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What would you consider the 3 greatest movies ever made?

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.

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Terminator 2
Lord of the rings trilogy
Pulp fiction

Off the top of my head:
Pulp Fiction (1994)
12 Angry Men (1957)
The Departed (2006)

The Fifth Element
The Matrix
The Room
I will not be taking any questions.
- +1 for The Room!

I have no single favourite movie - three very different movies occupy my #1 spot:
The Fifth Element
The Shawshank Redemption
The Princess Bride
Notable runners-up include Terminator 2, Arrival, Aliens, Dune(s), and The Life of Brian.

The Godfather III
The Matrix Revelations
Star Wars III: Revenge of the Sith.
- These are also my favorites(I'm retarded)

The shawshank redemption, 12 angry men and apocalypse now.

Oof, tough one. Probably:
Reservoir Dogs
2001: A Space Odyssey
The Matrix

Trainspotting, Mary Poppins, and Eraserhead.
- I don't know why but it's so funny to me seeing Mary Poppins next to those other two movies lol
  
  I got a weakness for Dick Van Dyke ¯(ツ)_/¯

I definitely recommend The Truman Show.

Ask me any other day and my answer will be different, just highlighting a few GOATs this tread is neglecting.
1: Raging Bull
2: Citizen Kane
3: Dr. Strangelove

Interstellar
The Dark Knight
Avengers: Endgame

Army of Darkness Big trouble in Little China Rambo First Blood

Terminator 2, Home Alone, The Matrix

Seven Samurai, Blade Runner 2049, Chungking Express

High and Low The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly True Lies
- I've got to stop putting off High and Low.
  
  Its so good

I don't know, but one of them is definitely Ikiru.
- Me too

It's cheating if you just pick the top two from IMDb's Top 100 and another one.

The Raid 1/2
Everything Everywhere All at Once
Whiplash

Everything Everywhere All at Once
Babylon
The Grand Budapest Hotel

New hope. Empire strikes back. Return of the Jedi. Honestly I consider the original 3 Star Wars movie as one movie in 3 parts.

None of those are comedies, and I would put at least one comedy into the trio.
My vote would be Blazing Saddles.
“Well raise my rent.”
- The shaking "shooting hand" gag from Gene Wilder is a family staple.
  I tried showing that movie to my Gen z little sister and she was mortified the whole time.
  It truly was a different time.

Brazil 1985
The matrix 1999
Nausicaa valley of the wind 1984
- Glad to see some Nausicaa appreciation! Such an awesome movie!
  
  Yeah I saw warriors of the wind when I was very young and never knew the name of the movie but would go up to videos stores in the 90s and basically discibe the movie. Girl on a glider chases after giant bugs. No one knew what I was talking about. Then when Disney did the release with news dub in 2005. I saw a ad for it on TV at like 2am and freaked woke my parents up and everything.
  
  @lordnikon@lemmy.world
  It's my favourite also! In my final year of high school I wrote a comparative essay on it and Dune (the novel), so I watched it repeatedly throughout the year to work out how I was going to approach the essay. I must have watched it over 20 times throughout my life and it's reached that rare point where my familiarity with it somehow enhances everything about it, making it even better than it was the first time I saw it. It's the film I compare all other films to - whenever I see something great I think "okay but was this as good as Nausicaa (the perfect 10/10 film)?".

To be fair those aren't bad choices. I would certainly recommend the Shawshank redemption, I've seen it many times and it hasn't gotten old.
- I second that recommendation, the movie is top tier.

Network (1976)
Jurassic Park
Pulp Fiction
- Great movies, I love your choice of scenes.

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