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Which are your three top movies and why?

I'm talking about culture, depht and yes amusement. I'm not talking about "Dude, where's my car?". :p :sniper:

Dawn of the Dead, Reign of Fire, Phone Booth

The Boondock Saints :mp5: is an excelent movie, or there's always Fight Club :headbang: and of course there's American History X. All of which are great thinking movies.

The Boondock Saints :mp5: is an excelent movie, or there's always Fight Club :headbang: and of course there's American History X. All of which are great thinking movies.
YAY great movies

Monty Python: The Meaning of Life (It's better then the others for it's utter silliness)
AI and Bicentennial Man are cool too (sci-fi robot movies)
Fear And Loathing in Las Vegas and Requiem For A Dream (trip movies)
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truth is: there's too many to name. Every hour I think about it I get 5 new movies which I really LOVE

1. The Big Lebowski (possibly the funniest movie of all time, IMO)

2. Goldfinger (James Bond at his best!)

3. Fight Club (The First Rule of Fight Club is "You do not Talk About Fight Club!") :)

usual suspects
all tarantino movies
snatch, lockstock
hero
traffic
amores perros

snatch, lockstock

"what's that?"
"that's me brengun"

"aah, he shot me in me neck"

"well, we shot one. In the neck"
"Good, where's the body?"
"..."
"What did you shoot him with, a f*cking air rifle?"

Have you seen Mean Machine too?
I love those Guy Ritchie (sp?) movies

1. Fight Club
2. Monty Python: The Life of Brian
3. Se7en

1. The Godfather
2. The Godfather Part II
3. Dr. Strangelove

Pulp Fiction
Clerks
The Deerhunter (for being the only 3 1/2 hour long movie I didn't get bored with)

Dazed and Confused -- The most perfect 'day in the life' movie made about high school
Pulp Fiction -- Do I really need to give a reason?
This is Spinal Tap -- One of the few truly brilliant comidies I have seen.

Congratulations. 10 posts and not a single person said the Matrix. My faith in humanity has been restored :)

As for me, Star Wars (all of the original trilogy i'll count as one), the first Jurassic Park and Pulp Fiction would be a good three.

Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Remember the Titans
Knockin' on Heaven's Door (aka The Cowboy Bebop Movie, bebop owns you foo')

1. Ocean's 11 (It's a very clever movie)

2. Metropolis (it's an anime movie, but I really enjoyed the storyline and setting)

3. Lord of the Rings The Two Towers (my favorite out of the trilogy)

1) The Godfather
2) The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
3) The Usual Suspects


But a lot of movies have left an impact on me.. not just those three..

1. They Live
2. Brother from Another Planet
3. Pee-Wee's Big Adventure

1. Shawshank Redemption
2. Great Escape
3. A Clockwork Orange

2001: A Space Oddessy
Dancer in the Dark
Dogsville

Three top movies is incredibly difficult!

I don't know about three, but some of my favourites are -

Monty Python's Life of Brian would have to be one (although I love all of Python, I think this one just beats the others to the best)
This is Spinal Tap
Fight Club
Shaun of the Dead (it's fairly recent but I'm sure it will become a cult classic)
Dogma (probably my favourite Kevin Smith movie, although all the others are great... having said that, I haven't seen Jersey Girl)
So I Married an Axe Murderer

Ok, I guess that turned out to be more 'films I like quite a lot', but it is difficult to pick favourites... most of the films people have mentioned here have been worth a place on people's top three or whatever (some I haven't seen).

The Holy Grail
The Life of Brian
Scary movie (All of them.)

And for Kanabia benfit, The Matrix, (The first one was really good.)

Worst/most disappointing movie of all time-The MAtrix Reloaded.

1. Fight Club
2. Twelve Monkeys
3. Seven

It has just occured to me that Brad Pitt is in my three top films... and that David Fincher directed two...

Fight Club is just the definitive look at modern commercialised culture, and the disempowerment of the individual.

Twelve Monkeys is a tour-de-force by Bruce Willis, is deliciously twisted, and never truly resolves all of it's issues - leaving you thinking very seriously about concepts of sanity, reality and the ramifications of little things.

Seven is a study in the cult-of-personality that our cultures have, where a killer becomes a star.

So many films just below those three: Fifth Element, Natural Born Killers, both Kill Bill movies, Hero, The Others, Boondock Saints, etc.

1)Buttwoman '97
2)Ass worship 5
3)Gangbang angels #9

And for Kanabia benfit, The Matrix, (The first one was really good.)

Worst/most disappointing movie of all time-The MAtrix Reloaded.

Actually, I totally agree. The first one was good. But people that think its the best movie of all time and refuse to adknowledge that the sequels suck deserve a beat around the ears. :)

And lol, I just watched scary movie again tonight. Coincidence.

