Best movie Series/franchise

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Permalink Reply by BOWENARROW on July 1, 2009 at 2:38am

Yeah, Indiana Jones and the Back to the Future movies

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Permalink Reply by Porter on July 1, 2009 at 2:47am

Dollars Trillogy

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Permalink Reply by MDS on July 1, 2009 at 2:55am

Let me just go ahead and get this one out of the way.

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Permalink Reply by Gnarf on July 1, 2009 at 3:11am

of course it's Indiana Jones, no question... ghostbusters is up there though. hope the new one lives up to the original

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Permalink Reply by Welvin on July 1, 2009 at 3:16am

James Bond. Not all are good but there is about a dozen great ones. I hope this series never ends.

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Permalink Reply by MDS on July 1, 2009 at 3:26am

Bond?
I'll grant you the "Connery years", but think the over all series got too "campy" during the "Dalton years" that hurt it.

However, thinking of it as going about making movies for 40years, and still being able to draw movie-goers into the theaters, Bond DOES have some serious muscle.

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Permalink Reply by Chig Champa on July 1, 2009 at 5:09am

I think you mean it got campy during Roger Moore's stay with the franchise, to the point of the films feeling like live action cartoons.

Timothy Dalton's two films with the franchise may have been a lot of things, but I don't think "camp" springs to mind when discussing either The Living Daylights or License To Kill.

Personally, I thought Dalton was a pretty badassed Bond. He just got involved at a horrible period in time for the franchise as a whole.

At the same time, Roger Moore did have his charms...

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Permalink Reply by Lab Rat on July 1, 2009 at 5:35am

I think Roger Moore was just reprising his role from The Saint. I could never take him seriously as Bond. The stories didn't help. James Bond became a charicature of himself with Moore. But I've got to agree with you on Dalton. It was just the wrong time. I think people were, as a whole, looking for something more gritty in the late eighties. Dalton is still my second favorite Bond, though.

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Permalink Reply by The question ? on July 1, 2009 at 3:28am

Die HArd. I loved everyone of them. And the Bourne Trilogy.

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Permalink Reply by Sobo on July 1, 2009 at 5:16am

really, it didn't bother you that John McClain went from being a foul-mouthed everyday street cop in the first movie to an PG-13 indestructible karate superhero in the fourth one. I don't disagree with you on the first movie, and the second was good. The third was kinda fun, but that last one was fucking ridiculous.

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Permalink Reply by The question ? on July 4, 2009 at 1:38am

First of all John McClain never did karate. ANd as far as the dirty mouth goes, it didn't bother me very much. And if you watch the uncut version you can get the good old foul mouthed McClain. The movie itself to me was a really fun ride though.

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Permalink Reply by ProtoEva00 on July 1, 2009 at 4:10am

Define "best"
By Hollywood standards, it's the almighty buck, meaning the most profitable is "best". Considering no profitable franchise will ever die, and this post is about contiuation not stand-alone, it seems fair...

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