POLL- The WEAKEST LINK: MOVIE SEQUELS - ROUND 2

MedozK

Ok, to keep us on the movie path. I decided to pull some great sequels from my memory to discuss what we think is the BEST MOVIE SEQUEL from this list. Now I know that some of you may have other sequels that you think are better than all on the list, but lets just let this go for the time being. Pick the film that you think is the WEAKEST LINK from the ones provided and when we finish we can discuss if anyone has any that could maybe beat our winner here.

Now to Round 2 to determine the BEST MOVIE SEQUEL from the films listed.

You are going to pick the film that you think is the "Weakest Link" after 2 days I remove the two (2) movie with the most votes. We will then move on to ROUND 3.

THE GODFATHER, PART II (1974)

ALIENS (1986)

EVIL DEAD 2: DEAD BY DAWN (1987) - Eliminated Round 1

THE DARK KNIGHT (2008)

STAR WARS: EPISODE V - THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK (1980)

TERMINATOR 2: JUDGMENT DAY (1991)

MAD MAX 2: THE ROAD WARRIOR (1982)

CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE WINTER SOLDIER (2014)

INDIANA JONES AND THE LAST CRUSADE (1989)

BACK TO THE FUTURE PART II (1989) - Eliminated Round 1

Johnny Abruzzo

ALIENS

GFII is the best movie here but I think Empire will take this competition.

mace1229

CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE WINTER SOLDIER

I didn’t notice Indiana Jones was The Last Crusade last time, or I wouldn’t have voted for it. Saw Indiana and just thought Temple. Although I guess that’s technically a prequel.

tempo_n_groove

ALIENS

Johnny Abruzzo said:

GFII is the best movie here but I think Empire will take this competition.

Maybe T2.  That was one hell of a movie but my vote is one of the Holy Trilogy, ESB.

tbergs

CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE WINTER SOLDIER

All those getting votes is just delaying the showdown we are all expecting. Looks like T2 and Dark Knight will be the 2nd to last round based on how we've been voting.

MedozK

No way Last Crusade is better than The Road Warrior

tbergs

CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE WINTER SOLDIER

MedozK said:

No way Last Crusade is better than The Road Warrior

Of course it's not, but very few people get fuzzy memories of nostalgia watching Mel battle the horde while driving a tanker truck, but everyone loves Sean and Harrison yucking it up all over Germany. And RIP River Phoenix. He was great.

tbergs

CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE WINTER SOLDIER

Speaking of the scene in Road Warrior with the tanker truck, it seems to be a theme among several movies that a semi truck gets involved in a chase and does lots of damage; T2 and Dark Knight as well. I don't know if this is the case, but was that scene in Road Warrior one of the first of it's kind and later influence the other 2 movies?

F Me In The Brain

CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE WINTER SOLDIER

GFII is worse than these other movies?

Wow, didn't see that coming.

Is it a protest vote because Child's Play 2 isn't included?  Breakin' 2 Electric Boogaloo?

Ledbetterman10

THE GODFATHER, PART II

I voted for Godfather 2 here, despite not seeing all of the other movies, and thinking it's better than Last Crusade and The Dark Knight. But I've always been sort of anti-Godfather 2. Here's my rant...

-Well first off it's a 6-hour movie. Oh, it's "only" three and a half hours? Well it feels like 6 hours.

-I really like the prequel segments, but there's not enough of it. I think the prequel segments take up only about 40 minutes, while the present-day segments take up the other five hours and twenty minutes (I mean two hours and forty minutes). I wish the movie was more balanced. Every time I start to get invested in the prequel segments, we have to go back to the present so Michael can have a boring conversation with the senator, or a boring conversation with Connie and her new husband, or a boring conversation with Frank Pentangeli, or a boring conversation with Hyman Roth, or a boring conversation with Fredo. THE WHOLE MOVIE IS JUST BORING CONVERSATIONS!!!

-I said I like the prequel segments but there should've been more. Like, how did Vito become so powerful? Okay, he kills Don Fanucci so that's how he got power. How much power? Well he's so powerful that he could....umm....convince a landlord to let a widow stay in her apartment? That's it? Mind you, the scene of the landlord stopping by and apologizing is one of my favorite scenes in either movie (I don't acknowledge Godfather 3). But that's it? Why not have a scene that shows actual mafia-stuff? They show a young Tessio and young Clemenza (great casting there by the way, as they do look like younger versions of Vigoda and Castellano). But why not show how Vito puts them in charge of certain territories and what they do? No, all we get is him and Clemenza stealing a freaking rug. How exciting. And how was there not a scene of a young Sonny finding a young Tom Hagen in the street? You don't even have to say it. Just show young Sonny coming across a lone kid in the street. People would get it. 

-Did I mention how boring MIchael is and how I don't understand how anyone can give a fuck about his character in this movie? The first movie? Yeah, he's interesting. Here? Just soooooooooo boring.

"That's the way Coppola wanted it." 

WELL IT AIN'T THE WAY I WANTED IT! I CAN EDIT THIS MOVIE DOWN TO TWO AND A HALF HOURS! I CAN HANDLE IT! I'M SMAWT!!!

JimmyV

MAD MAX 2: THE ROAD WARRIOR

Democracy is jumping the shark right before our very eyes.

F Me In The Brain

CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE WINTER SOLDIER

Everyone is entitled to their opinion, of course.

No accounting for taste!

