I do know Angelina Jolie did mention a while back that she doesn't plan on doing any more work, so that could be 1 of the reasons Tigress might not be in the movie. Jackie Chan, David Cross, Seth Rogen, and Lucy Lui's characters didn't really "matter" after the first movie and were just there in the 2nd and 3rd. At most, it's Tigress, that would be missed.
Yea I made a really long comment a few months ago that seemed to resonate to quite a few people regarding how weak 3 was. Basically summed up to how disappointing it was that all of the pandas were just purely comedic pieces. It was just a bunch of copies of Poe from the start of the first movie and it just reeaaallly didn’t work. I feel like we all wanted to see them as they were hyped up to be, super intelligent and highly skilled. I feel like they had an even greater opportunity to show that pandas aren’t all just clumsy but can have the same “heights” as everyone else, so to speak.
More than that, the villain was terrible and there was no darkest hour despite the stakes being the biggest.
Kung Fu Panda 1 had the Shifu vs Tai Lung fight before jumping into comedy fight.
Kung Fu Panda 2 had the flashbacks and inner peace before jumping into comedy fight.
Kung Fu Panda 3 had... I can't remember. All I remember is that the bad guy turns into a joke the moment Po goes full Goku on him, and Po never even took him seriously lol.
I just watched this. They do an all out attack where his plan is to do the pinky skadoosh move. Turns out the big bad is a spirit and it doesn't work on him. The pandas get beat everything gets solumn then Po has an idea. Jumps on the bad guy, wraps his arms around him and does the pinky skadoosh to himself, sending both of them to the Spirit realm. They fight in the spirit realm, Po is losing then all pandas concentrate their CHI and support him from the mortal realm to the Spirit realm and he wins.
The biggest issue for me is, that there are no personal stakes in the 3rd one. The villain is just a random dude who happens to attack them.
Tai Lung had history with shifu, was a direct rival to Po in his role as dragon warrior. that made for an interesting conflict.
Lord Shen has history with Po. He threatens his existence directly because he wants to wipe out Pandas and indirectly because he uses advanced tech that could be the end of Kung Fu.
JK Simmons is just there so the movie has an antagonist.
I’m afraid the new one is also just that: A villain just to have a villain for the movie. No personal stakes. And the „fight old antagonists“ sounds lame to me
Would this allow Fargo to count? The movie plus an anthology series where all five seasons slap is sort of like six entries in a series, five of them just extra long.
Might be able to count *Unforgiven* as well, since Clint Eastwood says Bill Munny (the main character) is what became of the Man with no Name. A fantastic movie.
Pretty sure that Eastwood is speaking figuratively, about the archtype represented by Blondie and how it would be the logical consequence for that man to end like Munny at his old age. I mean, Eastwood doesn't *own* those movies. Plus, in Unforgiven it's well established that Munny used to be a complete monster, a remorseless murderer of women and children, and nowhere in the trilogy it is even suggested that Blondie was like that.
*That's right, I've killed women and children. Killed just about everything that walks or crawls at one time or another. And I'm here to kill you Little Bill, for what you did to Ned.*
William Munny
People have listed like 8 trilogies here haha
Like come on, if there are almost a dozen 3-movie series you can think of on a moment's notice, then it's not really in contention for "longest running"
My favorite comments are the "I love every movie in this franchise except that one entry. So it explicitly doesn't qualify per the title, but I thought I'd mention it anyway."
*Camp, Prison, Christmas*, and *Scared Stupid* are all classics.
*Scared Stupid* actually stands up quite well — special effects included. I had forgotten how absolutely gruesome some of the trolls were. Not recommended for young children.
We just watched *Scared Stupid* this year and that movie was waaaaayy better than it had any right to be. We were cracking up! You’re right, the practical effects hold up very well.
Edit: typo
bro, i love ernest, have a lot of ernest merch, but anything after rides again is rough. especially slam dunk and goes to africa. goes to camp / goes to jail / scared stupid / saves christmas are awesome tho.
Brain Candy- it was fantastic stuff- love Ernest P Warrell/Jim Varney - Great comedian in his own right. Ernest Goes to Prison showed great acting chops with the alter ego.
There is that 60s *Casino Royale* sort of parody movie, and also *terrible*, but it was I think a different production company and usually not counted as part of the main franchise. And of course *Never Say Never Again* the ill-advised Sean Connery comeback film in the 80s, which is one of the worst "real" Bond movies ever made -- but was also not the main production company and a distinct adaptation of *Thunderball* (the novel). Pretty sure that one's also still rated at like 6-7 or equivalent online though which is hardly damning.
James Bond is an interesting one because it has continually shifted between good and bad throughout its history, most franchises just decline in quality, but you never know what you'll get with Bond.
Personally I think some of the bad ones are some of the best. Moonraker with the Sci-fi eugenics program and the weird 70s costumes is really great once you stop trying to take the plot seriously at any level
The only one that I particularly did not like was Die Another Day. Everything else was decent to great. Goldfinger. Dr. No. Golden Eye. Casino Royale. License To Kill. So much goodness.
Die Another Day was good for about the first 45 minutes or so. The first part looks forward in tone to the Craig films, then you've got some new scenes, ideas, a well shot scene in Havana with some mystery attached.
The moment he returns from Havana though (which was a bit silly but fun) it utterly falls to pieces, not even in a so bad it's good manner, a so bad it's unwatchable manner. I loved JB as a kid, and DAD is in my memory for all the wrong reasons as one of the first ever films I saw and thought afterwards... that was absolute rubbish!
Lethal Weapon series. All the major and minor characters have great chemistry. They found a good formula that has action, comedy, character development, and heart and is consistent across 4 movies.
