Less-Than-Popular Movie Trilogies

[Tosk]

Mmm, just trying to think of some that I love other than Star Wars or Back to the Future...

Evil Dead (Not unpopular, but doesn't get mentioned as a trilogy a lot.)
Spider-Man (I'm counting this because a lot of people hate Spidey 3 and I do not.)
John Carpenter's Unofficial Apocalypse Trilogy (The Thing, Prince of Darkness, In The Mouth of Madness.)
Austin Powers.
...Iron Man?

 

[Greg Cox]

Mmm, just trying to think of some that I love other than Star Wars or Back to the Future...

You know, I had completely forgotten about BACK TO THE FUTURE being a trilogy.

(Slaps head.)

 

[cardinal biggles]

Niiiiiiicccce. But also, daaaaammn, cos I ain't got the money for that shit. Even if it is HD-Delpy!

Not sure where you live, but a couple times a year Barnes & Noble does a 50% off Criterion sale. That's usually when I get mine.

 

[Tosk]

You know, I had completely forgotten about BACK TO THE FUTURE being a trilogy.

(Slaps head.)

And unlike so many other well-regarded trilogies, has resisted the urge to add a fourth movie.

 

[DarrenTR1970]

How about the 'Naked Gun' trilogy, even though I don't like 33 1/3 as well as the first two.
Then there's 'Mad Max' if you think of the fourth as a alternate continuity.
Ooh one more - 'Major League' although I think everyone can agree the last two were terrible.
Edit to add the 'Psycho' movies if you don't count the made for tv movie 'The Beginning'.

 

[Trekkin]

I have a Fulci box-set that claims City of the Living Dead/The Beyond/The House by the Cemetary are a trilogy.

Sure they are, Mr Marketing Man.

Oh, and I'd only reccomend them for people with a high tolerance for gore and bad dubbing.

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

Smokey And The Bandit?

The first one was a classic. The second one got silly (what with the elephant and all). The third one didn't even have Burt outside of 5 minutes at the end).

 

[Awesome Possum]

The first three Hellraiser movies, everything afterwards is a bad dream.
Romero's Dead films, not including the ones he made later on.

 

[Smellmet]

And unlike so many other well-regarded trilogies, has resisted the urge to add a fourth movie.

The human race is done. Finished. If they ever think of doing another BTTF movie.

 

[Hugo Rune]

A few more foreign entries

Nicolas Winding Refn's Pusher Trilogy - for fans of crime/drug-lord films

Andrew Lau's Infernal Affairs Trilogy - for fans of, err, crime/mafia films

Chan Wook Park's Vengeance Trilogy (Sympathy for Mr Vengeance, Oldboy, Lady Vengeance) - for fans of amazing cinema and, of course, revenge

Hugo - 9 genuinely good films, 2 of which are straight up classics

 

[The Laughing Vulcan]

The human race is done. Finished. If they ever think of doing another BTTF movie.

Donald Trump's making a fourth Back to the Future Movie?

 

[dahj]

I would put the Lord of the Rings trilogy up there with Star Wars and The Godfather in terms of popularity. And possibly the Nolan BATMANS as well, although I'm biased in that respect.

I'm not sure I would put The Godfather on the same popularity level these days as those other three.
Probably the last generations when everyone saw those movies were people who grew up in times of VHS and local video stores, and when movies being on television was a big deal.
Since then... I'm sure millennials have heard of them, but I don't think that many have seen them.

(I'm basing this on highly scientific observation that there's no Godfather memes to be found anywhere on the internet, nor do I see people quoting those movies all over the place like those other trilogies)

 

[Smellmet]

The three Robert Langdon films. I don't think anyone has mentioned those.

 

[Kor]

Not sure where you live, but a couple times a year Barnes & Noble does a 50% off Criterion sale. That's usually when I get mine.

In my area, the sale goes through Nov 28th or so.

Kor

 

[Ensign_Redshirt]

I knew some twins of evil. The girl who had them was evil anyway.

The Beverly Hills Cop movies might count but I really didn't like the third one.

Nobody likes the third one.

 

[cardinal biggles]

In my area, the sale goes through Nov 28th or so.

Yes, and the sale doesn't extend to pre-orders. But they do the sale at least twice a year, and the next one will likely be sometime after Criterion releases the Before trilogy set, so it would be eligible then.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

The human race is done. Finished. If they ever think of doing another BTTF movie.

Michael J. Fox's health problems would almost certainly prevent that. And there's no way they'd do BTTF without him.

 

[Smellmet]

Michael J. Fox's health problems would almost certainly prevent that. And there's no way they'd do BTTF without him.

I was thinking more a remake. Like the slew of pointless ones we've had over the last decade, Point Break, Total Recall, Robocop etc. It's case of 'stop the world I wanna get off' if they pull that. I fully accept it wouldn't be the original cast. I guess I wasn't very clear in my post.

 

[Hugo Rune]

Thankfully the rights to BTTF are partially owned by Bob Gale and Rob Zemeckis (with a clause stating they both have to sign off on any future endeavours) and both have gone on record stating that there will never be a BTTF4 or remake in their lifetimes. Zemeckis has even gone as far as to try and figure out a way that, once he and Bob die, his estate will hold onto this ideal after he is in the ground

So, whether you think the trilogy is perfection, 2 good movies and a weird end, 1 classic and two alright ones, or three pointless pieces of trash, fear not, you should not see any more in your lifetime.

Hugo - until one money hungry weasel manages to find a loophole in their wills and sells the rights to FaceGoogle in 2035

 

[Asbo Zaprudder]

The good: Three Colours trilogy directed by Krzysztof Kieślowski: Blue, White, and Red, which symbolise the French revolutionary ideals of liberty, equality, and fraternity.

The bad: Dungeons & Dragons trilogy.

The ugly: <insert your own choice here>

Of course, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly itself was the third movie in the Dollars trilogy.

My favourite is the Toy Story trilogy.