Whaqt's your favorite movie series?

Whaqt\'s your favorite movie series?

Hi everyone,

I am just curious to here what movie series you like the most. Some are great and continue the life of the first, second, third ,etc. movies, but some are bad and destroy the story line of a great original.

My favorites are:

Jurassic Park (1,2, and 3)

Back to the Future (1,2, and 3)

James Bond (1 -21)

The Pink Panther (1-5)

Alien (1,and 2 (3,4 suck))


I'm especially into the JP series as of right now. I just love every one of them and could watch them all a hundred times in a row.

So, let's here it!!

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Star Trek series
Godzilla (both the old and the current Toho productions)
Dirty Harry
Mad Max (I hear stories of a new one coming)
Pink Panther, but only the ones before Peter Sellers died.

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Back to the Future. The original was the best because it had that sense of discovery and wonder to it.

*Edit, just thought of another one*

City Slickers - the underlying theme of the first episode speaks to me, and I just love the music.

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James Bond
Indiana Jones
Sphagetti Westerns
Shaft
Dolemite
Aliens

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Lethal Weapon's
Back to the Future's
LOTR's
Beverly Hills Cop 1&2 did not like 3 much
Terminator 's
Indiana Jones's
Rocky's
Kickboxer's
Bond movies
Not in any order I'm sure there's more
that should do for now.
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Lord of the Rings
Alien
Star Wars (The original three)
The Matrix
Terminator (didn't like nr.3)

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PhotonWrangler said:
Back to the Future. The original was the best because it had that sense of discovery and wonder to it.

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My favorite also!!


Now that I've seen the list I have to add a couple /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/blush.gif

I very much like the Indiana Jones and Lethal Weapon series as well. (Geez, I might as well like all of them /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif )

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matrix, with 3 sucking a lot, 2 sucking less, and 1 being kickass and new. a lot of firsts in that movie.

lock stock and 2 smoking barrels, snatch
terminator
james bond
austin powers
police academy
naked gun
back to the future
ocean's 11, 12

hmm, i'm probably forgetting the other half.

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star trek
star wars
terminator
JB 007
Lara croft
Indiana jones
matrix

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Dirty Harry
Pink Panther
Indiana Jones
Spaghetti Westerns (Clint Eastwood & Sergio Leone)
The Naked Gun

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Can you think of a movie series say with at least three movies where the last one was as good as the first? I can't.

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The only movies I can think of that are the third in a series that are pretty good is the third "Back To the Future" and the the third Star Trek movie. I didn't really like the third star trek movie but I don't think it was any worse or better than the others.

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I think one of the reasons for this is that the basic premise of the movie is sprung upon the viewer during the first episode. Sequels tend to be a re-hash of the original story in order to stay true to the theme, so that it qualifies as a sequel. To take BTTF as an example, the wonderment of the existince of a time machine is explored in the first movie; in the sequels, the novelty is partly gone because the Big Discovery has already been made, and now all they can do is juggle other, smaller stories around that.

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John Wayne's cavalry western movies directed by John Ford, especially Fort Apache, Rio Grande, and She Wore A Yellow Ribbon. Those are still worth a look.

Why not the Marx Brothers movies?

The old Thin Man movies were fun, too.

In the 70's there was Cotton Comes to Harlem, and Come Back, Charleston Blue, based on Chester Himes' books about two Harlem police -- Coffin Ed and Gravedigger Jones. Great fun.

Abbott & Costello films.

The Hope & Crosby Road films.

Then there were the Andy Hardy, the Ma & Pa Kettle, the Francis the Talking Mule, and the Three Stoges movies (not the short films), all of which were pretty terrible.

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geepondy said:
Can you think of a movie series say with at least three movies where the last one was as good as the first? I can't.

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A Fistfull of Dollars
For a Few Dollars More
The Good, The Bad and The Ugly

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geepondy said:
Can you think of a movie series say with at least three movies where the last one was as good as the first? I can't.

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Indiana Jones?

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Malpaso said:
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geepondy said:
Can you think of a movie series say with at least three movies where the last one was as good as the first? I can't.

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I concur, sir /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif

A Fistfull of Dollars
For a Few Dollars More
The Good, The Bad and The Ugly

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Nice choices, like the Star Trek and LOTR series.

At the top of my head are ones that were created by the same man, combining a bit of mythology in them; has anyone heard of Gregory Widen? He was the guy who wrote -

The Highlander (The first one with Sean Connery WAS the best, the rest was diminishing returns as well)

The Prophecy (was also a trilogy about murderous angels and Archangel Gabriel leading them but was forgiven in the end)