After seeing Logan it occurred to me that the Wolverine Trilogy is the most bizzare series of films I've ever watched.  Never seen three films take such an increase in quality.

1. X-Men Origins: Wolverine - 1/5 Stars
This film can charitably called schlock, but for me everything about it fell flat, the characters, the conflict, the story, and the effects all had sense of being rushed to make a quick buck.

2. The Wolverine - 3/5 stars
Significant improvement over the original and far more repsectable as a film. A solid, but not really spectacular film. It didn't do much that bothered me, but it also didn't blow me away.

3. Logan - 5/5 stars
The important thing about Logan is it feels like a film first, then added mutants to it. Everything about it, the acting, story, and stakes felt raised and the R rating wasn't lazily used.  A passion project that showed and of these three the one I know I'll revisit.

So, can you think of another trilogy that consistently improved? From my experience sequels generally get worst as they go along.

I think the Wolverine Extended cut is fantastic until the Silver Samurai fight. Too bad the final boss sucked.

also the captain america trilogy improved as it went. I find Civil War the best (you're welcome) and Winter Soldier is a big improvement over First Avengers which is near the bottom of my MCU rankings if not dead last.

It's not really much of a trilogy. I haven't seen the new one yet, though I plan to soon, but really all the films seem to be vastly different and really kinda have nothing to do with each other beyond the main character being the same dude. They don't build upon each other in any kind of way, nor does Logan/Wolverine have any kind of real character development that carries through between them.

So in that sense, it's much easier to improve imo, if you're not really bound to any kind of overarching story that kinda binds you into certain areas for better or for worse, because you can go in such radically different directions with each entry if you so choose (and which they clearly did for this last one).

Man never really liked wolverine. The X-Men has alot of characters and wolverine is by far the most over used mutant in the cinemas but Logan really made me love the character.

Surprised to know that Logan and the wolverine was directed by the same director since I remember the 'comedic moment' where he was forced to take a shower in Japan in the wolverine.

dude you enjoy Wolverine Origins but not Avengers or Age of Ultron?  A new cinematic achievement of combining 4 major franchises vs. a damn terrible origins story

Lord of the Rings went from Fellowship being a 98/100, Two Towers 99/100, and Return of the King 100/100.

The third film was actually really good and outside of First Class I've never been a fan of the X-Men series of movies. Shame they aren't doing a Gambit movie with this quality.

Yeah just saw Logan last night and it was really freaking good.

well it's made by the Cap 2 and 3 directors so I guess you should like them more.  I think they all got time to shine especially in the first avengers.  It was impressive how they combined 4 different genres in the first avengers (the 4 heroes leading up to it were in different types of movies) and yet everyone felt like they were in the same vein.  Coulson being the connecting thread really worked for me.  also Origins only came out 3 years before Avengers and they were both after Iron Man and Dark Knight changed the genre.