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Title: Your favorite top 3 movies
Post by Factory Girl on Dec 5^th, 2009 at 4:25pm

What are your favorite 3 movies? Concert movies, comedies, drama, horror...

Title: Re: Your favorite top 3 movies
Post by Teiz on Dec 5^th, 2009 at 4:29pm

The Good, The Bad & The Ugly is my favorite, followed by The Empire Strikes Back and Pulp Fiction.

Title: Re: Your favorite top 3 movies
Post by Gazza on Dec 5^th, 2009 at 4:50pm

Running out of Luck
Ned Kelly
The Nightingale (Children's Faerie Tale Theatre)

Title: Re: Your favorite top 3 movies
Post by PartyDoll MEG on Dec 5^th, 2009 at 5:23pm

Gazza you are full of poppycock!! ;D ;D

Title: Re: Your favorite top 3 movies
Post by lotsajizz on Dec 5^th, 2009 at 5:31pm

I don't have three favorites---ranking or limiting them is senseless---that being said 3 that come to mind quickly are 'Pulp Fiction', 'Apocalypse Now', and 'Laurence Of Arabia'. Lots more though, LOTS more....

Title: Re: Your favorite top 3 movies
Post by Gazza on Dec 5^th, 2009 at 5:39pm

Excellent choices, Jizzy.

Pulp Fiction and Once Upon a Time In America would probably be my top two, with a host of 'could have been a contendah's for third place.

Anything with either Brando or DeNiro at their most watchable would be up there.

This would be a great thread for Steamboat Bill, Jr. who used to post on the previous Rocks Off board. That kid was only about 23 years old, but his knowledge about movies was incredible and he was always great to read.

Title: Re: Your favorite top 3 movies
Post by Factory Girl on Dec 5^th, 2009 at 5:42pm

1. Misfits

2. Cat On a Hot Tin Roof

3. Streetcar Named Desire

Title: Re: Your favorite top 3 movies
Post by lotsajizz on Dec 5^th, 2009 at 5:43pm

to broaden it, I LOVE most anything Tarantino and Leone have made, I worship Peter O'Toole and most anything he's in is fabulous (littler known gems of his include "Murphy's War", "Becket", and "Night Of The Generals", the Godafther trilogy is masterpiece (I even love the third one), "Diva" is great, "Afterhours", the Monty Python films....and we're not even on concert films yet

Title: Re: Your favorite top 3 movies
Post by lotsajizz on Dec 5^th, 2009 at 5:44pm

Factory Girl wrote on Dec 5^th, 2009 at 5:42pm:

Cat On a Hot Tin Roof

Liz Taylor had MAJOR game back in the day!

Title: Re: Your favorite top 3 movies
Post by PartyDoll MEG on Dec 5^th, 2009 at 5:48pm

I have the same problem, Jizzy!

I have seen lots of movies many many times, but to call them my favorites is impossible. I can't do it with music, so why would I be able to do it with movies! ;)

Title: Re: Your favorite top 3 movies
Post by StPeteStone on Dec 5^th, 2009 at 5:49pm

lotsajizz wrote on Dec 5^th, 2009 at 5:44pm:

Factory Girl wrote on Dec 5^th, 2009 at 5:42pm:

Cat On a Hot Tin Roof

Liz Taylor had MAJOR game back in the day!

Just saw it again the other day. She was smoking hot!!

Title: Re: Your favorite top 3 movies
Post by Factory Girl on Dec 5^th, 2009 at 5:59pm

St Petey,

Care to post a LIz pic from the Cat? Paul Newman was hot hot hot also.

Title: Re: Your favorite top 3 movies
Post by Bitch on Dec 5^th, 2009 at 6:00pm

Three movies I can watch over and over: I love comedies.

Austin Powers ~ Mike Myers cracks me up
Rocky Horror Picture Show ~ always fun
The Blues Brothers ~ John Belushi is always hilariuos

Title: Re: Your favorite top 3 movies
Post by left shoe shuffle on Dec 5^th, 2009 at 6:11pm

Three films I've watched countless times, and again most recently:
'One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest'
'On The Waterfront'
'12 Angry Men'

'Dog Day Afternoon' is in the DVD player now...

BTW, not sure if it'll make anyone's list, but TCM is airing 'Performance' on 12/11 at 2AM Eastern Time.

Title: Re: Your favorite top 3 movies
Post by StPeteStone on Dec 5^th, 2009 at 6:24pm

Factory Girl wrote on Dec 5^th, 2009 at 5:59pm:

St Petey,

Care to post a LIz pic from the Cat? Paul Newman was hot hot hot also.

Here's a few.

