What film trilogy most improved over time?

Weekends are casual at Cuennei, so please, necktie off, shirt tail out, feet up.

My wife would quickly answer that The Lord of the Rings most improved with each new picture, but from where I sit, very few film experiences top the first ten minutes of my first crack at Fellowship of the Ring.

Each successive Matrix film improved intellectually, but not artistically. The filmmakers seemed to forget the golden rule: the play's the thing.

The second (meaning the first) Star Wars trilogy started preposterously and finished strong. (Interesting that this is a reversal of the ep.4-6 trilogy, which started brilliantly and ended with ewoks.) So by the time Revenge of the Sith was released, it had been over two decades since Darth Vader had appeared on the big screen. This way George Lucas could have patched in lost episodes of Twin Peaks and the film would have worked.

Evil Dead? Contender.

American Pie Ha! Never. Nothing beats Shannon Elizabeth's Full Frontal Plus scene in Part I. Not even the genesis of Darth Vader in SWE3.

So the winner is? X-Men. No question at all. And if you repeat this I'll deny it, but The Last Stand even made me well up a little bit.