{"id":1708,"date":"2013-11-10T13:39:00","date_gmt":"2013-11-10T13:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2013\/11\/five-best-sequels.html"},"modified":"2013-11-10T13:39:00","modified_gmt":"2013-11-10T13:39:00","slug":"five-best-sequels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2013\/11\/five-best-sequels.html","title":{"rendered":"Five best sequels"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

I know, this isn\u2019t a movie blog.\u00a0 But it\u2019s my blog and I can write what I want.\u00a0 My post on Halloween movies for the kids <\/a>remains a favorite, so why not cheaply exploit what works?\u00a0 Plus my schedule is such that I\u2019ve had little time to keep up with things, the news, events or whatever.\u00a0 I don\u2019t like commenting just to comment, and certainly not if I\u2019ve had no time to think things through or investigate.\u00a0 So, since my older two just watched one of the better movie sequels a week ago, I thought I\u2019d kick this weighty and important topic around.\u00a0 Haven\u2019t had a chance to gather our somewhat haphazard Halloween pics yet.\u00a0 Will post on that strange whirlwind of whirlwinds when I can.\u00a0 But now, that question we\u2019ve all been asking about to be answered \u2013 what do I think are the best sequels of all time?\u00a0 Especially since rehashed ideas and endless sequalizing or presequels are what Hollywood seems capable of today<\/p>\n

First, a note.\u00a0 Sequels do not typically have a lot of respect.\u00a0 Usually they\u2019re seen as cheap exploitation of what worked the first time.\u00a0 Usually they are inferior to the original products.\u00a0 In most cases they don\u2019t capture whatever magic made the first one work.\u00a0 Even the list here,\u00a0reflecting on those\u00a0typically considered the best sequels, typically don\u2019t outshine the originals.\u00a0 In most cases, the\u00a0sequels\u00a0are worse, sometimes far worse, than the originals.\u00a0 And that can include being promoted as \u2018prequels\u2019.\u00a0\u00a0Among the worst ever made was Phantom Menace<\/em>, a movie so bad that it almost tainted the entire franchise.\u00a0 It\u2019s also worth noting I\u2019m not considering pre-planned sequels, or manufactured franchises (Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter<\/em>).\u00a0 Those aren\u2019t sequels.\u00a0 You knew they would happen.\u00a0 These are movies that followed ground breaking or outrageously successful movies
that stood on their own, and then forced the movie makers to think \u2018how can we follow that?\u2019\u00a0 These are the ones they followed in ways worthy of their predecessors. <\/p>\n

The Godfather Part II<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The most celebrated and awarded sequel of all.\u00a0 Garnering more Academy Awards than its predecessor, The Godfather<\/em>.\u00a0 True, The Godfather<\/em> is considered by many to be the best overall movie ever made.\u00a0 It put Brando in the fraternity of legendary performances.\u00a0 It\u2019s flawless in every way.\u00a0 Everything works.\u00a0 It\u2019s the perfect movie.\u00a0 If Citizen Kane<\/em> is considered the greatest movie because of its impact and the story behind its making, Godfather is simply the best.\u00a0 So how does one follow that?\u00a0 <\/p>\n

Not easily.\u00a0 The production was fraught with problems.\u00a0 Neither Brando nor\u00a0 Richard Castelleno would reprise their roles for less than a zillion dollars, so the studios said no, we\u2019ll do without. Michael Gazzo stepped in with a character meant to fill Clemenza\u2019s shoes, but the storyline still reminds the viewer \u2018that was supposed to be Pete.\u2019\u00a0 The scene that should have had Brando is also clearly lacking Brando, even if it\u2019s minor.\u00a0 The storyline of the post-Godfather plot is essentially the Godfather all over, with the conflicts, the family turmoil, and the obligatory climactic assassination sequence.\u00a0 The development of Michael\u2019s relationship and fallout with Fredo is the highpoint.<\/p>\n

But it\u2019s the \u2018prequel\u2019 version of the story, and De Niro\u2019s portrayal of the up and coming Don, that gave it the heft.\u00a0 Roger Ebert once said the sequence in which young Vito stalks Don\u00a0Fanucci through the streets of a crowded festival is one of the best ever filmed.\u00a0 I\u2019m inclined to agree.\u00a0 Many things went against making this sequel, but through it all, and due to some wonderful filmmaking, especially in the \u2018prequel\u2019 sequences, solidified this film\u2019s standing as the best sequel ever made. <\/p>\n

Bride of Frankenstein<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Perhaps the only sequel considered to be better than its predecessor.\u00a0 And that\u2019s saying something.\u00a0 Whether better or not, it\u2019s tough to say.\u00a0 But certainly great in its own way, and able to do what sequels should do: point back to the best of the first, while going in new directions and expanding on what the first movie offered.<\/p>\n

Like the original, it is based on a stage play of the book, not the book.\u00a0 But it borrows from various elements in the original novel to weave a story that begins to look deeper into the ethical, philosophical and perhaps even theological ramifications of the first.\u00a0 I saw a scientifically funded special on PBS that tried to say, among other things, that Frankenstein was never about scientists going too far.\u00a0 It was, in fact, about silly religious people standing in the way of progress.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

