Your top 5 movie trilogies of all time, and why?

[Gradine]

....You had to mention Munich, didn't you? Ugh. Okay, to get serious for a minute. I've never done a Spielberg list, but if I did? Munich might be the number one film. Definitely top three. I'd have to really think about that.

But Munich wasn't associated in any way with the other two; it's part of the amazing run he did in the early 2000s that started with A.I. and ended with Munich. But to make this weird; fundamentally Schindler's List and Saving Private Ryan, despite being tough movies (one admittedly tougher than the other) are also both Manichean movies with clearly defined good and evil as well as being, ultimately, hopeful movies.

Munich ain't that. I still remember walking out of that theater in 2006 thinking, "Efff. Will this cycle of violence ever end? Can it end?"

Yeah.....

Sure, but where did that particular cycle of violence kick off?

Bonus points if you can figure out which political party got their start in, of all places, Munich

 

[Celebrim]

1) Star Wars (Original Trilogy)
2) Back to the Future
3) Pirates of the Caribbean
4) Toy Story
5) Men in Black

 

[DrunkonDuty]

Sure, but where did that particular cycle of violence kick off?

Bonus points if you can figure out which political party got their start in, of all places, Munich

I have many sarcastic answers that would get me banned.

 

[Gradine]

I have many sarcastic answers that would get me banned.

Don't be silly. The worst you'll get is a threadban

 

[TheHand]

I guess I’m really picky. For me a lot of movie series fall off at #3 (or even with the second movie) so I can only name 2: Star Wars OT and Lord of the Rings.

Some examples;
Back to the Future gets mentioned, but I only like the first movie. Movie 2 is tonally strange and Movie 3 felt too cartoonish to me.

Raiders of the Lost Ark is one of my perfect movies, but I don’t enjoy Temple of Doom. Last Crusade is fun though.

Terminator 1 and 2 are brilliant, with T2 being one of my favorite action movies of all time, but T3 is almost unwatchable to me. More or less the same with Alien.

Batman Begins and The Dark Knight are both amazing to me, but I don’t think I ever need to watch Dark Knight Rises Again, even if I like to randomly talk in the Bane voice.