What movies do you consider a must-see?
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January 16th, 2010
What are your top 5 “everyone should see this movie at least once in their life” movies?
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The World According to Garp
Miracle on 34th Street (the original)
Shindler’s List
Star Trek (I don’t know if I can pick one)
The Shawshank Redemption
Gladiator
The Big Lebowski
The Shawshank Redemption Good call @JLeslie!
Monty Python and The Holy Grail
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Honorable mentions:
Memento
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
Silence of the Lambs
Alien
Fargo
I forgot my 5.
Breakfast Club
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
Garden State
Star Wars A New Hope
Boondock Saints
Beaches is a fantastic girl movie.
What a challenging question.
Here’s mine:
Apocalypse Now
The Godfather (the first one)
A Clockwork Orange
2001: A Space Odyssey
The Shawshank Redemption
I think Edward Scissorhands also belongs on that list, but for now it can stay in my top 10.
Top 5 movies that left an impression with me (no respect taken for classicness):
Alien
Fight Club
Dr. Strangelove
Fear and loathing in las vegas
25th hour
Night of the Living Dead
Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Battle Royale
Cannibal Holocaust
The Brave Little Toaster
The Pianist
Felidae
Das kleine Arschloch
Postal
Inuyasha – Tenka hadou no ken
@jeffgoldblumsprivatefacilities, the nightmare scene where the Toaster gets thrown into a bathtub by the giant demonic clown/firefighter always scared the bejesus out of me
Pulpfiction
American History X
Platoon
Memento
Requiem for a Dream It is a great cautionary tale
When Harry Met Sally
I’ll think of more
^Oops top 5 <——- Didn’t see that I’ll stop at my Top 6 ^
The Red Shoes.
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp.
And about 100, 000 others.
Life is Beautiful.
I’ll have to come back with more. Me sleepy and not thinking straight.
@Austinlad The Red Shoes (definately)
The Piano
Rabbit Proof Fence
The Gods Must Be Crazy
Romeo and Juliette
Picking just 5 is impossible.
Requiem for a Dream.
City of God.
The Machinist.
Donnie Darko.
Crash.
Girl, Interrupted
Trainspotting.
John Q.
Inglourious Basterds.
Lake of Fire.
And my sex tape.
To Kill A Mockingbird
The Godfather 1
The Godfather 2
My Fair Lady
Citizen Kane
@Vunessuh I forgot about Crash, that really was a good one!
Damn I forgot about To Kill a Mockingbird and Crash, Very good list @Vunessuh
@jonsblond Whenever I’m frustrated, I like to say “Ahh, What The Christ!” in Jerry Lundegaard’s accent. It beats cussing any day.
Alien
The Party (Peter Sellers)
They Shoot Horses Don’t They?
On the Waterfront
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
I am with those who love Fargo, and Coen Brothers™ films in general.
You must experiance avatar in imax 3-d. You really would be missing something special.
Evil Dead 2 and Army of Darkness Not a big fan of the first Evil Dead
The “Dollars” trilogy (Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More, and The Good, The Bad and The Ugly)
Escape from New York
Texas Chainsaw Massacre (ORIGINAL)
American Beauty
Glory
The Wizard of Oz
The Crow
The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
Casablanca
The Pursuit of Happyness
Love Story
The Wizard of Oz (is there anyone who hasn’t seen that at least twice?)
Life is Beautiful (my favorite of all time….)
Fight Club
The Iron Giant
Donnie Darko
Kill Bill (both volumes, I know that’s cheating but deal with it)
It Happened One Night
@jonsblond Best in Show is a great one.
Drop Dead Gorgeous is another must see. Kirsten Dunst before she became a bad actress.
@Vunessuh “Mom still cries every time she sees a tilt-a-whirl or a fat lady in a tube top.” I love that movie!
Wow, it’s amazing how many of these I really, really didn’t like.
