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Into/Across Spiderverse. I reserve the right to throw this out if the third movie is atrocious, but unfortunately there's a real risk of that happening.
Similarly, X-Men First Class => X2 => Days of Future Past. The payoff for this one is immense and despite the changes they made to the story, it holds up thematically.
Batman: The Dark Knight Returns Pt1+2. Part 1 is shaky but again the payoff of Part 2 is worth it.
Sin City.
Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker.
Snowpiercer. One of my favorite movies of all time.
"Into the Spiderverse" would stand up okay on it's own, I think, even if the trilogy doesn't stick the landing, but I agree that it's only going to belong in a "favorites" list if all the checks they wrote in the first half of the sequel (I can't even call it the first sequel; not enough closure) don't bounce.
That's an interesting watch order. Why leave out the first X-Men movie? I understand deciding that the benefit of "Days of Future Past is a little better if you watch X-Men 3 first" isn't worth the cost of "but you have to watch X-Men 3 first", but watching X-Men before X2 is win-win.
X1 just... isn't great. It's throughly average, a relic of its time and despite a handful of great moments doesn't really stand up on its own. There's not much that happens in it consequential to the throughline of that one arc aside from a great depiction of someone grappling with the reality of being a mutant for the first time and a bunch of Wolverine cliches.
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