There is something so innately funny about calling Paddington 2 P2

"It is better to make one great sequel than a mediocre trilogy" PREACH brother

Part of me is really looking forward to the time where one of Patrick's videos starts "the actual essay starts at 45:00"

The one thing I can never forgive, is when you end a trilogy in the most perfect way possible (Toy Story) and then tack on a fourth one because money.

Not gonna lie, I'm a little disappointed not to hear Patrick's Shrek analysis.

"Somehow... Star Wars video essays returned..."

"he can deflect bullets" "this is a hammer" Cinematic masterpiece. I seriously can not believe the short film you have been teasing for this long was the Charl finale all along. You crazy genius.

"Stories should always have a beginning, middle, and end" Fant4stic: "Hold my second act"

I see we’ve found a loophole to the whole “no more Star Wars videos” thing

Can we give it up for Chloe tho? She's absolutely killing this double role.

Just wanted to bring the "How to Train Your Dragon" trilogy to this discussion. They did an incredible job with its story

A key problem I noticed when I recently re-watched the second and third Pirates films: At The end of the second one, it's clear that everyone wants to save Jack because they care about him. It's emotional. They would do anything to save their friend. But then in the exact scene where they finally meet him again in the next film, it's explicitly stated that each of them only came to rescue him in order to accomplish other goals. Jack himself has a line where he asks "Did no one come to save me just because they missed me?" and I couldn't believe how clearly these two films were contradicting each other.

The line about Gordon Bombay being named after two brands of gin was golden. I belly laughed

I’d say aside from The Lord of the Rings, the best big-budget film trilogy is The Planet of the Apes reboot trilogy. Each installment is stand-alone in a way while being a part of a bigger story. Each installment has a big connecting idea and theme. And the third installment (in my opinion) delivers on being a profound and satisfying climax to the whole big picture story.

10:55 Remainder of obvious thing. "Lord of the Rings" is one novel in six books, which was publishes as three volumes, two books per one volume, due to decision of publisher. I don't remember if publisher make these decision due to scarcity of paper in post-war UK or for different reason.

I think this is why Revenge of the Sith works so well not just as a Trilogy ending (shitting on the two prior movies) but works so well in tying the whole saga together: It provides one controlling idea and makes it so that the Han and Leia plotlines don't matter so much by adding in other characters who also don't get great endings (Bail Organa, Padme) because the story is more about Anakin and Luke Skywalker. The controlling idea proposed is about how evil corrupts but can be undone and redeemed by love, compassion, faith and a guiding example.

I do love how Charl is getting irritated with Patrick's 'muse' getting in the way of his attempt at world domination. You knew who Patrick was when you picked him Charl, you have no one but yourself to blame.

This is Patrick's way of sticking it to Hollywood. He's making an entire extended length feature film about a crazy coconut and spoon feeding it to everyone while he makes airplane noises and Transformers jokes. That way by the time we've realized what's going on he's gotten raycon and Curiosity Stream to fund a movie. Then he just assembles the Charl supercut and storms Sundance.

Coming back here after GOTG Vol. 3... with a smile on my face.

"What is the plot of dead man's chest" A bunch of people want to stab the heart of Davy Jones for their own benifit. Jack for his survival, Will for his dad, East India to eradicate Piracy, and Nottingham to get his life back. East India wins and enslaves Davy instead of stabbing it and the next movie is about pretty much undoing that win

“Jake, he can deflect bullets!” “Yeah... this is a hammer.” Comedy gold right there, perfect delivery

"That's awful! So many universes and all have the movie 'Joker'." love it

The whole chicken thing in Back to the Future for me is connected to his views on his father. Yeah he changed the timeline and his dad ended up less of a coward. But he grew up with his father being one, and so he struggles with overcompensating, rushing into conflict because he doesn't want to end up like the version of his father he grew up with.

The villains’ philosophy in the dark knight rises is about giving the people of Gotham hope to take it away at the last moment. Bane makes it clear in the movie that he is a torturer, so he plans to tell the poor that they will have opportunities again and then just to take it away. Talia’s revenge for her father’s death, as she states it in the movie “it’s just a reward for my patience”.

