Movies Improved Upon by Sequels

[Russell Nash]

Conan the Barbarian looks like an oscar winning masterpiece next to the cliche filled sequel, Conan the Destroyer.

Then it belongs in the Movies Destroyed by Sequels thread.

stePH started this thread and patrols the boundaries like a rabid Minuteman on the Mexican border.

[davedoty]

Wait, no Godfather 2?  Seriously?  Or are we limiting discussion to SF/F subjects?

I'm going to risk being struck by lightning and say that the opening portions of Star Trek TMP, when they were reassembling the crew, are my favorite part of any ST movie, despite how the rest of it went.  They actually made me feel like the crew went on to have lived full lives outside of their time on the Enterprise, while all subsequent films for both TOS and TNG left a feeling that the characters largely froze in the time the series was in place, and were simply waiting to go back to the status quo of the rest of their lives.

Okay, I'm not even going to come close to arguing that it was a better film overall than the others, but that one aspect was the best thing about any of the 10 films to me.

[wintermute]

Conan the Barbarian looks like an oscar winning masterpiece next to the cliche filled sequel, Conan the Destroyer.

Then it belongs in the Movies Destroyed by Sequels thread.

stePH started this thread and patrols the boundaries like a rabid Minuteman on the Mexican border.

I would totally* support the Minutemen, if they dressed up like Hello Kitty when they went on their patrols.


*Disclaimer: I would not actually support them. But it would be hilarious.

[stePH]

Wait, no Godfather 2?  Seriously?  Or are we limiting discussion to SF/F subjects?

Not limited to SF/F; if you think The Godfather Part II improved on The Godfather you can put it here.

stePH started this thread and patrols the boundaries like a rabid Minuteman on the Mexican border.

  Yeah, there's a couple of other messageboards where I've pointed out that a thread would have been better-placed in a different subforum.  I like when things go in the appropriate forums.  Sue me.