TOP TEN:
FILM SEQUELS.

(Films that are part of a greater series don't count. Example: The Empire Strikes Back is not a sequel, but a continuation of a storyline set up in previous films of its series).

1. Aliens
   
2. Indiana Jones & the Last Crusade
   
3. Lethal Weapon 2
   
4. Batman Returns
   
5. Evil Dead 2: Dead By Dawn
   
6. T2: Judgement Day
   
7. Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back
   
8. Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me
   
9. Superman II
   
10. Desperado
    

Now, this list is a re-vised version of the original that I posted. For some reason just after I put it up it was destroyed. But before my internet connection went AWOL I did get feedback on my list, and I made some changes based on that feedback. My original #1 Best Sequel was The Silence of the Lambs and I was told my a good friend that it didn't count as a sequel, not because it applied to my rule listed above, but becasue at the time of its release it was a sequal to Manhunter which was a small film that garnered no attention. I quickly responded back that it was still a sequel. Alas, he was right.
I based my decision on the fact that Silence follows the book Red Dragon which was made into the movie Manhunter. But sequels are made because audiences want to see characters and premises on screen again. They want to know what happens after the end of the film. Manhunter was a tiny speck of a movie when it came out, and just because Silence was based on the sequel book, doesn't mean that Silence was made because of Manhunter. It would've had to have garnered some success so that audiences would want another movie to come out. I doubt Manhunter got much success at all until after it's sequel came out. Therefore, it doesn't count in my book, and so my #2 moved up to the top spot.

Many great sequels were purposefully left off, such as any number of Bond movies, Austin Powers in Goldmember, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Lethal Weapon 4, maybe even Die Hard With a Vengeance, and last but not least, one I wanted to fit on because it's a personal favorite, Hellbound: Hellraiser II. The reason for their absence? NOT ENOUGH ROOM. I've only got 10 spots, and I didn't want them to be all of the same 2 or 3 series.

On a side note, when I made this list, there was one movie that I noticed was special. One that was a sequel of 4 other movies at the same time, but 4 movies that were not sequels to each other at all. That movie is Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back. The other 4 Kevin Smith movies are connected, by characters that know each other, and small returning characters and such, but each film is seperate in tone, story, etc. (And all of you who think that because Jay and Silent Bob were in all of them makes them sequels, remember that they were also in Scream 3... and you wouldn't classify that as a sequel to Clerks would you? No.
So the SCP Special Achievement Award in Movie Sequel Making goes to Kevin Smith and all of the fine folks at View Askew. Thank you for confusing me while I made this list.

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