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What about the Highlander movies?
Highlander was mentioned already by the OP, but it needed to be expanded upon. That was one of those series that even said in the interviews that a prior film didn't happen. When Highlander 3 came out, that was all over the interviews.
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade seems to totally ignore Temple of Doom. But you know, I don't think things like that count. A number of James Bond films don't reference earlier adventures either. So 007, Star Trek and Indy Jones don't really count because they don't contradict or somehow erase the earlier films. A quick search on the interwebs produced a short list that could be expanded upon.
American Ninja V
Delta Force 3
Beyond the Door II (aka Shock)
Beyond the Door III (aka Amok Train)
Bloodfist III,IV,V,VI,VII,VIII,2050
Cyborg 3
Xtro 2 & 3
Howling II,III,IV,V,VI,New Moon Rising
Mangler 2, Reborn
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WAR OF THE COLOSSAL BEAST ignores the fact that in THE AMAZING COLOSSAL MAN it was established that Col. Manning had no family. In the sequel, a sister shows up.
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Jan 23, 2013 - 5:32 AM
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Joe E.
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Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade seems to totally ignore Temple of Doom. But you know, I don't think things like that count.
But Temple of Doom takes place before even Raider of the Lost Ark, so that's okay. That fact does have at least one bizarre consequence, though: a bit of humor in Temple that references the famous gunman scene in Raiders makes less sense as a joke if someone who hasn't seen the films watches them in chronological order.
A number of James Bond films don't reference earlier adventures either.
I deliberately didn't mention James Bond because I feel that that's a special case, for the most part a series of standalone, unconnected adventures in a franchise that have some characters in common and even some recurring characters but little by way of a strong thread of continuity.
I guess I'm more interested in sequels that actively contradict or overwrite previous entries in a franchise than in ones that just passively ignore but don't actively stand against them. There just wasn't room to clarify all that in the thread title!
That's what I figured. Obviously one can't expect each new movie in an ongoing series to have scenes in which the characters make a point of mentioning each of their previous adventures that we happen to have seen.
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom isn't obviated or anything by the other Indy productions; it's just that it's a highly self-contained adventure, with fewer direct connections to the rest of the Indy canon. There are, however, subtle references/tie-ins to Temple of Doom in both the TV series The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles / The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones and the movie Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, so one can connect it to Raiders of the Lost Ark and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade through those, if one really needs to do so.
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The level of detail here is making me dizzy! You fellas know your film history.
The best I can come up with is the mildly off-topic question: Did ALIEN VS. PREDATOR ignore its ancestors?
Or is it not a sequel? Should it be called a "mash up"? A "colloid"?
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The level of detail here is making me dizzy! You fellas know your film history.
The best I can come up with is the mildly off-topic question: Did ALIEN VS. PREDATOR ignore its ancestors?
Or is it not a sequel? Should it be called a "mash up"? A "colloid"?
I think they took care to make sure the AVP films fit the continuity of both franchises (remember the Alien skull hanging on the wall in PREDATOR II?) And they're more rightly "prequels" to the ALIEN franchise and semi-sequels to the PREDATOR films.
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(remember the Alien skull hanging on the wall in PREDATOR II?)
Technically...... no.
I never saw any but the 4 Alien features.
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1) that's easy: all the movies belonging to Dollars Trilogy ignore each other .....
well if you watch GBU first, they kinda do!
bruce
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