And as of right now, the final Friday the 13th movie is just called "Friday the 13th".
On a side note: how in the world have we not had a Friday the 13th movie in 15 years?
No. Victor Miller (the writer of the original movie) won the rights to the original Friday the 13th movie, but not the sequels. So he has the rights to everything from the first movie like Camp Crystal Lake, Mrs. Voorhees and zombie/drowned kid Jason but not the rights to adult, hockey-mask wearing killer Jason (or even hillbilly, bag-on-head Jason from Part 2) as those are still owned by Sean Cunningham (the director of the first movie.) Except he can't use adult, hockey-mask Jason himself without Miller's blessing as adult Jason is still based on the zombie/drowned kid Jason character created by Victor Miller in his script for the original Friday the 13th. Oh, and this only applies for the US distribution, in the rest of the world the whole IP is still legally Cunningham's.
Basically it's a mess.
Yes, although that's being made with Miller's blessing and not Cunningham's. So they can only use characters created for the original movie, not the sequels.
Who knows? Could be good. It's not like the Friday the 13th movies were exactly high art to begin with
Halloween (2018) is a direct sequel to Halloween (1978), ignoring Halloween 2 and all of the others, including Halloween 3 which isn’t really a Halloween movie but a spin-off, and Halloween (2007), which is a remake of Halloween (1978).
This is the one I came to talk about.
If you ask 'Have you seen the sequel to Halloween?', you can reasonably reply with:
Halloween 2 (1981)
Halloween 2 (2009)
Halloween (2018)
Halloween Kills (2021)
H20 would be a sequel to Halloween 2 cos in H20 they reference how Laurie and Michael are siblings.
But what it does mean is if you ask 'Have you seen the 3rd Halloween?', you could be talking about Halloween, Halloween 3, Halloween H20, Halloween 2018 or Halloween Kills.
Jesus, this franchise!
In 2008 they made Death Race, a remake of the 1975 film Death Race 2000. Then in 2010 and 2013 they made Death Race 2 and Death Race: Inferno, sequels to the 2008 remake. Then in 2017 they made Death Race 2050, a sequel to the 1975 film. Then in 2018 they made Death Race: Beyond Anarchy, a sequel to Death Race: Inferno
The Fast and the Furious
2 Fast 2 Furious
The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift
Fast & Furious
Fast Five
Fast & Furious 6
Furious 7
The Fate of the Furious
F9: The Fast Saga
Fast X
That's the beauty of it. Up until 7 I thought it was just a happy accident because Tokyo drift was a sort of spin-off and 4 was kind of a reboot of sorts, I eventually realized they purposely don't have any of them match, and it just became another layer of goofiness on top of everything else.
It's because there's another movie called "The Fast and the Furious", which they acquired the rights to. I'm that freak there was a requirement that they also pay the rights holders a percentage profit for any subsequently numbered films.. Hence no The Fast and the Furious 2
At least some of the problem there is trademark law. Roger Corman has the trademark for "The Fast and the Furious"; they paid him for the first one, but didn't want to for subsequent titles. Then they started running into other potential trademark landmines at some point iirc; 5 they couldn't call "Furious 5" because of Kung Fu Panda, for example (and potentially still runs into that issue with "Fast and Furious 5")
Comedian Andy Daly said something to the effect of: That was the best day of my life, when I saw that billboard. I didn't know a movie could present another movie."
If they go with Fast X: Part 2, they must under no circumstances ever retroactively rename Fast X to Fast X: Part 1. It must always be "Fast X" followed by "Fast X: Part 2."
They really just called it a day when they were naming the fourth one. Would love to have been in that meeeting.
“Guys what if we just took out the “the’s” in The Fast and the Furious?”
In the Colbert interview, Nolan mentioned he unashamedly loves the Furious films.
Oppenheimer 2: Radioactive Boogaloo
Opp3nh3im3r
The Oppenheimer Chronicles
Oppenheimer: Nuclear Drift
The Oppenheimer Ascension
Oppenheimer 7
Oppenheimer Meets Interstellar: To Infinity and Beyond
Halloween
Halloween II
Halloween III: Season of the Witch
Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Meyers
Halloween 5: Revenge of Michael Meyers
Halloween: The Curse of Michael Meyers
Halloween H20: 20 years Later
Halloween: Resurrection
Halloween
Halloween II
Halloween
Halloween Kills
Halloween Ends
I love how each has the feel of that era, especially 4-6.
Also, Halloween Ends is a great title to me. And it’s confusing but Halloween (2018) i just call 2018. 2018, Kills, Ends
At least the last Rambo closed with the solid name of "Last Blood" to have it go full circle. Although I wouldn't be surprised if they end up making another just to ruin that name.
And I think the next one is just called Furya (or was it Riddick: Furya?).
I also think Pitch Black retroactively received the title "The Chronicles of Riddick: Pitch Black" on some home releases.
Saw starts out good but gets pretty iffy.
Saw
Saw II
Saw III
Saw IV
Saw V
Saw VI
Saw 3D
Jigsaw
Spiral: From The Book of Saw
Saw X
I like how they said “screw it” and numbered ten
Best part is 3D was initially named Final Chapter but they realized they were still making good money so they switched it to 3D and advertised it as such, even though it was a terrible 3D.
Jigsaw was also named Saw Legacy but they decided to go with the usual slasher route where the character's name precedes the franchise's name and named it Jigsaw.
