With Final Destination: Bloodlines now filming, I saw it posed, “Has a good sequel ever been made with the title Bloodlines in it?”
I don’t know the answer to the above question, but it got me wondering what sequels have the worst titles?
Attack of the Clones?
Subtitles are obviously included.
Anything with a “2” after the name.
I assume that includes anything with a “2: Electric Boogaloo” after the name?
I’m looking forward to
Final Destination: Not All That Final After All…
I’m still looking forward to:
No, 2: Electric Boogaloo is the perfect sequel title.
Did you watch History of the World Part 2?
I think they did circle back around to this.
I did not! How did I miss that?
Now I have to go find that and watch it.
The previous one was even worse. Is it a phantom-y menace, or a literal menacing phantom, or an illusionary menace? Even after having watched the film (many years on now) I still have no idea. I hate lamely vague ambiguous titles. [Have the same issue with The Phantom Creeps; just a lone sneaky phantom, or a bunch of insubstantial creeps?]
How about The Adventures of Captain Africa? So named because, after they began filming, they discovered that they had lost the rights to use the Phantom character.
As an aside, my dad used to work for the movie companies (many of them). He got me an advertisement for “Revenge of the Jedi.” It was printed on heavy paper and unfolded to quite a size. Really nice, professional stuff. Then they changed the name of the movie to “Return of the Jedi” because they felt Jedi were not vengeful.
Of course, teenage me didn’t treat it with the respect it deserved and it was lost long ago. Might have been worth something today as a collector’s item (dunno, I never checked).
Considering that the few items (action figures etc) that made it to production are indeed highly sought after and worth considerably more than their Return versions, it’s a safe bet.
Back To The OP
Friday The 13 Part (I think) 4- The Final Friday.
It was not in fact the final Friday.
ETA
I misremembered. Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter (1984) - IMDb
I’ll nominate:
Part VIII was called “Jason Takes Manhattan”
Thing is, he goes to New York for about 20 minutes at the end. Should have been called “Jason Takes A Boat”.
And they take the boat from Camp Crystal Lake…to NY.
Apollo 18.
I Still Know What You Did Last Summer. As Roger Ebert pointed out, it takes place a year after the first film and thus should have been called I Still Know What You Did the Summer Before Last.
Ebert also thought Jason X was hilarious. He ends with:
I think all the sequel titles to First Blood are pretty bad.
Ya gotta give the Sharknado franchise credit for steering into the skid with bad sequel titles.
Sharknado 2: The Second One
Sharknado 3: Oh Hell No!
Sharknado 4: The 4th Awakens
Sharknado 5: Global Swarming
Sharknado: Heart of Sharkness
Sharknado: Feeding Frenzy
Sharknado vs. Leprechaun
The Last Sharknado: It’s About Time