[Closed] Film franchises - biggest gap between best and worst

Police Academy 1 (brilliant) Police Academy 8, just not quite as good as the first. 😛

Terminator to Terminator GenYsis?

I've not looked but Pirates of the Caribbean must feature....

The Matrix,

The Matrix Revolutions

Godfather two to three!

Fast and Furious, all were pretty shite but the distinction between actual shite and just shite is moot.

bikebouy - Member

Fast and Furious,

How dare you. Tokyo Drift is high art.

Starship Troopers (7.2) vs the straight-to-video sequel you probably didn't even know existed, Starship Troopers 2: Hero of the Federation (3.5)
... was close, but Jaws still winning.

The Godfather Part III was nominated for 7 Oscars and scores 7.6 on IMDB, so generally considered to be OK.

Aliens - Alien 3 .

Beaten to The Matrix.

Exorcist to Exorcist 2?

Get Carter and Get Carter.
The Wicker Man and The Wicker Man.

But they're just remakes, sooooo Carry On Up The Khyber and Carry On England, or Emmannuelle.

chakaping - Member
Beaten to The Matrix.

Exorcist to Exorcist 2?

Die Hard - Die Hard 5 (the IMDB rating is clearly wrong)

Tenuous - Member
Starship Troopers (7.2) vs the straight-to-video sequel you probably didn't even know existed, Starship Troopers 2: Hero of the Federation (3.5)
... was close, but Jaws still winning.

I've seen it, it's really really appalling - it loses all the subtext, 90% of the budget and any of the original cast with talent - poor old Casper Van Diem stays on.

Worse still, there's a third...

And a animated series...

And two animated films.

From Dusk to Dawn 7.3...
From Dusk to Dawn 4.0...

Not a winner but another really terrible film I got suckered into by Blockbuster...

And the third...

Highlander.

Highlander 2.

Tremors to Tremors 4.

Read the OP?

You what?

Some crackers there.

There's a Tremors 4?!
Who knew?

chakaping - Member
Read the OP?
You what?

There's a Tremors 4?!
Who knew?

It was quietly deployed into supermarket bargain buckets I suspect!

Shame as the first was epic!

But the crown needs to go to the indiana Jones franchise. If South Park make a joke about George lucas raping Harrison Ford, that's a sign that the franchise has gone to far.

The Italian job and The Italian job.

An American Werewolf In London.
An American Werewolf In Paris.

Michael Caine on Jaws the Revenge

I have never seen it, but by all accounts it is terrible. However, I have seen the house that it built, and it is terrific.

The Godfather Part III was nominated for 7 Oscars and scores 7.6 on IMDB, so generally considered to be OK.

I can't imagine you can watch them on consecutive nights then say that 3 isn't a massive disappointment

 

On Rotten tomatoes, The Dirty Dozen gets 90% and The Dirty Dozen - the next mission gets 22%.

Edit - oh, and the Final Mission gets 11%! What do I win?

Also, be careful when you Google Dirty Dozen 2 as I'm not sure some of the "stars" offer the same sort of Nazi slaughtering fun as they should. Perhaps they should wear more clothes.

Robocop, 88%.
Robocop 3, 3%

Edit beaten that.
The Sting 93%
The Sting 2 0%

The Sting 2? Who knew?!? 😉

Rotten Tomatoes does have wider gaps - probably because it measures % of positive reviews, whereas IMDB is just marks out of 10 averaged. So a score of 5 on IMDB wouldn't count as a positive review on RT.

I looked at the bottom 100 films on IMDB - there were one or two other franchise films on there (I forget which) as well as the Jaws one, but the best in those franchises were nowhere near Jaws in their rating. I have a feeling that with the IMDB scoring my initial thought of Jaws can't be beaten.

The Sting is a pretty wide gap!

Indiana jones , brilliant, good , back to brilliant then fridges and aliens

CheesybeanZ - Member 
Aliens - Alien 3 .

I actually quite like Alien 3, especially the Assembly Cut.

Aliens I find a bit over-rated. It's good, but the style is too action oriented for me (though oddly I love Starship Troopers, but then that film is a deliberate piss take). Alien on the other hand is a masterpiece.

IMDB gives it too high a rating at 5.8 considering the terrible reviews and death at the box office, but The Mummy v The Mummy (2017).

Brendan Frasers review http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2017-06-23/brendan-fraser-reviews-the-mummy-reboot-not-enough-brendan-fraser

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Dirty Harry vs Dirty Harry The Deadpool.

One too many l's in the second, imho.

The neverending story 1984
The neverending story 2: The next chapter! 1990

Weekend at Bernie's and Weekend at Bernie's 2

Critters: 1986
Critters 2: 1988
am I getting something wrong here? 😛

I was going to say Star Wars: A New Hope to Caravan of Courage an Ewok Adventure, but for some reason that scores a respectable 5.8 on IMDB with 10k votes.

I saw it at the Cinema as a kid, it was toss then.

Hang on, Critters 2 was great. 3 was bullshit though 🙂

Starship troopers to starship troopers 3

can't believe how high the rating for Indiana jones and the crystal skull is.....72% WTF....... 😯

P-Jay - Member 
I was going to say Star Wars: A New Hope to Caravan of Courage an Ewok Adventure, but for some reason that scores a respectable 5.8 on IMDB with 10k votes.
I saw it at the Cinema as a kid, it was toss then.

Think I saw it on rental from the video shop. Expecting more Star Wars and just got fluffy Ewoks.

Anyway, how about Star Wars (none of this New Hope rubbish thank you 😛 ) to ... The Star Wars Holiday Special ? 😀

Though amazingly it gets 2.3 on IMDB

It's a terrible experience to watch, though strangely interesting.