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

[Mannahnin]

I feel like this is a distinction without a real difference when you're including Indiana Jones and The Dead, Mad Max and so on, all of which were essentially made as stand-alones with no specific intentions of further sequels or even exploring that subject further, and which all work as stand-alones. Literally the only difference what the author said in an interview. Functionally I would go as far as to say the Dollars trilogy is more of a consistent trilogy, on every possible level, than say, The Dead or Mad Max, and I say that really liking all of those movies.

I'm not going to argue that specific point further but it seems like if all you're going on is "the author said" like that, you're creating a rather unnecessary and hugely arguable situation. Like planting landmines in your own garden really.

Sure. Any of these threads involve arbitrary lines. Not always the best thought-out.

Yes. BTTF2 is why we still talk about BTTF.

If there was only the first movie, it would be like a minor '80s classic that a few people remember but was really Boomer/Greatest Generation nostalgia bollocks ("we invented the world"-type rubbish) even at the time.

But BTTF2 was something much wilder and more memorable.

That's a hot take! I disagree, and I think BttF is (despite being nostalgia bait) one of those near-perfect movies (which is extra difficult with a time travel story), but I appreciate the respect for 2. It deserves it.

On a completely different note, has anyone mentioned John Carpenter's Apocalypse Trilogy (The Thing, Prince of Darkness, and In The Mouth of Madness) yet?

Under the guidelines I drew when making the thread back in October it wouldn't qualify, as they have no story relation to each other, but still a great shout to some awesome movies.

 

[GuyBoy]

No particular order:
Jurassic Park
Alien
Aliens
LOTR Trilogy
Schindler’s List
Christiane F
Jubilee ( Derek Jarman’s punk masterpiece)
Breaking Glass
Battleship Potemkin
Legends of the Fall
Bram Stoker’s Dracula

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

No particular order:
...
Schindler’s List

I get that you may have posted this in the wrong thread, but I have spent several minutes looking at this and thinking to myself, "Self, what do you think that the pitch meeting would have been for the sequel to Schindler's List?*"

I started with 2 Schindler 2 Furious. Then I thought, maybe a musical ... Schindler's Liszt? I had a bunch more that I'm not going to share before I realized I better stop.



*I haven't gotten to the third film yet.

 

[agrayday]

The Standard Epics:

1) The Lord of the Rings Trilogy (New Zealand/US) – The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, The Return of the King. Peter Jackson's sweeping, 11-hour fantasy epic.

2) Star Wars Original Trilogy (US) – A New Hope, The Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi. George Lucas's modern myth completely revolutionized pop culture and visual effects.

3) Indiana Jones Trilogy (US) – Raiders of the Lost Ark, Temple of Doom, The Last Crusade. Steven Spielberg and Harrison Ford's definitive tribute to classic pulp adventure.

4) Alien Trilogy (US/UK) – Alien, Aliens, Alien 3. A rare progression that shifts genres seamlessly from haunted-house sci-fi horror to explosive military action.

5) The Godfather Trilogy (US) – Francis Ford Coppola's grand crime saga charting the rise and tragic moral decay of the Corleone family


The Other I will watch at any time and enjoy just as much as the standard Epics:

1) The Dollars Trilogy (Italy) – A Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. Sergio Leone’s operatic, historical Spaghetti Western masterpieces.

2) The Mummy Ancient Egypt Trilogy (US) – The Mummy, The Mummy Returns, Tomb of the Dragon Emperor. Brendan Fraser’s high-adventure period pieces set in the 1920s and 30s.

3) The Samurai Trilogy (Japan) – Musashi Miyamoto, Duel at Ichijoji Temple, Duel at Ganryu Island. Hiroshi Inagaki’s vibrant, definitive historical epic starring Toshirō Mifune.

4) The Sinbad Fantasy Voyage Trilogy (US/UK) – The 7th Voyage of Sinbad, The Golden Voyage, Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger. Classic Ray Harryhausen stop-motion Arabian Nights fantasy adventures.

5) Once Upon a Time in China Trilogy (HK) - The definitive historical martial arts epic celebrating folk hero Wong Fei-hung.

 

[Gradine]

I get that you may have posted this in the wrong thread, but I have spent several minutes looking at this and thinking to myself, "Self, what do you think that the pitch meeting would have been for the sequel to Schindler's List?*"

I started with 2 Schindler 2 Furious. Then I thought, maybe a musical ... Schindler's Liszt? I had a bunch more that I'm not going to share before I realized I better stop.



*I haven't gotten to the third film yet.

The sequels are Saving Private Ryan and Munich, respectively.

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

The sequels are Saving Private Ryan and Munich, respectively.

....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.....

 

[messy]

5) Once Upon a Time in China Trilogy (HK) - The definitive historical martial arts epic celebrating folk hero Wong Fei-hung.

This is a “hexalogy” (series of six), actually. Presumably you mean the first three.

 

[GuyBoy]

I get that you may have posted this in the wrong thread, but I have spent several minutes looking at this and thinking to myself, "Self, what do you think that the pitch meeting would have been for the sequel to Schindler's List?*"

I started with 2 Schindler 2 Furious. Then I thought, maybe a musical ... Schindler's Liszt? I had a bunch more that I'm not going to share before I realized I better stop.



*I haven't gotten to the third film yet.

Yep. Home from work and tired.
Didn’t read the title properly. Mea Culpa.

 

[GuyBoy]

Having been, rightly, directed to read the full title properly before posting individual favourite movies, I would recommend an unofficial punk trilogy of:
Jubilee
Breaking Glass
Great Rock’n’Roll Swindle

 

[agrayday]

This is a “hexalogy” (series of six), actually. Presumably you mean the first three.

correct as watching them, we only had access to the first three as a set (91-92) and are the three with Jet Li. ( i understand he came back for the last one).