But there’s one that so completely dominated the discussion, and was praised as not only being on the same par as its predecessors but arguably better than them.
MAD MAX ROAD WARRIOR MOVIE
Additionally, Creed, a spin-off of the Rocky series, earned Sylvester Stallone an Oscar nod and many critics (myself included) seemed to love, even while conceding that it repeated some of the same plot-points that made the 1976 original Rocky movie such a classic. Another noteworthy legacyquel was Jurassic World, which brought the Jurassic Park franchise into new territory by promising to actually open the titular theme park up. The year’s biggest movie was Star Wars: The Force Awakens, the seventh installment in the venerated franchise, which broke box office records and most people seemed to agree was entertaining, if not a little derivative of previous installments.
( TRON: Legacy, Wall Street 2 and the fourth Indiana Jones movies all spring to mind.) But in 2015, four long-awaited “legacyquels” hit the big screen. Sure, legacyquels had come and gone before. But I would argue that any sequel to any franchise made years, even decades afterward, could be considered a legacyquel, because they are just as concerned with the dynamics of their specific franchises as they are with crafting new stories to fit within them. ScreenCrush defines a “legacyquel” as “movies all about revitalizing old franchises through the notion of legacy.” Usually, this involves older characters from previous movies passing the baton to a new generation while getting a respectful send-off of their own. “But what about the other 3 Mad Max movies?” I asked him. He was going on and on about how much his students were into it, how much it meant to him to share this movie, and to have shown it to his students in such a critical sort of way. A guy who supposedly taught film at a nearby high school was bragging about showing his students Mad Max: Fury Road.
I was in a graduate classroom in Fairfax, VA four years ago.
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