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Chrpno
Apr 17, 2006

There's been movie sequels since the beginning, but what was the first one to have the awkward name of (First Movie) 2? There must have been something before Rocky 2 or Superman 2.

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trying to jack off
Dec 31, 2007

it was toy story 2

Bloody Hedgehog
Dec 12, 2003

💥💥🤯💥💥
Gotta nuke something
Birth of A Nation 2: Afterbirth

In Training
Jun 28, 2008

The oldest one i know of off the top of my head is Ivan the Terrible: Part II but thats pretty late into the game and there were undoubtedly multipart releases starting from the 10s to get people coming back to the nickelodeon

Palpek
Dec 27, 2008


Do you feel it, Zach?
My coffee warned me about it.


It's surely Shakespeare's Richard II.

Other Barry
Jun 5, 2012


Dinosaur Gum
supposedly https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quatermass_2


edit: actually leni riefenstahl beat that with superior aryan filmmaking: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympia_(1938_film)

quote:

The film was released in two parts: Olympia 1. Teil — Fest der Völker (Festival of Nations) and Olympia 2. Teil — Fest der Schönheit (Festival of Beauty).

Other Barry fucked around with this message at 00:17 on Feb 21, 2017

trying to jack off
Dec 31, 2007

i dont think a 2 part series counts

Aix
Jul 6, 2006
$10
apparently the godfather made the practice of numbering sequels popular lol

Pneub
Mar 12, 2007

I'M THE DEVIL, AND I WILL WASH OVER THE EARTH AND THE SEAS WILL RUN RED WITH THE BLOOD OF ALL THE SINNERS

I AM REBORN
Numbering sequels is at least better than randomly adding 'Retribution' or 'Genesis' to the end of every loving title.

Shbobdb
Dec 16, 2010

by Reene
Sneeze harder

The Naughty Suffragette 2

Edit:

I was joking but in 1894 William Dickson released/made "Amateur Gymnast, no. 2". That's probably going to be it. The same year you also have "Cock Fight, no. 2" if you need an arc/story in order to count as a "movie". Honorable mention goes to "Walter and Slavin" numbers 1-4.

Shbobdb fucked around with this message at 09:14 on Feb 23, 2017

Egbert Souse
Nov 6, 2008

Sanshiro Sugata Part II was released in 1945.

They need to bring back cool sequel names like "_____ Strikes Again" or "Curse of" or "House of" or "Revenge of"

Improbable Lobster
Jan 6, 2012

What is the Matrix 🌐? We just don't know 😎.


Buglord

trying to jack off posted:

i dont think a 2 part series counts

trying to jack off
Dec 31, 2007

son of john wick

General Dog
Apr 26, 2008

Everybody's working for the weekend
Seems like Jaws 2 would be an early one

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In Training
Jun 28, 2008


Sanshiro Sugata Part II is probably a good example of what the OP is asking about though bc it has almost nothing to do with the first movie and was kind of like a branding move to get people to see what was essentially a propoganda flick about how much stronger japanese men are than americans

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