# You've only seen the sequel(s)? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 25, 2019, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-only-seen-the-sequel-s/840788 "2019-09-25T03:25:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![DPRK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4491bb/32.png) [@DPRK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DPRK)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2019, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-only-seen-the-sequel-s/840788/21 "2019-09-25T17:11:06Z")
You could say that _Mad Max_ depicts the fall of civilization, _The Road Warrior_ depicts the middle of the post-apocalyptic chaos, (tribes, wilderness, and roving marauders), and _Beyond Thunderdome_ (and _Fury Road_) depict a time when civilization has begun to rise again (you have settlements like Barter Town, Gas Town, etc as well as some trade, infrastructure, and manufacturing) ---
**Author:** ![WildaBeast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wildabeast/32/6_2.png) [@WildaBeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildaBeast)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2019, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-only-seen-the-sequel-s/840788/22 "2019-09-25T18:21:44Z")
I have seen all the Star Trek movies except the first one. I have seen bits and pieces of it when it aired on TV, but I never watched it in its entirety. I already sort of mentioned it in another thread, but I have seen _The Rescuers Down Under_ (I think we saw it in the theater when I was a kid), but I have never seen the original _The Rescuers_. ---
**Author:** ![furryman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/furryman/32/99_2.png) [@furryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furryman)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2019, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-only-seen-the-sequel-s/840788/23 "2019-09-25T18:27:48Z")
> [@pmwgreen](#): > > Lupin III is much better than Lupin. (Sorry). I looked up Arsene Lupin on Amazon out of curiosity but I’ll probably never buy it.:rolleyes: ---
**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, 2019, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-only-seen-the-sequel-s/840788/24 "2019-09-25T18:34:26Z")
I’ve seen _Dawn of the Dead_ but not _Night of the Living Dead_ and _Army of Darkness_ but neither _Evil Dead_ nor _Evil Dead II_. I do not feel cheated. ---
**Author:** ![furryman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/furryman/32/99_2.png) [@furryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furryman)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2019, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-only-seen-the-sequel-s/840788/25 "2019-09-25T18:35:55Z")
I watched _Army of Darkness_ but I’ll probably never watch _The Evil Dead_. I watched _Halloween 3_ but I’ll probably never watch _Halloween_. ---
**Author:** ![gdave](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gdave/32/3683_2.png) [@gdave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gdave)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2019, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-only-seen-the-sequel-s/840788/26 "2019-09-25T18:50:12Z")
I think I’ve seen every Terminator movie since T2, and every episode of the _Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles_, but I’ve never seen the original _The Terminator_. I’ve seen _Aliens_, _Alien 3_, _Alien Resurrection_, and _Alien vs. Predator_ and _Alien vs. Predator: Requiem_, but I’ve never seen the original _Alien_. I’ve seen _Evil Dead II_, _Army of Darkness_, and every episode of the _Ash vs. Evil Dead_ TV series, but I’ve never seen the original _Evil Dead_. Part of the above is due to when they were released, part due to which movies I chanced into being dragged to see by friends, and part due to the fact that while I enjoy sci-fi and fantasy movies with horror elements, I don’t like out-and-out horror movies. ---
**Author:** ![simster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simster/32/1047_2.png) [@simster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simster)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2019, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-only-seen-the-sequel-s/840788/27 "2019-09-25T19:13:37Z")
**[House 2: The Second Story](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093220/)** I can’t even _find_ what its a sequel too… ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2019, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-only-seen-the-sequel-s/840788/28 "2019-09-25T19:25:20Z")
Oh yeah, I’ve also only seen [Troll 2](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troll_2) without having seen Troll 😉 ---
**Author:** ![dorvann](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/df705f/32.png) [@dorvann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dorvann)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2019, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-only-seen-the-sequel-s/840788/29 "2019-09-25T19:29:13Z")
I have seen _Malcom X_ but have not seen _Malcolm_ I through IX. ---
**Author:** ![AWB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bb73d2/32.png) [@AWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AWB)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2019, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-only-seen-the-sequel-s/840788/30 "2019-09-25T20:25:57Z")
I saw “Apollo 13”, but missed the first twelve films. Also, has anyone heard Adele’s other 22 albums? ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2019, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-only-seen-the-sequel-s/840788/31 "2019-09-25T20:38:01Z")
I’ve read one Harry Potter book - the third one. I think maybe the first movie was out around then or about to come out, but I don’t think I’d watched it by that point. I think I’ve seen House II a loooong time ago, but never the first one. Evil Dead 2 basically condenses the plot of the first film into the first 20 minutes or so. If you’ve only seen AoD, at least watch the second one, it’s fun. ---
