re: Best Film Trilogy

I will say that the Bourne Trilogy is one of the more consistently good trilogies there is.... but come on! Did it ever remotely reach the heights of the other trilogies? Vader and Luke's showdown in Empire? Gandalf facing down the Balrog? The Incinerator Scene? The Showdown in the Graveyard? All of these scenes are masterful (and note all these trilogies I just listed have multiple masterful scenes), and I can't think of a scene in Bourne I would classify as simply incredible.

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Star Wars... first 2 great, Return blew
Indiana Jones, First one great, second one mailed in, Crusade = Awesome

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Agree with these two, although I did very much love the Throne Room scene in RotJ. It was a sign of things to come since Lucas finally got complete creative freedom with the franchise for the first time. Han was supposed to die originally, but he changed it because he was concerned that it would negatively impact Han Solo merchandise sales if he did it. Thats what kind of a frick George Lucas is. If you have read the original outline for RotJ that Irvin Kershner and the other writers had in mind for the final installment, it will make you want to pull all the hair out of your head in anger. The ONLY thing he kept in the original outline was the Throne Room scene, which not ironically was the only great part of the film.