The Best Trilogy / Quadrilogy etc of Films

stickyfiddle

Myranda said:

Really big fan of (in no particular order)

• Indiana Jones (not the last one - though not because of aliens in it... seriously a film about magic artifacts and good boxes and an alien was what upset people? When the CGI/effects were so very shitty and the acting was so very poor, people focus on the dead aliens being the problem...)

The matrix was a brilliant film, but then had two utterly pointless sequels that were truly awful

I think we must live in different universes because I'm pretty sure they never made a 4th Indiana Jones, or any sequels to The Matrix. Definitely not. Nope. I'm quite sure. That would've been rubbish!

jd0272

TTony;222424" said:

The Sweeney I & II.

Who needs a third.

You'll be needing the DVD box set of the series. Magnificent viewing.

EricTheWeary

...and no mention yet for the On the Busses trilogy or the Cornetto trilogy ( ok, one very good film and two so so ones but that's pretty much true of all of those mentioned).
Otherwise the Dragon Tattoo ones FTW as the rarity of the quality not dipping.

TTony

jd0272 said:

TTony;222424" said:

The Sweeney I & II.

Who needs a third.

You'll be needing the DVD box set of the series. Magnificent viewing.

I'll be having it already

But that made me think - there are some great bargain DVD sets of classic BBC series ...

 for a fiver, for example

jd0272

TTony said:

jd0272 said:

TTony;222424" said:

The Sweeney I & II.

Who needs a third.

You'll be needing the DVD box set of the series. Magnificent viewing.

I'll be having it already

But that made me think - there are some great bargain DVD sets of classic BBC series ...

 for a fiver, for example

Good man. There's also House of Cards with Ian 'Sinister as Fuck' Richardson. Classic. Although I suppose I couldn't possibly comment.... Which reminds me the US version with Spacey is probably now on series 2 on Netflix. And jolly good it is too. Surprisingly.

hywelg

I was just about to elicit the Karla Trilogy of Tinker Tailor, The Honourable Schoolboy and Smileys People. But only one was made into a film and two were a TV series and two a Radio serial

holnrew

The first three Rocky films are solid.

hungrymark

Godfathers, Alien from mainstream cinema. From art-house/world cinema, Three Colours and Haneke's Emotional Glaciation trilogy (both trilogies of mood and theme rather than continuity though really).

johnnyurq

PolarityMan said:

johnnyurq;222369" said:

+1 for Back to the Future



The Alien Quadrilogy, before they start to add in Premetheus.

I dont get the prometheus hate. All the alien films are about aethetic, theyre not hard sci-fi and i thought they got the aesthtic pretty well.

I don't actually hate it I just don't rate it as highly as the 3 top notch Alien movies of the 4.

chillidoggy

What's annoying is that once you've watched the Alien Director's Cuts, the original ones don't seem right, somehow. Alien explains so much more, and Alien 3 is like a different film altogether. Well, almost.

CHRISB50

I really enjoyed Prometheus. I think you just have to treat it like a separate entity to the Alien series though. My mates went into it expecting an explanation of everything to do with the origins of Xenomorphs etc. and they were really disappointed. They told me it was shit.

I got it on Blu Ray and watched it with an open mind. As a standalone film I thought it was pretty good. And you can see the parallels it starts to draw with the actual Alien series, but without drawing a direct line / link to them.

Is personally rather watch that again than either Alien 3 or 4. Now they were really disappointing after how good the original 2 were.

IanSavage

I actually really like El Mariaci / Desperado / Once Upon A Time In Mexico, which I think is usually classed as a trilogy (okay, the last one got a bit silly, but they're all pretty good).

 

Romero's original '...Of The Dead' trilogy too, before he started shitting on his legacy (what is it with filmmakers named George and having a pathological need to do this?)

fretmeister

I would discount the Alien films.

As time passes Resurrection (steaming pile of shit that it was - other than old Hellboy) actually survives much better than Aliens.

Aliens is a teenage big gun penis envy wankfest that has aged so very badly.

Alien and Alien3 (Directors) are both far superior.

fretmeister

IanSavage said:

I actually really like El Mariaci / Desperado / Once Upon A Time In Mexico, which I think is usually classed as a trilogy (okay, the last one got a bit silly, but they're all pretty good).

 

Desperado was almost a remake of the 1st though.