# Do you own any sequels but not the original movie? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 10, 2013, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-own-any-sequels-but-not-the-original-movie/649858 "2013-02-10T06:08:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2013, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-own-any-sequels-but-not-the-original-movie/649858/41 "2013-02-14T01:30:05Z")
Evil Dead 2 and Rambo (the 4th movie of that series) on Blu Ray are the only ones I own for those respective series (got them used cheap at a store that was closing down). I have the 3 disc DVD set of Romero’s Dawn of the Dead, but no Night of the Living Dead. Someone has a copy I can borrow really easily though, and it’s almost always on OnDemand somewhere so not like not owning it means I don’t have access. Hell, it’s public domain so I could just download it legally if I wanted. I also have Diary of the Dead, if that counts. I don’t think it technically counts as a sequel, but it’s Romero and zombies, so make your own judgment. I had Terminator 2 on VHS before I had Terminator 1, but I now have plenty of T1 copies. There have been times I’ve bought TV seasons out of order, like I bought Buffy season 7 before 4-6, but I always intended to go back and get the rest eventual (and fortunately they got really cheap by the time I did!). edit:Oh, Star Trek as well, it counts as a sequel thanks to Spock Prime! ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2013, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-own-any-sequels-but-not-the-original-movie/649858/42 "2013-02-14T02:11:50Z")
> [@Dendarii\_Dame](#): > > Karate Kid II. Dude, why? The first one has everything. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2013, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-own-any-sequels-but-not-the-original-movie/649858/43 "2013-02-14T02:42:45Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > Dude, why? The first one has everything. And the second one has nothing. ---
**Author:** ![Meatros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Meatros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meatros)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2013, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-own-any-sequels-but-not-the-original-movie/649858/44 "2013-02-14T02:45:31Z")
I own several versions of Evil Dead 2 and Army of Darkness. At one point I had an Ash comic book, ash action figures, and the video games. I’ve seen The Evil Dead, but no, I never bought it…or saw it again… ---
**Author:** ![Eonwe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eonwe/32/240_2.png) [@Eonwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eonwe)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2013, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-own-any-sequels-but-not-the-original-movie/649858/45 "2013-02-14T04:48:30Z")
I’ve got **History of The World: Part II** , but not the first one. ---
**Author:** ![binkman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@binkman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/binkman)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2013, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-own-any-sequels-but-not-the-original-movie/649858/46 "2013-02-22T00:06:08Z")
If Silence of the Lambs counts, I’ve got that one. ---
**Author:** ![jack\_tardiff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/43a26b/32.png) [@jack\_tardiff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jack_tardiff)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2013, 6:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-own-any-sequels-but-not-the-original-movie/649858/47 "2013-02-22T06:11:33Z")
> [@ads95](#): > > [_ **The Color of Money** _, but not\*\* _The Hustler_\*\* Put me down for ditters on that one. I’ve only seen _The Hustler_ maybe twice – _TCOM_ is something I have the hard copy of. Just that good. Full disclosure, though – in this “digital” age, I’m only counting flicks I own a legit hard copy of. DRM legit copies don’t count, for me, nor do “otherise obtained” (henceforth _OO_ versions. I’m not your daddy, I’m not your boyfriend. Are those metal rivets? ---
**Author:** ![drewtwo99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2013, 7:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-own-any-sequels-but-not-the-original-movie/649858/48 "2013-02-22T07:20:17Z")
I have **Be Cool** … but not whatever it was the sequel to. I have **X2** but none of the others (though I remember liking the first X-Men, X2 was way better). I have a handful of the James Bond movies but I don’t have Casino Royale (the original movie, which I think is the first James Bond film). ---
**Author:** ![Jormungandr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a6a055/32.png) [@Jormungandr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jormungandr)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2013, 8:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-own-any-sequels-but-not-the-original-movie/649858/49 "2013-02-22T08:33:43Z")
Grease 2. Try as I might, I can’t sit through the original Grease when it’s on TV. ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2013, 8:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-own-any-sequels-but-not-the-original-movie/649858/50 "2013-02-22T08:43:08Z")
> [@drewtwo99](#): > > I have **Be Cool** … but not whatever it was the sequel to. _Get Shorty_, which is a much better movie. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![squeegee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/squeegee/32/14537_2.png) [@squeegee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/squeegee)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2013, 10:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-own-any-sequels-but-not-the-original-movie/649858/51 "2013-02-22T10:36:00Z")
Anal Cum Sluts XXIII. The protaganist came from behind. In the end. ---
**Author:** ![jack\_tardiff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/43a26b/32.png) [@jack\_tardiff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jack_tardiff)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2013, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-own-any-sequels-but-not-the-original-movie/649858/52 "2013-02-23T23:46:52Z")
Slight hijack, but I see people mentioning _Wrath of Khan_ here – just saw it first time this morning. Solid space opera – I enjoyed it thoroughly. I’ve seen the one with the whales in the theater, but I think those are the only two I’ve seen (despite being into TNG and reruns of TOS when I was a kid). So, maybe I missed something, kind of not paying close attention. What exactly was the deliciously flamboyant Khan so pissed about, anyway? He wasn’t just ticked off, he was burn it all pissed off, as you know. Anyway, thanks for this thread – always meant to watch that, but never had a good reason to. ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2013, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-own-any-sequels-but-not-the-original-movie/649858/53 "2013-02-24T16:06:31Z")
