{"id":1087933,"date":"2021-12-05T22:13:48","date_gmt":"2021-12-06T03:13:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1087933"},"modified":"2021-12-05T22:13:50","modified_gmt":"2021-12-06T03:13:50","slug":"nolte-the-5-greatest-sequels-superior-to-their-original-films","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nolte-the-5-greatest-sequels-superior-to-their-original-films\/","title":{"rendered":"Nolte: The 5 Greatest Sequels Superior to Their Original Films"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnolte-the-5-greatest-sequels-superior-to-their-original-films%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1087933&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/peter-sellers-a-shot-in-the-dark-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Rarely does a movie sequel turn out better than the original film that spawned it. Here are five of the best movies that pulled off this feat.<\/p>\n<ol start=\"5\">\n<li><strong>Road to Morocco (1942) <\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Between 1940 and 1962, Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, and Dorothy Lamour starred in seven <em>Road To\u2026 <\/em>movies, the first six of which are terrific. Unfortunately, the final entry, 1962\u2019s <em>Road to Hong Kong,<\/em> lacks energy and, except for a cameo, Lamour is replaced by Joan Collins, which was cruel.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>My favorite of the seven is 1946\u2019s <em>Road to Utopia<\/em>, which I love enough to include in my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/entertainment\/2017\/12\/25\/countdown-the-165-greatest-american-movies-ever-made-116-140\/\">Top 165<\/a> list. But <em>Road to Morocco, <\/em>the third in the series, is where the franchise really hit its stride.<\/p>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Road to Morocco Official Trailer #1 - Bing Crosby, Bob Hope Movie (1942) HD\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pV4d0aLVFKc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p>The first two chapters, <em>Road to Singapore<\/em> (1940) and <em>Road to Zanzibar<\/em> (1941), did something more than prove to be big hits. The real discovery was the chemistry between Crosby\u2019s laid-back crooner and Hope\u2019s excitable coward and skirt chaser. The two men became good friends in real life, which is quite an accomplishment. Crosby was notorious for not letting people get close, even within his own family.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>In the <em>Road to\u2026<\/em> franchise, Bob and Bing always play rival con men who stick together, even as they try to cheat one another out of the money and the girl (Lamour). This rivalry proved so popular, Bob and Bing played it up outside the series\u2014in their respective movies and personal appearances. It became a decades-long running gag, an in-joke of sorts that the audience was in on and loved.<\/p>\n<p>What sets <em>Morocco<\/em> apart from its two predecessors is its confidence. By this time, everyone involved knew what worked and why so they poured it on, and the results were pure movie magic.<\/p>\n<ol start=\"4\">\n<li><strong> A Shot in the Dark (1964)<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Blake Edwards\u2019<em> The Pink Panther<\/em> (1963) is a terrific movie. But as charming as that film\u2019s stars, David Niven and Robert Wagner, are, you still feel like you\u2019re marking time waiting for the next scene with Peter Sellers\u2019s Inspector Clouseau.<\/p>\n<p>Yep, in the first <em>Pink Panther<\/em> movie, Inspector&nbsp;Jacques Clouseau is a <em>supporting character<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"A Shot in the Dark Official Trailer #1 (1964) - Peter Sellers Movie HD\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/v8K1e2hxqs4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>Well, after its box office success, everyone knew why\u2026 No one was interested in another elegant caper movie. What they wanted was more slapstick and pratfalls. And so, less than a year later, Edwards and Sellers brought us <em>A Shot in the Dark<\/em>, a full-on Inspector Clouseau movie that contains more belly laughs than you can count.<\/p>\n<p>Sellers is perfection that role, something proven by all the talented actors (including Steve Martin and Alan Arkin) who have tried and failed to step in those shoes.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Sellers would star in three more <em>Pink Panther<\/em> movies before his untimely death in 1980, and all three are brilliant.<\/p>\n<ol start=\"3\">\n<li><strong>The Road Warrior (1981) <\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><em>Mad Max,<\/em> director George Miller\u2019s apocalyptic 1979 action-thriller, is a perfectly acceptable genre movie.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Road Warrior<\/em> changed movies forever.