10 Great Movies That Inadvertently Ruined Cinema

3. The Lord Of The Rings Trilogy Has Resulted In Every Movie Having An Annoying Subtitle

Earlier in the article, we touched upon The Godfather: Part II's distinction of having been the first mainstream movie to include "Part II" in its title, thus inspiring countless other sequels to do the same over the past four decades or so. Though the numbering system is irritating, at least it's clean from a presentation point of view (forget the way it makes a movie stink of corporate greed for a moment).

A new trend was brought to light with Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings trilogy, however - one that meant Hollywood has since become obsessed with using movie subtitles. Back in 2001, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring hit cinemas; ever since, the movie industry has literally been throwing lame and often very arbitrary subtitles onto everything and everything.

Thor: The Dark World? G.I. Joe: Retaliation? Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit? What do they even mean? Granted, Star Wars made use of the movie subtitle with The Empire Strikes Back, but at least back then it felt fresh and new. What happened to just using the numbers to denote a sequel? Or giving sequels a different name? It's reached a point of parody.