What are your Top Three Favourite Films?

What are your Top Three Favourite Films?

mostly cos i want to watch something really good tonight as I'm a bit poorly and I'm beyond inspiration.

You should see these Before You Die of All Time

Vertigo
Once Upon a Time in the West
Playtime

Mishima
M
Hawk the Slayer

nah fuck knows tbh

pretty sure we've done this:

Poll-ice Academy

Rear Window
The Spirit of the Beehive
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

The Double Life Of Veronique
Asoka
Lilya 4-Ever

The Third Man
Chungking Express
Goodfellas (if we're being honest)

Brazil
Performance
Happy Together

The order shuffles around, but it usually comes down to Nashville, Rosemary's Baby, and the first two Godfathers.

rear window
Third man
Maltese falcon

robocop
texas chainsaw massacre
something with bill murray in it before his face became frozen in sad-clown face

stripes

i'll go with caddyshack because then i get a murray/dangerfield two-fer

La Jetee
Nashville
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

harsh on chase, kind on rodney tbh

see though now i AM thinking stripes because of john candy.

digging all the chainsaw love on this thread so far tbh

the thing
robocop
manhattan

Paris, Texas
Dark City
Groundhog Day

duck dodgers in the 24 1/2th century
little red riding rabbit
bugs and thugs

godfather 3
Police academy 6
Rocky and bullwinkle, either

I seriously can't pick top lists like this because they change every day. I could probably do a top 10 but the order within that would vary wildly depending on my mood. In fact, even thinking about having to pick 3 sort of stresses me out. What if I pick incorrectly?!

I was going to just list them in bunches of three every now and then.

you get thrown in the stockade.

pick the quickest top 3 you can

Right this minute, and this has probably been colored somewhat by reading other people's responses, my top three would be

1. Goodfellas
2. The Thing
3. Before Sunrise

BUT WHICH THING

:o

No falcon

the 13th Floor
Der Himmel über Berlin
Lost Highway

lol

But now I think maybe The Maltese Falcon should have been in there too because it's definitely top 5. Fuck. Also are these just what we love or what we think are genuinely great movies because those are two wildly different things sometimes. I hate shit like this. It's why I don't do lists like this ever.

lol Darragh - I'm surprised you would remember that. :)

To Have and Have Not
Chinatown
Almost Famous

Who started this? Three isn't enough. Pulp Fiction. Fuck. I need to lie down now.

i went by movies i'd want to see one more time before i died. i mean...i love fassbinder, but if a giant comet is headed toward earth and i had to choose, i know i'm watching robocop over berlin alexanderplatz.

National Lampoon's European Vacation

There that's 5.

6

damn

Philadelphia Story
Blade Runner
A Matter of Life and Death

yeah im just going with movies i know i could watch any time, anywhere and always be delighted by them

BUT WHICH THING

― strongo hulkington's ghost dad, Sunday, June 19, 2011 6:11 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark

hawks version is the thing *from another world*

:I

today im having:

the long goodbye
l'eclisse
red shoes/p much any 1940s P&P

blade runner
All about eve
Bringing up baby

miller's crossing

ken burns' "jazz"

Ordet
A Matter of Life and Death
L'Argent (1983)

vertigo
sansho dayu
l'avventura

Pi
Pan's Labyrinth
Alphaville

Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me
Crash (Cronenberg)
The Thin Red Line

Quick pick top three:

Wise Blood
Threads
Beyond the Valley of the Dolls

Alien
Aliens
Blade Runner

Thank you, people, for listing Hausu among your top three favorites. I now feel motivated to un-unwatch my unwatched copy (largely unwatched because I was waiting to watch it with other people, all of whom have expressed a complete lack of interest towards the idea).

ha i should have seen that
xxp

The Band Wagon
Summer Stock
The Gang's All Here

― Duke Manfist: Action Hero (Dan Peterson)

When can we get married?

lol, I know that list is gay as hell for a straight man, but musicals are just about the only film genre I can watch more than 2-3 times.

w/o looking:

days of heaven
rules of the game
bring it on

those films are much better if you look at them.

esp bring it on amirite

I watch my favourites over and over and over again until they're not my favourites anymore. Somewhow, a few survive.

(lol real answer)

No Country for Old Men
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
Fresh

the philadelphia story
night of the hunter
three crowns of the sailor

Nights of Cabiria
Repo Man
Dazed & Confused

The Godfather
The Godfather Part II
Cannibal: The Musical

Thank you, people, for listing Hausu among your top three favorites. I now feel motivated to un-unwatch my unwatched copy (largely unwatched because I was waiting to watch it with other people, all of whom have expressed a complete lack of interest towards the idea).

