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I voted LotR, but if we're going to be honest, LotR is almost less of a trilogy and just one long movie split into three parts. Which is kind of appropriate, because that's exactly how the books were written as well.

Star Wars is the one where each film in the trilogy was written separately, filmed separately, and ultimately added up to something greater than the sum of its parts. It's what a trilogy should be - and it's a shame that the franchise as a whole has turned into what it has, as it feels like a betrayal of everything it once was.

The Matrix is just a joke, because it has precisely one great movie. Even Back to the Future or Indiana Jones (before they ruined the last one with Kingdom of the Shitty Skull) would rank higher as classic nerd trilogies. I might even rank Pirates of the Caribbean higher if we count the first three as a trilogy (which it originally was) and ignore the rest. If nothing else, Pirates did the whole "film the second and third movie together and then release them separately" thing way better than The Matrix did (though LotR did it even better, obviously).



eating4fun posted...

Zareth posted...

Star Wars basically created the trilogy of films, but LotR perfected it.

and the hobbit destroyed it.

Nah. If we're going that route, the prequel trilogy destroyed the concept long before The Hobbit existed.



FrozenBananas posted...

I dont mean to be rude here but youre really saying Return of the Jedi was a flawless masterpiece?

Flawless? No. But few movies are. Even Lord of the Rings has its dead weight moments, even if the films do a very good job of cutting them out and reordering scenes to make them work better (Return of the King the book is a painful slog at times - the film is much better. One of the very rare times in history where a film adaptation winds up being better than the book it's based on).

But Jedi mostly suffers from being a bit uneven. It has some of the worst moments in the entire trilogy, but it also has some of the best. Skim Jabba, skip Endor, and focus on the Emperor/Vader/Luke scenes, and it's easily the best content of the three films. The other parts drag it down (which is why so many people rank Empire higher, and some even rank the first film higher), but it's still fantastic in its own right.



FrozenBananas posted...

orthisfrom Jedi.

Ehh, that's from the Special Editions, and those don't count. Because they don't exist.

We can't really judge the value of a movie based on the changes an insane old man made decades after they first came out. It's like saying "It's a Wonderful Life" is a shit movie because of how poorly Ted Turner colorized it back in the 80s.