I\u2019ve read the book and watched the movies.\u00a0 It\u2019s about what happens when man plays God.\u00a0 And this movie looks to the question with more gusto and yet more subtlety than the first.\u00a0\u00a0 Karloff is given lines, and he continues to show a monster that deserves at least some sympathy.\u00a0 In fact, Karloff is now not the monster at all.\u00a0 The true monster is Doctor Pretorius.\u00a0 Thesiger brought a new level of evil to this film.\u00a0 In many ways the movie is crueler, meaner in its portrayal of violence and death.\u00a0 In many ways, it\u2019s everything the first movie was, but magnified.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

In the end,\u00a0it does what the great sequels do.\u00a0 It manages to link to the original, without merely copying the original and making a formula.\u00a0 It doesn\u2019t mimic, and just retell the story.\u00a0 It takes what was there the first time and builds on it, going to new levels and following paths established by the original.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/p>\n

The Empire Strikes Back<\/strong> <\/p>\n

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In polls among young people today, it\u2019s said that they consider this the worst of the Star Wars<\/em>.\u00a0 Attack of the Clones<\/em> comes out well, as does the other prequels.\u00a0 Some give the original kudos by virtue of being the original.\u00a0 But something has happened in our modern tech saturated world that has led an entire generation to think that Phantom
\n Menace<\/em> was awesome, while The Empire Strikes Back<\/em> stunk up the franchise.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

Nonetheless, obsession with CGI notwithstanding, most movie critics and many fans over the age of 30 remember this as the best of the crop.\u00a0 Nothing would match the impact of the original.\u00a0 Star Wars<\/em> was a cultural phenomenon as much as a movie that changed movies forever (for better or worse).\u00a0 Star Wars<\/em> was to movies what The Beatles were to pop music.\u00a0 When Lucas unleashed his fantasy space movie on an unsuspecting public in 1977, things would never be the same.\u00a0 Star Wars<\/em> was everywhere.\u00a0 And that phenomenon lasted up until the release of Empire in 1980.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

Empire was not as financially successful as Star Wars<\/em>.\u00a0 And many were put off by the forced sequel ending.\u00a0 Still, when the dust settled, it came to be recognized as the best of the bunch.\u00a0 The final installment, Return of the Jedi<\/em>, was what it was.\u00a0 A rushed together merging of about three more movies that had to be crammed together due to the actors\u2019 increasing reluctance to come back to that galaxy far, far away.\u00a0 And it looks it.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

But Empire took Star Wars<\/em> and went in a new direction.\u00a0 The acting was still what it was.\u00a0 The writing was crisper, and the characters unpacked.\u00a0 If any detractors said anything in 77, it was that the original\u2019s story was superficial and the characters underdeveloped.\u00a0 Empire sought to remedy that.\u00a0 Relying heavily on Lawrence Kasden for the screenplay and Irvin Kirshner for directing duties, Lucas stepped back from the trenches and it showed.\u00a0 Better dialogue, a deeper plot, superior writing.\u00a0 The effects still astounded, especially the legendary Walkers segment.\u00a0 But by then, the effects that Star Wars had pioneered were standard issue.\u00a0 And Kirshner knew it.\u00a0 The magic of that summer in 1977 would never be recaptured.\u00a0 But Empire, for at least one movie, tried to say that films about spaceships and galactic empires can be more than matinee fare.\u00a0 They can be quality movies in their own right.\u00a0 Of all the space movies made in the modern era, The Empire Strikes Back<\/em> comes closest to showing that is true.<\/p>\n

Aliens<\/strong><\/p>\n

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A perfect example of how to make a sequel.\u00a0 The original movie Alien<\/em> sent people screaming from the theater.\u00a0 Blood and gore and a new level of terror took the techno-leap that Star Wars<\/em> provided and spun it in a different direction.\u00a0 The movie was what it was: a space whodunit.\u00a0 According to stories, Harry Dean Stanton, playing one of the Nostromo\u2019s ill-fated crew, was reluctant to audition, saying he didn\u2019t do sci-fi.\u00a0 He was told it was a bit like Ten Little Indians<\/em> in space.\u00a0 And it was.\u00a0 The effects were a matter of course.\u00a0 There was no special scene that says \u2018look at the neat effects!\u2019\u00a0 By 79, they\u2019re already taken for granted.\u00a0 But the story, the concept, the art, the sets, the suspense, all worked to make it not just one of the biggest movies of the year, but arguably one of the best movies of all time.<\/p>\n

A lazy director or producer, when conceiving a sequel, would try again.\u00a0 Suspense.\u00a0 Drama.\u00a0 A similar story.\u00a0 Hapless crew runs into alien part II.\u00a0 But Cameron, who arguably was at the top of his game in the mid-80s, goes a different direction.\u00a0 Realizing what many directors miss, he knew there was no sense trying to scare audiences again, or wow them with fantastical images of derelict spacecraft and strange alien life forms.\u00a0 Instead, he goes a different direction.\u00a0 Action-horror all the way.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

