What is "your" franchise? - Page 2

1) Apu
2) Fanny
3) Antoine Doniel (which loses points for closing so poorly).

1. Rohmer's Moral Tales
2. Linklater's "Before" movies
3. Scenes From a Marriage/Saraband

Kieslowski's colors trilogy.

Von Trier's abused women pariahs quadrilogy.

Ooh, Moral Tales for the win. You could also throw the Dekalog in there, or the three colors films, though I'm more a Dekalog man.

It's not really a franchise, but I'm a enormous fan of all the Gong Li - Zhang Yimou team ups.

Also, the girl in me loves the Baz Luhrmann's Red Curtain Trilogy: Strictly Ballroom, William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet, and Moulin Rouge.

Berlin Alexanderplatz.

Tell me more about Moral Tales: I see that Criterion has a 6-disc box set, and anything that makes Andre say "ooh" has my interest...

Moral Tales is essential. That shit's awesome. I genuflect at them.

If we're talking about blockbusters, tent poles, "event films", or whatever you care to call them, my choice is the The Matrix Trilogy.

The Red Curtain Trilogy is my other choice. I don't think it's necessarily "girly" to like those films. They manage to show you very old story archetypes in very bold and original ways. Half of my anticipation for Australia is founded half in my interest in seeing what Lurhmann does outside of the "red curtain" style and half in how utterly epic that trailer looked.

And just like that, Amazon gets another $75 of my hard earned cash. CHUD, don't spend your portion at once.

Thanks!

Oh man. Party at Aqua's!

Aliens

Before Sunrise/Before Sunset

Does the Dekalog count as a film franchise. I thought it was a TV show originally. If there was a third 'A Short About..." I'd be tempted to call that my favourite trilogy.

The Jaws quadrilogy.

Some would disagree but Back To Future (which is my entry for this thread) to me is flawless, every time I watch 3 it gets better and better, like last time I noticed just how much care Silvetri put into morphing the themes into the Western mode. Plus Lloyd is on fire. 2 I think has minor pacing issues, but makes up for it with some clever invention in that old Zemekics way we have not seen in years.

If a series of films is actually planned as a series of films, I don't think it qualifies as a franchise. It's not like the money people came running up to Kieslowski and said, "Y'know what would be REALLY great is if you did a movie about the SECOND commandment!"

But Lucas said he had all the films in his head!

All nine of them?

Church's is great.

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Die Hard
Godzilla
Jurassic Park
Predator
Jaws
Lord of the Rings
The Bourne Trilogy
Pirates of the Caribbean *
The Brave Little Toaster

* Love 'em. Fuck off.

Currently active:

James Bond
Star Trek
Batman
Superman

Past Series:
Star Wars
Lethal Weapon
Indiana Jones (as of now)

I think that's it for now...

There's no bum entry in the Bourne series because it's the same movie done three times.

The Snake Plissken/ Escape From- "franchise". I could watch a dozen variations of that story for different major American cities (as long as it's Carpenter/Russell).

Friday the 13th. Around half of them are of totally indefensible quality, but I don't care.

Lord Of The Rings. Nothing has ever or will ever come close. Maybe a perfectly done Dune but I seriously doubt it.

For many years since I first read the books re-reading them has been an annual thing for me. I only stopped doing it in my late twenties. I've seen the movies more times than I would like to admit, even to myself.

Once I saw the first rough teaser that circulated around the net and until the end of the credits in ROTK I was completely obsessed with these movies. That's the reason I could never muster any kind of anger at the misshandling of Star Wars and the Matrix. Once LOTR was into the picture they were reduced to mere blips. And while I could listen and understand all the criticisms about them they just never register. It's pathological I think.

Child's Play*. I even dig the third one.


*seriously

Can't believe I forgot this one: HULOT!

That criteria would knock out the Lord of the Rings, that Harry Potters and several others I'm too lazy to think of but which are clearly franchises. And you can bet that when some superhero movie reboot is pitched in some meeting, the potential sequels are discussed.

The Halloween franchise for me as well. I love 'em all. I know, and admit, that some of them are shit, but I still love 'em. Donald Pleasance has a lot to do with that. Yes, I like Season of the Witch. I even like the terrible remake. It's shit, but I like it.

Edit: Alien, Back to the Future, and Ghostbusters get honorable mentions.

I also really enjoyed Hiroshi Inagaki's Samurai Trilogy. It's like a samurai soap opera. But then again, I love almost anything with Mifune starring.