Title: Re: Your favorite top 3 movies
Post by lotsajizz on Dec 5^th, 2009 at 6:29pm

:perverted

Title: Re: Your favorite top 3 movies
Post by Heart Of Stone on Dec 5^th, 2009 at 7:23pm

1-Gimme Shelter.
2-Amadeus.
3-Amazing Journey.

Title: Re: Your favorite top 3 movies
Post by Factory Girl on Dec 5^th, 2009 at 7:31pm

Thanks, St. Petey. :) Just Beautiful.

Title: Re: Your favorite top 3 movies
Post by GotToRollMe on Dec 5^th, 2009 at 8:15pm

I have to list at least 10, and even that was tough. I couldn't even include concert films, documentaries, fantasies, and a host of others.

01. 8 1/2
02. Bande à part
03. The Pope of Greenwich Village
04. Wings of Desire
05. On The Waterfront
06. Pulp Fiction
07. Dr. Strangelove: or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
08. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
09. The Ruling Class
10. Most Leone, Scorsese, Fassbinder, Wim Wenders, Woody Allen, and Jim Jarmusch flicks. And a whole lot more.

Title: Re: Your favorite top 3 movies
Post by LadyJane on Dec 5^th, 2009 at 8:20pm

Good thread and definitely hard to narrow down.

I'll try:

1) Godfather Trilogy.
2) All About Eve.
3) Casino tied with Goodfellas.

LJ.

Title: Re: Your favorite top 3 movies
Post by Ginda on Dec 5^th, 2009 at 8:33pm

The Grapes of Wrath (also my favorite book)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Lonesome Dove (actually a made for TV movie)

I watch all 3 once a year and I'm looking forward to my 2010 viewing!

Title: Re: Your favorite top 3 movies
Post by Sioux on Dec 5^th, 2009 at 8:41pm

I don't even think I could do this if we listed our fave 3 in each of the above categories! ::)

Title: Re: Your favorite top 3 movies
Post by Holden on Dec 5^th, 2009 at 10:05pm

Pan's Labyrinth

Zoolander

True Lies

Without a paddle

Tropic Thunder

Shaun of the dead

way too many.........

Title: Re: Your favorite top 3 movies
Post by StPeteStone on Dec 5^th, 2009 at 10:05pm

Three of my favs:

The Pope of Greenwich Village
Terminator
Glengarry Glen Ross

Title: Re: Glengarry Glen Ross
Post by left shoe shuffle on Dec 5^th, 2009 at 10:16pm

"We're adding a little something to this month's sales contest. As you all know, first prize is a Cadillac Eldorado. Anybody want to see second prize?

Second prize is a set of steak knives. Third prize is you're fired."

www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-AXTx4PcKI

Title: Re: Your favorite top 3 movies
Post by StPeteStone on Dec 5^th, 2009 at 10:19pm

left shoe shuffle wrote on Dec 5^th, 2009 at 10:16pm:

I've loved Baldwin in that flick. Hell, he still steals every movie he's in.

Title: Re: Your favorite top 3 movies
Post by gimmekeef on Dec 5^th, 2009 at 10:48pm

Goodfellas
Cookoos Nest
Wizard of Oz (sucker for that one)

Title: Re: Your favorite top 3 movies
Post by AngieBlue on Dec 6^th, 2009 at 1:11am

Only 3? Not easy.

Rebecca
Robin Hood - Errol Flynn
The Lion in Winter

Title: Re: Your favorite top 3 movies
Post by Zack on Dec 6^th, 2009 at 2:44am

I can watch Good Morning Vietnam over and over. Viva Da-ang!

The Kids Are Alright. "This is excitement and . . . hit it!"

Any Given Sunday.

Title: Re: Your favorite top 3 movies
Post by Gimme Shelter on Dec 6^th, 2009 at 3:26am

This is tough

Return Of the Jedi
The Godfather
Rocky

Title: Re: Your favorite top 3 movies
Post by marko on Dec 6^th, 2009 at 4:06am

Theres too many to list just 3 movies,as i am a big eastwood fan,and his perfect movies only in past 10years,and very important ones too.i won´t list his classic but these would
be my choices

1.gran torino
2.flags of our fathers&letters from iwo jima
3.Gladiator

Title: Re: Your favorite top 3 movies
Post by macdaddy on Dec 6^th, 2009 at 12:11pm

i'll play!

