Best 3 Movies, Worst 3 Movies of All Time

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Note: NOT your favorites. There's a subtle difference there -- I may find "Barb Wire" funny as hell, but I know it's a stinker of a film.

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Wow. Very close to Alph in my tastes.

Best Three:

1. Lawrence of Arabia
2. Casablanca
3, 4. (tie) Fellowship of the Ring, Jaws

Worst Three:

1. Highlander 2
2. Deep Blue Sea
3. Star Wars: The Phantom Menace

[Tryunn]

Best Three:
1. Star Wars Episode IV
2. Slapshot
3. Gotta be either Snatch, or Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Guns

Honorable mentions:
Empire Strikes Back
Spider Man
Scarface
E.T.

Worst Three:
1. Anything made by Troma
2. Anything made by John Waters
3. Any of the Evil Dead movies.

Barb Wire, Whiz? You mean someone over 14 actually SAW that dog?

[Alphonse Kozureokami]

Hmm...this was tough, but I finally narrowed it down.

Best Three:

1. Casablanca
2. Rear Window
3. Some Like It Hot

Honorable mentions:

The Iron Giant
Star Wars & The Empire Strikes Back
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
The Apartment
American Graffitti
The English Patient
Father of the Bride (the Spencer Tracy version)
Arsenic and Old Lace
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
It's a Wonderful Life
Chasing Amy
High Fidelity
A Christmas Carol (the Alistair Sim verson)
Abbot and Costello Meet Frankenstein
The Maltese Falcon

Wow, look at how many black and white movies are on that list. I am SUCH a product of my upbringing.

Worst 3:

1. The Fast and the Furious
2. Austin Powers 2: The Spy Who Shagged Me
3. Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back

Honestly, those probably aren't the WORST three of all time, but they're the only ones in recent memory that I had a violent reaction to. Especially the first one - everyone associated with that movie should be dragged out into the street and shot.

[Dunnodoncare]

Best:

1: The Princess Bride
2: Braveheart
3: Glitter. (sorry.. couldn't think of a third)



Worst:
Star Wars Episode I
Any movie about Flubber
The Monkees Movie (there was another name for it)

[Sorgaine]

Best movies:
The Matrix
Ever After
Lord of the Rings

Honorable Mention:
Excalibur
Dangerous Beauty
Princess Bride
Pump up the Volume
True Romance
The Prophecy
Usual Suspects
Braveheart
Nightmare Before Christmas
Edward Scissorhands
Shakespeare in Love
Interview with the Vampire
Run Lola Run

Worst Movies:
Ace Ventura
Hot Shots
The Astronauts Wife

[Leopa Panthera]

Best 3 movies in terms of what? Acting, directing, etc?

These were the best presented ones, IMO.

1. Run, Lola, Run
2. The Others
3. Moulin Rouge/Romeo+Juliet (the presentation is the same)

Worst presented

1. English Patient
2. From Dusk till Dawn
3. Harry Potter

[Alphonse Kozureokami]

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Oh, and I've agreed with most people's top 3 of all time as great flicks.

And Try: What makes "Barb Wire" cool is that they had the HUGE balls to quite literally do a shot for shot remake of "Casablanca" -- not scene for scene, SHOT FOR SHOT in many cases -- only with Pamela Anderson substituting for Humphrey Bogart. It's easily one of the funniest movies of all time for a "Casablanca" fan once you decide not to be offended by it. It's an amazing joke pulled by the writer on what quite likely is an unaware target audience for the film.

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Oh, and Alph, I would rate "The African Queen" MUCH higher than "The Maltese Falcon." For that matter, I'd rate "Key Largo" higher, too.

[Lorieannaie]

Best three movies:
1) Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring
2) Star Wars Episode 1
3) Ever After

Worst three movies:
1) Street Fighter
2) Jaws
3) ALL of the Nightmare on Elm Street

Honorable Mention:
1) Princess Bride
2) Dirty Dancing
3) Any Jackie Chan movie
4) Interview with a Vampire
5) The Matrix
6) X-Men
7) First Knight
8 ) Elizabeth

[Tryunn]

LOL Lorie! I was gonna add Princess Bride as an honorable mention too! I forgot to add it at first.

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

[Leopa Panthera]

Alph, I hate the English Patient. I cried for hours because of it. I couldn't get through the book (/rude english class). I was pissed at the ending because it didn't go anywhere. The movie was pointless to me. And I remember it being incredibly slooooooowwwww. It will always be my #1 hated movie.

[Dunnodoncare]

I forgot about Highlander II. What a piece of crap.

If you ever find yourself in the old sci-fi section of your local stolen video store, look for Blood of Heroes. Its called something else in europe... Rutger Hauer wearing pieces of car tire on his head in a post apocalyptic nightmare world. What could possibly be better than that?

"We should be fucking and drinking by now"