What are your three favourite films ever ?

[Shepard's Shadow]

Men in Black

Daredevil

Goldeneye

 

[Cheesebob]

LOTR
Pulp Fiction
Shawshank Redemption

 

[Vern]

I see exactly what you mean. I have the same problem wih Dr. Strangelove... I mean, this film makes me cry inevitably everytime I see the ending, and I believe the song "We'll meet again" plays a good part in that, when you see all the bombs going off. So it's my favourite film ever, and yet I have difficulties in watching it till the end...
Actually Dead man also touched me on a very personal level, I couldn't really explain how or why... so it makes me feel very strange whenever I want to watch it again.

Indeed, it's amazing how Kubrick made nuclear holocaust seem so terrible, so depressing, and yet so calming at the same time. It's a really frightening movie, how easy the world could've been destroyed just due to a mistake. In fact we came very close, but thanks to Stanislav Petrov we all avoided it. The odd thing about the movie is how all the tenseness of the cold war, the terror, fear, depression, is all wiped away by Slim Pickens riding an atomic bomb waving his cowboy hat and yelling. Kubrick was a frigging genius.
Come and See is just a more visceral film, it makes my gut hurt watching it. It's so real, mainly because it is real. It's about the German invasion into Byelorussia during WWII, the complete upheaval, and torture of the lives of the peasants. The complete destruction of the boyhood of the main character. Wanting to join the Russian Partisans to fight against the Germans and watching his whole life destroyed. Saddest thing I've ever seen, considering it's happened to so many kids throughout history. Should be required viewing.

 

[The Shade]

The Fellowship of the Ring
The Two Towers
The Return of the King

Some of my other favourites include:

V for Vendetta
Kingdom of Heaven
The Departed
Syriana
Children of Dune (technically a mini-series)
The Bourne Ultimatum
The Thin Man
Casablanca
The Maltese Falcon
Ocean's Eleven

I could go on all day. These are just the ones I can see from where I'm sitting. (There are far too many great movies to list, and many more obscure that these.) I am, after all, a filmmaker.