Attention: Please take a moment to consider our terms and conditions before posting.

Your favourite three films of all time

245

Comments

  • Southendaddick
    Southendaddick Posts: 5,314
    Shawshank Redemption
    Human Traffic
    Shaun of The Dead
  • Off_it
    Off_it Posts: 28,899
    Zulu
    Pulp Fiction
    Shawshank Redemption

    Also, always used to like Convoy when I was a kid - first film I ever went to see - and even now I realise it's pretty poor, it still holds that sentimental value.
  • kigelia
    kigelia Posts: 2,582
    [cite]Posted By: Off_it[/cite]Zulu
    Also, always used to like Convoy when I was a kid - first film I ever went to see - and even now I realise it's pretty poor, it still holds that sentimental value.

    Convoy, I remember that fondly as well. It was one of the first films I saw on video, on my dads old toploading Ferguson Videostar. I am still waiting for it to be shipped on my DVD rental package.
  • CAFCBourne
    CAFCBourne Posts: 3,793
    Got to be

    Saving Private Ryan

    Heat

    Good Will Hunting
  • Stone
    Stone Posts: 3,026
    Deer Hunter

    Field of Dreams

    Quadrophenia
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,255
    Interesting. You can tell a lot about people bu the films they like eg Suzi.

    For me

    Goodfellas

    In which we serve

    Casablanca

    The Wizard of Oz

    THe Harder they Come

    but tomorrow it will be different.

    Private Ryan I thought was average after first 20 mins.
  • StanmoreAddick
    StanmoreAddick Posts: 4,150
    [cite]Posted By: Henry Irving[/cite]Interesting. You can tell a lot about people bu the films they like eg Suzi.

    For me
    Goodfellas
    In which we serve
    Casablanca
    The Wizard of Oz
    THe Harder they Come
    but tomorrow it will be different.

    Private Ryan I thought was average after first 20 mins.

    Favourite three films of all time? ;-p
  • suzisausage
    suzisausage Posts: 11,502
    its a very hard question. there are loads of films I could watch once or twice and enjoy but there are films that i've had taped off the telly. then progressed onto buying on vhs, then progressed onto dvd. and the 3 i chose are 3 of those.
    if i was asked again tomorrow i'd probably think of 2 different ones. although my fair lady would still be top.
    gone with the wind is one thats amazing. I'm taking the book on hoilday and going to attempt to read it in a week! wish me luck!
  • letthegoodtimesroll
    letthegoodtimesroll Posts: 10,633
    edited September 2006
    1. Goodfellas - from that immortal opening line, like everybody else, i want to join the family...

    2. Zulu - front rank, fire...give me the king's shilling and sign me up...

    3. American Grafitti - cruising, as it should be...
  • cfgs
    cfgs Posts: 11,487
    [cite]Posted By: stanmoreaddick[/cite]1/ Once upon a time in America

    2/ Godfather (Trilogy)

    3/ Goodfellas

    I thought the Godfather III was no where near as good as the first two!

    1. Godfather II

    2. Goodfellas

    3. Usual Suspects

  • Sponsored links:



  • pickwick
    pickwick Posts: 1,649
    OK

    So far the boys appear to have voted for

    Goodfella's (my fav)
    Shawshank (again pretty good)
    Usual Suapects (again way up there)

    The girls

    My Fair Lady
    Gone with the wind
    Sound of Music (maybe)

    And they all say we are equal???????????
  • Curb_It
    Curb_It Posts: 21,234
    i never voted for any of those! tho i did put a girly one it was more to do at the memory of the first time watching it as a young girl. i would put shawshank on mine as well. very hard question.

    sound of music... urgh. id have wizard of oz over that any day tho ive watched neither in 15 years.
  • suzisausage
    suzisausage Posts: 11,502
    edited September 2006
    [cite]Posted By: pickwick[/cite]OK

    So far the boys appear to have voted for

    Goodfella's (my fav)
    Shawshank (again pretty good)
    Usual Suapects (again way up there)

    The girls

    My Fair Lady
    Gone with the wind
    Sound of Music (maybe)

    And they all say we are equal???????????

    whats wrong with my favourite films? doesn't mean they are the only 3 films i ever watch. i just love musical/musical theatre and you lot love gangsters/violence/disaster movies!

    -plus there are less than 5 girls that post on this board so how is that representative of female opinon!
    ooooh i feel a rant coming on! good job i'm off on holibobs tomorrow.
  • ThreadKiller
    ThreadKiller Posts: 8,623
    edited September 2006
    maybe we should do this in genres then.
  • Curb_It
    Curb_It Posts: 21,234
    yes good idea...

    gangsta
    comedy
    romance
    history

    any more?
    we could be here for days...
  • ThreadKiller
    ThreadKiller Posts: 8,623
    edited September 2006
    musical
    horror
    kids
    thriller
    foreign
    sci-fi
  • Salad
    Salad Posts: 10,189
    animated
    british
    foreign language
    black and white
    coen
  • Off_it
    Off_it Posts: 28,899
    Porn?

