Movies Everyone Should See

[DaveK]

I thought I'd start a thread with movies you guys think everyone should see, be it classic everyone has seen except you, or movies that aren't well known that you thought we're good and people should see, it doesn't have to be a masterpiece, just good.

I'll start, I really liked The Boondock Saints (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0144117/). It came out in 1999 but I only saw it in December of last year. Info from Wikipedia:

The Boondock Saints is a 1999 crime thriller film written and directed by Troy Duffy. The film stars Sean Patrick Flanery and Norman Reedus as Catholic Irish American fraternal twins, Connor and Murphy MacManus, who become vigilantes after killing two members of the Russian Mafia in self-defense. After a "message from God", the brothers, together with their friend David Della Rocco, set out to rid their home city of Boston, Massachusetts of crime and evil; all the while being pursued by FBI Special Agent Paul Smecker (Willem Dafoe).

It's a good action movie with a bit of comedy and it has an interesting way of showing a new scene in the movie. Kinda hard to explain but you'll know it if you watch the movie. I'm not gonna post a trailer for it, it doesn't do it justice. Just watch the movie :D

What movies would you guys recommend?

[MRCL]

Boondock Saints is solid gold!

I'll recommend Starship Troopers. Because its one of those movies which plot you know by heart, but you can still watch and enjoy it several hundred times.

[jmcslob]

Love at Stake

Completely Cheesy Dick and Fart joke movie from the 80's
I wouldn't say it's a "B" movie more like a "T" movie but it's awesome
It's along the lines of "Cannibal the Musical" in quality

[MoonPig]

Hmmm.. Do you want obvious ones too?

That i've watched recently:

Shutter Island (Oooo, it's a thinker)
Avatar (Shit and regurgitated storyline, but damn good CGI)
9 (Was a nice little film)
Up (Light-hearted and quite funny)
The Men Who Stare at Goats (Quite funny and interesting)
The Hurt Locker (Good, don't be over-built by the critics though)
Zombieland (Fairly funny and a good watch)
Inglorious Basterds (So overlooked, deserved alot more awards)

Now, classics: (Non of these need explaining)

Shawshank Redemption
The Green Mile
Saving Private Ryan
Pulp Fiction
The Godfather (All 3)
Goodfellas
Fight Club
City of God
The Matrix (Don't bother with 2 and 3, unless you have to)
Momento
Forrest Gump
American Beauty
Se7en
The Departed
The Pianist
Terminator 2
Reservoir Dogs
Gladiator

Special Mentions:

Sin City
Planet Terror
Die Hard
Every Bond Film
Every Quentin Tarantino Film
Every Monty Python Film
Every Alfred Hitchcock
The Wrestler
Scarface
Rocky
Crash
Anything with Leslie Nielsen

To name afew... I'll update this.

[JC316]

V for Vendetta
Equilibrium
Lord of the Rings Trilogy
Star Wars Saga
Lord of War
Bourne Series
Indiana Jones
The Game
X-men series
Spiderman Series

I am sure that I will think of more

[Reventon]

Pulp Fiction.

[Magibeg]

There is a strong lean towards sci-fi here. How about Casa Blanca, It's a Wonderful Life, and Who Framed Roger Rabbit. ;)

[Reventon]

Gone With the Wind.

[Olithereal]

Recent movie...terribly overlooked: Moon

Full Metal Jacket
Platoon
The Thin Red Line
Pi(π)
Fight Club
Pulp Fiction
The Boondock Saints
Sin City
Equilibrium
Star Wars
Saving Private Ryan
Blade Runners

Probably will think of more..

[MT Alex]

I'll follow Magibeg's lead:

You Can't Take It With You

Harvey

[FordGT90Concept]

Black Hawk Down
Bruce Almighty
True Lies

[Wile E]

Debbie Does Dallas

[jmcslob]

DEEP Throat
Well it is the highest grossing film of all time

[WhiteLotus]

Black Hawk Down


Mailman also said that film over on TPU. I have never liked it, I find it just over-rated and to the point where it's just awful.

May I ask what made you like it?

[DrPepper]

Mailman also said that film over on TPU. I have never liked it, I find it just over-rated and to the point where it's just awful.

May I ask what made you like it?

I thought it was okay.

[DonInKansas]

Blazing Saddles
Roadhouse
Bull Durham

[Reventon]

Haha Blazing Saddles +1

[Polaris573]

By no means an exhaustive list, but if you haven't see the majority of these movies your viewing experience is sorely lacking.

The Third Man (absolutely must see. Cinematography is probably unlike anything you've ever seen)
Bridge on the River Kwai
Stalag 17
Dr. Strangelove: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Ben Hur
Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid
Casablanca
Network (1976)
Unforgiven
Invasion of the Bodysnatchers (1956)
Shane
The Usual Suspects
12 Angry Men
To Kill a Mocking Bird
Schindler's List
The Wizard of Oz
Citizen Kane
Lawrence of Arabia
The Silence of The Lambs
Shawshank Redemption
The Maltese Falcon
A Clockwork Orange
Raiders of the Lost Ark
North by Northwest
Star Trek: The Wrath of Kahn (Star Trek is such a huge part of pop-culture everyone should have some sort of minimal understanding of it)

[Black Panther]

Teeth (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0780622/)


jk :p

[Polaris573]

We all know Alone in the Dark is the best movie of all time.