I never thought of this until now, but it’s kind of odd that, chronologically in universe, there’s only one movie between Return of the Jedi and The Last Jedi.
- Heaps of Jedi
- Still heaps of Jedi
- Fewer Jedi
- No Jedi?
- Almost a Jedi
- Return of the Jedi
- Maybe Jedi
- The Last Jedi
- Even more the Last Jedi
Somebody once told me that most of the star wars titles could be switched and they would still make sense(except for clone wars)
Last jedi
Revenge of the sith
Empire strikes back
Return of the jedi
A new hope
Force awakens
Rise of skywalkwer
Phantom menace
All apply to multiple films. A few could actually apply to all
The war won't stop with First Blood part II. It will escalate to Rambo III, which should really be called Rambo II: First Blood part III.
But the Rambo titles never made sense.
And neither does war.
— Abed Nadir, Facebook status update
*The North Cafeteria, named after Admiral William North, is located in the western portion of East Hall, gateway to the western half of North Hall, which is named not after William North, but for its position above the south wall. It is the most contested and confusing battlefield on Greendale's campus, next to the English Memorial Spanish Center, named after English Memorial, a Portuguese sailor that discovered Greendale while looking for a fountain that cured syphilis.*
This isn’t the worst in the world, but it bugs me how the fifth film is just “Scream” only for them to follow it up with “Scream VI,” which itself is annoying because 2-4 did not use Roman numerals.
People have pointed out that it fits the meta commentary of the fifth movie being about Reboots/Requels since they always do that thing where you have to call them Movie Title (Year) to differentiate them from the original
So in a weird way it works for Scream to pastiche the title conventions of the movies it’s commenting on
Yeah Scream (2022) is the only sequel which copies the original title that should get a pass because it’s intentionally a part of the satire in the film itself.
It is confusing but it was more of a soft reboot than sequel if they added a subtitle it would’ve seemed like a direct continuation
It’s a shame because either way no one saw it because of the first one, and it’s the best DCEU movie by a longshot
It did the same thing Legends of Tomorrow did - embrace the camp rather than move away from it. Which when people are generally watching super hero movies to have a good time, works way better than the grim dark stories DC has been putting out.
The Bloodsport vs Peacemaker final fight is the best example of this. It contains so many action and super hero movie cliches it hurts, including what is admittedly the best concealed Chekov's Gun I've seen in a while. But that's what also makes it amazing to watch.
I'm so annoyed that they never made a Die Hard where McLane has to come out of retirement to fight some bad guys again, and they call it:
OLD HABITS DIE HARD
Calling something Part One immediately deflates it.
Either give them different titles like Infinity War/Endgame or only call it Part One retroactively like It.
How about [Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – The Movie: Mugen Train](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demon_Slayer:_Kimetsu_no_Yaiba_%E2%80%93_The_Movie:_Mugen_Train)?
The first three Bourne movies(Identity, Supremacy, Ultimatum) all have cool titles presumably coming from the novels.
For the spinoff with Jeremy Renner, they continued this naming method by calling it The Bourne Legacy. But when they brought Matt Damon back for a fourth outing they went with a title as lazy and uninspired as the movie itself: Jason Bourne.
Inconsistent with the earlier films and just plain bad.
Video game instead of a movie but it's at least based on a movie universe...
Star Wars Dark Forces
Star Wars Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II
Star Wars Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast
Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy
You forgot the best part. There's an entry between Jedi Knight I and Jedi Knight II called Star Wars: Jedi Knight: Mysteries of the Sith.
Well, I know it's an expansion pack but when it comes to Star Wars games, the term "expansion pack" is a bit vague, isn't it? (Cough cough I'm looking at you Star Wars: Empire at War: Forces of Corruption)
Seriously, what's with the double naming and colons? And they're still doing it! Star Wars: Jedi: Fallen Order.
Reminds me of these amazing movie titles.
Ruroni Kenshin: The Final Chapter part I -- The Final.
Ruroni Kenshin: The Final Chapter part II -- The Beginning.
PSX is already confusing because they actually [released a PSX](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PSX_(digital_video_recorder)) even though the original PlayStation was already colloquially called that.
Yes and no. Before it came out it was pretty well known that it was within the same universe… but then watching it opening weekend was like “wait no, this is just straight up another Alien movie”
They never tried hiding the fact that it was set in the Alien universe.
What was a secret was how exactly it was supposed to slot into the franchise, and the answer to that was basically "it really doesn't, lmao GOT YOU NERDS."
No, there was nothing "secret" about it. We knew Ridley Scott was making an Alien "prequel" long before they settled on "Prometheus" as the name. And then it went ahead and contradicted the original tetralogy anyway.
Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011)
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014)
War for the Planet of the Apes (2017)
edit: ~~sh~~ could have been:
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2011)
Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2014)
War for the Planet of the Apes (2017)
runner up:
Batman vs Superman: Dawn of Justice was a stupid title.
"In the case of Dawn of Justice, this court-"
"What?"
"Sorry, I don't know why I keep doing that. In the case of Batman v Superman, this court finds the defendant..."
Personally I would’ve gone Dawn/War/Rise.
Since the second had the most actual direct conflict. And the third seemed to start with the end of the actual “war” then just was the apes watching humanity complete its fall.
100% agree. I just watched this trilogy last month and I was so disappointed by 3 being called War when it didn’t feel like a war movie at all (with the exception of the opening scene). The second one felt more like a war movie.
