10 Trilogies That Actually Get Better With Each Movie

How do you separate three films that are all basically as close to 10 out of 10 as you can get? Somehow, this is what Peter Jackson achieved, a near-perfect trilogy that you could argue gets better with each entry. What he and every single person involved created was a triumph of both cinema and storytelling.

The Fellowship of the Ring had a lot of heavy lifting to do in terms of world-building and exposition, introducing audiences to characters they would come to love, all while kicking off the epic adventure to come. It achieved everything it set out to achieve and acted as a base for the rest of the trilogy while acting as an outstanding chapter of the story in its own right.

With The Two Towers, though the Fellowship had split, the scale of everything became grander, introducing the likes of the Rohirrim to the story, while boasting the epic Battles of both Helm's Deep and Isengard, some of the most impressive sequences of the entire franchise. Even with all this going on, Frodo, Sam, and of course Gollum were at the story's heart.

Part of the journey, arguably the most important part, is the end, and if Return of the King hadn't stuck the landing as perfectly as it did, who knows how the movies would be looked back on now? Despite having multiple loose ends to tie up, thankfully what was produced was one of the most satisfying and beautiful endings possible.