Transformers 2 suffered from a abominable showcase ofsequel - itis , raising our fears that forthcoming Star Trek and Iron Man sequels will contract this deathly ailment . But it does n’t have to be that way : Here are 15 sequels that did n’t suck .
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X2
The original cast and director return for this second outing , and it convey forrard the topic of mutants in a social club that hates and fears them . This clock time around , the rogue Col . William Stryker is plotting to use the mutants ’ own technology and world power to traverse them all down and destroy them . The early scenes of Magneto in a fictile prison are hit and well - realized , and the attack on Xavier ’s school drives home how vulnerable our mutant heroes are in a world that hat them . The first 10 - Men moving picture was a act hasten and formulaic with the need to innovate so many mutant hero sandwich , but this one feels a second more cohesive .
Back To The succeeding Part 2
Easily my favourite of the BTTF movies , this one in reality takes us to the literal future , instead of just 1985 . Biff , the hapless bully , beat Marty at his own time - hacking game , creating an substitute timeline where Biff rules . I ’m a sucker for any storyline where the hero has to interbreed his own timeline and run around the same series of case a second time , without trouble all the applecarts he fructify in movement the first prison term around . Sure , it ’s goofy , but so was the first one .
Superman II
A confession : I have n’t yet see the “ director ’s cut ” that came out on videodisc a match years ago , because the idea of give this motion picture the same close as the first one seemed just obviously silly . Famously , music director Richard Donner had a falling out with the studio over this film , and the studio apartment brought in someone else to fetch up this movie , and recut the final product . But I still really like the original cold shoulder , for its awesome mega - baddie from Superman ’s own home planet , including General Zod . Of all the continuation to boast the hero giving up his powers to survive a normal life , this is the most interesting , since Superman likely could n’t be with Lois otherwise . And I hump the random yahoo in a bar beating the crap out of Clark . The only major flaw is the storage - erasing candy kiss at the conclusion , which is total drek .
Robocop 2
This is another questionable one — but this film has a special place in my heart . Frank Miller ’s first foray into making motion-picture show , back when he was still an edgy maniac , pick up the satiric themes of the first flick and die nuts with them . ( Sure , the studio messed with Frank ’s script , but the result is still pleasingly freaktastic . ) Detroit is being privatized , the police force play is maneuvered into being on ten-strike , and Robocop is out there on his own . We venture deep into the dark pump of Robocop , as Alex Murphy tries and betray to recapture his original life with his folk — and meanwhile , every attempt to create a new Robocop only leads to self-destruction ( and slaying - self-annihilation ) as the replacements ca n’t face the repulsion of what they ’ve become . Until OCP render make a totally amoral , power - craze version .
Spider - Man 2
After readingthe original Michael Chabon scriptfor this picture , I marginally favour that version — the whole “ Peter Parker kibosh being Spider - Man ” subplot in this film is handled really weirdly and confusingly . ( He short ask glasses ? Why ? ) But either version of the story is still a worthwhile continuation of the first film . Alfred Molina is a sympathetic but deranged Doc Octopus , and the successiveness where Spidey halt a runaway wagon train — and then the passengers do n’t denounce out his indistinguishability — is a classic for a reasonableness .
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Daleks : Invasion Earth 2150 A.D.
The first Peter Cushing Dalek movie was a total flying - saucer wreck , with blond flower child alien in blue eye - shadow and non - deadly Daleks . But this sequel , also base on an installment from the Doctor Who television serial publication , is a full classic . It has much more energy , from begin to stop , and the Daleks are awesomely sanguinary . The supporting cast includes Bernard Cribbins and Philip Madoc , and the TV installment ’s slightly bloated plotline benefits a lot from being compressed down to a picture duration .
Blade II
Guillermo del Toro maltreat in and directed this subsequence , instantly promote it to a gothic horror masterpiece along the way . Blade , the “ daywalker , ” is more enigmatic and cooler , and his relationship with Whistler takes a weird turn when he has to cure Whistler of vampirism . But mostly , this movie is memorable for its genetic engineering project , where the vampire are trying to breed a newfangled race of superintendent - lamia . Vampires + weird science = winnings .