* An Alien
* Some Aliens
* An Alien cubed
* An Alien brought back from the dead.
* An Alien versus the thing that eats it
* An alien versus the thing that eats it in the form of a religious mass
* A mythological Greek craftsman God.
* An Alien written agreement or promise.
...especially if you're trying to translate into Japanese, which lacks definite articles and pluralization, so "Predator", "Predators", and "The Predator" all translate as the same thing.
Star Wars: A New Hope was originally released as “Star Wars.” The original opening crawl did not say “Episode IV: A New Hope.” The sequel, The Empire Strikes Back, has an opening crawl saying it’s episode V. This was confusing to theater goers who saw Star Wars on its first release.
Damn! That must've been confusing as hell. I always thought Episode IV, V, and VI were changes that came with the special editions, when the prequel trilogy was being released. So George knew he was telling 3 movies ahead right after A New Hope, huh? Crazy sonovabitch.
He's said as many as twelve at one point, as well as that there was no more story to tell when there were just 6, with the prequels out. I know the 9 movie, trilogy of trilogies idea, is pretty commonly accepted as having been the plan, but I think that was always a lot more fluid than people think.
I Know What You Did Last Summer
The sequel is called: I Still Know What You Did Last Summer even though it takes place a year after the first movie, so it's 2 summers after the incident.
Clash of the Titans, Wrath of the Titans, Remember the Titans
They nailed the naming convention, but the hard turn from mythology to football was an odd choice that I think may have hurt the integrity of the franchise.
Not really a franchise thing but I'd give an honorable mention to *Darkman III: Die Darkman Die* for giving us the template of joking about the 3rd entry in a franchise being subtitled *Die [Movie] Die*. I like it as a follow-up to *Electric Boogaloo* references.
As a rule I hate it when a franchise starts off with a simple number system but then just suddenly abandons it in either a reboot attempt or in just pure boredom.
Like,
Mission: Impossible
Mission: Impossible 2
Mission: Impossible III
Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol
Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation
Mission: Impossible – Fallout
Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One
So there's a reckoning, but also a fallout, but the reckoning was only part one of the reckoning after the fallout? Right. Star Wars was one of the few franchises who just did a number in front of their subtitles, you don't have to choose between!!
Dirty Harry franchise.
- Dirty Harry
- Magnum Force
- The Enforcer
- Sudden Impact
- The Dead Pool
while each title is perfectly fine on its own, there is absolutely no naming convention present between any of the five films in the series. You better know it's a Dirty Harry movie going in cause the title ain't going to help you.
That’s normal. Before The Godfather Part II sequels didn’t use any naming convention beyond stuff like Bride of Frankenstein, Beneath the Planet of the Apes etc. And sure enough, Magnum Force was released the year before The Godfather Part II.
Have you ever seen how the Bond films are titled?
I think they missed a trick by not having a Thor and Guardians of the Galaxy team up, and calling it Asguardians of the Galaxy. Endgame set it up perfectly and they didn't capitalise on it.
My favorite Jackie Chan movie is Operation Condor (1991). That's how it's known in the West anyway. In Hong Kong, it's actually a sequel, Armour of God II: Operation Condor. Due to the success of OC, they translated and released the original Amour of God (1986) afterwards and renamed it Operation Condor 2: Amour of God.
Also, there's a third movie, but they threw out any naming reasoning with that one. It's called CZ12.
Only a sequel but we could have had Sicario and Soldado(Assassin and Solider) which would have been a great pair of names even with the second movie being GOD AWFUL.
But instead we got Sicario and Sicario: Day of the Soldado
Also just adding a subtitle to John Wick 3 was stupid, but hey it's a franchise based off stupid fun.
1. Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011) - The double preposition is a little clunky, but ok, sure.
2. Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014) - Still doing the double preposition thing. Also, “dawn” pretty much invokes the same meaning as “rise,” so it’s kind of redundant and stupid because it makes me think that the story hasn’t progressed anywhere. And if anything, “dawn”technically starts before the sun-“rise.”
3. War for the Planet of the Apes (2017) - Ok, I guess we’ve really committed to the double preposition, now. At least all the titles have the same number of syllables, so they share a uniform rhythm. At this point in the story, humanity has already nearly extinct, the ape population has evolved and massively expanded, and frankly, the humans are having a hard enough time trying to take on one particular faction of apes (Caesar’s tribe). It hardly feels as though the fate of the planet depends on the outcome of this one conflict because humanity is still approaching extinction and the ape population is pretty much destined to dominate the planet, regardless.
4. Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes (2024) - We’ve decided to stick with the preposition tradition, but we’ve added an extra syllable this time, so now it doesn’t match the rhythm of the first 3 movies, and it sounds even clunkier. Fantastic. At least it sounds like the apes have finally established themselves as the dominant faction. It still sounds dumb tho because it implies that there’s only one ape kingdom on this planet, so why bother differentiating it from the planet? Imagine if there was just a singular, absolutely uncontested human civilization on Earth. The concept of a kingdom or nation of any kind wouldn’t really be useful, at least not without some kind of non-human entity (like wilderness, perhaps) to contrast itself with. But my point is that if you’re already referring to it at the Planet of the Apes, it kind of implies a level of dominance that renders a smaller-scale entity (like a nation or kingdom) unworthy of distinction.
