Sequels that are better than the original

[JuanHamm]

Terminator 2 is probably the most obvious one. Does anyone prefer The Terminator?

As much as I love Ridley Scott I think Aliens and Bladerunner 2049 are both superior to the originals. I'm sure there will be plenty of disagreement there.

What are some others?

[VinylGuy]

T2 for sure

obvious one is The Godfather. I would add Evil Dead 2 too.

[Coach]

The Empire Strikes Back

[JuanHamm]

I have never seen The Godfather 2. I saw the first one in the theater about a year ago and loved it. I should make that a priority.

[tree_]

The Dark Knight is better than Batman Begins

Spiderman 2 over 1

[JuanHamm]

The Dark Knight is better than Batman Begins

Another superhero one - X2 is better than X-Men.

[daft twat]

The Empire Strikes Back

No.

[VinylGuy]

The Empire Strikes Back

of course

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

[Farmer John]

Disagree about Aliens being better than the first one.

[JuanHamm]

Disagree about Aliens being better than the first one.

They're both great movies, but Aliens has Bill Paxton and the Alien doesn't look like a guy in a suit.

[Jorge]

The first Godfather is better

[epilogue]

A Very Brady Sequel
Wrath of Kahn
Before Sunset

[The Argonaut]

Dawn of the Dead, probably
Fury Road, and probably even Mad Max 2
a lot of people would say Dark Knight, but I probably would not say that
Top Gun Maverick, for sureeeeee

[Farmer John]

Not by a wide margin, but Paddington 2.

[epilogue]

Are we only counting the first sequel for the purposes of this thread?

[Coach]

The original Back to the Future was best.

[Coach]

And technically, I did like The Last Jedi more than The Force Awakens, too.

[epilogue]

And technically, I did like The Last Jedi more than The Force Awakens, too.

But those are both sequels to Star Wars... so....

[Coach]

And technically, I did like The Last Jedi more than The Force Awakens, too.

But those are both sequels to Star Wars... so....

Fair point!