It's the apocalypse, and you can only save three films. Which ones?

Temple of Doom was superior to the Last Crusade. Anyway I'd rather watch the Ray Harryhausen Sinbad films than the Indiana Jones movies.

 

Temple of Doom was barely superior to something you might scrape from your sole after a walk in the dog park. An incredibly annoying kid in tow, who Indy should have launched from the first high cliff they came across, and a woman almost as bad.

 

The dorky banter and stupid jokes of Ford/Connery in Last Crusade are more annoying than that kid. He should have sacrificed his dad to Kali.

 

I loved ToD when I saw it as a kid - it was the epitome of a Speilberg film for me back then. It's only with age, cynicism, bitterness and misery I've grown to dislike it so much.

 

Almost none of these movies hold up for me as an adult. Star Wars sucks too, unless there's a lot of weed

 

I can only think of my three fave movies as a kid, but I guess they'll do to cheer me up during the apocalypse:

The 'Burbs
Tremors
The Goonies

 

Apocalypse Now
Mandy [2018]
Hobo With a Shotgun

/....gotta know the mileu

 

These don't rank in my top 10, but I do like them, and find them very rewatchable:

The Iron Giant
The Road to El Dorado
The Prince of Egypt

 

Star Wars: A New Hope
Green Book
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

 

Dances with Wolves
K19
Zulu Dawn

 

Enemy At the Gates
The Shining (Kubric)
Metropolis (20's silent film).

 

With selfish intentions and not for the sake of the future of humanity:

Donnie Darko
American History X
8 Mile

In preferred order. American Gangster was a tough one to leave out. I love Gaspar Noe, Lars Von Trier and Michael Haneke but any of their films would make my chances of survival low.

Requiem for a Dream would put an end to my survival in the fallout as quickly as Martyrs (2004).

 

Two good films there, in DD and 8M. When I first saw DD I couldn't believe it wasn't made in the 80s. Can't remember now if it was set in the 80s or they were simply going for an 80s vibe, but whichever they nailed it.

 

Yeah think Donnie Darko came out around 2000, the soundtrack was great too. Jake Gylenhaal could never live up to that film after. Zodiac was good though.

 

Breaking Away for the story.
Magnificent Seven for the sound track.
The Producers for the laughs.

 

Koyaanisqatsi
La Haine
人狼 Jin-Roh

Those are not necessarily my favorite movies, but I think together they would give a decent overview of humanity's cultural achievements overall and are thus worth being preserved.

 

up to approximately 5 years back I would be able to name movies I thought would be worth saving for future humanity and know I could watch them over and over for the rest of my life. Now I feel dry . . .

I will think about it.

 

The Wicker Man (Britt Ekland, enough said)
Pulp Fiction (for Samuel L. Jackson's Ezekiel speech)
Monsieur Hulot's Holiday

 

The Elephant Man
Jacob's Ladder
Can I say Lord of the Rings as one film?

 

Lonesome Dove
Serenity
The Princess Bride

 

I'd need some variety--

The Philadelphia Story (1940), comedy
Seven Samurai (1954), drama
...and probably a horror film for the third, but I'd have to think a while to decide on which one.

 

Wait a minute... I have 3 (and only 3) movies permanently in my possession.
Pocahontas
Idiocracy
300
I hope I just doomed humanity

 

Filfth Elephant (5th Element)
Avatar
Aliens

 

Heat
Hoosiers
The Breakfast Club

 

Casablanca
The Fifth Element
The Aviator

Hard to resist adding Serenity. Maybe I can sneak it in concealed in a cheese sandwich.