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[–] ChicoSuave 59 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Indiana Jones 3 is as good, if not better, than any other movie in the series.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Way better than Temple of Doom for sure!

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Back to the Future 3 is nowhere near on par with 2.

This is some ragebait right here

[–] rockSlayer 27 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Wtf do you mean, part 3 is awesome and has some of the best humor in the series. Sure it's a bit derivative, but that doesn't stop it from being a better 3rd in a trilogy than most others. It's also got a lot of quotable moments, I quote this for just about anything that's hot

Well, I suppose if you had a straight stretch of track with a level grade, and you weren't haulin' no cars behind you, and if you can get the fire hot enough, and I'm talkin' about hotter than the blazes of hell and damnation itself... then yes

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

1 and 2 are about even. 3 is a little lower than them, but not by much.

The first two really are parts 1 and 2 of a story. The 3rd completely changes the scenery, which gives some people the impression it's not as good. It is though , and it ends the story well.

Then there's the fun fact that parts 2 and 3 were filmed at the same time. So the impression the films give is backwards from how they were made.

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[–] hOrni 11 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I'm considering it better. Not that part 2 is bad, but I like part 3 more.

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[–] Anticorp 34 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I disagree with the Indiana Jones ratings. The third movie was better than the second, and possibly better than the first too.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Hmm for me 1 and 3 are about equal (both fantastic), but 2 is my least favourite.

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Awman, I didn't think matrix 2 and 3 where that bad.
I remember enjoying them.

[–] Allonzee 13 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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.

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[–] nieminen 11 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Don't understand why people dislike those movies so much. Even enjoyed the 4th one.

[–] Anticorp 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

They didn't deliver on the promises that Neo made at the end of the first movie. They're quite different than the first film. The 4th one was an obvious cash grab by the studios. The Wachowskis didn't want to make the movie, and they straight-up tell the audience in the movie that they were forced to do it, or let someone else do it.

[–] BeMoreCareful 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The fourth was sort of hilarious on that point. HERE'S YOUR STUPID MOVIE! I'd have been pissed if I was expecting something different, but I laughed my ass off.

[–] Anticorp 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I wasn't expecting much of anything with the movie. I only watched it because it was free, and I was curious. The messaging about cash grabs, licensing, and lack of style were my favorite parts of the movie. It's just a shame that it exists and somewhat tarnishes the rest of the movies.

[–] BeMoreCareful 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yeah, but you did get to see an angry director have some corporate movie executives write her a check to tell them to fuck themselves in a pretty definitive manner.

That made me kind of happy, it was a relentless torrent of hate, but it seemed like it was aimed in the right direction.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago

I don't agree with most of those.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago

The bars for the LOTR trilogy are only that scale because of how long the movies are.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

In what world is die hard 3 worse than die hard 2. It’s arguably tied with die hard 1 as the best one.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

1st is at the top. 2nd is at the two thirds mark. 3rd is overflowing with a vangence!

[–] MegaUltraChicken 17 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Blade is definitely better than Blade 2 IMO.

I might pick Die Hard 3 over 2 as well, but it's been a bit since I saw 2.

[–] ChicoSuave 12 points 1 month ago

Die Hard 3 is commonly thought of as one of the good ones. The other one is DH1.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

DH2 isn’t very memorable outside of ~2 key moments.

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[–] Anamnesis 17 points 1 month ago (2 children)

LOTR is the same as star wars. First one is 95%, second is 100%, third is 80%. Way too much climbing and whining in the third one.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago (5 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (3 children)

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 worse 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.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

I must protest this mistreatment of spiderman 3

[–] PapaStevesy 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

1! = 1

I'm disappointed.

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[–] grue 14 points 1 month ago (8 children)

Back to the Future is, as a whole, the best trilogy on this list.

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[–] njm1314 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Strong disagree on Back to the Future. The last one's probably the best one

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[–] Mango 12 points 1 month ago

This is bait.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Terminator is a strange one. Cooked with the first movie, second one is somehow even better and then the third one is absolute ass.

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[–] deus 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I can't wait for Dune 3. If Villeneuve sticks the landing his trilogy will become for Sci-fi what LotR is for fantasy.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Last Crusade is better than Raiders. Fight me.

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[–] Jackcooper 10 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Two towers is the weak link

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

...yeah, no...

[–] whotookkarl 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Kinda telling how many of these are Spielberg, movie making beast

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Cruelly overlooked: getting Tremors 1, 2, 3 and Highlander 1, 2, 3 onto this chart.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

I know it doesn't fit the trilogy thing, but you left out the best Rocky movie: Rocky IV.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Personally I enjoyed matrix 3 more than 2.

The Star Wars one could also apply to the sequels, keep the proportion but maybe lower by half? Ep. 8 certainly was the least bad.

[–] chonglibloodsport 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

A lot of those crappy trilogies were not written all at once the way LOTR was. The more common case of writing follow-ups to cash in on the popularity of the original is a time-honoured way to make money while producing derivative garbage.

I feel like we need a different word to separate those “cash grab” trilogies from proper multi-part stories like LOTR.

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[–] disguy_ovahea 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

I love all three Godfather movies.

The Godfather, The Godfather II Part 1, and The Godfather II Part 2

That other one doesn’t exist as far as I’m concerned.

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