Worst triple feature ever

Years ago, I went to a marathon screening of The Matrix which was preceded by the first two instalments of The Matrix, The Animatrix animated movies and finally, at midnight, just as the audience was turning into a woozy, Coke-filled, popcorn-covered, greasy pile permanently fused to the acrylic cinema seat, the final instalment of the trilogy. (And this was before the nice plush, lumbar-supporting, comfy seats were installed...)

Disappointed is not the word. Exhausted and faintly stupor-duped, possibly.

It seems we are in the grip of triple treat sequilitis as the major franchises of the modern era - The Lord of the Rings, Spider-Man, X-Men and Pirates of the Caribbean - all have so far clocked up three (do you count the Wolverine movie? I don't...) and all are promising more milking of the golden calves/geese (choose your own metaphor) to come.

 (The first of the two Hobbit films is due out in December 2011. Spider-Man 4 is expected to begin shooting in March 2010, with a release date in May 2011, and Spidey film 5 is in the works. Numerous X-Men films are in the works, including one about the new mutants, origin stories for Magneto and Deadpool, Wolverine 2, and X-Men 4. Pirates are once again swashing their buckles with Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides announced - possibly setting sail without Keira or Orlando... but paying Johnny Depp US$33 million in gold dubloons to return)

I've never managed to get to one of Ant Timpson's movie marathons before, since in my toddler-dominated world, sleep is an incredibly precious commodity and they're always in the North Island, but he's threatening (Ant, not my one-year-old) to bring the marathon to Christchurch in the near future, so the full 24-hour sesh may be unavoidable.

Which brings us rather messily, and tenuously, to today's question (as suggested by Cinefan back last year sometime) for the Worst Triple Feature Ever: Which three movies would you put together for a mind numbingly awful night out?

For example a sea-going dross Worst Triple Feature Ever could be: 1. Swept Away (the one with Madonna) followed by 2. Speed II: Cruise Control rounded out with 3. Titanic.

(No cheating and naming three Police Academy sequels...)

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