The time travel trilogy also features an excellent story and incorporates plenty of positive messages as well. RELATED: The Best Games Involving Time Travel
Fox and Christopher Lloyd makes Marty and the Doc's friendship feel incredibly genuine, while their zany and often bizarre antics are nothing but a joy to behold.
The Back to the Future trilogy is full to the brim of memorable moments and manages to strike an excellent balance between comedy and drama. Weakest Entry: Back to the Future Part II (1989).Movies: Back to the Future (1985), Back to the Future Part II (1989) & Back to the Future Part III (1990).Like many action heroes, McClane did start to run out of steam as he got older, but that's not at all to say that Die Hard 2 and Die Hard with a Vengeance didn't still have their moments as well. This extends to his interactions with the series' villains too, with his rivalry with Alan Rickman's Hans Gruber character providing some of the trilogy's very best moments. John McClane is one of the biggest badasses of all time and some of his antics are truly unforgettable. If only for its incredible first entry though, the original Die Hard trilogy arguably has the edge over its contemporaries when it comes to pure, unadulterated action.
The eighties spawned some fantastic action movie franchises, with Alien, The Terminator, and Lethal Weapon all making their debuts throughout the decade. Weakest Entry: Die Hard with a Vengeance (1995).Actors: Bruce Willis, Bonnie Bedelia, Reginald VelJohnson, William Atherton & Alan Rickman.Director: John McTiernan & Renny Harlin.Movies: Die Hard (1988), Die Hard 2 (1990) & Die Hard with a Vengeance (1995).The plot itself is one of the sci-fi genre's very best too and the Wachowski's did a great job of translating it to the big screen. Perhaps the most intriguing of these is his ongoing rivalry with Agent Smith, who is expertly portrayed by Hugo Weaving. Neo's journey from skeptical programmer to "The One" is scintillating from start to finish and the relationships that he forges along the way help a lot in this regard.
When taken as a trilogy, however, the movies boast an excellent story arc, fantastic characters, and some of the coolest special effects to ever grace the silver screen. Such was the excellence of The Matrix that it was always going to be difficult for its sequels to stack up, and that definitely ended up being the case.
Creating three great movies, on the other hand, is almost impossible, with very few trilogies able to boast a 100% record when it comes to both critical and commercial success. Creating a great movie requires a solid script, a talented cast, and, perhaps more than anything, a lot of hard work and dedication.