1. Back to the Future
2. Lord of the Rings
3. The Matrix
4. Star Wars
5. The Karate Kid
1. The Human Condition (1951-1961)
2. Evil Dead (1981-1992)
3. Three Colours (1993-1994)
4. Pusher (1996-2005)
5. Batman (Nolan) (2005-2012)
I'm such a retard. I was trying to think what other trilogies I like and completely forgot about Nolan's Batman Trilogy. I'm going to update my post.
share1. Back to the Future
2. Lord of the Rings
3. The Matrix
4. Batman (Nolan)
5. Star Wars
Updated because I forgot to include Batman.
Can I include franchises that started as a trilogy but more films have been made since? Or do I have to ask the Mayor first? Actually, fuck that, he’s always stoned playing with cats so I’m just going to say yes..
1. Alien
2. Mad Max
3. Rocky
4. Bourne
5. Planet of The Apes (reboots)
Of course you can. I included The Matrix on my list, even though it’s technically no longer a trilogy after the release of Matrix Resurrections. But that movie was woke trash — nowhere near the quality of the original — so I don’t consider it part of the canon.
shareEven though I stand by what I said above, I’m a bit confused by your selection of Rocky. For me, the Rocky movies form a pentalogy, consisting of five proper films. While the fifth installment may not have been great, it’s still part of the canon. In contrast, Rocky Balboa, while a decent addition to the franchise, doesn’t count as part of the original Rocky series; it exists as its own entity.
To illustrate my point, consider Dexter: there are eight seasons in the original series, but with the addition of Dexter: New Blood and Dexter: Origins, we now have ten. However, those newer installments, while part of the canon, don’t count as seasons nine and ten; they represent a new iteration of the show. I apologize if I’m not being as clear as I should be.
The Rocky movies only had trilogy status for 3 years (1982-85), so I don't see how it fits into the category of "franchises that started as a trilogy but more films have been made since." If it fits into that category then every movie series with more than 3 entries does as well, rather than just series like Star Wars (was a trilogy for 16 years), Indiana Jones (was a trilogy for 19 years), and Rambo (was a trilogy for 20 years).
share- Star Wars (1977-83, theatrical cuts only)
- Indiana Jones
- Back to the Future
- Rambo
- Ninja trilogy
I can't rank those because they are so different from each other (I can only rank "apples to apples" things, like, the original Star Wars trilogy is drastically better than the second, and especially, the third, Star Wars trilogy), so those are in no particular order.
When you say Ninja trilogy are you talking about the Sho Kosugi movies? Revenge of the Ninja was my favorite movie when I was a kid. I would watch on repeat all the time.
shareYeah: Enter the Ninja, Revenge of the Ninja, and Ninja III: The Domination.
When I was a kid in the '80s I couldn't figure out why Ninja III had "III" in the title, since there didn't seem to be a part one or two, but Enter and Revenge are considered the first two movies of the trilogy, even though Sho Kosugi plays a different character in each one. This is from Wikipedia's Enter the Ninja article:
The film began a craze of ninja-themed Hollywood films during the early 1980s and was the first film in Cannon Films' Ninja Trilogy,[6] an anthology series which includes Revenge of the Ninja (1983) and Ninja III: The Domination (1984).
It was one of my favorite movies and I watched it countless times when I was a kid. I made a copy of the rental tape back then by connecting two VCRs together, which I still have
Well it looks like PirateBay has it, so thanks to you I now have Revenge of the Ninja in 1080p BluRay quality.
I even got subtitles for it.
:)
I'm not seeing a very good copy of it on TPB. The only 1080p one that's showing any seeds is only 1.72 GB, which is a very low bitrate for a 1080p movie, especially with h.264 compression (if it were h.265 compression that would be better, but still very light on bitrate). The original file on the Blu-ray is h.264, 18.9 GB.
The Blu-ray box set was hard to find for a reasonable price. I believe it was a UK-only release (I'm American) and currently out of print. I won an auction for it on eBay for $25.13 shipped, in 2017. I think it would be a lot harder to find a deal like that now.
That's good enough for me considering that I had a 360p .avi file.
shareI watch movies on a 1080p projector + 100" screen, so low bitrate is very noticeable. When I used to watch them on my 21" PC monitor, I didn't mind the YIFY-sized files; even the 720p ones at around 1 GB were fine.
shareI also have a 1080p projector and a 100" screen in my living room, but I mostly watch things on my 55" LG OLED in my bedroom, which doubles as my computer monitor. When it comes to quality, I have proper Blu-ray versions of my favorite movies — Heat, The Matrix, The Godfather, Kill Bill, Pulp Fiction, the Terminator films, etc. — all in 10-20GB files. For most other movies in my collection, where perfection isn’t a priority, they’re around 2-4GB. Most are x264, but for TV shows, everything is H.265 with a high bitrate, and they look amazing. The site I use has the best H.265 encodes in the pirate scene. They also have new releases, so any new movies that come out — or old ones they decide to re-encode — I get in H.265 with a high bitrate.
shareI have to say that Franco Nero is my favorite actor, and I’ve always got a laugh at how you can see his mustache underneath his ninja hood in Enter the Ninja. Gotta love Christopher George’s death scene too.
shareYôji Yamada's "Samurai trilogy" the first being The Twilight Samurai (2002)
Edgar Wright's "Cornetto trilogy"
Sam Raimi's Evil Dead trilogy
Hiroshi Inagaki's Samurai trilogy first being Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto (1954)
The Naked Gun trilogy
[edit] Of yours, it's a tight race between your top two for me. There were no clunkers in either, imo.
Here are some Italian selections.
Fulci’s Gates of Hell
Di Leo’s Milieu Trilogy
Leone’s Man With No Name
Argento’s Three Mothers
Commissioner Betti Trilogy