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.
Naked Gun
Naked Gun 2 1/2
Naked Gun 33 1/3
Airplane! as runner-up
And Airplane!
Everything, Everywhere, All at Once
Fight Club
Dr. Strangelove
Everything Everywhere All at Once is my favorite movie!
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Honorable mention to Airplane!
Lawrence of Arabia
Kingdom of Heaven
Apocalypse Now
…
LotR
LotR
LotR
…
The Sound of Music
HEAT
Pulp Fiction
Hard to pick…
I’ve seen all of these except for Hard to Pick, doesn’t looks like it’s streaming.
Heat is a good pull, Michael Mann honks.
Banger of a track too: https://www.whosampled.com/DJ-Shadow/Stem-(Cops-'N'-Robbers-Mix)/
Just watched the directors cut of Kingdom of Heaven, and dang, what a film!
Def HEAT.
Shawshank is a solid contender. I’d say The Princess Bride is one of the top three.
Fight Club
Big Lebowski
The Matrix
Lord of the Rings probably deserves a top spot, I can’t deny how epic it really was. Watching the behind the scenes on those was even more mind blowing when you realize all the tiny details that went into every shot, but it didn’t have the personal impact that the other three had.
Spaceballs
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Airplane!
Spaceballs over Blazing Saddles?
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Airplane!
Spirited Away
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.
Princess Bride
Ben Hurr
Spirited away.
Back To The Future
Back To The Future II
Back To The Future III
Timeless movie!
This is almost an impossible ask unless we at least split it up by genre. How do you compare The Princess Bride to Airplane! to The Shawshank Redemption to Die Hard to Star Wars? All 5 amazing movies but wildly different, each would top the lists in their respective genres but which are the top 3?
I really like some mentioned so far, so just throwing in one of my picks:
Apocalypse Now
Spirited Away
Yojimbo
Def A N.
Indiana Jones 1
Indiana Jones 3
V for Vendetta
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
Interstellar
Dune (2021)
Big Lebowski