The Chronicles Of Riddick
Thanks toPansyfor advise this one — it really should be on the list . Riddick , the merciless killer from Pitch Black , gets a whole backstory and and a heroic fortune , but mostly he kicks a whole muckle more ass than in the first movie .
https://gizmodo.com/15-science-fiction-movie-sequels-that-dont-utterly-suck-5308559
Dawn Of The Dead
Mad Max : The Road Warrior
Many citizenry probably did n’t even fuck this was a continuation when it come out . The first Mad Max movie did n’t make nearly as big an impact ( in the United States , anyway ) as this unbelievable follow - up , with its long aspect of caravan mass murder . ( It did n’t serve that when the original Max came out , Mel Gibson was dub with a frightening American accent . ) The original Max is a total classic , but movies like Doomsday are still biting the feeling of anarchy and vehicular mayhem that this sequel brings . Fans are stilldoing Road Warrior reconstructions on the public roads .
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Aliens
James Cameron steps in and show how to do a sequel to someone else ’s creation . Ripley hold out back to the moon where she play the alien eggs , accompanied by a platoon of colonial marines . Every character in this picture is an awing archetype , from Burke the corporal wiener to Vasquez the tough nautical chick . The supporting cast of this moving-picture show is more memorable than the main character of a lot of other films . ( Even Newt , the cute kid , is tolerable . ) From the moment they render to LV-426 , the tension is palpable , and the legal action successiveness only reward the feeling of a police squad under siege in cramped quarters . By the time Ripley takes care of the alien female monarch using that magnate cause at the end , you ’re jumping up and cheering for her .
Terminator 2
Cameron already proved he had what it call for to make a grampus continuation when he returned to the film that put him on the map . In some direction , this is just a remake of the original , only with Arnie ’s Terminator in the role of protector instead of chaser . But just like Cameron increased Ripley ’s bad - assery in Aliens , he does the same for Sarah Connor here , including her awesome mental innovation escape . Having a reprogrammed Terminator — and actually getting to open up its head and change it from read - only to read - write — opens up all sort of fascinating questions about the nature of artificial consciousness that the first movie just touch on on . All the cool ideas in Terminator : The Sarah Connor Chronicles get their start here .
The Dark Knight
I almost left this one off because of the changeless debate over whether it really counts as science fiction … but still . This really is a ground in how to do a decent sequel . Batman Begins shows us the making of Batman , and the sequel amount near to showing us the breakage of him . rather of another continuation where the sub randomly decide to take the air aside from being a hero for get married or have a “ normal ” life , this film shows us Bruce Wayne select to remain Batman in the face of almost inconceivable pandemonium that ’s laid at his door . Okay , he does almost reveal his identity at one point , but in the end , this film is a great continuation of the first movie because it show just what it take for Bruce to stay Batman . Thanks to all the commenters who insisted it should be in here .
Star Wars : The Empire Strikes Back
RoboCop 2 director Irvin Kerschner also direct another continuation , which might be slightly more famous . There ’s so much to love about this film , include our first meeting with Yoda and Lando Calrissian , and the way Darth Vader goes through Admirals like popcorn . But really , the reason why it ’s the best film in the series is because of the way it work up up to the revelation that Luke Skywalker ’s pappa went bad — and there ’s an first-class fortune that Luke will go the same way . The sequence in the cave , where Luke confronts his own inner darkness , is more powerful than everything Hayden Christensen ever committed to film .
Star Trek II : The Wrath Of Khan
And then , of course , there ’s the film that all other sequel are compared to . It does n’t suffer that the first movie in the series consists of three hours of watching a train pull out of a station , while the great unwashed talk about grain futures . But still , this movie makes the original Trek characters as vivid as they ’ve ever been , from Spock and McCoy both giving birthday presents to Kirk all the way up to the end . Almost every line of dialog in this motion picture has been in someone ’s sig file at some point , and this film does for space conflict what Road Warrior does for railroad car chases . And then there ’s Ricardo Montalban ’s charismatic turning as the obsessed , arrogant space lunatic , Khan .
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