10 Film Franchises You Really Should Stop Watching After The First Movie

7. Jurassic Park

One of the most groundbreaking and awe-inspiring movies of all-time, 1993's Jurassic Park, was director Steven Spielberg doing what he does best - breathing cinematic life into author Michael Crichton's novel about a theme park filled with dinosaurs gone awry.

The highest grossing-film of all time when it was released, the movie garnered almost universal praise for its stunning special effects and, while a case could be made that the computer-enhanced dinosaurs were more lively and interesting than most of the human actors, Jurassic Park is still considered an iconic example of the action/thriller drama more than 20 years later.

Spielberg returned as director in 1997 for its sequel, The Lost World. Based on Crichton's sequel of the same name, The Lost World has such a been there/done that feel to it that even Spielberg afterwards derided as making him "wistful to do a talking picture", rather than another summer blockbuster.

Fans of Jeff Goldblum's Ian Malcolm character from the original were probably thrilled that he was the centre of the attention in the sequel but, other than a few quippy lines, the movie was a bore until its ending, which put a live T-Rex in the middle of San Diego, transforming the film from a statement about how far is too far when it comes to science, into a generic monster movie.

By the time Jurassic Park III was released in 2001, Spielberg was long gone from the franchise (replaced by director Joe Johnston) and, while Sam Neill was brought back to reprise his role as Dr. Alan Grant, the movie was completely forgettable, and just another rehash of visual sequences that were far more impressive when we all saw it the first time in 1993.

Come 2015, Chris Pratt and Bruce Dallas Howard starred in Jurassic World, a new entry for the franchise. To paraphrase Malcolm, when it came to the Jurassic Park franchise, Hollywood was so preoccupied with whether or not they could make a couple of sequels, that they didn't stop to think if they should.