> [@jack\_tardiff](#): > > Slight hijack, but I see people mentioning _Wrath of Khan_ here – just saw it first time this morning. Solid space opera – I enjoyed it thoroughly. I’ve seen the one with the whales in the theater, but I think those are the only two I’ve seen (despite being into TNG and reruns of TOS when I was a kid). > > So, maybe I missed something, kind of not paying close attention. What exactly was the deliciously flamboyant Khan so pissed about, anyway? He wasn’t just ticked off, he was burn it all pissed off, as you know. > > Anyway, thanks for this thread – always meant to watch that, but never had a good reason to. The short answer is in the Original Star Trek episode The Space Seed, Kahn has a run in with Kirk and in the end Kirk leaves him on a planet that was rough but habitable to build his own society. Turned out the planet had a catastrophe shortly after which turned it into a lifeless desert. Kahn went insane and blamed Kirk for everything. ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2013, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-own-any-sequels-but-not-the-original-movie/649858/54 "2013-03-03T17:03:18Z")
Here’s an odd example: > **[Patti Rocks (1988) - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095835/)** > > Patti Rocks: Directed by David Burton Morris. With Chris Mulkey, John Jenkins, Karen Landry, Ralph Estlie. It's Christmas time in the twin cities. Billy's working a lot of overtime, running barges on the Mississippi. He calls his friend Eddie, whom... This is _Patti Rocks_, a low-budget film from 1988 with somewhat of a cult reputation. I found a copy of it remaindered a few years ago, bought it, and watched it. It’s a sequel to _Loose Ends_, a 1976 film which doesn’t have any reputation as far as I know: > **[Loose Ends (1975) - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074817/)** > > Loose Ends: Directed by David Burton Morris, Victoria Wozniak. With Chris Mulkey, John Jenkins, Linda Jenkins, Bobby Jenkins. Two working class friends desire to escape from their depressing lives. In fact, it’s probably impossible to find. This is certainly a weird thing for the filmmakers to do. They said, “Hey, you know that film that went nowhere and earned nothing for us twelve years ago? Let’s make a sequel.” ---
**Author:** ![Ibn\_Warraq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e19b73/32.png) [@Ibn\_Warraq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ibn_Warraq)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2013, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-own-any-sequels-but-not-the-original-movie/649858/55 "2013-03-03T17:18:27Z")
> [@jack\_tardiff](#): > > Slight hijack, but I see people mentioning _Wrath of Khan_ here – just saw it first time this morning. Solid space opera – I enjoyed it thoroughly. I’ve seen the one with the whales in the theater, but I think those are the only two I’ve seen (despite being into TNG and reruns of TOS when I was a kid). > > So, maybe I missed something, kind of not paying close attention. What exactly was the deliciously flamboyant Khan so pissed about, anyway? He wasn’t just ticked off, he was burn it all pissed off, as you know. > > Anyway, thanks for this thread – always meant to watch that, but never had a good reason to. To add to what was already mentioned, Khan blames Kirk for the extremely painful death of his wife and “20 of my people” following Ceti Eels burrowing into their brains. ---
**Author:** ![Two\_Many\_Cats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8dc957/32.png) [@Two\_Many\_Cats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_Many_Cats)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2013, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-own-any-sequels-but-not-the-original-movie/649858/56 "2013-03-03T21:20:41Z")
I’ve got _Evil Dead II_ and _Bill and Ted’s Bogus Journey_. _Excellent Adventure_ was cute enough to get me to watch _Bogus Journey_, but not enough to buy it. ---
**Author:** ![Student\_Driver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3da27b/32.png) [@Student\_Driver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Student_Driver)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2013, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-own-any-sequels-but-not-the-original-movie/649858/57 "2013-03-04T02:04:23Z")
> [@Wendell\_Wagner](#): > > Here’s an odd example: > > [Patti Rocks (1988) - IMDb](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095835/) > > This is _Patti Rocks_, a low-budget film from 1988 with somewhat of a cult reputation. I found a copy of it remaindered a few years ago, bought it, and watched it. It’s a sequel to _Loose Ends_, a 1976 film which doesn’t have any reputation as far as I know: > > [Loose Ends (1975) - IMDb](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074817/) > > In fact, it’s probably impossible to find. This is certainly a weird thing for the filmmakers to do. They said, “Hey, you know that film that went nowhere and earned nothing for us twelve years ago? Let’s make a sequel.” Interesting. I have Patti Rocks on laserdisc, and had no clue it was a sequel to anything. ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2013, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-own-any-sequels-but-not-the-original-movie/649858/58 "2013-03-04T04:17:37Z")
Watch the opening of the film. There’s a subtitle or a crawl that says “Eleven years later . . .” or some such. This is a hint that it’s the same characters as the earlier film. I only noticed this part of the opening because I first heard of _Patti Rocks_ in an essay on it in a book about interesting obscure movies. ---
**Author:** ![Grestarian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grestarian/32/3227_2.png) [@Grestarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grestarian)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2013, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-own-any-sequels-but-not-the-original-movie/649858/59 "2013-03-06T00:32:59Z")
> [@hogarth](#): > > I also have one prequel (sort of) where I don’t own the other movies: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly. Nit-picking just a bit: G/B/U is actually the third of five Man-with-no-name movies. [ul] [li]Fist Full of Dollars (Directed by Sergio Leone)[/li][li]A Few Dollars More (Directed by Sergio Leone)[/li][li]G/B/U (Directed by Sergio Leone)[/li][li]High Plains Drifter (Directed by Clint Eastwood)[/li][li]Pale Rider (Directed by Clint Eastwood)[/li][/ul] They each stand great on their own, as well. –G! …even High Plains Drifter Ain’t What It’s all about… …–Jon Bongiovi (solo) …_More than we bargained for_ \*…\*Power Station Years [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-own-any-sequels-but-not-the-original-movie/649858.md?page=2)