My Favorites

#3 Rudy: Best sports movie of all time
#2 This is Spanal Tap: The seen with the Bassit getting stuck XFriggenD
#1 Blues Bros:They Should have renamed it"101 defferint ways to wreck a car"

YAY great movies

Monty Python: The Meaning of Life (It's better then the others for it's utter silliness)
AI and Bicentennial Man are cool too (sci-fi robot movies)
Fear And Loathing in Las Vegas and Requiem For A Dream (trip movies)
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truth is: there's too many to name. Every hour I think about it I get 5 new movies which I really LOVE

AI? the most boring movie ever made? I think steven spielberg should have quit after that. I like almost all of his movies but i hate him now, theres 3hrs of my life I want back

1. Altered States

2. The wall

3. Grease

"Crouching tiger,hidden dragon".
For action,cinematography,screenplay,scenery. The complete film. Straight in at number ONE.

Number two is trickey, i mean, i love "Predator",""The maltese falcon".
The life of Brian will be in the top five but maybe not two.
The lord of the rings trilogy Kicks the shit in a swashbuckling styllee out of "The matrix" but would put it in the top five.

Congratulations. 10 posts and not a single person said the Matrix. My faith in humanity has been restored :)

As for me, Star Wars (all of the original trilogy i'll count as one), the first Jurassic Park and Pulp Fiction would be a good three.

A man of good taste! :) I agree with all of them except Pulp Fiction, for the sole reason that I have seen it before (though I plan to). I don't have a top three, though...there are waaaaaaay too many movies to name! :p

A man of good taste! :) I agree with all of them except Pulp Fiction, for the sole reason that I have seen it before (though I plan to). I don't have a top three, though...there are waaaaaaay too many movies to name! :p

Definitely. Coming up with only 3 is such a tough ask...

#1 Blues Bros:They Should have renamed it"101 defferint ways to wreck a car"
Yay Blues Bros! Don't forget Analyze This, that movie pwnz! Bruce Almighty is also up there

Actually, I totally agree. The first one was good. But people that think its the best movie of all time and refuse to adknowledge that the sequels suck deserve a beat around the ears. :)

And lol, I just watched scary movie again tonight. Coincidence.
Aye.

Three movies ok

1. Jesus Christ Superstar, I like it for the music.
2. The Last Samurai, it just fun.
3.The Engliish Patient, GOOD WWII movie if you haven't even heard of it.

POC, Blow and Braveheart.

Aw, man, this is difficult:

1. John Q
2. Radio
3. The Rain Man

Probably not in that particular order.

1. Alien vs Predator

2. Dawn of the Dead (the original)

3. Underworld

In no particular order:

Boondock Saints
Garden State
Wag the Dog

Shut up!!! (Thats the English title it's a French movie with Gerard Depardieu and Jean Reno: Leon)
Lord of the Rings trilogy. Eventhough I hate Frodo.
The never ending story. The original one from the '80's.

In no particular order:
Pulp Fiction
The Matrix 1 (2 and 3 suck)
Terminator 2

Kids in the hall: Brain Candy (secretly the msot hilarious movie ever made)
Rambo
Shawn of the dead (not released in U.S. yet until Sept 24th)

I also love the TV movies of Hornblower and Major Sharpe.

I also love the TV movies of Hornblower and Major Sharpe.
It's not MAjor Sharpe, It's Sharpe's, he only becomes a major in Sharpe's Enermy, (sorry but I really love those books.)

1. The Princess Bride
2. Dr. Strangelove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
3. Friday

This list is subject to change at any moment, and could easily be a hundred times as long as it is.

Fight Club - "self improvement is masturbation - self destruction is the answer" :headbang:

Dogma - Alanis Morissette is God!

Feivel An American Tale - He's just so cute! But thinking of it, In A Land Before Time is at least as good :)

"what's that?"
"that's me brengun"

"aah, he shot me in me neck"

"well, we shot one. In the neck"
"Good, where's the body?"
"..."
"What did you shoot him with, a f*cking air rifle?"

Have you seen Mean Machine too?
I love those Guy Ritchie (sp?) movies

mean machine is very good :D the loco keeper that pictures himself violently killing all the guards on some marilyn manson metal riff(thats mean machine right? the one about soccer in a prison?) :D anyhow, loved it :d

Congratulations. 10 posts and not a single person said the Matrix. My faith in humanity has been restored :)

As for me, Star Wars (all of the original trilogy i'll count as one), the first Jurassic Park and Pulp Fiction would be a good three.

you just destroyed my faith in humanity...

"Crouching tiger,hidden dragon".
For action,cinematography,screenplay,scenery. The complete film. Straight in at number ONE.

Number two is trickey, i mean, i love "Predator",""The maltese falcon".
The life of Brian will be in the top five but maybe not two.
The lord of the rings trilogy Kicks the shit in a swashbuckling styllee out of "The matrix" but would put it in the top five.

