Originally posted by: skyjedi2005
this question is rediculous it would be like saying you would give up godfather II and just have the godfather to get rid of the awful part III.

for the most part movie sequels are not better than the originals except for the exception of empire strikes back and godfather II, and star trek II.

back to the future II and III were inferior to part one, both rocky and rambo went down hill after film number one so also did die hard.

Thats not at all an apt comparison though. Godfather had a so-so third entry like Star Wars, but there isn't four more sequels that are many times worse than part III, there isn't 20 million paperback spin-off novels and there isn't thirty different comic series, and although there is now a game its really the only spin-off material.

For me, the situation is similar to Rocky. Rocky was a terrific, terrific film, a great classic American movi; I mean the thing won an Oscar for best picture! The sequels--well, Rocky II and III are mostly watchable, and Rocky Balboa is actually quite good. But still--Rocky became known as all that is bad in sequelising, the neverending "Part X", and although the first two sequels weren't terrible hey werent particularly good either, and parts IV and V were just pieces of shit that really brought down the reputation of "Rocky" because now it was just seen as this terrible franchise that kept making successively worse entries in a shameful attempt at capitalisation. Even though the original is still ultimately seen as a classic in the same way Star Wars is, I would rather Rocky had just remained a classic 1970's character drama that won the best picture Oscar and never been sequelised. But even Star Wars is much more extreme than this, because of all the comic books, novels, RPG games, card games, video games, and the neverending stream of merchandise. Back to the Future, Godfather and Indiana Jones never endured a fraction of the fall that Star Wars does, and even those series have only three movies, none of which are flat-out bad, in the same way that the OOT did. If it were 1983 I would vote no, the sequels did some harm but they are more or less acceptable, but in 2007 my vote is yes, Star Wars is now more comparable to Star Trek than to Godfather as a franchise.