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31 points
2 months ago
Clearly star wars
25 points
2 months ago
The original yes, the prequel movies weirdly went from underrated to overrated and the Disney films are straight trash
13 points
2 months ago
The prequels are good. The plot of the bad guys being the exact same situation as the rebels from the original trilogy but the Jedi and the 'good guys' are fighting against them but serving a corrupt government that has largely already transitioned into the Empire in all but name without anyone noticing, is secretly genius. What it faces the most criticism for is the grade school level dialogue, but it's a film made for children that age. The fact that Lucas was able to pack in a political plot that complex but appeal to children is incredible.
3 points
2 months ago
The fact that Lucas was able to pack in a political plot that complex
Not really that complex.
-2 points
2 months ago
Unbreakable Trilogy by M Night
1 points
2 months ago
I was looking for this one. This trilogy is truly a masterpiece.
39 points
2 months ago*
I made a whole tier list for this question a year ago.
S tier: Lord of the Rings, Star Wars OT, Godfather.
A tier: The Dark Knight, Indiana Jones, Back To the Future, Toy Story.
B Tier: Blade Trilogy, Spider Man, John Wick, Taken, Jason Bourne, Matrix, Shrek, The Mighty Ducks
C Tier: Aliens, Star Wars Prequels, The Pirates of the Caribbean, Madagasgar, The Naked Gun, The Evil Dead, The X-Men 1-3, Dawn of the Dead (my pick, but not my favorite tier horror fans will disagree),
D Tier: Hunger Games, Scream, Austin Powers, the Mariachi Trilogy, Mad Max, Jurassic Park, Robocop (there's a Robocop 3 that you may not remember), Twilight, Terminator 1-3 (I do NOT want to consider this a trilogy).
F Tier: The Star Wars sequels
-3 points
2 months ago
D tier: the hobbit trilogy And then im generous.
-2 points
2 months ago
I know it's more then 3 movies but I really like the Aliens series.
10 points
2 months ago
3 points
2 months ago
It’s about to be Guardians of the Galaxy when Vol. 3 comes out.
3 points
2 months ago
The Matrix trilogy
No. I won't accept resurrections as a 4th movie
1 points
2 months ago
I won't accept 2 and 3 as the second and third movie lmao
10 points
2 months ago
Toss up for LOTR or POTC for me 😪 Orlando Bloom didn’t have to go so hard in all of them
39 points
2 months ago
The Dark Knight Trilogy
5 points
2 months ago
Dumb and dumber
11 points
2 months ago
The perfect trilogy doesn't exist until The Raid 3 is made.
I know it's unlikely but dammit, it's real to me!
365 points
2 months ago*
Back to the future. Best trilogy
Edit: Wow thanks. Glad so many agree. All I saw was LOTR. I personally was horrified when I watched the first movie and found out it just was the beginning of the story. It didn’t grab me so never went back. Back to the future is definitely better than LOTR.
0 points
2 months ago
Came here to say the same.
20 points
2 months ago
1 - amazing, 2 - super interesting, 3 - not bad. Don’t know that it qualifies.
6 points
2 months ago
You should give LotR another try.
4 points
2 months ago
It’s not, it really isn’t close, but still a great classic trilogy.
81 points
2 months ago
Lord if the Rings is the number one trilly
0 points
2 months ago
The storyline is great but I like the cgi the hobbit series has better.
0 points
2 months ago
STAR WARS
0 points
2 months ago
Whichever trilogy you like the best stranger. Whatever you enjoy most is the best for you.
419 points
2 months ago
Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight trilogy
5 points
2 months ago
Ooo underrated comment here
3 points
2 months ago
I came looking for this!! This needs more upvotes though
58 points
2 months ago
The last one really ruins it IMO
And the first one didnt know what tone it was going for with the ending
0 points
2 months ago
Unfortunately the biggest problem with TDKR is that it had to follow TDK which was probably the 1st or 2nd best superhero movie ever. So expectations for the finale were so high. TDKR was a good film, it just wasn’t great enough as a finale.
4 points
2 months ago
Hot tak- Ahh I thought I would be the 1st to go Lord of the rings, 1st thing, alright next greatest film trilogy that isn't LoTr. Kung Fu Panda. Oogway is still in the relevancy of chatter today. A barely relevant but absolutely relevant to the testament of a great Trilogy that is the Kung fu Panda, although it may declassify as a mere trilogy once the inevitable 4th film of Kung fu Panda arrives to this earthly plane.
4 points
2 months ago
Nolan’s Batman.
247 points
2 months ago
LotR. It isn’t even close.
-13 points
2 months ago
The "it isnt even close" comment is so fucking annoying. As a big lotr fan, The Godfather trilogy is really not far
1 points
2 months ago
It’s cliche for sure, but only because it’s 100% true. All 3 are perfect. This question isn’t which trilogies had the best 2 out of 3.
