Surely the Sixth should have been titled Beethoven - Out to Pasture
well…
Lucas loves to retroactivate his movies. So now the movie we loved as an original breath of fresh air is officially known as “Indiana Jones and The Raiders of the Lost Ark”. Just like the one, true STAR WARS is now Star Wars Ep IV A New Hope.
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?
Just thought of another one: the Ernest movies all had Ernest’s name in the title, except for the first one, titled Dr. Otto and the Riddle of the Gloom Beam. (Slam Dunk Ernest was the only film where Ernest’s name appeared at the end of the title.)
Not to someone who hadn’t seen the film – it’s a very weird way of conveying the notion.
Of the Basil Rathbone Sherlock Holmes films, Five have “Sherlock Holmes” in the title. (the first “Hound of the Baskervilles”, is arguably the most famous Holmes story, and didn’t nee his name). The last eight did not, and aren’t named after any Sherlock Holmes stories (although they incorporated elements of them).
Only about thirteen of Abbott and Costello’s films have their names in the title (or would, if read as they appear on the marquee). Not all the others should be included in a survey of their films, but the Universal ones should. That’s about half with and half without, depending upon how generous you are.
It’s only the later movies that feature their names explicitly in the title. In the earlier ones (For example, “In the Navy”, which, with their names at the top above the title, it would be read as “Abbot and Costello In the Navy”) , it’s implied.
The Rocky sequels also made it through Rocky V before going to Rocky Balboa for the sixth movie, then started over again with Creed I-III
Michael Caine made five movies based on Len Deighton’s Harry Palmer character: The Ipcress File, Funeral in Berlin, Billion Dollar Brain, Bullet to Beijing, and Midnight in St. Petersburg, none of which had Palmer’s name in evidence. It may explain why most of them after Ipcress didn’t do so well.
That’s true of a large percentage of titles. I mean, would you know what Raiders Of The Lost Ark was about from title alone? Doctor No? A new Hope?
I always thought it should have been “Rambo II: First Blood Part III”
The original Planet of the Apes movies had some interesting titles: Planet of the Apes, Return to the Planet of the Apes, Beneath the Planet of the Apes, Behind and to the Left of the Planet of the Apes, etc etc. etc.
I immediately thought of these…
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
Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw
F9
Fast and Furious 10
There was a series of 6 movies in the 30s featuring amateur sleuth Hildegard Withers.
The Penguin Pool Murder
Murder on the Blackboard
Murder on a Honeymoon
Murder on the Bridal Path
The Plot Thickens
Forty Naughty Girls
The lead actor in the first three was Edna May Oliver. Helen Broderick took over for one film and Zasu Pitts did the last two.
Well, there’s Batman Begins, The Dark Knight and The Dark Knight Rises.
I was around when those movies were released and I think we all knew that Jewel of the Nile was a sequel to Romancing the Stone. The commercials and the presence of Danny Devito, Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner made it clear.
Those make sense. There was plenty of speculation about what “Raidrrs of the Lost Ark” might mean (Noah’s Ark?)
Five Million Years to Earth, though?
Five Million Years Ago, maybe. Or The Prehistoric Enigma, or something like that. 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.
Were the credits on the actual film of Raiders changed? I thought they just updated the DVD sleeves with the revamped titles. I haven’t seen the movie in a while, I should throw the BluRay in and check…
Not on the copy I’ve got.
Came here to point this out. I picked up Raiders on DVD about a decade ago and, sure enough, it was retitled “Indiana Jones and the…”
Perhaps they figured that “Raiders of the…” would be the series’ hook?
Of the 33 Toho films, the word Godzilla appears in the title of all but the 5th, 6th, 7th*, 9th, and 10th** films in the series. By the end of the 1960s Godzilla has had his name in the title of every film he has appeared in.
*Godzilla vs. the Sea Monster in the US
** Godzilla’s Revenge in the US