Board 8 > ITT: Trilogies where the first movie or book is the best

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Jurassic Park

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TMNT movies.

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PotC

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The Matrix.

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Pirates of the Caribbean.

Well, if you consider the first three their own trilogy, since it seems like they're going to make a second trilogy starting with On Stranger Tides.

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Lord of the Rings

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Metroid Prime.

His Dark Materials.

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The Millenium Trilogy
Back to the Future
The Jersey Trilogy


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The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo

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From: the icon ownz all | #010
The Jersey Trilogy

Hmm...maybe.

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Chasing Amy is a very close second.


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From: the icon ownz all | #013
Chasing Amy is a very close second.

It would be first easily if Joey Lauren Adams didn't annoy me to my very core.

Dogma > all though.

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Back to the Future

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Aladdin

Also, X-Men.

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The Lion King is technically a trilogy. So that. In fact, every hand-animated children's movie that spawned two spinoffs including but not limited to: Aladdin, The Little Mermaid, Balto, All Dogs go to Heaven, and The Lion King... safe bet the first was the best.

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From: GenesisSaga | #017
The Lion King is technically a trilogy. So that. In fact, every hand-animated children's movie that spawned two spinoffs including but not limited to: Aladdin, The Little Mermaid, Balto, All Dogs go to Heaven, and The Lion King... safe bet the first was the best.

none of these are trilogies

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How is 3 movies with the same characters, setting, etc. not a trilogy?

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Star Wars

Mistborn

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From: GenesisSaga | #017
The Lion King is technically a trilogy. So that. In fact, every hand-animated children's movie that spawned two spinoffs including but not limited to: Aladdin, The Little Mermaid, Balto, All Dogs go to Heaven, and The Lion King... safe bet the first was the best.
none of these are trilogies

Aladdin is certainly a trilogy. I could see you arguing against the other ones, but Aladdin isn't even close to not being a trilogy.

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Samurai trilogy
Bourne trilogy
Indiana Jones

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indiana jones
back to the future

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To be blunt, most movies.

Books...it depends. Books are rarely trilogies anyway.

If it's a new author who isn't sure she will ever get anything published after this...usually the first book is the worst, actually, because she's still finding her writing style.

If it's an established author confident in getting all three books published, and who just happens to plan a trilogy, it...actually probably still tends to be the third book that's the best (no cliffhangers, the big climax) though it can sometimes be the first just due to the nature of the story (His Dark Materials).

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Books...it depends. Books are rarely trilogies anyway.

We must read different books. I mostly read fantasy and there are tons of trilogies.

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From: HanOfTheNekos | #023
Aladdin is certainly a trilogy. I could see you arguing against the other ones, but Aladdin isn't even close to not being a trilogy.

Fun fact

None of them are trilogies

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Back To the Future

There are only two ways I could see you not counting Aladdin as a trilogy.

1. You count the TV series as a fourth entry, in which case you would have to count the extended universe/spinoffs for everything ever, leaving very few actual trilogies.

2. You're of the mindset that Disney sequels don't exist, in which case I'd usually agree with you but the Aladdin ones were actually pretty decent.

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The Naked Gun

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Yeah didn't the 3rd one actually have Robin Williams back? No way you don't call that a trilogy.

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The answer is simple

Direct-to-video movies do not count

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CherryCokes posted...
The answer is simple

Direct-to-video movies do not count

Lol

Might as well take it one step further and say they don't exist!

Anyway adding

Millennium trilogy
Matrix (duh)
PotC
LotR - though really, I could see someone easily making a case for RotK or even TT (though not as easily) as the best in the series. Really not a weak link in LotR imo.

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From: GenesisSaga | #035
Might as well take it one step further and say they don't exist!

What doesn't exist?

>_>

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CherryCokes posted...
From: GenesisSaga | #035
Might as well take it one step further and say they don't exist!
What doesn't exist?

>_>

Those direct-to-vide... OH, gotcha! ;D

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LotR - though really, I could see someone easily making a case for RotK or even TT (though not as easily) as the best in the series. Really not a weak link in LotR imo.

Yeah. Basically. For me, it's RotK > FotR > TT but it's pretty close.

A lot of what I would have said has already been covered. Shoot. I'll ponder some more.

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