Favorite Film Series

[MessiahDecoy123]

1) MCU
2) Star Wars/Planet of the Apes
3) Predator/Indy (1-3)/Batman
4) Terminator (Cameron only)

 

[Kahran Ramsus]

Bond. James Bond.

 

[scatterax]

Ignoring prequels and KotCS my top 3 are

Star Wars
Lord of the Rings
Indiana Jones

The 3 most consistently good movie series, IMO are
MCU
TDKT
Back to the Future
Pirates of the Caribbean (I'm one of the few on these boards that liked every sequel)


There's so many good ones, like dollars, and terminator. It's hard to narrow them down.

 

[Lord]

I would add Harry Potter to the most consistently good film series, it's probably even the most of them all, i didn't realy like the 5th film much, but the HP movies have mostly been above average, aside from limited trilogies like The Man with no Name or Before, i don't think there's any franchise with such a strong track record. Even if Thor 2 and Iron Man 2 aren't considered slips, i don't think there has been a weaker HP film than either of those.

James Bond is the most enduring. The series can have a decade of sucky installments, and with a fresh actor and director, suddenly bounce back from the abyss.

Well, i've only watched the first 10 bond films beside the Craig ones, and from that timeline i have yet to see a better film that From Russia With Love, not counting Casino Royale and Skyfall of course.

Star Wars will never bounce back to its 'Empire Strikes Back' heights. The prequels were a series of soulless CGI-infused toy commercials, and I'm not exactly dying to see 70 year old Han and Leia in the new films either.

The same that applied to Bond can now apply to Star Wars, Empire strikes back was no Godfather, you still make more films close to that quality, and who knows? Maybe you can even surpass it, if not in the Episodic entries, then maybe in the spin-offs, seems like they're gonna stay for a while.

Pirates had only one good installment, its first.

Nolan's Batman trilogy was great, and I actually thought the Fast & Furious franchise was evolving into an interesting ensemble series before the death of Paul Walker.

Pirates has plenty of potential, if even something as bad as the Fast & Furious movies can improve as a franchise, so can Pirates of the Caribbean.

 

[Erzengel]

Almost every movie can have potential though.

I'd rank at least 15, if not 20 series that I would put in front of Pirates because a lot of series have at least two consistent movies. The same reason why I don't put the Matrix in there because of how disappointed I was in the sequels.

I know this is "favorite" series and not best film series, but sometimes they do go hand and hand.

Saying something has potential doesn't fix the glaring issues in the movies released.

 

[Lord]

I was talking about the future of the franchise, and frankly, i rated it there also because i enjoyed most of the sequels, expecialy the 2nd one. It's favorite list, not best, they're not the best of films but they're some of the ones i enjoy the most, which is why it's in my list.

 

[Erzengel]

Thanks for repeating the 3rd part of my post.

But again, what future franchise doesn't have potential?

 

[Lord]

I still think that Pirates has much more potential than most other franchises, it helps also the fact that there realy isn't any other film of the Pirate genre around aside from a few exceptions.

 

[Erzengel]

I just don't see it. Johnny Depp as Jack Sparrow cannot carry a movie on his own. You're running out of famous pirates. Unless, Black Bart? Plus you have a Studio who's lazy and forced storytelling has plagued the last 3 films. Is 4 times the charm? So you're left with a creative team to come up with something either really original OR go back to the well again.

It may be the only Pirate movie around, but it's not necessarily a "good" franchise. Popular yes. But then again look at the Transformers series and I think that's all that Disney cares about with this particular series.

 

[scatterax]

Who says it has to use real pirates in its story? They could always go the way of long john silver, or Captain Hook as villains. Maybe some more sea gods.

 

[Erzengel]

They could, but the Pirates team hasn't been the most creative especially with their storylines. It's hard for me to see the Pirates franchise on the top of "most potential" when the last 3 movies have been bloated and underwhelming.

 

[scatterax]

4 was more barebones. And they did the fountain of youth. I liked 2 and 3. Davy Jones is as iconic as captain jack.

