What is your favorite movie trilogy?

[The Shadow Gentleman]

I still need to re-watch The Lord of the Rings Trilogy now that I have it on Blu-ray. I've got a feeling I'll like even more then when I first watched it.

[talonmalon333]

I don't understand why Return is hated either. The Ewoks are kind of stupid, but I like pretty much everything else about it.

Pretty much. Like I said, some of it is kinda grating, but the good parts make up for that completely.

This might be a cliche question for me, but what would you rate the three Godfather films?

Part 1 - 9.5/10
Part 2 - 9.5/10
Part 3 - 6.5/10

Any favorite between those two? Or just a tie?

The Dark Knight and the original Star Wars. I can't put one above the other.

(fuck the haters, I enjoyed Return of the Jedi)

Me too.

Me four. 

Fixed, counting me.

[Dr. Ensatsu-ken]

Well, as far as The Godfather goes, I'd probably rate them like this:

Part 1- 9/10
Part 2- 8/10
Part 3- 7/10

I think with Part 2, my main problem is that....I honestly find Michael Corleone to be less interesting than he was in the first movie, and considering that he's really the main driving force of the movie, it kind of holds it back a little bit. Everything else about it is excellent, but I personally found the character more appealing when he was gradually developing from a straight, upright citizen to a cold-hearted mob boss ready to succeed his father's position once he passed. In the 2nd movie, now that he's already the Don right from the start, his character just feels less dynamic and more predictable than before, or at least that's how he came off to me.

Now, what I will say is that I LOVED the parts of the movie that explored Vito Corleone's past, from his early years in America to his rise to power as the Don. Robert De Niro did an excellent job in the role as the young Vito. His back-story was expanded upon from the few parts written about his past in the book, and being that Mario Puzo co-wrote the script for the movie, you could see that he really knew what he was doing with the character. I feel that these aspects of the film were tremendously good, and honestly my favorite part of any of the Godfather films. That said, I still feel that certain parts of the film set in the timeline of Michael Corleone's story could drag at times, and just didn't interest me quite as much. Its still a great film, but its certainly not my favorite Godfather movie. In that regard, I prefer the more interesting characters and better pacing of the first film. On that note, I loved Vito and Sonny's characters as well, so not having them in the 2nd film (with the exception of Sonny appearing in a flash-back at the end of the movie) kind of hurt it for me....but then again, I'm clearly pretty biased.

[Dr. Insomniac]

If only miniseries could count, then I'd pick the House of Cards trilogy in a heartbeat. But, alas...

And The Godfather trilogy isn't really a trilogy, but just a duology with an epilogue made years after.

[Commode]

Millenium trilogy.  You guys pretty much got all the other ones.

[Spark Of Spirit]

LOTR, of course.

I would have said Die Hard as well if the second movie wasn't a step down from the rest and there weren't four (soon to be five) of them.

[No-Personality]

I haven't seen these movies in many years, and I refuse to hear any arguments that "new sequels" filmed literally decades after the last film change the nature of the original being a trilogy (and I have entirely Zero interest in seeing Kingdom of the Crystal Skull), but I actually enjoy all 3 Indiana Jones films. A lot, judging from wence last I saw 'em. And... I don't even know why. I'm not a big action-adventure fan, I hate history, especially war history, I don't get a boner over Nazi's, and I lost my boner over Harrison Ford over a decade ago. I don't even like the Back to the Future franchise. Or Star Wars. Yet, I think these are all structured very similarly. And I would call myself a fan of Indie. Oh, and... Temple of Doom is my favorite. 

However, if I were somehow allowed to simply choose a film series based on the first 3 films, even if they made a 4th the very next year and the storylines weren't linked between any two films anywhere, I would have to admit I love the first 3 Leprechaun films the most of any sequential franchise. And this is seriously rare. That I really love three of the first sequential films in any franchise this much. But, I always have insane fun with them.

[Angus]

I'll stay old school with Star Wars and Indiana Jones.

[Grave]

Bourne

[Peanutbutter]

Back to the Future. Also my favorite movie of all time. All three have quotable lines. All three hold up despite some dated 80s stuff in them. Just a great, funny and heartwarming story told in three parts.

[Angus]

It's almost 2015. Where's my flying Delorean? 

[gunswordfist]

LOTR followed by Evil Dead. I want to rewatch Supercop and see all of Police Story 2. It might rank 3rd for me if they are good enough.

Oh yeah, Indiana Jones. And I need to actually watch all of the first two Back To The Futures.

[Avaitor]

The Before trilogy.

[talonmalon333]

I feel like I'd go with the traditional choices, Star Wars and Lord of the Rings.

[Inkwolf]

Star Wars original trilogy and LOTR for me, too.

Re ROTJ, (which I also do not hate, though I REALLY loath some of the later additions and updates!*) it isn't only the Ewoks. Lucas spent the first two movies building up a love triangle between Luke, Han and Leia. Then in Movie 3, he needed something for Vader to say that would goad Luke into attacking him.  Practically right up to the day of filming, the script just said "Vader says something that makes Luke angry." Then Lucas had the brainwave that Leia would be Luke's sister and not only solve the battle problem, but save him from sorting out the romance.  Nowadays, when Leia & Han are well-known canon and have kids and all, it's not a shocker, but back then it was a major "WTF?"


(*Seriously, Lapti Nek was a fun song, and they replaced it with that awful thing and dragged out the Jabba's Palace scene into a long, boring and stupid 'Look, we can do CGI now!' demo. I did kind of like the new ending, until they stuck what's-his-face New Anakin all over it.  I have not yet seen the one where they add the NOOOOOOO! to the end battle, but suspect I will want to slap Lucas silly over it.)