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Favorite Trilogy (with poll)

View Poll Results: Favorite trilogy

Lord of the Rings

101 28.69%

The Dark Knight

42 11.93%

Star Wars - Original

102 28.98%

Indiana Jones

26 7.39%

Bourne Trilogy

27 7.67%

Toy Story

13 3.69%

Back to the Future

25 7.10%

Others (Spiderman, Matrix, Alien)

16 4.55%

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07-23-2012 , 02:35 PM

hanster

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What's your favorite trilogy, now that some of us have had a chance to view the last installment of the Nolan Batman trilogy? And don't nit it up by saying Batman is technically part of the franchise and thus shouldn't count.

Some notable candidates:

PS: I excluded The Godfather because I think there were only two real movies.

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07-23-2012 , 02:40 PM

AlligatorBloodFTW

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how is the matrix not it's own option?

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07-23-2012 , 02:41 PM

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How is Die Hard (not the 4th or soon to be 5th) not an option

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07-23-2012 , 02:41 PM

CheckDaQuads

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No Bastard poll option?

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07-23-2012 , 02:47 PM

AlligatorBloodFTW

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should have made it public too so we could laugh at people who choose toy story

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07-23-2012 , 02:48 PM

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BTTF!!!!!! BTTF!!!!!!!!!!!

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07-23-2012 , 02:48 PM

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Originally Posted by AlligatorBloodFTW

how is the matrix not it's own option?

I actually struggled a long time wrt this. I really enjoyed the first one (story, novelty, action, cinematography) and thought second one's action scenes were amazing, I thought the story for the last two to be fairly crappy.

Then again, it doesn't cost anything to add an extra series. So maybe I should have added it.

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07-23-2012 , 02:48 PM

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interesting. I'd imagine that most of us have seen the entirety of the listed trilogies. probably the most viewed 'genre'...

my rankings (individual parts ranked in parenthesis):

1. Star Wars (2, 1, 3)
2. Indiana Jones (3, 1, 2)
3. LotR (1, 2, 3)
4. The Dark Knight (1, 3, 2)
5. Bourne Trilogy (3, 1, 2)
6. Toy Story (1, 3, 2)
7. Back to the Future (1, 2, 3)

Toy Story 1 resonates a lot with me. I liked 2 and 3 but didn't really care about them.
Back to the Future 1 is amazing but 2 and 3 are awful.

Empire Strikes Back and A New Hope are my two favorite movies.

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07-23-2012 , 02:49 PM

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yeah , back to the future over matrix is a off, but it's either neither or both, in my opinion. nobody should be voting for them anyways

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07-23-2012 , 02:50 PM

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I haven't seen TDKR yet, so for now it's The Lord of The Rings

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07-23-2012 , 02:50 PM

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Also, Godfather should definitely be on there! Godfather 3 is better than BttF 3 ....

edit: actually, it shouldn't be, as it wasn't really constructed like a trilogy. too far apart, different leads, etc.

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07-23-2012 , 02:51 PM

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Originally Posted by AlligatorBloodFTW

how is the matrix not it's own option?

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should have made it public too so we could laugh at people who choose toy story

I would pick Toy Story over The Matrix. All of the Toy Story movies were decent and I can watch them multiple times. I have NO desire to watch The Matrix Reloaded/Revelations ever again.

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07-23-2012 , 02:52 PM

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LOTR (2,1,3)... Closely followed by TDK. (2,3,1)

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07-23-2012 , 02:52 PM

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wow love this (ranking the individual films within each trilogy!).

re: LotR: last time I watched the extended version in one sitting and it was just a one awesome film in my mind so I can't really judge which one is the best. I am really surprised you have that under Indiana Jones.

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07-23-2012 , 02:53 PM

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People bitching about Matrix option yet no one has picked it...

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07-23-2012 , 02:54 PM

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How did you not die from sitting for 17 hours?

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07-23-2012 , 02:54 PM

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well my thinking (which, a lot of times could be flawed when it comes to movies) was that people don't HATE BttF as much as Godfather III.

response to edit: and yea, that too. the third one just threw me off completely and one of the reasons why I don't have one of those collector's items for the films. ugh

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07-23-2012 , 02:57 PM

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How did you not die from sitting for 17 hours?

No idea. We watched it in bed fwiw. I had food within reach and bathroom breaks in between while changing the discs. Granted, we did it over a long weekend and basically slept a whole day afterwards. To say it was draining would be an understatement. Counter-strike trained me well.