**Author:** ![bibliophage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bibliophage/32/7615_2.png) [@bibliophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophage)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2019, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-only-seen-the-sequel-s/840788/32 "2019-09-25T22:02:34Z")
I’m only sure of one. I’ve seen _Evil Dead II_, but never the original. I vaguely recall that I was trying to watch all the titles on some list of greatest horror movies I came across somewhere. The sequel made the cut, but the original didn’t. I saw _Aliens_ about two decades before I finally got around to watching\* Alien\*. I watched _The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly_ five or ten years before I watched the earlier two films in the Dollars Trilogy. I’m afraid I’ve lost track of which Batman movies I’ve seen and which I haven’t, and which movies count as part of what Batman series. If you count The Dark Knight trilogy as one series, I don’t think I ever saw the first installment, but I think I’ve seen the other two. I’m not sure though. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2019, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-only-seen-the-sequel-s/840788/33 "2019-09-25T22:26:04Z")
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**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2019, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-only-seen-the-sequel-s/840788/34 "2019-09-26T00:00:35Z")
> [@KneadToKnow](#): > > I’ve seen _Dawn of the Dead_ but not _Night of the Living Dead_. Oh, this too. > [@Mahaloth](#): > > Like a lot of people my age, Terminator 2 was seen by me before the original. Terminator 2 was all the talk of my school friends, especially the liquid metal effects in the movie. I take it that you are also between your mid-30s and early 40s? I was 14 when T2 came out. ---
**Author:** ![JohnGalt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johngalt/32/184_2.png) [@JohnGalt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnGalt)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2019, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-only-seen-the-sequel-s/840788/35 "2019-09-26T00:13:24Z")
Add me to the list of of who saw T2 before seeing the original Terminator. I was really confused; why is everyone so afraid of this guy that they hadn’t seen before. Seeing the original made it make sense. How about partial movies? I had HBO at one time and recorded Clockwork Orange on a VHS tape (way back when). I started watching the tape and was through the first third of the movie, when I realized that the tape was going to run out before the end of the movie. Then I noticed that Clockwork Orange was being shown live, on HBO for the last time this run. (This was before on demand was available). However, they were on the last third of the movie. I stopped the tape, saw the final third, and then watched the middle third on the tape. The order I saw the three parts was first-third-second. THAT was confusing! especially for that movie. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2019, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-only-seen-the-sequel-s/840788/36 "2019-09-26T01:24:42Z")
> [@JohnGalt](#): > > Add me to the list of of who saw T2 before seeing the original Terminator. I was really confused; why is everyone so afraid of this guy that they hadn’t seen before. Seeing the original made it make sense. I don’t think Linda Hamilton gets nearly enough credit for her freakout scene in the mental hospital when she first sees Arnold Schwarzenegger, playing a character physically identical to the one that chased her through the first movie. In retrospect, though, how much face to face time did she actually get with the original T800? She saw him briefly in the dance club when he came within a second of shooting her in the head, and a little later when he punched through a windshield to get to her, but by the time of the final confrontation in the factory, his human skin had been burned off and he was reduced to his robotic form. Clearly a lasting impression was made at some point. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2019, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-only-seen-the-sequel-s/840788/37 "2019-09-26T01:39:51Z")
A friend of mine has seen only one Kevin Smith movie; _Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back_. Even Smith has said that movie is strictly for his hardcore fans; it’s full of callbacks to his previous movies. But my friend enjoyed it. The only time I can recall seeing a sequel without seeing the original is _Urban Legends: Final Cut_. I was on a date with a woman who was a horror movie fan and she picked the movie (she had seen _Urban Legends_). But this was a nineties slasher movie; I had no problem picking up the plot. ---
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2019, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-only-seen-the-sequel-s/840788/38 "2019-09-26T02:03:05Z")
> [@AWB](#): > > I saw “Apollo 13”, but missed the first twelve films. > > Also, has anyone heard Adele’s other 22 albums? I saw Leonard part 6. I somehow missed the first 5. ---
**Author:** ![Doug\_K](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b5ac83/32.png) [@Doug\_K](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doug_K)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2019, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-only-seen-the-sequel-s/840788/39 "2019-09-26T02:45:38Z")
> [@furryman](#): > > I looked up Arsene Lupin on Amazon out of curiosity but I’ll probably never buy it.:rolleyes: You don’t need to. It’s public domain and available at [Gutenberg](http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=lupin) ---
**Author:** ![DPRK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4491bb/32.png) [@DPRK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DPRK)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2019, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-only-seen-the-sequel-s/840788/40 "2019-09-26T03:45:18Z")
> [@AWB](#): > > I saw “Apollo 13”, but missed the first twelve films. You don’t have to watch every single one, but definitely don’t miss Apollo 11 on IMAX if you have the chance. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-only-seen-the-sequel-s/840788.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-only-seen-the-sequel-s/840788.md?page=3)