05-22-2005, 08:15 PM
Star Wars 4-6, hands down.
The Godfather Trilogy seems only came into being because people figured they could squeeze out some more money out of the franchise with one more movie, like 20 years later. And the third one sucked on top of that.
Back to the Future was a fun lil trilogy, and is sort of that template you think of when you think triology; each sequel being worse than its predecessor, but, still, it was really about getting full use out of the vehicle of the time machine. The second one didn't have those terrible implications of the first one, of possibly not even existing because of the machine; rather, it was able to have fun with the sort of frantic scramble to fix the things that the two fuck up.
Indiana Jones has the three best movies of any trilogy, but the only real thing that links the three is Indiana Jones himself. It's really just three different stories about this one dude, sort of comes out of the old fashioned serials from the days of radio, and comic books; it's not some grand story, rather, it's just the adventures of this one man. It could be an entire series. A real trilogy has an arc to it. No arc here.
Lord of the Rings was in place iun book form for decades now; just waiting for the perfect adaptation into movie form. Star Wars was made for film, not book. Lord of the Rings was already a huge deal without ever being a movie.
The Matrix trilogy, I dunno, I'm still in commitee in regards to Reloaded and Revolutions.
Star Wars 4-6, Lucas had the vision for it, and, we should thank fucking christ that he got a real director for Empire, that movie is what makes the entire triology.
The Godfather Trilogy seems only came into being because people figured they could squeeze out some more money out of the franchise with one more movie, like 20 years later. And the third one sucked on top of that.
Back to the Future was a fun lil trilogy, and is sort of that template you think of when you think triology; each sequel being worse than its predecessor, but, still, it was really about getting full use out of the vehicle of the time machine. The second one didn't have those terrible implications of the first one, of possibly not even existing because of the machine; rather, it was able to have fun with the sort of frantic scramble to fix the things that the two fuck up.
Indiana Jones has the three best movies of any trilogy, but the only real thing that links the three is Indiana Jones himself. It's really just three different stories about this one dude, sort of comes out of the old fashioned serials from the days of radio, and comic books; it's not some grand story, rather, it's just the adventures of this one man. It could be an entire series. A real trilogy has an arc to it. No arc here.
Lord of the Rings was in place iun book form for decades now; just waiting for the perfect adaptation into movie form. Star Wars was made for film, not book. Lord of the Rings was already a huge deal without ever being a movie.
The Matrix trilogy, I dunno, I'm still in commitee in regards to Reloaded and Revolutions.
Star Wars 4-6, Lucas had the vision for it, and, we should thank fucking christ that he got a real director for Empire, that movie is what makes the entire triology.