    (I'll get me coat!)
  • Salad
    Salad Posts: 10,189
    Okay so favourites in the following categories, one film can qualify more than once I guess .....

    1 Thriller
    2 Comedy
    3 Romance
    4 Historical
    5 Foreign Language

    6 Horror
    7 Kids
    8 Musical
    9 Gangster
    10 Sci-fi

    11 British
    12 London
    13 Animated
    14 Coen Brothers
    15 Black and White
    16 Porn/Sexual


    GO !
  • BlackForestReds
    BlackForestReds Posts: 17,952
    Favourite foreign language films...

    Can I nominate Brassed Off?

    Das Boot
    Lola Rennt
    Stalingrad
    Goodbye Lenin
    Der Untergang (released in the UK as 'The Downfall').
    The Three Colours Red,White & Blue series...

  • Sponsored links:



  • BlackForestReds
    BlackForestReds Posts: 17,952
    Comedy...

    Life of Brian
    The Waterboy
    Dr Strangelove...
    Kind Hearts & Coronets
    Airplane
  • suzisausage
    suzisausage Posts: 11,502
    comedy - the biodome
  • Salad
    Salad Posts: 10,189
    1 Thriller: Pulp Fiction
    2 Comedy: The Man With Two Brains
    3 Romance: Silence of The Lambs
    4 Historical: Schindlers List
    5 Foreign Language: Cinema Paradiso

    6 Horror: American Werewolf In London
    7 Kids: Wizard of Oz The Jungle Book
    8 Musical: Oliver
    9 Gangster: Long Good Friday Blue Velvet
    10 Sci-fi: Blade Runner

    11 British: Trainspotting
    12 London: Withnail & I
    13 Animated: Shrek
    14 Coen Brothers: Fargo
    15 Black and White: The Third Man It's A Wonderful Life
    16 Porn/Sexual: 9 1/2 weeks
    17 War: Apocalypse Now
  • letthegoodtimesroll
    letthegoodtimesroll Posts: 10,633
    1. No way out with kevin costner - you dont see that coming
    2. Life of Brian - what have the romans ever done for us
    3. American Grafitti - loved the cars - cast of unknowns line ron howard, richard dreyfus, harrison ford (must be others i cant think of...
    4. zulu
    5. Jean de florette and the follow up source du manon - fcking briliant imho
    7. mary poppins - never fail to sit down with the kids when they watch it, brings back memories of seeing it when it first came out and the love to laugh sequence cracks me up everytime...
    8. grease - ditto above
    9. goodfellas - ever since i can remember i always wanted to be...
    11. goldfinger - wish i kept my corgi db5 and its box...
    13. the incredibles...
    15. the longest day...
  • Salad
    Salad Posts: 10,189
    Jdf and MdS both great films - forgotten about them so long since I saw them, shall have to get them!
  • cafcpolo
    cafcpolo Posts: 3,813
    Why is there no action genre?
  • ThreadKiller
    ThreadKiller Posts: 8,623
    thriller-silence of the lambs
    comedy-airplane!
    romance-dr.zhivago
    historical-the great escape
    foreign-city of god
    horror-the shining
    kids-bugsy malone
    musical-grease
    gangster-casino
    sci-fi-blade runner
    british-the lady killers
    london-an american werewolf in london
    animated-the jungle book
    coen brothers-millers crossing
    western-the good the bad and the ugly
    war-the deer hunter
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,255
    1 Thriller - Usual Suspects
    2 Comedy - Passport to Pimlico
    3 Romance - Random Harvest
    4 Historical - Zulu
    5 Foreign Language - Seven Samuri

    6 Horror - Never watch them so American Werewolf in London
    7 Kids - Wizard of OZ
    8 Musical - The Harder they Come or the Last Waltz - don't do musicals
    9 Gangster - Goodfellas
    10 Sci-fi - Dark Star

    11 British - Too many to choose - Passport to Pimlico again/In which we serve/The way ahead/Matter of life and death
    12 London - Passport to Pimlico or Long good friday
    13 Animated - Toy Story II
    14 Coen Brothers - O Brother
    15 Black and White - Casablanca or any of the above
    16 Porn/Sexual - Not my thing but the shower scene in American Werewolf in London had an effect on me.
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,255
    Missing Genres

    Prisioner of War films - Great escape, Wooden Horse, Bridge on the River Kwai, Colditz, Escape to Victory, A town called Alice

    Baseball Films - Field of Dreams (which should have been in my top three), The Natural, Major League
  • paulbaconsarnie
    paulbaconsarnie Posts: 9,426
    don't watch many films so answer to original question.
    life of brian
    schindlers list
    a beautiful mind

Categories

“Marketplace”