Books, Movies, Music & Entertainment - Top Three movies, you'd buy again if you ever lost them

Limiting it to the top three to help make it a little easier, everyone has such a wide
taste in movies/music so it should be quite a list, but maybe some people have more
in common than we think ;)

My top three are;

The Princess Bride, (actually purchased my third version of this, darn double dipping :) )

Murder by Death, very funny movie...

Hopscotch, possibly a little known movie with Walter Matthau, very funny, have the Criterion release.

ok, I was torn by other choices but chose those, what are your top three?
G2

Fight Club - "mischief, mayhem, soap"

Auntie Mame - "Life is a banquet and most poor suckers are starving" (with Rosalind Russell, Forrest Tucker, Coral Browne, Peggy Cass and the actress who was Mrs Topper on television. Not to be confused with Lucy's "Mame" made about twenty years later.

The Tramp - with Charlie Chaplin

Love all 3 of your choices.
Matthau was the greatest. I own Buddy Buddy & 1st Monday in October(vhs of course)
I'm gonna skip my 2nd & 3rd choice since I have the CDs(they're musicals)

Princess Bride
White Christmas
Apollo 13

Twenty-Four Eyes - oops, I already bought a spare.
Lastrada - Fellini, Massina, Quinn, and Basehart
20,000 Leagues Under The Sea - Disney

Heat

The Rock

Aliens

I'm sure there are better.

Ninja Scroll - I actually still have the VHS, but I bought the 10th anniversary DVD copy, too.

Pulp Fiction - Mostly 'cause I loaned out my VHS copy to a friend when I was in the Army stationed in Germany and never got it back. Still haven't picked up another copy....

The Good, The Bad And The Ugly - Love that movie! Think I might already be on my second copy, actually.

The Wild Bunch
Aliens (Coincidentaly I keep meaning to get the DVD of it, time to retire my well watched 14 year old tape)
AC/DC- Family Jewels

Young Frankenstein
Field of Dreams
Casablanca

good question.

Gone With The Wind - Duh, I am from Georgia!.

GoodFellas - Wish I lived in that era, doing what they did.

Lawrence of Arabia - Great cinematograpy, an inspiring heroic character, old fashioned values

The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
Evil Dead 2
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

1 Highlander (silly premise but more than makes up for this by being beautiful and atmospheric with a great soundtrack)

2 Blackhawk down (slightly spoint by he jingoistic bits at the end but still must be one of the best war films)

3 Die Hard (what a blast)

Good variety of movies in the thread, as some mentioned, there are a LOT of great movies
so I know it's hard to boil it down to three, but, it does make you think and maybe push
play on those three again this week...
G2

True Stories
Straight No Chaser
Tom Dowd And The Language Of Music

fargo
o brother
tdf 2003

solyaris
mullholland drive
amelie

This is Spinal Tap.

Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid.

Aliens (Special Edition).


I don't actually own any movies however.

Shawshank Redemption
Gladiator
My Dog Skip

Too many good ones, but I'll go with:

Pulp Fiction
The Big Lebowski
This is Spinal Tap

Big Daddy
Corky Romono
Joe Dirt

They are all very funny.

Amadeus
In America
March of the Penguins

A Clockwork Orange
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Dr Strangelove

Blade Runner
La Dolce Vita
Roadhouse









(just kidding on that last one)

Blade Runner
La Dolce Vita
Roadhouse









(just kidding on that last one)

Pain don't hurt.

Hmmm. Tough choices. I'd have to go with:

1. Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
2. Blues Brothers

..can't think of a number three...

Hitchcock, Grant and Kelly in To Catch a Thief.
Hitchcock, Stewart and Kelly in Rear Window.
Monty Python and the Meaning of Life.

Caddyshack

Animal House

Blazing Saddles

Ben Hur

True Grit

The Longest Day

Fitzcarraldo (Herzog)

Sorcerer (Friedkin)

Tie: Something Wild (Demme) or Blue Velvet (Lynch)

Cinema Paradiso

Frieda

Ferris Bueller's Day Off

King of Hearts (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060908/)

Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114660/)

Deep Throat (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068468/)

I also couldn't live without "Planes, Trains, and Automobiles." One of John Candy and Steve Martin's finest.