 

[Erzengel]

Visually stunning. Not iconic. There have been much better written villains especially when you get past the CGI over the past few years.

 

[Lord]

Visually stunning. Not iconic. There have been much better written villains especially when you get past the CGI over the past few years.

The Emperor from Star Wars wasn't exactly all that well written either, yet he's still iconic, it's just a mix of the look of a character along with his portrayal that makes him iconic. Same goes for witch of the west and so many others.

I just don't see it. Johnny Depp as Jack Sparrow cannot carry a movie on his own. You're running out of famous pirates. Unless, Black Bart? Plus you have a Studio who's lazy and forced storytelling has plagued the last 3 films. Is 4 times the charm? So you're left with a creative team to come up with something either really original OR go back to the well again.

It may be the only Pirate movie around, but it's not necessarily a "good" franchise. Popular yes. But then again look at the Transformers series and I think that's all that Disney cares about with this particular series.

You just have to use a bit of your imagination, the franchise centers around nautical lore, there's so much to take, even the pirate lords and privateers concept has more potential than what was done in the first movies, hell, One Piece had similar concepts and has been handling them much better. One of their problems is also that they've ended up having to put Jack as the face of the franchise instead of continuing to properly expand.

Here's some ideas i threw in the Pirates of the Caribbean 5 thread:

I honestly think that the way Dead Man's Chest went, except for the cliffhanger and incomplete story, is what they should aim for, as it gives an impressive amount of creativity and vastly expands the mythology, gives Jack Sparrow a lot of screen time, while still not making him the main event, and we get a memorable villain in Davy Jones, with the Kraken alone being worth the ticket of entrance. The first film is a classic, but when they tried to mimick its simplicity in the 4th film it just ended up feeling boring.

I do think it's a shame each PotC since the 3rd has been facing problems during Development that lead into it taking such a long time, as well as Johny Depp seemingly losing interest. Because with every new instalment, they open as many new possiblities as they close the main plot, the 4th film basically ended with Jack Sparrow getting an Armada of ships, while Barbossa got Blackbeard's ship and sword. Along with past plots and other nautical tales, there are infinite possibilities, the last film almost felt like another episode of an ongoing story.

Some of the ideas i like the most are

Jolly Roger:

Adamastor, a large humanoid being that used to sink ships in the Cape of Good Hope:

Trident of Poseidon:

Another real life pirate like Captain Kidd being adapted, and turning the conclave on its head, as he leads into some kind of Pirate civil war. Could be interesting to see more united crews and a real battle between armadas.

Conquistadores as the next big group, the last film gave the spanish a role, now it wouldn't be a bad idea to go all out and have the Portugues and Spanish Empires play the roles the East India Trading Company had during the first Trilogy.

Another idea could be an adventure to find the treasure of Jewels tat controls the winds Angelica mentioned in the end of OST, but it was most likelly a lie. Another idea i like but wouldn't be my first choice is to take from Lovecraftian mythos.

Just like Indiana Jones, i think that the possibilities for this adventure franchise are almost endless, if you don't see it, then i guess there's not much i can do for you except state my enjoyment of it.

 

[DA_Champion]

My favourite active series is the Hunger Games.

Of all time?

Star Wars, The Terminator, The Dark Knight.

 

[henzINNIT]

Raimi's Spider-Man is my favourite series, followed by X-Men and Terminator.

 

[Erzengel]

The Emperor from Star Wars wasn't exactly all that well written either, yet he's still iconic, it's just a mix of the look of a character along with his portrayal that makes him iconic. Same goes for witch of the west and so many others.

You don't need to tell a compelling backstory which is why when I hear iconic I do think of someone like the Wicked Witch of the West. You don't know how she became how she was (obviously prior to Wicked) just that she's illustrated as evil and there's nothing redeeming about her.

The problem you have posters who like to label "Iconic" with almost anything that's popular or cool. "OMG, Andrew Garfield is iconic as Spider-man." "Pirates is this generation's Star Wars." (I've actually read posters here say that.)

