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2013

Friday Five – Movie Franchises

Posted By on Friday February 8, 2013 at 2:57 pm
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Film Franchises

Welcome to the Friday Five! Each week I help you get to know me a bit better with the help of a top five list! This week’s category: Movie Franchises!
 
There are plenty of good media franchises, but it’s hard to find one where more than 75% of them are all good. So there were some choices I didn’t make because too many films in the series I didn’t like or just don’t hold up to the original. I tried to pick series where almost all of them were good.

  1. Star Trek – To quote the great Philip J. Fry – “You know what movies average out to be really good? The first six Star Trek movies!”. The last five ain’t so bad either, but everyone knows the evens are the best. OK, so Final Frontier was garbage, and Insurrection was kinda boring, but they were hampered with bad scripts and low budgets and did the best they could with them.

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  2. Planet of the Apes – I will fight you endlessly that this is the best sci-fi movie franchise ever, even with the Tim Burton remake that makes no sense and James Franco prequel.

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  3. The View Askewverse – Kevin Smith’s Jersey Trilogy (composed of six movies) in the Clerks franchise. The only weak link in the bunch is Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, but only because it’s played for broad comedy and all the other ones are mostly serious or have a serious baseline.

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  4. Marvel Cinematic Universe – Not a single dud in the bunch, except maybe the first Hulk, but even that barely counts in comparison to the awesomeness that is The Avengers

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  5. Dark Knight Trilogy – The best superhero series besides the above, even if it is somewhat confusing to the uninitiated. And who doesn’t love the “Batman Voice”?

 
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is the proud owner of a life size replica Captain Kirk Chair. He is a hoarder of Comic Books, Transformers, and Star Trek action figures. He attended Space Camp as an adult. He has taken vacations to the closing of the Star Trek Experience and the final night Shuttle launch. He has been known to yell at his television when the kids can't put together the damn statue in the Shrine of the Silver Monkey. When not writing for InsufficientScotty, he is a Software Engineer for a major healthcare communications company.

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