Car Rental Agent: Welcome to Marathon, may I help you?

Neal: Yes.

Car Rental Agent: How may I help you?

Neal: You can start by wiping that f-ing dumbass smile off your rosy f-ing cheeks! Then you can give me a f-ing automobile: a f-ing Datsun, a f-ing Toyota, a f-ing Mustang, a f-ing Buick! Four f-ing wheels and a seat!

Car Rental Agent: I really don't care for the way you're speaking to me.

Neal: And I really don't care for the way your company left me in the middle of f-ing nowhere with f-ing keys to a f-ing car that isn't f-ing there. And I really didn't care to f-ing walk down a f-ing highway and across a f-ing runway to get back here to have you smile at my f-ing face. I want a f-ing car RIGHT F-ING NOW!

Car Rental Agent: May I see your rental agreement.

Neal: I threw it away.

Car Rental Agent: Oh boy.

Neal: Oh boy what?

Car Rental Agent: You're f-ed!

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Del: You play with your balls a lot.

Neal: I do NOT play with my balls.

Del: Larry Bird doesn't do as much ball-handling in one night as you do in an hour!

Neal: Are you trying to start a fight?

Del: No. I'm simply stating a fact. That's all. You fidget with your nuts a lot.

Neal: You know what'd make me happy?

Del: Another couple of balls, and an extra set of fingers?

Rocky Horror Picture Show

1. Almost Famous

2. Lost in Translation

3. Garden State


yeah, I'm a hippie

Scarface - Replaced once already

The Godfather - Also replaced.

Groundhog day

My list would be;

The Adventures of Robin Hood

The Big Lebowski

Pulp Fiction

Good thread. Some great movies on here which I love. True Grit, Caddyshack, Heat....

My third choice probably changes on a weekly basis. If you asked last week it may have been 'Star Wars', 'The Good the Bad and the Ugly' or 'Sexy Beast' depending on my mood.

This thread also reminds me that I have to kill the bastard who borrowed my 1987 world road championship video, never gave it back and moved to Tasmania.:mad:

2. Lost in Translation



Man, I caught fourteen kinds of grief from the women in my family for thinking that was a great movie.

School of Rock
Happy Gilmore
The Longest Yard

Office Space
Ed Wood (Best movie no one has ever seen)
Rear Window, just to see Grace Kelly :love: :love: :love:

Blazing Saddles
Sound of Music
High Society

...Rear Window, just to see Grace Kelly :love: :love: :love:

I just ordered the Special Edition of Rear Window! can't wait for it to arrive!
G2

I can not condense it to three. I will try for six. Even that is difficult.
. Harold and Maude, My Dinner with ANdre, Two Days in the Valley, Network, Swimming with Sharks, Grosse Pointe Blank.

I can not condense it to three. I will try for six. Even that is difficult.
. Harold and Maude, My Dinner with ANdre, Two Days in the Valley, Network, Swimming with Sharks, Grosse Pointe Blank.
Oh, hell. Never said I could live by any stinkin rules.
others. Night on Earth, Eating Raoul, Gilbert Grape, Chocolate, Body Heat, Tante Danielle, Panama Deception.

Casablanca
Patton
The Longest Day

A Clockwork Orange
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Dr Strangelove

Hey! I was going to pick these but you beat me to it, so:

Full Metal Jacket
Night on Earth (mostly because of the Roberto Benigni bit)
Nosferatu (1980s(?) remake with Klaus Kinski)

Soylent Green
A Clockwork Orange
Sleeper

Amelie

Fight Club

Train Spotting

GhostBusters I

The older Cane Toad documentary

Rocky Horror Picture Show

My turn for 3 more.

The Big Red One - The Reconstruction - Sam Fuller
Twilight Samurai - Yoji Yamada
The Men Who Tread On The Tiger's Tail - Akira Kurosawa

Glengarry, Glen Ross

Contact

The Lord of the Rings
-- (It's one movie on three disks, okay?)

Brazil (uncut version)
Little Big Man
Vertigo (substitute most Hitchcock movies)
(guilty pleasures) Payback/Galaxy Quest