Some great ones already mentioned, so I’ll add these:
The Woman in the Dunes
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
Diabolique
King of Hearts
In Bruges
Citizen Kane, Apocalypse Now, Pulp Fiction, 2001 Space Odyssey, Alien, Cool Hand Luke, China Town, American Graffiti, Full Metal Jacket to name a few.
Hmmm… Interesting. Not exactly a best films ever made list.
Citizen Kane
Harold Lloyd’s Safety Last
Memento
Pulp Fiction
Fight Club
2001 A Space Odyessy
Yes it’s 6. @Vunessuh and @sjmc1989 did it, so can I.
These are films that are not just great cinema, they are stories told in remarkable ways.
The simple poll.
The simple poll 2.
The big simple poll.
Revenge of the simple poll.
When simple met poll.
LOL, lloydbird! You forgot The Return of the Simple Poll and The Fellowship of the Simple Poll.
You forgot The Simple Poll 6: The Electric Boogaloo!
@holden Hey, I had to pick my top 5 only.
@jonsblond LMAO. Classic movie.
Oh and I also forgot Oldboy. You HAVE to see it at least once. Before Hollywood remakes it and ruins it.
@lloydbird Oh god, those movies made me laugh, cry, and cream in my pants all at once.
Misery
and
Dolores Claiborne with Kathy Bates
I read through all of these.
Off the top of my head, “The Green Mile”.
American History X
Troy
Gladiator
American Gangster
Blood Diamond
Hmm. To chose between movie history and great movies is hard. One should see movies like “The Birth of a Nation” cause of it’s importance but it’s not such a great movie. These are some good cookies though.
•La Vita è bella (Life is beautiful)
Because it’s just fantastic. “Principessa!”
•St. Elmo’s Fire
The lovely 80’s.
•Millers Crossing
Great scenes. Same story as Yojimbo, Fistful of Dollars, Last Man Standing. Two sides and a guy in the middle. “The old man is still an artist with a Thompson.”
•Dark City
Lovely and weird Noir
•Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
“We can’t stop here, this is bat country”
My top five, in no particular order:
The Godfather
The Waterdance
Kill Bill (the first one)
The Usual Suspects
East of Eden
@oratio, Gabriel Byrne took more beatings in Miller’s Crossing that Sylvester Stallone took in all four (there were only four right) Rocky movies combined!
@filmfann, great call with Safety Last!
A few people said 2001 a Space Odyssey, I actually really love the sequel 2010.
Twilight Saga – either
Naked Gun – either – funniest films ever
American Psycho
Changeling
Schindlers List
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
Finding Neverland
Spirited Away
Leon
really tough not to add requiem for a dream we’ll call that an honorable mention.
@Vunessuh great to see someone with The Machinist, that was a great flick.
Princess Mononoke
Boondock Saints
FAQ about time travel
Jay and silent bob strike back
Starwars/matrix series (they rank the same)
Blue Velvet
Apocalypse Now
2001: A Space Odyssey
Seven Samurai
The Wizard of Oz
Grand Illusion
Casablanca
To Kill a Mockingbird
Tom Jones
Wild Strawberries
(and about a million more – how can you choose just five?)
@janbb good call on Wild Strawberries. I was always a Seventh Seal guy.
@filmfann I was debating between the two of them, but Seventh Seal has been parodied so often, it begins to seem sort of cliched. Wild Strawberries has so much heart.
3 Women
Dogville
Mulholland Drive
There Will Be Blood
Wings of Desire (Der Himmel Über Berlin)
‘The Man from Snowy River’ – especially if you’re from Downunder… but it’s worth anyone seeing really
The Ten Commandments
The Sound of Music
The Color of Paradise [Iranian movie]
Just Like Heaven
Personally, I would have included ‘Spiderman 2’ for its authenticity re the original Marvel character, but that’s NOT an “everyone should see…” LOL!
For Westerns, I’d say most Clint Eastwood westerns
@denidowi The spiderman series is a shame to the Marvel name. I’ve never seen so much deviation from the original idea since the first Hulk movie….
I don’t know what comics YOU were reading, but I began with the very first Spidey @Shield_of_Achilles LOL!