(in no particular order)

goodfellas
husbands
ran

fg seemed to want it done in categories, however, so...

off the top of my head (which is really the only way to respond to these types of queries)...

american drama:
apocalypse now
godfather (1 and 2 - imo, you cant separate the two)
goodfellas

comedy:
fletch
big lebowski
stranger than paradise

foreign:
ran
wings of desire
ne le dis a personne

independent:
husbands
clean
down by law

documentary:
fog of war
grizzly man
when we were kings

horror:
army of darkness
the omen
phantasm

musicals:
none (dislike the genre)

rock movies:
stop making sense
we jam econo
hail! hail! rock and roll

sh*t that came to mind when typing this list, but didnt make the top 3:
heat
aguirre: the wrath of god
ghost dog
a woman under the influence
the american friend
diva
subway
leon
the big blue
whale rider
flock of dodos
ladies and gentlemen
let's spend the night together (say what you want - this was my first tour, and i can still watch it start to finish. it is well-shot, too)
last waltz
rockers
the departed

Title: Re: Your favorite top 3 movies
Post by Voodoo Chile In Wonderland on Dec 6^th, 2009 at 12:20pm

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is my number one, I also love the book by psychedelic guru, beat, beatnik and hippie Ken Kesey... For those who don't know, it's based in his very own experience. Medication time is my favourite moment of the day!

Check this out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_MKULTRA

I also love psychos and can see many times movies like The Shinning, all Hannibal Lecter movies, especially the Silence of the Lambs, Helter Skelter (Charles Manson's family), Cape Fear.

Sweet revenge is also occupational therpay to me so movies like "Death Wish" (I - V) or similar are in my collection

Title: Re: Your favorite top 3 movies
Post by Riffhard on Dec 6^th, 2009 at 12:33pm

1.- Patton

2.- Goldfinger/ From Russia With Love

3.- Lord Of The Rings trilogy

Riffy

Title: Re: Your favorite top 3 movies
Post by PartyDoll MEG on Dec 6^th, 2009 at 1:40pm

macdaddy wrote on Dec 6^th, 2009 at 12:11pm:

HA! HA!

You couldn't do it either. ;D I'm not gonna even try..

I will admit I have watched the following movies over my lifetime too numerous times to mention (in no particular order and most of them were not because they were outstanding works of arts)....

Casablanca
Gone With the Wind
Dancing With Wolves
Last of the Mohicans
Pretty Woman
Dirty Dancing
Braveheart
Godfather
The old Star Wars movies, Rocky, ET, Gremlins, and Ferris Buellers Day Off were on non stop at one point on the TV-unless video games were being played!!! ;)

Title: Re: Your favorite top 3 movies
Post by Some Guy on Dec 6^th, 2009 at 1:56pm

Stripes
Caddyshack
Fast Times at Ridgemont High

Title: Re: Your favorite top 3 movies
Post by GotToRollMe on Dec 6^th, 2009 at 2:13pm

D'oh! How could I forget Cassavetes? Thanks, macdaddy! I love most films by John Cassavetes.

I also forgot Werner Herzog, in particular "Aguirre, the Wrath of God," "Fitzcarraldo," and "My Best Fiend."

"Naked" by Mike Leigh.

And last but certainly not least, "El Topo" (written, directed and starring Alejandro Jodorowsky).

(I just can't help it. I love movies.)

Title: Re: Your favorite top 3 movies
Post by Joey on Dec 6^th, 2009 at 3:50pm

" What are your favorite 3 movies? Concert movies, comedies, drama, horror.. "

The Silence of the Lambs
Platoon
Wall Street
Network
The Deer Hunter ( " MAO !!! " .... " MAO !!!!" )
CaddyShack
Stripes
Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid
Rocky
Godfather I & II
Apocalypse Now
Goodfellas
The Kids Are Alright

Title: Re: Your favorite top 3 movies
Post by mojoman on Dec 6^th, 2009 at 4:19pm

Some Guy wrote on Dec 6^th, 2009 at 1:56pm:

Stripes
Caddyshack
Fast Times at Ridgemont High

some dude?

Fast-Times-At-Ridgemont-High-Brad-Captain-Hook-Uniform_001.jpg (Attachment deleted)

Title: Re: Your favorite top 3 movies
Post by Some Guy on Dec 6^th, 2009 at 4:23pm

mojoman wrote on Dec 6^th, 2009 at 4:19pm:

Some Guy wrote on Dec 6^th, 2009 at 1:56pm:

Stripes
Caddyshack
Fast Times at Ridgemont High

some dude?

weeding?

Title: Re: Your favorite top 3 movies
Post by Holden on Dec 6^th, 2009 at 5:12pm

Seriously dudes and girls, if you've never seen Pan's Labyrinth I strongly suggest you go out and buy it/rent it. It's such a moving film.