23:53: Because of the edit, I first heard this as "Will, Elizabeth, and Will admit that they love each other"

That other Universe Chloe is supposed to be 10 years older & a battle hardened bounty hunter & looks exactly like this universe Chloe is either a flex on how flawless Chloe is or an indictment on how difficult & harrowing it is to be a musician in New York.

A few people added the newer Planet of the Apes films, which I appreciate. May I also present, for your consideration: The Kung Fu Panda trilogy. 1st film: being yourself, accepting who you are 2nd film: accepting your past and moving beyond it to be greater 3rd film: applying that understanding to those around you as Po literally goes from student to teacher by the end Each film has external stakes, as well as internal conflicts (Po's belief in himself; Po learning about his past; Po struggling with his feelings about finding his father) as well as philosophical (can *anyone* be a "dragon warrior"? How do you move past your scars? Can you teach while still being a student yourself?) I've probably worded these terribly, but it's such a fun - but meaningful and focused - trilogy that seems to have something to say by the final film. 👍🏻

Wow, you absolutely nailed it with Return of the Jedi. You perfectly explained the feeling I've been having about this movie since the day it came out. Every scene with Luke, Vader and the Emperor are captivating and my emotional investment totally drops on the rest of the movie.

the IRS storyline and the charl storyline secretly being one continuity the whole time. the power, THE POWER!

I’m just glad that someone outside the fandom addressed that LotR is not a trilogy.

Patrick is really taking a risk here as he’s inviting us to evaluate his ending to the Charl saga based upon the analytic criteria he himself has laid out, now fresh in our minds. He must be quite confident that his climax will provide us with the requisite satisfaction and release

I actually do think that the Sam Raimi Spider-Man movies should count as a trilogy, even if there were intended to me more movies in the series, since SM3 does wrap up narrative threads that were running through all three movies. Specifically: 1.) Harry's descent to villainy (and last-minute redemption), 2.) Peter and MJ committing to relationships with one another, 3.) Peter getting some closure regarding Uncle Ben's death by "forgiving" Sandman for his [retconned] involvement. It definitely seems like Raimi wrote the movies with overarching plots / narrative threads in mind, and wrote SM3 to close most of those out. If SM4 had been produced, it likely would have covered new thematic and narrative ground, since the threads from the first 3 movies were tied up.

It's so funny when you skip one or two videos and then come back to the main Patrick story and find these crazy plot twists

Back to the Future III actually is my favourite. I don't think it's the best, but it's my favourite.

“Please hammer, DO hurt him” was brilliant! AND the G train?! This was gold end to end!

The new Planet of the Apes trilogy (Rise, Dawn, War) is definitely a trilogy that stays strong throughout, I'd be curious to hear your thoughts on that series in a video. Excited for the finale, already got a Nebula subscription

OK, the "Oops All Jake Universe" is some straight Rick and Morty style hilarity.

I don't know, the whole "chicken" plot in BTTF 2 and 3 really rang with me as a kid. The moment in 3 when he says "He's an asshole" was like, a revelation for me. It's clumsy and 80's/90sish, but it's kind of a vital message that we don't really get enough in films. It's about toxic masculinity, and how the concept of courage as a nobility in itself is warped into a weapon that is used to manipulate men into doing things they don't actually want to do, and then suffering those consequences. Marty is a teenager, he experiences some really traumatic shit, he faces down stakes as he needs to, even when he is visibly scared. He is brave. But that bravery is incomplete until the moment he realises that bravery itself is a tool, not a goal, and doing the scariest thing, and doing the smart thing, and doing the most physically dangerous thing, are 3 completely separate ideas, and that he's the one that has to live with the consequences of those choices, or indeed die with those consequences, so he'd better start thinking about what he actually wants, instead of allowing simplistic ideals of courage to manipulate him into situations he doesn't want. That's a message that really resonated with me as a kid. I honestly think it helped to define me as a person. It's like how adults sometimes tell kids "The real courage is in standing up to the other kids, and telling them you won't smoke." That's inaccurate. The real courage is doing the thing that most scares you. If cigarettes are scarier than standing up to your peers, then for you, smoking is the more courageous choice. But who cares? Courage is a tool, not a goal. Find your goals, and pursue them with all the courage you can muster, but don't let the idea of courage be used to manipulate you into choices you don't actually want to make. Sorry, just had to get that out.

