Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted September 6, 2019 Share Posted September 6, 2019 This happened a lot when I was a kid when network TV stations would air the Sunday Night Movie of the Week, which was often a Part 2 sequel, then they'd follow it with the Part 1. So this led me to seeing Aliens before Alien, Short Circuit 2 before Short Circuit 1, RoboCop 2 before RoboCop 1, Predator 2 before Predator 1, Rush Hour 2 before Rush Hour 1, etc. I'm pretty sure they did this because they didn't want you to tape them properly if you wanted to fit them on one four hour tape. I have a wonky memory of some film franchises as a result. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom 4,650 Posted September 6, 2019 Share Posted September 6, 2019 Star Wars. I saw episode IV first. How many iterations of this thread idea can there be? Oomoog the Ecstatic and Jurassic Shark 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wojo 2,453 Posted September 6, 2019 Share Posted September 6, 2019 . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrbellamy 6,275 Posted September 6, 2019 Share Posted September 6, 2019 Father of the Bride Part II Disco Stu 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Disco Stu 15,495 Posted September 6, 2019 Share Posted September 6, 2019 7 minutes ago, mrbellamy said: Father of the Bride Part II Every party has a pooper that's why we invited you, party pooper Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corellian2019 386 Posted September 6, 2019 Share Posted September 6, 2019 RoboCop 2 Terminator 2 Lethal Weapon 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheUlyssesian 2,475 Posted September 6, 2019 Share Posted September 6, 2019 I saw Avengers before watching Iron Man 1 or Iron Man 2 or Incredible Hulk. I saw Iron man 3 without watching Iron Man 1 or Iron Man 2. I have not seen either of the Antman and Spiderman MCU movies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488 Posted September 6, 2019 Share Posted September 6, 2019 I saw Return of the Jedi first. I also saw the second Ewok movie before all the other movies. I just assumed the Ewoks were in all of them. A. A. Ron and Jurassic Shark 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mstrox 6,649 Posted September 6, 2019 Share Posted September 6, 2019 I am usually super particular about this and refuse to watch a sequel until I've seen what comes before - same with TV series, even sitcoms which don't have an overarching plot. I won't start mid-run, I have to go back and start at the beginning. But it did happen once - I saw Ocean's Twelve on my college campus because it was free. Didn't care for it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrbellamy 6,275 Posted September 6, 2019 Share Posted September 6, 2019 5 hours ago, Disco Stu said: Every party has a pooper that's why we invited you, party pooper Do the behbeh verk out, make the behbeh sleep! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted September 7, 2019 Author Share Posted September 7, 2019 5 hours ago, TheUlyssesian said: I saw Avengers before watching Iron Man 1 or Iron Man 2 or Incredible Hulk. Yep me too. I'd seen Thor and Cap 1, but back then I had no idea they were all set in the same universe. I was unaware of this MCU thing and thought they were just stand-alone flicks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,330 Posted September 7, 2019 Share Posted September 7, 2019 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488 Posted September 7, 2019 Share Posted September 7, 2019 mstrox 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1977 1,743 Posted September 7, 2019 Share Posted September 7, 2019 Aliens Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oomoog the Ecstatic 314 Posted September 7, 2019 Share Posted September 7, 2019 Humanity achieves this feat repeatedly as we don't learn from the original fables, histories, stories, (or oftentimes the purpose) these movies were built from, but from the trendy source called Hollywood. We miss the context of why these movies are trending in the first place, and those missing puzzle pieces fill our minds with a sequelitis of circular questions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bollemanneke 3,342 Posted September 7, 2019 Share Posted September 7, 2019 12 rounds reloaded and Police Academy 2. Still haven't watched the originals. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Holko 9,514 Posted September 7, 2019 Share Posted September 7, 2019 I saw Jungle 2 Jungle and still couldn't find Jungle 1 Jungle. More seriously, I think the only time that happened is with a local episodic cop-crime-comedy (Bud Spencer homage/ripoff) series of 4 films, where all of them are completely separate. I saw those in the order of 3-1-4-2. 1 is the best. I cannot think of any other examples, at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex 2,835 Posted September 7, 2019 Share Posted September 7, 2019 I got Spider-Man 2 on DVD one Christmas, so I ended up watching that before the first one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted September 7, 2019 Share Posted September 7, 2019 I saw TOD and TLC before Raiders Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,330 Posted September 7, 2019 Share Posted September 7, 2019 2 hours ago, Stefancos said: I saw TOD and TLC before Raiders It's also the reason why you think they are superior. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted September 7, 2019 Share Posted September 7, 2019 I do not! How dare you! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveMc 2,674 Posted September 7, 2019 Share Posted September 7, 2019 Terminator 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sir Hilary Bray 235 Posted September 7, 2019 Share Posted September 7, 2019 On 9/6/2019 at 7:44 PM, Gruesome Son of a Bitch said: I saw Return of the Jedi first. I also saw the second Ewok movie before all the other movies. I just assumed the Ewoks were in all of them. Same in the sense I saw Jedi first. Gladly erased the ewoks from memory by the time of the others. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt C 452 Posted September 9, 2019 Share Posted September 9, 2019 Before Sunset Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom 4,650 Posted September 10, 2019 Share Posted September 10, 2019 For a response without the mouthyness, I saw Naked Gun before the Police Squad TV series (which kind of counts). Both are funny, but watching them in this order does ruin many of the gags in Police Squad. Both are required watching for anyone the least bit interested in comedy. The six-episode of PS ranks just behind Faulty Towers as the funniest TV series ever made. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A. A. Ron 1,742 Posted September 10, 2019 Share Posted September 10, 2019 I saw Back to the Future, Part III in a high school science class before I'd seen the others. I saw Spider-Man 2 and Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest before the originals because the same friend invited me to each for his birthday. I'd never seen or read any Harry Potter when a girl I liked invited me to see Deathly Hallows, Part 2. Couldn't very well say no to that! We ended up watching most of the others together as well and mostly in reverse order (7p1, 4, 3, 2, 1). I saw 5 and 6 by myself and read the books a couple years later. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sweeping Strings 2,351 Posted September 10, 2019 Share Posted September 10, 2019 On 9/6/2019 at 7:53 PM, mstrox said: I am usually super particular about this and refuse to watch a sequel until I've seen what comes before - same with TV series, even sitcoms which don't have an overarching plot. I won't start mid-run, I have to go back and start at the beginning. But it did happen once - I saw Ocean's Twelve on my college campus because it was free. Didn't care for it. 'We should watch the Clone Wars movie before we watch the TV show ... I want George Lucas to disappoint me in the order he intended!' - Sheldon with what (for my money) is one of Big Bang's best-ever gags. I definitely saw Psycho 2 (and also possibly 3, memory's fuzzier on that) before I saw Psycho. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,336 Posted September 10, 2019 Share Posted September 10, 2019 Off the top of my head I can't think of any times I for-sure saw a sequel before the original. It's very likely though as a kid I might have seen Aliens before Alien, Wrath of Khan before TMP, and I could have seen the original Star Wars and Indiana Jones movies out of order too, not sure Now that I think about it, I'm pretty sure I saw Army of Darkness before Evil Dead 1 & 2, actually Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thor 7,490 Posted September 11, 2019 Share Posted September 11, 2019 The only one I can think of off the top my head is MAD MAX 2. Otherwise, I've always watched the first first. The benefit of being as old as I am, perhaps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jurassic Shark 12,051 Posted September 11, 2019 Share Posted September 11, 2019 I have no memory of my younger days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,336 Posted September 11, 2019 Share Posted September 11, 2019 True, I saw Mad Max Fury Road before I saw the original trilogy... Still havent actually, though I started the original movie on a plane ride. Fell asleep though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mstrox 6,649 Posted September 11, 2019 Share Posted September 11, 2019 Ah - I saw Fury Road without having seen earlier movies. Does that follow a rigid continuity? I had always assumed Fury Road functioned more as a reboot than a sequel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bellosh 3,403 Posted September 11, 2019 Share Posted September 11, 2019 Pretty sure I saw Temple of Doom first as a kid. In high school, when The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers came out, I knew nothing of the Lord of the Rings or anything Middle Earth. 