##My thread for the week
I was looking around for a phrase to describe a film and its sequel. Not a trilogy, which is three, but two. Duology came up but it wasn't right. So I settled on [dilogy](
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duology). As when talking about the depths of Michael J Fox's career:
_"'Back to the future' was a very long trilogy but 'TeenWolf' was perhaps a worse dilogy*, at least 'Doc Hollywoood' was one of a kind."_
See, it opens up conversation like:
_"Godfather was a great dilogy that should never have been a trilogy."_ - I think 'Terminator' also suffered from this phenomena.
Andy furthered this with suggesting Star Wars 1,2 & 3 should have been two films, with 2 & 3 being the second, thus a dilogy, not a trilogy. So instead of culling, consolidating.
Pirates of the Caribbean was ok, the second was terrible, but successful _(i haven't seen it, Andy says so)_ so should they make it a trilogy or leave it as a classic TeenWolf dilogy?
Where does this leave Steven Seagal?
_* I know Michael wasn't any part of TeenWolf 2, I have the DVD, it was just illustrative_
Comments
I believe they are about to remake it.
Same for Superman I and II. Despite my love of Richard Pryor, the world without Superman III would be a better one.
Same for Alien and Aliens. Ghostbusters and Ghostbuster 2.
This is turning into 'film franchises that should have stopped at two', but the point is if you make a great dilogy, the pressure to turn it into a franchise is almost unbearable.
It's because Eddie Murphy was already on the Beverly Hills Cop bus by then and didn't need Nick Nolte any more. (I think)
Bill & Ted (excellent advetnture + bogus journey)
Gremlins. I think there are only two (though the sequel was pretty bad)
The whole Matrix story was one and a half, and never finished in my eyes
And how could we forget
Electric Boogaloo
Gremlins, Gremlins 2
48 Hours, Another 48 Hours
Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure, Bogus Journey
Fletch, Fletch Lives
Any more?
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I exclude Teenwolf and Speed for changing the lead character in the sequel
I've also left out 'should have been' dilogies.
Stakeout and Another Stakeout
Predator & Predator 2 (not sure whether to include this, because there was a third film "Alien vs Predator" and because Arnie wasn't in the sequel)
I feel the latin is wrong. Depending on the story of a two-parter, it should be a bilogy.
Kill Bill, Kill Bill 2