Everybody is making excuses for their otherwise “best”. Zero excuses need to be made for LotR.
10 points
2 months ago
The third godfather is terrible.
2 points
2 months ago
Lesser than the two first yes, but terrible? Philistine talk
1 points
2 months ago
3 takes godfather out of the running imo. No other trilogy has consistently masterful films like LOTR
49 points
2 months ago
Lord of the Rings
8 points
2 months ago
Toy Story
5 points
2 months ago
Back to the Future
3 points
2 months ago
The Before Trilogy
3 points
2 months ago
Lord of the rings
1 points
2 months ago
John wick ✏️🐶
-2 points
2 months ago
Star Wars was a trilogy of trilogies. It reigns supreme.
7 points
2 months ago*
The return trilogy:
Return of the Jedi
Return of the King
Return of the Living Dead
-24 points
2 months ago
The Lord of the Rings is one movie in three parts, so not a trilogy. I guess it'll have to be something else.
8 points
2 months ago
Until recently it was either SW or LotR. But Clerks is the winner now
33 points
2 months ago
I love the LotR trilogy, and if you look at awards, it’s the most successful trilogy of all time.
-6 points
2 months ago
And none for important awards
4 points
2 months ago
Return of the King won the 2003 Academy award for best motion picture. It’s literally the most prestigious of them.
4 points
2 months ago
I've heard that star trek trilogy is quite good
13 points
2 months ago
It's gotta be the How To Train Your Dragon trilogy for me. The first movie is my favorite by a long shot, but man Hiccup and Toothless left a mark on my childhood.
12 points
2 months ago
The Lord of the Rings. There are no weak entry in that trilogy.
129 points
2 months ago
1st 3 Star Wars movies (by release date)
3 points
2 months ago*
I wish people would just poll these.
But anyway.... This is the only answer.
More heart and soul went into these movies than LoTR.
LoTR just had a bigger budget and better technology to work with.
EDIT: LOVE the downvotes on an opinion. Keep em coming.
Not sure why people are debating source material. My opinion is the films capture more than LoTR does. I enjoyed LoTR greatly, re-read the books yearly, but IMO the movies didn't capture what the original Star Wars does for me.
-1 points
2 months ago
More heart and soul went into Star Wars than LOTR? Maybe… I don’t agree but debatable. What isn’t debatable is Lucas borrowed from LOTR, so the soul you’re referring to is the soul of another, deeper source.
-3 points
2 months ago
i actually didn't even like lotr tbh
0 points
2 months ago
Just don't like the world or the films. Because if you liked the books I have no idea how you wouldn't like the movies.
0 points
2 months ago
i never read the books, only seen the first two movies actually, i didn't even see the third cuz it was that bad
1 points
2 months ago
Funny, I saw the first one and half way through I’m like…. Ok we’re done, let’s go home! Then it kept going. I never saw any of the rest. I’ll take my simpleton Star Wars any day.
-2 points
2 months ago
The first three chronologically had too many puppets and not enough CGI. The prequel trilogy is the greatest. Only a 9/10 in my book because they limited jar jar binks to the first movie.
-11 points
2 months ago
The original Star Wars trilogy:
So no, 1st 3 Star Wars movies aren't the greatest trilogy of all time. Hell, the whole franchise has been riding on the genius Empire coattails for decades now...
-1 points
2 months ago
Man, I am tired of the all of the Empire love. The first movie is perfect. Empire only works as a middle chapter.
I get it. It's dark or whatever. Ooooh. Spooky.
0 points
2 months ago
Yeah, I'm tired of it too. I know the screenwriting and cinematography are excellent, but it has its flaws. I can't stand it when anyone calls a movie "perfect".
3 points
2 months ago
Has anyone said Lord of the Rings yet?
36 points
2 months ago
The Godfather trilogy
2 points
2 months ago
It insists upon itself
143 points
2 months ago
Lord of the Rings or Star Wars
19 points
2 months ago
Episodes 1-3 or 4-6?
46 points
2 months ago
LOTR
6 points
2 months ago
Matrix that 4th film is a joke.
6 points
2 months ago
Shrek
1 points
2 months ago
lord of the rings
4 points
2 months ago
Lord of the rings hands down
-1 points
2 months ago
Dont come for me but, fifty shades is on of the best known ones
2 points
2 months ago
John wick
3 points
2 months ago
austin powers
2 points
2 months ago
Austin Powers
3 points
2 months ago
Back to the Future
2 points
2 months ago
Austin Powers
3 points
2 months ago
LOTR, pretty easily.
Had it stopped at three films, the only trilogy that would come close is Toy Story.
2 points
2 months ago
Evil Dead
2 points
2 months ago
Evil Dead
2 points
2 months ago
The five part Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy trilogy
Or Back To The Future, truthfully
1 points
2 months ago
Lord of the Rings is the only right answer.