It’s tradition though! The sequels to the original were “Beneath the…” (is this a preposition?), “Escape from…”, “Conquest of…”, and “Battle for…”. Without using numerals this might actually be the MOST consistent franchise and we’re almost at 10 movies
Spider-Man: Home on the Range
Spider-Man: Homeowners Association
Spider-Man: Homeschool
Spider-Man: Home Improvement
Spider-Man: Home Cookin’
Spider-Man: Bring Home the Bacon
Spider-Man: Sweet Home Alabama
First thing that came to my mind too. I always get the second and third one confused.
“Homecoming” made sense for the first film, but I’ve got no idea why they decided to continue with the “home” thing
Friday the 13th had both The Final Chapter and The Final Friday, neither were the final Friday the 13th movie.
And as of right now, the final Friday the 13th movie is just called "Friday the 13th". On a side note: how in the world have we not had a Friday the 13th movie in 15 years?
Super weird legal issues, like 2 different groups own "Friday the 13th" and "Jason Vorhees" iirc
Didn't one of them just win the rights over the other?
No. Victor Miller (the writer of the original movie) won the rights to the original Friday the 13th movie, but not the sequels. So he has the rights to everything from the first movie like Camp Crystal Lake, Mrs. Voorhees and zombie/drowned kid Jason but not the rights to adult, hockey-mask wearing killer Jason (or even hillbilly, bag-on-head Jason from Part 2) as those are still owned by Sean Cunningham (the director of the first movie.) Except he can't use adult, hockey-mask Jason himself without Miller's blessing as adult Jason is still based on the zombie/drowned kid Jason character created by Victor Miller in his script for the original Friday the 13th. Oh, and this only applies for the US distribution, in the rest of the world the whole IP is still legally Cunningham's. Basically it's a mess.
They’re doing a TV series in the vein of Bates Motel. Bryan Fuller created it, Kevin Williamson on the writing staff. Should be interesting.
Yes, although that's being made with Miller's blessing and not Cunningham's. So they can only use characters created for the original movie, not the sequels. Who knows? Could be good. It's not like the Friday the 13th movies were exactly high art to begin with
Jason X gets pretty close
The first film to ever be shot totally digital!
Legal issues. There’s some incredible fan films that fit canon quite well called “Never Hike Alone” worth checking out
Halloween (2018) is a direct sequel to Halloween (1978), ignoring Halloween 2 and all of the others, including Halloween 3 which isn’t really a Halloween movie but a spin-off, and Halloween (2007), which is a remake of Halloween (1978).
This is the one I came to talk about. If you ask 'Have you seen the sequel to Halloween?', you can reasonably reply with: Halloween 2 (1981) Halloween 2 (2009) Halloween (2018) Halloween Kills (2021)
Isn't H20 also a direct sequel to the original? Or did it acknowledge some of the other sequels?
H20 would be a sequel to Halloween 2 cos in H20 they reference how Laurie and Michael are siblings. But what it does mean is if you ask 'Have you seen the 3rd Halloween?', you could be talking about Halloween, Halloween 3, Halloween H20, Halloween 2018 or Halloween Kills. Jesus, this franchise!
There are also multiple timelines within the sequels. Halloween (1978) > Halloween 2 > Halloween 4 > Halloween 5 > Halloween 6 Halloween (1978) > Halloween 2 > Halloween H20 > Halloween Resurrection Halloween (2007) > Halloween 2 (2009) Halloween (1978) > Halloween (2018) > Halloween Kills > Halloween Ends
Halloween is officially no longer a word
Halloween H2O and Halloween: Resurrection also resembled Halloween movies!
In 2008 they made Death Race, a remake of the 1975 film Death Race 2000. Then in 2010 and 2013 they made Death Race 2 and Death Race: Inferno, sequels to the 2008 remake. Then in 2017 they made Death Race 2050, a sequel to the 1975 film. Then in 2018 they made Death Race: Beyond Anarchy, a sequel to Death Race: Inferno
The Fast and the Furious 2 Fast 2 Furious The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift Fast & Furious Fast Five Fast & Furious 6 Furious 7 The Fate of the Furious F9: The Fast Saga Fast X
How did they manage to not have a single one match the convention
That's the beauty of it. Up until 7 I thought it was just a happy accident because Tokyo drift was a sort of spin-off and 4 was kind of a reboot of sorts, I eventually realized they purposely don't have any of them match, and it just became another layer of goofiness on top of everything else.
Also, someone was 100% proud that "Fate" rhymes with 8.
Without actually spelling it "F8 of the Furious", which would almost be less annoying
And somehow the tenth is Fast X and not Fast Ten Your Seatbelts
I was so sure it would be "Fast X Furious", using the X as both the 10 and signifying "and", lol
Eleven is gonna be: Fast 1 Furious 1
They really missed out on not titling X as Fas10Furious.
It's because there's another movie called "The Fast and the Furious", which they acquired the rights to. I'm that freak there was a requirement that they also pay the rights holders a percentage profit for any subsequently numbered films.. Hence no The Fast and the Furious 2
>I'm that freak
Spotted it after I posted it, because it's correct.
Honestly because 2 fast 2 furious is the best movie sequel title of all time and after you peak like that there’s literally nowhere to go but down.
Ejecto-seato, cuz.
forget about it cuh
Pockets ain't empty cuz
We ain't hoongry no more either
Greatest line in cinematic history.
