Favourite Films

Simple thread, just to lighten the tone. Just list your top 3 films in order and say why, if you want!
Mine:

1) Walkabout
2) Mulholland Drive
3) American Beauty

*other favourites: Cassablanca, 21 Grams, Captain Phillips, The African Queen, Requiem for a Dream.....I could go on!

All the best

1) the Color Purple

2) The Wizard of Oz

3) sound of music

All three classics, I can watch them often.

The Lord of the Rings and the Hobbit movies are my top favs as well.

1) The Outsiders (favourite childhood film)
2) A Beautiful Mind (favourite adulthood film)
3) Green Mile

I also like Shawshank Redemption... and Mama Mia is my favourite 'feel good' film!

Andrea - I love the wizard of oz and my kids watch it often.

Donna - Green Mile and A Beautiful Mind are both excellent films.

1. The pianist.
2. Good will hunting
3. Saving Private Ryan

Shawshank redemption.....probably the most accurate film of how prison used to be before the late 70's

White men can't jump....how I grew up playing ball on the playgrounds and talking trash

Life....(Eddie Murphy and Martin Lawrence ) .....love the comedy, but also the history.....

Good will hunting was great, Harlem nights , remember the Titans, glory road, and Malcolm X

1; Shawshank redemption or Godfather

2; Schindler's List or Braveheart

3; Goodfellas or The Matrix

Oooo braveheart! Good movie!

Yeah, I still remember renting the movie for the first time and not retuning it for 2 weeks so I would have to pay a late fee of $200+ hahahah

1. Good Will Hunting
2. Gladiator
3. Pride & Prejudice

*Also Zero Dark Thirty, Into The Wild, Wayne's World, Labyrinth, Dirty Dancing, Nightmare Before Christmas, Thelma & Louise, 28 Days Later, Braveheart

How could I ever decide?!

1. Girl Interrupted

2. Patch Adams

3. Silver Linings Playbook

Others: American Sniper, Face/ Off The Devil Wears Prada, Oblivion, The Holiday, The Music Man, Sweeney Todd, Side Effects, Revolutionary Road

American Sniper, Hell yeah!!! ~hugs~

Ah I forgot Girl, Interrupted! Patch Adams is great too.

This depends a lot on my mood

but

1) Shawshank Redemption
2) Dawn of the dead
3) The Empire strikes back

also, Rocky 2, Trading places, Stir Crazy........

Gone with the Wind
Mary Poppins
Chitty Bang Bang

Also...ET, To Sir with Love, Casablanca, The Great Escape...The Way we Were, Love Story, Mrs Doubtfire, Shindler's List ....heaps more..

Can't do that, Ben.
Started out with 141 and cannot bear to delete any more. My top 22 in my collection:

Apocalypse Now! (Martin Sheen) 1979
Blade Runner (Harrison Ford) 1982
Body Heat (Kathleen Turner) 1981
Casablanca (Bogart) 1943
Easy Rider (Peter Fonda) 1969
Field of Dreams (Kevin Costner) 1989
Gandhi (Ben Kingsley) 1982
Groundhog Day (Bill Murray) 1993
Like Water for Chocolate (Lumi Cavazos/) 1992
Maltese Falcon, the (Bogart) 1941
Moby Dick (Gregory Peck) 1956
Name of the Rose (Sean Connery) 1986
Outlaw Josey Wales (Clint Eastwood) 1976
Rashomon (Toshiro Mifune/Akira Kurosawa) 1950
Scent of a Woman (Al Pacino) 1992
Seven Samurai (Toshiro Mifune/Akira Kurosawa) 1954
Silence of the Lambs (Anthony Hopkins) 1991
Star Trek II The Wrath of Kahn (Ricardo Montalban) 1982
To Kill a Mockingbird (Gregory Peck) 1962
2001 a Space Odyssey (HAL/Stanley Kubrick) 1968
Unbearable Lightness of Being, the (Daniel Day Lewis) 1988
V for Vendetta (Hugo Weaving) 2005

Yes Larry, your post made me laugh as I felt pretty much the same. I do love a good film and whittling it down to three was, in honesty, practically impossible. Walkabout is certainly my favourite, but the next 100 or so are up in the air!

All the very best

Zodiac
The Thing
Blade Runner

Classics, innit.

I heart all your choices Larry.

I have quite a few faves myself.

1.Wizard of Oz

(because it reminds me of my childhood and it use to come on only once a year. Momma made it an annual tradition to watch.

2.Gone with the Wind

(another childhood favorite, who can resist a beautiful woman with the original resting bitch face.

3. Shawshank redemption

Such an amazing movie.

4.Tombstone

With quotes like : Wyatt Earp: You tell 'em I'M coming... and hell's coming with me, you hear?...
And:Doc Holliday: In vino veritas.
["In wine is truth" meaning: "When I'm drinking, I speak my mind"] who couldn't love this movie.

5.The Outsiders

With fabulous budding actors that would become blacklisting actors this movie shows a lot of how it must have been to grow up in an era of the 50s and be poor and how social statuses affect people.

6.Lawless

Just another awesome movie about moonshining.

7.Felon

This is a little known movie that deserves so much more acclaim. A man is accused of involuntary manslaughter after killing a burglar. It shows what twisted cops and wardens are like. Val Kilmer does an outstanding performance in this and doesn't even look like himself. Played the character very well.

8.The green mile

Awesome movie

9.Dance with the white dog

If this movie doesn't make you cry you have no soul.

10. Grease

Undeniably a cool musical/movie that had me longing to be like Sandy in the 80s of my childhood.

11. Aladdin

Had to mention a Disney movie. Besides the fact that Robin Williams as the genie cracks me up I love the Disney movies.

12. Rikki Tikki Tavi

Another animated classic that came on once a year. It's about a pet mongoose who becomes angered about the presence of two cobras on his family's property.

If you get a chance to watch any of these movies or you have seen them, please let me know if you enjoy them as much as I did.