Putting anything above The Lord of the Rings as a trilogy is already a dangerous move, and it should be. That trilogy does scale, grief, friendship, corruption, sacrifice, myth, and closure at a level most franchises cannot even dream about. So if three trilogies go above it, the reason cannot be they are also great and epic. The reason has to be sharper. They have to do something so complete, so intimate, so humanly exact, that perfection starts feeling less like spectacle executed flawlessly and more like life itself being trapped on film without a wasted beat.
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