# Best movie duology? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 2, 2015, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-duology/739177 "2015-12-02T01:20:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Battle\_Pope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@Battle\_Pope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Battle_Pope)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2015, 11:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-duology/739177/21 "2015-12-02T11:11:03Z")
_Yojimbo_ and _Sanjuro_ ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2015, 11:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-duology/739177/22 "2015-12-02T11:27:23Z")
Guns of Navarone and Force 10 from Navarone The only real connection imho is the title, but I like them both. ---
**Author:** ![FlikTheBlue](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fliktheblue/32/10972_2.png) [@FlikTheBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlikTheBlue)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2015, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-duology/739177/23 "2015-12-02T13:12:02Z")
My personal favorite is Weekend at Bernie’s and Weekend at Bernie’s II. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2015, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-duology/739177/24 "2015-12-02T13:15:01Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > I give _Jean de Florette_ and _Manon of the Spring_ credit. They were two good films that worked well together but was each able to stand up its own. And while they were critical and popular successes, they didn’t go to the well again (no pun intended) to try to make a third film. My thoughts exactly. Two very good films that, together, make a great one. There’s also the case of **Cat People** and **Curse of the Cat People** , both produced by Val Lewton. **Cat People** is a masterpiece of subtle horror. **Curse** follows the characters and actors from the first film, it’s very different in tone, dealing with loneliness and just a touch of the supernatural (or was it?). They are two very different films, but the studio insisted that **Curse** be linked. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2015, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-duology/739177/25 "2015-12-02T16:05:14Z")
> [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](#): > > Airplane/Airplane II. The creative team behind Airplane! (Jerry and David Zucker and Jim Abrahams) weren’t involved in the sequel, and it showed. So, IMO, it fits the OP’s bill, but the second one should never have been made, and the original creative team never saw it as a potential duology. In early '84, when I was a student at UW-Madison, the three of them put on a screening of a rough cut of their new film (Top Secret!), which I attended. Afterwards, they had a Q&A session, and they talked about what happened with Airplane and Airplane II, which went something like this: Paramount: Hey, Airplane was great! It made a fortune! We want you to make a sequel. ZAZ: We’ve already done all of the good disaster movie jokes. We want to do something else. Paramount: No, no, no, do another Airplane movie! ZAZ: We don’t want to. It’ll suck. Paramount: Well, see, we own the Airplane rights, so we’re going to make a sequel. You can be involved, or not, but it’s going to be made anyway. ZAZ: Knock yourselves out. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2015, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-duology/739177/26 "2015-12-02T16:33:17Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > _Gremlins_ and _Gremlins: The New Batch_ are both great, neither one a dud. And a great example of how to make a sequel without just re-doing the original. The second one was fresh and even kind of made fun of itself. > [@Wendell\_Wagner](#): > > And that’s the limit of my knowledge of the subject. There’s a lot of material published on those movies, little of which have I read. If you want to know more, you’ll have to do that reading yourself. Thanks. > [@The\_Tooth](#): > > Kill Bill. Yeah, but that was one over-long movie that he split later. Great, but really plays as one movie(and filmed as one movie). I know some people love the Conan movies with Arnold, though I greatly preferred the first one over the second one. I also really liked Hellboy and Hellboy 2, with Hellboy 2 being the superior one. Some people think Jewel of the Nile is a bad movie, but I liked it enough to consider it and Romancing the Stone a nice duology. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2015, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-duology/739177/27 "2015-12-02T16:34:38Z")
Both Addams Family movies are really good, too, with the sequel being the better. ---