Star Trek: I much prefer TOS and the 1st Six Movies. DS9 was better overall than TNG. But TNG did put out some dynamite stuff. The TNG movies except for parts of Generations and most of First Contact were crap.Voyager sucked balls from day 1 and Enterprise didn't start getting good until the start of the Xindi Arc. Unfortunatly I have zero hope for JJ's re-boot.

The James Bond franchise is a very close second.

You can't possibly love Resurrection. No one, and I mean NO ONE loves Resurrection.

Season of the Witch is an amazing film oozing with hot Atkins.

Put me down as another for the Back to the Future trilogy. Grew up with it and love it in every way.

I don't love it, but I do enjoy the opening with Curtis. But yeah, the rest is godawful.

Mothra vs Godzilla? Invasion of the Astro-Monsters?

Easy. The Bourne films. I've never dug an action star as much as Jason Bourne since...ever. Absolutely love them.

Unfortunately Kurosawa only made two Shakespeare adoptions so not quite a ttrilogy, but I prefer both even over Seven Samurai.

But my true art house franchise would have to be Bergman's "no God" trilogy of Through A Glass Darkly, Winter Light, and The Silence.

Throne Of Blood (1957)
The Bad Sleep Well (1960)
Ran (1985)

I like to consider Bananas, Sleeper and Love and Death a trilogy since they're all about rebelling against dictatorships.

You know I always forget about the Bad Sleep well, perhaps its the modern setting and noir that make it so distant as an adaption.

Halloween Frachise.

Love the utter fuck out of the first two as well as part 4 and am a fan of the rest of the series except for Resurrection, which may be the worst horror film of the past ten years.

Friday the 13th's are fun but Halloween is the true slasher franchise.


Also Bond, minus Die Another Day and Octopussy.

Star Wars and LOTR are my easy answers, but the Hellboy franchise and its hopeful continuation to a trilogy has become a personal crusade of mine. I've been trying to get my friends and family to give these flicks a shot. I don't get why so many people are so resistant to a fun series about a demon trying to save the world and bag Selma Blair, but they'll rush to see Meet The Spartans. God is dead and we have killed him.

Definitely Bond, as I've been a fan ever since I was a kid. My only lull occurred right after Die Another Day was released, at which point I truly didn't care about any future entries. Luckily, Casino Royale righted the ship.

More recently though, I've been a champion of the Hellboy films. Bring on the 3rd!

Rocky feels like the right answer since I love all of them except V for different reasons*. Along with how those movies seem kind of forgotten now. I could just as easily say the Lethal Weapon** movies, original Star Wars trilogy and original Indiana Jones trilogy, though. Something more recent, that'd be the Bourne trilogy for sure. Halloween is my favorite horror franchise, but mainly for the first two and the fourth one. Still haven't seen Zombie's reboot and probably never should. But I think I will at some point.


*Rocky IV is just ridiculously overblown '80s fun. No, it's not genuinely well executed, but there's no need to take it seriously. It's simply a guilty pleasure for me. Rocky and Rocky Balboa are really the two that I completely love with no reservations.

**Yes, I like the original Lethal Weapon better than the original Die Hard. And taken as a franchise, I generally enjoy the Lethal Weapon movies more than the Die Hard movies overall. The Diehards are great too, though.

Yeah!

Does Before Sunrise and Sunset count as a franchise? Cos i'll take that one.

Love 'em. But defend them as cinema? Can't.

Love the Alien series, read all the comic books and even the novels when I was younger. Most are embarrassing now, but the occasional (like Labyrinth or Tribes) comic got innovative.

Movie wise I even admit to getting a kick out of AvP: R, for the worst possible reasons, because it played like Aliens set on earth with a predator thrown in. Basically all the action beats from the Dark Horse comics without any of the characterization.

Hated the first AvP, however, except for the fight with the queen at the end.

I also continue to be fascinated by the Alien 3 that might have been. I love the movie as is, although I admit it is a flawed beast, but the myriad outlines, scripts, writers, and directors that took a crack at the project really demonstrate how scary Hollywood machine at work can be. A draft by David Twohy is strangely reminiscent of his Riddick work.

Hmmm, anything else? I love the Richard Stark Parker novels. Got turned onto them by Payback, both versions, and to my surprise discovered at least a dozen other movies based on books in the series. Aside from Point Blank, even Robert Duvall took a crack at Parker/Porter/Walker in The Outfit. Weird. Also love the Fletch books, tried to get into the movies but could only pick out parts of the first that didn't betray the spirit of the novel. I think there's a better Fletch out there than Chevy Chase.