Top 3 films ...

[Corkhead]

The Graduate - yes!

Also Midnight Cowboy.

[Mangosmate]

Its impossible to pick 3 films as i have hundreds if not thousands of favourites. Six of my best are:

The Graduate
Midnight express
Kes
The Day after tomorrow
Stormboy
Leon

[Andy68]

Its impossible to pick 3 films as i have hundreds if not thousands of favourites. Six of my best are:

The Graduate
Midnight express
Kes
The Day after tomorrow
Stormboy
Leon

Ooh! Forgot about Leon, great film

[pompeygun]

Schindler's List and Saving Private Ryan are great films, but I've always thought that Spielberg used a shock tactic to make his films seem better than they are. Whilst his D Day landings in Private Ryan are brilliant, it's a very long winded story afterwards.

Well maybe, but most vets who were on Omaha beach reckon SPR is the truest potrayal of that part of D Day. Schindlers List is very right on the mark as per a truthful account, no shock tactics needed-thats how it was.

[cunninglinguist]

When I set the question, I thought that people would find it difficult to choose just three (I did). The temptation is to just choose three very good films rather than the ones you remember having a personal impact. That's the reason Close Encounters made into my list. I went to see that three times in one week!

[chiswickmart]

Schindler's List and Saving Private Ryan are great films, but I've always thought that Spielberg used a shock tactic to make his films seem better than they are. Whilst his D Day landings in Private Ryan are brilliant, it's a very long winded story afterwards.

Well maybe, but most vets who were on Omaha beach reckon SPR is the truest potrayal of that part of D Day. Schindlers List is very right on the mark as per a truthful account, no shock tactics needed-thats how it was.[/quote]

My gripe with SPR is not the D Day landings, it's the tedious story that follows. Watched SL again recently, watched it in 2 sittings, it's rather long (but very good).

[cunninglinguist]

As someone once said to me, 'the first twenty minutes of Saving Private Ryan are fantastic, then it turns into a Spielberg film'.

[tamarblue]

The Plank

The Wall

O Brother Where Art Thou?

[BileysThere]

Shawshank.
The green mile.
Rocky 1&2.