Film sequels you love that no-one else seems to

[Neb Lleb]

Speed 2: Cruise Control was a lot more fun than the first movie was.

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God bless Willem Dafoe

Dude. No. Just... NO.

(The reason why Father Ted even made the "Speed 3" episode in the first place was as an attempt to make a worse sequel than Speed 2. Like Megan 2.0, I'm disqualifying it.

 

[Kamako]

I find Beverley Hills Cop 3 really entertaining but it's often considered the weakest of the original trilogy.

Admittedly, you feel the loss of Sgt. Taggart from the main cast, but the movie makes up for it by giving Judge Reinhold plenty more time to shine, and the comedy elements get turned up to 11, which I think works in the film's favour.

The villain is a total smarmy bastard; you love to hate him. Axel F gets kitted out with some ludicrously heavy weaponry, and the final showdown takes place in an abandoned theme park.

It's just so much more memorable than the second movie, which played it fairly safe by comparison.

 

[Sfjeov]

I'll admit it's weaker than the first one but it had some potential.

 

[BrawlMan]

I find Beverley Hills Cop 3 really entertaining but it's often considered the weakest of the original trilogy.

I still prefer the second movie over III, but I never found the third entry bad. Most people in Detroit have soft spot for this movie, or love it just as much as the others.

Predator 2 and Robocop 2. Granted, Predator 2 got way more defenders in the late 2000s and beyond, but even before that, I do P2 over the first movie. And I love the first movie. Robocop 2 is decent overall, but can never touch the original. All said, I will take Robocop 2 any day over Robocop 3. The only thing I liked Robocop 3 are the robot ninjas and OCP being destroyed. Otherwise, not worth it.

Speed 2: Cruise Control was a lot more fun than the first movie was.

I admit Defoe is more entertaining villain than Dennis Hopper's villain. I like him too.

 

[Moreno909]

We all have those movies we love that have a mixed or a negative consensus, but some of those movies just so happen to be sequels. So, I figured why not start a thread about it?

I'll kick things off here, and I do have a fair few sequels I love that no-one else does, such as Predator 2, The Matrix Reloaded and Revolutions, and Alien 3 (I even consider Predator 2 an even better followup to an already fantastic first outing). But those are too obvious, so instead, I'll start with one I recently rewatched... Die Hard 2.
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Yes, it's a shameless rehash of the first's plot. Yes, it's highly dependent on a misunderstanding of how airports work. And yes, it's fully aware of all these things and it just wants you to have as much fun as humanly possible with John McClane as he ends up becoming the fly in the proverbial ointment again. Unlike John McTiernan's iconic classic, Renny Harlin's followup takes itself far less seriously with a subtle sense of humour and in your face self awareness to the proceedings that help make it stand out of the shadow of its predecessor. The dialogue here is some of the best I've seen, the action is jawdropping, the sense of escalation in the plot is nailed again, and the choice to followup a band of armed master thieves taking an LA skyscraper during a Christmas party with a massive conspiracy to free a South American dictator using a Washington airport during the Christmas landing rush is a perfect way to raise the stakes from last time.

Really, the reason why it's brushed aside as "a lazy rehash" and overlooked by Die Hard fans in favour of its successors, Die Hard with a Vengeance and Live Free or Die Hard*, is because of the fact that it reuses the formula of part one at a time when 'Die Hard on an X' films like Under Siege and Speed were becoming all the rage. But I personally couldn't care less.

*YES, there were only four Die Hard movies. Nothing happened after Live Free. Don't look any further into it.

I loved Alien³. I watched the fan Legacy Cut, that improves the visuals specially with the xenomorph model and I found it pretty good. Also, a bit darker and on the philosophical side for an action movie

I liked Predator 2 too, but it's waay more mediocre than Predator 1, which is an far greater movie
I also liked the Aliens vs Predator 2000 movie, pretty fun

 

[kbcinharoxa]

The Lion King 2.

Well, at least on websites and from friends’ opinions, people think the movie is trash. But I’m the kind of person who likes seeing the previous protagonists having kids—like in videogames where, in the next entries, you control the ancestor or the child of your character, you know? It gives this feeling of “my God, in the previous movie I saw this guy as a cub and now he’s an adult and has a child????”

