Old 07-19-2015, 08:33 PM
 
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Terminator 2
Shrek 2
Austin Powers:The Spy Who Shagged Me
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Old 07-20-2015, 06:51 AM
 
Location: Fairfax, VA
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I preferred "Goldfinger" over "Dr. No".
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Old 07-21-2015, 04:52 PM
 
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Sequels I disagree with, per this thread:

Death Wish 2 — I'm a diehard Bronson fan, and this is a great movie (and franchise) on par with the first...not better nor worse, but equally enjoyable.

The Empire Strikes Back, etc. —I'm one of those guys that believe Star Wars was originally intended to be a standalone film, and everything that came after was grafted on (the first movie is structured and written exactly like a one-off). In retrospect, Return of the Jedi is a pile of crap.

Mad Max sequels — I love all of these movies: they're interconnected, independent stories in George Miller's apocalyptic universe (I will fess up to my favorites being The Road Warrior and Fury Road).

Any Raiders of the Lost Ark sequel — none of them measure up to the brilliance of the first.

Rocky sequels — there are multiple reasons why the very first film is almost universally regarded as the best one. The next two movies are great movies, but I don't think they're necessarily better, just branches off the same tree.

Any Terminator sequel — there may be more action, better special effects, and more explosions, but the stories aren't as good.

The Thing — John Carpenter's 1982 movie isn't a remake nor a sequel to the 1951 movie, it's an independent production based on the novella Who Goes There? Carpenter's movie remains one of my favorites, while the 2011 remake of his movie, which masqueraded as a prequel, is a Thing-sized heap of shoddy filmmaking.
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