is there any trilogy that DOESN'T follow this pattern?

Quite a few but they don't pander to the videogame sensibilities so you probably won't like them

Mad Max
LOTR
Three Colors

Dollars Trilogy

>>84849639
>me on the right

>>84849639
A lot of trilogies have the second movie as the best one. Star Wars, Raimi Spiderman, Evil Dead, Mad Max

>>84849639
Star Wars OT

>>84849639
Spider Man 1 = 2
Spider Man 2 = 1
Spider Man 3 = 3?

I only watched 3 once, years ago.

Apes and LOTR off the top of my head.

>>84849734
>ESB
pfft

>>84849687
>>84849738
lotr and starwars are like the quintaessencial example of op syndrome

Terminator
Alien

>>84849734
>Star Wars

pleb

>>84849898
LOTR does. Watch them again. The first movie is much better than the second, and the third movie is a mess. They're still good movies but relative to each other the difference is quality is apparent.

I remember when this happened. How did they manage to fuck that painting up so bad? Literally I could have done a better job. That was a hundred year old painting too.

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>>84850098
>I think five movies means a trilogy

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dolar trilogy

>>84849734
>Mad Max
Hello pleb

>>84850465
Yep, they improved with the size of the budget

>>84850338
One of the worst opinions I've ever seen. The LoTR movies are like 99/98.5/99 out of 100, there's no discernible difference in quality between them. The events taking place in the plot might vary in appeal to different people, but there's essentially zero difference in actual quality between the movies.

>>84849987
>lotr and starwars are like the quintessential [sic] examples [sic] of op syndrome
ESB is objectively great, though. It's as good if not better than ANH.

>>84850376

A batty old lady with no training/permission did it.

Later on she tried to copyright her fuckery, lol

>>84849987
Return of the King is a flawless movie though

>>84850659
No.

>>84850601

the Two Towers gets really boring halfway in, it seriously drags and is the only one of the movies where the theatrical cut is superior to the extended cut

>>84850721

oops, meant for >>84850545

>>84849639

TDK trilogy

>>84850545
>The LoTR movies are like 99/98.5/99 out of 100, there's no discernible difference in quality between them.
ultrapleb spotted. fellowship was the only masterpiece, it was scaled perfectly and did almost everything right (except the river scene, it was shit). the next two movies were CGI armies charging at each other along with many questionable departures from the book and the shitty gollum CGI.

>>84850338
>the third movie is a mess
Contrarian retard detected

>>84850545
All three are equally boring and terrible

>>84849639
Nr.1 Great

Nr.2 Gritty Continuation

Nr.3 Caricature of its former self.

Star wars, mad max, lotr, Godfather, Terminator, Indiana Jones, Spiderman, Evil Dead.

I hope they fucking gassed that old bitty

>>84851378
>cgi armies charging at each other

nigger did you get LotR confused with the Hobbit? because besides a few overhead shots (that would have been impossible to film with extras) the CGI armies are kept to a minimum and most of the troops are real extras in armor.

>muh books
>Gollum CGI is bad

If you get the opportunity you should kill yourself

>>84850678
Objectively wrong.

This pattern applies for reboots

>>84853841
No. Not with Jackson's edits and additions.

Trails of Cold Steel

>>84850545
Pleb detected

>>84851793
Most everyone agrees that the third movie is a poorly paced hodgepodge of bad breaks from the books and shitty CGI. It is you who is the contrarian faggot.

>>84849639
The original Bourne trilogy.

>>84854150
the image should be reversed in that case

>>84853820
Lolwhat?

They were praised for their rendering program that was able to procedually generate unique combatants in large scale war scenes, which make up like half of the second movie.

>would have been impossible to film with extras
Spartacus laughs at you.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgywD3XJaWU

LOTR's only kino is Fellowship. Two Towers is just a movie. Return King is a fucking flick.

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The Lord of the Rings trilogy is like:
I = 8/10
II = 7/10
III = 6 /10
... if you haven't read the books.

if you did, it's an overall 6/10.

>>84854302
Best post ITT desu

>>84854302
>if you did, it's an overall 6/10.
Nah, Fellowship would be 10/10.

>>84853748
why?

the original painting itself was unremarkable and the amount of fame and success the town garnered after the botched restoration job was ultimately better than any good attempt

>>84854302
As an adaptation it has its ups and downs but overall it captures the story quite well

>>84849639
Alien

>>84850659
Nope

>>84850659
That's fake news

>>84854244
This. People only like Return of the King because of muh resolution and muh shitty CGI armys

>>84849639
Star Wars.

Considering the 2nd one is the best.

>>84853367
Evil Dead,Spiderman,Terminator fit perfectly

Toy Story.
Since 2 was the best.

>>84854129

All the films were filmed simultaneously with scenes for the different films captured over 8 years so idea that the quality slips across the films is nonsense.

