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What sequel is better than the original?

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In reply to MD1993 • 8:54p, 4/19/20
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MD1993 said:
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan

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In terms of margin, this has to be close to the top.
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8:55p, 4/19/20
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I mean if you consider Silence of the Lambs a sequel to Manhunter......technically it is.

What other sequel won the Big 5 Academy Awards?????

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Silence of the Lambs
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In reply to ryanhnc10 • 9:14p, 4/19/20
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Dae Dae, Pinky, Uncle Elroy, Baby D, the Jokers

There's way more enjoyable characters in Next Friday
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Shrek 2
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In reply to ryanhnc10 • 9:32p, 4/19/20
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ryanhnc10 said:
Ag_07 said:
Cromagnum said:
Ag_07 said:
Next Friday is better than Friday

But Friday After Next belongs on the other thread.


You are on Crack. How many quotes do you hear from the 2nd movie?


I guess so.

My friends and I quote the second WAY more than the first.

It's not even close.


I'm with you on this one. I like Next Friday better - I think Mike Epps character is more enjoyable
More enjoyable than Chris Tucker's "Smokey?" GTFO.
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9:39p, 4/19/20
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That's what I said. You GTFO.
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9:42p, 4/19/20
Hot Shots Part Deaux.
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In reply to ryanhnc10 • 10:27p, 4/19/20
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ryanhnc10 said:
That's what I said. You GTFO.
I guess that's fair. Mike Epps was pretty awesome in...nothing. Nothing at all, ever.
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In reply to Cromagnum • 10:38p, 4/19/20
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Cromagnum said:
Ag_07 said:
Next Friday is better than Friday

But Friday After Next belongs on the other thread.


You are on Crack. How many quotes do you hear from the 2nd movie?


Yeah, they 10s, I keep em clean though
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T2 is always the first one that comes to mind. Love that movie
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Good call.
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11:29p, 4/19/20
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Pitch Perfect 2- David Cross from Arrested Development slays me during the Riff Off. Also got a soft spot for Adam Devine.
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In reply to Bruce Almighty • 1:29a, 4/20/20
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Bruce Almighty said:
Aliens is better than Alien by the slimmest of margins.
Gotta disagree. In retrospect I think Alien is one of those movies that could have been a one-and-done. There are two films released in the 70s that are routinely referred to as being the best of the horror genre - The Exorcist and Alien. (Nevermind that I consider Alien to be a science fiction movie with strong elements of horror).

Aliens is a damn fine movie, true. The way I look at Aliens, however, is at its very basic level. It is a story of a group of people trapped in a place from which there is no easy escape while having to deal with these creatures. I just described Alien as well, except that the sequel pluralized the creature. Aliens brings in some window-dressing differences, Colonial Marines with all their firepower, but at their essence, these films are very similar. And Alien is literally the scariest movie I ever saw in a theater (was too young to see The Exorcist in its theatrical release). So in my mind, Alien > Aliens simply due to the impact it had on 12-year-old me.
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2:47a, 4/20/20
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D2: The Mighty Ducks

"The Quack attack is back jack"

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7:22a, 4/20/20
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T2 & Empire for sure

Temple of Doom > Raiders
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In reply to Cinco Ranch Aggie • 7:37a, 4/20/20
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Cinco Ranch Aggie said:
Bruce Almighty said:
Aliens is better than Alien by the slimmest of margins.
Gotta disagree. In retrospect I think Alien is one of those movies that could have been a one-and-done. There are two films released in the 70s that are routinely referred to as being the best of the horror genre - The Exorcist and Alien. (Nevermind that I consider Alien to be a science fiction movie with strong elements of horror).

