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
    25·
    1 day ago

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

    • ZeroHora@lemmy.mlEnglish
      3·
      6 hours ago

      John Wick? They are not like the best movies in the world but they do get better.

    • thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works
      11·
      20 hours ago

      Aliens, Terminator 2, The Dark Knight are the first three that come to mind - but yes, in general sequels tend to be inferior.

    • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.worldEnglish
      13·
      23 hours 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
        2·
        18 hours 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
          1·
          9 hours 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
            1·
            9 hours 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.

        • detren@sh.itjust.works
          2·
          15 hours ago

          If you go by release date then that can’t be true considering the prequels (even though I love them). TFA was also so bland compared to the rest. The Last Jedi was the only decent one since the original trilogy imo.

          But oh my god rise of skywalker is so fucking bad.

          • BigBananaDealer@lemmy.world
            1·
            9 hours ago

            rise of skywalker was so terrible they should have let rian johnson just do his thing again, even if people hated it like TLJ at least it would have had some thought put into it

        • osanna@lemmy.vgEnglish
          1·
          22 hours ago

          i liked TFA. It was a decent flick. But then they just got so. much. worse.

            • Alaknár@sopuli.xyz
              1·
              12 hours 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
            1·
            12 hours 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.