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You only get to watch THREE movies for the rest of your life. What would they be?

For me it’s The Color Purple, Inception, and Beauty and the Beast.
Honorable Mention: Forrest Gump

pink123 5 Apr 17
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6

Apocalypse Now
Oh brother, where art thou ?
Eraserhead

Eraserhead? Oh my gosh.......

Yeah.....I love the sound track.
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@dexman2132 I am down with eraserhead

6

A night at the Opera.
Citizen Kane.
Singing in the Rain.

A Night At The Opera was a strong consideration, that movie was hilarious!

@SpikeTalon And funny Every Single Time.

5

Oh no. Only 3? I'm ready to cry.
Monty Python's Holy Grail
Godfather 2
Matawan
But, how can I live without Casablanca, the Big Lebowski, Fargo, Night of the Hunter, North By Northwest, Hostiles, Dunkirk, somebody stop me. I would go on and on and on. Oh yes, Get Out, Split, Blade Runner. I have to stop

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This is a mean post! I think of 3 then read other's lists and I just want to keep adding more and more so I'm just gonna put down as many as I want! 😉 I am not your Negro, Up! , Beauty and the Beast (animated) , The big Lebowski, Unforgiven, Princess Bride, Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein, The Big Short, The Man who shot Liberty Valance, and I have to add the TV show The Wire.

The Wire.....all time favorite and possibly best TV show ever.

@idoubtit One of the best works of art in any medium. 🙂

5

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Princess Bride
Wizard of Oz

4
  1. Auntie Mame [1958]
  2. The Court Jester [1955]
  3. Bringing Up Baby [1938]

@Maiasaura I have seen The Court Jester SO many times I've lost track, but it NEVER fails to make me laugh.

4

The Big Lebowski
Destry Rides Again
The Man Who Knew Too Little

4

Lord of the Rings Trilogy. Honorable mention: Shawshank Redemption, Star Wars, Fight Club.

Get busy living or get busy dying.

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My picks:

  • Casablanca (favorite movie of all time)
  • The Matrix (favorite sci-fi movie)
  • Big Trouble (great comedy)

Smuggled in:

  • The Princess Bride (all-around solid movie)
  • The Iron Giant (surprisingly deep cartoon movie)
3

Once Upon a time in the West
12 Angry Men the original
The Godfather

3

Young Frankenstein, Fight Club, and A Christmas Story (Red Rider carbine action two hundred shot range air rifle with a compass in the stock!). “Some men are baptists, others Catholics; my father was an Oldsmobile man.” Snatch would be my fourth.

3

The Wizard of OZ (I love the singing and everything about it. This is the only movie I need.)

ebdb Level 7 Apr 17, 2018

@ebdb That was one of my three. As a kid, with limited channels and a black-and-white TV, we watched it every time it came on, which I believe was two times per year. It was a big event.

Imagine my surprise the first time I saw the Wizard of Oz on a color TV. I must've been in my early 20s, and when the house landed on the unlucky witch and all of munchkin land lit up in Technicolor! Finally, the horse-of-a-different color made sense.

3

Black Panther, Mulan, Guardians of the Galaxy

Honestly, same, I'm going to annoy tf out of my whole family by coming up and randomly bursting in to songs from the Mulan soundtrack, it would be great

3

Unforgiven
Blade Runner (Final Cut)
Star Wars ANH (original/HSF)

3

Shawshank Redemption. Princess Bride cuz my kids loved it and it makes me think of happy times. Forrest Gump to look for the mistakes. In one scene when Forrest meets Jr, the iron is up as it should be. The next scene it's down on the ironing board.

3

The Big Sleep
North by Northwest
The Good, The Bad and The Ugly

3

Up Close and Personal, A walk in the Clouds,
Gone With The Wind.

2
  1. EMPIRE STRIKES BACK: Favorite movie as a kid, still favorite now. It’s pure perfection for me.

  2. FOREST GUMP: The historic references get me every time. One of the best movie casts ever ensembles.

  3. PACIFIC RIM: It’s a real life Anime for me. Amazing visuals and solid story.

Totally agree with Empire strikes back!!! Funny thing I find myself really liking the second films of trilogy’s and beyond. Rocky II, Empire Strikes back, Godfather II, The Two Towers, etc .

2

All the President's Men
Double Indemnity
LA Story
Honorable mention: JFK

2

Shawshank Redemption, the Big Lebowski, Monty Python & the Holy Grail.

Hidden on a flash drive in a fake outlet: The Jerk, Blazing Saddles, and Pulp Fiction.

2

"The Emperor's New Grovve"
"Forest Gump"
"Stand By Me"

At lest those are the ones I'd choose today. Usualy I list "Ordinary People" and "American Beauty" in such lists, but today I feel different.

2

Harold & Maude - The Cook, the Thief, his Wife and her Lover - Blade Runner

2

The Shawshank Redemption, Blade Runner and Bad Santa.

2

The Matrix, Say Anything, On Deadly Ground.

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That is really a tough question. There are so many great movies.

I occasionally go on watching (actually listening as I often do not fire up the projector) binges and have found after repetitive screenings, even (what I once considered to be) great movies like Avatar become intolerable as every (not all) stupid line, every plot hole, become memorized and painfully transparent.

With that in mind,

Forest Gump, (one of John William's (EDIT not John Williams but Alan Silvestri) best scores (haven't seen it in years))
Frozen (in 3d it is lovely on the big screen) some of the music is ok.
The Iron Giant (the orchestration and sound effects (in a good theater) are amazing. The artistry of the graphics are also exceptional and the story line has some good elements.

@pink123 agreed. My favorite is "Where heaven Ends" makes me want to fire up my bassoon. I was wrong though. Gump is not John Williams but "ALAN SILVESTRI" my bad.

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