The Ultimate Movie Trilogy+ Poll: Which is the best

[LynneSin]

These are movie series that have 3 or more movies to the set - which was the absolutely best of all of them. I'll stick with the best series, obviously no one is going to compare LOTR with the Police Academy series. I"ve separated the 2 Star War Trilogies

[Sandpiper]

1. I would have said Godfather

If the 3rd one hadn't been so awful.

[zbdent]

2. WHAT????? HOW DARE YOU NOT INCLUDE "RAMBO/FIRST

BLOOD"??????

;)

[Hugin]

3. Sad to say... The last one blew it for Alien too.

Depends on how you count them.

There's also The Matrix Trilogy... Which wasn't intended
to be a trilogy.

[Deep13]

26. Yeah, game over, man!

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

4. Weren't there 5 Alien movies?

[LynneSin]

7. That's what the (+) sign was for

Trilogy+ - 3 or more movies

[Fifth of Five]

5. Indiana Jones

OK - I know it's a trilogy only because there were 3 of them. I know there wasn't a unifying storyline.

I just like them.

[trebizond]

6. The Evil Dead Trilogy!!

[Deep13]

14. Groovy!

:headbang:

[jswordy]

8. Lord of the Rings?

Here's me at the theater, while wifie watched the movies...

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[Divameow77]

9. Lord of the Rings Rocked!

[jswordy]

10. Wifie liked it, tho not thrilled. I was BORED. My problem was...

...I had read and own the trilogy IN PRINT. Books...how quaint. That ruined me.

Hard to substitute a shitload of action scenes for an actual plot. Of course, I know this view is pretty much extinct in our nanosecond attention-span culture.

That said

LIV TYLER IS HOT!

I was up for her scenes.

[Deep13]

15. C'mon, dude!

A thin book like Red Badge of Courage takes five hours to read through. How are yah gonna put a thick book on the screen in three hours? Films are not books. What works in print does not always work on the screen. No film version of a novel is ever an exact representation. It is just not possible. Frankly, I think Jackson did an astonishing job.

[jswordy]

16. "What works in print does not always work on the screen."

Yep. Example: "Lord of the Rings" trilogy! Thanks for the help.

Empty action shots just do not do it for me in a film. I want substance, and I want to feel as if I have been moved through the story emotionally, rather than just sitting through a bunch of eye candy.

It's a major reason I don't see many flicks anymore. I get disappointed too much. Unless I hear from people I really trust that it is a good flick, I won't see it in a theater.

The last really good sci-fi/action movie I saw was "The Matrix." The first one, not the drivel that followed.

There was way more there than just the action shots. Very deep. And I like to be intellectually engaged with a film.

[4_Legs_Good]

17. Jackson is a Hack!

And he had 10 hours! Plus he would have had plenty of time if he and his silly co-writers didn't spend so much time making shit up to add to the story.

The trilogy sucked, that's the bottom line. Some good images, but overall, it was just plain pathetic.

As ever, only one version of LotR exists...



david

[Deep13]

23. the cartoon?!

You gotta be kidding! I mean, as a kid's cartoon it was okay and the painted live action looked good, but c'mon! Japanimation it ain't.

They weren't making shit up. They were making reasonable adjustments so the story could be watchable rather than readable. Ten hours for over 3000 pages of paper-back text is quite a challenge.

It is easy to call someone a hack because his vision does not agree with yours. Films have to be judged as films and not compared inch by inch to the original books. I have yet to see, for example, a Dracula film whose charaters and plot is identical to Stoker's novel. Still, I gotta say that the 1979 film version was excellent on its own, even though it was but an analogy to the original story. Hell, I have yet to see a Shakespeare adaptation that did not deviate from the original play. Changing the pacing and creating composite characters are useful film-making tools.

Y'all need to lighten up. There just movies, after all and there is nothing sacred about Tolkien's books or those of any other writer.

[4_Legs_Good]

30. Cause Peter Jackson has a name it's B-O-L-O-G-N-A

First of all, it's NOT a "cartoon" it's an "animated feature", and Japanimation can



It is also the *longest* animated feature in film history (at least it was at the time, and I think that's still the case - 2:15, cut down from 2:35. And if Bakshi is anything, he's not "kid's cartoon" maker!



