Here is something put together by blogger Dan Meth over at his website that visualizes his enjoyment of each film in their respective trilogies in the form of bar graphs.
Dan comments on the inevitable disagreements and preemptively responds to any backlash by saying, "I know other movie geeks are going to have disagreements and that’s fine. And yes, I know some of these movies went more than 3 sequels, but none were ever meant to. These are rated purely on my enjoyment level on each film and nothing else. Frankly I’m surprised by how many sequels were better than the original. And I’m not surprised that the 3rd movie is never the best."
And so, here are my discrepancies with the chart stated in a declarative manner but not meant to be written as facts (but they probably are *wink*):
- Temple of Doom is definitely not better than Last Crusade
- The Matrix: Reloaded is not THAT bad of film at all. Reloaded and Revolutions get lumped together in poor quality, but Reloaded set up for an awesome conclusion and Revolutions ruined it all.
- Why is Jurassic Park so low? That film has most certainly held up over the past 16 years, especially in the visual effects department
- Die Hard with a Vengeance is much more fun and feels more like part of a trilogy than Die Hard 2 does.
- Rambo: First Blood is overrated and not even on the same playing field as the equally leveled Star Wars
- The Godfather Part III is bad but not worse than Spider-Man 3 in any capacity whatsoever.
Labels: Die Hard, Editorial, Indiana Jones, Jurassic Park, Rambo, Star Wars, The Godfather, The Matrix, Trilogy Meter