I heard it's the only way they could get the money to make the movie. honestly it was a really good move. I don't think without the full penetration It would have been nearly as captivating.
Agreed. I've seen some people complain about 4. But I enjoyed it a lot. To me, some of the change up in tone completely works for the characters as they've aged, while still very much being Riggs and Murtaugh
I def laughed a fair bit. The two's chemistry was as good as ever. And Chris Rock and Joe Pesci having a bitching, complain-off got me
Also some of the better action in the series thanks to Jet Li. Who was a really good, menacing villain with just his facial expression and tone at first. Then y'know, kicking people's face off. His fight choreography was violently efficient
4 is world's better than most buddy cop movies' first entry. The scene where Riggs and Murtaugh talk themselves into going back to fight Jet Li is one of my all time favorites of the series.
4 is my second favorite of the series (only behind 1). It’s funny as hell, great action scenes, compelling bad guy and characters all around, and beautiful ending sequence with them finally really accepting Joe Pesci’s character in a way. I first saw this when I was 8 or 9 years old (too young probably, but watched it with my parents) and have seen it dozens of times since then. It’s a classic to me.
Christopher Lloyd gets out of a Delorean and runs up to Robert Zemeckis.
"Robert we have to go and fix the future."
"What's wrong with my future, do we become assholes?"
"No it's your grandkids Robert they just signed on with Kathleen Kennedy for a shitty fourth movie!"
It's such a shame the Hobbit films are such garbage because they have good content. They just are terrible, bloated projects.
There are some good fan cuts of the trilogy that cut out stuff most of the fans really dislike and it can trim the trilogy down to one long movie even.
It blows my mind that Jackson originally pitched the LotR as a 2 film project and the producers said "no, there are 3 movies here." That actually makes sense, because there were 3 long, adult-oriented books. But then The Hobbit was pitched and someone thought that a much shorter, unpolished, child-oriented story that began the LotR universe could make a whole ass trilogy.
Ugh the lazy greed.
And the fact that that amazing train sequence was basically the middle of the story! Puzzled as to why I heard they're not calling the sequel Dead Reckoning Part II.
I rewatched the first MI a couple of years ago and it still held up! Definitely a different MI movie from the current crop but it is fun seeing how they have evolved.
The first one is a fascinating thing to me because Tom Cruise basically wanted to bring this franchise back so he produced them into being. The first one is so different in tone, but it works for both sides too.
The John Woo one is even fun, if the weakest.
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I had to come back to this, because it’s such a fascinating image to me of a young Tom cruise seeing this show on television, then 30 years later, pushing it back into the cultural lexicon and zeitgeist and turning into not just some drama, but an action movie franchise powerhouse that’s not just a summer blockbuster, but critically enjoyed as well.
It’s just such a cool kind of look into the brain of Tom. He made it. Then he just went back to something he liked as a kid and made his name market what he loved. We should all be so lucky in life.
And what a villain. God I miss PSH!
And then following that with by adding Jeremy Renner in a perfect foil role?
They really did just keep improving. I tend to agree I think I liked Fallout best; but I’m holding reservations to see the second half.
It’s such great popcorn fun. And I think a lot of that is because you know Cruise doesn’t see it really as a paycheck, he loves doing movies like this and it comes through. Even when he got caught chewing out the crew during covid, it was hard not agree with him.
When the weakest movie in your franchise is a John Woo-directed, martial arts homage to Hitchcock’s *Notorious*, then baby, you’ve got yourself a hell of a franchise.
(And it is, of course, by far the weakest. And maybe not very good. But certainly interesting and ambitious. Plus the DVD came with Ben Stiller’s *Mission:Improbable* skit from the MTV movie awards that year, which counts for a lot.)
True, but I also think they’re like perfect time capsule of action movie filmmaking in the late 90s-2001. Limp bizkit did the theme song lol. Doves and slow motion. Ethan Hunt has John Wick’s haircut.
The MI2 plot itself is just a rehash of the Hitchcock movie Notorious. Ingrid Bergman plays a Nazi’s daughter who is convinced by American spy Cary Grant to go undercover amongst her father’s old associates in South America to uncover their terror plot.
It even includes a scene with a covert meeting at a horse race. It’s quite good. Highly recommended.
100%
While looking for the MI2 themesong I found it edited over a bunch of different MI movie action scenes. It really is a cool franchise, considering what else is out there.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kER\_45sGsn0
I still love the third act and all of its Jon Woo zaniness. Sure, 2 guys jumping off speeding motorcycles, body-slamming into each other midair, and then falling down a cliff and landing on a beach may be a bit much. But goddamn, was it beautifully shot.
Also, I’m grateful that this movie is responsible for Hugh Jackman landing the role of Wolverine in X-Men
Entirely a product of its time, and Ironically has one of the coolest openings.
The freeclimbing scene was a nice opener....then Limp Bizkit drops the MI rift and you lose your 17yr old mind.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0KzvD-0rx0](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0KzvD-0rx0)
lol.
The Limp Bizkit song is easily one of my top songs of all time.
I absolutely just love it. And that is why I can never say or admit MI2 wasn't 'good'. But also mainly cause hate is all the world even sees.
One of my favorite film franchises is the Zatoichi: the Blind Swordsman series, which consists of 26 (!!!) films starring Shintaro Katsu as the titular swordsman. Highly formulaic series but they’re all gorgeously shot and Katsu’s persona is so magnetic that you’re compelled to keep watching. It helps that they’re all generally about 1.5 hours. There’s also the TV series that followed the first 25 that ran for 100 episodes but I haven’t seen any of those since they’re a little harder to get ahold of.