I remember being so excited after seeing TLJ. They had wrapped up all the major arcs and story beats, so that meant they could do anything with the next movie. But then they just backpedaled for the first half or so of the final film

I just love hopping into the Patrick Willems lore after missing a few videos and not knowing wtf is going on

Well, you finally got me to sign up for Nebula.

I can't believe I'm getting Nebula for a coconut. I've put it off long enough.

Toy Sory 3 would have rounded out a damn near-perfect trilogy.

This is an extremely well written essay. They just keep getting better and better! It’s amazing!

As a Czech, I'd like to thank you for mentioning Alois Jirásek. You totally messed up his name there :D

I'll be hanging a "Jake Hammer" right next to my Mjolnir, it deserves to be honored with other mythical weapons.

Patrick, you some how come up with a subject I been thinking about, that I couldn't put into words. And yet you make a video essay that speaks my truth. Thank you.

Dead Man's Chest is about finding the heart to stop Davy Jones while At World's End is about gathering the pirate lords to stop Beckett from bringing an end to all piracy.

Thank you for putting all this effort into making your videos of supreme quality! much appreciated :)

I can't wait for the inevitable directors cut of the Charl Saga with all the video essay parts in one video

I’m getting very close to considering Patrick my favorite content creator on a platform - that’s recently been mushrooming with overproduced, yet intellectually devoid, “popcorn” content. As Patrick’s creative confidence increases, razor sharp historical cinematic observations sharpen, and handle on indie editing & color finishing continue to be wound tighter - so does this viewer’s satisfaction in devouring & enjoying each of his subsequent video essays. It’s fun to watch the exponential growth in subject matter and quality. Can’t say enough good things about being a casual observer on this ride. Appointment viewing has hit KZfaq.

Thank you for doing what you do. I really love this subject you tackled here. Definitely added to my favorites.

Oh my god, I am GIDDY for this. I've thought a lot about this too and am excited to hear your take. Here's mine: Trilogies might be fundamentally broken as an actual story structure, at least the way most people apply them. So many people talk about trilogies as a "natural" structure for short-form episodic storytelling in part because of its parallels to the three act structure. But the problem is that "three act structure" as most people describe it does not describe three similarly-sized chunks of story. It's 20% Act 1, 60% Act 2, 20% Act 3. Basically, if you're building a trilogy and thinking of a trilogy as in any way analogous to three-act story structure, you're going to end Part 2 with NOWHERE NEAR the pieces in place for Part 3. Literally EVERY SINGLE third Star Wars movie has this problem. Every single third Star Wars movie has to artificially jump across very important sections of story (the entirety of the Clone Wars, Luke actually becoming a Jedi master, literally everything pre-Rise of Skywalker) and introduce bullshit plot devices out of nowhere (the Death Star II and Emperor Palpatine) in order to give the heroes a clean way to wrap the story up quickly. And while I personally think there were a number of unforced errors in all three "third" movies in Star Wars, none of them were working from a position of strength. Let me ask you this: by the end of Attack of the Clones, does Anakin feel like he's one movie away from becoming Darth Vader? At the end of Empire Strikes Back, does the rebel alliance feel one movie away from defeating the entire empire? At the end of The Last Jedi, does the Resistance feel one movie away from defeating the First Order? All of them would've benefitted from their stories getting more room to breath, maybe 4 or even 5 episodes, and to go deeper into the more complicated questions suggested by their middle chapters, so that a real synthesis of the series' ideas and values can come together for an ending that is earned, rather than scrambling to contrive a tidy happy ending that the storytelling up to that point can't support.

Pre-premiere thoughts: it's hard to end a trilogy because a) movies are big expensive machines that are liable to have changes in directors, writers, producers, studio execs etc that can lead to a change in vision and lack of follow-through on certain core themes and ideas and b) because the first of the three films was never intended to be part of a trilogy or was rewritten to stand alone due to uncertainty about getting a trilogy and so is not set up as a good jumping off point for the rest of the series.

