(NA)(but not necessarily) Top 3 Movies

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Not sure why this popped into my head as I was deadlifting... probably the blood pressure spike.
Anyway, top 3 movies. And I'm talking if you could only ever see 3, not the best or most important.

I'll start:
Pulp Fiction
Blues Brothers
Airplane!

The wife came up with:
Serenity
Princess Bride
Jane Eyre (apparently there's a specific version she likes)
 
Catch Me If You Can
Ocean's Eleven (2001 remake)
National Lampoons Vacation

Narrowly missing the list:
Ghostbusters (the OG)
Back to the Future
The Hunt For Red October
 
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hm - I wouldn't put any of those in my top ten.
 
• Just about any movie released in 1939
• Many of the Stanley Kubrick movies
• Most of the Glenn Ford and Henry Fonda movies

opinion: too much of what is released today and last 10 years isn’t worth the theatre admission cost.
 
Dawn Patrol (Errol Flynn)
Flight of the Phoenix (Jimmy Stewart)
6 Days, 7 Nights (Harrison Ford)
 
Young Frankenstein “Put. the. candle. back!”
Blues Brothers “We’re on a mission from God”
Animal House “fat, dumb and stupid is no way to go through life, son”

Cheers
 
quick-off-the-top-of-my-head (in no particular order)
The Martian
Flight of the Pheonix (original)
Twelve O'Clock High
 
Apocalypse Now
U571
Sideways

The Jason Bourne series, and of course the Terminator series follow closely.
 
The princess bride
Air America
Hatari
 
Bourne
Bond
Tom Clancy

There’s several in those 3 but those are my favorites
 
Casablanca
It’s a Wonderful Life
Double Indemnity

 
The Right Stuff (the original)
Apollo 13
Dances with Wolves
Close second:
Twelve O'clock High
Hunt for Red October
Shawshank Redemption
 
Three is realllllllly tough. I'd grab for eternity:

The Royal Tenenbaums
Blade Runner
The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, as previously mentioned. :cheers:

and because you never appreciate what you have, I would long for an entirely different three the whole time. :D
 
The Godfather
Inglourious Basterds

Number 3 rotates: today it’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
 
Top threeve:
Cool Hand Luke
The Wild Bunch
The Longest Day
Tommy Boy
 
Life of Brian
Rocky Horror Picture Show
Bruce Almighty
 
I don't really rank these sort of things, but these are what randomly pops up to the top of my mind:
The Dark Knight
The Lord of the Rings
The Empire Strikes Back
 
Top 3:

Office Space
Top Gun
American Made
Airplane!
Full Metal Jacket
It's a Wonderful Life
Animal House
Apocalypse Now
Goodfellas
Revenge of the Nerds
Deer Hunter
Anchorman
Strategic Air Command
Naked Gun (all of them)
The Sound of Music

oops that's more than 3...
 
This is fun. Id say my top ten is represented among your lists, including several that I love but hadn't come to mind at the time. Picking the top 3 is hard, but I think I'd still stick with my original list. There's a small handful here i haven't seen, but will definitely check out.

We ended up watching Amazon's "7500" last night. It's depressing.
 
Another Top 3 (but not comedy, this time military)

Patton
12 O’Clock High
Top Gun

Cheers
 
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oops that's more than 3...
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I got tapped on Facebook a couple of years ago to identify ten movies that affected me in my life. I wrote pretty extensively on each movie to explain why they were there, but here's my list:

"Twelve O'Clock High"
"Captain Blood"
"633 Squadron"
"Them"
"Singing in the Rain"
"The Blue Max"
"Monolith Monsters"
"Zulu"
"Young Frankenstein"
"Star Trek: The Motion Picture"

Ron Wanttaja
 
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Caddyshack
The Lost Boys
 
or how about (not necessarily in any particular order)

Highlander II: The Quickening
Dune
Moonbase 44
 
Giant.
Fandango.
North by Northwest.
 
Animal House
Airplane
The ballad of the Green Beret (& pretty much any John Wayne movie)
 
"John Dies at the End"

It's the only movie I feel like watching.
 
Mine will be scoffed at. Not a big movie person.

Princess Bride
K-Pax
The Fugitive
 
wanttaja said:
"Them"
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I watched “Them” while standing in the lobby of the theater on my 10th birthday! It was too intense for me at 10. And to make it worse, the critters (mutated ants) made noises that mimicked the sound of crickets chirping. Ugh! I didn’t sleep well for weeks!

-Little Skippy
 
Hunt for Red October
The Game
Equilibrium
 
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