Channel Isles, those are them english isles near france yes? Nice to see English speaking people choosing a korean movie as their number one. You didn't see him in dub I hope? I hate dubbing, it ruins all the intentions of the director. I really love those epic asian stories, especially Crouching tiger, hidden dragon, I recently saw "Hero" in original language of course. It was fenomenal. My sister thought him to be boring, but damn, it very nice choreographed, almost theatre, but massive, massive. overwhealming or however you right it.

has anyone seen Akira? That was the most impressive anime I ever saw. I'm planning on seeing Ghost in the Shell too. One told me that an anime called Noire or Noir was really good too.

I also recently saw a not that "cultural shaping" movie called "underworld" or something. But I'm a sucker for a good vampire movie and actually he was very entertaining and better than most other vampire movies. But Anna rice and Bram stoker... best vampire movies, no doubt. Does anyone know some really good vampire movies I should see? No b-film, low budget. I really liked from Dusk till Dawn too. the first one of course.

Shut up!!! (Thats the English title it's a French movie with Gerard Depardieu and Jean Reno: Leon)
Lord of the Rings trilogy. Eventhough I hate Frodo.
The never ending story. The original one from the '80's.

Leon is very very good. Loved it, would want to see it again.

yes i'm post mad

If I had to name three, the ones that I could watch over and over for an eternity.
Ocean's Eleven (both)
Grease
Dogma

the dark crystal
most convincing fantasy/alienness i'd yet seen at that time
still a great classic

barbarella
sciffy with sex as part of the natural environment
a winning combination on all counts

the origeonal 1954 release of fantasia
pretty centaurs, great music, hinted at the then far distant future of today's animantion diversity.

these are my three favorites of all time
of course then have been many other wonders
to numerous to mention since
yet each of these three were, to my mind, pioneering efforts each in their own laudable and excellent ways

among my favorites since then are monoke hime, kiki's delivery service, the star trek movies when paramont who owned the rights was refusing to put it back on the tube, the first three produced star wars movies, the list goes on, shrek, men in black (the first one, which is also the last time i was actualy at a movie house, can't afford them any more really), labrynth, shrek, willow, ghandi, (these last obviously not in order), fern gully, lilo and stitch, fellowship of the ring, (haven't seen the movie versions of book 2 and 3, read the trillogy and the hobbit for the first time back in the 60s when j.r.r. was still alive), (everything mentioned that's come out since mib I i've seen only on tape), ...

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high fidelity, jack black and cusacks finest
godfather I and II, there inseparable, but III sux bullocks
monty python: life of brian

Off the Top of my head it'd be:

Princess Mononoke (Mononoke Hime) and/or Spirited Away (Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi)
Hero (w/ Jet Li, not the one with Geena Davis)
Brotherhold of the Wolf (Le Pacte des Loups)

but it'll change in a minute.

It's not MAjor Sharpe, It's Sharpe's, he only becomes a major in Sharpe's Enermy, (sorry but I really love those books.)
Sorry. Your right of course. Sharpe.

1. Dr. Strangelove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb - The funniest black comedy ever made.
2. Hope And Glory - Contains some of my favorite movie lines ever.
3. My Favorite Year - A bravura performance by Peter O'Toole and also chock full of great lines.

1. Highlander
2. Rules Of Attraction
3. Vampire Clan

1. Fight Club
2. Donnie Darko
3. The Holy Grail

you just destroyed my faith in humanity...

How so?

1 TLOR: TRK
2 The 5th Element
3 Martian Sucesor Nadesco: The Prince of Darkness

I forgot a few more films:

1. Cape Fear: Gregory Peck

2. 12 Angry Men: Henry Fonda

3. It Happened on Night: Clark Gable

Clear and Present Danger (Harrison Ford)
Patton (George C. Scott)
True Lies (Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger)

1) Kazaam
2) Air Bud: Seventh Inning Fetch
3) Equilibrium

(all terrible movies)

I don't know that I can really decide on #2 and #3. I might give them to Breakfast at Tiffany's and Dr. Strangelove.

But #1 is definitely Princess Mononoke. I've watched it dozens of times, sometimes more than once in a day, sometimes for several days in a row. It never gets old.

The Seventh Seal - Ingmar Berman dir.; starring Max von Sydow, Bibi Andersson

The Godfather I/II - Francis Ford Coppola dir.; starring Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, Robert Duvall, Robert De Niro

Casablanca - Michael Curtiz dir.; starring Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains

has anyone seen Akira? That was the most impressive anime I ever saw. I'm planning on seeing Ghost in the Shell too. One told me that an anime called Noire or Noir was really good too.
Akira's all right. I much prefer Ghost in the Shell. "GITS2: Innocence" was very good (I got to see it in theaters), and Stand Alone Complex is by far my favorite series, probably with Evangelion: Neon Genesis in second. I hear that the second GITS series is even better, but I haven't gotten to see it yet.