Sigourney Weaver, not keen on reprising her break-out role as Ripley, agreed to come back if the screenplay afforded her a chance to be a strong female and also flex her maternal muscles.\u00a0 The movie relies on assumptions of the original movie, and in a way not easily explained, makes knowledge of the original optional.\u00a0 You can actually enjoy it on its own terms.\u00a0 I know this since I actually saw this movie in theaters before I saw the original on VHS, and enjoyed it all the same. <\/p>\n

No longer stealth, suspense, a sense of horror.\u00a0 This simply takes the kick-butt monster from the first movie, and multiplies.\u00a0 Then instead of a group of hapless space truckers, you throw in a crack unit of well armed space marines.\u00a0 Chaos ensues.\u00a0 Cameron taps some of his favorite stock actors to fill out a well rounded ensemble cast.\u00a0 From 84\u2019s The Terminator<\/em> come Lance Henriksen, Michael Biehn and Bill Paxton as the scene stealing\u00a0Hudson (\u201cGame over man, game over!\u201d) to help give an extra dimension to what could have been cardboard soldiers backing up Weaver.\u00a0 Aliens<\/em> does everything right, and in an unusual way, both credits the original upon which it is based, while being a fine stand alone film.\u00a0 Not easy.\u00a0 And seldom accomplished. <\/p>\n

Jaws II<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The first movie to break 100 million dollars, Jaws<\/em> should have bombed on ten different levels.\u00a0 The successful novel was not exactly Pulitzer Prize material.\u00a0 The mechanical shark didn\u2019t work.\u00a0 Difficulties with Teamster unions and location shooting plagued the production.\u00a0 A young Steven Spielberg actually wore a suit to the final shoot for fear the crew would throw him in the water out of frustration if he didn\u2019t look dressed for some important meeting.\u00a0 Robert Shaw famously called the script \u201ca piece of shit\u201d, and only agreed to play the part of Quint the shark killer after his wife insisted.\u00a0 Richard Dreyfuss went about incognito after the film was done for fear someone might recognize him as being in that dreadful shark movie.<\/p>\n

And then?\u00a0 Movie magic.\u00a0 Right timing.\u00a0 The Summer of 1975.\u00a0 Beach season.\u00a0 Swim season.\u00a0 Sharks.\u00a0 Need we say more.\u00a0\u00a0 The mechanical problems helped, and forced Spielberg to rely on Hitchcockian suspense and imagination through most of the movie.\u00a0 It also forced him to come up with a \u2018shark\u2019s POV\u2019 approach that only added to swimmers\u2019 apprehensions.\u00a0 The acting was superb, with the three principal actors giving wonderful performances, and Shaw\u2019s now legendary monologue, which\u00a0he co-wrote to give Quint a reason for his obsession, still standing as one of the best in movie history.\u00a0 Though it didn\u2019t get the Academy Award for Best Picture (losing out to One Flew Over the Cuckoo\u2019s Nest<\/em>), it blew audiences away, caused drops in seaside resort business, and taught Hollywood the power of a seasonally oriented release, soon to be known as the Summer Blockbuster. <\/p>\n

So how do you top that?\u00a0 Well, you don\u2019t.\u00a0 For obvious reasons, not all of the top three actors can return.\u00a0 In fact, Dreyfus had moved on and only Roy Scheider
\n agreed to reprise his role as Sheriff Brody.\u00a0 Some suspension of belief was needed.\u00a0 After all, given the events of a couple years earlier, why on earth would the town not listen to the man who said \u2018there\u2019s a shark again!\u2019\u00a0 You\u2019d think the entire town would snap into action.\u00a0 In some ways, Jaws II shows what not to do in a sequel.<\/p>\n

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And yet, it works.\u00a0 It basically does what might have inspired Cameron with Aliens<\/em>.\u00a0 Instead of trying for suspense.\u00a0 Instead of acting like the audience didn\u2019t know what a shark was.\u00a0 It just said \u2018OK, we\u2019ll throw a lot of teenagers out in the shark infested water and see if audiences can take the thrills and excitement.\u2019\u00a0 And they did.\u00a0 A brilliant tagline meant to invoke the original\u2019s appeal (Just when you though it was safe to go into the water..<\/em>.), helped explain what this movie was doing. It sought to capitalize on a great thing.\u00a0 It wasn\u2019t the best, and yet at the end of the day, it was enjoyable in its own way.\u00a0 If a sequel can do anything, it has to pay homage to the original while making itself enjoyable.\u00a0 Jaws II does this better than most. <\/p>\n

There are others that are acceptable, and some \u2013 such as the Comic Book sequels \u2013\u00a0sometimes hold their own, even if the movies themselves and their content make a truly captivating film nigh on impossible.\u00a0 I\u2019m thinking Spiderman II<\/em>, which is a pretty good movie as movies go, much less as comic book movies go.\u00a0\u00a0 But these are the top five IMHO.\u00a0 And up until recent years in the internet age, there were only one or possibly two that I could see serious students of film disagreeing with. <\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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