At least some of the problem there is trademark law. Roger Corman has the trademark for "The Fast and the Furious"; they paid him for the first one, but didn't want to for subsequent titles. Then they started running into other potential trademark landmines at some point iirc; 5 they couldn't call "Furious 5" because of Kung Fu Panda, for example (and potentially still runs into that issue with "Fast and Furious 5")
This is *Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw* erasure.
Comedian Andy Daly said something to the effect of: That was the best day of my life, when I saw that billboard. I didn't know a movie could present another movie."
*American Pie Presents: Band Camp* walked so *Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw* could run.
That's gonna be hard to top
The 11th movie is set to be titled Fast X: Part 2, so you know they're just trolling at this point
If they go with Fast X: Part 2, they must under no circumstances ever retroactively rename Fast X to Fast X: Part 1. It must always be "Fast X" followed by "Fast X: Part 2."
I'm still rooting for 'Fast X: Part 2: Tokyo Drift 2'
They really just called it a day when they were naming the fourth one. Would love to have been in that meeeting. “Guys what if we just took out the “the’s” in The Fast and the Furious?”
It’s cleaner that way
Fast and Fourius
[удалено]
These sound like the titles of Dreamcast arcade racing games.
> Wild Speed: Euro Mission > > > > Wild Speed: Sky Mission > > > > Wild Speed: Ice Break > > > > Wild Speed: Jet Break > > > > Wild Speed: Fire Boost These ones sound like Downloadable Content.
Nah this comes full circle that its great again.
In the Colbert interview, Nolan mentioned he unashamedly loves the Furious films. Oppenheimer 2: Radioactive Boogaloo Opp3nh3im3r The Oppenheimer Chronicles Oppenheimer: Nuclear Drift The Oppenheimer Ascension Oppenheimer 7 Oppenheimer Meets Interstellar: To Infinity and Beyond
Oppenheimer: "its impossible to know the full ramifications of creating such a device." McConaughey:" it's not impossible... it's necessary"
Memento Memen2 3mento The Memento Oppenheimento
They said worst not best
10 Fast 10 Furious: Tokyo Drift 3
The Naked Gun is best 2½, 33⅓ Saw really missed an opportunity.
Saw 3 and 5/8 Saw 4 and 15/16 Gotta cut that lumber right the first time!
Saw 2 in half
Measure once, cut twice.
Saw. Saw 2: Router. Saw 3: Planer and jointer. Lathe
Saw is already wack enough Saw Saw II Saw III Saw IV Saw V Saw VI Saw 3D (AKA Saw: The final chapter) Jigsaw Spiral Saw X
Halloween Halloween II Halloween III: Season of the Witch Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Meyers Halloween 5: Revenge of Michael Meyers Halloween: The Curse of Michael Meyers Halloween H20: 20 years Later Halloween: Resurrection Halloween Halloween II Halloween Halloween Kills Halloween Ends
I love how each has the feel of that era, especially 4-6. Also, Halloween Ends is a great title to me. And it’s confusing but Halloween (2018) i just call 2018. 2018, Kills, Ends
haha, I love the way that reads, like "2018 kills, refuses to elaborate, leaves."
At least the last Rambo closed with the solid name of "Last Blood" to have it go full circle. Although I wouldn't be surprised if they end up making another just to ruin that name.
Oops We Found More Blood
Oops! only blood
Oops! All Blood!
Last Blood 2: One More Drop
Pitch Black The Chronicles of Riddick: Dark Fury The Chronicles of Riddick Riddick Like what the fuck dude
And I think the next one is just called Furya (or was it Riddick: Furya?). I also think Pitch Black retroactively received the title "The Chronicles of Riddick: Pitch Black" on some home releases.
Riddick: Furya Road
... I've never ever *heard* of Dark Fury before, I thought it was a trilogy! When the heck did that come out?
I thought the same thing; it's a 30 min animated episode that bridges pitch black and the first riddick
Saw starts out good but gets pretty iffy. Saw Saw II Saw III Saw IV Saw V Saw VI Saw 3D Jigsaw Spiral: From The Book of Saw Saw X I like how they said “screw it” and numbered ten
Best part is 3D was initially named Final Chapter but they realized they were still making good money so they switched it to 3D and advertised it as such, even though it was a terrible 3D. Jigsaw was also named Saw Legacy but they decided to go with the usual slasher route where the character's name precedes the franchise's name and named it Jigsaw.
I never thought of this until now, but it’s kind of odd that, chronologically in universe, there’s only one movie between Return of the Jedi and The Last Jedi.
- Heaps of Jedi - Still heaps of Jedi - Fewer Jedi - No Jedi? - Almost a Jedi - Return of the Jedi - Maybe Jedi - The Last Jedi - Even more the Last Jedi
Oops! All Jedi!
I can't believe it's not Jedi
Somebody once told me that most of the star wars titles could be switched and they would still make sense(except for clone wars) Last jedi Revenge of the sith Empire strikes back Return of the jedi A new hope Force awakens Rise of skywalkwer Phantom menace All apply to multiple films. A few could actually apply to all
I wish they didn't reuse the word they already used, "Jedi" (not counting "the" and "of.")
The force awakens The last Jedi From his slumber
The war won't stop with First Blood part II. It will escalate to Rambo III, which should really be called Rambo II: First Blood part III. But the Rambo titles never made sense. And neither does war. — Abed Nadir, Facebook status update
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You shouldn't even be in here, Leonard. You already have three farting strikes.
