Is there any what gets better? There are good sequels, but once it becomes movie franchise, it all turns to shit. Sometimes faster, sometimes slower.

The Matrix.

Not sure how that isn't mentioned yet!

First movie was a masterpiece that became a classic, the rest were completely unnecessary.

When my brother showed The Matrix to his kid, she asked "Is there another one?" and he said "No."

Taken 3 makes Taken 2 look like Taken 1.

The actual question should be: which doesn't?

I felt bad for Lost World, because Crighton went out of his way to write a novel that was a sequel to the first movie, not the first book, and then Spielberg just basically ignored it like it never happened.

I wanted to not see the chameleon dinosaurs, damn it!

Home Alone

Home Alone: In New York

Home Alone: No Macauly

Home Alone: There's a fourth one?

Home Alone 5.

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It would be far more interesting to ask, what movie franchise DOESN'T get worse with each new film.

There is only one Matrix film.

There can only be one good Highlander movie

Tron. It ends with tossing out the one before and letting Jared Leto get his stink all over it.

Marvel Cinematic Universe should have stopped sometime before Phase 4 (Eternals, Black Widow, Wakanda Forever, Multiverse of Madness).

The Matrix should have ended at 1.

The Jason Bourne movies should have ended when Jason Bourne's story was concluded, without extending it to Aaron Cross's story, played by Jeremy Renner.

cant believe im scrolling 1/2 way down and couldnt find

The power of family

Fast and Furious Franchise

Saw. The first one is a brilliant psychological horror movie. The rest drift more towards body horror, but each one gets worse and dumber than the previous one (except maybe Saw X, the last one)

Star wars

Just let characters die.

Pirates of the carabian.
The first was a masterpiece in comedy.
The second and third were good but I would still rate them slightly worse each gen.
I am indifferent to 4 and hate 5

Pretty much all of them. Successful first movie, sequels that repeat the formula while entirely missing the point.

John Wick.

Also Star Wars, but they had at least three good movies.

Marvel movies.

Nah, Blade 2 still fucks.

Blade Trinity is just as rough now as it was when it first released.

Ghostbusters. Some late 80's exec in tv and film was obsessed with putting babies in everything and the second movie got shanked in a dark alley by them.

Which franchise doesn't get worse with each consecutive movie?

I pray the Spaceballs sequel will be good and i'm not even religious

JP went from a Dinosaur Movie to a very generic monster movie with the exact same plot every time.

Greedy evildoer wants SuperDino for nefarious purposes and must be defeated. Repeat.

honestly, star wars. I'm a HUGE star wars fan, but they're the same movie repeatedly. blow up death star, blow up bigger death star. blow up BIGGEST death star. BAM. 9 movies.

Any of the classic Disney animated movies. First movie is a ripoff of classic fairy tales so most of the heavy lifting writing wise was done for them, the instant Disney has to write the whole thing is when it goes to shit. If it's "Disney presents [insert fairy tale here] 2" you know it'll suck.

Anime has entered the chat.

Tokyo Ghoul. Amazing first season. Body horror, depression, and zombie stuff all rolled into one. Masterpiece. Season 2 came out ahead of the rest of the books and it sucked. Seasons 3 and 4 adapted the second book series, but they speed ran it and only hit highlights and it was confusing AF.

Promised Neverland. Also amazing first season. Thriller with children trying to escape an orphanage that has a dark secret (revealed in first episode). They had like 5-7 seasons' worth of content and started to do a second season, but the funding (and creativity!) ran out so they speed ran the rest of the manga, and it was so bad, the directors had their names taken off the billing.

"Second season when?" has become a trope due to so many with excellent first seasons followed by terrible ones. Attack on Titan almost counts. First season was awesome, we called it Japan's answer to The Walking Dead when TWD was decent. Second season took 4 years and sucked, but season 3 more than made up for it. Season 4, "the final season," "the final season part 2," "the final season for realz this time", "the final season trust us we can see the finish line" and "the final chapters" sucked, though.

Evil Dead, Evil Dead 2, Army of Darkness.

Do these count as a counterexample?

I would argue that Blade II is the better movie. Guillermo del Toro is a much more interesting director, and the Reapers are basically a dry run for his take on Vampires in The Strain.