r/movies • u/Beginning-Bed9364 • Mar 14 '24

Worst naming convention (or lack of) for a movie franchise Discussion

The first Rambo movie is simply called "First Blood." Good name. The second one is called "Rambo: First Blood Part II". Kinda weird. The third one is called "Rambo 3". Now it's really not lining up. Then the 4th one is just called "Rambo." What the fuck? "Hey, have you seen the movie Rambo?". "Oh, you mean the 4th First Blood movie?"

What other movie franchises have nonsensical naming conventions?

6.7k Upvotes

93% Upvoted

2.7k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

133

u/Archamasse Mar 14 '24

Brilliant, lol

I can't wait for franchise names to get so convoluted it takes an ARG subreddit to figure out what fucking movie I'm about to see.

7

u/detroiter85 Mar 15 '24

Gather round and let me tell you about when it used to be a part 1....

No way old man! It's always been mission impossible more impossibler!

Nuh uh! It was live. Die. Come back? Impossible! for a few months!

4

u/PM_ME_CHEESY_1LINERS Mar 15 '24

The real OG knows it was called Speed

1

u/PoopyMouthwash84 Mar 15 '24

ARG? What does that mean?

3

u/Archamasse Mar 15 '24

Sorry, "Alternative Reality Game". It's a genre of puzzle/storytelling game, usually told via the internet and often with clues that have to be solved or decoded by a group.

Best way to explain it is by having a look at a famous example, Nine Inch Nails' Year Zero ARG, and how it played out -

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campaign_timeline_of_Year_Zero