3 points
2 months ago
Back to the Future. I'm not counting LOTR and Star Wars cause there's multiple films in each respective series. I won't count the Godfather because there's only two films
32 points
2 months ago
Back to the Future
31 points
2 months ago
LOTR because its consistently good
89 points
2 months ago
Lord of the rings.
3 points
2 months ago
Back to the Future
4 points
2 months ago
Kung fu panda. Pretty perfect series.
28 points
2 months ago
By it's cultural impact, it's got to be the original Star Wars Trilogy
12 points
2 months ago
Lord if the rings. Hands down.
28 points
2 months ago
Back to the future
19 points
2 months ago
I cautiously assume that it will be the Paddington movies.
Even with all its flaws, I think the Godfather trilogy comes out on top.
133 points
2 months ago
The Matrix duh
6 points
2 months ago
The Matrix would have been a great trilogy if they made sequels.
0 points
2 months ago
Yeah the Matrix was so good, it's a shame they never made any sequels. Oh well i guess we will never know.
3 points
2 months ago
This "trilogy" you speak of is Matrix, Reloaded, and Animatrix, with no other movies ever existing, right?
12 points
2 months ago
God, I wish it had been. The first Matrix is one of the best movies ever made. If the sequels had lived up to it, I would agree with you, but for me, unfortunately, Matrix 2 & 3 were just sub-bar movies.
-3 points
2 months ago*
The sequels are just plain awful - you’re being very generous here.
Matrix Reloaded was a just a total mess of disjoint characters, with each serving very little purpose in an overall plot that just ends anti-climactically.
Matrix Revolutions has Neo just turn into fucking wizard with magic powers in the real world.
2 points
2 months ago
Lol, you're right that I was being gentle. Thank you for expressing my true feelings.
1 points
2 months ago
The only good thing to come out of 2&3 was Juno Reactor.
8 points
2 months ago
Kung fu panda. I have seen no trilogy that had awesome back-to-back villains like this one.
10 points
2 months ago
The Before Trilogy
76 points
2 months ago
Sam Raimi Spider Man Trilogy
-1 points
2 months ago
I used to think so, but Holland's Spiderman craps all over McGuire's.
8 points
2 months ago
Well since it’s officially the holidays, we all know the right answer is Die Hard!
8 points
2 months ago
Austin powers 123
4 points
2 months ago
Great Scott! It's heavy that's even a question. Now why don't you make like a tree, and get outa here.....
2 points
2 months ago
I would agree with the fans. Star Wars & LOTR are top contenders
3 points
2 months ago
Obviously LOTR. Toy Story might have been in the running until they made a fourth one.
3 points
2 months ago
Evil Dead, Evil Dead 2, and Army of Darkness
4 points
2 months ago
For me or Star wars or the godfather
4 points
2 months ago
Its gotta be LOTR, no hate toward SW fans. But it is what it is.
1.9k points
2 months ago
Come on, it’s Lord of the Rings and it’s not even close
-1 points
2 months ago
It’s not close, but it’s not Lord of the Rings
-1 points
2 months ago
Didn’t care for it.
Batman trilogy though, great stuff.
0 points
2 months ago
Nah.
They're good but they're kind of boring.
2 points
2 months ago
They aren't boring at all. I mean, maybe if you have a really short attention span, but I can find something interesting to look at or listen to in every scene of all three movies. And after dozens of viewings of the entire trilogy, there are still cool things I hadn't noticed before sometimes when I watch it.
-4 points
2 months ago
It is close. And the winner is Star Wars.
-1 points
2 months ago
Damn I don’t even think SW is in the conversation
0 points
2 months ago
Nope!
0 points
2 months ago
Maybe if all you've ever seen are LotR and Star Wars, but other trilogies do exist.
The Before trilogy, for instance, or Three Colors.
689 points
2 months ago
Those fucking hobbit movies were boring as hell. All it was was a bunch of people walking. Three movies of people walking to a fucking volcano. Here's yer trilogy simplified Fellowship: walking; Towers: more walking.; Return: Even more walking and finally throwing the fucking ring away. Even the fucking trees walked in those movies.
If Peter Jackson really wanted to blow me away with those Rings movies, he would have ended the third one on the logical closure point, not the 25 endings that followed - When fucking Frito wakes up from his little coma or whatever, and the little hobbits are jumping up and down on his bed, and Sam leans in the doorway and gives him that very fucking gay look. That look was so gay, I thought Sam was gonna tell the little hobbits to take a walk so he could saunter over to Frodo and suck his fucking cock. Now, that would've been an Academy Award-worthy ending. And then, right after the Sam/Frodo suckfest, right before the credits roll, Sam fucking flat out bricks in Frodo's mouth.