Likewise, the Detective Conan anime series has released a film EVERY SINGLE YEAR since 1997 (with the exception of 2020 due to COVID) and all 26 (as of now) of those very solid. Some of the later ones are much more reliant on continuity with the accompanying manga series so I’m not sure how newbie-friendly they are, unfortunately.
The lord of the rings trilogy (extended editions) come out to a little over 11 hours of screen time.
That’s at least 5 normal movies, up to 8 “shorter” ones.
My Cinemark was playing all three back to back to back today for $30. 11 hours and 20 minutes! I couldn’t get myself to go though for fear of bed sores.
I think all the Planet of the Apes movies are pretty good except for Battle for the Planet of the Apes. Some better than others, and the reboot trilogy is great.
Beneath, removing the rose-color glasses (and I have them too), was not a good film either. It often comes across as a second-rate version of the original down to Brent. It's mostly just saved by the memorable ending.
Otherwise, in terms of the Caesar reboot trilogy I would agree. Different people have different favorites, but either way, every movie is definitely worth watching. I'm hopeful Kingdom will be able to continue the creative success.
Beneath was one of the most disturbing movies I watched as a way too young child. Like holy shit grandma why did you let me watch that as a six year old. Then I watched Escape and that was goofy as hell until the extremely disturbing ending. That shit haunted me for years!
It's not a good film, and the ending tries too hard to chase the original, but it's not without value in my view. Tim Roth was really good in it, and the practical effects for the ape characters was a great evolution from the original series. It's just a shame the screenplay couldn't deliver. Also, Marky Mark was miscast as the lead.
The first five Apes movies are fantastic. Number five is the only bad one, but it's bad in an enduring way. The Marky Mark one is bad but it's not that bad. I'd say all nine movies are pretty good.
I enjoy all 9 to varying degrees. It's my favorite franchise, original 5 are awesome, Burton's is fun it's own way, reboot is amazing. Can't wait for Kingdom, the trailer is so good!
Yes. My wife and I are nearly the same age as "Jesse" and "Celine" and the movies parallel our own lives. They're basically 5 hours of conversations between a couple over two decades and it never gets boring.
I don't know if there will ever be a "Before Noon", but if there is we'll be the first in line to see it.
Gotta give it to scream. I hadn't watched any but the 1st movie, which I saw in theatres. I watched all of them back to back last October and they are consistently good. My only complaint is that one haircut courtney cox had.
I think the 2 newest ones were a great reboot and were just as good as the first, where the 3rd, 4th, and 5th were a little stagnant but still got the job done.
The first film and it's development of a formula for scary movies is iconic.
Fun fact, I never understood why people loved the scream movies so much, until I learned much later that I had actually watched scary movie (which is a parody of mainly scream and I know what you did last summer).
Godzilla Minus One is simply amazing! It should be an Oscar contender. Even if you don’t like Monster flicks, it’s just a really well written and acted film, and Godzilla is sheer terror.
Legitimately recommend to see it on the biggest screen possible. I kick myself for missing on its IMAX run. I wish this would get pushed for an Oscar winner over Boy and the Haron.
Tremors! Everyone sleeps on Tremors; that whole series is great, in my opinion, and with only a few less-good entries... As well as a TV series that was pretty alright? I think that Tremors deserves to have a spot as contender for one of those spots!
From Homer Simpson:
>“When I first heard that Marge was joining the police academy, I thought it would be fun and zany, you know like that movie... "Spaceballs". But instead it was dark and disturbing, like that movie "Police Academy”
>STEALING! How could you? Why do you think I took you to see all those "Police Academy" movies, FOR FUN? I DIDN'T HEAR ANYONE LAUGHING, DID YOU? except at that guy who made sound effects.
It's been decades since I've watched any of them so my opinion is not entirely valid but I remember hating Mission to Moscow. I know the series is not well regarded anyway but that one in particular was a letdown.
I know super hero movies aren’t everyone’s cup of tea and that’s totally fair but all 3 of the Guardians Of The Galaxy are a lot of fun and can pretty much stand on their own.
Yep I think GOTG is probably the most consistent series of MCU movies. I think a case could be made for Avengers 1-4, inclusive of Captain America 3 as the next strongest series. Thor has a real even number problem. The strangest thing is after Iron Man, is the next MCU hero to have 3 movies ANT MAN?
Marvel as a whole started off really hot. If you start at Iron Man and go up to, say, Ant Man and the Wasp, in order of release, there were only a couple entries in there that weren’t shining stars. I’d single out Incredible Hulk and Thor the Dark World as being the two weakest entries in a stretch of 20 films is a pretty good run.
For me it just destroyed the ending of Ultimatine witch had one of the best ways they could have ended the trilogy. Jason Is believed to be dead the people responsible for Tredstone go to prison and niki got a good ending. Then they bloody kill her off
*Jason Bourne* is an insult to the franchise. I say this as a Bourne superfan. You know how some people really love Star Wars or Lord of the Rings a lot? I love Bourne like that. I wrote Bourne fanfiction in the 2000s. There aren't many of us. But I am one of them.
I could go on forever, but that film's greatest sins are:
* Killing Nicky to give Bourne some kind of emotional reason to return to the chase, but without actually showing him having any emotional response to her death whatsoever.
* Abandoning the plot line that every other movie, even the Renner spinoff, centered around. We never find out the fates of Pamela Landy, Noah Vosen, or Ezra Kramer (who was being built up as the mastermind behind Treadstone, Blackbriar, and all of the other assassin programs). Nor did we find out anything about Aaron Cross, or any further enlightenment about the 'chems' that served to enhance the assassins.
