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Last Crusade is better than Raiders. Fight me.
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 work 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.
Most people think Spider-Man 2 is the high point of that series, and sometimes superhero movies as a genre. I think they got that one right.
I'm one of them, I'm just saying it's a closer call between Spider-Man 1 & 2 than this chart denotes.
(And Spider-Man 3 is not that bad.)
The Road Warrior was also way better than Beyond Thunderdome.
Strong disagree on Back to the Future. The last one's probably the best one
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You are insane. The first two are good, the third one is pretty bad and better replaced by the telltale game story.
Two towers is the weak link
Bizarre take it's def better than the third movie and I prefer it to the first
Well, after those Orcs flew those two Fell Beasts into them...
#PintsCantMeltCastleWalls
In what world is die hard 3 worse than die hard 2. It’s arguably tied with die hard 1 as the best one.
1st is at the top. 2nd is at the two thirds mark. 3rd is overflowing with a vangence!
Terminator is a strange one. Cooked with the first movie, second one is somehow even better and then the third one is absolute ass.
Same with the godfather films.
...yeah, no...
Back to the Future is, as a whole, the best trilogy on this list.
I'm a bttf super fan to a degree but even I acknowledge the third movie is very weak and better replaced by the telltale game
When excluding LotR
Nope, including the LotR movies. I will die on this hill.
Specifically, Robert Zemeckis > Peter Jackson. the BttF trilogy was masterfully executed with great plot, pacing, and incredible attention to detail (down to things like e.g. "Twin Pines Mall" becoming "Lone Pine Mall" because Marty ran over one of Old Man Peabody's pines). Meanwhile, Peter Jackson couldn't even figure out how to get major plot points like the Scouring of the Shire to work, let alone Tom Bombadil.
Together, we will defend this hill until we slay every last orc, mage, rohirrim, man, elf, big footed people, walking trees (are they triffids?), beast of hell, dragons and what have you.
WE ARE DARTH VADER, FROM THE PLANET VULCAN. WE ARE ARMED WITH WALKMANS FULLY LOADED WITH SOLID VANHALEN SLUGS.
And we have a full case of stolen plutonium by our side. It shouldn't be that hard.
Scouring of the Shire deserves to cut from the films. Imagine after we said our goodbyes, we get another short movie added on at the end.
Theres a reason why everyone remembers the Godzilla short film at the end of Jurrasic Park 2
My brother in Manwe, you kind of lost some credibility calling Tom Bombadil a major plot point.
No, you misunderstood. "Not even X, let alone Y" is just as much about differences in magnitude as it is similarities in kind:
Meanwhile, Peter Jackson couldn't even figure out how to get major plot points like the Scouring of the Shire to work, let alone [minor ones like] Tom Bombadil.
be that as it may, even “Scouring…” would have been a bad choice to include in RoTK. The ending is already way too long. I would have loved it as fan service, but from the perspective of film making cutting it was the right choice.
Awman, I didn't think matrix 2 and 3 where that bad.
I remember enjoying them.
I think Matrix Reloaded would be improved greatly by leaving out the Rave Zion Dance Party.
Low point.
They made viewers work to understand. Viewers largely rejected that.
Which has led us, irrevocably, to spoon fed trash that plays to the dumbest person in the audience.
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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.
The first one didn't age all that well. My teenagers can't finish it. T2 on the other hand..
Arnold is on his peak here though. He is very very scary. His expression(or better: lack of) , his body language..
And the police station scene is forever etched in my memory.
I also don't get the hate for T3. Sure, it has some cheesy humour and the plot isn't amazing but it's a very solid action movie.
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Indiana Jones 3 is as good, if not better, than any other movie in the series.
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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.
Sure, but it is also the medium's responsibility to help the audience understand.
That's true, but I'd argue that the more personal that any art is, the fewer people who will instantly understand their meaning.
Think about it like this, if you were watching a movie in a language you don't speak (without subtitles), you could still enjoy a lot of it, but might not be able to fully follow the story. But, the story is still there if you know how to hear it. Sometimes you just need someone else to help translate.
My only real gripe with the matrix trilogy is where Neo can “see” agent smith in Bane’s body and “see” all the machines at the machine city. It didn’t need that over the top messiah thing when he was already the messiah simply because of his power within the matrix.
And if the idea is “the real world is also a simulation, made to convince humans they were free” it sort of goes against all the monologuing that smith and the architect do about how humans rebelled against versions of the matrix in which they were free
That's explained in the video. Neo can see the machines because he communed with the Source.
Sure but that’s a massive leap. Whereas most tech in the movie is based on a sense of “hard” sci fi to an extent, and they spend so much time with exposition on “why” something happens, neo just grows a 5ghz WiFi card in his head. And if that hardware is in every human’s head already, why is it never used for any purpose? And if it’s not cybernetic, it’s even a bigger leap because his brain tissue was rewritten to be a big antenna
being explained doesn't make it good. i don't hate it because i'm too stupid to get it, i hate it because it's dumb and it sucks.
Eh, the subtext in 2 and 3 is neat but the first movie is by far the best. It sets up a premise and concludes it beautifully and doesn't get too big for its britches. I still enjoy some of the over the top moments from 2 and 3 but there's definitely a leap and I'm not sure the pay off is as good as the first film.
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Back to the Future 3 is nowhere near on par with 2.
This is some ragebait right here
Agreed, the third movie is kinda meh but have you played the telltale game? That for me is now the third movie
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