{"id":28723,"date":"2022-01-04T17:31:13","date_gmt":"2022-01-04T22:31:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=28723"},"modified":"2022-01-04T17:32:04","modified_gmt":"2022-01-04T22:32:04","slug":"movie-franchises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=28723","title":{"rendered":"Movie Franchises That Should Have Stopped at the First!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Devin Meenan at CBR.com created a list of 10 Movie Franchises Where The First Film Is The Best<\/a>.  Meenan’s list is a good one and I’d only disagree with…<\/p>\n

#8 Alien Was Lightning In A Bottle.<\/strong>  While Alien<\/em> is an awesome movie, I’m not prepared to say it is better than Aliens<\/em>.  Both are amazing, but if push came to shove and I had to pick one for the top spot it would be Aliens<\/em>.<\/p>\n

#7 Terminator Has Seen Diminishing Returns.<\/strong>  I’ll agree that Terminator<\/em> is a great film.  I’ll also agree that the sequels after Terminator 2: Judgment Day<\/em> fell short.  Again, if I had to pick just one, T2<\/em> would get the nod.  (I’d also like to point out that despite what Meenan says in the heading for Terminator<\/em>, T2<\/em> made more at the box office.)<\/p>\n

Two other film franchises that I would have included are HIghlander<\/em> (There should have been only one!) and Escape from…<\/em> (NY over LA).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Devin Meenan at CBR.com created a list of 10 Movie Franchises Where The First Film Is The Best.  Meenan’s list<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","category-trivia"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28723"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28725,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28723\/revisions\/28725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}