Critics that say make the claim reveal themselves to be contarian "I'm getting hints of oak" faux wine tasters of the cinema world.

>>84854468
I felt that it only re-told the story in a very superficial way and focused on the less interesting elements while omitting other more interesting ones completely.

Like how they went out of their way to minimize unfamiliar and unexplained characters and references while the books did the exact opposite which made the world feel so much more vivid and mysterious.

Or how they turned Aragorn into a tragic, doubt-ridden figure while in the books he was more of a confident, beowulfian hero archetype, which many people today would find strange since we're so wary of totalitarian leader figures now.

The whole point of the lengthy Shire sequence is to make you identifiy with the ordinary hobbits who, like the viewer, are unfamiliar with this vast fantasy world, so the fantastical elements can shine all the brighter.

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Cornetto Trilogy.

SotD=2
HF=1
TWE=3

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>>84854129
>Most everyone agrees that the third movie is a poorly paced hodgepodge of bad breaks from the books and shitty CGI

>>84850721
lol no watched TT in the cinema when I was 11 and didn't get bored for a second.

>>84854757
Quality can slip within a single film you fucking retard.

>>84850659
True.

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>>84850098
>Even considering any alien movie except the first and Aliens

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>>84849639

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What bout this

>>84851378
Gollum wasn't shitty tho

In my opinion LOTR doesn't do this. I know people pretend Fellowship is the best one, but it doesn't have a satisfying final act the way The Two Towers had. Return of the King had some amazing moments as well.

Guess it all depends on what you enjoy most. Fellowship is great for characters, comfy adventure etc. Two Towers and RotK had much better and grander action scenes, as well as many emotional scenes which pay off in a way that could only have been achieved by all the setting up that the first two films did.

Pirates of the Caribbean completely follow OP's pattern though, if you count the first three as a trilogy.

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>>84854777

>>84849639
Toy Story, Cornetto, Police Academy, Die hard.

Die Hard is the masterpiece for 1 and 3 and the shit for 2

>>84854931
Why wasn't it called Oldboys Vengeance though?

>>84854853

But that's not what's being said, what's being implied is a slipping of quality due to the sequals syndrome, which LOTR doesn't have.

>>84854887
The third is better than the second.

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>>84855026
Dunno.
It's pretty revengy, thats no denying that.

>>84855026
Because it wasn't intended as a trilogy at that point and just a mangoo adaption

>>84849793
3 was the best you pleb.

>>84855084
Really now..

>>84855283
No.

>>84854757
>I'm getting hints of oak" faux wine tasters
If a food is kept in oak barrels you can get oak taste you fucking moran

>>84854764
>I felt that it only re-told the story in a very superficial way and focused on the less interesting elements while omitting other more interesting ones completely.
My point is that it captured the basic story. There is no way, at all, to capture the depth of the LoTR in the time a movie format. It would take way too much time.

So they skipped some stories here, skimmed over characters there, and focused on the adventure itself.

>>84855456
First one focused on the adventure. The latter ones focused on boring CGI battles which is why they suck.

>>84853367
>indiana jones
shut your fucking mouth

>>84855499
>boring CGI battles
Hold on there, Two Towers had much more tangible battling than CGI battling. It was RoTK that had the big battle as CGI and they had to for most of its scope. How could you get animal tamers for [Elephants] to do any of that shit?

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>>84855499
>No Barrow-Downs
Just cause of this, the fellowship loses a lot..
But I have to agree. For me Moria is better than Helm's Deep and Minas Tirith.

Blade breaks your thread, OP

First one was solid, second was a cluttered mess, and Trinity went back to the basics and just added some budget

>>84855638
Moria is indeed way better than Helm's Deepthroat and Anus Tearith, in no small part because it has the entire Fellowship and Gandalf the Grey but also because it is horror kino.

>>84855384

>Here's two wines
>One's cheap shit, the others aged fine wine from darkest france
>"Oh yes, with the second I'm clearly getting a hint of red berry."
>Lol sorry they're both the shit brand
>"REEEEEEEEEEEEE"

Like clockwork lad.

>>84849639
Austin Powers. Also The Matrix is the the first Jesus and its sequels are the last Jesus twice.

>>84850545
Total pleb. Fellowship is a self-contained masterpiece. RotK, whilst still great, is bloated and lacks the narrative thrust of the first one.

>>84855777
That doesn't mean 2 Buck Chuck tastes as good as decent wine. Price has nothing to do with taste, taste has everything to do with taste.

>>84855713
Yet another pleb opinion. Blade II is the best of the trilogy, despite its awkward CGI.

Tolkein himself said that some people liked parts of LoTR that other people hated, and vice versa. For me, that part that I like that other people hated was the Hobbit trilogy.

Just kidding, the Hobbit trilogy is fucking terrible as a movie and an objectively bad adaptation of the book. So much shit is in that trilogy that should not exist, and so much shit is not in that trilogy that should be in it.