Personally, I believe that Bakshi captured the essence and atmosphere of the books in a way Jackson could never do, even if he didn't hire his wife and that other chick to write the screenplays. Again, I'd take the Ford sequence in Bakshi's film 100x over the entire Jackson trilogy in a nanosecond.



I'd give 100,000,000 Jackson movies for a Part Two of Bakshi's film.

And Jackson and his cronies didn't add stuff to make it more watchable, he added just a ton of sh*t to make it more PROFITABLE. And most of it didn't even do that. Sure I can forgive the dumbass "humor" he added because he want's a big box office hit, but come ON, with the whole Strider falling off a cliff bit, Arwen saving Frodo at the Ford, the ludicrous Council of Elrond, the inane Stay Pufft Marshamallow Man army, the insanely screwy timing of TTT, the Death of Saruman, the hot potato of death palantir, the stupid-assed propane Eye of Sauron, Strider chopping off the head of the Mouth of Sauron, Sam saving Frodo (or someone else) every time he thinks about putting on the ring, and my all time favorite:

"Give up the Halfling She-Elf!"

:puke: :puke: :puke:

Almost as good as "It comes in pints?"

:nuke:

Watch Kenneth Branaugh's "Hamlet" for a full text Shakespeare movie, though he did alter the time period.

On that subject, I will readily admit that what you say about books not being sacred is true, and to be perfectly honest, I'm glad Jackson got to make his movies, the problem is that because they were SO popular they will become the definitive versions of the film, and nobody will ever make another version, so we're stuck with his dumbass vision. At least with Shakespeare we get to see so many takes, which is one thing that's wonderful about him.

Who knows, maybe someday when the rights expire we'll get another run.

Come back, to Mordor we will take you

david

[4_Legs_Good]

21. Any version of Tolkien that is more interesting to females is CLEARLY

all wrong!

Tolkien was very female challenged, so his stories mostly appeal to all things male. That the Jacrapson trilogy appealed to women more than men shows what a sacrilage it was.

david

[LSdemocrat]

22. I didn't really care for the LotR movies either

The first one was good, the second one was ok, but the third one was sheer torture (the thoughts why isn't this over yet, someone please kill Frodo now constantly entered my mind during that movie)

[4_Legs_Good]

31. Heh heh heh

Why would you want Frodo dead? He didn't whine enough for you??? His eyes didn't roll enough for you??????

And I'd say that FotR Extended Edition was the only really palatable film of the three (six?). TTT was IMO the worst of the three as it just meandered all over the place and betrayed Jackson for the poor director he is (though he hides it with a lot of fantastic special effects - hats off to WETA). RotK had some beautiful images, which is what brings it above TTT in my opinion. I'm thinking mostly of Minas Morgul - all thanks to images goes to John Howe and the two other dudes that Jackson used for set/image design).

david

[DelawareValleyDem]

11. Back to the Future

Edited for a smaller pic

[Aiptasia]

12. Barry Levenson's "Baltimore" trilogy

Especially Avalon... I love that movie and it's a great exploration of the disintegration of the family unit in America.

[AllegroRondo]

13. "Man With No Name" trilogy

A Fist Full of Dollars
A Few Dollars More
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

[Deep13]

25. There are two kinds of spurs,

those that come in through the door and those that comes in through the window.

One picky observation about G, B, & U. If this is the 1860s, what the hell is everyone doing with brass-case, cartridge revolvers? I did not think they came into common use until the 1870s.

[Sean Reynolds]

18. The Godfather

But that's because I LOVE Mafia movies!

[jbane]

19. Ma and Pa Kettle and Francis the Talking Mule

[MrScorpio]

20. Krzysztof Kieslowski's The THREE COLORS, you uncultured rubes!

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000083C5F/102-4396600-7653710?v=glance

Get with the freaking program!

[Rabrrrrrr]

29. I love those movies! Especially blue!

[Terran]

24. Back to the Future

For sheer cleverness.

[nytemare]

27. Growing up in the 70's, I have to go with Star Wars, although I loved

LOTR as well.

I just saw the new Star Wars today, and I thought that the last two movies made sucked in comparison. It was well done. A couple of parts were corny, but I enjoyed it greatly!

[derby378]

28. The first STAR WARS trilogy

The original version, technical limitaitons and all. The remakes, although some of the added scenes are welcome, are just a bit too Muppetish and a little too gee-whiz-lookit-dat.