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Sideshow Vote II: Even you know I am cooler than you

Started by broodblik, 08 June, 2022, 03:52:54 AM

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broodblik

When a movie becomes a blockbuster, everyone wants a sequel (especially those movie moguls). In most cases the sequel to put it bluntly sucks. When was the last time we had a sequel that was worthy of its predecessor? When was the last time a sequel surpasses its predecessor?
This is a simple question which was the best sequel ever?
-   The Empire Strikes Back
-   The Wrath of Kahn
-   Aliens
-   The Dark Knight
-   Superman II
-   Terminator 2
-   Top Gun Maverick
-   What about? <Movie Name> (My Little Pony: A New Generation does not count people)

When I die, I want to die like my grandfather who died peacefully in his sleep. Not screaming like all the passengers in his car.

Old age is the Lord's way of telling us to step aside for something new. Death's in case we didn't take the hint.

Rogue Judge

From this list, Terminator 2.

Personally, you can't beat Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior.

broodblik

Quote from: Rogue Judge on 08 June, 2022, 05:44:04 AM
From this list, Terminator 2.

Personally, you can't beat Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior.

Added as an option as well: Mad Max 2
When I die, I want to die like my grandfather who died peacefully in his sleep. Not screaming like all the passengers in his car.

Old age is the Lord's way of telling us to step aside for something new. Death's in case we didn't take the hint.

Colin YNWA

While Empire, T2 and Aliens are all great Rogue Judge is right and

Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior

is the correct answer

Magnetica


JayzusB.Christ

"Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest"

GoGilesGo

I think there is a limited list of sequels that are not just worthy of the original, but actually better:

The Road Warrior > Mad Max
Hour of the Gun > Gunfight at the OK Corral
Bride of Frankenstein > Frankenstein
Toy Story 2 > Toy Story
Sanjuro > Yojimbo
The Empire Strikes Back > New Hope
The Godfather Part II > The Godfather
After The Thin Man > The Thin Man
From Russia With Love > Dr No (does this count as a sequel?)
Lethal Weapon 2 > Lethal Weapon
Police Story 2 > Police Story
*The Wrath of Khan > Star Trek The Motion Picture


* bonus points for being a superior sequel to the ST episode Space Seed


If you want me to pick one from this list, I will go for the film that took the kernel of an idea from the original and expanded it in the most interesting way: Mad Max 2 : The Road Warrior




AlexF

The correct answer is indeed Mad Max 2.
Some other sequels better than the original:

Addams Family Values
Dawn of the Dead
Evil Dead 2
X2 (aka X-Men 2)
John Wick 2


Colin YNWA

Quote from: AlexF on 08 June, 2022, 09:18:05 AM
The correct answer is indeed Mad Max 2.
Some other sequels better than the original:

Addams Family Values
Dawn of the Dead
Evil Dead 2
X2 (aka X-Men 2)
John Wick 2

Oh good call - very good call... doesn't quite change my answer but its damned close!

Link Prime


broodblik

Quote from: Link Prime on 08 June, 2022, 09:29:20 AM
Fritt Vilt II

I had to google that one my Norwegian is not up too standard but the title almost sounded German.
When I die, I want to die like my grandfather who died peacefully in his sleep. Not screaming like all the passengers in his car.

Old age is the Lord's way of telling us to step aside for something new. Death's in case we didn't take the hint.

Proudhuff

DDT did a job on me

sheridan

Return of the Killer Tomatoes! - sequel to Attack of the Killer Tomatoes (but the sequel had George Clooney in a before-they-were-famous role).

That isn't my vote.