Movie Classics/Must see
Stack
Sassy and short Icrontian
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Upon realizing @FreshyP has not seen many films I want to take it upon myself to try get the most important/iconic ones first. I can't remember them all so i figured I'd ask for your input. Plus I am interested in hearing what y'all think belongs on the list. After complied, I hope to chime in my thoughts as well as Perry's after watching them
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Pfff. I've tried to get him to watch so many essentials/classics over the years and he was always too cool for school.
I figured as much but I hope to overcome that.
I started down a weird path with my list and realized you wanted classics/important movies:
That's all I got off the top of my head right now
These are movies I've seen that I recommend:
The Usual Suspects
Godfather Parts I & II
any Stanley Kubrick film, but especially The Shining and Dr. Strangelove
Apocalypse Now
Raging Bull
Goodfellas
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
The Apartment
Glengarry Glen Ross
Serpico
Knight Moves
The Conversation
The Exorcist
Rosemary's Baby
Animal House
Stripes
The Producers (the original Mel Brooks, not the crappy remake)
The Taking of Pelham 123
The Warriors
Caddyshack
Airplane! (and to a lesser extent, The Kentucky Fried Movie)
This is Spinal Tap
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
The Jerk
Princess Bride
Blues Brothers
The Graduate
Marathon Man
Trading Places
48 Hours
Beverley Hills Cop
Planes, Trains, and Automobiles
Taxi Driver
American History X
Fight Club
Braveheart
The Sting
Inherit the Wind
Scent of a Woman
American Beauty
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Being John Malkovich
Adaptation
Memento
Seven
12 Angry Men
The Pianist
Jaws
E.T.: The Extra Terrestrial
That ought to keep him busy for a while.
@DontCallMeKelso title is classic/must see, all these fit the bill. Good start.
In addition to the above, in random order:
@Kwitko I feel so bad missing some of those. @drasnor it's nice to know the ones I thought about actually got posted
Older Classics
Modern movies that are must see because they are a master class in cinematography and/or pacing
You have no idea how happy it made me to see these here.
Pans Labyrinth
Donnie Darko
Black Swan
Back to the Future (whole trilogy)
Labyrinth
Glory
Alien
Aliens
2001: A Space Odyssey
The Goonies
Scarface
Citizen Kane
Escape From New York
Tombstone
The Green Mile
The Shawshank Redemption
The Matrix
Mad Max
Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior
Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome
The Silence of the Lambs
Full Metal Jacket
Good Will Hunting
Rain Man
Dark:
Light:
Personal Fav that has yet to be mentioned:
FWIW, understanding why some of what makes these movies so great is going to be lost if there isn't a wiki session / old-man Prime there to explain what was so earth shattering about farting in Blazing Saddles, for instance, one of it's more iconic scenes.
The recommendations have all been great, but it might be worth reading up on the movie, too.
Also Top Gun is missing. Watch Top Gun.
So far great suggestions. I would add the original King Kong. And I would like to throw in a personal cult classic; Galaxina.
Ctrl+F "The African Queen" no results.
Come on guys step up your classics game.
Casablanca, as already mentioned is an amazing choice it was my grandfather's favourite movie of all time and one of mine too.
The Big Sleep is based off my favourite novel by Raymond Chandler (Probably my favourite novel period) and is an absolutely stellar performance by the whole cast.
Following the Noir kick, The Maltese Falcon
The Untouchables
Rear Window
The Harder they Fall
Dirty Harry
Bullit
Papillon
I'm just going to throw it out there because the list is extensive, any movie starring Humphrey Bogart, Jimmy Stewart or Lauren Bacall are GOAT. I don't believe Humphrey Bogart ever had a bad film.
As for more recent films that I consider essential
Hot Fuzz
Dredd 3D (Ignore the Stallone version from 95)
No Country for Old Men
Hell or High Water
Heat
The Fugitive
Also no one mentioned this and I'm sad
ROBO COP
@AlexDeGruven Ghost in the Machine or Ghost in the Shell?
Fix'd. Braining is hard.
I don't understand people's love of Mel Brooks films. He's a good example of auteur theory, but his_ jokes_ are repetitive and tired.
Classics:
Odd Man Out
I Am Cuba
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Battleship Potemkin
North By Northwest
Citizen Kane
Kurosawa's 7 Samurai
Other notable works:
Jean-Pierre Jeunet's Ameile and City of Lost Children
Wes Anderson's The Royal Tennenbaums
Les Blank's The Burden of Dreams
Pulp Fiction
Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
Neil Jordan's The Butcher Boy
Y Tu Mama Tambien
City of God
Speaking of Wes Anderson, how about Bottle Rocket, Rushmore, and Grand Budapest Hotel?
In that vein of post-apocalyptic, retro-futures: Brazil
And just because I love Robin Williams: The Fisher King
You have no idea how happy it made me to see that someone else knows the movie Adaptation.
And one of my favorite cult classics: Repo Man!
@DontCallMeKelso did indirectly include that by mentioning any Hitchcock film, and @BuddyJ mentioned North by Northwest.
Every Coen Brothers film except for Raising Arizona, which is terrible.
Dark City
Now that I've had a night's sleep and thought about it, here's some more:
Minority Report
The Truman Show
The Abyss
Ghostbusters
Total Recall (the 1990 film, not the 2012 version)
They Live
Wall-E
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (both the 1956 original and 1978 remake are good)
The Fly
Children of Men
Brazil (1985 film)
Monty Python's Life of Brian
Big Trouble in Little China
A Streetcar Named Desire
Easy Rider
YESS. I'm not the only one!
An absolutely masterful performance on his part.
For over-the-top grotesque humor in the vein of some of Pegg's zombie stuff, check out Dead Alive, also titled Braindead in some areas of the world. I saw this first in Australia, I think, and it left an impression.
Top choices of mine not mentioned above:
Ronin (Has quite possibly the greatest car chase ever filmed. The straight six from the E34 M5 sings the song of my people)
Crimson Tide or The Hunt for the Red October (I have a soft spot for Cold War submarine movies and both of these hit the mark nicely.)
Ocean's 11 (Very fun movie with great characters. I prefer the George Clooney remake)
Where Eagles Dare(A great WW2 spy drama/action movie that is not usually mentioned as a great war movie. The Brits always have it on during the holidays but not as popular in America despite featuring a strappingly young Clint Eastwood.)
Heat (Classic faceoff of good vs evil on streets of LA. Has arguably the greatest shoot-outs of any movie produced)
About Time (Kind of a Rom Com, but not really. It's a sweet movie about young love where the guy has the ability to time travel.)
The Rescuers Down Under (A very fun Disney animated movie that came about during the height of the Golden Age of Disney Animations in the early 90's (Little Mermaid, Lion King, etc.))
Ronin & Heat are indeed pillars of their styles.
Dark City, Being John Malkovich, and Adaptation are the ones I keep in my back pocket when someone randomly says they want to watch a movie but they've seen "everything".
Mad Max: Fury Road is so good I can't believe it exists.
Hot Fuzz really is one of the great comedies. I'd turn it on for anyone.
My top 3 are: Who Framed Roger Rabbit, The Fugitive, and The Shawshenk Redemption, in that order. I could watch them every day forever.
Who framed Roger Rabbit, is a personal favorite of mine.
NOT ONE FUCKING PERSON MENTIONED BOONDOCK SAINTS!!!!
Well @Stack no worries, I'm pretty sure @FreshyP will have seen all of these by like.....2072.
Hot Fuzz is an excellent comedy and an excellent cop film.