List Your Top Three Movies

westllen said:
GREAT POST Gary! :thumbup:


Jules
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Thanks Jules, right now, movies help me make it through my long
stays away from home, those and books of course!

If I were to list my top 100, I'd have a very very hard time
whittling it down to that, barely decided on those three!
and even then, I'm torn about the second two!
:)
G2
 
It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (the first Rat Race which I also liked)
The Great Escape
The Bridge on the River Kwai

What's kinda funny is that all of those were made before I was born.
There are a lot of movies that I've liked, but these 3 are just the cream of the crop.

Thanks for the great thread. :thumbup:

mike
 
The Meaning of Life (which just edges out Mel Brooks Silent Movie as the funiest movie ever made)
Casablanca
The Sting (The Sting II is good as well)
 
The Producers (the original, not the musical)
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
It's A Wonderful Life
 
Rozencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead.
The Tao of Steve
The Eiger Sanction

"The Princess Bride" would definitely be in my top ten, and so would "Angus".
 
Picking only 3 is really tough, but here we go:

The Seven Samurai

Get Carter (Original, NOT Stallone's remake)

Where Eagles Dare

Chinpo
 
1 - Bladerunner
2 - King Kong (the original)
3- The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly

Wild Strawberries, Maltese Falcon, Citizen Cane, Ikiru, Taxi Driver, Rashomon, Fistful of Dollars / For a A Few Dollars More, McCabe and Mrs Miller, Pulp Fiction, Broken Flowers, Unforgiven, Wild at Heart, Red Rock West, High Noon, Night of the Living Dead......
 
TorzJohnson said:
I have to admit I'm puzzled by the popularity of The Princess Bride. Maybe I was in a bad mood when I saw it the first and only time. :confused:
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I think so many like it it because the film makers didn't "dumb down" the humor in the movie for the kids. There is a lot of very clever humor that kids just don't get. They lay bare all sorts of adventure movie cliches like the sword fighting scene at the cliff where both characters are sandbagging by fighting left handed. Kids understand the humor of it but they don't understand that the film makers are poking fun at serious adventure movies that relied on these gimics.
 
My list for three will be limited to the last fifteen years years of movies I saw in theater. The list would be much longer back into time if I could do ten.

1. No Country For Old Men (Best tension scenes since Hitchcock IMO)

2. Master & Commander (Makes me realize how easy modern life is every time I see it).

3. 300 (Great one liners and full of mythological mayhem).

Honorable Mention: Unforgiven (The western as it was meant to be done).
 
Excalibur
The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly
Shaolin Martial Arts

I know the last one is probably unknown to people here, but I love it. It is an old-school (1974) period kung fu movie directed by Chang Cheh and released by the Shaw Brothers studio...IMO perhaps the best made of such films. I think Tarantino copied some scenes from it for Kill Bill 2.
Jim
 
Ben Hur, with Chuck Heston, Steven Boyd, Sam Jaffe and Jack Hawkins.
To Kill A Mockingbird, with Gregory Peck.
The Adventures of Robin Hood, with Errol Flynn, Olivia DeHaviland, Claude Raines, Basil Rathbone and Alan Hale Sr.

Ben Hur has to be the most perfect movie ever made. Sam Zimbalist and William Wyler just made sure that every aspect of that film was about perfect before calling it fit for the theatres. It's the only movie I've ever watched and thought that there's nothing that could have been done better. To Kill A Mockingbird is nearly perfect. It captured the essence and wonder of life's important lessons for two kids growing up in the depression era South, with a father who had a deep sense of right and wrong and a great love for his children. Robin Hood is just the most fun I've ever had watching a film. It is Errol Flynn's definitive role and every other actor in that movie is perfectly cast and executes their role with enthusiasm and joy. And Erich Korngold's musical score fits the movie like a glove, expressing the adventure, excitement and fun of the film.

My wife and I both also love The Princess Bride and we watch it over and over. Some folks don't see the great fun of that movie, but it certainly is a classic. If it hadn't been just simply overshadowed by the perfection of my three favorites, it would have been on my list.
 
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