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"Best trilogy musings"

Musings being a loose term for me and a film mate having an argument. So help solve this. I ask for your help again. He accepted your opinion over Fellowship and Two Towers. Because I was right.

So, we've discarded Star Wars (to probably fanboy anger) because it's not all that, Die Hard narrowly missed the cut because of Die Harder, Matrix, SW prequels (as if) and LotR aren't complete yet, Austin Powers and American Pie are OK, but pale in comparison to the greats, so...

Is Back To The Future or Indiana Jones the greatest trilogy of all time? I say Back to the Future, he say Indy. Go on, prove me right.

(Stryke would like to acknowledge that he thinks Indy and Die Hard miss out by a thread. He would also like to acknowledge LotR will be a serious contender to Bt2F. Matrix won't be - although Reloaded was good, I am not slamming it. Star Wars isn't better than all the aforementioned trilogies, except the APs. The prequels are laughable).

Oh yeah, and by all means say if you think I'm wrong. Cue Star Wars fanboys. Always some white boy gotta invoke the holy trilogy.

"Part II has Kate Winslet's greasy lover boy from Titanic as a redneck with a cowboy hat"

Zane ruled.

"How the hell did he change his clothes so fast?!"

Anyway, Crusade is the best of the Indy films. Number 4 had better not suck.

The first in most trilogies is the best one. SW, Die Hard, Indy, B2tf, probably Matrix and LotR..

Strangely Part III is always a favourite of the critics. I've always preffered the first.

Part III is probably the weakest. But yeah, compared to Crusade and Raiders, Doom is the worst.

They're not terrible, I just think they are the weakest of each.

Mr President wrote:
> >
> Indiana Jones and Back to the Future were let down by poor
> middle-parts, but still good fun.

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Eh? Part II and Temple of Doom rule. Part II has Kate Winslet's greasy lover boy from Titanic as a redneck with a cowboy hat, and Jaws 19. Temple of Doom has Short Round and monkeys.

Goatboy wrote:
> Lord of The Rings 1,2 & 3
> "Midget, chuck this ring off a mountain"
> "But I don't want to"
> "You must, and take a fat gay friend with you"
> "Alright then"
> "You will almost be taken over by a massive eye a few times per
> film, but your gay mate will rescue you"
> "Phew"
> "Here's a comedy dwarf!"
> "Indy! Indy!"

Excellent.

Yes, too early to judge LOTR and Matrix considering they are incomplete - yet I think LOTR will undoubtedly be the greatest trilogy of all - I have complete faith in PJ that he will make ROTK truly fantastic.

Star Wars has been ruined by the prequels. We should have seen it comming really after what Lucas did with the 'special editions'. In the future, Star Wars will be seen simply as two great films out of six (ANH ESB). Lucas himself will be remembered very much as he is now - someone with great ideas yet dreadful when it comes to scriptwriting and direction.

Indiana Jones and Back to the Future were let down by poor middle-parts, but still good fun.

The Matrix is great, another step in the progression of special effects and we will see whether Revolutions can finish it off in style. However, I doubt whether the GCSE level philosophy will be remembered in 20 years' time.

Evil Dead/Romero Trilogy

Star Wars was always a big pile of crap. Give me Star Trek: First Contact any day.

The sagacious one wrote:
The Alien trilogy would be the undeniable queen.

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I can't remember much of Alien (never scared me, though) but Aliens was the bomb. Alien 3 was laughable... Therefore it doesn't count.