Though Steven Spielberg has very much maintained a steady workflow of fresh films, he hasn’t shied away from going back to the well here and there. However, he has failed to stick the landing on occasion. Some of his most famous sequels that fall into this category include “The Lost World: Jurassic Park” and “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull” — follow-ups to “Jurassic Park” and the “Indiana Jones” trilogy. The director is aware he fumbled with these, and he puts the blame for their shortcomings squarely on his own shoulders.
“My sequels aren’t as good as my originals because I go onto every sequel I’ve made and I’m too confident. This movie made a ka-zillion dollars, which justifies the sequel, so I come in like it’s going to be a slam dunk and I wind up making an inferior movie to the one before,” Spielberg admitted to The New York Times during a 2016 chat, speaking specifically on “The Lost World.”
With all of that in mind, maybe it’s for the best that Steven Spielberg never signed the dotted line to direct “Jaws 2” after all. It was an uphill battle for him to get the first one made, and the odds of the sequel matching or surpassing the legendary original were slim to none anyway.
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