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Jaws 2 - captures the feel and tone of the first quite well and the first two movies are pretty good back to back.
Death Wish 2 - ditto.
Young Guns 2 - actually better than Young Guns 1. The score should have been up for an Oscar. The role Emilio Estevez was born to play and the best performance of his career. Not too far from Oscar nomination worthy itself.
Rocky 2 - considered by many the drag of the first four films. Makes a nice four hour movie if paired with the first one...see comments above on tone and feel with respect to Jaws 2 and Death Wish 2. There could have been more acting nominations for this film, including Burgess Meredith.
Die Hard 2 - considered by many the drag of the first three Die Hards. Way better than Die Hard with a Vengeance.
Rocky 5 - it's better and has more virtues than you remember. There also aren't a lot of memorable movies made in that window of a few years to have a contemporary New Jack Swing soundtrack but it's one of them.
Rambo 3 - same thing. The opening stick fight is one of the better character introductions of the decade and character introductions are usually getting way less interesting by the time the protagonist is in the third movie.
Rambo 2 - considered a mindless Reagan actioner, it actually develops the main character and has more nuance in the story than people think or remember. Also co-written by James Cameron, there are some interesting parallels with Aliens from start to finish. Including Co as the proto-female-action-hero, among other things.
Conan the Destroyer - it's pretty respectable, all things considered. A new score that dovetails nicely with the first film.
Predator 2 - it's respectable and looks great now compared to what followed for the next number of years.
The Evening Star - yes, there was a sequel you forgot about to Terms of Endearment. It's not bad.
The Two Jakes - yes, there was a sequel you forgot about to Chinatown. It's not bad.
Well that's twelve anyway. Give em a shot or discuss them or add some that I missed as recommendations or tell me they're crap or whatever you feel like doing my homies.
Death Wish 2 - ditto.
Young Guns 2 - actually better than Young Guns 1. The score should have been up for an Oscar. The role Emilio Estevez was born to play and the best performance of his career. Not too far from Oscar nomination worthy itself.
Rocky 2 - considered by many the drag of the first four films. Makes a nice four hour movie if paired with the first one...see comments above on tone and feel with respect to Jaws 2 and Death Wish 2. There could have been more acting nominations for this film, including Burgess Meredith.
Die Hard 2 - considered by many the drag of the first three Die Hards. Way better than Die Hard with a Vengeance.
Rocky 5 - it's better and has more virtues than you remember. There also aren't a lot of memorable movies made in that window of a few years to have a contemporary New Jack Swing soundtrack but it's one of them.
Rambo 3 - same thing. The opening stick fight is one of the better character introductions of the decade and character introductions are usually getting way less interesting by the time the protagonist is in the third movie.
Rambo 2 - considered a mindless Reagan actioner, it actually develops the main character and has more nuance in the story than people think or remember. Also co-written by James Cameron, there are some interesting parallels with Aliens from start to finish. Including Co as the proto-female-action-hero, among other things.
Conan the Destroyer - it's pretty respectable, all things considered. A new score that dovetails nicely with the first film.
Predator 2 - it's respectable and looks great now compared to what followed for the next number of years.
The Evening Star - yes, there was a sequel you forgot about to Terms of Endearment. It's not bad.
The Two Jakes - yes, there was a sequel you forgot about to Chinatown. It's not bad.
Well that's twelve anyway. Give em a shot or discuss them or add some that I missed as recommendations or tell me they're crap or whatever you feel like doing my homies.