2 friends of mine dragged me to a matinee to see it, cause I had nothing else to do, wasn't expecting much. After the opening scene with Gandalf fighting the Balrog, I was hooked. I think the Battle of Helms Deep is still one the most amazing theater experiences I will ever have. After that I ran home to watch FOTR, read all the books, have read the Silmarillion and listen to the scores monthly. I don't talk to those friends anymore, but I surpassed them by a long shot in my Middle Earth fandom. John 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,336 Posted September 11, 2019 Share Posted September 11, 2019 2 hours ago, mstrox said: Ah - I saw Fury Road without having seen earlier movies. Does that follow a rigid continuity? I had always assumed Fury Road functioned more as a reboot than a sequel. I'm no expert, but I believe it's supposed to be the further adventures of the same character from the earlier films. That's the entire reason for having that opening scene showing his car, and then squashing the obviously CGI insect, to show they are moving away from the look of the old films, and the over-CGI-ness of current blockbusters, at the same time. Or something like that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted September 11, 2019 Share Posted September 11, 2019 Miller really doesn't care either way if people regard it as a reboot or sequel. It functions the same anyway. Great movie! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,336 Posted September 11, 2019 Share Posted September 11, 2019 4 minutes ago, Stefancos said: Miller really doesn't care either way if people regard it as a reboot or sequel. It functions the same anyway. Pretty much! 4 minutes ago, Stefancos said: Great movie! Yes! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thor 7,490 Posted September 11, 2019 Share Posted September 11, 2019 It's a reboot. I can't remember the end of THUNDERDOME right now, other than Mad Max surrounded by all those children out in the desert, but I don't think it picks up anything from there. With Gibson out of the picture, they basically had to reboot the whole thing anyway. I actually had no idea there was a MAD MAX 1 when I saw THE ROAD WARRIOR -- even if there are 'flashbacks' in it from the first film (I assumed these were made for the film). I only saw the former many years later; a far grittier, low budget affair that didn't have much in common with the sequel other than the 'energy'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted September 11, 2019 Author Share Posted September 11, 2019 Is it set in the same universe/timeline as the originals? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted September 11, 2019 Share Posted September 11, 2019 The Mad Max Multiverse! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thor 7,490 Posted September 11, 2019 Share Posted September 11, 2019 No, AFAIK Gibson's Max never existed in the FURY ROAD universe. But one can always make up one's own story, of course, wherein two different Maxes exist in the same universe, with some years apart. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mstrox 6,649 Posted September 11, 2019 Share Posted September 11, 2019 Mad Max is a title, like Pope or Batman. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Stu 15,495 Posted September 11, 2019 Share Posted September 11, 2019 I think Miller left it intentionally ambiguous, because ultimately it doesn't matter. Make your head-canon whatever you want it to be. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,336 Posted September 11, 2019 Share Posted September 11, 2019 I agree with Disco Stu! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mstrox 6,649 Posted September 11, 2019 Share Posted September 11, 2019 I want it to be a reboot, because I don't care for Mel Gibson! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,336 Posted September 11, 2019 Share Posted September 11, 2019 Not even in the movies he made before we knew he was an anti-semite? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jurassic Shark 12,051 Posted September 11, 2019 Share Posted September 11, 2019 15 minutes ago, mstrox said: Mad Max is a title, like Pope or Batman. Are you saying that Batman really is the Pope? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mstrox 6,649 Posted September 11, 2019 Share Posted September 11, 2019 19 minutes ago, Jay said: Not even in the movies he made before we knew he was an anti-semite? I think I had only seen him in Lethal Weapon 4, THe Patriot, Signs, and What Women Want, all of which were fine. I won't bother catching up now. 16 minutes ago, Jurassic Shark said: Are you saying that Batman really is the Pope? I'm not NOT saying that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,336 Posted September 11, 2019 Share Posted September 11, 2019 Not even to see Braveheart? Chen G. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mstrox 6,649 Posted September 11, 2019 Share Posted September 11, 2019 Not even for Braveheart. I've been indifferent enough to the two OSTs for enough years to not have sufficient interest regardless of the star. Honestly I'd be more likely to check out the early Lethal Weapons or Mad Maxes prior to Beefheart, but that's a slim chance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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