# Movie Series with One or Two Titles Different from the Others **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** movies\ **Created:** [February 5, 2024, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-series-with-one-or-two-titles-different-from-the-others/997138 "2024-02-05T13:45:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2024, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-series-with-one-or-two-titles-different-from-the-others/997138/41 "2024-02-05T22:18:54Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > Five Million Years to Earth suggests a journay to Earth that requires Five Million Years, not a reference to siomething that happened five million years ago ON Earth. As a kid, the first time I saw it, I thought the title was trying to be “poetic”. Or British! Speaking of The Thin Man series, I hate the title “Glass Onion: A _Knives Out_ Mystery”. Why not just “Glass Onion”? Or “A Benoit Blanc Mystery”? Or hell. CSI KFC. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2024, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-series-with-one-or-two-titles-different-from-the-others/997138/42 "2024-02-05T22:33:21Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > Speaking of The Thin Man series, I hate the title “Glass Onion: A _Knives Out_ Mystery”. Why not just “Glass Onion”? Or “A Benoit Blanc Mystery”? Just because marketing is an art doesn’t make it artistic. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2024, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-series-with-one-or-two-titles-different-from-the-others/997138/43 "2024-02-05T23:41:04Z")
**John Wick** **John Wick: Chapter 2** **John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum** **John Wick: Chapter 4** Why only Chapter 3 deserved a subtitle, I do not know. ---
**Author:** ![phs3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8491ac/32.png) [@phs3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phs3)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2024, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-series-with-one-or-two-titles-different-from-the-others/997138/44 "2024-02-06T04:56:19Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > Are y’all sure Mad max didn’t make a “splash” in the US market? I saw it in the theaters and it made an impression, and we all lived in bumfuk Wisconsin. When The Road Worrier came out, everyone i knew recognized it as a sequel. Maybe we were in a good market? Or a bad one, where you missed Mad Max first time around. I was square in its target demo at the time and am 100% sure (but capable of being wrong, of course) that in North America, at least, TRW was released before MM. Or at least widely released. ETA: Ah hah! From Wikipedia, re MM2/TRW: In the United States, with a gross of US$23.6 million and of $11 million, the film also outperformed _Mad Max_. When that film was released in the U.S. in 1980, it did not receive a proper release from its distributor, as AIP was in the final stages of a change of ownership after being bought by Filmways, Inc. a year earlier, and its box office was affected. So I think you were lucky! ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2024, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-series-with-one-or-two-titles-different-from-the-others/997138/45 "2024-02-06T05:57:53Z")
I saw _Mad Max_ before I saw _Road Warrior_ but it didn’t occur to me until long after that one was the sequel to the other. It was just the same actor in two movies driving cars like John Wayne in two movies riding horses. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2024, 6:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-series-with-one-or-two-titles-different-from-the-others/997138/46 "2024-02-06T06:28:58Z")
Even though _Road Warrior_ opens with a two-minute prologue consisting of clips from the first movie, constituting a flashback to establish the character? ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2024, 6:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-series-with-one-or-two-titles-different-from-the-others/997138/47 "2024-02-06T06:32:21Z")
I must have been getting popcorn. ---
**Author:** ![Sparky812](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb9ed0/32.png) [@Sparky812](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sparky812)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2024, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-series-with-one-or-two-titles-different-from-the-others/997138/48 "2024-02-06T12:45:18Z")
Not to mention the pretty obvious Stone = Jewel tie-in… although (without spoiling it too much) the “precious stone quest” is abandoned pretty early in the sequel. ---
**Author:** ![Wolf333](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf333/32/3460_2.png) [@Wolf333](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wolf333)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2024, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-series-with-one-or-two-titles-different-from-the-others/997138/49 "2024-02-07T12:46:11Z")
El Mariachi, Desperado, Once Upon a Time in Mexico Evil Dead, Evil Dead 2, Army of Darkness ---
**Author:** ![veryfrank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/87869e/32.png) [@veryfrank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/veryfrank)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2024, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-series-with-one-or-two-titles-different-from-the-others/997138/50 "2024-02-07T17:29:56Z")
> [@Wolf333](#): > > Evil Dead, Evil Dead 2, Army of Darkness The working title of the third one was _Medieval Dead_ then it was _Evil Dead III: Army of Darkness_, before they settled on the final title. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-series-with-one-or-two-titles-different-from-the-others/997138.md?page=2)