It’s kind of like real life: you grow up and suddenly you have a child, and then you watch them grow up too. Is it just me who feels this way?

 

[Mago]

European Vacation. I love all of the 80s Vacation movies. I don't think European Vacation is particularly well liked though.

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I loved Alien³. I watched the fan Legacy Cut, that improves the visuals specially with the xenomorph model and I found it pretty good. Also, a bit darker and on the philosophical side for an action movie

I liked Predator 2 too, but it's waay more mediocre than Predator 1, which is an far greater movie
I also liked the Aliens vs Predator 2000 movie, pretty fun

I watched the Assembly Cut and thought it was great.

 

[Neb Lleb]

The Lion King 2.

Well, at least on websites and from friends’ opinions, people think the movie is trash. But I’m the kind of person who likes seeing the previous protagonists having kids—like in videogames where, in the next entries, you control the ancestor or the child of your character, you know? It gives this feeling of “my God, in the previous movie I saw this guy as a cub and now he’s an adult and has a child????”

It’s kind of like real life: you grow up and suddenly you have a child, and then you watch them grow up too. Is it just me who feels this way?

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Lion King 2 is supposed to be one of the few STV Disney sequels worth a damn. The other two, and those that I have seen, are the first two for Lilo & Stitch: Stitch! The Movie and the alternative sequel Lilo & Stitch 2. The former doubles as a backdoor pilot for a potential series but is such an entertaining children's adventure flick regardless, but Lilo & Stitch 2 goes back to the family drama of the original and creates a very heartfelt, emotionally gripping flick.

 

[Adrastia]

European Vacation. I love all of the 80s Vacation movies. I don't think European Vacation is particularly well liked though.

We're looking for six.

I loved Alien³. I watched the fan Legacy Cut, that improves the visuals specially with the xenomorph model and I found it pretty good. Also, a bit darker and on the philosophical side for an action movie

I really liked Alien 3. The ending is similar to Terminator 2. Both characters make the same sacrifice for the sake of the future. Only to have it sullied by sequels galore. The only thing I liked about Alien Resurrection was Winona Ryder. But sometimes you need to know when to stop.

 

[Spyrone]

XXX: State of the Union. I never really view insanely over the top action flicks like that one or the Pierce Brosnan 007 movies as anything other than hilarious and stupid, and XXX: State of the Union is both. Ice Cube may not pull as many insane stunts as Vin Diesel but my god are his more hilarious.

 

[DjQuick2008]

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storyline about fake game boys whats not to love.

 

[Spyrone]

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Great pick. That one was the only one that actually had power armor in it, and I loved how it brought back the political satire of the original movie.

 

[DjQuick2008]

Great pick. That one was the only one that actually had power armor in it, and I loved how it brought back the political satire of the original movie.

The singing and madness of it all is nonsense. I love the girl who talks to God in it lol.

 

[Spyrone]

The singing and madness of it all is nonsense. I love the girl who talks to God in it lol.

Yeah, the ending where the Federation embraces God and becomes a Theocratic Militarist Stratocracy at the end made me laugh. I loved it.

 

[DjQuick2008]

Yeah, the ending where the Federation embraces God and becomes a Theocratic Militarist Stratocracy at the end made me laugh. I loved it.

Bug religion

 

[bliss_freak]

2010: The year we made contact.

Not only was it more faithful Clarke's novels (Though it did remove the Chinese Tsien's Europa landing) It went out of its away to explain every plot contrivance found in the 2001: A space odyssey with a logical answer.

Which is why people hated it upon its release.
It removed the ambiguity and even humanised Hal as a misunderstood sympathetic antagonist.
Instead of getting an adaptation of 2061: Odyssey three we still have no continuation due to 2010's reception.
Not that I would trust Modern Hollywood with any of Clarke's works.

Was literally coming here to post about this movie but somebody beat me to it.

 

[Bakuma1997]

I legit loved Die Hard 3, basically it was Jigsaw wanting money instead of murder to "teach" people and McCalaine's dynamic with Zeus was on point, the last good one easly

 

[Robert Robertson III]

Ice Age 4 as a kid

 

[Sheepy765]

I love The Bad Guys 2, it’s nowhere near as serious as the first movie and doesn’t have the same oomph but damn if it isn’t cinematic and just as if not more beautiful than its predecessor.