Aliens is a damn fine movie, true. The way I look at Aliens, however, is at its very basic level. It is a story of a group of people trapped in a place from which there is no easy escape while having to deal with these creatures. I just described Alien as well, except that the sequel pluralized the creature. Aliens brings in some window-dressing differences, Colonial Marines with all their firepower, but at their essence, these films are very similar. And Alien is literally the scariest movie I ever saw in a theater (was too young to see The Exorcist in its theatrical release). So in my mind, Alien > Aliens simply due to the impact it had on 12-year-old me.
Even though they are from the same franchise, I never equate the two, because I see them as completely different, which means judging them in different ways. Alien is a haunted house movie set in space. Aliens is an 80s action flick. Both outstanding at what they do, but because they approach it so differently, I think it does a disservice to both to attempt to compare them. Preference will lie in which you like better personally, horror or action.
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8:11a, 4/20/20
Godzilla: King of the Monsters was much better than Godzilla. People watch these movies to see monsters fight and destroy things, not for some boring human drama.
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Even though they are from the same franchise, I never equate the two, because I see them as completely different, which means judging them in different ways. Alien is a haunted house movie set in space. Aliens is an 80s action flick. Both outstanding at what they do, but because they approach it so differently, I think it does a disservice to both to attempt to compare them. Preference will lie in which you like better personally, horror or action.
I don't disagree with anything you're saying here, but I do maintain that all the '80s action flick stuff is just window dressing and what you are left with is a group of people trapped with a monster (or in the case of Aliens, monsters). In that light, they are essentially the same movie. Having said that, Aliens feels different than Alien for the reasons you stated. Unlike Alien, Aliens was not a particularly scary movie (although it did have one scene that caused me a bit of fright with that queen coming down a hallway toward the elevator when Ripley and Newt are waiting for the freaking elevator to move, I guess a claustrophic reaction for me); but once Aliens got going, it was a far more frenetic and seat-of-your-pants movie, and with a change of setting (and species), could easily be considered a Vietnam war movie with the aliens in the role of Viet Cong.

Eh, just some ramblings on old movies....
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In reply to MGS • 8:26a, 4/20/20
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MGS said:
Godzilla: King of the Monsters was much better than Godzilla. People watch these movies to see monsters fight and destroy things, not for some boring human drama.
I loved both of those movies, but then again, I got in some dog-meat trouble with my mom one day when I decided that the wall outside my bedroom was a great canvas for me to draw Godzilla fighting King Kong with crayons when I was about 3-4 years old.

I was all big grins while watching Godzilla: King of the Monsters, getting to see all those classic monsters on screen together.
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8:45a, 4/20/20
Winter Soldier > First Avenger

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The Dark Knight
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
Rocky 2
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not a single post for Bad Boys 2??
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Evil Dead 2
The Two Towers
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Because Bad Boys was pretty good and Bad Boys 2 seemed to just keep playing on the same jokes...outside of the Woosaahhhhhh and dude picking up Marcus' daughter.
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10:12a, 4/20/20
Bad Boys 2 was hot garbage
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I just dont think G2 was better than the first. I loved it but the original may be the best movie of all time.
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bluefire579 said:
Cinco Ranch Aggie said:
Bruce Almighty said:
Aliens is better than Alien by the slimmest of margins.
Gotta disagree. In retrospect I think Alien is one of those movies that could have been a one-and-done. There are two films released in the 70s that are routinely referred to as being the best of the horror genre - The Exorcist and Alien. (Nevermind that I consider Alien to be a science fiction movie with strong elements of horror).

Aliens is a damn fine movie, true. The way I look at Aliens, however, is at its very basic level. It is a story of a group of people trapped in a place from which there is no easy escape while having to deal with these creatures. I just described Alien as well, except that the sequel pluralized the creature. Aliens brings in some window-dressing differences, Colonial Marines with all their firepower, but at their essence, these films are very similar. And Alien is literally the scariest movie I ever saw in a theater (was too young to see The Exorcist in its theatrical release). So in my mind, Alien > Aliens simply due to the impact it had on 12-year-old me.
Even though they are from the same franchise, I never equate the two, because I see them as completely different, which means judging them in different ways. Alien is a haunted house movie set in space. Aliens is an 80s action flick. Both outstanding at what they do, but because they approach it so differently, I think it does a disservice to both to attempt to compare them. Preference will lie in which you like better personally, horror or action.
The same can sort of be said for T2. Both Terminator and Alien were excellent, but "suffer" in comparison to their sequels in part because of the incredible technology improvements that the sequels got to work with. Mad Max / Road Warrior fit the category too.

I'm in the camp that Alien and Aliens are two different genres -- one a scary as F horror movie and the other a scary action movie.


Godfather 2 is my #1 sequel topping the original. The origin story of Vito's rise to power is what pushes it past for me.
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MGS said:
Godzilla: King of the Monsters was much better than Godzilla. People watch these movies to see monsters fight and destroy things, not for some boring human drama.

One of the all-time worst takes on TexAgs.
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3:03p, 4/20/20
The Transporter 2

Never even knew there was a first Transporter until I started seeing The Transporter 2 ads everywhere.
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In reply to TCTTS • 3:10p, 4/20/20
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MGS said:
Godzilla: King of the Monsters was much better than Godzilla. People watch these movies to see monsters fight and destroy things, not for some boring human drama.

One of the all-time worst takes on TexAgs.


Something tells me OP also loved transformers age of extinction
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I enjoy The Two Towers more than Fellowship of the Ring
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I enjoy The Two Towers more than Fellowship of the Ring
no way you read the books /muckgeek
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