Awesome Movie Sequels

This week's topic is movie sequels. Today I'd like to mention five movie sequels that were awesome. These movies were so awesome that I consider them to be better than the first movie. Also, as a point of clarification, I'm only counting movies that came after the original as "sequels." Here goes.

Hellboy 2 (2008)

I have already confessed my love of this movie so I don't think it requires any more. It's a solid movie. It has comedy, action, romance, and elves. It rules.

Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (1981)

Two words to state how this movie is better than the original: Lord Humungus! That's how it is spelled, don't worry. This is an example where the villain makes the movie. Lord Humungus is way cooler than Toe Cutter. Supremely jacked dude wearing a hockey mask? Awesome! Also worth noting, this movie was a bit more "post-apocalyptic" than the first one. What kind of post-apocalyptic society has towns, vacations, and modern law system. The 'Wheel" from Mad Max 3 is a post-apocalyptic style of law, not the ridiculous, "we don't have the evidence" or whatever the excuse was in the first movie.

Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back (1980)

Battle on Hoth, better lightsaber fight, more character development, Lando, Yoda, and one of the best movie twists of all time. Empire is awesome. As a side note, my spell check has nothing wrong with "Yoda" but there is a red line under "Lando." Racist.

Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)

Why is the movie King Kong no more fun to watch after they leave the island? Because it's cool to see monsters fight monsters. In Terminator 2 it's robot against robot. Plus they fight with guns! They can get shot at and not die, especially the T-1000. Ever since Avatar came out, people are all up on James Cameron's business (read that any way you want to). Avatar was so successful and so was Titanic. So there's the movie that you have to see because everyone else saw it and the "Twilight" of the 90's. Did he make anything really good? It's so easy to forget Terminator 2 nowadays. It is so cool. Cameron also made Aliens which almost got on this list but I thought another movie deserved it more.

The Dark Knight (2008)

Honestly, I don't think I have to explain why this was better than Batman Begins. I feel like everyone knows how awesome this movie is. I feel I should mention however, that Batman Begins was a good movie. The Dark Knight was just way better.

Coming up is gonna be the bad movies. Yeah!