**Author:** ![Precambrianmollusc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/precambrianmollusc/32/63_2.png) [@Precambrianmollusc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Precambrianmollusc)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2015, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-duology/739177/28 "2015-12-02T17:07:07Z")
History of the World : Part one and History of the World: Part two ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2015, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-duology/739177/29 "2015-12-02T17:09:14Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > I have a personal weakness for _American Graffiti/More American Graffiti_. Great soundtracks, and the second movie gave a lot more depth to the epilog of the first. This was my thought, too. While the sequel isn’t up to the excellence of the original–few films are!–I like it a lot, especially Terry the Toad’s story arc. ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2015, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-duology/739177/30 "2015-12-02T18:26:52Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > Both Addams Family movies are really good, too, with the sequel being the better. There was actually a third in the series, [Addams Family Reunion](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0146402/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_18), with some of the cast members from the previous two (Carel Struycken and some minor others), but it was a TV movie so we can pretend it never happened. ---
**Author:** ![Personal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Personal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Personal)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2015, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-duology/739177/31 "2015-12-02T18:42:31Z")
> [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](#): > > Airplane/Airplane II. This would be my winner. Clerks and Clerks II, although not the best, should be in the conversation. ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2015, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-duology/739177/32 "2015-12-02T18:44:51Z")
> [@Personal](#): > > This would be my winner. > > Clerks and Clerks II, although not the best, should be in the conversation. It should, they’re quite good, but there’s a Clerks 3 in the pipeline. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2015, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-duology/739177/33 "2015-12-02T19:05:07Z")
I’m going to go with one that’s not on the wikipedia list: **Snake Plissken’s _Escape_** movies! _Escape From New York_ _Escape From L.A._ Not the greatest cinema epics ever produced, true, but I love them both. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2015, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-duology/739177/34 "2015-12-02T19:30:08Z")
> [@Horatio\_Hellpop](#): > > There was actually a third in the series, [Addams Family Reunion](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0146402/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_18), with some of the cast members from the previous two (Carel Struycken and some minor others), but it was a TV movie so we can pretend it never happened. True, true. I wasn’t counting it. The vast majority of cast was not in it and the behind the scenes people were different. ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2015, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-duology/739177/35 "2015-12-02T20:43:26Z")
> [@Horatio\_Hellpop](#): > > **The Mark of Zorro** and **Don Q Son of Zorro** , Douglas Fairbanks’ two shots at the character. This reminded me–_The Mask of Zorro_ and _The Legend of Zorro_, with Antonio Banderas and Catherine Zeta Jones are both pretty good. The second is inferior to the first, but it’s still fun. ---
**Author:** ![xizor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xizor/32/102_2.png) [@xizor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xizor)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2015, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-duology/739177/36 "2015-12-02T21:16:37Z")
_Boondock Saints_ and _Boondock Saints 2: All Saints Day_ Both fine movies with the edge going to the first. ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2015, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-duology/739177/37 "2015-12-02T22:22:05Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > Yeah, but [Kill Bill] was one over-long movie that he split later. Great, but really plays as one movie(and filmed as one movie). Which is weird (although I’m sure it’s true) because they feel like completely different movies. Part 1 feels like an hommage to Hong Kong kung fu flicks, and Part 2 to spaghetti westerns. I much prefer Part 1. ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2015, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-duology/739177/38 "2015-12-04T02:43:22Z")
No one (unless I missed it) mentioned Ghostbusters yet? I know some people have an irrational dislike for 2, and it’s definitely not as good as 1, but they’re still both great. Certainly better than the upcoming piece of shit redo will be. > [@FlikTheBlue](#): > > My personal favorite is Weekend at Bernie’s and Weekend at Bernie’s II. I thought WAB 2 ruined some of the things that made 1 great. I mean, did we really need all that voodoo nonsense? 1’s a true 80’s classic, 2 is just dumb. ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2015, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-duology/739177/39 "2015-12-04T03:12:50Z")
> [@TBG](#): > > No one (unless I missed it) mentioned Ghostbusters yet? I know some people have an irrational dislike for 2, and it’s definitely not as good as 1, but they’re still both great. Certainly better than the upcoming piece of shit redo will be. Ghostbusters definitely a good one. Both movies instantly stop the remote control for me. ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2015, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-duology/739177/40 "2015-12-04T03:28:02Z")
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