Title: Re: Your favorite top 3 movies
Post by Holden on Dec 6^th, 2009 at 5:20pm

Another moving film:

Title: Re: Your favorite top 3 movies
Post by mojoman on Dec 6^th, 2009 at 6:26pm

Some Guy wrote on Dec 6^th, 2009 at 4:23pm:

mojoman wrote on Dec 6^th, 2009 at 4:19pm:

Some Guy wrote on Dec 6^th, 2009 at 1:56pm:

Stripes
Caddyshack
Fast Times at Ridgemont High

some dude?

weeding?

Heading over to the Australian and Hawaiian internationals, and then me and Mick are going to wing on over to London and jam with the Stones!

Title: Re: Your favorite top 3 movies
Post by lotsajizz on Dec 6^th, 2009 at 6:33pm

Fast Times and Caddyshack are on my list, for sure dude!

Title: Re: Your favorite top 3 movies
Post by mojoman on Dec 6^th, 2009 at 7:24pm

lotsajizz wrote on Dec 6^th, 2009 at 6:33pm:

Fast Times and Caddyshack are on my list, for sure dude!

Hey bud, let's party!

Title: Re: Your favorite top 3 movies
Post by ijwthstd on Dec 6^th, 2009 at 8:30pm

Not much of a movie/TV watcher but I can watch these ones over and over -

The Conversation
Re-Animator
Texas Chainsaw Massacre

The only time I could be bothered this year to check out a regular theatrical release was the new Friday The 13th movie which was okay.

Title: Re: Your favorite top 3 movies
Post by steel driving hammer on Dec 8^th, 2009 at 10:11am

Nice Long Handjobs VOL 1, 2 and 3.

Title: Re: Your favorite top 3 movies
Post by Jesus Christ on Dec 8^th, 2009 at 12:38pm

GotToRollMe wrote on Dec 6^th, 2009 at 2:13pm:

You love weird, willfully artsy, elitist films. Me too! I liked just about every film you mentioned.

My faves:

1) Passion of the Christ
2) Pasolini's Il Vangelo Secondo Matteo
3) Life of Brian

Title: Re: Your favorite top 3 movies
Post by fuman on Dec 8^th, 2009 at 1:20pm

I would go with:

Midnight Run with Robert DeNiro
The Big Lebowski with Jeff Bridges
The Bourne Identity with Matt Damon

The extremely bloody Passion Of Christ was disgusting.
Mel went out of his way to bloody that film up, but it was the biggest box office take of all Jesus movies.
I guess that's what the public wanted to see . . .

Title: Re: Your favorite top 3 movies
Post by texile on Dec 8^th, 2009 at 1:45pm

an impossible list to compile....
it changes, but the ones that never change are the ones i fell in love with as a kid watching the late show.

Bonnie and Clyde
West Side Story
Somebody Up There Likes Me
Bus Stop
Hud
.............so many more.

Title: Re: Your favorite top 3 movies
Post by dadrob on Dec 8^th, 2009 at 2:35pm

fisher king
ladies n gentlemen the rolling stones
monty python's life of brian

Title: Re: Your favorite top 3 movies
Post by GotToRollMe on Dec 8^th, 2009 at 2:38pm

Jesus Christ wrote on Dec 8^th, 2009 at 12:38pm:

GotToRollMe wrote on Dec 6^th, 2009 at 2:13pm:

Guilty as charged! Pasolini is another favorite! I love his novel, "A Violent Life," as well. As for Mel Gibson, his "Apocalypto" is incredible. I like comedies as well, but there simply isn't enough room to accomodate them all here.

Title: Re: Your favorite top 3 movies
Post by GotToRollMe on Dec 8^th, 2009 at 2:52pm

mojoman wrote on Dec 6^th, 2009 at 7:24pm:

lotsajizz wrote on Dec 6^th, 2009 at 6:33pm:

Fast Times and Caddyshack are on my list, for sure dude!

Hey bud, let's party!

"All I need are some tasty waves, some cool buds, and I'm fine."

Title: Re: Your favorite top 3 movies
Post by Jesus Christ on Dec 8^th, 2009 at 3:46pm

GotToRollMe wrote on Dec 8^th, 2009 at 2:38pm:

Jesus Christ wrote on Dec 8^th, 2009 at 12:38pm:

GotToRollMe wrote on Dec 6^th, 2009 at 2:13pm:

I was actually kidding about Mel Gibson, although I do want to see Apocalypto.

Pasolini's Salo is just about the most disturbing film I've ever seen.

Title: Re: Your favorite top 3 movies
Post by mojoman on Dec 8^th, 2009 at 4:19pm

recent favorite.........a serious man

Title: Re: Your favorite top 3 movies
Post by caro on Dec 8^th, 2009 at 4:47pm

Off the top of my head :

Arizona Dream
Dark City
The fearless Vampire Killers
Amadeus
To be or not to be
Dances with Wolves
Stranger than Paradise
Stalker

And I agree with Holden, Pan's Labyrinth is terrifying but awesome !

