The Trilogy Meter

I like how simple but straight to the point this graphic is by Dan Meth. What do you think? Do you agree with his assessment?

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Comment by Dan on March 3, 2009 at 1:28pm: oh one more thing...thunderdome sucked

Comment by Dan on March 3, 2009 at 1:26pm: Eh, Most of it is pretty good. Though the Rambo charts are pretty off (they all were awesome). Alien and Aliens where not even the same genre of movie, so comparing them head to head isn't possible (one is a thriller, the other is a strait action movie). Matrix was dead on. Die Hard was good...but Die hard 4 was better then 2....
Blade 1 was better then Blade 2. Terminator 3 was not THAT bad...and 1 was not that much worse then 2.
But my biggest problem is with the planet of the apes movies...WTF? First of there are 5 of them...not 3. Second off 1-4 are good films (hell they all have 6/10 or more on IMDB...last time i checked thats pretty good). 5 was a joke...but a damn good ride.

Comment by Speedo on February 24, 2009 at 2:10pm: he hit the matrix right on the spot!

Comment by Kara on February 24, 2009 at 10:34am: Blade Trinity was awesome- what the heck man?!

Comment by Duc on February 24, 2009 at 12:18am: @Pepsi - Are you sure about the 3rd Batman being better than the 2nd? Batman Returns (part 2) with Penguin and Catwoman was WAY better than Batman Forever (part 3) with Riddler and Two-Face.

Comment by Duc on February 24, 2009 at 12:13am: @Pepsi - This is what the guys says about the movies being more than a trilogy.

"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."

Comment by Pepsi Monster on February 24, 2009 at 12:03am: I think this chart is outdated.

Indiana Jones is a four parter now, Star Wars is six parts, Star Trek 4 is the best in that series, the 4th Die Hard is 2nd best, and Batman 3 is better than Batman 2.

LOTR's rating should cut in half. Other than that..... B minus for the charts.

Comment by E on February 23, 2009 at 11:58pm: No way 'Aliens' was better than 'Alien'! The lighting alone in that movie set a precedent for 20 years. The rest of the list was okey-dokey though...

Comment by PANDA JU on February 23, 2009 at 11:54pm: Agree with most of these, except for X-Men. But then again, I'd watch (and love) any X-Men movie. The next one drops May 1 woohoo!

Comment by Duc on February 23, 2009 at 2:11pm: @Kelsey - Maybe the second and third Rocky movies deserve to be a bit lower, but the first one was a pretty good movie. you couldn't get any better than a movie about an underdog, written by an underdog, Sylvester Stallone. It won an Oscar for Best Picture that year, so it's no slouch.