What is everyone's obsession with trilogies?

People are always saying for some series, oh they have to make another because they only made two. NO THEY DON'T. Or also sometimes a fourth movie is made and everyone's like, well now they have to make two more!!! NO THEY DON'T.

There are three posts now, nobody post after me!

EDIT - Dammit! Quick, two more people, post something!

These things come in 3 parts:

-Hockey games
-The trinity
-the Hindu God
-beginning, middle, end
-etc

Maybe cos it's an easy way of making a guaranteed cash cow as opposed to going out on a limb with a fresh idea.D3nnyCrane

Nice.

Harry Potter came in 7 parts. Seven is a magic number.

And really, those things where it's in a volume of six is just two clumps of three.

I have never heard of this obsession with trilogies...Maddy_K

Lord of the Rings
Star Wars
Matrix
Indiana Jones
Back to the Future

Just to name the obvious ones.

so that there is a beginning, middle and end. Not just beginning, end

[QUOTE="D3nnyCrane"]Maybe cos it's an easy way of making a guaranteed cash cow as opposed to going out on a limb with a fresh idea.cu_be_cie

Nice.

Harry Potter came in 7 parts. Seven is a magic number.

And really, those things where it's in a volume of six is just two clumps of three.

Wait...3 x 7 = 21. 21 + 2 = ...god that movie sucked

Maybe cos it's an easy way of making a guaranteed cash cow as opposed to going out on a limb with a fresh idea.D3nnyCrane

Yeah don't get me wrong, I have nothing against sequels, or trilogies. I just think you should use the appropriate amount of movies to tell the story and then be done. Anything further would be masterbation But sometimes masterbation can be fun and/or provacative (Matrix sequels).

[QUOTE="Maddy_K"]I have never heard of this obsession with trilogies...cu_be_cie

Lord of the Rings
Star Wars
Matrix
Indiana Jones
Back to the Future

Just to name the obvious ones.

[QUOTE="cu_be_cie"]

[QUOTE="D3nnyCrane"]Maybe cos it's an easy way of making a guaranteed cash cow as opposed to going out on a limb with a fresh idea.effena

Nice.

Harry Potter came in 7 parts. Seven is a magic number.

And really, those things where it's in a volume of six is just two clumps of three.

Wait...3 x 7 = 21. 21 + 2 = ...god that movie sucked

so that there is a beginning, middle and end. Not just beginning, end

Colin1192

But not all stories need to progress in that traditional linear fashion.

[QUOTE="cu_be_cie"]

[QUOTE="Maddy_K"]I have never heard of this obsession with trilogies...Maddy_K

Lord of the Rings
Star Wars
Matrix
Indiana Jones
Back to the Future

Just to name the obvious ones.

Well when I say "everyone's obsession" that's obviously hyperbole but I have heard many people say things to effect I said in my OP so that's where I got the term obsession from.

[QUOTE="cu_be_cie"]

[QUOTE="Maddy_K"]I have never heard of this obsession with trilogies...Maddy_K

Lord of the Rings
Star Wars
Matrix
Indiana Jones
Back to the Future

Just to name the obvious ones.

The topic title is meant to be an exxageration.

The point is, there are quite a few to where you significantly notice them.

Because the good ones are too epic to be squeezed into one movie. :P

Because De La Soul said "3 is the magic number".:D

Because De La Soul said "3 is the magic number".:D

MentatAssassin

School House Rock also said that...