>>84849639
Trilogies that fit OP's image:
>Star Wars OT
>The Matrix
>LOTR
>The Hobbit
>Back to the Future
>The Exorcist
Trilogies that don't fit OP's image:
>Star Wars PT
>prime Indiana Jones
>Daniel Craig's Bond's Vesper Lynd trilogy
>Sergio Leone's Dollars trilogy
>Austin Powers

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>>84849734
>Star Wars
redditor detected

>>84855940
The Necromancer storyline in The Hobbit actually comes from the Silmarillion

>>84856120
Prequel Star Wars fits it better than the original.

is this supposed to be 1>3>2? cause 2 looks way better than 3 there

>>84855934
Yeah man, I've never seen an antihero protagonist join up with a defecting or otherwise resistant member of an antagonist group who just happens to be of the opposite gender and ultimately dies just before the hetero-normative mushy shit can set in.

Definitely went for originality too when the repressed and oppressed population with no real backstory suddenly rises up just long enough to be wiped out completely.

Speaking of that uprising, kudos to the character development for making the main bad guy's personality a caricature of a sorta dickish father. That definitely hasn't been worn out for centuries.

The CGI definitely had its fair share of cringe, but at least that's something the blind won't have to endure.

>>84849639
TMNT2 edges out TMNT1 in my book.

but only just, I loved April's narrative touch in 1

>>84849734
This guy is right, despite all the obvious contrarians.

>>84851378
>he rates a movie based on how closely it gets the source material

hello plebbit

>>84856195
I'm not saying that Gandalf vs. Necromancer scenes don't belong in the Hobbit trilogy, but the run time could have been cut down by not having it while still leaving the Hobbit story intact. Just have Gandalf fuck off after Beorn and return for the Arkenstone deal. That being said, it's better to keep those scenes and cut out shit like the barrel-rider battle. That was obscene.

Also, the movies should have had more focus on Bilbo. They focused way too much on Thorin and his concocted revenge story against "Azog the Defiler".

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>>84849925
>>84850294
>>84856162
Kek. wew.

>>84856195
Ever watched just those scenes that don't belong in the hobbit storyline? Seriously. I tried watching the movies avoiding all the dwarves shit. The result was pretty bearable

Ninja Turtles = pretty great, never should have worked
Ninja Turtles 2: Secret of the ooze = still enjoyable, but lacks the grit that made the first one so great
Ninja Turtles 3:..... fuck off

What about baitman trilogy?

>>84854931
3>2>1

>>84856891
Has there been a (book) fan edit yet? I know some things are unfixable, like Fili and Kili defending Thorin to their death in the Battle of the Five Armies, but most of the story should still be salvageable from that bloated mess of a trilogy.

>>84857429
Don't know any, but would be appreciated.
Still don't understand how Jackson thought was a good idea to stretch a normal lenght book into three movies, totally unnecessary.
Bloated mess is the right term.

>>84857609
He was off his rocker. It should have been two movies, one to cover everything up to Mirkwood and one to cover everything after Mirkwood. And let me correct myself, but I think I do remember my spoiler'd section happening in the movies. It was just in a different location.

But the dwarf and elf romance? Shit a brick, that was so fucking dumb.

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>>84857609
>Still don't understand how Jackson thought was a good idea to stretch a normal lenght book into three movies, totally unnecessary.
Probably the exec's idea.

>>84857609
Hobbit isn't even normal length, it's a short children's book.

>>84857898
It's 300 pages long and is quite full of detail. It's definitely not a "short" book.

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Any hope left?

>>84849639
Sure I.

2, 1, 3. 3 is actually a lot better than people give it credit for, it just had no chance at beating 2.

>>84855777
There are definitely people who would fuck up on which wine is better, but taste is taste. You're not going to fool someone by putting the same wine in each glass. They might lie to their colleagues in a social setting.

>>84854302
really shit opinion you have there

>>84859021
Shrek*

>>84859661
That's a case where the animation got better and they actually developed the story a little more but I agree 2,1,3. I think that LoTR goes 1.3.2. Now Home Alone I could say that maybe 2,1,3 but 1,2,3 is a possibility.

>>84849639
yeah

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>>84849717
bing bang bong

>>84859461
'Cept they've actually done that trick before. Same wine but served out of different bottles, they totally fuckin blew it.

>>84849793
Spiderman 2 was amazing.

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Oceans 13 wasn't that bad desu

>you felt it too?

>>84854338
Nah

>>84854302
I've read the books and love the movies. It would have been impossible to fit everything in, so a lot of the changes were warranted. Not mentioning the Merry's blade was wraith kryptonite because MAH STRONK WOMYN was pretty bullshit though, the Hobbits deserved more credit.

the new Planet of the apes trilogy

>>84855039
No, what was being said is that RotK is a mess.

This board has the shittiest opinions on TT and RTK. Literally just a Fellowship circlejerk echo chamber.