Best Trilogy of all time?
 

So the best picture movies of the last 10 years got me thinking, many voted for ROTK, as a vote for the LOTR trilogy.

Its been now 5 years since the LOTR chapter ended, I know many here loved it, how has it held up? What are your favorite trilogies?

How about the "Do a fucking search, n00b, parts I-III"?:

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This forum has become almost useless over the past few weeks with these constant "ranking" and "favorites" threads, all of which are nothing but duplicates of numerous older threads.

I voted for Star Wars, athough Lord of the Rings is close. In terms of consistency I believe Bourne trilogy deserves a mention.

I did a search but either A) the thread didn't have poll options or B) the thread is 5 years old. Thought it was okay to make a new topic since its been several years since it was brought up.

+1

I have no problems with new polls or discussions to replace ones that are over a year old. Seems silly to repeatedly bump old threads on a topic. That, and I don't see how these render the forum useless. There's plenty of good discussion to be had in them.

a moderator who has no concept of how forums work

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agreed 100%

This one was an obvious repeat, but the 'best of year x' threads have been very interesting and I enjoy the discussion. Too fucking bad if someone doesn't like them.

Yeah I obviouslly don't want to piss off the moderators or what not, but maybe people want to change their votes from 3-4 years ago, or maybe there are new trilogies that have come about in the recent past, so it wasn't even a option (Although I totally dropped the ball on the Bourne trilogy).

I always thought when people say, do a search before you post something, It was something that was recently posted, not something that was posted 5 years ago.

I'm not a moderator in this forum, and even if I were I wouldn't care if you pissed me off. I don't come here for the candy and puppies, if you get my drift.

there's candy and puppies here?

I want puppies.

Well, you can't have any, so there. :grunt:

I'll trade you puppies for candy.

ok i'll.. waaaaiiiit.

what KIND of puppies?!

*squints at you*

Collectively as a whole? The Bourne Trilogy.

Are movies like The Godfather better than Bourne, of course. But the Bourne trilogy is the only trilogy I thought got progressively better with each installment.

Even though I thought Spider-man 3 was garbage, I hold that trilogy higher than Jurassic Park.

Argh. Totally forgot Spider-man and Xmen too..

Although from what I hear..the third installments of both of those movies hurt the trilogy.

If you're looking for real news/opinions, then yes, this forum has sucked balls as of late. If, however, you're looking for unintentionally hilarious posts, then this forum has become a comedic gold mine.

Back To The Future, no question

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There goes my "rank your favourite ranking thread" poll idea.... :doh:

Oops, too late... Looks like you screwed the pooch.

Evil Dead, of course.

All those threads were done before they made the fourth Indiana Jones flick, and are thus invalid. And a vitally important topic such as this requires only the latest and most complete data!

In that vein.. shouldn't Star Wars be stricken from the vote as well, considering it is now a 6 film series?

Star Wars (IV-VI) definitely. It just never loses its luster and wonder.

The LOTR movies i find only the first one watchable, the next two are world of warcraft games.

Star Wars is the best (imo), but LOTR is my favorite.

The Holy Trilogy(aka Star Wars). Only the original versions though. Not the bastardized Special Editions.

The first LOTR movie is the only Five-Star, Triple-A, Top of the Line, Bonafide classic. That movie is pure magic and absolutely stellar from start to finish.

The next two... Two Towers was OK, maybe *** out of *****. It suffered from severe pacing problems and was unnecessarily padded, plus it lost a LOT of the inventiveness, magic and wonder of the first.

If anything Return of the King was even *more* unnecessarily padded than TT, but it was infinitely better produced that TT in every other way. **** out of *****.

I agree that the overabundance of bad CGI really damaged the last two flicks. There's absolutely nothing thrilling in watching one CGI army battle another CGI army. I get the feeling that Jackson, having been given more "free reign" with the last two movies after the first one became a worldwide smash, veered off into ponderous self-indulgence one too many times for my tastes.


Anyway I voted for Godfather given that Godfathers I & II are better than any other of the films listed, and even with its abundant flaws Godfather III is still an entertaining movie. But if I could go back, I'd probably vote for Jean Cocteau's loosely-knit Orphic Trilogy.

Toss up between LotR and SW. I went with SW because those films are endlessly rewatchable and they constantly provide that sense of awe and wonder that many people experienced the first time they watched them.

That's didn't really happen until King Kong.

OK, so im the odd man out it seems since my vote was for the Back To The Future trilogy.

By King Kong, I think Jackson was convinced he was Bunuel and Cocteau wrapped up together in a pretty pink bow.

Star Wars.

Was going to post Die Hard, but then I remembered the fourth film.....

The Original Trilogy of course. No question.

Godfather. The first two films more than make up for the tired, pointless third. Other than the first Terminator, you couldn't pay me to watch any of the other trilogies listed in the poll. Someone else mentioned the Evil Dead trilogy - I second that. Though obviously not on a par with Godfather I and II, thats the only trilogy that I would have any interest in watching all three films of.

Really? You could pay me to watch just about anything.

The Star Wars Trilogy (The Original Versions: Han shoots first, Shaw as the Force Ghost) still are the gold standard for Trilogies. They are the most rewatchable movies, and never get old. Great characters, great good vs evil story, great mythology, great humor, and awesome music by John Williams.

I will say that LOTR is a great achievement, and I give Jackson alot of credit for bringing those novels to the screen and creating a wonderful world. Although I think what hurts LOTR years later is that the movies are too damn long to watch over and over. Lucas and Spielberg got it right with SW & Indy, 2 hours, no more, no less.

I think the "Bourne" trilogy is the best trilogy since "Star Wars." Every film has it's own story, but is deeply rooted in the story preceding it.

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