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What is the BEST movie with the WORST sequel?

Posted: Tue Mar 23, 2021 6:07 am
by pinback
Put another way, what movie series had the largest gap in quality from the original to one (or more) of it's sequels?

(*) I do not consider Star Trek 2 a sequel to Star Trek: The Motion Picture. For the purposes of this poll, Star Trek 2 was the first movie in the series of further Star Trek movies with the original cast, and Star Trek (2009) was the first movie in the reboot series.

Re: What is the BEST movie with the WORST sequel?

Posted: Tue Mar 23, 2021 8:43 am
by Flack
There are a lot of great movies here. A lot of them had really bad sequels. But after thinking about it, and I'm not saying this because of Pinback, but I had to go with Jaws. I really wanted to go with Star Wars because those prequels were pretty bad, but even the worst Star Wars (or Matrix, my second pick) movie is leagues better than Jaws 4. I can't think of a wider gap in quality. Even Indiana Jones 4 had some redeeming qualities.

Re: What is the BEST movie with the WORST sequel?

Posted: Tue Mar 23, 2021 9:14 am
by pinback
If you go by Rotten Tomatoes rankings, Jaws is clearly the right answer (Jaws 98% - Jaws 4 0%).

Re: What is the BEST movie with the WORST sequel?

Posted: Tue Mar 23, 2021 11:56 am
by Jizaboz
This one was easy! Predator for sure in my book.

Re: What is the BEST movie with the WORST sequel?

Posted: Tue Mar 23, 2021 3:05 pm
by AArdvark
What about direct-to-video sequels, can we count those?

Re: What is the BEST movie with the WORST sequel?

Posted: Tue Mar 23, 2021 3:25 pm
by pinback
Since everything is direct-to-video anymore, sure!