10 Greatest Film Trilogies of All Time
03. Star Wars (The Originl Trilogy)
The original Star Wars trilogy is the ultimate morality tale. It's good versus evil in it's most basic form and yet it is good versus evil on it's most epic scale. The original trilogy redefined the idea of science fiction and turned an entire generation into Wookie loving Nerf Herders that would spend the rest of their lives swamping their overactive imaginations with everything and anything they could find relating to the Star Wars universe.
If you're one of the 3 people in the world that hasn't seen any of the movies then we'll fill you in on the intergalactic soap opera a little. Some skinny, whiney farm boy meets an old weird dude with a beard who convinces him he's important somehow in the fight against an evil empire that is controlled by another dude with a shiny black helmet. Along the way the farm boy and weird old dude with a beard team up with a hairy bear monkey man and Indiana Jones in a waistcoat. It seems they are all on a mission to rescue some sexy princess with stupid hair who turns out to be as whiney as the farm boy but better looking. Eventually after outrunning everything the Empire can send their way the gang locate the evil black helmeted dude and send farm boy into battle against him, probably in the hopes he'll lose and be killed thus rendering him less whiney. Instead farm boy wins with something known as The Force and finds out that the helmet wearing guy is actually really ugly, unfortunate as he's farm boys biological dad and looks run in the genes.
George Lucas has tampered with these films so much that the original cuts seem hideously dated but superior in every way. The decision to then go ahead and make an inferior prequel trilogy was a bad one in our book as anyone watching the films in numerical order instead of the correct 4, 5, 6, 1, 2, 3 order will see a drastic drop in CGI quality come A New Hope. Ordinarily Star Wars would have ranked at number 1 in our list but over the last decade or so there have been a few contenders to the throne that have pushed it back. To find out who ranked numbers 2 and 1 read on.