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Little Danny

An idea I spun off the trilogy thead: What movies in your opinion were better than the original?* I stand by the fact the original is usually always better, but here are a couple exceptions IMO:

Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back was better than Stars Wars: A New Hope
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan was better than the original
I think Friday the 13th Parts 2 and 3 where better than the original

* This does not include remakes, which is a whole different ball of wax IMHO.

Manhattan Buckeye

Aliens
Terminator II
Xmen 2
Spiderman 2
Dark Knight

Tobias Fünke

The Godfather: Part 2 is better, in my opinion.

Iliketurtles

The Mighty Ducks 2

jordo212000

Dark Knight definitely heads the list

The two Hangover movies basically had the same plot, but I think I kind of thought the 2nd was funnier. I think most would have a different opinion of part 2 if it came out first

tk421

Back to the Future II
Pirates of the Caribbean 2 (I think it was better, at least)

And if we're are just going off of sequels that were better than the original, than also:

Star Trek III
Star Trek IV
Star Trek VI
Star Trek VIII

of course, I don't know that many people who like the Motion Picture (I do), so probably you could argue all the following Star Trek movies were better.

krambman

LOTR: Return of the King is better than both of the first two movies.

ManO'War

I actually preferred Back To The Future Part III over both I and II.

Empire was the best of all the Star Wars movies.

gport_tennis

The bourne ultimatum was the best movie off the three. All three of them are sweet though

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Scarlet_Fever

ManO'War;820146 wrote:I actually preferred Back To The Future Part III over both I and II.

+1

Heretic

I agree with the OP about Friday the 13th. The original didn't have Jason (except for a dream-style cameo at the end) and the killer wasn't even introduced as a character until the very end. A couple of the sequels were at least entertaining dumb fun that didn't fall into self-parody.

Dawn of the Dead was better than Night of the Living Dead. In a way, I even like Day of the Dead better. Nothing against Night, but the special effects were pretty lame with the zombies looking way too "normal" compared to the other two.

I might put the second Hellraiser above the first. It had this surreal nightmarish vibe to it which I dug. After that one, the series went to hell, though, as Pinhead got turned into "generic horror villain #394" and the only appeal really was seeing what kind of Cenobites he created this time.

JerseyBuck