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Congratulations! Your film has done admirably at the box office. Your combination of (breathtaking effects/clever writing/wicked action scenes/biting social commentary; circle one) and (breathtaking effects/clever writing/wicked action scenes/biting social commentary; circle one) has led the producers to greenlight a sequel. Please begin (eviscerating the film?s soul/firing every original actor/hiring a retarded monkey to write the script/slashing the production budget/obscenely inflating the production budget/marketing the movie to angsty 12-year-olds; circle one) in preparation for the sequel?s release.

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So maybe movie studios aren?t always that point-blank about their plans to create sequels. Really, though, if you look at all the spectacularly bad sequels that have come out in the past decade or so, it wouldn?t be any stretch of the imagination to see memos like the one above being sent out every few months by production companies.

Sometimes it seems like movie studio execs simply have no idea what they?re producing. Certainly, the box office success of one movie does not guarantee the success of a sequel. There are so many variables that go into what makes a good movie that it?s nearly impossible to capture all of them and repeat the success a second time.

Take the recent release of The Ring 2. You may have noticed the less-than-positive review in last week?s Pillbox ? the film had no possibility of living up to the original, which was a highly regarded and well-executed movie. Of course, The Ring 2 has been performing well at the box office, but that is more an effect of having no other even marginally entertaining movies in theaters right now and especially because it?s only PG-13. Even considering that, this movie should never have been made. In fact, The Ring 2?s Japanese counterpart, Ringu 2, was only created because people didn?t like the original sequel (titled Rasen, or ?spiral?).

A lot of sequels don?t even get the restrained respect that The Ring 2 is starting to get. For example, take the release of Son of the Mask earlier this year. Even on the film?s own merits and if the movie were a completely original film devoid of franchise ties, it would have been a miserable failure. The film cost $84 million to produce and even more to market, and to date (in the month and a half it?s been out) it has made just over $25 million worldwide. This is a perfect example of the worst way to go about a sequel: Not only did the production company take a franchise that has been dormant for 11 years, except for a mildly entertaining cartoon show, but they also got rid of the original director, original screenwriter, original cast, and even the original feel of the movie. In fact, Son of the Mask was produced and marketed as a kids? movie ? the inheritors of the enchanted mask are a dog and a baby. Stunning filmmaking, indeed.

And then there was the brilliant idea of making bad sequels to already bad movies. Elektra, released earlier this year, was a sequel to the mediocre Daredevil. No one expected the production company to spin off a relatively uninteresting character (who actually ends up dying in Daredevil) into her own movie ? even though they did give it a hefty budget and kept the star. The production company simply couldn?t solve the problem of an uninteresting story and poor acting. The producers of the movie haven?t yet disclosed how much they spent to make the movie, but it?s only made $52 million worldwide ? a paltry amount for any Marvel Comics film.

Best Sequels :

15. Escape from the Planet of the Apes

This is probably the least popular choice on the list, but I am including it because it did such a great job of reversing the morality of the first film – in the original the Humans are treated like animals and kept in cages – in this film, the Apes are studied by humans in the return to Earth in the future. This film is both a prequel and a sequel as we go back in time chronologically, but forward in time sequentially. The only clip I could find for this film is the DVD series trailer.

14. Die Hard 2 (Die HARDER!)

John McClane just wasn’t quite finished dealing death to the bad guys at Nakatomi Plaza, and he felt the need to dish out more than enough thrills and kills in and around an airport. Willis kicks the excitement level up just enough to keep the story alive and well. Twice more since, as well!

13. Predator 2

This time, rather than the jungle, Danny Glover tracks our space monster through the city streets, buildings, and backyards taking over nicely from Arnold. Key scenes in this fine continuation include the healing wound bit taking place entirely in an old woman’s bathroom, and the view of the creature’s trophy case at the end featuring an Alien skull! Sorry, all I could find was this review.

12. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Coinciding with the wonderful children’s book series, the adventure continues with Harry, Ron, and Hermione at Hogwarts. This time, now that Harry is a bit more familiar with his magic, the trio take on a giant Basalisk!

11. Toy Story 2

Originally planned for a direct-to-DVD release, Disney-Pixar decided most wisely to ship this sequel to theaters instantly creating another masterpiece. The search for Woody by Buzz and crew is at most heartwarming and adds a whole different layer to the story.

The wonderful song in the video was nominated for an Oscar.

10. Spider-Man 2

Largely considered to be the world’s greatest superhero movie, the sequel to the amazing SPIDER-MAN movie proved not only that one of the most beloved comic book characters can be translated to the big screen without sacrificing a bit of the humor and humanity brought to the page, but can also be directed by a moan much more well known for horror films: Sam Raimi. Tobey Maguire proved his chops as well by acting every bit the way we all see Peter Parker.