Title: Re: Your favorite top 3 movies
Post by Factory Girl on Dec 8^th, 2009 at 5:20pm

caro wrote on Dec 8^th, 2009 at 4:47pm:

I like Amadeus! What happened to the actor Tom Hulce, who looked like Iggy Pop?? Interesting... Tom Hulce also born in Michigan.

Title: Re: Your favorite top 3 movies
Post by Heart Of Stone on Dec 8^th, 2009 at 5:39pm

Factory Girl wrote on Dec 8^th, 2009 at 5:20pm:

caro wrote on Dec 8^th, 2009 at 4:47pm:

I like Amadeus! What happened to the actor Tom Hulce, who looked like Iggy Pop?? Interesting... Tom Hulce also born in Michigan.

Yes, Amadeus is really well done, one of my top 3 movies, it really takes one back to that period of time, fantastically done, I never heard to much more about Tom Hulce, he did a outstanding role as Mozart, but it was the guy who played the guy who was jealous of Mozart genius that won the Oscar, he did a fantastic acting role.

Title: Re: Your favorite top 3 movies
Post by Lantern_High on Dec 9^th, 2009 at 6:32am

1 is the Last Emperor.
2 is Apocalyse Now
3 Sergio Leone's films.

Title: Re: Your favorite top 3 movies
Post by Egon on Dec 9^th, 2009 at 6:34am

I'll have to go with ET.
I was 11 & that film blew me away!

2nd is probably Indy 3

3rd is police academy 24....

worst film ever; taboo http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0288243/

Title: Re: Your favorite top 3 movies
Post by GotToRollMe on Dec 9^th, 2009 at 2:16pm

Jesus Christ wrote on Dec 8^th, 2009 at 3:46pm:

GotToRollMe wrote on Dec 8^th, 2009 at 2:38pm:

Jesus Christ wrote on Dec 8^th, 2009 at 12:38pm:

GotToRollMe wrote on Dec 6^th, 2009 at 2:13pm:

I was actually kidding about Mel Gibson, although I do want to see Apocalypto.

Pasolini's Salo is just about the most disturbing film I've ever seen.

I knew you were kidding about Mel Gibson, but Apocalypto is stunningly realistic, and the end is just a mindblower.

Actually, I do love weird, willfully artsy, disturbing films, but I've never thought of them as being elitist. More like what film ought to be. I feel the same about television. Such a waste of a potentially great medium. They pander to the lowest common denominator, hence the "dumbing down" of not only America, but the rest of the world. Film and television could be so much more. Thankfully, we're still able to see great films. I wish I could say the same for television. And the printed page is becoming obsolete. These days it's nearly impossible to find kids who like to read. I loved to read when I was a kid and still do. It's how you find out about everything else, including art and history - two subjects that people are sorely ignorant of these days. Okay, end of rant. [smiley=engel017.gif]

Title: Re: Your favorite top 3 movies
Post by Lantern_High on Dec 10^th, 2009 at 10:03am

The Cuckoo's nest -sorry if I have type wrong the first.
The Seven Samurai- Kurosawa
No one is perfect -Marylin & Curtis

Pulp fiction

Title: Re: Your favorite top 3 movies
Post by Lantern_High on Dec 11^th, 2009 at 4:32am

La Dolce Vita - Fellini

Piano Piano Dolce Carlotta _Bette Davis. Dont know the English title. Love the 50s black&white films.
Rocky Horror Pitcure Show

Title: Re: Your favorite top 3 movies
Post by Lantern_High on Dec 12^th, 2009 at 6:08am

I'm gonna to see an awesome Maryilin's Movie. And when I'll learn the English title.. I will tell you. 8-)
Finally I got the DVD. Heya

Title: Re: Your favorite top 3 movies
Post by Paranoid Android on Dec 12^th, 2009 at 7:46am

All time...Young Frankenstein...Judgment At Nuremberg...Rocky Horror Picture Show...28 Days...Matrix...Blade Runner (especially the Final Director's cut!!!)...Apocolype Now Redux...Clerks...Slacker...Sunset Blvd...and the clicheic, Godfather 1 & 2

I don't really like concert films, though Gimme Shelter is facsinating to watch...as was Heart Of Gold

Title: Re: Your favorite top 3 movies
Post by Honky Tonk Man on Dec 13^th, 2009 at 5:45am

Goodfellas
Schindler's List
The Shawshank Redemption