The meme is funny, I'm going to acknowledge that first.
But what are these rankings? Indiana Jones 3 is ranked the same quality as 2. Spider-Man 1 is ranked demonstrably worse than 2. Jurassic Park 3 is ranked work than Jurassic Park 2????
I know it comes down to a matter of opinion but I also have to wonder if the person who originally created this meme watched the movies, because those are some spicy takes.
The Road Warrior was also way better than Beyond Thunderdome.
Two towers is the weak link
Well, after those Orcs flew those two Fell Beasts into them...
#PintsCantMeltCastleWalls
How dare you
Strong disagree on Back to the Future. The last one's probably the best one
I don't agree with most of those.
In what world is die hard 3 worse than die hard 2. It’s arguably tied with die hard 1 as the best one.
1st is at the top. 2nd is at the two thirds mark. 3rd is overflowing with a vangence!
Terminator is a strange one. Cooked with the first movie, second one is somehow even better and then the third one is absolute ass.
Same with the godfather films.
...yeah, no...
I am fully aware I'm pretty much alone with my opinion, but I find Terminator 1 far superior to T2.
Even with the limited budget T1 manages to create a far more horrifying vision of an unstoppable killer coming after you. The lo-fi'ish synth soundtrack sets a perfect oppressive feeling. The casting is perfect, Michael Biehn' s scarred and wiry Reese with Hamilton's young and scared next door girl going against metal-Arnold in his prime is the epitome of underdog scenarios.
And the pacing is very good, the plot flows.
T2 is a good film, but like many sequels, it suffers from the "let's do the same thing from a different angle, but bigger and louder!" - syndrome. It doesn't really get to be it's own kind of beast. I was very surprised that Cameron fell for the trap, after he avoided that mistake with "Aliens". Switching genre from space horror to space action made that film stand firmly on it's own feet and the result was good.
Lastly, T2 has the young John Connor doing the "badass kid" - role, which so many seem to love. I just find the character annoying.
The first one didn't age all that well. My teenagers can't finish it. T2 on the other hand..
Arnold is on his peak here though. He is very very scary. His expression(or better: lack of) , his body language..
And the police station scene is forever etched in my memory.
I also don't get the hate for T3. Sure, it has some cheesy humour and the plot isn't amazing but it's a very solid action movie.
I disagree with the Indiana Jones ratings. The third movie was better than the second, and possibly better than the first too.
Awman, I didn't think matrix 2 and 3 where that bad.
I remember enjoying them.
They made viewers work to understand. Viewers largely rejected that.
Which has led us, irrevocably, to spoon fed trash that plays to the dumbest person in the audience.
Back to the Future is, as a whole, the best trilogy on this list.
When excluding LotR
Nope, including the LotR movies. I will die on this hill.
Specifically, Robert Zemeckis > Peter Jackson. the BttF trilogy was masterfully executed with great plot, pacing, and incredible attention to detail (down to things like e.g. "Twin Pines Mall" becoming "Lone Pine Mall" because Marty ran over one of Old Man Peabody's pines). Meanwhile, Peter Jackson couldn't even figure out how to get major plot points like the Scouring of the Shire to work, let alone Tom Bombadil.
Together, we will defend this hill until we slay every last orc, mage, rohirrim, man, elf, big footed people, walking trees (are they triffids?), beast of hell, dragons and what have you.
WE ARE DARTH VADER, FROM THE PLANET VULCAN. WE ARE ARMED WITH WALKMANS FULLY LOADED WITH SOLID VANHALEN SLUGS.
And we have a full case of stolen plutonium by our side. It shouldn't be that hard.
Scouring of the Shire deserves to cut from the films. Imagine after we said our goodbyes, we get another short movie added on at the end.
Theres a reason why everyone remembers the Godzilla short film at the end of Jurrasic Park 2
Indiana Jones 3 is as good, if not better, than any other movie in the series.
I know it doesn't fit the trilogy thing, but you left out the best Rocky movie: Rocky IV.
Matrix is great all the way through. The problem is that a lot of people didn't understand the story. There's a good explainer on YouTube by Looper.
My only real gripe with the matrix trilogy is where Neo can “see” agent smith in Bane’s body and “see” all the machines at the machine city. It didn’t need that over the top messiah thing when he was already the messiah simply because of his power within the matrix.
And if the idea is “the real world is also a simulation, made to convince humans they were free” it sort of goes against all the monologuing that smith and the architect do about how humans rebelled against versions of the matrix in which they were free
Sure, but it is also the medium's responsibility to help the audience understand.
That's true, but I'd argue that the more personal that any art is, the fewer people who will instantly understand their meaning.
Think about it like this, if you were watching a movie in a language you don't speak (without subtitles), you could still enjoy a lot of it, but might not be able to fully follow the story. But, the story is still there if you know how to hear it. Sometimes you just need someone else to help translate.
Eh, the subtext in 2 and 3 is neat but the first movie is by far the best. It sets up a premise and concludes it beautifully and doesn't get too big for its britches. I still enjoy some of the over the top moments from 2 and 3 but there's definitely a leap and I'm not sure the pay off is as good as the first film.
I agree they're better than this says, but the first is also the best, by a moderate margin. The other two get a lot of shit that isn't deserved.