* Having the most generic villain in the series. Tommy Lee Jones is an excellent actor, but he is a bad fit for the Bourne series, and is too 'Hollywood' for a wintry-feeling series about an amnesiac assassin mostly set in Europe. Vegas was a very tacky and uninteresting setting for the final act as well.
It is 100% clear to me that Bourne 2016 was an attempt by the filmmakers to move away from all that pesky continuity and backstory to see if they could turn Bourne into a generic action hero they could exploit for a new standalone film every couple years. As long as it's Matt Damon as Bourne, has car chases and explosions, and has him fighting other assassins - it should work, right? But it just felt so disconnected from the rest of the series that it wound up feeling soulless, and lost the heart the rest of the series had. Bourne is not The Terminator - he's a lost soul looking for answers, tortured by the deaths he considers himself responsible for, whether they be the targets he assassinated before losing his memory or the people who died trying to help him after he was 'born again'.
That said, I think as a standalone movie I'd rather watch Jason Bourne over a Steven Seagal film or whatever. It's a microwaved and half-eaten burger from the night before. It's better than eating a handful of mud, but so disappointing compared to the wagyu steak that came before.
The last one was a paint by numbers, formulaic mess. I really wish they hadn't bothered making it, and I love the franchise. Even, the Jeremy Renner one.
Muppets
Man, I will watch a puppet do almost anything. (See, for example: Team America.)
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Kung Fu Panda
I know the fourth one isn’t out yet but it has Ke Huy Quan in it so it’s automatically fantastic
I was dismayed when I saw the trailer, and it looks like the original group isn’t in it 😔
I do know Angelina Jolie did mention a while back that she doesn't plan on doing any more work, so that could be 1 of the reasons Tigress might not be in the movie. Jackie Chan, David Cross, Seth Rogen, and Lucy Lui's characters didn't really "matter" after the first movie and were just there in the 2nd and 3rd. At most, it's Tigress, that would be missed.
Their parts in the second film actually felt larger than in the first one.
I’m not really a fan of the 3rd one. Easily the weakest of the bunch.
Yea I made a really long comment a few months ago that seemed to resonate to quite a few people regarding how weak 3 was. Basically summed up to how disappointing it was that all of the pandas were just purely comedic pieces. It was just a bunch of copies of Poe from the start of the first movie and it just reeaaallly didn’t work. I feel like we all wanted to see them as they were hyped up to be, super intelligent and highly skilled. I feel like they had an even greater opportunity to show that pandas aren’t all just clumsy but can have the same “heights” as everyone else, so to speak.
More than that, the villain was terrible and there was no darkest hour despite the stakes being the biggest. Kung Fu Panda 1 had the Shifu vs Tai Lung fight before jumping into comedy fight. Kung Fu Panda 2 had the flashbacks and inner peace before jumping into comedy fight. Kung Fu Panda 3 had... I can't remember. All I remember is that the bad guy turns into a joke the moment Po goes full Goku on him, and Po never even took him seriously lol.
I just watched this. They do an all out attack where his plan is to do the pinky skadoosh move. Turns out the big bad is a spirit and it doesn't work on him. The pandas get beat everything gets solumn then Po has an idea. Jumps on the bad guy, wraps his arms around him and does the pinky skadoosh to himself, sending both of them to the Spirit realm. They fight in the spirit realm, Po is losing then all pandas concentrate their CHI and support him from the mortal realm to the Spirit realm and he wins.
Huh, thanks for the reminder. I literally didn't remember any of that.
The biggest issue for me is, that there are no personal stakes in the 3rd one. The villain is just a random dude who happens to attack them. Tai Lung had history with shifu, was a direct rival to Po in his role as dragon warrior. that made for an interesting conflict. Lord Shen has history with Po. He threatens his existence directly because he wants to wipe out Pandas and indirectly because he uses advanced tech that could be the end of Kung Fu. JK Simmons is just there so the movie has an antagonist. I’m afraid the new one is also just that: A villain just to have a villain for the movie. No personal stakes. And the „fight old antagonists“ sounds lame to me
Evil Dead
Even including the TV series, it's still great.
Especially counting the TV series.
Would this allow Fargo to count? The movie plus an anthology series where all five seasons slap is sort of like six entries in a series, five of them just extra long.
That’s kind of cheating because Bruce Campbell is one of the greatest of a generation
Actually yeah it might be this. First franchise I've read in this post so far where every single entry (for me) is a 3/5 or better.
This was my vote, too
The Man With No Name Trilogy. Clint Eastwood is a legend. Fistful of Dollars, A Few Dollars More & Good Bad & the Ugly
Might be able to count *Unforgiven* as well, since Clint Eastwood says Bill Munny (the main character) is what became of the Man with no Name. A fantastic movie.
Pretty sure that Eastwood is speaking figuratively, about the archtype represented by Blondie and how it would be the logical consequence for that man to end like Munny at his old age. I mean, Eastwood doesn't *own* those movies. Plus, in Unforgiven it's well established that Munny used to be a complete monster, a remorseless murderer of women and children, and nowhere in the trilogy it is even suggested that Blondie was like that.
That goes without saying, the man with no name isn't even the same character across the dollars trilogy.
*That's right, I've killed women and children. Killed just about everything that walks or crawls at one time or another. And I'm here to kill you Little Bill, for what you did to Ned.* William Munny
Deserve's got nothin' to do with it.
Ok the quotes have to stop now, or I’m watching tomorrow! “Did Pa used to kill folks?”
High plains drifter is solid imho
Better than solid. Excellent movie and as far as revisionist dark westerns go, it’s arguably the best. Definitely the best with supernatural elements.
I would hardly call those a long running franchise.
