If You Don't Agree That These Movie Sequels Were Better Than The Originals, I'm Sorry, But You're Just Wrong

TriStar

The archetypal The Terminator movie is fantastic, but it was Terminator 2: Judgement Day that genuinely elevated the franchise. It's not conscionable 1 of the champion sequels of each time, it's 1 of the best movies of each time. Balancing unthinkable enactment sequences with the close magnitude of wit and emotion, it's the uncommon benignant of movie that tin get your bosom racing, laughter flowing, and tears spilling successful abundance.

Warner Bros

Magic Mike tried to beryllium thing that conscionable didn't work, and Magic Mike XXL course-corrected to go what the archetypal movie should person ever been: funny, silly, sexy, female-gazey, and conscionable plain fun. If you ne'er experienced this movie successful a cinema afloat of (slightly tipsy) radical attracted to men, you missed retired connected the acquisition of a lifetime. 

Warner Bros

Honestly, who adjacent remembers what happened successful Batman Begins? It's The Dark Knight, the astir enduring of Christopher Nolan's trilogy, which explores the afloat imaginable of the rich, gritty satellite of Gotham and its heroes and villains. While the movie is astonishing each around, its acheronian instrumentality connected the Joker is peculiarly special, successful nary tiny portion acknowledgment to Heath Ledger's transcendent performance.

Warner Bros

Long earlier The Dark Knight, different Batman sequel improved upon its predecessor — Batman Returns, which was the follow-up to Tim Burton's Batman. While the archetypal movie was enjoyable, the sequel allowed Burton to instrumentality much originative control, resulting successful an offering that was some darker and quirkier, with much layered characters and plentifulness of iconic moments.

Studiocanal

Evil Dead II took what was bully astir The Evil Dead, stripped distant oregon minimized the atrocious parts, and dialed the full happening up to 11. Shifting the bid from much accepted fearfulness to acheronian drama territory, Evil Dead II is astir arsenic ridiculous — and ridiculously comic — arsenic a movie gets. There's a crushed it's a cult classic.

Lionsgate

While the archetypal The Hunger Games movie is simply a coagulated commencement to the series, its follow-up, Catching Fire, is the item successful the franchise. Its expanded satellite and characters, the horrors of the games, the allegorical governmental themes, and Katniss and Peeta's ain journeys each consciousness much developed and emotionally impactful. It's besides a ocular feast.

Kennedy Miller Entertainment

When radical deliberation of classical Mad Max, it's The Road Warrior that comes to mind, not the original. It was The Road Warrior that genuinely established the derelict, post-apocalyptic mentation of Australia powerfully associated with the franchise, and which positioned Max arsenic the lone warrior archetype we cognize and love. It was besides this sequel that saw manager George Miller up his crippled with enactment and stunts to a thrilling degree.

Warner Bros

If The Road Warrior defined classic, Mad Max, Fury Road brought the bid to a caller procreation and made it amended than ever before. Mad Max: Fury Road expands the apocalyptic satellite and the Mad Max mythos portion besides utilizing modern effects and a expansive scale, making for an perfectly exhilarating cinematic experience. The instauration of characters similar Furiosa and Nux besides adds engaging caller angles to the story.

Castle Rock Entertainment

The Before trilogy is each wonderful, but's 2nd movie, Before Sunset, is possibly the best. Before Sunset takes the fantastic acting and dialog contiguous successful the archetypal movie and adds higher stakes, deeper emotions, and much analyzable characters, arsenic we conscionable them astatine an older age, with much beingness experiences that adhd extent to their dynamic. 

Marvel

The narration betwixt Steve Rogers and his champion person Bucky Barnes is 1 of the astir compelling successful the Marvel Cinematic Universe (just inquire AO3), and the cardinal portion it plays successful Captain America: The Winter Soldier is simply a large crushed wherefore it's wide regarded arsenic not conscionable an betterment connected the archetypal Captain America movie, but the strongest 1 overall. The moving journeys of Steve and Bucky crushed the movie, but don't instrumentality distant from the fantastic enactment sequences — not to notation 1 hellhole of a crippled twist.

Marvel

Thor: Ragnarok breathed caller beingness into the Thor bid and its cardinal character, arsenic good arsenic the MCU arsenic a whole. It remains 1 of the strongest movies successful the franchise, with manager Taika Waititi unleashing Chris Hemsworth's comedic chops to fantabulous effect portion inactive maintaining an underlying affectional through-line that provides much-needed balance. Plus, the supporting formed is fantastic, the visuals are stunning, and the philharmonic cues are unforgettable.

Studiocanal

Paddington was a amazingly charming modern adaptation of a classical children's publication series, but its sequel, Paddington 2, was what truly captured the hearts of modern audiences, some young and not-so-young (ahem). The wacky wit combines with beauteous visuals and charming performances to make a heartwarming whole, portion Hugh Grant wholly steals the amusement arsenic the villain, intelligibly having the clip of his life.

Universal

The Fast and the Furious franchise is 1 of seemingly endless sequels, and audiences devour up each azygous one. Yet it's the 5th instalment, Fast Five, that endures arsenic possibly the champion of the bunch. It blew unfastened the standard of the series, shifting absorption from individuals thoroughfare racing to a much archetypal squad of improbable heroes, successful this case, executing a heist and each the excitement that entails. While it's genuinely thrilling, it's besides effectual successful assembling a formed of characters you genuinely attraction astir and basal for.

Lucasfilm

The archetypal Star Wars movie is, of course, incredible, but its sequel — present known as Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back — wholly changed the crippled for the bid and cinema successful general. Featuring 1 of the astir iconic crippled twists of each time, the communicative adds analyzable layers to each the characters, but particularly to Darth Vader, portion the fantabulous enactment sequences, visuals, and people from the archetypal movie are amped up adjacent further.

Lucasfilm

It whitethorn person been divisive, but Star Wars: Episode VIII - The Last Jedi is frankly inactive the champion of the modern Star Wars movies — and 1 of the strongest successful the full franchise. Stunning cinematography and combat choreography marque for immoderate breathtaking and memorable scenes, and the crippled feels caller and urgent, with quality arcs that are dynamic and interesting.

20th Century Fox

Logan takes the well-established quality of Wolverine, arsenic played by Hugh Jackman, and creates a darker, much grounded communicative for him that feels captious and refreshing. It's a movie that shows the superhero genre astatine its best, and contains Jackman's strongest show arsenic Wolverine, if not of his full career. Patrick Stewart's mentation of an older, unwell Charles Xavier is besides incredibly moving.

Disney-Pixar

The Toy Story bid is fantastic arsenic a whole, but Toy Story 3 is the astir emotionally impactful (of people owing, successful part, to the mode it builds connected what came before). The communicative allows the characters, arsenic good arsenic the assemblage who person grown up with them, to mature and evolve, whilst inactive appealing to younger viewers who can't afloat grasp the bittersweet undercurrent astatine play (yet). It's poignant and cathartic, and honestly, the cleanable decision to the bid (and possibly should person remained arsenic such).