Top Three Movies of All Time!

1. The Notebook
2. This is Spinal Tap
3. Godspell

If you put Harold and Maude on here, you are flat out wrong. I'm sorry. That movie is awful, cynical, nihilist drek.

Sorry, I know on some sort of mental level that everyone is entitled to their opinion, and yet I find that movie so utterly repulsive that I can't not say something. Just ignore it.

Anyway.

1. Citizen Kane - It's no fun putting this one here - I want to put something fun and unexpected, but this honestly is the best movie I've ever seen and the best movie I ever expect to see. It's gotten better with each viewing, and it started out awesome. People sometimes argue that the story isn't good, and I've even seen people argue that Casablanca is the best movie of all time. Not a chance. Casablanca is a product of its time - the filmmaking and plot are both the best of the time it was made. Kane is not a product of its time; it's light years beyond it. I find the story moving, and the filmmaking even better.

2. Seven Samurai - Okay, so...yeah, my picks are just going to be obvious, I guess. This also goes into the "gets better every time I see it" category, and it's almost like three mini-movies in one, each of them brilliant, but better still as a whole. The performances from Takashi Shimura and Toshiro Mifune are amazing and counterbalance each other perfectly, the writing, the direction, the story...it's just all so involving. It's really quite surprising, too, that rarely do you see an action movie as exciting, and rarely a drama as interesting. It's so rare that you see a movie that asks larger questions, but is also totally accessible.

3. Angry Anal 12 - the rare sequel that gets it right: all the plot elements of the previous entries come together and form a coherent whole that is both funny and of course romantic.

Actually, I'm thinking The Third Man, but I'm not 100% on that at all.

[Edited on Oct 09, 2005 by TedKoppel]

If anyones cares I am going to start another board that is called "Worst Three Movies of All Time!"

Fight Club
American History X
Good Will Hunting

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf
Glengarry Glen Ross
A Face in the Crowd
Crimes and Misdemeanors
My Favorite Year

Dr. Zhivago
One Flew Over The Cukoos Nest
The Deer Hunter

1. Casablanca
2. Mclintock
3. Army of Darkness

[Edited on Oct 09, 2005 by Linc]

Baraka
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
and this...

...is a fucking masterpiece!

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Man, I can name my top three bands, my top three MCs, my top three Beck b-sides...

But I can't judge movies for shit. So...

The Original Trilogy (as one)
In the Bedroom
Donnie Darko

I mean C'mon...It has Lo Pan in it!

That's a joke, right?

nope

Uh... Did you watch it all the way through? It's actually the complete opposite of that. It's ultimately life-affirming. Harold refuses to give in to the nihilism and realizes that life goes on, in spite of the trouble and pain. And that life should be lived joyfully, in spite of the trouble and pain. Watch it again.

Your third choice was pretty funny, though.

I'm no film student, and i'm awful at making decisions. So here's a tentative top three, but bear in mind i'll probably change my mind at least once.

1) LOTR. The whole, 10-odd hour shebang. I try my best not to think of the book when I watch it, though.

2) The Man Who Wasn't There. An understated movie.*

3) 2001. For whatever reason, I like the kind of 60s movie where nothing can happen for extended periods of time.

*sub this one for Airplane! depending on mood.

sixbysix said:
I'm no film student, and i'm awful at making decisions. So here's a tentative top three, but bear in mind i'll probably change my mind at least once.

1) LOTR. The whole, 10-odd hour shebang. I try my best not to think of the book when I watch it, though.
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I agree. As a seperate entity in the fantasy/drama genre, its hard to beat but sometimes doesn't represent the true spirit of Tolkien's vision.
And just as a sidenote, my ex-girlfriend is really good friends with Royd Tolkien who told her New Line and Jackson were in the works to re-release the films on DVD with even more footage and altered scenes to make the story more accurate and closer to Tolkiens original vision. We're talking probably over 14 hours of film footage for all three films. But no date is set and the works are still very much in the early process. But that's still about 5 hours for each film. I'm not sure if this will improve things or make it worse. We'll see I guess.

I should have stated that Triliogy's have to be one movie not all three!

1 never ending story

2 legends of the fall

3 labrynth or its spelt someother way

1. Breakfast at Tiffanys
2. Reality Bites
3. Dead Poets Society

1. A Night at the Opera
2. The Thin Man
3. Maltese Falcon

I wasn't referring to Harold. Harold was fine. I was referring to fucking old cunt who didn't believe in anything and didn't care about anyone but herself. What a bitch. I'm sorry she died on her own terms - an extended graphic murder sequence would have been funny and cathartic. But actually, the fact that she died made it all the more repulsive just because she had no reason to go. She just wanted to die. Yeah, because your life is all about you and you should just do things on your own terms always. If you're not over this notion by, like, sixth grade, there's something seriously wrong.

But besides the fact that what the movie seemed to be presenting as an ideal way of living was really just selfish nihilist bullshit which allows you to steal other people's cars because who cares about other people and their "responsible" way of life, it was really, mind-numbingly stupid. Harold killed himself in about a hundred different ways that actually should have killed him, and the movie didn't think it was necessary to explain why he wasn't dead. It was sort of like watching a Chuck Jones cartoon, where the Wiley Coyote falls to his death and then looks weird afterwards. Similarly, Maude can steal cars because apparently no one around her ever locks them and leaves the keys in the ignition or something, because she gets in them and has them running within two seconds. At the end, Harold can somehow drive a car off a cliff and then just magically not be in the car after it goes off the cliff, and then wander off playing the flute or some goddamn thing when he'd been distraught not thirty seconds before and that was the whole reason he was driving the car off the cliff anyway. The damn thing did not make any sort of coherent sense, aside from being totally amoral and selfish.

Seriously, one of the worst movies I've ever seen.

Not bad but I wouldn't call Legends of the fall one of the best three movies of all time!

shaun of the dead
almost famous
chasing amy or donnie darko

ok i'm just going to keep listing until i can reasonably stop.....
other than the first movie, these are in no discernable order:

The Nightmare Before Christmas
Donnie Darko
Fight Club
Super Troopers
I ♥ Huckabee's
Spun
The Devil's Rejects
Office Space
Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
Sin City
Snatch
American History X
James and the Giant Peach
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005)

thats all i can think of off the top of my head