9. Drunken Master 2

In 1978 Jackie Chan became a huge international star (everywhere but in the United States) with Drunken Master . So in 1994 on the brink of becoming a huge star in the U.S. too, Jackie made this sequel/homage to the original. It continues the story of Chinese folk legend Wong Fei Hung. It’s one of his very best films. It was finally released in a slightly edited, specially dubbed version on U.S. screen in 2000. In 2000, they finally dubbed, edited and re-mixed the soundtrack to show Jackie at his very best in an amazing and thoroughly enjoyable action comedy which proves once and for all what an incredible athlete and martial artist Jackie is. This film has some of the most intricate, creative, and beautiful one on one fighting choreography you will ever witness. It’s also very funny and Jackie’s at the peak of his skills and charisma here.

8. Evil Dead 2

When Sam Raimi wrote and directed the original horror classic, EVIL DEAD, with Bruce Campbell, he was only trying to make a film and never anticipated the love he received. Having accumulated enough cash from the flick, Raimi went back to work essentially re-writing the story as a sequel and retelling as EVIL DEAD 2. It’s close to the original, but far superior.

7. Batman Begins

Okay – I realize that this is a prequel – but chronologically speaking it came after, so I am including it. Batman Begins was really the first Batman film that was of truly epic proportions. With brilliant acting from Michael Caine and the best onscreen batman to date (Christian Bale), how could we leave it off?

6. The Bride of Frankenstein

Not necessarily meant to be a sequel per se, the fearful saga of the lumbering and reanimated corpse leaps to a new terrifying level as the good doctor creates woman. The bride turns out to be even more horrifying than original!

5. Aliens

Ripley finds herself on a planet supposedly overrun by the very alien life forms she desperately tried to avoid in the original. With amped-up action and an all-out war with the bugs, Bill Paxton, Michael Biehn, and Lance Henrickson join the superb cast to do all out battle.

4. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

Actually a prequel, though still the second in the story, the TEMPLE OF DOOM follows our hero, Indiana Jones, making his way around the world to India in order to rescue the Shankara Stones from the evil Mola Ram. Tagging along this time are Stephen Speilberg’s real-life wife, Kate Capshaw as a Hollywood dancer, and the every bubbly Short-Round. Most disgusting scene: Monkey brains! Oh, and those bugs, “aren’t fortune cookies!”

3. The Lord of The Rings: The Two Towers

Peter Jackson did everything humanly possible to cram every bit of the Tolkein books into his sprawling, gorgeous trilogy. But even with that, there had to be a second movie and that had to come after the release of THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING. The cliffhanger left the audience wanting so much more, and THE TWO TOWERS more than delivered. It would prove to be epic.

2. The Empire Strikes Back

Some of the most startling revelations ever brought to screen, the sequel to STAR WARS: A NEW HOPE gave the world the paternal Darth Vader, the patriarchal Yoda, and the growing love between a space scoundrel and a princess. Directed by Irvin Kirshner, the stark differences between the bleached frozen wasteland of Hoth, the wispy calmness of Cloud City, and the earthy filth of Dagobah, proved his creative worth to the original trilogy. The Jedi attains truth through the Force, and shows us just hour dour and unsettling the galaxy far, far away can be.

1. The Godfather Part 2

The Corleone family made us feel the raw, underhanded grit of being inside the Mafia. And much like a family in reality that we’ve all grown to love, they return in nearly a much stronger movie than the original. Perhaps the most well-known and most beloved sequel ever made, THE GODFATHER PART 2 continues to be a classic seen the world over.

Notable Omissions: Dawn of the Dead, Terminator 2

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There are exceptions to bad sequel syndrome, of course. X-Men 2 and Spiderman 2 both kept the original cast, the original director, and the spirit of the film, and both were regarded to be great sequels. Even The Italian Job and Ocean?s 11, while not proper sequels, were both remakes of older films and kept the spirit of the originals alive, while updating the films to make them relevant and enjoyable to modern audiences.

Fortunately, sometimes it is possible to redeem a franchise. The abysmally rubber-nipple-tastic Batman & Robin was definitely a low point in superhero movie history. Arnold Schwarzenegger as Mr. Freeze, wearing a chromed
bondage suit, was something no one should ever have been subjected to. The film was horrible enough to end Alicia Silverstone?s career (the biggest movie she?s been in since then was Scooby Doo 2). However, salvation may be coming in the form of creepy tough guy Christian Bale, who is taking the role of a young Bruce Wayne in the upcoming Batman Begins. The film has been testing very positively with critics and fans at prescreenings, so there is hope that it will bring the franchise back to its respected roots.

In a few rare cases, sequels have done even better than the original movies. Die Hard: With a Vengeance, the third film in that franchise, which went back to the director and ?yippee-ki-yay? attitude of the original, became vastly more popular than its predecessor, though not quite as highly grossing.

The spirit of a film is its heart, its soul, and its ability to perform at the box office. Too often, in the rush to make a quick buck, movie executives lose sight of the movie?s original spirit and tend to go for whatever will get the most attention. With marketing costs ever rising, the pinch to squeeze money from the public is getting stronger ? and unfortunately for moviegoers, the easiest way to do that is by making horrible sequels in already existing franchises. On behalf of the production companies that make these horrible sequels: my apologies.