26:07 Honestly, if you remove any of the info about Marty supposedly never amounting to anything, BTTF's story wouldn't change at all. I think most people would recall his "chicken" arc way more not only due to the comedy, but also the consequences that came out of it and the payoff w/ the Rolls-Royce b/c it was still given weight by him getting fired in 2015 and seeing the photo of his own tombstone (after Doc's name was erased) in 1885. BTW, both sequels of that trilogy also came out 6 months apart.

I just discovered your channel. I love it! Thank you so much for your hard work

Love the intense action version of the theme song for the tragic episode climax. I am deeply invested in the overthrow of that evil coconut

Alternative Patrick comes from a universe where he was Coppola's Stoker's Dracula

I’m not entirely worried about a Paddington 3 because from my observation, I found that Paddington 2 is one of those sequels that more or less operated in a standalone fashion...there weren’t really any threads from the previous film that carried over in a significant way...the general conflict of the story isn’t directly related to the conflict of the first movie. In my opinion, I think Paddington will act much like Indiana Jones does, pretty much three separate standalone stories that we collectively consider a trilogy of films.

I keep forgetting that I've got a Nebula/Curiosity Stream subscription. I'm looking forward to the finale. This series has been so ridiculously well produced.

Well that was a heavy ending. Can't wait to see how the Charl saga is resolved... and whenever Patrick releases his Zack Snyder analysis.

“Yeah. This is a hammer.” Some damn good delivery there, got a good laugh out of me

I love this channel and all. But I find it endlessly hilarious that the most replayed sections of this video are when the skits end, evidencing that a ton of people skips them, which a legit shame. For everyone skipping to him in a chair talking just give the skits a chance, they’re really fun.

The idea of the three types of stakes really helped me understand what had been kind of bothering me about Return of the Jedi: Luke's motivations for going to Vader on Endor are kind of muddled. The reason he gives to Leia is a philosophical-stakes reason (he believes Vader can be redeemed) but Yoda and Obi-wan have already given him internal-stakes (it's the only way to become a Jedi) and external-stakes (it's the only way to defeat the Empire) reasons. They (especially Obi-wan) specifically want him to *kill* Vader, so by refusing to do so, Luke is actually going against their wishes, but I don't think this is made clear enough, as Luke is still going to confront Vader, just with a different aim in mind. (The fact that the same word "confront" is used to describe what Luke wants to do, and what Yoda and Obi-wan want him to do, further hides what should be clearer - that he is doing it his way and not theirs)

I think this is why as much as I love continuity and telling epic stories, I would like to see sequels be more self contained. Thor: Ragnarok almost feels like a different movie than the first 2. Same with Iron Man 3.

Indiana Jones: The Last Crusade was the rare 3rd movie that was the best of the bunch

The revenge of the Nerds nid at ~34:39 is the best. Onepf my all time favorite quotes/references.

This is some of the best acting in masks I've ever seen. Really conveys the words, meaning, and subtext even with a mask on. Kudos to the actors and the, ahem, director.

Paddington 3 - hold my beer

Quote from Lana Wachowski on The Matrix trilogy: What we were trying to achieve with the story overall was a shift, the same kind of shift that happens for Neo, that Neo goes from being in this sort of cocooned and programmed world, to having to participate in the construction of meaning to his life. And we were like, ‘Well, can the audience go through the three movies and experience something similar to what the main character experiences?’ So the first movie is sort of classical in its approach, the second movie is deconstructionist and an assault on all the things you thought to be true in the first movie…and the third movie is the most ambiguous, because it asks you to actually participate in the construction of meaning.

Charl floating out the window was genuinely so hilarious

I have been loving these vids. Especially over the last year. I run every morning so when a new one drops I’m on it so I can enjoy. The conclusion? I’m not running to it. I’m gonna sit down and watch it. I have really enjoy it and thank you for this excellent material I won’t call “content”

Not gonna lie, I’ve been waiting for a live-action Oresteia film trilogy to happen since high school

Pouring one out tonight for our boy...Jake was a comedic genius

man i love your channel so much ❤️ Great work!

