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One small point of order - clarification to my original post:

I consider a "sequel" to be any movie made after the original in an effort to make more money from the original concept/theme/characters/story. So, i would consider "Batman Begins" (never saw it) to be a sequel from a business/money sense.

Indeed, that is how I would consider a sequel, although that is not the dictionary definition.
Thus, I would not consider the LOTR trilogy to be sequels, as they were made at essentially the same time, and are basically chapters of the same story.
JMO.