 

[Mago]

We're looking for six.




I really liked Alien 3. The ending is similar to Terminator 2. Both characters make the same sacrifice for the sake of the future. Only to have it sullied by sequels galore. The only thing I liked about Alien Resurrection was Winona Ryder. But sometimes you need to know when to stop.

Yeah I've been avoiding watching Alien Resurrection lol.

 

[Neb Lleb]

Yeah, the ending where the Federation embraces God and becomes a Theocratic Militarist Stratocracy at the end made me laugh. I loved it.

And of course, come the next sequel, the animated Japanese-American co-production Starship Troopers: Invasion, they never mention it again.

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Yeah I've been avoiding watching Alien Resurrection lol.

A lot of the Alien movies after 3 are not very good. From the over-stylised unfunny animesque nonsense of Resurrection, to the mean-spirited canon defiling splat-em-ups of Aliens vs. Predator Requiem and Covenant (former of which is even regarded by everyone with a functioning braincell as the utter nadir of the series).

Thankfully, Romulus was actually pretty good despite becoming a popular target for Media Grifters, so there is still some signs of life in Dan O'Bannon and Ronald Shusset's star beast, but the road to it gave us some grade-A crap.

 

[DjQuick2008]

Dude. No. Just... NO.

(The reason why Father Ted even made the "Speed 3" episode in the first place was as an attempt to make a worse sequel than Speed 2. Like Megan 2.0, I'm disqualifying it.

I legit loved Die Hard 3, basically it was Jigsaw wanting money instead of murder to "teach" people and McCalaine's dynamic with Zeus was on point, the last good one easly

die hard 3 is great. HALLO CITY ENGINEEEER SARVICE WE'D LIKE AN IDEA OF THE DAMAGE.

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leeches in da bath

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[Ikagura]

I legit loved Die Hard 3, basically it was Jigsaw wanting money instead of murder to "teach" people and McCalaine's dynamic with Zeus was on point, the last good one easily.

Die Hard 2's biggest mistake was to be a bit too samey (since it was based on a similar book).

For an original movie story it was good (if not the second best movie).

Die Hard 4.0 is sadly not as good yet I feel like its themes are even more relevant in a post-AI world.

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Is this one for real? Lol.

 

[DjQuick2008]

Die Hard 2's biggest mistake was to be a bit too samey (since it was based on a similar book).

For an original movie story it was good (if not the second best movie).

Die Hard 4.0 is sadly not as good yet I feel like its themes are even more relevant in a post-AI world.

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Is this one for real? Lol.

Nah its a mock up i found on a google search id actually have that as a poster if i can get a print shop to knock it up for me.

 

[Ezri_Muldoon]

Starship Troopers 3: Marauder

COURAGE! DUTY! HONOUR!

WE CALL UPON OUR TROOPERS IN THIS OUR DARKEST HOUR, OUR WAY OF LIFE IS WHAT WE'RE FIGHTING FOR!

Both Roughnecks (The CGI Television series) and the two Japanese made CGI feature films (Invasion & Traitors of Mars) are great.

Arguably better than the original '97 film because unlike Verhoeven the creative staff behind the proceeding films actually read Robert A. Heinlein novel.
No I'm serious Verhoeven never finished reading the Novel he just wrote a "satirical script" devoid of any source material.
And if you're a contrarian who still believes it "was actually a satire of old Axis propaganda" that had been out of production & banned from circulation since the 1945. lmao, okay.
Name all the Axis propaganda films Verhoeven, let alone the mid 90's audience all had access too & totally watched.

The 1997 film can't be a satire as the neither the audience or it's creator had any awareness of what was supposedly being satirised.

It's a testament to Verhoeven raw talent that the film was any good considering how lobotomised its development had been.

Do you know who did read Starship Troopers? The entire cast of Aliens, in September of 1985, as a contractual obligation enforced by James Cameron himself so the cast would better understand his vision. Would you like to know more?

Anyway-

Whilst Roughnecks was in its own continuity (which whilst sadly unfinished was insanely more faithful to original Novel)

The CGI films are sequels to the live action trilogy, and to my surprise.
The latest trailer for Ultimate Bug War! Had Rico don the eye patch he wears in the CGI Films.

Continuity like this should be appreciated in the current hellscape of retcons, remakes & reboots.