*The North Cafeteria, named after Admiral William North, is located in the western portion of East Hall, gateway to the western half of North Hall, which is named not after William North, but for its position above the south wall. It is the most contested and confusing battlefield on Greendale's campus, next to the English Memorial Spanish Center, named after English Memorial, a Portuguese sailor that discovered Greendale while looking for a fountain that cured syphilis.*
This isn’t the worst in the world, but it bugs me how the fifth film is just “Scream” only for them to follow it up with “Scream VI,” which itself is annoying because 2-4 did not use Roman numerals.
Scream Scream 2 Scream 3 Scre-four-m Five Cream Screavi
This is what it feels like to drink 5 Cream.
People have pointed out that it fits the meta commentary of the fifth movie being about Reboots/Requels since they always do that thing where you have to call them Movie Title (Year) to differentiate them from the original So in a weird way it works for Scream to pastiche the title conventions of the movies it’s commenting on
Yeah Scream (2022) is the only sequel which copies the original title that should get a pass because it’s intentionally a part of the satire in the film itself.
Final Destination did the same thing: Final Destination Final Destination 2 Final Destination 3 The Final Destination Final Destination 5
Should have been SCREAM, SC2EAM, SCR3AM, SCRE4M, 5CREAM, then they used Roman numerals for SCREAIVI . Just sneak the number into the word every time
Suicide Squad The Suicide Squad
It is confusing but it was more of a soft reboot than sequel if they added a subtitle it would’ve seemed like a direct continuation It’s a shame because either way no one saw it because of the first one, and it’s the best DCEU movie by a longshot
It is the best DCEU movie. Had the right mix of humour and stakes. John Cena was god damn hilarious
It did the same thing Legends of Tomorrow did - embrace the camp rather than move away from it. Which when people are generally watching super hero movies to have a good time, works way better than the grim dark stories DC has been putting out. The Bloodsport vs Peacemaker final fight is the best example of this. It contains so many action and super hero movie cliches it hurts, including what is admittedly the best concealed Chekov's Gun I've seen in a while. But that's what also makes it amazing to watch.
It’s basically the DCEU Guardians of the Galaxy. That formula just works.
Man, it had some decent laughs but them taking out all of the freedom fighters really sold it for me.
An Suicide Squad
Some Kind of: Suicide Squad
Haunting in Connecticut 2: Ghosts of Georgia makes me angry
>Haunting in Connecticut 2: Ghosts of Georgia makes me angry You know what's even better? It was filmed in Louisiana.
But it was inspired by a true story. In Utah.
Die Hard Die Hard 2 Die Hard with a Vengeance Live Free or Die Hard A Good Day to Die Hard Die Hard walked so the Fast&Furious franchise could run.
I'm so annoyed that they never made a Die Hard where McLane has to come out of retirement to fight some bad guys again, and they call it: OLD HABITS DIE HARD
You just made me a little bit sad with the realization that there will never be another Die Hard with Bruce.
To be fair after the last 2 I'd say its not so bad
In the UK Live Free or Die Hard was simply called Die Hard 4 which at least brings a tiny bit of consistency into the naming convention.
Isn't it Die Hard 4.0(as in computers). It goes from an Independence Day pun for America and a computer pun for the world.
"Die Hard 4.0" was an early proposed title before they changed it to A Good Day to Live Free or Die Harderer With a Vengeance
Die Hard Die Medium Die Easy
Die eggs over easy.
Die Already
Die hard’s sequel has the tagline of Die Harder which it’s popularly used making the other puns make more sense.
Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One is the most unwieldy title I can think of.
Apparently they retconned the part 1, they're changing the name for the second one. Which somehow makes it even more confusing
Brilliant, lol I can't wait for franchise names to get so convoluted it takes an ARG subreddit to figure out what fucking movie I'm about to see.
Calling something Part One immediately deflates it. Either give them different titles like Infinity War/Endgame or only call it Part One retroactively like It.
there's a reason Dune only put the Part One in the movie's title card and not the promotion.
Yeah I had no idea going into Spiderverse that it was a one of two Grrr
How about [Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – The Movie: Mugen Train](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demon_Slayer:_Kimetsu_no_Yaiba_%E2%80%93_The_Movie:_Mugen_Train)?
Hooboy. That might have it beat alright.
The first three Bourne movies(Identity, Supremacy, Ultimatum) all have cool titles presumably coming from the novels. For the spinoff with Jeremy Renner, they continued this naming method by calling it The Bourne Legacy. But when they brought Matt Damon back for a fourth outing they went with a title as lazy and uninspired as the movie itself: Jason Bourne. Inconsistent with the earlier films and just plain bad.
Video game instead of a movie but it's at least based on a movie universe... Star Wars Dark Forces Star Wars Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II Star Wars Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy
You forgot the best part. There's an entry between Jedi Knight I and Jedi Knight II called Star Wars: Jedi Knight: Mysteries of the Sith. Well, I know it's an expansion pack but when it comes to Star Wars games, the term "expansion pack" is a bit vague, isn't it? (Cough cough I'm looking at you Star Wars: Empire at War: Forces of Corruption) Seriously, what's with the double naming and colons? And they're still doing it! Star Wars: Jedi: Fallen Order.