Spidey 2 does a FANTASTIC job of effecting the Peter parker persona
LOL… Oh, I see… you’re only about 20LOL!
That DOES answer a great deal ;)
I have learnt in life that to really understand something exceptionally well, you actually have to live through it and be PART of the time.
Spidey was one of my very favs from the very first instant he hit the news stands – ‘61 or ‘62
@ragingloli Yes, I have. I thought they put a cool spin on it. To set it in an alternate reality and not make the story line have to match up with what originally happened with the series.
@denidowi I’ve read most of the comics, or at least the ones I could find online. Did the same with Thor, X-men, Batman, The Incredible Hulk, Street Fighter, and a few others. And no I don’t mean I read online comics, I mean people scanned the comics and compiled them. I feel the love story aspect in the movies was entirely too involved. That and the scene on the New York streets in the 3rd one when he goes all emo… WTF was that?
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Full Metal Jacket
Spaceballs the movie
Billy Madison
Caddyshack
Just about any Marx Bro’s movie
I am Legend
Superbad
Pineapple Express
Up in Smoke
and if anyone says Twilight I will stab you in the neck in the soldering iron haha ;P
@Shield_of_Achilles I mixed it up with another joke. Dane Cook, “if you say sour apple I will stab you in the jaw. I’ll be in the lobby after the show, I’ll be the guy stabbing jaws. Come over say ‘hi’ and I’ll stab you in the jaw.” and Christopher Walken, “No, you talking to me all wrong. It’s the wrong tone. Talk to me that way again and I’ll stab you in the face with a soldering iron.” I couldn’t figure out which to use so I just jumbled a bunch up, lol.
@Axemusica Joe Dirt is a lot funnier of a movie than people give it credit for,
I’m not a big Dane Cook fan. He’s like an over played song.
@Shield_of_Achilles – “reading” most of a set of comics has nothing to do with “Living the time”. This generation is literally clueless on the ‘love frame’ and reference that existed in ‘61.
It is like an entire new and even “opposite” world now than then… so for you to comment on the ‘love’ or gf aspect of the originalks is just WAY out of place.
The Personal relationships of Peter Parker were what made his persona successful, where other heroes have just fallen by the wayside; it is the human side of Pete that gives more depth to the Spiderman character. He was constantly thinking in his head of those women in his life – esp his Aunt May… as I say, you have to live through those comics coming out monthly or weekly… the time factor also carries the weight.
On the other hand, I entirely agree with you on Spidey 3… I thought that was the worst of them.
I was speaking exclusively of Spidey 2 – Brilliant character movie… although No 1 was OK also in my book
Oh, so what you’re saying is, you have a better interpretation because you bought the comics off a news stand?
Interesting.
Comics vs. movies is NOT relevant to this questions, guys.
@Shield_of_Achilles – ‘childish’
Am I discussing something in some serious manner with a child here??!
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@denidowi Comics and make believe. Serious business…..
It’s my question, and I say you’re off topic and annoying me.
[Mod says:] Please stick to the topic. If you want to talk about comics, feel free to start a new question about it.
I feel Advent Children should be added.
O’ Brother, Where Art Thou?
Lonesome Dove
Nacho Libre
Groundhog Day
Caddy Shack
So it IS yours @rangerr
So we will hold to your request.
1. Hedwig and the Angry Inch
2. Dirty Pretty Things
3. Irreversible
4. Y Tu Mama Tambien
5. The 5th Element
6. The Matrix
7. The Usual Suspects
DUDE! Over the Hedge! Just for the part where the squirrel goes hyper and everything moves slower.
Wall E. So cute. And Eve was such a sexy robot. hmmmm.
I just saw Avatar in 3D. I recommend it.
I’d also highly recommend the ‘Bourne’ movies… but, again, that type’s not for “everyone”, but to my mind, a great ‘must see’ for those who like action, etc.
American Psycho
Fight Club
The Big Lebowski
The Dark Knight
V for Vendetta
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