I recently became friends with this 56-year-old man and we’re having a movie night tomorrow together. He wants to show me the “trio” of the greatest movies ever made: The Godfather, The Shawshank Redemption & Casablanca. Haven’t seen any of those (probably cause of my age: almost 22). For me the 3 greatest movies ever are Titanic, Lord of the Rings 2003 & Spirited Away. Wondering what those are for you.
LOTR (full trilogy is one movie as far as i am concerned)
Blues Brothers (musical)
Spaceballs (Sci-Fi Comedy)
Fight Club
Snatch
Grumpy Old Men
Big Lebowski
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
Interstellar
Dune (2021)
Indiana Jones 1
Indiana Jones 3
V for Vendetta
Shawshank is a solid contender. I’d say The Princess Bride is one of the top three.
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Titanic for sure, there is almost nothing wrong with it. Most movies are pretty bad in my experience, with the runtime of TV shows allowing them to be better. Back To The Future is okay though. Maybe one of the Futurama movies? That’s kind of cheating though, as it built on a TV Show
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Artistically, I’d say:
- Cloud Atlas
- The Fall
- Pans Labyrinth
For Epics, I’d say:
- Lord of the Rings Trilogy
- Kingdom of Heaven
- Seven Samurai
For Comedies:
- Airplane!
- Home Alone
- Naked Gun
- Hot Fuzz
Super Hero Movies:
- Logan
- Batman: The Dark Knight
- Batman vs. Superman (The Snyder Cut)
Animated:
- Spiderman: Into the Spiderverse
- Spirited Away
- Beauty and the Beast
- Akira
Horror:
- Alien(s)
- The Shining
- The Thing
- Psycho
Honorable Mention:
- Oh Brother Where art thou
- Fargo (the TV series is great too!)
- Django Unchained
- Pulp Fiction
- Dunkirk
- Inglorious Basterds
- Dial M for Murder
- North by Northwest
- Wild Strawberries
(I’m sorry, I love movies)
Lawrence of Arabia
Kingdom of Heaven
Apocalypse Now
…
LotR
LotR
LotR
…
The Sound of Music
HEAT
Pulp Fiction
Hard to pick…
Heat is a good pull, Michael Mann honks.
Def HEAT.
Just watched the directors cut of Kingdom of Heaven, and dang, what a film!
I’ve seen all of these except for Hard to Pick, doesn’t looks like it’s streaming.
Princess Bride
Ben Hurr
Spirited away.
Casablanca, LotR, and Princess Bride.
I really like some mentioned so far, so just throwing in one of my picks:
Apocalypse Now
Spirited Away
Yojimbo
Blazing Saddles (1974) The Yakuza (1974) Big Trouble in Little China (1986)
All three movies are exceptional in their own right and all three broke a lot of new ground by blending cultural and genre conventions in new ways.
