I defy any other decade to surpass this record:

1) Indiana Jones
2) The Karate Kid (Although the third one sucked)
3) Rocky (1,2,3)
4) Back to the Future

and much much more...

i think the 00's have had some good ones


star wars (although phantom menace was in '99)
and LOtR

I have to disagree with your choices.

First Indiana Jones was good... 2nd was ok.... 3rd sucked.

First Karate Kid was good... the rest sucked.

First Rocky was good... 2 was decent... 3 was a joke

First Back to the Future was good... 2 had its moments (but sucked) 3 sucked.

Rocky - 1976
Rocky 2 - 1979

Rocky 3 - 1982
Rocky 4 - 1985

Rocky 5 - 1990

1990's

The Addams family
Alladin
The Mighty Ducks
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Problem Child
Free Willy
Home Alone

special thanks to wikipedia

when was the home alone triology?

Are you actually implying that the Free Willy, Problem Child, and Aladdin trilogies were good?

I'm with you on the Mighty Ducks, TMNT (even though the 3rd was garbage), and Home Alone (again, 3rd was garbage), though.

no it was all a joke 80's rule

Haha, ok.

FWIW, my favorite all-time trilogy is Back To The Future. The original Star Wars trilogy comes in 2nd. Rocky's 1-3 are a close, close 3rd.

looking at trilogies on wikipedia (I never really thought about it so I didnt realize there were so many)

these are a few I like that are 80's and 90's

Beverly Hills Cop
Die Hard
The Naked Gun
The Evil Dead

since it's all about the triology, anyone else excited about the bourne ultimatum? I know the books are different than the movies but I'm still gonna wait till I watch the last movie before reading any of the books.

OOOOOH Naked Gun. Good one.

I haven't seen the Evil Dead stuff, but it's on my Netflix list, so it won't be long.

ahha....point taken sir...point taken. Oops...

And for whoever said the Die Hard Trilogies...also a gem. I forgot about those. Although III came out in 94 i think

Alien triologies?

Are you kidding me? The third's better than the first in my book. The addition of Connery and the diversity of scenery were awesome.

agreed...Connery was brilliant casting

I'm looking forward to it.

I was gonna say this when I read the OP, nh suitedaces.






agreed

QFT!

Evil Dead was good stuff. The first one is soooo lame because they tried to take it seriously when they filmed it. 2 is the same movie as 1, but they got a sense of humor about it, so it was better. Of course Army of Darkness was the shiz. I love that flick.



Conner (home sick from school today) is watching Back to the Future 2 right now.


Oh and I loved Connery in the third Indiana Jones. Number 2 is my favorite, though, I think. It's hard to choose. Oh and the Indiana Jones ride at Disneyland is a lot of fun.

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IF DH2 had been better I'd rank them as one of the best trilogies ever (with a fourth coming out) but unfortunately DH2 was well below the 1 and 3.

I liked 1 and 2 better than 3...I hated that NYPD Blue rip off of a movie

X-Men

Technically, most of those aren't even trilogies. Just because you have three movies with the same characters doesn't mean you have a trilogy. It should be one larger story broken out into three parts. Lord of the Rings would qualify, Indiana Jones would not.

Of course, it's hard to write three movies not knowing if the second and third ones will ever be completed, so that list would be much shorter. The original Star Wars trilogy counts, Matrix probably counts. I can't think of any others off hand.

But if we're talking about movie franchises, then I would throw The Godfather ('72, '74, '90), Die Hard ('88, '90, '95), Lethal Weapon ('87, '89, '92), and the Mariachi ('92, '95, '03) movies into the mix as well.

point well taken

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trilogy

Wikipedia begs to differ.

This is a good thread buddy... my trilogies would be

1) Indiana Jones
2) Star Wars (2/3rds were released in the 80's... so it counts)
3) Back to the Future
4) Karate Kid (I liked all three)

I admit it is but a trifling distinction and was not attempting to spit on the thread in any manner. In fact I enjoy almost all discussions of movies.

However, wiki's own definition is, "A trilogy is a set of three works of art, usually literature or film, that are connected and can generally be seen as a single work as well as three individual ones."

The Indiana Jones movies are not connected except for the main character and you would not view them as a single work. They are three distinct stories, so I would still contend that Indiana Jones is not a true trilogy.

Going by wiki's trilogy list, I would rank my favorites as: Star Wars, Godfather, Indiana Jones.

But like I said, it is a minor distinction.

Oh, I certainly wasn't trying to be condescending about it. I apologize if I came across that way.

I don't see why Indiana Jones couldn't be viewed as a single work. Obviously, the films don't have cliffhangers or anything of that nature, but there are recurring themes (and characters even) in addition to Jones himself.

Also, this definition seems to cut LOTR out of the trilogy picture since their continuity actually makes it harder to view the films as three 'individual' works. As the article notes, Tolkien didn't intend for them to be a trilogy.

Basically, what it boils down to is that I prefer to preserve the looser definition of trilogy.

Not at all. It would appear that defining trilogy in the manner I suggested would be too limiting for this discussion.

Upcoming third installments in movie franchises: Spider-Man, Pirates of the Caribbean, Ocean's 13, and the Bourne series.

I think Pirates and Ocean's went decidedly downhill from the first movie, while Spider-Man and Jason Bourne had better sequels.

I definately agree about Oceans going downhill after the first, however, I could not disagree more about Pirates. I saw that movie twice, and each time, I had a big goofy grin going the entire time. That movie was great

I'm pretty sure that the scripts for Karate Kid II and III were written by a perl script fed the transcript of the first movie.

Big thumbs up for Indiana Jones and Back to the Future, though.

Anal Intruders, Vol. 1-3 were great.

Indiana's not a trilogy anymore.


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