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re: Is Lord of the Rings a candidate for GOAT Trilogy
Posted on 1/22/18 at 9:13 am to ElectricWizard0
Posted on 1/22/18 at 9:13 am to ElectricWizard0
One trilogy to rule them all, one trilogy to find them, One trilogy to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.
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Posted on 1/22/18 at 9:14 am to ElectricWizard0
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Posted on 1/22/18 at 9:20 am to craigbiggio
I'll give you LoTR is the GOAT trilogy if we can all agree that The Hobbit trilogy didn't need to be made. The Hobbit is a children's book ffs.
Posted on 1/22/18 at 9:21 am to Ham Solo
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Having said that, it's almost always the 3rd one that screws it up.
the LOTR trilogy doesn't avoid this. ROTK wasn't that good
Posted on 1/22/18 at 9:26 am to BitBuster
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I'll give you LoTR is the GOAT trilogy if we can all agree that The Hobbit trilogy didn't need to be made. The Hobbit is a children's book ffs.
I won't say it shouldn't have been made. It should have only been one movie, though.
Posted on 1/22/18 at 9:30 am to Volvagia
LOTR is an epic. So just by nature it has an advantage. Most other trilogies are contained to just their few characters and a few settings. LOTR literally had the entire tolkein universe. Hundreds of characters, dozens of locations. Just to match that with anything would be close to impossible. The only thing that could come close to that in terms of world building thats just as popular would be Star Wars or Game of Thrones. Both of which are obviously not trilogies so they wouldn't be eligible here.
Posted on 1/22/18 at 9:33 am to jlovel7
I will put the recent Planet of the Apes trilogy against anything.
This post was edited on 1/22/18 at 9:48 am
Posted on 1/22/18 at 9:38 am to BitBuster
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I'll give you LoTR is the GOAT trilogy if we can all agree that The Hobbit trilogy didn't need to be made. The Hobbit is a children's book ffs.
Disagree. They needed to make the Hobbit movie. They just needed to not frick it up so bad.
Posted on 1/22/18 at 9:49 am to Aubie Spr96
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They needed to make the Hobbit movie. They just needed to not frick it up so bad.
Agree. They knew they had a cash cow and mailed it in. Could have been great if it had been given the same care as LOTR.
Posted on 1/22/18 at 10:23 am to jlovel7
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LOTR is an epic. So just by nature it has an advantage. Most other trilogies are contained to just their few characters and a few settings. LOTR literally had the entire tolkein universe. Hundreds of characters, dozens of locations. Just to match that with anything would be close to impossible. The only thing that could come close to that in terms of world building thats just as popular would be Star Wars or Game of Thrones. Both of which are obviously not trilogies so they wouldn't be eligible here.
I think the advantage is that it lays out a nearly impossible task in the first movie, and takes the rest of the trilogy to fulfill this. There's one driving plot point throughout the entire series, even if there are other stories that develop in each movie to make that happen. With a lot of other trilogies, there's usually a different story for each movie
Posted on 1/22/18 at 10:38 am to BitBuster
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'll give you LoTR is the GOAT trilogy if we can all agree that The Hobbit trilogy didn't need to be made. The Hobbit is a children's book ffs.
That entire thing was an abortion of a trilogy. I honestly did not believe peter Jackson could have done so poor of a job. Loved the book, hated everything about the movies
Posted on 1/22/18 at 10:46 am to ElectricWizard0
WHen the hell was Fellowship added to Netlix?
Posted on 1/22/18 at 10:46 am to devils1854
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Cornetto Trilogy
Also in the running if you consider it an actual trilogy.
Posted on 1/22/18 at 10:51 am to ElectricWizard0
Want to feel old?
There will be kids graduating high school next year that were not alive when the 1st movie came out....
There will be kids graduating high school next year that were not alive when the 1st movie came out....
Posted on 1/22/18 at 10:57 am to ElectricWizard0
Didn't we just have this thread?
Posted on 1/22/18 at 10:58 am to biglego
I would suggest that Star Wars the OT and LOTR is the best movie trilogies. For all those who complain about EWOKS in the first one, I will remind you that Tolkien had talking and walking trees and hobbits. Not sure there is much difference there.
Posted on 1/22/18 at 10:59 am to SlowFlowPro
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ROTK wasn't that good
You're wrong about it not being good but it was the weakest of the three films due to two major flaws. 1) Revealing that the Rider of Rohan that picked up Merry was Eowyn instead of waiting to reveal that it was a woman until the Witch King of Angmar taunted her about not being able to kill him because "no living man" may kill him. 2) Whatever the heck that dumb subplot was with Aragorn being attacked by the wargs and falling off a cliff into a river. I would listen to an argument that the ghost army destroying the forces of Sauron in the siege of Gondor is a pretty big flaw but I'm willing to let that one slide because it didn't really change that much about the story.
Posted on 1/22/18 at 11:11 am to Volvagia
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Its not a candidate.
You are flatout hard pressed to find a challenger.
Posted on 1/22/18 at 11:47 am to SG_Geaux
Of course its a contender.
I'd go Indiana Jones and of course Star Wars has cultural cachet. My tastes are a bit towards some smaller trilogies: the Evil Dead, Trois Coleurs, and the Before series by Linklater.
I loved the Cornetto trilogy answer. Pretty great stuff.
I'd go Indiana Jones and of course Star Wars has cultural cachet. My tastes are a bit towards some smaller trilogies: the Evil Dead, Trois Coleurs, and the Before series by Linklater.
I loved the Cornetto trilogy answer. Pretty great stuff.
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