What are you 3 favorite movies?

Mine:

#1 - Mulan: Excellent empowering women story.

#2 - How To Train Your Dragon: This movie shot up the charts when I first watched it. Excellent animation and a wonderful story. The ending proves that not all happy endings come without a price.

#3 - Rocky Horror Picture Show: I mean, c'mon, Mom, Dad, it's ROCKY!

Hard to cut it down to just three, but here goes:

1. The Shawshank Redemption

2. Hoosiers

3. Dr. Strangelove, Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

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Also: Young Frankenstein, Lone Star, Jane Eyre (the 1940's edition)

Dr. Strangelove, Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

Monty Python and the Holy Grail

The Big Lebowski

Three hilarious movies, with lots of quotable lines.

Can't decide on the final choice.

I do really love O Brother Where Art Thou. And The Producers. And........

I love so many of his movies...Night on Earth, Mystery Train, for sure...but my
favorite is his Stranger Than Paradise.

Tikki

1. "Dr. Strangelove" (Kubrick's best IMO, although he didn't think so)

2. "Rashomon" (with n-1 unreliable narrators)

3. "L. A. Confidential" (On another day I might prefer "Chinatown")

blazing saddles and life of brian

Most people seem to like the Holy Grail better so it's good to see that I'm not alone.

there's probably a couple of the same rank, but if I'm flipping through the channels and any of those are on, I'll watch a good chunk of it again.

Damage -- Jeremy Irons, Juliette Binoche, directed by Louis Malle

The Losers -- I loved Cougar.

#1 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
#2 Snatch
#3 Children of Men

There are many more I'd include in my top ten, but at the moment, these are my top three.

2.. Vertigo
3. Dr Strangelove

Ben Hur, Blazing Saddles, Murder My Sweet

maybe Fight Club...


maybe Watchmen...

maybe Brick...

Pulp Fiction
The Shawshank Redemption

classics!

you like the muppets ;)

#1. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.
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#2. Godzilla (1954)or Gojira
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#3. Always Sunshine On Third Street "Always Sanchōme no Yūhi"/Always Sunshine on 3rd Street II

#2...Glory

#3...The Green Mile

(but only the original version, NOT the re-release

Which isn't quite what you were asking for, but that's how I interpreted it this morning. They aren't necessarily my favorite movies, but if I were forced to reduce down to just three, these are the three that cover all the styles, genres, and thoughts that I enjoy in movies.

1. Casablanca

2. The Great Escape

3. The Magnificent Seven

"Look, sir, you talk about the high command of the Luftwaffe, then the SS and the Gestapo. To me they're the same. We're fighting the bloody lot. There's only one way to put it, sir. They are the common enemies of everyone who believes in freedom."

The last one simply because it is so fucking stupid it doesn't even deserve to be a PORNO, much less a movie in general.

#2 Pride and Prejudice (the BBC version with Colin Firth and Jennifer Ehle)

#3 Aladdin (Disney)

I don't normally like chick flicks, but I like that version as much as my wife does.

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Boy, HOWDY... was it hard to pick that third one -- The Princess Bride, Big Fish, A
Midnight Clear, The Graduate, Pulp Fiction, The Shawshank Redemption, American
Beauty, Apocalypse Now, Unforgiven, Atlantic City, Sin City, Fargo, Blood Simple,
The Wizard of Oz, Kill Bill (both of them), Platoon, Harvey, Trainspotting, Rain Man,
Edward Scissorhands, Stalag 17, The African Queen. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest...
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C. All the above.
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Oh!!! And "Witches of Eastwick" -- if for nothing other than the scene with Susan
Sarandon playing that cello and setting it ablaze.
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The Incredibles

Twelve Angry Men.

The Boy Who Could Fly - Uplifting (no pun intended)

Shadowlands - Moral plays on one man's crisis of faith

His Girl Friday - The funniest movie ever made.

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1. The Big Lebowski - the all time greatest LA stoner movie ever made. The Dude is the perfect persoification of the So Cal slacker and the completely oddball cast of characters that surround him make the whole thing worth watching.

2. Collateral - Probably the exact opposite of The Dude is Tom Cruise's charcter in this flick - who's a calculating, cold-hearted trash talking assassin who's out to off all the witnesses in a huge federal trial. Has some great shots of my city in it.

3. Office Space -Yeah I'm gonna have to ask you to come in on Saturday. Sunday too. We lost some people over the weekend and need to play catch up. So if you could get here around 9:00, that would be greaaaaaaaat.

Honorable mentions:

Clerks
Super Troopers
Bad Santa
District 9

The first two that come to mind is LadyHawke and Rob Roy (what's not to love about Liam Neeson in a kilt?)

And I guess the third would have to be Zeigfeld Girl starring Hedy Lamar, but that was mostly because I wanted to be that glamorous when I grew up.

The third really is probably The Enchanted Cottage.

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in a dark alley after watching the original MC....great performance.

mixed in with Eddie Murphy wisecracks. :)

The scene where the soldiers are mourning the deaths of the General and the army, and Mulan finds a child's doll and stands it against the fallen general's sword, was beautiful. And the songs were inspired. "Be A Man" playing when the soldiers dressed in drag, for instance, or the whole discomfort of Mulan while the men were singing "A Girl Worth Fighting For."

My three favorites (for now):

The Princess Bride. Still. I can watch that ten times in a row, and Peter Faulk's last "As you wish" will make me cry every time. Probably helps that he reminds me of my dad.

