StefanFilms

Jeez, I haven't been on here in a while. Like, in a long while.

And I probably won't be on here too much in the near future. I might be posting videos up here soon, but I'm not sure when. Especially seeing as how I'm starting to get into doing professional wedding videos. Gotta pay the bills somehow, ya know?

Though I do have a thought on the common idea people seem to have about sequels being inferior to the original film. I just don't think that's the case anymore. I think a lot of it comes from a group of people who don't know a whole lot about film, so they use this statement as a knee-jerk response to a major studio making a sequel, so as they can look like they know what they're talking about in front of the cinema.

The quality of sequel films is actually split right down the middle right now, especially since every movie being made today merely seems like filler before the sequel, or simply establishing everything in place for the sequel. (Because every movie has to be made into a trilogy these days.)

These 10 random sequels are much better than their corresponding first film (despite the first film being pretty awesome anyway):
The Godfather: Part 2
Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence
Terminator 2: Judgement Day
The Terror of Mechagodzilla (counting it as the second movie starring the Mechagodzilla character)
Kill Bill Vol. 2
Evangelion 2.22: You Can (Not) Advance
Toy Story 2
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
The Dark Knight

Now there are sequels that suck. Most of them come from an older age where films were made to be stand-alone products with no expectations of a second film, so less thought would be put into allowing room for one in the establishment in the first film. Either that, or it also was because this was a time before VCRs, DVD/Blu-Ray players, and downloadable or streaming media. So a sequel would have been merely been made to copy the original so that way the film can be reintroduced to a newer audience. Others, like Jurassic Park sequels, have no excuse.

Here are 10 sequels that suck in no particular order:
The Lost World: Jurassic Park
The Matrix Reloaded
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
Star Wars Episode II: The Attack of the Clones (sequel to the prequel)
Transformers 2: Rise of the Fallen
Godzilla Raids Again (an actual sequel to the first 1954 film)
2010: The Year We Make Contact
Godzilla: Tokyo S.O.S. (sequel to Godzilla Against Mechagodzilla)
Battle For The Planet Of The Apes
Jaws: The Revenge