10 Movie Franchises With No Bad Sequels

3. Mad Max

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Quintessential apocalypse. George Miller's Mad Max series is brilliantly mad-cap, practical effects-heavy, and deliciously ugly. It's also one of the few series out there not to take a misstep with four films to its name.

The original Mad Max is a bleak, thoroughly '70s affair that lacks the fun-factor of its successors, but it's no less compelling; Mad Max 2 is essentially Wacky Races but if Peter Perfect wielded a coach gun and Dick Dastardly was machine gunning Professor Pat Pending, while the third entry, Beyond Thunderdome, cemented the overall vibe and aesthetic of Miller's Australian wasteland.

The Tom Hardy and Charlize Theron-fronted Mad Max: Fury Road took the lessons imparted by all three to deliver one of the greatest action films of all time, and with Miller currently developing a prequel that will expand the origins of Furiosa, the good money is on the series continuing its winning streak.

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