Discussion Main / Sequelitis

Disagree. It calls out too many movies by name, and people not familiar with those movies won't get it. The ones that like them will be annoyed. We're better off with the current quote that doesn't name names.

It's hyperbole and the lesser of two evils. I saw and enjoyed Spider-Man 3 and Terminator 3 (though they weren't as good as the first two), but the current quote is still painful as hell.

Maybe it's the whole child-killing "humour", I dunno but I hate it.

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I personally find quoting one of the most bitterly divisive sequels in recent memory to be rather clever.

Santa Clause is on the Disney subpage.

What? If anything, the opposite is true. I can only think of one trilogy offhand where the second film is considered the worst. All the others, the second film is generally highly rated.

Like aything in life. There is always an exception. We should not totally believe the theory that a sequel is only 50% as good as the first and gets worse as time goes on. This might be true for 80 to 90 percent of sequels. You can't tell that to George Lucas, whose The Empire Strikes Back was better than the first Star Wars, and The Return of the Jedi was better than all three of them put together.

That's the Sophomore Slump.

Overall critical quality of the Legend of Zelda series is widely regarded to be stable. If there's a trope regarding stagnant boss fights, you might be better off trying there.

Better off? I was arguing against a long since removed example.

General opinion of the LEGO Adaptation games was that the original LEGO Star Wars games were universally praised, but starting with LEGO Indiana Jones and LEGO Batman, the series garnered criticism for consisting entirely of Mission Pack Sequels. For example, LEGO Star Wars II (PC) has a Metacritic rating of 86% while one of the more recent titles, LEGO Pirates of the Caribbean (PC), only has a Metacritic rating of 73%.

The newer games aren't necessarily bad (if anything, they have slowly improved over time), but I think critics and gamers alike are feeling that the LEGO Adaptation games are suffering from Sequelitis because there's at least one new game every year and they're all basically the same thing with only a few minor changes. Much as a sequel would be criticized for rehashing the original's plot, these games are criticized for rehashing the original's gameplay. And that, I think, should be enough to qualify for Sequelitis.

Both are already on Contested Sequel, so they probably can't go here.

It isn't all about you, sir. There's a reason this is a Subjective Trope. Good lord, you'd think people would pay attention to the rules! I say don't remove it unless so many people agree with you that the ones that don't are insanely difficult to find.

EDIT: It seems to be gone (or maybe I was being too stupid and lazy). Why this is, I don't know. I'll look into it...when I feel like it.

Because you can point to two measures to see if whether or not the sequel is well-received or a drag:

1. The Box Office Tallies. Does the film do drastically worse than the previous one? In particular, is there a massive drop-off after the opening weekend in terms of ticket gross?

2. Critical Review. If the first film was well-received by critics, while the second one is savagely torn apart, then it's usually a sign that the film is weaker.

This is now a Subjective Trope, like it should be, despite Wise Bass's statements. Besides, for all you know, people may like a film and every one of its sequels equally. Yes, my response is waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay overdue, but please accept this.