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[edit] Nominate for deletion?

Is there any good reason for this page to even exist? It's an extremely long list consisting of movies that happen to come in threes. Some were intended as trilogies, some just happen to be; some are still "in progress" and may get more entries at any given time. Some are clearly related, some of them are thoroughly arbitrary. Some are all theatrical releases, some include direct-to-video releases.

All of that, however, is somewhat beside the point. There don't seem to be lists of tetralogies or pentalogies, and there really shouldn't be, so what's the point of having a list for every "trilogy" that's ever existed? To steal an argument directly off of another discussion page here: "Wikipedia is not an indiscrimate collection of information." See Wikipedia:Listcruft as well. Also, Is the list's criteria so open-ended as to welcome infinite results or abuse? from Wikipedia:Lists in Wikipedia.

Any of the information about what films are sequels to each other or that a certain someone feels are thematically linked into an arbitrary trilogy should be (and most likely is) included on the separate pages for the individual films.

I'm nominating it for deletion.

JoAnneThrax 22:57, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Structuring and adding content to this article

Should the article consist of:

  • an alphabetic ordering of names of the movie trilogies
  • an alphabetic ordering of names of directors, followed by the names of their respective trilogies in alphabetic or chronological order?

A lot of (most) entries in this list are still referring to the first movie of the trilogy, since mostly no article has yet been made that refers to the trilogy as a whole.Brz7

I removed redlinks to a few trilogy titles of the form "This Movie trilogy|This Movie" that don't seem likely to receive their own trilogy pages apart from individual movie page(s) (for instance, Free Willy). Feel free to revert them as you see fit. I also propose that the year links be changed from "19xx" to "19xx in film", which seems more appropriate. Objections?—Crazilla 02:39, 16 December 2005 (UTC)

Time will tell. I think all trilogies should have a trilogy article: "name of the trilogy" (trilogy). Brz7 00:54, 17 December 2005 (UTC)

..or maybe "name of the trilogy" (film trilogy)?--Brz7 23:20, 30 March 2006 (UTC)
Trust me, do not use the word trilogy in the article name about the film series. You never know when Zemeckis might want to make a Back to the Future 4. I propose that they be named after the series..
Name of series (film series) or Name of series film series.
-- Lady Aleena talk/contribs 23:09, 28 May 2006 (UTC)

Help us decide how we will name series articles! Vote!
-- Lady Aleena talk/contribs 19:49, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Video Games

I was wondering whether or not we should include video games in the trilogies. I know that they are not movies, per se, but many of them have cutscenes that act like movies. A good example would be Enter the Matrix which shot actual live-action footage.

[edit] Hannibal

Do the Hannibal Lecter films belong as a trilogy? Aside from the fact that there are actually four (Manhunter not being included simply because he's played by Brian Cox and not Anthony Hopkins), but also because there's supposedly a prequel underway.

I think they're a valid inclusion since Red Dragon and Manhunter come from the same book. When/if the rumoured prequel is made, they will be a tetralogy, but until then I think they should be considered a trilogy. --Urbane legend 18:38, 9 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Years

Don't forget to put the years that the movies were released or will be release? Such as for Spiderman & Xmen trilogies. MarioV 23:43, 24 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Star Wars

Should we take off the Star Wars lists? The series is on the "List of film series" page. It is also actually just a series of 6 films, despite the time gap, and the list is quite long to be dividing series in half and adding them. Tim Long 06:01, 28 May 2006 (UTC)

IMO, leave them as two separate series. I don't consider the first three as part of the original three anyway. After watching SW1, I refused to see the next 2.
-- Lady Aleena talk/contribs 23:04, 28 May 2006 (UTC)
I believe they should all be listed together. Dispite personal feelings toward the films, they do build on each other and expand on a single story. The 6 films are much more connected to each other than many other films listed together. Cmjc80 23:05, 5 June 2006 (UTC)
I say that we should just leave the Star Wars films in both sections. They can be considered two separate trilogies or one hexalogy. While we're on the subject, I was thinking of including them in the duology section since there are a duology of trilogies. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Dogma100 (talk • contribs) 03:07, 23 December 2006 (UTC).

I think we should contact mr Lucas about this topic if he say it is series of 6 films it sould be conted as such other wise not.The Tramp 19:58, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] The Karate Kid

The Karate Kid is a trilogy by one director, but in 1994The Next Karate Kid was released, being the official forth Karate Kid film, making the series more than a trilogy.Brz7 16:04, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

The Karate Kid tetralogy is listed on List of film series.
-- Lady Aleena talk/contribs 19:44, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Broaden the list?

Maybe we should decide to include also film series that include more than 3 films? This would need to rename the article to e.g. List of film series. On top of the list/article could be mentioned that the trilogies in the list are bold (or the list could be subdivided).Brz7 16:04, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

List of film series is already started, and we have List of film duologies as well. Trilogies will stay trilogies. :)
-- Lady Aleena talk/contribs 19:43, 30 May 2006 (UTC)
What about movie series which for a long time were considered trilogies, until a 4th, generally less popular sequel came out? For example, many people do not consider "Alien:Resurrection" to be part of the Alien series, since it's so seperated from the other three. The first three Alien movies could then be considered to be a trilogy. Likewise, Halloween could be considered to be three seperate series. Already, there's at least three on the list that are considered trilogies (Indiana Jones, Shrek, and Rambo) for which a fourth movie is planned if not already being produced. Will those get removed when the next sequels are released? Or is the "trilogicity" of those sets sacrosanct? --Lurlock 02:34, 26 August 2006 (UTC)
Once the fourth film is released for those series, they will be moved to tetralogies. These lists are for the actual amount of films in a series of films, even if the fandom doesn't agree. - LA @ 04:28, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Missing titles after reorg

Just noticed that some recent entries were elft off the reorg. If you remember your recent updates, please check to make sure they are on the list.Cmjc80 22:54, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Bourne Movies Listed Twice

The 'Bourne' movies are listed twice on this page: Once under "The Bourne Trilogy" and once under "Jason Bourne" Novac 07:43, 29 July 2007 (UTC)