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B4\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Road Warrior - Official Theatrical Trailer\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4ZOg5L-flNI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p>Action movies would never be the same after what is also called <em>Mad Max<\/em> 2 hit screens. The sequel manages to tell a great story by way of compelling characters (especially Mel Gibson\u2019s Max) while the screen bursts with unrelenting actions scenes, all of them spectacular. The bone-crunching stunts, the choreography, the explosions, the imagination\u2026 What really makes it work is that we\u2019re not watching meaningless mayhem. This isn\u2019t a video game. We believe in this world and these characters, so the stakes are real, and our emotional buy-in takes those amazing action scenes to a whole new level.<\/p>\n<ol start=\"2\">\n<li><strong> Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982) <\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>This is another title that ranked in my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/entertainment\/2017\/12\/25\/countdown-the-165-greatest-american-movies-ever-made-116-140\/\">Top 165<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>After the stillborn <em>Star Trek: The Motion Picture<\/em> (1979), one of Paramount\u2019s most important brands was in serious trouble. Granted, <em>The Motion Picture<\/em> made a fortune, but that was a testament to how many <em>Star Trek<\/em> fans there are, not to the quality of the film, which stunk.<\/p>\n<p>In other words, the fans came, but we were all disappointed, which meant the sequel had to deliver, or it was over.<\/p>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982) Trailer #1 | Movieclips Classic Trailers\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/x8X44NRltMM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p>Well, the result was the back-to-basics <em>Wrath of Khan, <\/em>a grand slam\u2014an exciting, clever, emotional, and funny sequel to not only <em>The Motion Picture<\/em>&nbsp;but <em>Space Seed<\/em>, the 1967 <em>Star Trek<\/em> TV episode that first introduced Ricardo Montalban\u2019s mighty Khan.<\/p>\n<p>What really works, though, are the relationships. <em>Star Trek\u2019s<\/em> holy trinity of Kirk, Spock, and McCoy has always been the secret to <em>Star Trek\u2019s <\/em>appeal\u2014this bickering brotherhood between three very different men who love and respect one another, even though they don\u2019t fully understand one another.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong> For a Few Dollars More (1965)<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Right now, a lot of people are yelling the following: \u201cWhat about <em>The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly\u201d<\/em>!<\/p>\n<p>Two things\u2026<\/p>\n<p>First,<em> The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly <\/em>(1966)<em>, <\/em>which is set during the American Civil War, is actually a prequel to <em>A Fistful of Dollars<\/em> (1964) and <em>For a Few Dollars More<\/em> (1965), both of which are set after the Civil War.<\/p>\n<p>Secondly, as much as I love <em>The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly<\/em>, my favorite of the Sergio Leone&nbsp;<em>Dollars\u2019 Trilogy <\/em>is the middle chapter, <em>For a Few Dollars More.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"For a Few Dollars More Official Trailer #1 - Clint Eastwood Movie (1965) HD\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DDRNEwFOttw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p><em>A Fistful of Dollars<\/em> is lean and mean and obviously filmed by a director who knows this is his shot at a career, so he pours his genius all over a genre movie with no budget.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly<\/em> is pure epic, a stunning achievement, and one of the most rewatchable movies ever made.<\/p>\n<p>But <em>For a Few Dollars<\/em> <em>More<\/em> is something even better\u2014an operatic Western full of secrets and secret motives. Clint Eastwood is perfect as the bounty hunter Monco (\u201cThe Man with No Name\u201d was a publicity gimmick). His is a performance full of watchful stillness and a perfect counterpart to Lee Van Cleef\u2019s Mortimer, a rival bounty hunter who\u2019s not what he seems.<\/p>\n<p>Best of all, there\u2019s Gian Maria Volont\u00e9&nbsp;as El Indio; a sociopath made even worse by the opium he constantly smokes to balm a self-hatred driven by his own terrible secret. Indio is equal parts haunted and menace, which adds a layer of pathos and unpredictable danger. He is one of the great all-time (and under-appreciated) screen villains.<\/p>\n<p>F<em>or a Few Dollars More<\/em> also contains two jaw-dropping scenes, two of the best you will ever see. The final showdown is cinematic perfection. Monco and Mortimer sizing each other up using bullets instead of words is just as good.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Follow John Nolte on Twitter <\/em><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NolteNC\"><strong><em>@NolteNC<\/em><\/strong><\/a><strong>. <em>Follow his Facebook Page <\/em><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/JohnNolteNC\/?skip_nax_wizard=true\"><strong><em>here<\/em><\/strong><\/a><strong><em>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rarely does a movie sequel turn out better than the original film that spawned it. Here are five of the best movies that pulled off this feat. 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