xkcd #3324: Ultimate Movie Series
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Sadly, none of the 14 Land Before Time films manage to make the list, although a small but devoted fan contingent argues that The Great Longneck Migration should beat out Guardians of the Galaxy.
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Are there really no better seventh movies than A New New Hope?
guarantee you there’s over 15 original series godzillas
I would argue that while TESB is the best Star Wars movie, Terminator 2 is a better movie in absolute terms.
It’s not the best movie in a series, it’s “the best 7th movie in any series.”
Not many franchises have 7 movies or more, so I understand how he landed there.
I’m talking about the 2 slot, not the 7 slot.
Ah. Even so, I could see the argument that it’s better than most sequels.
It is better than most sequels, but is it better than Terminator 2?
It took me just a little too long to realize that this considers the MCU as a single franchise. I was trying to figure out how there were ten Guardians of the Galaxy movies. Then again with Doctor Strange.
So Mission Impossible is 6? Kind of confusing.
The Predator entries seem suspect. If Prey is the fifth movie, then they’re not counting the AvP crossovers. But if Badlands is the ninth, they are.
Badlands also made the timeline confusing again by bringing in WT corporate stuff, because that puts Aliens back in the mix.
Where is Shawshank???
It’s not a franchise movie
Did you not see Shawshank 2: Warden’s Revenge?
Classic.
My bad. I really should learn to read better.
Empire Strikes Back is V
Them’s fightin’ words.
Phantom Menace ought to be negative II or negative III depending on whether we use 0. But nonetheless, heavy emphasis on negative.
Debatable :)
I don’t get 6. What movie is it referencing? Fallout is a game series (and a TV series).
Mission: Impossible
I doubt it, someone must know the answer
JJ Abrams Star Trek, really?
As the number goes up, the quantity of movies available drops significantly… at one point it is just 007 movies
I threw up in my mouth a little, especially since first contact is already on the list.
If you’re franchise is already on the list you shouldn’t have further considerations
Fuck first contact was a banger tho. Even tho it ruined the borg. Hell of a film.
They do it multiple times. Star Trek, Star Wars, MCU
I’ll take it over Fury road. I appreciate I’m probably in the minority there.
Not even the abomination that is Star Trek’s Kelvin timeline comes close to having The Force Awakens as best Star Wars installment.
Also it obviously takes the JJ Abram movies somehow as a whole different franchise (see: VIII). Out of those films Star Trek isn’t worse than the other two.
This list isn’t picking only one film from each franchise. It’s picking the highest rated nth film from all franchises that have at least n movies. So the franchise with the highest rated 8th film is Star Trek, with First Contact. And the franchise with the highest rated 11th film is also Star Trek, with the 2009 reboot.
It’s not one installment per franchise, it’s the best Nth installment regardless of franchise. JJ Trek actually appears twice with Star Trek Beyond at 13, for instance.
Based on IMDb rankings it has a 7.9, which beats Bond’s 11th The Spy Who Loved Me at 7.0 and MCU’s Avengers: Age of Ultron at 7.3. Are there any other movie franchises where the 11th film has a higher than 7.9?
That’s interesting, I would say Age of Ultron is underrated but I also like the 2009 Star Trek as well.
If I had to pick I would say AoU has a better rewatch ability though.
I strongly agree with the alt text, The Land Before Time should have been on this list
That was my first thought, as well.
The data may not lie, but it can still be dead wrong.