One thing I’d like to add is that when it comes to THE LORD OF THE RINGS, Patrick does ignore that it is actually IS a gigantic sequel to a successful standalone work- THE HOBBIT. I realize that LOTR has been so successful, popular and influential that it almost overshadows THE HOBBIT (and it doesn’t help that Peter Jackson made LOTR before he did THE HOBBIT), but J. R. R. Tolkien absolutely wrote LOTR as a sequel to THE HOBBIT after THE HOBBIT became a success.

Funny thing... I was just reminded of the coconut song. The one that starts with "I've got a lovely bunch of coconuts". The thing with it is that I have heard that the reason our swedish version of that song is so wildly different in content is that the one tasked with writing the swedish lyrics had no idea what the original was about other than it being about Coconuts. So the original with its thinly veiled descriptions of mammaries at a fairground... became a song about how a child tries to break open a coconut but finds it utterly impossible. He complains to his father, listing all the tools he tries, but the coconut stubbornly will not open and provide him with the juicy contents and he wreaks the house, mother gets injured, explosions, fire, everything. So... in a roundabout way... I am reminded of a song that in one version from 1950 basically describes Charl, the immortal Coconut. And how futile it is to fight him.

The production quality is off the charts, Patrick, you mad lad.

"This is a hammer" what a line, loved this

thanks for giving me something to listen to while i work

I cannot believe Patrick is introducing doppelgängers that span across the multiverse to fight a mysterious all powerful coconut before his video essays. It’s like...nostalgia critic but good.

I can't believe I'm about to spend money to see what happens to a sentient coconut.

These videos always end in me adding 20 movies to my letterboxd watchlist

"Gordon Bombei, a man named after two brands of gin" - amazing

One thing I'm surprised this didn't mention was the comparison between every other movie trilogy mentioned and Lord of The Rings trilogy: the book series (or I should say book) is an adaptation, so the film producers and Peter Jackson are following written material that's has a complete narrative, and it follows the series almost to a tee. With the other trilogies, most were made by film people for a film medium, and like mentioned earlier, studios are obsessed with making trilogies.

Jake really missed a chance to say "are we gonna keep yammering, or get hammering?"

Glad to see someone explaining that most trilogies are not actually trilogies. This is nearly point-for-point what I have said for years when the topic comes up. Well done.

So happy the finale is almost here! At first caught myself thinking "oh wow, that didn't take as long as they said" then "oh...it's May 2021 already....balls"

I was just biting my nails hoping Patrick would talk about the Before trilogy 🥳🥳🥳🥳😍😍😍😍

"Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade": easily my favorite of the trilogy, and the first of that series was a bloody masterpiece. Definitely an exception to the "weak third entry" rule.

"inarguably the most beloved trilogy of all time" I was so sure he was doing to say LOTR

Wow. Stumbled upon your channel through the algorithm. The quality is noticeable and appreciated . Awesome video

I truly find BttF3 a satisfying ending. I have a prop replica of the framed photo Doc gives Marty in the final scene.

I can't wait for the CHARL ENDGAME movie. And you know that you are going to have to do a comprehensive compilation of all of Charl's scenes as a kind of Charl complete story. I NEED Charl the complete collection!!!!

I think a trilogy people always dont mention is the Before the Sunrise trilogy, great films the 3 of them, great thing you did.

The Jake-Chloe cutscenes look so highly produced. Love the Pro Mist usage

The lord of the rings: One trilogy to rule them all, One trilogy to find them, One trilogy to bring them all, And in to shameless bind them.

I think the thing we all realize is it’s extremely difficult to make a great movie but to do it three times in a row is damn near impossible.

Love the new intro song you've been using, and the charl meta-story is so strange, and hate how much I'm loving it.

Lord of the Rings The Return of the King is honestly the best movie in the Trilogy... I f**king adore that movie! Thank you so much Mr. Tolkien and thank your Mr. Jackson for making those movies so well and also thank you New Zealand... you know... For existing and giving us normal folk a vision of how things could be, and also for being so beautiful as a country to create The Lord of the Rings Trilogy...