# 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:** 13\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2019, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-only-seen-the-sequel-s/840788/41 "2019-09-26T05:51:45Z")
> [@DPRK](#): > > You don’t have to watch every single one, but definitely don’t miss Apollo 11 on IMAX if you have the chance. The special effects were soooo fake. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2019, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-only-seen-the-sequel-s/840788/42 "2019-09-27T02:20:55Z")
I read a significant portion of the last Twilight book, but never the earlier ones. I’d downloaded it as an eBook for my sister and got bored and curious. The part I read actually seemed to be exciting, building up to something big. I have, however, read all of “Mark Reads Twilight” where a man who was abused by his adoptive parents due to being gay reads and reacts (with incredulity and disgust) at the books,l, chapter by chapter. So I do know that the part I read was the most exciting part of the whole series but became a big fizzle. ---
**Author:** ![LLCoolL](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/llcooll/32/3596_2.png) [@LLCoolL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LLCoolL)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2019, 10:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-only-seen-the-sequel-s/840788/43 "2019-09-27T10:18:45Z")
> [@Patch](#): > > I’ve seen _The Two Jakes_, but I’ve never seen _Chinatown_. Even having seen **Chinatown** , **The Two Jakes** was still indecipherable to me. 😕 ---
**Author:** ![LLCoolL](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/llcooll/32/3596_2.png) [@LLCoolL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LLCoolL)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2019, 10:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-only-seen-the-sequel-s/840788/44 "2019-09-27T10:31:09Z")
When **LOTR: Fellowship of the Ring** came out, I had zero interest and skipped it. A year later I saw the trailer for **LOTR: The Two Towers** , and was gripped by the amazing battle footage. My buddy was planning to see it, and assured me I could follow it without having seen the first film. That didn’t go well. I eventually saw **LOTR: Return of the King** , but never went back to see **Fellowship** , and probably never will. I’ve seen most of the **Star Trek** films with the original Shatner/Nimoy/Takei/etc. cast. But never seen **Star Wars The Movie**. Saw **Conan the Destroyer** , but never caught **Conan the Barbarian**. I doubt I missed much. ---
**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 27, 2019, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-only-seen-the-sequel-s/840788/45 "2019-09-27T14:12:44Z")
Other than a couple of scenes some cable channel, I have yet to see the first _Expendables_. ---
**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 27, 2019, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-only-seen-the-sequel-s/840788/46 "2019-09-27T14:15:57Z")
> [@simster](#): > > **[House 2: The Second Story](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093220/)** > > I can’t even _find_ what its a sequel too… AIUI, the second one is almost entirely unrelated to - and much better than - the first. ---
**Author:** ![cormac262](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f14d63/32.png) [@cormac262](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cormac262)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2019, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-only-seen-the-sequel-s/840788/47 "2019-09-27T14:30:08Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > 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. In T2, I seem to recall scenes of the doctor (the one who she sticks the hypo into his neck during her escape) showing her surveillance video of the first Terminator from when he storms the police station in the first movie. Based on her reaction, you get the impression she’s been shown this video repeatedly. So even if she didn’t have many face-to-face encounters, she would have seen this enough to be able to recognize the “guy” who had been hunting her down. And yes, her reaction when they come to help her escape was really well done. You can imagine the massive confusion of seeing the Terminator…with her son. She may not have before, but that would be enough to question your own sanity. ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2019, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-only-seen-the-sequel-s/840788/48 "2019-09-27T17:14:47Z")
> [@ZipperJJ](#): > > Oh yeah, I’ve also only seen [Troll 2](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troll_2) without having seen Troll 😉 Movie trivia: the main character in the first movie is named Harry Potter. > [@cormac262](#): > > In T2, I seem to recall scenes of the doctor (the one who she sticks the hypo into his neck during her escape) He’s the same doctor to be in the first 3 movies. And if you’re a (wo)man of culture, he voices LeChuck. ---
**Author:** ![Tzigone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/839c29/32.png) [@Tzigone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tzigone)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2019, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-only-seen-the-sequel-s/840788/49 "2019-09-27T17:28:38Z")
> [@](#): > > I’ve seen, and honestly quite enjoyed, Rock ‘n’ Roll High School Forever but I’ve never seen Rock ‘n’ Roll High School. Same. I saw T2 before The Terminator, but it didn’t leave much of impression. I like it much more now than I did then, but still like the first movie best. Oh, I saw Superman II before or III before Superman. My parents said II in a theater when I was toddler, but if so it had to not be when it first came out, because I hadn’t been born yet then. III makes more sense. But I was too young to remember, anyway. Later I saw them all (and Supergirl), but couldn’t say in what order. ---
**Author:** ![iamthewalrus\_3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/258eb7/32.png) [@iamthewalrus\_3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamthewalrus_3)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2019, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-only-seen-the-sequel-s/840788/50 "2019-09-27T22:49:05Z")
I saw _Major League II_ on HBO in the mid-90s when it was (I’m sure) something they could license cheaply, but I’ve never seen the first one. I saw _Piranha 3D_, but I’ve never seen the first. _Mad Max: Fury Road_ is one of my favorite movies, but I’ve never seen the others. I watched part of the original a while ago but got bored and never finished it. I may give it another try some time, and I’m sure I’ll watch the others at some point. ---
**Author:** ![Tzigone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/839c29/32.png) [@Tzigone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tzigone)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2019, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-only-seen-the-sequel-s/840788/51 "2019-09-28T00:35:12Z")
> [@](#): > > Mad Max: Fury Road I should have mentioned this series, too - enough people did. I have seen Beyond the Thunderdome. All I remember is the theme song, and I think it ended with a “so we tells the tell” story, but am not sure. Anyway, I don’t think I’ve seen any of the others. ---
**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 28, 2019, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-only-seen-the-sequel-s/840788/52 "2019-09-28T12:32:37Z")
I forgot I’d seen _Fury Road_ but no other in the franchise. Truth be told, I forgot it was part of a franchise. ---
**Author:** ![Annoying\_Buzz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Annoying\_Buzz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annoying_Buzz)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2019, 7:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-only-seen-the-sequel-s/840788/53 "2019-10-04T07:09:45Z")
An ex-gf picked **The Neverending Story III** for our evening movie a while back. I’d never seen the first, and the reason I still haven’t is probably because the sequel left me with such a bad impression (it also left me with a bad impression of Jack Black for a long time after). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-only-seen-the-sequel-s/840788.md?page=2)