Terrible sequels that taint the original....

I disagree.

Every time I see Aliens I think don't bother going back to save the girl, Ripley as she is going to die during the opening credits of Alien 3.

Also when I see the Spiderman scene where he confronts the guy that supposedly killed his uncle I think 'don't kill him, he's innocent'(proven in the rediculous film that is Spiderman 3)
 
I agree. I also liked the latter two Pirates films more than the first. These sequels are a bit more cerebral, perhaps. You need to pay attention to the plots and to the dialogue. I enjoyed finding out the background to Davy Jones, for example. It doesn't undermine the earlier films, it adRAB weight to it.

The worst sequel for me is Candyman 2. It took all that was good about the original and threw it away, and replaced it with a lot of rubbish about bloodlines which didn't belong. And the direction lacked all subtlety, with 20 mirror shots in the first half hour. (Hellraiser IV was also terrible, but at least they were trying to do something interesting.)
 
Surely Freddy's Dead is the biggest offender of "tainting" the original?
Although Elm Street 2 was totally muddled and unintentionally funny,Freddy was essentially the same character as in the first movie.It is in FD that he truly became an MTV inspired comedic anti-hero,world's away from Wes Craven's imaginative personification of evil.

However,as Mark wrote - it's impossible to taint a movie.
 
Maybe you can't taint an original movie, but you can make a sequel that the producers later decide to ignore because so many people object to it (hence Highlander II: The Quickening, Star Trek V: The Final Frontier and - yes! - Exorcist II: The Heretic, plus Terminator 3: Rise Of The Machines in the case of the Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles TV series).
 
I do find that sometimes a sequel can spoil the ending to the film before it. The original makes out that everything will be dandy from now on, but then you realise that in order for it to actually have a sequel, everything must go tits up again.

I think the transition from Child's Play to Child's Play 2 can be quite disheartening.
When the first film enRAB you feel quite content that Chucky is dead (at least for the time being) and everyone can get on with their lives. But the second film starts with you finding out that the boy has had his mother taken away from him and is being treated as mentally ill, while he's in an orphanage. Meanwhile the two police officers; one has lost his job as a result, and the other is too scared to say anything.
Well that certainly took the shine off it. :rolleyes:
 
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