What is Your All Time Most Favorite Movie Franchise?

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Paladin1950

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Mine has always been James Bond. Mainly because of the greatest .007 of them all, Sean Connery! I know with Star Wars and all of this super hero Marvel garbage, it's fallen down the list along with my 2nd favorite, Indiana Jones. But I'll take James Bond and Indiana Jones over that super hero computer graphics trash any day.
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I agree about James Bond and Indiana Jones Franchises and just wanted to give a shout out to one of my favorites.

'The Thin Man' movies starring William Powell and Myrna Loy still entertain to this day.
The two are perfect together and the witty banter between the two is great.

The first of the 6 movies came out in 1934 and the last was in 1947.
 

My favorite is a guilty pleasure of mine and that is the old Sherlock Holmes movies starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce. I starting watching the movies on a local station when I was younger. They usually aired over the weekends. Yes, they are old, corny and very dated but I still enjoy watching all of the movies they did together. I have tried to get into other Sherlock Homes series and franchises but just couldn't get into them.

I would put Bond second on my personal list and Indiana Jones third. I liked the first 3 Star Wars Movies but lost interest after that.


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ā€œBack To The Future.ā€ I am a big fan of Christopher Lloyd and Michael J. Fox. Christopher Lloyd is so real. I never met him, but I saw him on a talk show that showed their reunion late last year in New York on TV and he came across as a normal guy. He truly loves Michael and he enjoyed making the ā€œBack To The Futureā€ sequels. Michael praised Lloyd for staying close to him after being diagnosed with Parkinsonā€™s.

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Forrest Gump
Sound of Music (especially "Lara's" song ha)
Anne of Green Gables
Dr. Shivago
Mary Poppins

But I didn't like the looong scene, in Mary Poppins, with the animated penguins etc dancing around. I saw a documentary about making that movie which said there was a behind-the-scenes disagreement as to whether or not to use the animation scene or not.
 
MarkinPhx said:
My favorite is a guilty pleasure of mine and that is the old Sherlock Holmes movies starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce. I starting watching the movies on a local station when I was younger. They usually aired over the weekends. Yes, they are old, corny and very dated but I still enjoy watching all of the movies they did together. I have tried to get into other Sherlock Homes series and franchises but just couldn't get into them.
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Me too, I enjoyed watching them when I was a kid.
 
It was Star Trek, except that the new revised timeline really lowered the quality level in my opinion.

Today, I have no favorite movie Franchise. Most bore me. Same old, some old.
 
OneEyedDiva said:
I think I may have only see two of the Alien movies. I saw the first one in the theater with my son and one part scared the mess out of me! šŸ˜± I think I also saw Alien vs Predator.
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I even like 2 (Aliens 4 and Alien vs Predator) of the ones that Alien "purists" don't like, lol. However, I agree with them about Aliens 3 and AvP 2; didn't like either of those.

And I forgot about the Godzilla franchise; I even like the one that most Godzilla purists hate, the 1998 one with Jean Reno. My grandnephew-in-law, who's a Godzilla purist is horrified that Auntie likes that one. Hey it's our job as elders to embarrass and horrify our younger relatives, right? :ROFLMAO:
 
officerripley said:
I even like 2 (Aliens 4 and Alien vs Predator) of the ones that Alien "purists" don't like, lol. However, I agree with them about Aliens 3 and AvP 2; didn't like either of those.

And I forgot about the Godzilla franchise; I even like the one that most Godzilla purists hate, the 1998 one with Jean Reno. My grandnephew-in-law, who's a Godzilla purist is horrified that Auntie likes that one. Hey it's our job as elders to embarrass and horrify our younger relatives, right? :ROFLMAO:
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Oh yeah! How could I forget Godzilla?!! Based on your reply, I realize that I missed more of the Alien franchise than I thought. Who cares what the "purists" think. We like what we like.
 
My favorite would be Marvel up until the last film of the Avenger series. After that, Stan Lee died, and Marvel sold out to Disney. It's been one disappointment after another. Spiderman still holds up and the last Deadpool movie was a box office success, but I was never a big fan of Deadpool even when Marvel was setting new box office expectations for Hollywood.

So do I have a favorite franchise now? Nothing since the pandemic and the writer's strike, but I do think movies are slowly getting better again.
 
Paladin1950 said:
Mine has always been James Bond. Mainly because of the greatest .007 of them all, Sean Connery! I know with Star Wars and all of this super hero Marvel garbage, it's fallen down the list along with my 2nd favorite, Indiana Jones. But I'll take James Bond and Indiana Jones over that super hero computer graphics trash any day.
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Star Wars was excellent while Lucas Films owned it and George himself was in charge. Same with Pixar Films. Marvel started out as super entertainment. Now it's just not watchable. No one can even explain what Disney's been trying to do for the past decade or so, not even the people at Disney.

But I think the key word here is Franchise; The establishment of a corporation, including the granting of certain privileges such as exemption from individual liability for the acts of the corporation ....including churning out shyte, apparently.
 
Thin Man series, Hercule Poirot (David Suchet), the Evil Dead (Bruce Campbell), John Wick, Pirates of the Caribbean, the Terminator, Mission Impossible & Madagascar.
 
Feelslikefar said:
I agree about James Bond and Indiana Jones Franchises and just wanted to give a shout out to one of my favorites.

'The Thin Man' movies starring William Powell and Myrna Loy still entertain to this day.
The two are perfect together and the witty banter between the two is great.

The first of the 6 movies came out in 1934 and the last was in 1947.
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I couldn't agree more. No cinematic couple comes to mind who had greater chemistry than did Powell and Loy. Absolutely enchanting. And class like that is a far distant memory.
 
MarkinPhx said:
My favorite is a guilty pleasure of mine and that is the old Sherlock Holmes movies starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce. I starting watching the movies on a local station when I was younger. They usually aired over the weekends. Yes, they are old, corny and very dated but I still enjoy watching all of the movies they did together. I have tried to get into other Sherlock Homes series and franchises but just couldn't get into them.

I would put Bond second on my personal list and Indiana Jones third. I liked the first 3 Star Wars Movies but lost interest after that.
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I too love those movies. Rathbone and Bruce are my favorite Holmes & Watson. My second choice would be Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman in the Sherlock TV series (4 series).
 
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