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CEB wrote: ↑Tue Nov 21, 2023 4:59 pm

Dunners wrote: ↑Tue Nov 21, 2023 1:05 pm

Mistadobalina wrote: ↑Tue Nov 21, 2023 12:56 pm

I'm not sure they count as a trilogy. You're straying into open ended franchise territory here which surely does not count.

I think that it's fair to differentiate between the 'original' trilogy of a film series and any others that come about through studio desperation for reboots.

For example, the first three Alien or Terminator films can easily be considered as a trilogy, whilst ignoring anything that came later (i.e. Alien Resurrection, Dark Fate etc).

See also Indiana Jones:
1 - Raiders of the Lost Ark = Excellent.
2 - Temple of Doom = It'll do.
3 - The Last Crusade = Brilliant end to the trilogy series.

4 - Kingdom of the Crystal Skull = F*ck off.

No way can the first three terminators be considered a trilogy separate from the rest.
Why?
Well it fails under any criteria you care to mention

1: coherence: the first two films both explicitly seem to rule out any sequels (in the first it’s made clear no one else is coming. In the second the whole point is in making it impossible for the events in the future to transpire)

2: one director’s vision: the first two films are Cameron, the third a decade later by a jobbing director (with all future films having more in common with 3 than the first two in that respect)

Omygawd wrote: ↑Tue Nov 21, 2023 6:33 pm Debbie Does Dallas
Debbie Does Dallas Part II
Debbie Does Dallas III

Got boring after that.

Daily Express bot wrote: ↑Tue Nov 21, 2023 7:11 pm

Omygawd wrote: ↑Tue Nov 21, 2023 6:33 pm Debbie Does Dallas
Debbie Does Dallas Part II
Debbie Does Dallas III

Got boring after that.

I read Suella Braverman was named after a star in that show.

one o in huntingdon wrote: ↑Tue Nov 21, 2023 12:29 pm No Jaws or Sharknado either

Kill Bill must be worth a mention too and in the same vein the Bruce Lee collection

one o in huntingdon wrote: ↑Tue Nov 21, 2023 11:31 am Dirty Harry or Lethal Weapon, hard to choose between them

Mick McQuaid wrote: ↑Wed Nov 22, 2023 8:34 pm Guardians of the galaxy is my personal favourite just for how much my kid loves them. Watched the first two in lockdown, in between playing lego superheroes and the third one at the Imax. He still puts the soundtrack on in the car so we can pretend to be Drax and Groot. Thoroughly enjoyable films.

Dunners wrote: ↑Tue Nov 21, 2023 10:23 am
Obviously, there's the Alien series. I know Alien 3 is sometimes criticised, but I really liked it. It also means you have to conveniently ignore any other Alien films. And if we're going to play that game, then allow me to thrown in a curve ball:

Star Trek 2, 4 and 6.