Best Marvel trilogy ?

[Micromind]

Choose the best Marvel trilogy. I have included MCU movies by Marvel Studios and Marvel movies by Sony, Fox and New Line.

Rate as a trilogy as whole and not just based on one or two favorite movies that are in it.

 

[Micromind]

You can choose more than one option, for example - if someone thinks CA trilogy and Spider-Man trilogies both were equally great, then you can choose both.

Edit: After few months, we can just look at aggregate percentages to see which is most popular trilogy on SHH boards.

 

[Spider-Aziz]

1. Captain America trilogy is the most consistently good and most pleasant to watch.
2. Iron Man is second best trilogy.
3. X-Men 3 is a good underrated film in a good trilogy
4. Spider-Man 2 is good but overrated, Spider-Man 3 is a better movie in a lot of respects and is the second best Spider-Man movie.

Thor the Dark World is so boring it ruins it for the other two films.

I have not seen anything of the Blade trilogy save for a few scenes from the first film.

 

[Yowza]

The thing is these aren't really film trilogies. The closest thing that comes to that is the Iron Man movies.

MCU the film segues then catches up later with the character after a teamup film if said character appears in it. There are also some movies like Antman 2 that feel like a filler movie between 2 teamup movies doing it's own film then reconnecting. Some films like Ragnorok feel like a departure entirely and Captain America 3 never really happened.

Also, aggregate percentages for boards says nothing. There are so many boards most just hang around right before or during release. There are the traditionally popular characters like Batman that get a lot of activity with no movie coming out of course for a while and that's that.

 

[Catoti]

I really can't pick, I like all of them for different reasons and have nitpicks with all of them too.

 

[Docker2.0]

I got Captain America. But shouldn't the Avengers be counted as a trilogy as well?

 

[Yowza]

For some of those here saying the MCU is full of trilogies, there's a link to trilogy to be found here: Trilogy - Wikipedia and also no MCU movies are mentioned here as well: List of feature film series with three entries - Wikipedia but instead under here: https:// en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_feature_film_series_with_more_than_twenty_entries Granted, there should be stuff listed under trilogy that isn't (Indiana Jones for instance where 3 distinct entries makeup product in past tense deriving from a certain time and source while 4th entry distant enough to be connected 1 way street so to speak).

Not that it's a big deal but this narrative about trilogies should go by a commonly held definition as described here:

...a set of three works of art that are connected, and that can be seen either as a single work or as three individual works. They are commonly found in literature, film, and video games, and are less common in other art forms...

...Creators of trilogies may later add more works. In such a case, the original three works may or may not keep the title "trilogy...

The MCU movies are more of an amalgamated series of comics or cartoons made as live action that are constantly ongoing.

They also often include different takes (Ragnarok) or essentially an Avengers follow-up like Civil War or a separate fill-in movie instead as a segue from main plot as other examples already mentioned. Trilogies can certainly be added to at later points and original trilogy can still be seen as distinct product (example being Lord of the Rings where many don't even bother watching The Hobbit) but the closest thing the MCU has to a Trilogy is the Iron Man product but in that case is fettered by later Stark appearances being added on within other movies so in past tense it's really just part of the fragmented homogenized whole increasingly so as time goes by.

Ant-Man or Guardians of the Galaxy in past tense could be seen as a trilogy but will just have to wait and see.

 

[Drizzle]

I got Captain America. But shouldn't the Avengers be counted as a trilogy as well?

The Avengers series is technically four films, so no.

I voted for Captain America because it's the most consistent and it still functions as a trilogy on its own, even though it makes less sense without also having seen the first two Avengers films and you also need to watch Infinity War and Endgame for the proper completion of the main character's arc. Pretty much every sub-franchise in the MCU is like that though.

 

[Docker2.0]

The Avengers series is technically four films, so no.

I voted for Captain America because it's the most consistent and it still functions as a trilogy on its own, even though it makes less sense without also having seen the first two Avengers films and you also need to watch Infinity War and Endgame for the proper completion of the main character's arc. Pretty much every sub-franchise in the MCU is like that though.

Wait................what? And I know it's four films but still..............it's not a trilogy? That's a technicality it at it's finest!

 

[Yowza]

Fall on deaf ears or not, Avengers 2 was stand-alone for the most part. A lot of introductions between 2+3 in other movies not central to the plot teased at the end of Avengers 1 makes it a lot more films than 4 total.

Granted the narrative structure of the films introducing new characters was for the most part self-contained with teases here and there though. Therefore, Avengers 1, 3, and 4 I think could be counted as a trilogy to an extent. If there were another film in place of Age of Ultron establishing all the expository elements that there was no time to go over in 3 and 4 these could've been a quadrilogy (CBM posts story elements from manifesto and various stages of script planning done purely for the writers to have background info. to finish the main script as not a lot of expository ground concerning the Thanos plot was gone over in previous films but are a few books covering some additional ground though I haven't yet to see if good or not).

Certainly 3 films that are stand-alone can as well be a trilogy but I think for that to be the case all 3 must be considered as part of the same product in a past tense being within the scope of deriving from a time and place in culture involving a singular take on a character that can be envisioned as part of the same product in the past tense (Indiana Jones I think is a good example of this).

Not that I really care one way or the other but just find it funny to see these trilogy threads a lot. Sure, there's 3 movies under an IP name but they're positioned as part of the MCU to a point where each franchise (outside of maybe Gaurdians and Ant-Man which obviously still need another entry yet) hasn't maintained it's singularity as a franchise for 3 movies straight without leaning on something else or becoming enmeshed in other movies.

 

[Bayne]

Captain America is my favorite trilogy in the superhero genre and outside it. It's the only trilogy I've ever seen that, imo, started strong and still got better with every movie. Most others either start weak (Thor, X-men) or end weak (Iron Man, TDK, X-men).

