# Naming movie sequels. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 24, 2007, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/naming-movie-sequels/420324 "2007-09-24T16:51:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2007, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/naming-movie-sequels/420324/41 "2007-09-25T15:55:10Z")
[QUOTE=JThunder] What about Apollo 13? Shouldn’t they have released the first twelve movies first? [/QUOTE] And the first five _Leonard_s were probably not released for good reason seeing how bad #6 was. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2007, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/naming-movie-sequels/420324/42 "2007-09-25T15:59:16Z")
[QUOTE=JThunder] What about Apollo 13? Shouldn’t they have released the first twelve movies first? [/QUOTE] I heard the first one really lit 'em up in previews! I’m so ashamed of myself. ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2007, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/naming-movie-sequels/420324/43 "2007-09-25T16:52:14Z")
[QUOTE=Marley23] Did they make a **Malcolm XI** that I didn’t see? [/QUOTE] Since it’s the second flick, it’s called **Malcolm In The Middle**. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2007, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/naming-movie-sequels/420324/44 "2007-09-25T16:58:50Z")
[QUOTE=KneadToKnow] A lot of people forget that there never was a movie titled _Rambo II_. There was _First Blood_, then _Rambo: First Blood Part II_, then _Rambo III_. [/QUOTE] Yeah, that one’s always bothered me too. I still think the last movie should have been named “Rambo II: First Blood Part III”. ---
**Author:** ![Antonius\_Block](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/51bf81/32.png) [@Antonius\_Block](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antonius_Block)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2007, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/naming-movie-sequels/420324/45 "2007-09-25T22:11:58Z")
[QUOTE=CalMeacham] The very first movie to use the concention (if you don’t count those old silent 5 minute movies) was **Quatermass 2** \ (Note that the “2” was Indo-Arabic, not Roman) [/QUOTE] Actually, it seems as though both “2” and “II” were used for the film version in the UK (see movie poster [here](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quatermass_2)). The [TV series](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quatermass_II) on which it was based was apparently always “II”, however. I was just thinking about Quatermass 2 the other day, after reading [this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=437471) about the radiation-loving black fungi thriving in the Chernobyl reactor. Hope nobody falls in… [hijack] The Quatermass TV series were before my time, but they’re apparently now [out on DVD](http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000772838). Have you seen them, **Cal**? If so, what do you think? [/hijack] ---
**Author:** ![Scarlett67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scarlett67/32/7387_2.png) [@Scarlett67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarlett67)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2007, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/naming-movie-sequels/420324/46 "2007-09-25T23:40:18Z")
_The King and II_ Sadly, I can’t take credit for that one. ---
**Author:** ![bob\_loblaw](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f19dbf/32.png) [@bob\_loblaw](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bob_loblaw)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2007, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/naming-movie-sequels/420324/47 "2007-09-26T00:36:18Z")
wouldn’t have spaceballs 2: the quest for more money been the first sequel to be released before the original had finished production? ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2007, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/naming-movie-sequels/420324/48 "2007-09-26T14:58:40Z")
> [@](#): > > [hijack] > The Quatermass TV series were before my time, but they’re apparently now out on DVD. Have you seen them, Cal? If so, what do you think? > [/hijack] They actually came out on VHS, before the advent of DVD, and I picked up the TV serial of “Quatermass and the Pit” (Actually, the scripts were published by Penguin books in the 1960s, and I have copies of _those_. I lucked out.) My verdict: I like the ship from the TV version better, and they don’t make some of the stupid mistakes of the movie (“It’s a pentacle”, sais Quatermass, meaning “pentagram”, only the mark isn’t a pentagram.), and the style of the TV show seems more realistic. On the other hand, it’s so _sl-o-o-o-o-o-o-w and b-o-o-o-o-oring_. Also, the TV serial plots are a bit different. Quatermass Xperiment on TV ends differently from the movie. The climactic demon “Hob” for Quatermass and the Pit looks better from TV than from the feature film. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2007, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/naming-movie-sequels/420324/49 "2007-09-26T16:04:36Z")
I’m still waiting for _The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai: Against the World Crime League_, dammit. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2007, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/naming-movie-sequels/420324/50 "2007-09-26T18:24:23Z")
[QUOTE=Shoeless] Yeah, that one’s always bothered me too. I still think the last movie should have been named “Rambo II: First Blood Part III”. [/QUOTE] I still think the second movie should have been _Second Blood_. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/naming-movie-sequels/420324.md?page=2)