What's your favorite high-numbered sequel?

[DarrenTR1970]

I guess it all depends on how you number the series. There's 'Night', then there's 'Diary' which takes place before and during the events of 'Night'. Then there's 'Survival' which takes place between 'Night' and 'Dawn'. Followed by 'Day' and 'Land'. So chronologically 'Day' is now the fifth movie in the series.

However, if you so like, I'll change my movie to 'Godzilla vs Mothra', the fourth movie in the original Godzilla series and the last to feature 'The Big G' as the true villain of the series before morphing into Earth's protector in the next movie, 'Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster'.

 

[Mr Light]

Revenge of the Sith
Star Trek Undiscovered Country
Fast Five
Mission Impossible Ghost Protocol

 

[Trekkin]

Does it count if the stories are unrelated but it's by the same director? If so they Mad Max Fury Road by a mile.

I don't think Fury Road ought to count. Same director, same villain actor in new role, but they changed the gender of his kid! If Trek '09 is a reset, than surely so is Fury Road.

(Though Superman Returns at most qualifies as an alternate third entry, not a fifth. )

Apparently she's not his kid (which explains why she mostly calls him 'Max' and is a lot older than Sprog). She was going to appear in an interqual comic, but I don't know what's going on with that.


Most of my picks have been taken. I really liked Wes Craven's New Nightmare (NOES7), and Freddy Vs Jason was pretty entertaining schlock. The latest Evil Dead movie apparently counts as part of the official continuity, Halloween H20 was fairly decent, and so was Dominion (the other Excorcist prequel). Final Destination 5 was okay, and I like all 4 Phanstasm movies, but I think I'm in the minority there.

So many slasher movies on my shelves. I think I have a problem.

I also liked Prometheus (it's flawed, I know), but I'm not sure whether you'd fit that in your criteria. Godzilla: Final Wars is similar - it went out of its way to try and connect nearly every Godzilla 'reboot' together. If that doesn't count, then Godzilla vs Destroyah.

Ooh, the last two Dragonball Z movies! What are we up to, 16 of them? And the last two Mission: Impossible movies. And (fuck it) Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.

 

[Greg Cox]

The Basil Rathbone "Sherlock Holmes" series had some good sequels well into its run, like "The Scarlet Claw" and "The Woman in Green."

 

[DarrenTR1970]

Thought of another one - Abbott and Costello meet Frankenstein. The monsters are allowed to be scary, Abbott and Costello play it fairly straight, Lon gets to be the tragic hero and Bela gets one last turn in his most famous role as Dracula. Oh, and a cameo by Vincent Price as the Invisible Man a year or two before he actually played the character in a movie. What's not to love.

 

[Greg Cox]

Thought of another one - Abbott and Costello meet Frankenstein. The monsters are allowed to be scary, Abbott and Costello play it fairly straight, Lon gets to be the tragic hero and Bela gets one last turn in his most famous role as Dracula. Oh, and a cameo by Vincent Price as the Invisible Man a year or two before he actually played the character in a movie. What's not to love.

Good one! I love that movie!

 

[Lord Garth]

I also liked Prometheus (it's flawed, I know), but I'm not sure whether you'd fit that in your criteria.

It's a spin-off so, not so much; but I'm a huge fan of this movie too.

Ooh, the last two Dragonball Z movies! What are we up to, 16 of them?

15 if we're just talking about Z. I haven't seen the two new ones. I will eventually. I need to get caught up with Super.

 

[Starbreaker]

Friday the 13th Part VII: New Blood.

 

[DarrenTR1970]

Hela already mentioned it but I too have a soft spot for Freddy vs Jason. It's so over the top that you just have to sit back and enjoy it.

 

[Captain Craig]

Instead of renaming some already mentioned I agree with I'll add: Halloween H20 (7th in the orig series)
The return of Jaime Lee Curtis to the franchise!

 

[sidious618]

Revenge of the Sith, definitely.

 

[tomalak301]

Harry Potter 5, 7, and 8
The Undiscovered Country and The Voyage Home

Those were the first to come to mind.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Star Trek: First Contact

(not technically numbered, as such, but who cares?)

 

[Mojochi]

Cheech & Chong's Things Are Tough All Over

Monty Python's The Meaning of Life

Dirty Harry in Sudden Impact & The Dead Pool

And Lethal Weapon 4 & Vegas Vacation are ok

 

[Mr Light]

oh yeah Lethal Weapon 4 is actually my favorite movie in the series!

 

[tharpdevenport]

Not many when you think of all the sequels out there.

Star Wars episodes V and VI.

Star Trek: TWoK, TUC. And though not numbered on screen, Generations.

Probably one or more the Dirty Harry sequels, but it's been 15 or more years since I've seen any of them.


Both the Back to the Future sequels.

I really enjoyed "Beverly Hills Cop III".

And in a smaller minority, both sequels to The Godfather.

I remember liking "Hot Shots! Part Deux", but it's been probably twentry years since I've seen it.


That reminds me -- I've never seen all the Pink Panther films.