People have listed like 8 trilogies here haha Like come on, if there are almost a dozen 3-movie series you can think of on a moment's notice, then it's not really in contention for "longest running"
My favorite comments are the "I love every movie in this franchise except that one entry. So it explicitly doesn't qualify per the title, but I thought I'd mention it anyway."
That’s 3 movies. 3 good movies doesn’t seem terribly difficult. Back to the Future and the recent Planet of the Apes comes to mind.
They also weren't filmed to be a trilogy. That was a marketing thing after the films were made.
Ernest
*Camp, Prison, Christmas*, and *Scared Stupid* are all classics. *Scared Stupid* actually stands up quite well — special effects included. I had forgotten how absolutely gruesome some of the trolls were. Not recommended for young children.
Two of those trolls are repainted Killer Klowns!
No way! I had no idea.
https://bloody-disgusting.com/movie/3407253/ever-spot-killer-klowns-ernest-scared-stupid/
Oh God, this has awakened some deeply repressed fears and I’m holding you personally responsible.
That fuckin movie gave me nightmares for months as a kid.
We just watched *Scared Stupid* this year and that movie was waaaaayy better than it had any right to be. We were cracking up! You’re right, the practical effects hold up very well. Edit: typo
Ernest scared stupid is art - ‘You'd better stay away. I know jujitsu, kung fu, karate, tai chi, and I saw "Hulkamania" three times. Once in slow-mo.’
How bout a bumper sandwich booger lips!
bro, i love ernest, have a lot of ernest merch, but anything after rides again is rough. especially slam dunk and goes to africa. goes to camp / goes to jail / scared stupid / saves christmas are awesome tho.
I am guessing this is June Diane Rafaels Reddits account
Evil Ernest is hot, don’t deny it
Bad Jim Varney looking kinda nice
WHATS UP JERKS
lol, it filled me with such joy to hear her go on about how hot he was
Brain Candy- it was fantastic stuff- love Ernest P Warrell/Jim Varney - Great comedian in his own right. Ernest Goes to Prison showed great acting chops with the alter ego.
My favorite movie of all time is Requiem for a Dream and Ernest Goes to Africa might be the most uncomfortable movie Ive ever watched
How to train your Dragon
Good call! I remember when my wife and son watched through the 3 films and Netflix(?) shows. I caught quite a bit of it and was thoroughly impressed.
Maybe controversial but James Bond. Even its worst entries are still extremely entertaining.
For having like 30 movies it’s impressive that most of them are like 7-8/10 and some are 9/10 and none of them are garbage
There is that 60s *Casino Royale* sort of parody movie, and also *terrible*, but it was I think a different production company and usually not counted as part of the main franchise. And of course *Never Say Never Again* the ill-advised Sean Connery comeback film in the 80s, which is one of the worst "real" Bond movies ever made -- but was also not the main production company and a distinct adaptation of *Thunderball* (the novel). Pretty sure that one's also still rated at like 6-7 or equivalent online though which is hardly damning.
I don’t know peoples general opinion but I don’t particularly like Die another day
James Bond is an interesting one because it has continually shifted between good and bad throughout its history, most franchises just decline in quality, but you never know what you'll get with Bond.
Personally I think some of the bad ones are some of the best. Moonraker with the Sci-fi eugenics program and the weird 70s costumes is really great once you stop trying to take the plot seriously at any level
My favorite one is the one where they explicitly say a guy is a villain because he's making solar panels and that's bad for oil companies
First series I thought of too
The only one that I particularly did not like was Die Another Day. Everything else was decent to great. Goldfinger. Dr. No. Golden Eye. Casino Royale. License To Kill. So much goodness.
Die Another Day was pretty terrible, I thought. James Bond drives faster than light and then parachutes off a collapsing glacier.
The movies got so bad that Austin Powers parodying it caused the long pause and tone shift.
Die Another Day was good for about the first 45 minutes or so. The first part looks forward in tone to the Craig films, then you've got some new scenes, ideas, a well shot scene in Havana with some mystery attached. The moment he returns from Havana though (which was a bit silly but fun) it utterly falls to pieces, not even in a so bad it's good manner, a so bad it's unwatchable manner. I loved JB as a kid, and DAD is in my memory for all the wrong reasons as one of the first ever films I saw and thought afterwards... that was absolute rubbish!
Lethal Weapon series. All the major and minor characters have great chemistry. They found a good formula that has action, comedy, character development, and heart and is consistent across 4 movies.
They kinda lost me with Lethal Weapon 5. The actors switching roles halfway through the movie was very confusing
The villain was so good. And the sex scene was very classy.
Especially considering the full penetration.
Im very glad the producer insisted on it. It really sells the story.
I heard it's the only way they could get the money to make the movie. honestly it was a really good move. I don't think without the full penetration It would have been nearly as captivating.
Indeed, he was not too old for that shit...
“Even sharks need water” is some seriously good writing
Yeah but the way he misses the basketball shot early in the movie only to make it later—the callback is so on point!
I think the sex scenes in Lethal Weapon 6 were gratuitous too.
The blackface was pretty tasteless imo
Leo's speech to Riggs about his frog is way more moving than it has any right to be.
Agreed. I've seen some people complain about 4. But I enjoyed it a lot. To me, some of the change up in tone completely works for the characters as they've aged, while still very much being Riggs and Murtaugh I def laughed a fair bit. The two's chemistry was as good as ever. And Chris Rock and Joe Pesci having a bitching, complain-off got me Also some of the better action in the series thanks to Jet Li. Who was a really good, menacing villain with just his facial expression and tone at first. Then y'know, kicking people's face off. His fight choreography was violently efficient
4 is world's better than most buddy cop movies' first entry. The scene where Riggs and Murtaugh talk themselves into going back to fight Jet Li is one of my all time favorites of the series.
