According to Quentin Tarantino, This Is the Only Perfect Film Trilogy. “It Does What No Other Trilogy Has Ever Been Quite Able to Do”
Quentin Tarantino singled out the best film trilogy that achieved something the others failed to do. He added that a strong candidate for this title would have been Toy Story, had the sequels not been made.
Quentin Tarantino is one of the directors who have made cinematic history, and he needs no introduction to anyone. The filmmaker, who was behind the camera of Pulp Fiction, among others, often speaks out on other works, and he also spoke on the best cinematic trilogy. Tarantino has a clear winner in this category, although if one series hadn't stretched too far, it too would have been a strong candidate.
Tarantino said during the Club Random podcast that he loves Toy Story and it could have been the best film trilogy if the fourth installment had not been made (and now even a fifth installment is being worked on). So, the filmmaker singled out another famous trilogy that he believes deserves the title of best. The director even explained why he thinks so, and added that no other trilogy has managed to do so.
In the case of Toy Story, the third one is just magnificent. It’s one of the best movies I’ve ever seen. And if you’ve seen the other two, it’s just devastating. But the thing is, then three years later or something, they did a fourth. I have no desire to see it. You literally ended the story as perfect as you could, so no, I don’t care if it’s good. I’m done. […]
I think there’s only one trilogy that completely and utterly works to the Nth degree and that’s A Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. It does what no other trilogy has ever been quite able to do. The first movie is terrific, but the second movie is so great and takes the whole idea to such a bigger canvas that it obliterates the first one. And then the third one does the same thing to the second one, and that’s kind of what never happens. You’ll see this big jump from the first to the second and they don’t really land the third one.
The director of Pulp Fiction is right that trilogies are often made up of very uneven films, and at some point a series can plateau to the point where a good impression of it is erased. And singling out Dollars Trilogy is not such an unusual choice at all, these films are indeed very good and are considered cult films. From one part to the next, the narrative scope, scale and depth are expanded, while maintaining Sergio Leone's distinctive style.
