The best trilogy

Well?

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The Matrix and Back to the Future trilogies have more votes than the original Star Wars trilogy. There is something very wrong going on here, very wrong!
 
Eh, the original Star Wars trilogy isn't exactly leaps and bounds ahead of the prequels. The films themselves are mediocre at best (enjoyable, though).

Of course the idea that the Matrix – and I struggle calling it this because it's more one good film and two piles of dog shit that are best ignored – trilogy is ahead of it is a ludicrous one.
 
Star Wars must be an age thing. I remember growing up with the movies, me and my friends had the toys, seeing them at the cinema. Despite the rose tinted glasses, I still think they're excellent sci-fi adventures and enjoy watching them to this day.
 
Indiana Jones. Warbie, I'm the same way. I love the original Star Wars and I'd never be able to think something negative about them. It was the subject of my 7th birthday ffs, before the re-release of Star Wars in theaters a decade ago.
 
I cannot believe that Matrix has ore votes than the Godfather. What's wrong with you people?
 
The Godfather is better than the Matrix. However, the Matrix trilogy can be appreciated in ways that most people deign to ignore; it's still relatively epic cyberpunk. The reason the 2nd and 3rd movies were considered bad is because they weren't in quite the same vein of awesome as the first one, but they're good in their own rights.

You'd still have to be crazy to think they're better than the Godfather or Indiana Jones though.
 
Lord of the Rings.

Cause, well... you know.
 
I've gotta go with the classic...Back to the Future. <3
 
Warbie said:
I'd say Indy and the original Star Wars were consistently good, nokori3byo. More so than LOTR, which, while I do really like each movie, goes down hill after Fellowship. I'd argue the same happens with the books, though, so maybe that was intentional ;)
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Temple of Doom was rubbish, a mere shadow of Raiders. ROTJ, while classic in parts, was fatally undermined by all that Ewok gibberish at the end. A kids' movie, nothing more.
 
LOTR is not better than Indiana Jones.
 
nokori3byo said:
Temple of Doom was rubbish, a mere shadow of Raiders. ROTJ, while classic in parts, was fatally undermined by all that Ewok gibberish at the end. A kids' movie, nothing more.
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Temple of Doom is great fun. Not as good as Raiders, sure, but very few adventure movies are. I think some people have issues with the film because it's a little more Goonies than the others.

I agree to some extent about ROTJ, but feel the majority of the movie was Star Wars at its best and more than enough to make up for the ending. If we're talking dodgy trilogy conclusions - ROTK dropped the ball with it's multiple endings and layer after layer of cheese. This and the fact that Jackson managed to take my favourite character from the books, Sam, and turn him into a right gay boy are my only two gripes with an otherwise awesome trilogy.

//edit - i'm suprised to see so many Back to the Future votes. The first is undeniably great, but 2 and 3 wiff of made for tv movies, just on a super high budget. I enjoyed them, but best ever trilogy?!
 
LOTR and Indiana Jones.

Star Wars is way overrated, and they saved the worst one for last.
 
Lord of the Rings was utter shit.

Indiana Jones was very very good, and I would have voted it, but I hit "star wars" as soon as the poll came up without thinking of it.

...damnit I voted for the wrong star wars.
 
nokori3byo said:
Correct, but I still contend that the Dollars films aren't a real trilogy, a position supported by the fact that the first two films clearly are continuous, and the third one is not.
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I thought that The Good, The Bad and The Ugly was considered a prequel to Fist Full of Dollars, as Eastwood aquires his "man with no name" clothes as the film progresses.

Anyway, My No.1 from that list would be LOTR followed by BTTF, Dollars, StarWars IV-VI.

Indiana Jones would have made it but for temple of doom. It is a scientific fact that Indy films without Nazis suck.
 
Bob_Marley said:
I thought that The Good, The Bad and The Ugly was considered a prequel to Fist Full of Dollars, as Eastwood aquires his "man with no name" clothes as the film progresses.
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Hmmm, I wasn't familliar with that theory. It's true, though--he does get his poncho near the end of the film. Were the first two Dollars films post-Civil War?
 
nokori3byo said:
Hmmm, I wasn't familliar with that theory. It's true, though--he does get his poncho near the end of the film. Were the first two Dollars films post-Civil War?
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Thats never really clear, tbh. Unlike GB&U they don't have much of anything that points to being particularly pre- or post-Civil War.
 
See, the thing about star wars is... The movies themselves generally sucked. But they opened up my imagination to the star wars universe, which was exponentially expanded by reading the pen & paper role-playing game books. That's where the beauty of star wars was for me... in the extended literature and RPG books. Not in anything George Lucas had a hand in.
 
I always saw the Dollars trilogy as an anagram of what the Old West myth and legends were. The era of time was never stated because it didn't really matter.
 
I've changed my mind. Cube Zero, Cube, and Hypercube is hands down the best trilogy of all time. They're true masterpieces of cinema; **** Indiana Jones.
 
I'm not sure Jones was ever considered "true masterpieces of cinema". At least, I didn't.
 
The Monkey said:
The LOTR books are good, but doesn't compare with the epicness of the movies.

Can anyone motivate why they chose Matrix? IMO, the first one was good (as it has some philosophical debates), the second mediocre (as it has some good battles), the third one sucked ass.
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IMO, the first one was stylish, a lot of fun, and well-paced, but only pseudo-philosophical. I really don't think brain-in-a-jar scenarios are very worthy of debate, since they very obviously can't be proven or disproven.

The 2nd movie grew on me. The philosophy, dealing this time with determinism and free-will, is much more substantial than the 1st movie. The movie as entertainment, however is nowhere near the 1st one. I also really liked the idea for Enter the Matrix and the way it tied closely with the movie, but wish the execution was (much) better.

And I still don't know what I think about the 3rd one. Some good, some bad, but definitely not as entertaining as the 1st one.

(edit: I didn't choose Matrix. I voted LotR and had second thoughts when I later noticed BttF.)
 
LOTR, then Indian Jones, then Star Wars.

Ennui said:
I've changed my mind. Cube Zero, Cube, and Hypercube is hands down the best trilogy of all time. They're true masterpieces of cinema; **** Indiana Jones.
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**** that. Cube was good, Cube Zero was ok, Hypercube sucked shit nuggets from my rectum.
 
Yeah, I agree. I watched Cube today :D
 
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