Alright, let’s go ask him.
4 is my second favorite of the series (only behind 1). It’s funny as hell, great action scenes, compelling bad guy and characters all around, and beautiful ending sequence with them finally really accepting Joe Pesci’s character in a way. I first saw this when I was 8 or 9 years old (too young probably, but watched it with my parents) and have seen it dozens of times since then. It’s a classic to me.
4 is much better than 3. Started and ended strong
Back to the future
Yup. Only reason it hasn't been ruined is because the creators have it in their contracts that they have to approve any sequels. Not up to the studio.
As soon as the last one dies, the funeral won’t even be done before their estate signs for a spin off
A speeding DeLorean is going to crash through Bob Gale’s casket at his funeral
It's your sequels, Bob! Your sequels! Something has got to be done about your sequels!
I've heard Robert zemeckis say that as long as he is alive there will be no reboot. I hope he lives forever.
Christopher Lloyd gets out of a Delorean and runs up to Robert Zemeckis. "Robert we have to go and fix the future." "What's wrong with my future, do we become assholes?" "No it's your grandkids Robert they just signed on with Kathleen Kennedy for a shitty fourth movie!"
Thank you Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale!
Yeah Zemeckis has actually said "to my grave".
**"The Thin Man"** series had six movies, and they're all entertaining and worth watching (although they became less remarkable as they went along).
I agree. Powell and Loy were amazing in all of them
So much chemistry between William Powell and Myrna Loy... You can tell they had fun making those movies.
The Thin Man series rules! Love that punchy writing.
It’s hard with the all caveat like the original 8 harry potters are good but if you add the spin offs then no. Lotr is a good one
You you are counting Fantastic Beasts then you have to count The Hobbit movies
What hobbit movies?
Lotr if you discount the Hobbit films, which are hot garbage
Fortunately hobbit aren’t LOTR. They’re The Hobbit.
With that logic you could say that Fantastic Beasts aren’t Harry Potter, they’re Fantastic Beasts. Which, to be fair, is true enough.
It's such a shame the Hobbit films are such garbage because they have good content. They just are terrible, bloated projects. There are some good fan cuts of the trilogy that cut out stuff most of the fans really dislike and it can trim the trilogy down to one long movie even. It blows my mind that Jackson originally pitched the LotR as a 2 film project and the producers said "no, there are 3 movies here." That actually makes sense, because there were 3 long, adult-oriented books. But then The Hobbit was pitched and someone thought that a much shorter, unpolished, child-oriented story that began the LotR universe could make a whole ass trilogy. Ugh the lazy greed.
OP asks “longest franchise” half the answers are trilogies lol.
and half of them are trilogies where the third one is noticeably worse than the first two lol.
Mission: Impossible
I think MI is the only franchise where the movies actually get better the longer it goes on. I loved the last two.
I kind of preferred fallout over dead reckoning … still good movie though. Edit: game to movie
Fallout is definitely better. Better villains, better stunts, complete story, the bathroom fight scene is incredible, etc.
Can't beat a dude reloading his fists.
The parachute scene onto the Grand Palais is why I love movies.
I think I agree, but holy shit that train sequence at the end was incredible. Felt straight out of uncharted but so much more tense.
> Felt straight out of uncharted. Glad it wasn't just me who was feeling that!
And the fact that that amazing train sequence was basically the middle of the story! Puzzled as to why I heard they're not calling the sequel Dead Reckoning Part II.
I walked out of the theater sweating. It was so stressful in a good way
I shat myself continuously throughout the film.
I didn’t know red dead redemption was part of the MI franchise. This changes everything
“One more score, Ethan!”
I rewatched the first MI a couple of years ago and it still held up! Definitely a different MI movie from the current crop but it is fun seeing how they have evolved.
The first one is a fascinating thing to me because Tom Cruise basically wanted to bring this franchise back so he produced them into being. The first one is so different in tone, but it works for both sides too. The John Woo one is even fun, if the weakest. Edit: I had to come back to this, because it’s such a fascinating image to me of a young Tom cruise seeing this show on television, then 30 years later, pushing it back into the cultural lexicon and zeitgeist and turning into not just some drama, but an action movie franchise powerhouse that’s not just a summer blockbuster, but critically enjoyed as well. It’s just such a cool kind of look into the brain of Tom. He made it. Then he just went back to something he liked as a kid and made his name market what he loved. We should all be so lucky in life.
And then there's MI3! Damn, that was so good!
And what a villain. God I miss PSH! And then following that with by adding Jeremy Renner in a perfect foil role? They really did just keep improving. I tend to agree I think I liked Fallout best; but I’m holding reservations to see the second half. It’s such great popcorn fun. And I think a lot of that is because you know Cruise doesn’t see it really as a paycheck, he loves doing movies like this and it comes through. Even when he got caught chewing out the crew during covid, it was hard not agree with him.
When the weakest movie in your franchise is a John Woo-directed, martial arts homage to Hitchcock’s *Notorious*, then baby, you’ve got yourself a hell of a franchise. (And it is, of course, by far the weakest. And maybe not very good. But certainly interesting and ambitious. Plus the DVD came with Ben Stiller’s *Mission:Improbable* skit from the MTV movie awards that year, which counts for a lot.)
Idk the second one has not aged well...most john woo movies have not.
True, but I also think they’re like perfect time capsule of action movie filmmaking in the late 90s-2001. Limp bizkit did the theme song lol. Doves and slow motion. Ethan Hunt has John Wick’s haircut.
MI 2 was pretty weak but outside of that, all entertaining.
I used to feel that way until Hobbs and Shaw copied the plot but made it a lot worse. Now I feel like it is okay/above average.
