Best Movie Trilogy (top to bottom)

[mecadonzilla]

Should LOTR even count as a trilogy in the same sense as the others?  All 3 were basically filmed at the same time, written by the same people, directed by the same person, labored over by the same people,...etc.  So to me, it's really only one really long movie that was released in 3 hour installments.  Return of the King cleaned up at the Oscars for the total sum of the 3 put together.

[Dave Gray]

I think LOTR counts.  They had the foresight to sign their actors up for enough films and do it the right way.

[fyo]

The third movie tends to let down in all of the following:

Star Wars
Alien
Matrix
X-Men
Spider-Man
Bourne

Bourne, really? The third one is, AFAIK, generally considered the best, with the second one being the big let-down.

[bsfins]

****Hijack**** I think it was three she's on the phone with Bourne telling him where he's from...You were born...Blah,Blah Blah...1971 in Nixa Mo....I about fell off my couch,Nixa is small suburb town to the south of here with no hospital....I used to live just south of nixa for awhile... Sorry for the interruption....End hijack...*****

[Spider-Dan]

The third Bourne movie (Ultimatum) was the first movie that's literally given me a headache from all the shaky-cam chase scenes.  It ruined the movie for me.

[Gabriel]

Godfather I and II are great enough to make up for the weaknesses of III.  It is by far the greatest trilogy.

[Philly Fin Fan]

I haven't seen Toy Story 3 yet, but have heard its great, so that may rank right up there as far as trilogies.

We just watched Toy Story 3. Great movie. Great ending to a trilogy.

[Guru-In-Vegas]

I like the Terminator series.

1 and 2 were awesome.  3 was meh.  Which had it been slightly good it would have won my best trilogy award. 

Salvation completely erases the franchise from consideration.  PG-13?  Really?  FAIL.

[Dave Gray]

Terminator Salvation sucked.  The very basic premise of the plot didn't make sense.  Why would the Terminators be looking for Kyle Reese.  He hadn't done anything yet.  They'd have no reason to know who he was.

[Pats2006]

Lethal Weapon!

Resident Evil   (games good too!!)

??

[Phishfan]

Terminator Salvation sucked.  The very basic premise of the plot didn't make sense.  Why would the Terminators be looking for Kyle Reese.  He hadn't done anything yet.  They'd have no reason to know who he was.

In a world where time travel is not imagination, but is real, why wouldn't they know who he was? He had indeed done something, he fathered John Connor. Although it hadn't happened at this point in Kyle's life, it still had happened.

[Pappy13]

^^ Goes toward the whole premise of Time Travel.  Does Time Travel change history or does it create a 2nd history?  If time travel creates a parrallel dimension that branches off from the first after the presence of the time traveler, the events in the 2nd dimension would be different than those in the 1st.  Likewise nothing that happened after that point in the 1st dimension would be known by those in the 2nd dimension and vice versa.  Ergo if you are in the 2nd dimension where Kyle Reese is the father of John Connor, then Kyle Reese cannot be John Conner's best friend too.  Likewise sending a person back in time to change history would do nothing for your own history, it would only change the history of the 2nd dimension.

All of which is pure speculation, so in movies like this, what makes a plot unbelievable anyway?

[Dave Gray]

In a world where time travel is not imagination, but is real, why wouldn't they know who he was? He had indeed done something, he fathered John Connor. Although it hadn't happened at this point in Kyle's life, it still had happened.

He fathered John Conner, but they'd have no way of knowing that yet (or at all). 

The previous fiction allowed for characters to do something in the future, for which the robots go back and try to eliminate before it happens.  That makes sense, because the robots have witnessed John Conner doing things they don't like and have sent robots back (with this knowledge) to take him out. 

In Salvation, we're operating in the present.  Any robots sent back in time are dead (that we know of) and the current generation of robots has no way of knowing who Kyle Reese will be, who fathered John Conner, or anything else...they shouldn't even know who John Conner is yet, since he's yet to really take charge.

[Dave Gray]

We watched Toy Story 3 tonight.  It was amazing.  Honestly, I laughed (a lot), I cried a little bit, and I think it had perhaps the most thrilling action sequences of the year, all in the same film.

It really has its hat in the ring as the best trilogy ever.  Maybe I'm nuts, but I think that Toy Story 3 is the strongest of the series.

[badger6]

Alien trilogy was great, although the 3rd on wasn't that great.

I am surprised that no one mentioned Night of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead, and Day of the Dead. Every one of those was so great and unique in its own way that I can't pick a favorite of the 3. Not to mention that they were made so far apart !!!

Phantasm was good too, but like most the 3rd one fell short a bit