Movie Franchise Tournament - Round 1 - The Dollars Trilogy vs Lord of the Rings

[Bjornebye]

 

 

 

[Bjornebye]

Lord of the Rings is brilliant, Twin Towers being an absolute belter of a film but The Good The Bad and the Ugly is out there. Dollars Trilogy for me. 

[Trumo]

Dollars trilogy for me. It defined a genre, influenced so much afterwards, created a superstar, and the cinematography and score are still top-notch more than 50 years on. Eastwood/Leone/Morricone is collaborative lightning in a bottle.

 

I know LOTR is technically brilliant and epic in scale, but I've never bothered to re-watch them having seen each of them once. I've never bothered with The Hobbit trilogy either.

[Juniper]

LOTR for me, easily.

 

One of the most epic trilogies around.
 

Prefer the books but the films are still absolutely brilliant. No way you could accurately fit the books into three films but Peter Jackson and his team did a brilliant job all the same. 

 

Proper events at the time also, loved that each one came out a year apart.

 

Easily Lord of the Rings. Nearly 20 years later and each film still looks great. 

[AngryOfTuebrook]

12 minutes ago, Trumo said:

Dollars trilogy for me. It defined a genre, influenced so much afterwards, created a superstar, and the cinematography and score are still top-notch more than 50 years on. Eastwood/Leone/Morricone is collaborative lightning in a bottle.

 

I know LOTR is technically brilliant and epic in scale, but I've never bothered to re-watch them having seen each of them once. I've never bothered with The Hobbit trilogy either.

What he said.

[Strontium]

Only 11 votes so far, but it looks like this is going to be another prime example of GF gonna GF.

[Carvalho Diablo]

LOTR is fantastic but Leone's spaghetti westerns still piss all over them.

[Pidge]

Yojimbo is the better version.

 

LotR for me.

[Special K]

LOTR is the greatest trilogy of films ever made.

[VladimirIlyich]

6 minutes ago, Special K said:

LOTR is the greatest trilogy of films ever made.

Not quite,but its very,very good.

[Code]

 

[Juniper]

Also, this 

 

 

 

[Code]

 

[Tony Moanero]

Dollars Trilogy. The Lord of the Rings films are, undoubtedly, very good films. However, I found watching them a slog and a bit boring.

[Tony Moanero]

1 hour ago, VladimirIlyich said:

Not quite,but its very,very good.

What, in your opinion, is, Vlad?

[Anubis]

Dollars Trilogy. It’s not that I don’t like the LotR but it lost because Legolas surfs shields downstairs and elephant trunks. No, just no.

[KMD7]

Fuck what a tough match up. Going with Dollars. 

[littletedwest]

Dollars trilogy couldnt get into lotr. Best Sergio Leone Western is once upon a time in the west though

[mars]

34 minutes ago, littletedwest said:

Dollars trilogy couldnt get into lotr. Best Sergio Leone Western is once upon a time in the west though

One of the best films ever made in my opinion.

[littletedwest]

Yep, absolutely.  Slow in points but defo in my top 5

[Strontium]

3 hours ago, Special K said:

LOTR is the greatest trilogy of films ever made.

 

The Lord of the Rings trilogy is an absolutely monumental cinematic achievement.

 

But yeah, let's all just vote for Clint Eastwood looking moody in a poncho.

[VladimirIlyich]

1 hour ago, Tony Moanero said:

What, in your opinion, is, Vlad?

The Godfather is unbeatable. Godfather 3 was much weaker but even so the first two were enough for me to regard them as the best. There is also a cracking trilogy of Danish films called Pusher with a younger Mads Mikkelsen in them.That is superb. A Swedish trilogy called Easy Money or Snabba Cash,I believe,which are very good. Not forgetting the Swedish originals of The Girl with The Dragon Tatto and its sequels. English speaking films are not necessarily the best though.

[Baltar]

LOTR. Love the Dollars movies but no movie can match the sheer epicness of Lord of the Rings.

[General Dryness]

Spaghetti westerns over the LOTR trilogy.

 

Fuck me fucking bandy. 

[aws]

Tough call but went for Clint.