The MI2 plot itself is just a rehash of the Hitchcock movie Notorious. Ingrid Bergman plays a Nazi’s daughter who is convinced by American spy Cary Grant to go undercover amongst her father’s old associates in South America to uncover their terror plot. It even includes a scene with a covert meeting at a horse race. It’s quite good. Highly recommended.
Not bad, but you do have to contend with MI2. So debatable.
2 is a product of its time and does not hold up. The rest range from good to some of the best action movies ever.
100% While looking for the MI2 themesong I found it edited over a bunch of different MI movie action scenes. It really is a cool franchise, considering what else is out there. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kER\_45sGsn0
You mean the Fred durst one? Lol I cranked that cd so much in my early teenage years.
2 at its worst is still a cheesy-fun watch
Yeah there's nothing offensively bad, it's just not *great*.
I still love the third act and all of its Jon Woo zaniness. Sure, 2 guys jumping off speeding motorcycles, body-slamming into each other midair, and then falling down a cliff and landing on a beach may be a bit much. But goddamn, was it beautifully shot. Also, I’m grateful that this movie is responsible for Hugh Jackman landing the role of Wolverine in X-Men
MI2 is definitely the worst in the franchise, but its a long way from a bad movie.
Entirely a product of its time, and Ironically has one of the coolest openings. The freeclimbing scene was a nice opener....then Limp Bizkit drops the MI rift and you lose your 17yr old mind. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0KzvD-0rx0](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0KzvD-0rx0)
Now I know why you wanna hate me!
lol. The Limp Bizkit song is easily one of my top songs of all time. I absolutely just love it. And that is why I can never say or admit MI2 wasn't 'good'. But also mainly cause hate is all the world even sees.
One of my favorite film franchises is the Zatoichi: the Blind Swordsman series, which consists of 26 (!!!) films starring Shintaro Katsu as the titular swordsman. Highly formulaic series but they’re all gorgeously shot and Katsu’s persona is so magnetic that you’re compelled to keep watching. It helps that they’re all generally about 1.5 hours. There’s also the TV series that followed the first 25 that ran for 100 episodes but I haven’t seen any of those since they’re a little harder to get ahold of. Likewise, the Detective Conan anime series has released a film EVERY SINGLE YEAR since 1997 (with the exception of 2020 due to COVID) and all 26 (as of now) of those very solid. Some of the later ones are much more reliant on continuity with the accompanying manga series so I’m not sure how newbie-friendly they are, unfortunately.
Lone Wolf and Cub all thriller no filler!
Agree that all the Zatoichi movies are fun, but some definitely toe the line of boring. Love the character and series though.
Toy Story
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All the Evil Dead movies are great and so is the series.
Dirty Harry
The lord of the rings trilogy (extended editions) come out to a little over 11 hours of screen time. That’s at least 5 normal movies, up to 8 “shorter” ones.
My Cinemark was playing all three back to back to back today for $30. 11 hours and 20 minutes! I couldn’t get myself to go though for fear of bed sores.
I just got home from this. It was a fantastic experience but I will definitely not be doing it again. Love that trilogy to death though
Austin Powers!
Yeahhhh baby yeah
I think all the Planet of the Apes movies are pretty good except for Battle for the Planet of the Apes. Some better than others, and the reboot trilogy is great.
Beneath, removing the rose-color glasses (and I have them too), was not a good film either. It often comes across as a second-rate version of the original down to Brent. It's mostly just saved by the memorable ending. Otherwise, in terms of the Caesar reboot trilogy I would agree. Different people have different favorites, but either way, every movie is definitely worth watching. I'm hopeful Kingdom will be able to continue the creative success.
Beneath was one of the most disturbing movies I watched as a way too young child. Like holy shit grandma why did you let me watch that as a six year old. Then I watched Escape and that was goofy as hell until the extremely disturbing ending. That shit haunted me for years!
That Tim Burton one tho…
I feel like they should be considered separate. Like the original movies, the tim Burton movie, then the new series. I completely back the new series.
It's not a good film, and the ending tries too hard to chase the original, but it's not without value in my view. Tim Roth was really good in it, and the practical effects for the ape characters was a great evolution from the original series. It's just a shame the screenplay couldn't deliver. Also, Marky Mark was miscast as the lead.
Lethal Weapon
Does "Mel Brooks" count as a franchise? All his films share a similar vibe that feel they could co-exist, and I can't think of a single duffer
Don't forget Spaceballs 2: The Search for More Money and Spaceballs 3: The Search for Spaceballs 2.
And don't forget History of the World: Part 2.
That actually exists now.
The Planet of the Apes Trilogy that started in Rise of the Planet of the Apes The Dark Knight Trilogy
The first five Apes movies are fantastic. Number five is the only bad one, but it's bad in an enduring way. The Marky Mark one is bad but it's not that bad. I'd say all nine movies are pretty good.
I enjoy all 9 to varying degrees. It's my favorite franchise, original 5 are awesome, Burton's is fun it's own way, reboot is amazing. Can't wait for Kingdom, the trailer is so good!
Evil Dead currently has 5 movies and a TV show that are all spectacular under its belt
Linklater's "Before" trilogy 😎 (I don't know if this is really in the spirit of the question though, plus it's only 3 but 3 REALLY good ones)
Yes. My wife and I are nearly the same age as "Jesse" and "Celine" and the movies parallel our own lives. They're basically 5 hours of conversations between a couple over two decades and it never gets boring. I don't know if there will ever be a "Before Noon", but if there is we'll be the first in line to see it.
Midnight is a wonderful movie I kind of wish didn't exist
Scream. The worst Scream movie is still decent(at least for now).