I'm in the habit of if I find out one of my friends have never seen it, I go out of my way to make sure we watch it. This week I rewatched this for maybe now the dozenth time. My friend was tripping and had never seen it. He's a huge anime & psychedelic film nerd so I said before we do this we are getting a projector and this movie will change your life! Yeah, he loved it of course.

Also yay for Duck Soup love. Arguably the best Marx Bros. and if only it had a Chico-playing-piano scene it would be w/o question the best.

The Passenger
The Thin Red Line
Seven Samurai

I wouldnt save it in a fire before those three, but im pretty obsessed with Back to the Future

don't put too much stock in my choices, Godfather/Godfather II probably right but couldn't think of a third. I'm not really a movie buff per se even though I see a lot these days.

the royal tenenebaums
when harry met sally
stop making sense

"did you just call me Coltrane?"

arf!
damn just realised i spelt Tenenbaums wrong.

sweet smell of success
pulp fiction
goodfellas

Apocalypse Now
The Jerk
The Good, The Bad & The Ugly

two lane blacktop
repo man
you've got mail

If I had to commit to something at this moment I guess it'd be:

Hiroshima Mon Amour
2001
Manhattan

the only other things that come to mind are Chinatown and Days of Heaven.

Some of these trios are awesome in a "one of these things is not like the other" kind of way.

Citizen Kane
Cool Hand Luke
Chinatown

Those three could have been my list on any other day as could several of the others presented here.

WmC I'm pretty sure that one of Fantasy's was a lie.

yeah, two lane blacktop is pretty overrated.

hmmmm.

star trek 2
videodrome
strozek

shit, the thing and ran might need to squeeze in there somewhere.

Some of these trios are awesome in a "one of these things is not like the other" kind of way.

tbh i think alot of ppl want to show they have good taste but yknow Step Brothers is ace too. maybe thats just cynical projection tho.

mmm Videodrome. have the Criterion collection version of taht

I couldn't think of a third movie and went with the movie I've probably seen the most

hmm actually change my third to Robocop

ok being honest my third movie is werckmeister harmonies, not a great great movie or anything, but probably the last movie I think I sat through all rapt and shit

also that gvs kurt cobain movie was incredible, I thought

a friend keeps dropping rohmer movies by my apt and asking if I ever watch them and I don't is he any good I'm going to do a search right now

Autumn Tale, Le Rayon Vert...

Gonna say:

The Thin Blue Line
The Thin Red Line
D'Est

three is so impossible though. i'm excluding tons of shit that i love at least as much:

dagon
repo man
i don't want to sleep alone

and so on...

excalibur!

aguirre!

femme fatale!

Almost wisest to go highbrow/middlebrow/lowbrow. Like:

D'Est
Husbands and Wives
Fear

Ideal is

Highbrow
Lowbrow
Nobrow

Street of Shame
Totoro
Rashomon

Dawn of the Dead
Stalker
Drumline

(great pick with Dagon, though!)

What did dog latin watch in the end?

tbh i think alot of ppl want to show they have good taste but yknow Step Brothers is ace too. maybe thats just cynical projection tho.

i can't imagine picking things that don't have a kind of transportive quality, that are emblematic of why films are worth watching & why you should watch them. i would pick weirder, more intriguing films over classics most of the time - f for fake over kane (though yknow either is fine) - because the purposes of this list is to be, watch this!, it's interesting + new/different, i think, and because seeing something that's a curveball tends to serve as the motivation to watch more stuff. think people are picking exemplars that demonstrate how watching films can be instructive and intriguing and directional rather than just time-filling.

What did dog latin watch in the end?

― resonate with awesomeness (jel --), Wednesday, 22 June 2011 11:07 (28 minutes ago) Bookmark

Rushmore - hadn't seen it before. Interesting, but not my bag. I think I've given Wanderson a good go and all his films leave me cold. That said, as a Napoleon Dynamite apologist, I can kind of see why anyone who'd seen Rushmore before would be all "ack" @ that film.

Ghostbusters
Big Trouble In Little China
Fresh

eddie murphy -- raw
big trouble in little china (opened this thread to post that, kkvgz)
who's afraid of virginia woolf?

hey dog latin what are your top three films?