I recently became friends with this 56-year-old man and we’re having a movie night tomorrow together. He wants to show me the “trio” of the greatest movies ever made: The Godfather, The Shawshank Redemption & Casablanca. Haven’t seen any of those (probably cause of my age: almost 22). For me the 3 greatest movies ever are Titanic, Lord of the Rings 2003 & Spirited Away. Wondering what those are for you.

  • Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.world
    141·
    9 days ago

    Lawrence of Arabia

    Kingdom of Heaven

    Apocalypse Now

    …

    LotR

    LotR

    LotR

    …

    The Sound of Music

    HEAT

    Pulp Fiction

    Hard to pick…

  • Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world
    9·
    9 days ago

    Fight Club

    Big Lebowski

    The Matrix

    Lord of the Rings probably deserves a top spot, I can’t deny how epic it really was. Watching the behind the scenes on those was even more mind blowing when you realize all the tiny details that went into every shot, but it didn’t have the personal impact that the other three had.

  • Curious Canid@lemmy.caEnglish
    6·
    9 days ago

    Blazing Saddles (1974) The Yakuza (1974) Big Trouble in Little China (1986)

    All three movies are exceptional in their own right and all three broke a lot of new ground by blending cultural and genre conventions in new ways.

  • AngryishHumanoid@lemmynsfw.com
    6·
    9 days ago

    This is almost an impossible ask unless we at least split it up by genre. How do you compare The Princess Bride to Airplane! to The Shawshank Redemption to Die Hard to Star Wars? All 5 amazing movies but wildly different, each would top the lists in their respective genres but which are the top 3?

  • thesohoriots@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    9 days ago

    I really like some mentioned so far, so just throwing in one of my picks:

    Apocalypse Now

    Spirited Away

    Yojimbo

  • zaphodb2002@sh.itjust.works
    4·
    9 days ago

    My top 3 best (but not favorite) movies:

    • Rear Window
    • The Thing (1981)
    • Singin’ In The Rain

    This is hard. In the discussion:

    • Vertigo
    • RoboCop (1987)
    • Alien
    • Back to the Future
    • Schindler’s List
    • The Empire Strikes Back
    • Toy Story
    • Mad Max: Fury Road
    • The Silence of the Lambs
    • Blue Velvet
    • It’s A Wonderful Life
    • The Lion King (1994)
    • The Iron Giant
    • so, so many more I need to watch or rewatch or just can’t think of right now

    Good call on your picks, all three masterpieces, and two of the three your friend picked definitely qualify. Shawshank is a fine movie but doesn’t belong among the greatest films ever made, imo. I think it just played on TV constantly in the late 90s and early 00s so people have affection for it.

    I am about 40 years old, for context.

    • jpreston2005@lemmy.world
      3·
      9 days ago

      To pay tribute to the late director, David Lynch, I finally got around to watching Blue Velvet, Mulholland Drive, and The Straight Story.

      The Straight Story was an homage to the American Midwest, and despite being as slow as the protagonists method of transportation, kept my interest throughout.

      Mulholland Drive had some brilliant acting, some amazing scenes, and really left a lasting impact on me. Most notably, I was left saying “WTF?”

      While Blue Velvet is like a crime drama with Camp turned up to 11. Had some great scenes, and was interesting, but some of the acting choices and dialogue were bewildering to me. (“It’s time to FUCK! Let’s FUCK!” comes to mind lol)

      • zaphodb2002@sh.itjust.works
        2·
        9 days ago

        Mullholland Drive is fucking fantastic and I almost put it on the list over Blue Velvet. I’m sure this will forever be debated by film nerds as long film nerds continue to exist. There’s something about that heightened, unreal 80’s vibe in Blue Velvet, plus what a fuckin’ cast. I also like the “dark side of a quaint small town” theme, which reminds me of his work in Twin Peaks a bit, where Mullholland Drive feels more like he’s expressing more a criticism(?) of the place Hollywood occupies in the cultural consciousness. I’m a sucker for a suburban dystopia, it feels more relatable. Ultimately though, Mullholland Drive feels like a second take on the same kind of ideas, and it’s glossier and more plotty, but I personally I like the smaller, more raw version. Lynch was a master of the medium and almost all of his films are either outright masterpieces or at least incredibly artistic curiosities.