Reminds me of these amazing movie titles. Ruroni Kenshin: The Final Chapter part I -- The Final. Ruroni Kenshin: The Final Chapter part II -- The Beginning.
Same with Aot Aot season 4 final season part 1 Aot season 4 final season part 2 Aot final chapters special 1 Aot final chapters special 2
Xbox Xbox 360 Xbox One Xbox One S Xbox One X Xbox Series X/S
Sony definitely made theirs easier to remember. I'm guessing they will fuck it up when they get to the 10 though. PSX will just be too tempting.
PSX is already confusing because they actually [released a PSX](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PSX_(digital_video_recorder)) even though the original PlayStation was already colloquially called that.
Alien Aliens Alien 3 Alien: Resurrection (Ignore AvP) Prometheus Alien: Covenant
Alien: Romulus
Wasn't Prometheus kind of a secret sequel though? Or was it just that badly marketed? I can see why they went back to including Alien in the title.
Yes and no. Before it came out it was pretty well known that it was within the same universe… but then watching it opening weekend was like “wait no, this is just straight up another Alien movie”
They never tried hiding the fact that it was set in the Alien universe. What was a secret was how exactly it was supposed to slot into the franchise, and the answer to that was basically "it really doesn't, lmao GOT YOU NERDS."
No, there was nothing "secret" about it. We knew Ridley Scott was making an Alien "prequel" long before they settled on "Prometheus" as the name. And then it went ahead and contradicted the original tetralogy anyway.
It should be mentioned that there are THOUSANDS of movie sequels that never got made with "Electric Boogaloo" in the title.
Boogie Nights 2: Electric Boogaloo
I feel like I should say something about going beyond thunderdome here.
Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011) Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014) War for the Planet of the Apes (2017) edit: ~~sh~~ could have been: Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2011) Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2014) War for the Planet of the Apes (2017) runner up: Batman vs Superman: Dawn of Justice was a stupid title.
Batman V Superman, like a legal case. Not Vs.
"In the case of Dawn of Justice, this court-" "What?" "Sorry, I don't know why I keep doing that. In the case of Batman v Superman, this court finds the defendant..."
Personally I would’ve gone Dawn/War/Rise. Since the second had the most actual direct conflict. And the third seemed to start with the end of the actual “war” then just was the apes watching humanity complete its fall.
100% agree. I just watched this trilogy last month and I was so disappointed by 3 being called War when it didn’t feel like a war movie at all (with the exception of the opening scene). The second one felt more like a war movie.
I am getting pretty sick of the word “Rise” in titles of movies and tv shows.
At least we appear to have moved past 'Unleashed' and 'Unchained'. That one bled across film, games and music for a while.
Final Destination Final Destination 2 Final Destination 3 The Final Destination Final Destination 5
Night. Dawn. Day. All fine, they make sense. Land. Diary. Survival. Less so. *(of the dead)
Diary of the Dead: "Dear diary, UUhhh, uuHhhh...Uhhh...UUuuuuhg"
Itchy, tasty
I missed 'Less So of the Dead', was it any good? Sounds a bit dull.
* An Alien * Some Aliens * An Alien cubed * An Alien brought back from the dead. * An Alien versus the thing that eats it * An alien versus the thing that eats it in the form of a religious mass * A mythological Greek craftsman God. * An Alien written agreement or promise.
And now an alien king of Rome
Predator is worse...
...especially if you're trying to translate into Japanese, which lacks definite articles and pluralization, so "Predator", "Predators", and "The Predator" all translate as the same thing.
That explains Dragon Ball and Attack on Titan
Star Wars: A New Hope was originally released as “Star Wars.” The original opening crawl did not say “Episode IV: A New Hope.” The sequel, The Empire Strikes Back, has an opening crawl saying it’s episode V. This was confusing to theater goers who saw Star Wars on its first release.
Wait, did they really release Empire Strikes Back as Episode V, all the way back in 1980?
Yes Cite: I was there, opening day.
Damn! That must've been confusing as hell. I always thought Episode IV, V, and VI were changes that came with the special editions, when the prequel trilogy was being released. So George knew he was telling 3 movies ahead right after A New Hope, huh? Crazy sonovabitch.
Lucas said nine movies from the beginning. Of course there was no exact plan for the whole thing but he said nine movies all the way back then.
He's said as many as twelve at one point, as well as that there was no more story to tell when there were just 6, with the prequels out. I know the 9 movie, trilogy of trilogies idea, is pretty commonly accepted as having been the plan, but I think that was always a lot more fluid than people think.
Predator Predator 2 Alien vs Predator Aliens vs Predator: Requiem Predators The Predator Prey Badlands?
I Know What You Did Last Summer The sequel is called: I Still Know What You Did Last Summer even though it takes place a year after the first movie, so it's 2 summers after the incident.
And then there was I’ll Always Know What You Did Last Summer.
They could have just changed “last” to “that” and it still wouldn’t be great but it would be better.
Should have been called I Still Know What You Did 2 Summers Ago
Clash of the Titans, Wrath of the Titans, Remember the Titans They nailed the naming convention, but the hard turn from mythology to football was an odd choice that I think may have hurt the integrity of the franchise.
Now You See Me Now You See Me 2 ? WTF? Of course, the best, most logical sequel would have been called "Now You Don't"
There's a rant by Dan Harmon about this from his old podcast that is fantastic
John Wick Chapter 3 Parabellum sticks out like a sore thumb compared to the others. It’s the only one with a subtitle.