[MT Alex]

By no means an exhaustive list, but if you haven't see the majority of these movies your viewing experience is sorely lacking...

You, sir, have fantasic taste in movies. Add Deliverance to your already comprehensive list of greats, and it would be even closer to complete. That, and some Frank Capra.

[FordGT90Concept]

Mailman also said that film over on TPU. I have never liked it, I find it just over-rated and to the point where it's just awful.

May I ask what made you like it?
The direction is excellent (Ridley Scott), the score is also excellent (Hans Zimmer), it is based on a true story (unlike Saving Private Ryan) and pretty accurate to the story it tells (only real difference is that a few of the rangers/delta force were bunched into one character on the screen), and it put Somolia on the map for a lot of people (told of actual events that occured there that virtually no one heard of before).

Edit: Here's a comparison between the official story, the book, and the film: http://www.smh-hq.org/gazette/gazette/blackhawkdown.html

[DonInKansas]

Add Deliverance to your already comprehensive list of greats, and it would be even closer to complete.

http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w13/dearjonboy/deliverance.gif

[Polaris573]

You, sir, have fantasic taste in movies. Add Deliverance to your already comprehensive list of greats, and it would be even closer to complete. That, and some Frank Capra.

Thank you. (toast)

How about Mr. Smith Goes to Washington for some Capra?

[Wile E]

Space Balls
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
2001: A Space Odyssey
The Shining

[jmcslob]

I Spit on your grave
Carrie
Blade Runner
Christine
Star Wars (the original 3)
The Day the Earth Stood still (the original)
The Time Machine (the Original)
Santa Claus vs The Martians
Scanners
Frankenstein (the original)
Critters

[HossHuge]

Oldboy.....Korean movie

a few drinks maybe a little smoke and at the end you'll be like "WTF just happened!"

[dcf-joe]

Dirty Harry
ALL Bruce Lee Films
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Total Recall
ALL Godfathers
ALL Matrixes
ALL Star Trek: The Next Generation episodes
Heartbreak Ridge
Kelly's Heroes
ALL Toy Storys
ALL Star Wars
ALL James Bond films
ALL Indiana Jones films, except the most recent one

Just to name a few...

[WhiteLotus]

Oldboy.....Korean movie

a few drinks maybe a little smoke and at the end you'll be like "WTF just happened!"

Only film i've truely agreed with that has been said. This film is a must.


I hope to all that is good in the world that Spielberg does not "Americanize" it.

[DaveK]

I watched Reservoir Dogs for the first time in ages. I liked the scene when you see Mr. Orange in pain from the gunshot wound, it's probably the best acting to a gun shot wound I've seen in a movie. I mean he is in agony, I liked that. After all, he did get shot. He was in extreme pain and dying. A lot of other movies people seem to be able to just shrug off a bullet and move on, it made him out to be a normal person instead of a super hero. Damn good movie too.

[WhiteNoise]

The Lost Battalion

[WhiteLotus]

I watched Reservoir Dogs for the first time in ages. I liked the scene when you see Mr. Orange in pain from the gunshot wound, it's probably the best acting to a gun shot wound I've seen in a movie. I mean he is in agony, I liked that. After all, he did get shot. He was in extreme pain and dying. A lot of other movies people seem to be able to just shrug off a bullet and move on, it made him out to be a normal person instead of a super hero. Damn good movie too.

Ah good Tarintino, before he went crazy and wrongly equated violence=a good film.

[Solaris17]

By no means an exhaustive list, but if you haven't see the majority of these movies your viewing experience is sorely lacking.

The Third Man (absolutely must see. Cinematography is probably unlike anything you've ever seen)
Bridge on the River Kwai
Stalag 17
Dr. Strangelove: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Ben Hur
Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid
Casablanca
Network (1976)
Unforgiven
Invasion of the Bodysnatchers (1956)
Shane
The Usual Suspects
12 Angry Men
To Kill a Mocking Bird
Schindler's List
The Wizard of Oz
Citizen Kane
Lawrence of Arabia
The Silence of The Lambs
Shawshank Redemption
The Maltese Falcon
A Clockwork Orange
Raiders of the Lost Ark
North by Northwest
Star Trek: The Wrath of Kahn (Star Trek is such a huge part of pop-culture everyone should have some sort of minimal understanding of it)


EXCELLENT!! iv seen all of them. excellent taste

may I also recommend

fatman and little boy

true grit

the mothman prophecies

i have more just let me think

[momentomoir]

Paint your wagon(love this movie)
Big fish
Majestic
Lord of the Flies
Underworld
of Mice and Men
die hard

[Wasmachinemann]

Back To The Future=Best SF-Film ever made.

[DannibusX]

A movie I really liked was The Nines (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0810988/). It's pretty trippy.

[theJesus]

Cannibal Holocaust

edit: oh and of course the original star wars trilogy, but you might as well go kill yourself if have yet to see that