Question of the week: can you name a trilogy that improved with each entry?

10 May 2016 Rob Buckley Film 24 Comments

As you may have noticed from yesterday’s review, I really rather enjoyed Captain America: Civil War. In fact, I declared it the best MCU movie so far. 

Of course, Captain America: Winter Soldier was my favourite before that, which set me thinking. Each Captain America movie has been better than its predecessor, which is almost unheard of in a trilogy. We can all think of a trilogy that has got worse with each new movie (eg The Matrix, Look Who’s Talking), that’s got better for its second outing before producing a disappointing conclusion (eg The Godfather, Star Wars, Star Trek) or that had worse sequel before improving for the final outing (eg Back To The Future, Ocean’s Eleven, Three Colours).

But I couldn’t think of any other trilogy where each new movie was better than the one before it. Can you?

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    I’m Rob Buckley, a journalist who writes for UK media magazines that most people have never heard of although you might have heard me on the podcast Lockdown Land or Radio 5 Live’s Saturday Edition or Afternoon Edition. I’ve edited Dreamwatch, Sprocket and Cambridge Film Festival Daily; been technical editor for TV producers magazine Televisual; reviewed films for the short-lived newspaper Cambridge Insider; written features for the even shorter-lived newspaper Soho Independent; and was regularly sarcastic about television on the blink-and-you-missed-it “web site for urban hedonists” The Tribe. Since going freelance, I've contributed to the likes of Broadcast, Total Content + Media, Action TV, Off The Telly, Action Network, TV Scoop and The Custard TV.

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