Here is the idea of #3movies for franchises ...
1) My all time favourite franchise is "Mission Impossible": https://www.looper.com/333275/the-mission-impossible-movies-ranked-worst-to-best/
I don't know of any other fanchiese where every episode is so thrilling and there is no significant drop in quality. Of course, you have to be a little enthusiastic about agent thrillers to watch it, and compared to reality, it seems unlikely that the world has to be saved every time. Overall, the storyline is more logical than James Bond and not so much bedtime stories.
2) My current favourite franchise is "Hunger Games": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hunger_Games_%28film_series%29
I like the story and the hidden criticism of #capitalism. The first part introduces the world and is not too brutal because the film is also for 12 year olds. The second part has basically the same story as the first part but shows much more of the world and Katniss learns what an important icon of the resistance she has become. The third part shows how propaganda works and how brutal a civil war is. If you look closely, you can see that Katniss suffers from depression and has to focus again and again in order to persevere at all. The ending, however, is a huge affront. It is illogical because it is not explained why the new government should be better now and Katniss retreats quite conservatively and starts a family, as is expected of a good American woman.
3) The worst franchise is "Terminator": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminator_(franchise)
The first part used to excite people, otherwise the franchise wouldn't have been created. But I think the first part has not aged well and today the special effects look very cheap. The 2nd part, however, is one of the best action movies of all time. Exciting from the first to the last minute with action sequences that still look very good today. Everything in the film is somehow right and that's the problem - the film could not be topped. Then there's a good series with a female teen terminator who protects John Connor during school time. But everything else in the franchise is just bad. With all the time travel they could have built a wonderful #mindfuck like in "Back to the Future" but instead it became more and more arbitrary and suddenly there was a new timeline and everything that happened before lost its validity. That's what happens when you have absolutely no ideas and want to upset all the fans.
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