Trilogies

This summer, Flowing Data posted this very interesting article on movie trilogies.  The Rotten Tomatoes score for Toy Story 3 had just come out (99%), so they decided to compare scores for “true trilogies” as listed on Wikipedia and present them in a couple of nice looking graphs (which, by the way, is what Flowing Data is all about / just plain cool).

So first they made this chart (see below), which I think is actually a bit hard to decipher…well the top half anyway.

I generally agree with chart–Bourne got better with age, MI:3 was bad ass, Ocean’s 12 was such a cop out, and yeah, like HSM 2 was totally lame.

The atrocity in this chart that I refuse to get over is WTF is up with the Back to the Future chart?! In my book, BTTF 2 is the clear champ of the series, followed closely by 1, then 3 by a slightly larger gap. I think of all the things Bobby Z and Stevie Speils had to come up with to put Marty in the future!! Hoverboards, flying cars (what other movie have you seen that does that so realistically) and then the genius for them to actually GO BACK to the Enchantment Under the Sea dance from the first movie!!! That is pure motion picture gold right there!!!!