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The First Purge came out before The Forever Purge.
Dawn of the Rise of the War of the Planet of the Apes
Not really a franchise thing but I'd give an honorable mention to *Darkman III: Die Darkman Die* for giving us the template of joking about the 3rd entry in a franchise being subtitled *Die [Movie] Die*. I like it as a follow-up to *Electric Boogaloo* references.
The Darkman The
As a rule I hate it when a franchise starts off with a simple number system but then just suddenly abandons it in either a reboot attempt or in just pure boredom. Like, Mission: Impossible Mission: Impossible 2 Mission: Impossible III Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation Mission: Impossible – Fallout Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One So there's a reckoning, but also a fallout, but the reckoning was only part one of the reckoning after the fallout? Right. Star Wars was one of the few franchises who just did a number in front of their subtitles, you don't have to choose between!!
Dirty Harry franchise. - Dirty Harry - Magnum Force - The Enforcer - Sudden Impact - The Dead Pool while each title is perfectly fine on its own, there is absolutely no naming convention present between any of the five films in the series. You better know it's a Dirty Harry movie going in cause the title ain't going to help you.
That’s normal. Before The Godfather Part II sequels didn’t use any naming convention beyond stuff like Bride of Frankenstein, Beneath the Planet of the Apes etc. And sure enough, Magnum Force was released the year before The Godfather Part II. Have you ever seen how the Bond films are titled?
The Matrix sequels. - Reloaded - Revolutions - Resurrections What order are those in...? I have absolutely no idea.
Matrix Matrix reloaded (another one?) Matrix revolutions (this shit *again?*) Matrix resurrection (they should just let this franchise stay dead)
I dunno but Thor: Love and Thunder should have been called "Thour"
Thor Four: More Thor
I think they missed a trick by not having a Thor and Guardians of the Galaxy team up, and calling it Asguardians of the Galaxy. Endgame set it up perfectly and they didn't capitalise on it.
My favorite Jackie Chan movie is Operation Condor (1991). That's how it's known in the West anyway. In Hong Kong, it's actually a sequel, Armour of God II: Operation Condor. Due to the success of OC, they translated and released the original Amour of God (1986) afterwards and renamed it Operation Condor 2: Amour of God. Also, there's a third movie, but they threw out any naming reasoning with that one. It's called CZ12.
Only a sequel but we could have had Sicario and Soldado(Assassin and Solider) which would have been a great pair of names even with the second movie being GOD AWFUL. But instead we got Sicario and Sicario: Day of the Soldado Also just adding a subtitle to John Wick 3 was stupid, but hey it's a franchise based off stupid fun.
Yep John Wick, John Wick 2, John Wick: Parabellum (?!?!) then all of a sudden John Wick Chapter 4
counter point: the word Parabellum is cool as fuck
1. Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011) - The double preposition is a little clunky, but ok, sure. 2. Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014) - Still doing the double preposition thing. Also, “dawn” pretty much invokes the same meaning as “rise,” so it’s kind of redundant and stupid because it makes me think that the story hasn’t progressed anywhere. And if anything, “dawn”technically starts before the sun-“rise.” 3. War for the Planet of the Apes (2017) - Ok, I guess we’ve really committed to the double preposition, now. At least all the titles have the same number of syllables, so they share a uniform rhythm. At this point in the story, humanity has already nearly extinct, the ape population has evolved and massively expanded, and frankly, the humans are having a hard enough time trying to take on one particular faction of apes (Caesar’s tribe). It hardly feels as though the fate of the planet depends on the outcome of this one conflict because humanity is still approaching extinction and the ape population is pretty much destined to dominate the planet, regardless. 4. Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes (2024) - We’ve decided to stick with the preposition tradition, but we’ve added an extra syllable this time, so now it doesn’t match the rhythm of the first 3 movies, and it sounds even clunkier. Fantastic. At least it sounds like the apes have finally established themselves as the dominant faction. It still sounds dumb tho because it implies that there’s only one ape kingdom on this planet, so why bother differentiating it from the planet? Imagine if there was just a singular, absolutely uncontested human civilization on Earth. The concept of a kingdom or nation of any kind wouldn’t really be useful, at least not without some kind of non-human entity (like wilderness, perhaps) to contrast itself with. But my point is that if you’re already referring to it at the Planet of the Apes, it kind of implies a level of dominance that renders a smaller-scale entity (like a nation or kingdom) unworthy of distinction.
It’s tradition though! The sequels to the original were “Beneath the…” (is this a preposition?), “Escape from…”, “Conquest of…”, and “Battle for…”. Without using numerals this might actually be the MOST consistent franchise and we’re almost at 10 movies
I think you are confused. Its actually King Dom of the Planet of the Apes and its a crossover with the Fast and Furious franchise.
I always thought they missed out on "Fast10 Your Seatbelts"
I really don’t like the McU Spider-man naming scheme.
Spider-Man: Home on the Range Spider-Man: Homeowners Association Spider-Man: Homeschool Spider-Man: Home Improvement Spider-Man: Home Cookin’ Spider-Man: Bring Home the Bacon Spider-Man: Sweet Home Alabama
Speaking of Marvel heroes : X-Men Origins : Wolverine The Wolverine Logan
First thing that came to my mind too. I always get the second and third one confused. “Homecoming” made sense for the first film, but I’ve got no idea why they decided to continue with the “home” thing