What is the BEST movie with the WORST sequel?

pinback · Post by **pinback** » Tue Mar 23, 2021 6:07 am

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.

Flack · Post by **Flack** » Tue Mar 23, 2021 8:43 am

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.

pinback · Post by **pinback** » Tue Mar 23, 2021 9:14 am

If you go by Rotten Tomatoes rankings, Jaws is clearly the right answer (Jaws 98% - Jaws 4 0%).

Jizaboz · Post by **Jizaboz** » Tue Mar 23, 2021 11:56 am

This one was easy! Predator for sure in my book.

AArdvark · Post by **AArdvark** » Tue Mar 23, 2021 3:05 pm

What about direct-to-video sequels, can we count those?

pinback · Post by **pinback** » Tue Mar 23, 2021 3:25 pm

Since everything is direct-to-video anymore, sure!