8 Movies You Wrongly Thought Were Sequels

4. Indiana Jones And The Temple Of Doom

If it wasn't for the opening confirmation that the film is set in 1935 - and thus before Raiders Of The Lost Ark - you could still be forgiven for believing that Temple Of Doom is actually a straight sequel to the first Indiana Jones movie.

After all, why would they really need to make it a prequel when Raiders had only just introduced the character and there was no need for the soft reboot opportunity usually afforded by prequelisation. But it definitely is a prequel, and not the direct follow-up the marketing campaign seemed to be suggesting it was going to be.

That all makes the fact that Indy claims in Raiders not to believe in magic ("a lot of superstitious hocus-pocus") all the more confusing, considering he'd not long encountered Voodoo and possession. Maybe it's just religious "magic" he wasn't a fan of?

It feels like Temple Of Doom was designed to follow the James Bond-like anthology/serial approach to movies, whereby the character remained the constant, but each new chapter wasn't so much a linear sequel as another adventure. Which isnt' a bad shout really - it's just a shame we didn't get 25 of them.