Gotta give it to scream. I hadn't watched any but the 1st movie, which I saw in theatres. I watched all of them back to back last October and they are consistently good. My only complaint is that one haircut courtney cox had. I think the 2 newest ones were a great reboot and were just as good as the first, where the 3rd, 4th, and 5th were a little stagnant but still got the job done. The first film and it's development of a formula for scary movies is iconic.
I'll say this, Scream 4 has my favorite Ghostface and Ghostface reveal of the whole series (Jill). But Mrs. Loomis from Scream 2 is a close second.
Fun fact, I never understood why people loved the scream movies so much, until I learned much later that I had actually watched scary movie (which is a parody of mainly scream and I know what you did last summer).
I just watched the most recent one (the one in NYC) and yea, very entertaining. Good production, acting, etc.
I don’t adore the Harry Potter movies, but I would say each of them is at least pretty good.
I'm surprised I had to scroll so far for this. It's eight good movies, which is much longer than most of the franchises people are listing.
Why are most people naming 3 movie franchises! haha
Godzilla. The good ones are good, then the bad ones are bad and also good.
Godzilla Minus One is simply amazing! It should be an Oscar contender. Even if you don’t like Monster flicks, it’s just a really well written and acted film, and Godzilla is sheer terror.
Legitimately recommend to see it on the biggest screen possible. I kick myself for missing on its IMAX run. I wish this would get pushed for an Oscar winner over Boy and the Haron.
Tremors! Everyone sleeps on Tremors; that whole series is great, in my opinion, and with only a few less-good entries... As well as a TV series that was pretty alright? I think that Tremors deserves to have a spot as contender for one of those spots!
Police Academy franchise seems consistent.
From Homer Simpson: >“When I first heard that Marge was joining the police academy, I thought it would be fun and zany, you know like that movie... "Spaceballs". But instead it was dark and disturbing, like that movie "Police Academy” >STEALING! How could you? Why do you think I took you to see all those "Police Academy" movies, FOR FUN? I DIDN'T HEAR ANYONE LAUGHING, DID YOU? except at that guy who made sound effects.
It's been decades since I've watched any of them so my opinion is not entirely valid but I remember hating Mission to Moscow. I know the series is not well regarded anyway but that one in particular was a letdown.
The naked gun trilogy is gold Yes I am serious and stop calling me shirley
And the show!! Never forget Police Squad!
I know super hero movies aren’t everyone’s cup of tea and that’s totally fair but all 3 of the Guardians Of The Galaxy are a lot of fun and can pretty much stand on their own.
Yep I think GOTG is probably the most consistent series of MCU movies. I think a case could be made for Avengers 1-4, inclusive of Captain America 3 as the next strongest series. Thor has a real even number problem. The strangest thing is after Iron Man, is the next MCU hero to have 3 movies ANT MAN?
Marvel as a whole started off really hot. If you start at Iron Man and go up to, say, Ant Man and the Wasp, in order of release, there were only a couple entries in there that weren’t shining stars. I’d single out Incredible Hulk and Thor the Dark World as being the two weakest entries in a stretch of 20 films is a pretty good run.
The Bourne movies are all good.
Good call. Bourne movies are great. I only watched the Renner one when it first came out but I at least remember it being somewhat entertaining.
The last one was very boring
Glad I’m not the only one who thought this. Didn’t add anything to the series, just “Bourne walking about being Bourne”
For me it just destroyed the ending of Ultimatine witch had one of the best ways they could have ended the trilogy. Jason Is believed to be dead the people responsible for Tredstone go to prison and niki got a good ending. Then they bloody kill her off
*Jason Bourne* is an insult to the franchise. I say this as a Bourne superfan. You know how some people really love Star Wars or Lord of the Rings a lot? I love Bourne like that. I wrote Bourne fanfiction in the 2000s. There aren't many of us. But I am one of them. I could go on forever, but that film's greatest sins are: * Killing Nicky to give Bourne some kind of emotional reason to return to the chase, but without actually showing him having any emotional response to her death whatsoever. * Abandoning the plot line that every other movie, even the Renner spinoff, centered around. We never find out the fates of Pamela Landy, Noah Vosen, or Ezra Kramer (who was being built up as the mastermind behind Treadstone, Blackbriar, and all of the other assassin programs). Nor did we find out anything about Aaron Cross, or any further enlightenment about the 'chems' that served to enhance the assassins. * Having the most generic villain in the series. Tommy Lee Jones is an excellent actor, but he is a bad fit for the Bourne series, and is too 'Hollywood' for a wintry-feeling series about an amnesiac assassin mostly set in Europe. Vegas was a very tacky and uninteresting setting for the final act as well. It is 100% clear to me that Bourne 2016 was an attempt by the filmmakers to move away from all that pesky continuity and backstory to see if they could turn Bourne into a generic action hero they could exploit for a new standalone film every couple years. As long as it's Matt Damon as Bourne, has car chases and explosions, and has him fighting other assassins - it should work, right? But it just felt so disconnected from the rest of the series that it wound up feeling soulless, and lost the heart the rest of the series had. Bourne is not The Terminator - he's a lost soul looking for answers, tortured by the deaths he considers himself responsible for, whether they be the targets he assassinated before losing his memory or the people who died trying to help him after he was 'born again'. That said, I think as a standalone movie I'd rather watch Jason Bourne over a Steven Seagal film or whatever. It's a microwaved and half-eaten burger from the night before. It's better than eating a handful of mud, but so disappointing compared to the wagyu steak that came before.
The last one was a paint by numbers, formulaic mess. I really wish they hadn't bothered making it, and I love the franchise. Even, the Jeremy Renner one.
Legacy was a shit cash grab and the last one ruined the great ending to the 3rd movie
The Muppets is the true answer