(Makes note to disregard any opinion Lbm10 has on movies for the rest of time....)      

tbergs

CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE WINTER SOLDIER

Ledbetterman10 said:

I voted for Godfather 2 here, despite not seeing all of the other movies, and thinking it's better than Last Crusade and The Dark Knight. But I've always been sort of anti-Godfather 2. Here's my rant...

-Well first off it's a 6-hour movie. Oh, it's "only" three and a half hours? Well it feels like 6 hours.

-I really like the prequel segments, but there's not enough of it. I think the prequel segments take up only about 40 minutes, while the present-day segments take up the other five hours and twenty minutes (I mean two hours and forty minutes). I wish the movie was more balanced. Every time I start to get invested in the prequel segments, we have to go back to the present so Michael can have a boring conversation with the senator, or a boring conversation with Connie and her new husband, or a boring conversation with Frank Pentangeli, or a boring conversation with Hyman Roth, or a boring conversation with Fredo. THE WHOLE MOVIE IS JUST BORING CONVERSATIONS!!!

-I said I like the prequel segments but there should've been more. Like, how did Vito become so powerful? Okay, he kills Don Fanucci so that's how he got power. How much power? Well he's so powerful that he could....umm....convince a landlord to let a widow stay in her apartment? That's it? Mind you, the scene of the landlord stopping by and apologizing is one of my favorite scenes in either movie (I don't acknowledge Godfather 3). But that's it? Why not have a scene that shows actual mafia-stuff? They show a young Tessio and young Clemenza (great casting there by the way, as they do look like younger versions of Vigoda and Castellano). But why not show how Vito puts them in charge of certain territories and what they do? No, all we get is him and Clemenza stealing a freaking rug. How exciting. And how was there not a scene of a young Sonny finding a young Tom Hagen in the street? You don't even have to say it. Just show young Sonny coming across a lone kid in the street. People would get it. 

-Did I mention how boring MIchael is and how I don't understand how anyone can give a fuck about his character in this movie? The first movie? Yeah, he's interesting. Here? Just soooooooooo boring.

"That's the way Coppola wanted it." 

WELL IT AIN'T THE WAY I WANTED IT! I CAN EDIT THIS MOVIE DOWN TO TWO AND A HALF HOURS! I CAN HANDLE IT! I'M SMAWT!!!

I know you said you don't acknowledge GFIII, but the trend with Michael getting more boring really hit it's peak in that one. I still think it's a great movie though (GFII, not GFIII, that one's dogshit). I haven't seen it in about 2 decades though so maybe I should revisit that when I have an extended weekend and can devote 6 hours to watching it

Ledbetterman10

THE GODFATHER, PART II

F Me In The Brain said:

Everyone is entitled to their opinion, of course.

No accounting for taste!

(Makes note to disregard any opinion Lbm10 has on movies for the rest of time....)      

I stand by what I wrote with more passion and conviction than anything I've ever written on this message board.

Well except that The Fixer is the cheesiest rock song ever written. 

F Me In The Brain

CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE WINTER SOLDIER

Ledbetterman10 said:

F Me In The Brain said:

Everyone is entitled to their opinion, of course.

No accounting for taste!

(Makes note to disregard any opinion Lbm10 has on movies for the rest of time....)      

I stand by what I wrote with more passion and conviction than anything I've ever written on this message board.

Well except that The Fixer is the cheesiest rock song ever written. 

I can appreciate the commitment. 

GFII is quite possibly my favorite movie of all time.  (The Godfather Epic most assuredly holds that title, if one can consider the 7 hour chronological splice up a single move.)   I love "boring conversations" in movies.            (I love books!)

Ledbetterman10

THE GODFATHER, PART II

F Me In The Brain said:

Ledbetterman10 said:

F Me In The Brain said:

Everyone is entitled to their opinion, of course.

No accounting for taste!

(Makes note to disregard any opinion Lbm10 has on movies for the rest of time....)      

I stand by what I wrote with more passion and conviction than anything I've ever written on this message board.

Well except that The Fixer is the cheesiest rock song ever written. 

I can appreciate the commitment. 

GFII is quite possibly my favorite movie of all time.  (The Godfather Epic most assuredly holds that title, if one can consider the 7 hour chronological splice up a single move.)   I love "boring conversations" in movies.            (I love books!)

Yeah I like the Epic too because I get my prequel segment, then the first movie, and then I can shut it off, lol. 

Obviously you can tell that I love The Godfather. Even though I'm speaking ill of GF2, I wouldn't know all the characters (I'm a big Willie Cicci guy) and the plot if I haven't seen it so many times. But I've always nit-picked at it. My father, who is huge fan (isn't everybody's father?), loves the book and always told me I'd love the book too, due to my overall liking of The Godfather, but my complaining about all of Michael's boring conversations in GF2. I actually have a beat-up copy that I got a thrift store, but haven't gotten around to reading it. 

mcgruff10

MAD MAX 2: THE ROAD WARRIOR

Damn why the hate for the Winter Soldier?!  Soooo good.

Glorified KC

MAD MAX 2: THE ROAD WARRIOR

Mel Gibson can go to hell.  That's why this movie gets my vote.

mace1229

CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE WINTER SOLDIER

mcgruff10 said:

Damn why the hate for the Winter Soldier?!  Soooo good.

Just too many marvel movies to keep up. I got over them. Actually did see this one, but couldn't care about it not seeing half the others.

Spiritual_Chaos

CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE WINTER SOLDIER

mcgruff10 said:

Damn why the hate for the Winter Soldier?!  Soooo good.

tbergs

CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE WINTER SOLDIER

mcgruff10 said:

Damn why the hate for the Winter Soldier?!  Soooo good.

You're on the wrong side of history.