The Trilogy Meter

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

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

This is some ragebait right here

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

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

I don't agree with most of those.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

I must protest this mistreatment of spiderman 3

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

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

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

This is bait.

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

Two towers is the weak link

Last Crusade is better than Raiders. Fight me.

...yeah, no...

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Mad max is wrong. While sequels...they are not even in the same space. The first one is good for its simplicity.

Whoa whoa whoa mad max 1 is the best of the three. Sure, the sequels have crazier worldbuilding and fancier visuals but the first is tight, well shot, and tells a good story well.

Since no one here is talking about the Jurassic Park trilogy, I'll go ahead and say my hot take. JP3 is way better than 2. And obviously the originals are all miles ahead of the Jurassic Worlds.

I totally forgot Blade is a trilogy

A lot of sequels aren't as good because the original director and writer (and maybe other staff) aren't involved. The original staff may have had a vision for the one movie, and when it's completed, they're not interested in making another one. So the studio that owns the copyright hands it to some newbies so they can get experience and do a low-budget cash-grab sequel.

Matrix is great all the way through. The problem is that a lot of people didn't understand the story. There's a good explainer on YouTube by Looper.

Is this counting films in trilogies, or the trilogies themselves?

Nice try... cant trick me into studying trilo-ology.

I would rank them similar to matrix on chart. Liked the 3rd matrix more than "listed" though.

Bro. Have you seen Fellowship of the Ring? It’s 3 hours of “Hey, could you schedule a meeting so we could nail down our deliverables and figure out a timeline?” And 30 minutes of “good meeting, everyone.”

Interesting choice not to include the Hobbit movies! I'd probably go 1>2>3, but all those bars would be appropriately hobbit-sized (sans ent-draught).

This is refreshingly accurate

All three of the Spider-Man originals were fucking horrific. Absolutely no where near good.

The Temple of Doom sucked. I'd rather watch Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.

Unpopular opinion: LOTR isn't that good.

The books yeah, the movies not so much.