Exorcist = big box office pea soup phenomenon
Exorcist II:The Heretic = horrible idiotic mess
Exorcist III: Legion = best of the three
Yeah, but each one is a step up from the previous.
Evil Dead - Horror movie. Neat, but not amazing.
Evil Dead 2 - Horror movie. And comedy. Amazing improvement and hilarious.
Evil Dead 3(Army of Darkness): Pure comedy and all around amazing movie.
Wow, no way. Matrix 2 was a solid “B-” grade. Worse than the first one, but passable.
Matrix 3 was more like a Phantom Menace kind of failure. Horrible.
Why the hate for the second Ocean’s Eleven movie?
It’s my favorite of the three.
It’s been a while since I’ve watched Ocean’s 12, but Julia Roberts pretending to be Tess pretending to be Julie Roberts was a little much.
Why do people say this?! I remember even reviewers saying it. Do you mean to tell me that there are people who were confused by the overlapping time travel? I felt it was pretty simple. And very appropriate for the ‘2nd act’ to be hectic and end on a big cliffhanger.
The only reason I’d disqualify the “Back To The Future” movies is the 2nd and 3rd were made about the same time, if I’m not mistaken. So they didn’t really know if the 2nd would flop. It was already a done deal.
I just think it’d be kind of odd for a studio to invest more money in a sequel after the second bombed.
Because 2 ruined 1 for me.
“Nightmare on Elm Street” and “NOES3: Dream Warriors” are considered pretty good horror flicks.
Nobody even remembers the second.
For both the Back to the Future and the Matrix franchises, each movie was worse than its predecessor, IMHO. But the first film of each was sheer brilliant fun.
Die Hard. None of them bombed, (the first three made about $100 million+ more than the previous) but the second one was awful, and IMO the third was the best of them all.
Ocean’s 12 has some decent stuff if you just listen to the banter between the cast and ignore the fact that they were never in any danger at all.
I agree, actually, though I do love the first one. My wife and I skip the second one and watch 1, 3, and 4. I think the fourth one is picked on too much. It’s pretty good.
I don’t know if you can call Starship Troopers 1 or 3 a hit but they are both oscar material compared to 2.
Did you mean Batman Returns?
A funny review of Star Trek V said “I have not seen this many wigs, capped teeth and corsets since La Cage Aux Folles”
The Jurassic park series had a crap 2nd film, with a pretty good third installment.
A lot of these “bombs” aren’t bombs at all. I mean Matrix 2? Regardless of what you think of the quality, some of these so called bombs did quite well at the box office. A sophomore slump does not a bomb make.
Quite. The heist kind of sucks, but the banter was brilliant (The meeting with Matsui and the banter at the train station, in particular) and the scene of Toulour’s dance at the end, while utterly impossible, was really really cool.
The problem with Twelve is, while the banter is fun, Eleven and Thirteen have banter that’s just as good and better action besides. Twelve was a non-Ocean script that was bought and edited to shoehorn the gang in.
I don’t know how much you want to count the TV series of “Stargate SG-1” but the original movie was very good, the first movie-to-video to wrap up the Ori storyline “Ark of Truth” was pretty bad (they tried to fit a whole cancelled season into 95 minutes) while the second straight-to-video" wrapping up Ba’al story “Continuum” was a lot better, more fun and juice.
I always wondered why the remake of Highlander was called Highlander III. Why give a remake a number if there was never a sequel or a movie series? 
Roger Moore’s first two movies as James Bond (Live and Let Die, The Man With the Golden Gun) almost killed the 007 movie franchise. It took an act of extreme willpower to try again. The Spy Who Loved Me saved the series.