If in the history of cinema, there have been many grandiose, disastrous film sequels, there are counter-arguments that are flashy to say the least.
Jurassic Park- The Lost World , Ghostbusters 2 , The Amazing Spiderman 2 ... Sequels to films that raised a lot of promise but were mostly disappointing in the end. It is true that surfing on the success of a first work by making a sequel is tempting but rarely pays off. Many of which have been the second installments which clearly do not have the same prestige as the moose. And yet, here are five film sequels relatively better than their elder!
James Cameron marked science fiction in 1984 with Terminator . Role that starred Arnold Schwarzenegger but which did not have a recognized depth either. If the screenplay was original and the action scenes striking, the themes tackled were rather poor.
In 1991, released The Last Judgment , the sequel to the adventures of Sarah Connor. And for once, a lot of social themes are addressed:our relationship to technology, psychiatry, fatherhood... Let's mix it all up with one of the most charismatic villains in cinema and a good dose of striking punchlines and you get a movie, which more than thirty years later, hasn't aged a bit.
After the success of the first, Sam Raimi decides to involve a villain until then very little known by the general public and yet very appreciated by fans of the comic:the Doc Oc . And it's mission accomplished. The interpretation of Alfred Molina remains to this day one of the best for a villain in a Spiderman movie. . In addition, the horrific side with the surgery scene in the hospital, much more present than in the first opus of the trilogy, reinforces the idea that this sequel is more accomplished than the moose.
If the first film from Dream Works devoted to the most famous of cinema's ogres is an animation classic, its sequel will be a monument. Charming, the Fairy, the Puss in Boots ... Only characters that everyone remembers today. Who doesn't remember the cover of Bonnie Tyler's cult title in "I Need a hero " when taking the castle?
In 1977, one of the turning points in the history of sagas and cinema in general was released on the big screen with:Star Wars, A New Hope . First episode of the Star Wars universe that will immediately become cult. Yet, a closer look, is it a good movie? If the story is put aside, the fights are average, the dialogues a bit silly and the staging of the characters remain unconvincing. Defects corrected three years later with The Empire Strikes Back where Darth Vader consolidates his legend. And the striking phrases are numerous...
So yes, the first opus Batman Begins is a cult film as it launches one of the greatest trilogies in the superheroes cinematic universe . However, if Liam Neeson is a great actor and Ra's al Ghul is one of the main enemies of the bat, something is missing:this grain of madness specific to the world of Bob Kane and Bill Finger. Christopher Nolan, aware of this detail will make up for it with the Dark Knight . Darker, better scene of tension and action, questions about identity and above all...the Joker . Rarely has a performance by an actor been so acclaimed. Reinforced by the terrible tragedy that the cast will experience before the film's release in cinemas, the success of TDK will forever be unmatched.
