# Best Part IV of a movie series **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 14, 2014, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-part-iv-of-a-movie-series/688436 "2014-05-14T14:20:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**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:** [May 15, 2014, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-part-iv-of-a-movie-series/688436/21 "2014-05-15T03:03:49Z")
> [@infinitii](#): > > Live Free or Die Hard is a fitting addition to the Die Hard movies. The one after that, however… I’d even say Die Hard 4 is the second best one after the original. It is very good. Die Hard 5 is almost as bad as Highlander 2. ---
**Author:** ![Antinor01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2014, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-part-iv-of-a-movie-series/688436/22 "2014-05-15T03:08:09Z")
> [@PSXer](#): > > Star trek iv: the one with the whales is a great movie too Heh. That’s exactly the way my Mom always describes it. She never remembers the actual name. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2014, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-part-iv-of-a-movie-series/688436/23 "2014-05-15T03:27:03Z")
Don’t have a good IV, but I would say that the best _Leonard_ was Part VI. ---
**Author:** ![irritant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@irritant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/irritant)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2014, 7:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-part-iv-of-a-movie-series/688436/24 "2014-05-15T07:09:13Z")
_Bed and Board_, the fourth of Francois Truffaut’s Antoine Doinel series. ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2014, 7:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-part-iv-of-a-movie-series/688436/25 "2014-05-15T07:54:42Z")
> [@epbrown01](#): > > _Rambo_, the fourth in the First Blood series, is pretty decent. I’d vote for this. ---
**Author:** ![drewtwo99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2014, 8:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-part-iv-of-a-movie-series/688436/26 "2014-05-15T08:01:59Z")
Thunderball isn’t bad, and neither was the remake of it Never Say Never. Not as good as Goldfinger though. Alien IV deserves a dishonorable mention for being perhaps the worst offender of this trend. I can’t think of a part 4 that sunk to as low of depths as Alien IV. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2014, 8:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-part-iv-of-a-movie-series/688436/27 "2014-05-15T08:04:34Z")
> [@Suburban\_Plankton](#): > > I was coming in to say **The Pink Panther Strikes Again** (not counting the movie **Inspector Closeau** , starring Richard Dreyfuss in the title role, as a ‘real Pink Panther Movie’). No matter which way the jury rules,I think it qualifies 🙂 Not Richard Dreyfuss-Alan Arkin. ---
**Author:** ![OneCentStamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/13edae/32.png) [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2014, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-part-iv-of-a-movie-series/688436/28 "2014-05-15T12:47:11Z")
> [@GargoyleWB](#): > > Friday the 13th Part 4 is arguably one of the 2 or 3 best movies in the series, by schlocky 80s slasher flick standards. And _Halloween IV_ was, at the very least, better than _Season of the Witch_. I mean, it at least had Michael Myers back. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Omar\_Little](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omar_little/32/269_2.png) [@Omar\_Little](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omar_Little)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2014, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-part-iv-of-a-movie-series/688436/29 "2014-05-15T18:13:32Z")
C’mon, _Herbie Goes Bananas_ is a classic! ---
**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:** [May 15, 2014, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-part-iv-of-a-movie-series/688436/30 "2014-05-15T18:58:16Z")
> [@OneCentStamp](#): > > And _Halloween IV_ was, at the very least, better than _Season of the Witch_. I mean, it at least had Michael Myers back. :smack: It is solid and the last good Halloween movie. I don’t think die Hard 4 and Rambo 4 can be beat. ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2014, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-part-iv-of-a-movie-series/688436/31 "2014-05-16T00:43:49Z")
> [@Exapno\_Mapcase](#): > > That list doesn’t go back far enough. > > _The Thin Man_ had true sequels, five of them in fact. The fourth overall was _Shadow of the Thin Man_ and it’s well considered, with a 7.3 rating on IMDb. > > The fourth Bob Hope/Bing Crosby Road picture, _Road to Utopia_, gets a 7.6 rating, the highest in the entire seven-movie series. Seconded. These are still the winners of the thread thus far. ---
**Author:** ![epbrown01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7ba0ec/32.png) [@epbrown01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/epbrown01)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2014, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-part-iv-of-a-movie-series/688436/32 "2014-05-16T02:24:12Z")
Hmm, I’d guess the fourth Dexter Riley film was decent, whatever it was. Used to love those as a kid. ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2014, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-part-iv-of-a-movie-series/688436/33 "2014-05-16T13:35:59Z")
Sure as hell wasn’t Superman IV: The Quest for Peace. Did that POS even get a theatrical release? I knew nothing about it until it appeared in the video rental store one day. I nominate- Universal Studios’ Ghost of Frankenstein, starring Cedric Hardwicke as Ludwig Frankenstein, Lon Chaney Jr. as the Monster, and Bela Lugosi as Ygor. Hammer Films’ Dracula Has Risen from the Grave, and Frankenstein Created Woman. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2014, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-part-iv-of-a-movie-series/688436/34 "2014-05-16T13:59:58Z")
How did we forget Star Trek IV: The One with the Whales so quickly? ---
**Author:** ![Omar\_Little](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omar_little/32/269_2.png) [@Omar\_Little](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omar_Little)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2014, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-part-iv-of-a-movie-series/688436/35 "2014-05-16T15:09:29Z")
> [@epbrown01](#): > > Hmm, I’d guess the fourth Dexter Riley film was decent, whatever it was. Used to love those as a kid. Unfortunately that was only a trilogy: _The Computer that Wore Tennis Shoes (69) Now You See Him Now You Don’t (72) The Strongest Man in the World (75)_ You might be able to stretch the OP’s criteria a bit as the Dexter Reilly series was set at Medfield College, which was also the setting for _The Absent Minded Professor (61)_ and _Son of Flubber (63)_ which would have made _Now You See Him…_ the 4th in the series. ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2014, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-part-iv-of-a-movie-series/688436/36 "2014-07-14T13:22:07Z")
I can’t believe I forgot The Prodigal Planet. Part IV of the Rapturist B-movie “A Thief in the Night” series, which traumatized a whole generation of Christian teens. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2014, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-part-iv-of-a-movie-series/688436/37 "2014-07-14T23:57:02Z")
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2014, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-part-iv-of-a-movie-series/688436/38 "2014-07-15T00:05:52Z")
I’d say Fast & Furious (4 Fast 4 Furious). Not that it’s a particularly great film, or even one of the better Fast & Furious films. But it marked the beginning of the formula for all future Fast & Furious films - Vin Diesel, Paul Walker and their motley collection of underground racing pals performing a huge heist in some exotic locale. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2014, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-part-iv-of-a-movie-series/688436/39 "2014-07-15T00:07:21Z")
If you count the ViewAskewniverse movies as a series, then _Dogma_ was the fourth movie and, in my opinion, was the best of the series. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2014, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-part-iv-of-a-movie-series/688436/40 "2014-07-15T00:21:36Z")
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