Poll: Best movie trilogy

[Welverin]

I agree with this. The trilogy can still be understood without non-movie material. Even thought the Animatrix shorts were more entertaining (overall) than either of the sequels to me.

I consider The Anmatrix and ETM as standard licensed material, no different than the games and books based on SW, LotR, or any other movie. There can't be many, if any, people who consider SW and ST novels as integral parts of there respectve series.

The funny thing about me and the Matrix is that I did enjoy the films, I really did. However, none of them blew me away like most of the population that considers them classics or "better than Star Wars" or somesuch. The first Matrix film was too close in concept and tone to Dark City which came out just the year before and, to me, is one of the best science fiction films ever made. Dark City blew me away. And while The Matrix did a very good job and had a very solid beginning and middle, the end left me dry. While it looked cool it was basically just a shoot-out with little impact.

I view them as action movies that just happen to have scifi and superhero trappings and in my view story and plot in action movies is irrelevant. It’s not what I’m there for so I’m not to worry about them so long as the action scenes are good. Though if they if they are good it will make for a more entertaining picture.

As for the lack of impact, such things have never bothered me, but then I probably view a good fight scene the same way a fan of dance views a good ballet performance.

So, I guess we'll see. I have high hopes. The scenes in RotS are things that Star Wars fans have been waiting 20 years to see on film. We know how it ends but not how it happens.

I have them up there preliminarily, but then considering how I like Ep1 in spite of all it’s problems I don’t see how I won’t like Ep3 as well.

While I, too view it as one whole series, I brought it up because of the number of people who would like to forget they even exist.

 

[ASH]

LoTR.. best EVAR!


And ahead by 50 votes.

 

[Flexor the Mighty!]

1. Star Wars
2. The Man with no Name Trilogy
3. The Godfather Trilogy
4. The Evil Dead Trilogy
5. Indiana Jones
6. The Lord of the Rings (Haven't seen #3 yet though, but I can't see it moving up much higher than 4.)
7. The Matrix (Enjoyed them all, but the third one the least)

Modified becuase somehow I forgot the Evil Dead movies!!!!! "Allright, listen up you primative screwheads!" How can Ash not be in the top 5?