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Coop
Professor
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It depends on the movie definitely. Kickboxer was a great trilogy.
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TheMadCapper
Fluffy
UberMod
DOOP Secretary
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I think the answer is this - "It depends".
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Otis P Jivefunk
DOOP Secretary
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It all depends on the movie With exception, in the majority of cases, sequals don't live up the the original.
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Mr. Potter
Professor
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Yeah, it depends on the movies. Not everything has to have a third part just to do a better job than the sequel. All is based in money, no matter how much a sequel sucked, if it makes good money, you can bet there's already a third part in the works.
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mazaite
Bending Unit
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Originally posted by Slurm Guy: The Matrix was meant to be a trilogy. Like Star Wars, since the first one was successful, the other two chapters of the story were completed. Bull s&^t Slurm Guy. Bull s^&t. Those Fat F*&(s made the Matrix, saw how good the reaction to it was in pre-screening and said "Hey I think after the twin shit storms of "Bound" and "Assasans" we finaly hit the grail of Hollywood, an exploitable franchise concept. Hooray! I'm gonna buy me a solid gold piniata!!" Then after the movie was aired and idiots wrote college papers baised on junior high psudo-philosophy. The Wachowskis read a bunch of them then co-opted as much as they could to spit togeather a shitty drawn out sequel in two parts that contained about 1/2 of an actual movie's worth of content. And thus The Matrix "trilogy" was stillbourne onto the world. Oh and TLGD: George Barris made the beautifull DeLorean E.L. Brown Mk. 1 time machine. He also made a car for the movie "the Car" that was what was used in spitting immage to make the wearcar bender. He also made the Genneral Lee, K.I.T.T., Ecto-1, the A-team Van, and of course the batmobile, and many more.
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User_names_suck
Professor
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Austin powers isn't really a trilogy.the storie aren't really linked they probably shouldn't have numberd it to keep the idea of it being non continuos like bond movies
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Ranadok
Starship Captain
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« Reply #28 on: 11-25-2003 13:53 »
« Last Edit on: 11-25-2003 13:53 »
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Originally posted by FishyJoe: Depends on what you mean by "story". From what I can tell, the "story" George Lucas speaks of is pretty loose, and he only had some basic ideas down. "Anakin falls in love, goes to the dark side, the Empire happens, etc". It wasn't the grand plan that some nerds want to believe--if you go back and read the original Star Wars script, the story was completely different from the movies we have now.
Really his "story" was just a collection of scifi ideas(which made no sense, even to a nerd like me), that were later simplified and redistributed over a series of six completely different movies. It's true. I had a book a while back with the first draft of Star Wars, and it had some pretty major changes (Luke's father still alive, acting much like Obi-Wan in ANH, Luke having tons of brothers, all traning to be Jedi, that kind of thing). If Lucas had any plan at all before ANH, it was either very, very loose, or torn to shreds by the final version of the film.
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mazaite
Bending Unit
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Originally posted by Slurm Guy: A trilogy doesn't need to have three stories that are all linked. Take Indiana Jones for example. I don't know. Indiana Jones was meant to be more like a serial not a trillogy. Like Bond. It just got burryed under Lucas and Spielburgs giant heads after temple of suck, then it floundered around in unmadeland untill crusade, And now whatever's going on with the new one. But in genneral a trilogy is a series of three dramas or literary works or sometimes three musical compositions that are closely related and develop a single theme. (websters) Jones dosen't do that. Nither really does Austin Powers.(plus don't they still want to make more?) A trilogy really needs to be started as a trilogy to properly pull a single theme along.
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FishyJoe
Honorary German
Urban Legend
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Well, I guess the closely related theme would just be "Harrison Ford" or "crazy religious artifacts". I don't put a fancy definition on trilogy...if there are three installments, I say it's a trilogy. And if you're making a serial, three is just a nice round number to stop at. A nice "box set" number, for future video rereleases. Because who is going to buy a box set of two or four movies? Nobody! *spits on Alien and Toy Story* By Impossible: I'm not sure whether trilogies work with The Matrix or Back To The Future though, because everyone always seems to prefer the original one, and some wish that they'd never had sequels. Yeah, but come on. Back To The Future ended with "To Be Continued". You couldn't not a have a sequel! By Ranadok: It's true. I had a book a while back with the first draft of Star Wars, and it had some pretty major changes (Luke's father still alive, acting much like Obi-Wan in ANH, Luke having tons of brothers, all traning to be Jedi, that kind of thing). If Lucas had any plan at all before ANH, it was either very, very loose, or torn to shreds by the final version of the film. I didn't read the whole script, because it seriously made no sense. It seems like every sentence threw a new, complicated fantasy term at you. If Lucas hadn't simplified things for the final movie, it would have been a disaster. Still, I skimmed it, and it had some elements that are still making it through to the newer movies. The whole cloning thing, with the growth acceleration was cannibalized for Attack of the Clones. And there was a character with a robotic arm. I'm guessing his scenes will probably be similar to Anakin's in episode III.
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Plutonia
Crustacean
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It depends on the movie I mean no one wants movies like The Jungle Book 2 and The Little Mermaid 2 to become a trilogy.
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