What Are Perfect Duologies That Should Have Never Had a Third Film?

[Slimybug]

It's Aliens book one/Outbreak/Earth Hive, Book Two/Nightmare Asylum, and Book III/Female War. Novels were made in the 90s by Steve Perry.

Thanks! How about the comic adaptation of the alternative Alien 3 script?

I’ve always wanted to see an alternate continuation with Newt and Hicks so this is awesome!

[Jared]

Thanks! How about the comic adaptation of the alternative Alien 3 script?

I’ve always wanted to see an alternate continuation with Newt and Hicks so this is awesome!

I have the comic and the audioplay but haven't really checked out either yet. I have read the script they're based on and it's definitely better than the Alien 3 we got. It's a bit clunky regarding Ripley, as it was written with the assumption that Sigorney Weaver wasn't going to sign, but they didn't want to kill her off in case she would.

[LordMikel]

I liked the Mummy with Fraser. I liked the Mummy returns. But the third one lost a lot of magic somehow.

[Slimybug]

I liked the Mummy with Fraser. I liked the Mummy returns. But the third one lost a lot of magic somehow.

Yeah, there was definitely a duology there with Imhotep. I was all for still bringing the characters together on another adventure, but it wasn’t any good. It didn’t help that they lost Rachel Weisz. So much of the appeal of the first two movies was her and Brendan’s chemistry.

[Geraldofrivia]

The Batman begins and The Dark Knight. Perfect Duology

[Slimybug]

The Batman begins and The Dark Knight. Perfect Duology

Awwww, hell no...


https://www.comicbookmovie.com/batma...2912#gs.ep7uwa

[Captain Craig]

I liked the Mummy with Fraser. I liked the Mummy returns. But the third one lost a lot of magic somehow.

Solid mention. Bummed I didn't think about this one.
I still would've liked a Mummy 4 in South America though. Lots of other culture to explore.
I'll still take Mummy 3 over the lukewarm reboot with Tom Cruise. Lot of potential there just not seized upon.

[Zero Hunter]

Smokey and the Bandit 1 and 2. Part 3 was just a mess without Burt or Sally.

[ChrisIII]

Poltergeist III kind of felt disconnected from the others due to Craig T. Nelson, Jobeth and the some of other cast that were still alive not coming back, and also the setting changing from a house to a skyscraper (Kind of a Die Hard with Ghosts) and also mostly spooky piano music instead of Jerry Goldsmith's scores.

It's also kind of weird that Kane and the ghosts now want to go *into* the light, when in the first two films made it clear that part of the problem was that the Ghosts weren't in the light in part because the Beast/Kane was using Carol Anne to keep them away.

[Kirby101]

The Batman begins and The Dark Knight. Perfect Duology

The third film finished the arc, TDK did not.

[Scott Taylor]

Well, Evil Dead 1 and 2. I'm not that big of a fan of Army of Darkness, even though the movie is highly quotable.

[Fridays]

Godfather III felt like a different movie to the first 2.

It should not have been the part 3. A spin off would have been better in classifying the movie.

[Slimybug]

Coppola wanted to call it “The Death of Michael Corleone.” The studio insisted it be called The Godfather Part III. Which is ironic, since the balked at calling Part II Part II. It wasn’t common practice yet, and Coppola got the idea from some foreign film. To this day he takes credit for the pattern of calling sequels by numbers the way they are. The first example I can think of to just have “II” with no “Part” is Rocky II in 1979.

[Nate Grey]

Coppola wanted to call it “The Death of Michael Corleone.” The studio insisted it be called The Godfather Part III. Which is ironic, since the balked at calling Part II Part II. It wasn’t common practice yet, and Coppola got the idea from some foreign film. To this day he takes credit for the pattern of calling sequels by numbers the way they are. The first example I can think of to just have “II” with no “Part” is Rocky II in 1979.

Well...Exorcist II: The Heretic came out in 1977.

Maybe Rocky II is the first example of a "II" without a subtitle?

[Nate Grey]

anyway, I'm struggling to think of an example to this, but the only one I can think of fits in another category altogether, and why Exorcist II was on my mind (that and this thread ).

Exorcist 1 and 3 are a perfect duology, but, the idea is 1 and 2 were great and were ruined by a part 3. That's more part 2 was crap and 3 redeemed the series. I also almost brought up Highlander and Highlander 3 (3 was a redux of 1 but worlds better than 2) before I remembered that.

Everyone else gave good examples, and I was tempted to say Terminator 1-2 but darnit if 3 didn't immediately begin to grow on me after first seeing it.