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 wasn’t 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.

  • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    5 months ago

    It would be far more interesting to ask, what movie franchise DOESN’T get worse with each new film.

    • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      5 months ago

      Alien at least had the second film better than the first, which was a hell of an accomplishment since the first film was great. Fortunately they never even made any movies after the second one.

      • Alaknár@sopuli.xyz
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        5 months ago

        Come on, now. The third was OK, the fourth was enjoyable, and Romulus was phenomenal. It was basically “let’s take the best bits from Alien and Aliens and stick them together” and they did it brilliantly.

        • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          5 months ago

          C’mon, killing off Newt and Hicks at the start of the third was unconscionable. It’s in the same category as “somehow, Palpatine returned”.

          • Alaknár@sopuli.xyz
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            5 months ago

            “Somehow Palpatine returned” is lazy writing forced on them due to Snoke dying in the previous film.

            Hicks and Newt dying is perfectly reasonable in the world the action takes place in.

            • Alaknár@sopuli.xyz
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              5 months ago

              TLJ would’ve been a great third film in a trilogy. It absolutely sucks balls as the second film. It killed practically all the story lines from the first, leaving basically nothing for the third, including the main bad guy. Hux would’ve never been a good “ultimate enemy”, and if Kylo Ren became one, it would completely overturn everything the previous eight films worked on.

          • Alaknár@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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            5 months ago

            TFA TLJ would’ve been a great third film in a trilogy. It absolutely sucks balls as the second film. It killed practically all the story lines from the first, leaving basically nothing for the third, including the main bad guy. Hux would’ve never been a good “ultimate enemy”, and if Kylo Ren became one, it would completely overturn everything the previous eight films worked on.

  • Danitos@reddthat.com
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    5 months ago

    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)

  • CerebralHawks@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    5 months ago

    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.

    • DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      5 months ago

      Psycho Pass

      Season 1 is one of my favorites sci-fi crime cyberpunks shows …and it just got worse after that…

      I only own S1 Blu-ray and forget the other seasons existed.

  • hobata@lemmy.ml
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    5 months ago

    Is there any what gets better? There are good sequels, but once it becomes movie franchise, it all turns to shit. Sometimes faster, sometimes slower.

      • Jarix@lemmy.world
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        5 months ago

        It being filmed together is it being a 6+ hour movie in 3 chapters. I think it’s a single project not successive films. Just how I frame it, I concede to technicalities if you must

    • Tyrq@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      5 months ago

      So long as you can put yourself in the headspace, the fast and furious movies do get better when you realize that every movie is the exact same film (besides Tokyo drift anyway), but with higher stakes than the last one, to kind of absurd levels - starts with street racing, ends up in space, through so many movies.

      But that’s kind of a meta analysis based on what they are, not the actual quality, none of them are amazing, but fine if you can turn your brain off for a bit

    • Alaknár@sopuli.xyz
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      5 months ago

      Hmm… Kind of a weird take considering the Prequels had no blowing up of any super weapons, and the Sequels had only one, in the first film.

  • pjwestin@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    I would argue that Blade II is the better movie. Guillermo del Toro is a much more interesting director, and the Reapers are basically a dry run for his take on Vampires in The Strain.

    • redhorsejacket@lemmy.world
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      5 months ago

      I was gonna say, how is this entire thread skipping over the take that Blade 2 is a step down from the first? It’s not the craziest movie take I’ve read on here, but it definitely flies in the face of what I understood to be popular opinion.

      • pjwestin@lemmy.world
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        5 months ago

        Yeah, I thought that was the general consensus too, but I couldn’t be sure that wasn’t just an echo chamber I’d created with my friend group.