xkcd #3324: Ultimate Movie Series
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Sadly, none of the 14 Land Before Time films manage to make the list, although a small but devoted fan contingent argues that The Great Longneck Migration should beat out Guardians of the Galaxy.
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Not even the abomination that is Star Trek’s Kelvin timeline comes close to having The Force Awakens as best Star Wars installment.
Also it obviously takes the JJ Abram movies somehow as a whole different franchise (see: VIII). Out of those films Star Trek isn’t worse than the other two.
This list isn’t picking only one film from each franchise. It’s picking the highest rated nth film from all franchises that have at least n movies. So the franchise with the highest rated 8th film is Star Trek, with First Contact. And the franchise with the highest rated 11th film is also Star Trek, with the 2009 reboot.
It’s not one installment per franchise, it’s the best Nth installment regardless of franchise. JJ Trek actually appears twice with Star Trek Beyond at 13, for instance.
Yeah that force awakens was a shocker. That’s really the best at that point? We’re really scrapping the bottom of the barrel here.