I don't agree that the Emperor wasn't well written especially since he's mentioned in ANH, seen in ESB and you finally seen in ROTJ. His backstory didn't need to be fleshed out like the Wicked Witch, there isn't anything redeeming about him.

However, the true iconic villain in Star Wars is Vader regardless if the Emperor was more evil with him.

Davy Jones I'll even admit had tremendous potential and done extremely well by Bill Nighy UNTIL they sidelined him in the 3rd movie, being controlled by the "bigger" villain, Beckitt who essentially shifts him from subplot to subplot. Davy Jones is thoroughly underused and the victim of lazy and forced storytelling.

Even over the past 10 years, villains such as Anton Chigurh in No Country for Old Men, or Hans Landa in Inglorious Bastards were better written villains. Or if you need to go into the fantasy realm, Lopez's Vidal, Fienes's Voldemort or Hiddleston's Loki, or Ledger's Joker those were extremely well written, something I think you even admit is lacking in the later Pirates movie.

You just have to use a bit of your imagination, the franchise centers around nautical lore, there's so much to take, even the pirate lords and privateers concept has more potential than what was done in the first movies, hell, One Piece had similar concepts and has been handling them much better. One of their problems is also that they've ended up having to put Jack as the face of the franchise instead of continuing to properly expand.

Here's some ideas i threw in the Pirates of the Caribbean 5 thread:

Just like Indiana Jones, i think that the possibilities for this adventure franchise are almost endless, if you don't see it, then i guess there's not much i can do for you except state my enjoyment of it.

It's a lot easier to talk potential but this series has constantly had very good ideas and then squandered them. Davy Jones, the Kraken, the Pirate Lords, even Calypso, and most recently Blackbeard.

Even if I would concede that there is so much potential and so many ways to go with the Pirates franchise, I have little faith in their creative team considering the last 3 movies I felt had poorly executed ideas.

 

[Lord]

Fair enough, though i don't particularly find Loki all that well written or interesting, he's improving, sure, but i do see a difference of opinions per country, in the USA he seems to be realy loved, but around here, all the critics pointed to the villain being the weakest aspect in the Avengers, and most people didn't seem to like him, i guess that cultural differences come into play here.

I actualy enjoyed the 2nd film a lot, it had various faults, but i don't feel like Davy Jones or the Kraken were wasted there. 3rd one was entertaining but an absolute mess, i completely agree, while the 4th was incredibly bland and besides the Mermaids, it didn't have anything to write home about.

I also agree about the creative team, i wish Disney would give it more quality control like they seem to be doing with Marvel and Star Wars, but i still get some enjoyment out of these films, even if they're not always good.

Voldemort was good, but considering his backstory, i still feel like more could have been done with him, his scenes as Tom Riddle are actualy more interesting than his run as Voldemort in some of the movies.

But what i want to come across is that my enjoyment for the film series is what makes me put it in there, and i expect the next films from that franchise to in least give me some kind of enjoyment and interesting concepts, even if only one or two are properly used, i simply like that universe and mythology a lot.

 

[Soapy]

Alien
Bond
The Fast and The Furious
Ghostbusters
Godzilla
Rocky
Star Trek
Star Wars

 

[antonydelfini]

1. Indiana Jones

Raiders 9.5/10
Temple 9/10
Crusade 8.5/10
Crystal Skull 8/10

2. Dollar Trilogy

Fistful 9.5/10
Few Dollars 9/10
Good Bad Ugly 10/10

3. Godfather

Part One 10/10
Part Two 10/10
Part Three 7/10

 

[Golgo-13]

Bond
Planet of the Apes

 

[HeyZeus]

The Matrix Trilogy

 

[The Dark Defender]

1. Middle Earth
2. ROCKY
3. RAMBO
4. Hannibal (if we're just going by the Hopkins trilogy anyway)
5. Millenium/Dragon Tattoo trilogy

 

[MessiahDecoy123]

Bond
Planet of the Apes

Oh snap! I forgot Planet of the Apes.

Editing my list now.

 

[GremlinZilla89]

I also forgot to Add Rocky to my initial list. Love those damn movies. Even the iffy entries.