Support NeoGAF

[SuperGooey]

Mad Max Fury Road and Blade Runner 2049 are two that immediately come to mind.

 

[bender]

John Wick is a weird choice. A always thought the 2nd was the weakest of the trilogy.

 

[mekes]

Pacific Rim 2

 

[iconmaster]

As likely the biggest BR fan on the board. I wouldn't say BR2049 is necessarily better than the original, but it's a decent sequel to a film that didn't necessarily require one.

I agree. It's slick and pays sufficient homage to the original, even keeping the same deliberate pacing. The people behind it did great work. But it still came off as unnecessary.

 

[Kadayi]

I agree. It's slick and pays sufficient to the original, even keeping the same deliberate pacing. The people behind it did great work. But it still came off as unnecessary.

When they announced the sequel was happening originally with Ridley Scott helming again I was a bit 'uggh' because after the shit-show known as Prometheus I didn't have much faith in him to deliver if the script wasn't up to snuff. So I was pretty pleased when they announced Denis Villeneuve was directing and even more so that The Deakins was doing the cinematography given the excellent work they did on Sicario. Overall albeit unnecessary I thought it was a job well done, and within itself it threw up some interesting ideas, even if I didn't care for the Android uprising story-line though thankfully that wasn't delved into all that much. I think the big reason they were able to come up with a decent sequel was that both them and Hampton Fancher spending a good few months diligently going over the story and fleshing the whole thing and evolving the world in the process. Albeit perhaps not the box office success the suits might have envisaged (though given BR was a flop originally I never got why anyone thought it was going to do mad gang busters). In terms of how to follow something up it was more more considered effort versus the turgid unimaginative mess was what the Remixer managed with the last Star Wars Trilogy.

 

[MetalAlien]

i'm still waiting for old man max with mel

but fury road is excellent, you monster

I can't stop seeing Space Hunter... if they had just called it what it is, a remake of Space Hunter, I would like it a lot more...

 

[bronk]

there was another sequel recently released. Have you watched it?

imho the raid 2 > the raid

I was thinking that too but I think I like the first better. Both are fuckin amazing.

 

[Darth]

10 Cloverfield Lane

Great choice. The first movie sucks ass while this movie is great. Then the third movie somehow managed to be worse than the first.

 

[Schrödinger's cat]

The last Mission Impossible film. Best of the bunch by a significant margin.

 

[Rival]

.

 

[Husky]

Mad Max has been around a long time, but it's only got four entries. Fury Road is for sure the first or second best in its series.

This is a prequel to a movie, and it's actually a series--The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance is so much better than the original movie, it's pretty amazing. Unfortunately it looks like Netflix is only giving it one season, declaring it was meant to be a "one-off," though the showrunners were writing more.

There's an argument to be made that Split is better than Unbreakable. Me, I love the whole trilogy (yes even Glass), and it's cathartic as fuck that the series finally concluded.
Same argument can be made with Blade Runner 2049, as everyone's pointed out. I'm undecided.
Oh god, I can't decide if The Endless was better than Resolution or not. We sure are indecisive today, aren't we? I think I'll plant myself with Resolution (so not the sequel).

Also 10 Cloverfield Lane for sure, and again, as others have pointed out. But it's not exactly a challenge to one-up Matt Reeves.

 

[Elcid]

The Road Warrior.

 

[Jesus Carbomb]

Don’t sleep on Paddington 1 & 2

 

[haxan7]

I can’t look at this thread without the phrase flickin the bean popping into my head

 

[Werewolf Jones]

Godzilla and 10 Cloverfield Lane posts aren't telling lies.

It may or MAY NOT count but considering the IP has been dormant for like nearly 20 years wasn't Halloween 2018 considered fire? I haven't seen it myself.

Remember the Thing 2011?

Don’t sleep on Paddington 1 & 2

This but unironically. Paddo is King.

 

[NinjaBoiX]

imho the raid 2 > the raid

No no, I really didn’t like the sequel.

The first one felt tight and essential, the second one felt flabby and redundant. By the last half hour I just wanted it to stop.

I’d 100% watch The Raid with anyone who hadn’t seen it, I never want to watch the sequel again.

 

[godhandiscen]

Train To abusan 2 looks cool.