Amadeus. The most perfect movie ever made, until the Director's Cut screwed it up. The plot, the story, the dialogue, the editing, the acting, everything was perfect in that movie. The "voice of God" scene where Salieri is reading/hearing Mozart's first draft is one of my favorites in any movie.

Unforgiven. Clint Eastwood meant it as a step towards de-glorifying violence. Perfect movie about killing, and how a story always looks different from the other side.

The Ref (Dennis Leary, Kevin Spacey, Judy Davis)
The Inlaws (first one, with Peter Falk and Alan Arkin)
Casablanca

But these are 3 of my favorite:

"Out of Africa"

"Planes, Trains, and Automobiles"

"Cast Away"

We watch it every Thanksgiving. Like Groundhog Day on Groundhog's Day and Christmas Vacation on Christmas Eve.

I took my name from the above movie.

2. The Godfather; The Godfather, Part II (Let's just consider this counting as one, alright?)

3. 2001, A Space Odyssey

1. Dr. Strangelove

2. The Blues Brothers

3. Monty Python and the Holy Grail

2. Dr. Zhivago

3. South Pacific

1. North by Northwest

2. Blazing Saddles

3. It's a Wonderful Life

The Shining
Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Blazing Saddles

A Tale of Two Cities....


Tikki

Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (Kristofferson/Coburn)
Pulp Fiction
Casino Royal (Peter Sellers)

plus many others but the assignment was three..

It's be easier to select a few favorites in each film genre below. Some genre may have just one or two films while others may have quite a few.

Action
Adventure
Comedy
Crime
Documentary
Drama
Family
Fantasy
Horror
Musical
Mystery
Romance
Science Fiction
Sport
Thriller
War
Western

(1) Vacation

(2) Annie Hall

(3) Picnic


& others...

The Farmer's Daughter

Stalag 17

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

It Happened One Night

My Man Godfrey

Working Girl

Pretty Woman

A League of Their Own

Murphy's Romance

Godfather 1 & 2

Rainman

Midnight Cowboy

The list of only three is a bit flexible... :)

Since the Godfather films are two parts of the same story, I'll add one more to the list: The Usual Suspects.

#2: beetlejuice
#3: pee-wee's big adventure

If you haven't seen this movie, do so. Though, I hear, not for historical accuracy.

because it's set in Saudi Arabia (which led me to perceive it as boring) & because Peter O'Toole doesn't draw my interest.

So the plot must be super good?

Basically it's about the English led (By TE Lawrence) Arab army beat the turks out of the middle east.

And Dr. Seuss hated the movie adaptation so much he refused to let any other of his stories be made into movies for the rest of his life. He made one exception, and that was for the Chuck Jones TV adaptation for How the Grinch Stole Christmas.

My three right this minute:

1. Chinatown
2. The Big Sleep
3. The Usual Suspects

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...and I'm very surprised that it didn't become an iconic MUST-SEE during the 60's and
beyond -- with it's early "Teacher, leave them kids alone!!" anti-authoritarian message
and the context of the McCarthy-era times in which it was made.
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If you can find it, RENT THIS MOVIE!!!!
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Harvie Krumpet, the entire 22 minute film

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouyVS6HOFeo

The Best Years of Our Lives trailer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3EsNKlB7os


Phantom of the Paradise trailer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2n5qVJEg3qA

The Shawshank Redemtion (I'm a bad speller)
The Good Fellows
It's a Wonderful Life
Pulp Fiction
Office Space
The Notebook
Titanic
Casino
Fargo
Ground Hog Day
Best in Show
Waiting for Guffman
Inglorious Basterds
Clueless
I remember Mama
Election
Breakfast at Tiffany's
Arsnect and Old Lace
An Affair to Remember
and my list goes on and on

The Best Years of our Lives

many others..

Shadow of a Doubt
Notorious
NXNW

My all time number one favorite.

2. Christmas Vacation (DH lets out the Inner Clark Griswold and loves lights)

3. The Meaning of Life (The Galaxy Song and Every Sperm is Sacred are just TOO GOOD).

4. Office Space

5. Borat (for jaw dropping non political correctness)

6. Titanic

7. Howard's End (deep enough that I had to watch it twice to catch a lot of things)

8. Twelve Angry Men (I worked in the legal profession all my working life--shows the discussion process in a jury room quite well).

9. Reds (communism and socialism in the US in the early 20th century)

10. Roger and Me

Though only INLAND EMPIRE is a constant in that list.

I could watch all three over and over, and have.

course, my friends and I memorized the dialogue!
"He's a clean old man."
"We fought the war for your type!" "Bet you're sorry you won!"
"Yeah, you're a regular window-rustler."

If so, then:

1.) Lord of the Rings

2.) Aliens

3.) Amelie

I will do my list, rock n roll style

Spinal Tap
Rock N Roll High School
Quadrophenia (or maybe The Kids Are Alright, no wait, defiantly Quadrophenia)

sorry

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly.

Love Alain Resnais.

script by Marguerite Duras. She was a great writer and a very interesting woman.

the movies that pop into mind are:

Conan the Barbarian

Superman the Movie

Full Metal Jacket...

Yep, I'll settle for those as my top 3.

The Apartment
Almost Famous
Children of Men

Who Framed Roger Rabbit

From Hell

Contact

America's Sweethearts

Blade Runner

Spinal Tap


these are my "can watch any time" movies. I guess My Dinner with Andre could be on there as well.