Wait................what? And I know it's four films but still..............it's not a trilogy? That's a technicality it at it's finest!

If you watch the 'Avengers Trilogy', you would end with Infinity War. With a cliffhanger waiting to be resolved. If the story is fundamentally unfinished in the third film and requires the fourth to be complete, then it can't really be a trilogy, can it?

 

[Yowza]

Overall, I think Captain America had the strongest films under it's IP MCU wise.

Still, the 3rd movie though was essentially Avengers 2.5. Batman vs. Superman wasn't a direct follow-up to Man of Steel as a DCU event film in a similar vein to how Civil War was moreso an MCU event film continuing Iron Man's story and picking up from Avengers 2.

I remember the theatrical release dates of Captain America 3 and BvS being head to head with Kevin Feige not wanting to budge as that was their slot and eventually BvS moved to another date. He likened Captain America 3 as an event film comparable to that saying they had something special planned which it turned they did.

 

[Stormborn]

Every MCU series seems to have at least one weak link:

1. First Avenger (6/10), Winter Soldier (9/10), Civil War (8/10)
2. Avengers (9/10), Age of Ultron (7/10), Infinity War (9/10), Endgame (5/10)
3. Thor (6/10), Dark World (5/10), Ragnarok (9/10)
4. Iron Man (8/10), IM2 (6/10), IM3 (5/10)

 

[Micromind]

Is this a trilogy ?

X-Men Origins: Wolverine, The Wolverine, Logan.

 

[Bayne]

Is this a trilogy ?

X-Men Origins: Wolverine, The Wolverine, Logan.

Yes.

 

[Flint Marko]

Yeah you could call it a trilogy. But I doubt anyone would honestly pick it over anything else on this list.

 

[Micromind]

Yes.

Yeah you could call it a trilogy. But I doubt anyone would honestly pick it over anything else on this list.

If so, then what about

X-Men Origins: Wolverine, Deadpool and Deadpool 2 ?

As XM Origins showed his early form.

 

[Filmfreak]

Yeah you could call it a trilogy. But I doubt anyone would honestly pick it over anything else on this list.

I'd pick it over Blade, Thor and Iron Man.

 

[Iceman]

Form the list I'd choose Cap and Spidey. Otherwise I would have chosen Avengers.

 

[Flint Marko]

If so, then what about

X-Men Origins: Wolverine, Deadpool and Deadpool 2 ?

As XM Origins showed his early form.

Personally I say nah, there's maybe an argument to be made there but once Deadpool 3 comes out I think that goes out the window.

I'd pick it over Blade, Thor and Iron Man.

I stand corrected then, lol.

Haven't seen Blade 2 or 3 but I don't think there's any other movie on this last as weak as Origins.

 

[BoredGuy]

Every MCU series seems to have at least one weak link:

1. First Avenger (6/10), Winter Soldier (9/10), Civil War (8/10)
2. Avengers (9/10), Age of Ultron (7/10), Infinity War (9/10), Endgame (5/10)
3. Thor (6/10), Dark World (5/10), Ragnarok (9/10)
4. Iron Man (8/10), IM2 (6/10), IM3 (5/10)

First Avenger has aged very well, I'd give it much higher than a 6
Caps three movies were the best as a whole, but Civil War being too Avenger-y, I guess I give Iron Man the "best pure self-contained trilogy" award

 

[Micromind]

Personally I say nah, there's maybe an argument to be made there but once Deadpool 3 comes out I think that goes out the window.



I stand corrected then, lol.

Haven't seen Blade 2 or 3 but I don't think there's any other movie on this last as weak as Origins.

It's been some time since I saw Blade 2, but it was decent, Blade 2 was directed by Guillermo del Toro.

 

[Drizzle]

Wait................what? And I know it's four films but still..............it's not a trilogy? That's a technicality it at it's finest!

If you watch the 'Avengers Trilogy', you would end with Infinity War. With a cliffhanger waiting to be resolved. If the story is fundamentally unfinished in the third film and requires the fourth to be complete, then it can't really be a trilogy, can it?

This. It's not even as if Infinity War and Endgame are one movie split in two like Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows where you could make the argument that it functions as one long film. They're two separate stories with a beginning, middle, and end. Feige even said as much.

Not that I really care one way or the other but just find it funny to see these trilogy threads a lot. Sure, there's 3 movies under an IP name but they're positioned as part of the MCU to a point where each franchise (outside of maybe Gaurdians and Ant-Man which obviously still need another entry yet) hasn't maintained it's singularity as a franchise for 3 movies straight without leaning on something else or becoming enmeshed in other movies.

I thought about this myself and how unique Guardians 1 and 2 were especially within the MCU in that they didn't tie in to anything else other than the Infinity Stone connection and Thanos, the latter of which was only mentioned in Vol. 2. It took the Guardians four years to interact with any of the Avengers on screen, which made it more fun seeing them interact with the likes of Tony and Thor. Of course Vol. 3 will pick up after Endgame so GOTG loses its singularity as an individual franchise now but it did come the closest in terms of not tying into anything else within the MCU.

 

[Filmfreak]

I stand corrected then, lol.
Haven't seen Blade 2 or 3 but I don't think there's any other movie on this last as weak as Origins.

Blade 2 is pretty good actually. Trinity is probably the only movie in those trilogies that's even worse than Origins. But yeah out of the rest in the list nothing comes close to that level, fortunately.

 

[Milk Tray Guy]

X-Men 3 is a good underrated film in a good trilogy

Nice to find someone else who thinks so

It's been some time since I saw Blade 2, but it was decent, Blade 2 was directed by Guillermo del Toro.

Blade II is easily my favourite of the three movies.