1 points
2 months ago
You almost got me until It hit me that this was clerks lmao
4 points
2 months ago
I came here looking for this. Thank you!
-13 points
2 months ago
Those movies are boring.
0 points
2 months ago
This is one of the few instances where you are objectively wrong.
Now you might be thinking "that's bullshit, Entertainment preference is a matter of subjective opinion". And normally you would be right. But this is actually the one exception. If you spell out The third letter of the third word of every third chapter of the Catholic Bible circa 1247 ad you will find that it spells out a phrase in Latin, which wind translated into Aramaic and then into English says "The Lord of the rings trilogy is the greatest movie trilogy that will ever exist, so says I, the LORD".
Can't really argue with that, can you?
-1 points
2 months ago
I can because I'm not Catholic. The Lord of the Rings theatrical release trilogy is bloated and meandering, it's extended cuts dilute the original versions to torturously slow extremes, and it hides its filmmaking shortcomings behind production design and pandering to hardcore Tolkien fans. Peter Jackson is a hack, Tolkien is a shit author, and the LOTR movies suck eggs.
3 points
2 months ago
Original Star Wars trilogy comes close. As do a few others named here. But LOTR is in good position to argue for first place.
1 points
2 months ago
Twilight!
1 points
2 months ago
It's back to the Future this is not an opinion this is a fact
1 points
2 months ago
MCU's Captain America trilogy
1 points
2 months ago
Terminator
689 points
2 months ago
Reddit bro try not to say lord of the rings challenge level: impossible
26 points
2 months ago
If you don't say The Lord of the Rings you're commenting an inferior choice.
20 points
2 months ago
Target audience acquired : commencing deodorant spraying
-9 points
2 months ago*
How is OG Star Wars not better?
Honestly I’m amazed Star Wars isn’t listed at all. I’ve scrolled like 10 top level comments and half of them are LOTR
LOTR has too much CGI. Too many long, ridiculous sword fighting scenes. They’re swashbuckling adventure movies for the most part, totally unfaithful adaptations of the book. They’re great spectacle, and good movies in their own right. Closer to Marvel movies than “top trilogy of all time” territory. Definitely not as groundbreaking, quality, or concisely executed as Star Wars.
Empire Strikes Back is one of the best films of all times and ANH basically kicked off popular sci fi as a genre
-1 points
2 months ago
Average millennial energy
-3 points
2 months ago
tell me that you're a tik tok prepubescent without telling me you're a tik tok prepubescent
43 points
2 months ago
Indiana Jones. Don't talk to me about Crystal Skull.
38 points
2 months ago
LOTR
16 points
2 months ago
The classic Star Wars trilogy is untouchable. The prequel trilogy would be crap w/o ROTS. And the Disney stuff is Disney stuff...
1 points
2 months ago
Original release, not the cartoon bullshit Lucas show-horned in.
3 points
2 months ago
Kung Fu Panda
4 points
2 months ago
Cornetto
4 points
2 months ago
Friday , next Friday , Friday after the next
5 points
2 months ago
Verhoeven future of fascism trilogy: Robocop, Total Recall, Starship Troopers
4 points
2 months ago
It is the LOTR, and I can prove it imperically, through bullet points:
-It was an adaptation of the Second most popular fantasy book in existence
-The studio let a nobody horror-director Peter Jackson direct a big movie, No THREE big movies, no three big movies at the SAME TIME. And he was given a nearly free hand with it.
-The budget was enormous, unprecedented till then and after. Especially for an unproven IP, this wasn't a Marvel sequel, it was a "kids story", and those never made money.
-It invented and revolutionazed the industry of VFX and miniatures
-It single handidly created the New Zealand movie industry
-All the dedication of the cast. You know the stories: they slept in the woods, Viggo worn-out and repaired his own costume..
-All three movies are 99% top of thr class. Even Star Wars had a weakness there with the Ewoks
-The effects and costumes not only hold out, they are superior to most things mass-produced today. Take that George Lucas special edition #11
-Ian McKellen
-Basically inventing Motion capture, fully SGI characters, with Andy Serkis performing
-Each movie has an extended version, coming to 11.5 hours in total.
-Score
-Memes
-And most importantly: the knowledge that all the Rohan riders were Zealandian women with fake beards.
4 points
2 months ago
The Lord of the Rings.
I will go beyond that and say it's the perfect movie as it was filmed as such.
Peter Jackson achieved the impossible. The Lord of the Rings was well known to be an impossible to film book, and Peter had his work cut out for him. At that time he was a nobody in Hollywood, known only in the niche film genre for Dead Alive, a comedy gorefest. Taking on this project was viewed as an insurmountable task.
And yet he did it. The LOTR trilogy went on to win numerous awards and accolades and Howard Shore's soundtrack was selected by the American Film Institute as the greatest soundtrack ever composed in cinema history.
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