The Top 33 Trilogies (Movies).

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My folks and I have an argument, that there are not 33 trillogies out there. ((I wanted VH1 or E! to do a clip show on them))

So I put it to my fellow dopers.

If you had to make a list, of the BEST 33 trilogies. What would they be?

  1. At the end, 99 different movies will be named.

  2. Movies that have a fourth movie (or 5th etc.) are excluded.

3.Because someone will scream Bloody murder; The original Star Wars triolgy is excluded from Rule #2.

  1. The movie must be commonly regarded as a trillogy. (Monty python Grail, Brian, and Life would not count, however, a Box set of the three is not required.)
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Star Wars (Original)

The Matri(ces)

Cube (Cube Zero, the Thrid was released in March 2005)

Good the Bad and the Ugly. (I have only seen the first, but its gotta make the list… right?)

Scarry Movie. (Yes, but right now, its still just a trillogy)

Lord of the Rings. (Hey, frankly It was too long for me, but, here you go)

American Pie. (Yes, but we KNOW its a trilogy)

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

The Godfather. (I didnt see any of these yet)

Jurassic Park.

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Naked Gun, 22 1/2, 33 1/3

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Indiana Jones movies (Raiders, Temple of Doom, Last Crusade)

Die Hard movies

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Terminator

Austin Powers

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The Back to the Future movies were great, I thought. Not so much the second one, but 1 and 3 were excellent.

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There are more than enough trilogies out there. I’m quite certain someone else will be able to come up with 33; I could only think of 20 on my own. The ones marked with a * are those I’d submit for consideration.

*Three Colors (Blue/White/Red)
*Apu Trilogy
Rambo
Star Wars
The Matrix
*The Lord of the Rings
*The Godfather
Indiana Jones (for now)
Die Hard
Naked Gun
*Through a Glass Darkly/Winter Light/The Silence (dir. Ingmar Bergman)
*The " 'qatsi " Trilogy
Porky’s
*Back to the Future
The Neverending Story (pending a lawsuit)
*The Terminator
*“Elements” trilogy (Earth/Fire/Water dir. Deepa Mehta)
*“Fistful of Dollars”/“Let’s copy Yojimbo” trilogy (dir. Sergio Leone)
*Evil Dead
Robocop

It could be argued that some of those aren’t trilogies, but are simply continuations of a series that only lasted for three movies; I marked only those that seemed to really be made as a trilogy – either three separate but related stories or one long story told over several films. (Evil Dead gets a special exemption).

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Mad Max

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El Mariachi/Once Upon A Time In Mexico/Desperado

Silence of the Lambs/Red Dragon/Hannibal

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Other trilogies nobody’s mentioned:

Scream
Blade
Hiroshi Inagaki’s Samurai trilogy
Cocteau’s Orphic trilogy
Leone’s “Once Upon a Time…” trilogy
Lee Van Cleef’s Sabata trilogy
Once Upon a Time in China
Pagnol’s Fanny trilogy
Fassbinder’s BRD Trilogy

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D’oh! Someone beat me on the Samurai trilogy.

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Pasolini’s “Trilogy of Life” (The Decameron, The Canterbury Tales, The Arabian Nights)

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“The Norman Conquests” (Table Manner, Round Garden, Living Together). Films of three inter-related Alan Ayckbourn plays.

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You mean there has been a third Terminator movie made? Nope, nothing like that ever happened in any reality I’ll willingly take a part of.

[sub]I’m not even that sure they made Terminator 2.[/sub]

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Trois couleurs

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:smack:

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Beverly Hills Cop I, II, III

Crocodile Dundee I, II, III

Problem Child I, II, III: Junior in Love

Smoky and the Bandit I, II, III

Free Willy I, II, III

Shaft I, II: Big Score, III: Goes to Africa

The Mighty Ducks I, D2, D3

Poltergeist I, II, III

Species I, II, III (straight to video)

Poison Ivy I, II, III: The New Seduction

Spy Kids I, II: Island of Lost Dreams, IIID: Game Over

Bad News Bears I, II: Breaking Training, III: Go to Japan

Scary Movie I, II, III (for now, IV is in production)

Or, if you want to just end the bet, forward your folks this link. I count 46 trilogies.

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I never knew about the “Red Curtain” Trilogy (which, though a real marketing title, simply seems to be “movies made by Baz Luhrmann in his distinctive style and are a trilogy because he’s only made three movies.”)

The Wikipedia article on it states that all three movies have a red curtain in the opening. Is that right? I don’t remember that in Romeo + Juliet (just the “Two Houses” newscast) and I don’t remember enough of Strictly Ballroom but it doesn’t seem familiar.