On a great-movies-I-missed kick

[Egiam]

I'm finally getting around to viewing some of the great movies that I never got around to, but have heard loads about.

In the last few weeks if have seen (and enjoyed):
-The Matrix
-The Graduate
-V for Vendetta
-The Scent of a Woman
-(this one about this guy who wants to be italian and race bikes, can't remember name)

-I just rented Brokeback Mountain.

Do any others come to mind? Go ahead and post even if you think you are sure I have seen it (example: Rocky, but that's a bad example as I have seen that). I would prefer older movies (before 2003?), as I am young and missed some of them.

A few I have seen (just to speed up the process):
-Star Wars
-Harry Potter
-All the Batman movies
-The Lord of the Rings
-Blackhawk Down
-Saving Private Ryan
-Shakespeare in Love
-Oceans Eleven (didn't like it that much really...)
-The Queen
-Rain Man
-Band of Brothers
-Mongol
-Pirates of the Caribbean

[Meat Shield]

Platoon
Schindler's List
Shaun of the Dead
Conan the Barbarian
Casablanca
Citizen Kane
Maltese Falcon
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Patton

off the top of my head....

EDIT: and get the original Ocean's Eleven with the Rat Pack - it was better than the Clooney version (and ask your parents - or grandparents actually - about the Rat Pack)

[Egiam]

Haven't seen Platoon, Casablanca or Schindlers list... Thanks!

(I loved Patton and liked Shaun of the Dead.)

[Jimorian]

Blade Runner
The Princess Bride
Both of Clint Eastwood's Iwo Jima movies
Enemy At The Gates
Breaking Away (EDIT: just realized this is the one you meant about the bicyclist who wanted to be Italian, LOL)
Chariots of Fire
Seven Samurai, then watch The Magnificent Seven
Yojimbo, then watch A Fistful of Dollars
For A Few Dollars More
The Good, The Bad and the Ugly (to cap the Man with No Name trilogy)
Once Upon a Time in the West (the culmination of what Sergio Leone developed with his spaghetti westerns)
This Is Spinal Tap
Fast Times At Ridgemont High
Quigley Down Under

[littlebottom]

erm, heres some you might well have seen but must be watched!

Goonies

actually theres so many that i have already decided to give up, but goonies is a start i suppose. HEY YOU GUUUUUYS! :smalltongue:

[chiasaur11]

Well, there's the classic World War 2 flicks.

Dirty Dozen, The Great Escape, (You've already seen Patton.)

Then you can see the film career of one of the fastest promoted soldiers in that war.

It's a Wonderful Life
Philadelphia story
Harvey
Mr. Smith goes to Washington
Rear Window
Vertigo
The Shop Around the Corner

[The Vorpal Tribble]

The Fountain
Fiddler on the Roof
The Village
Karate Kid trilogy
Willy Wonka (original)
Rigoletto
The Green Mile

[truemane]

Seven Samurai, then watch The Magnificent Seven
Yojimbo, then watch A Fistful of Dollars
For A Few Dollars More

If you're going to go, you might as well go all the way. Kurosawa made a sequal to Yojimbo called Sanjuro. So watch For a Few Dollars More, and then Sanjuro.

And then watch The Hidden Fortress and see how close to Star Wars it is.

Egiam: you should wander over to Roger Ebert's website, www.rogerebert.com where he does a bi-weekly review of a 'Great Movie.' There's a quite a list and any of them would be a good place to start.

[nanobot_swarm]

Eraserhead (A Surreal Movie)
Fantastic Planet (A very old Sci-Fi movie with unique animation and is indeed fantastic)
Heavy Metal (Math Equation: Violence+Sex+Rock and Roll=Awesome animated Movie)
King Kong (Can't beat the original Stop Motion Classic)
2001 A Space Odessy (A classic story of Space travel to the unkown, tells the story mostly with imagery and actions, rather than words)

[Dienekes]

No one has said Godfather Part I or II yet... really?
Amadeus
Gettysburg
12 Angry Men
The Shining (original)
Apocalypse Now
Dr. Strangelove: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Atomic Bomb
Any of the Hitchcock greats (Psycho, Rear Window, North by Northwest, ect.)
Alien/Aliens
Duck Soup
A Clockwork Orange
Singing in the Rain
Pulp Fiction
Fight Club
Terminator 1-2
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
The Sting
The Day the Earth Stood Still (original)
Fargo
The Exorcist
Wizard of Oz
Lawrence of Arabia
Ben-Hur
To Kill a Mockingbird
Goodfellas
The Usual Suspects
Something John Wayne (I'd suggest The Quiet Man and The Searchers)
Fantasia
Spartacus
Braveheart
Plan 9 From Outer Space
Rocky Horror Picture Show

That's all I can think up now, hope I didn't repeat anyones

[warty goblin]

I watched A Bridge Too Far the other week, which was enjoyable. Not brilliant, but a good movie. It was sort of refreshing to watch a movie about a gallant failure for a change as well.

[drakir_nosslin]

In Bruges
The Jacket
Donnie Darko
Spirited Away
My neighbor Totoro
Princess Mononoke

[Egiam]

Thanks for all the imput!

I just luv Miyazaki! Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away, Totoro!

My brother's book club is going to have a movie night and see Blade Runner after having discussed Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (I'm coming along)

[Yrcrazypa]

Evil Dead
Evil Dead 2
Army of Darkness

In that order. Easily one of the best movie trilogies ever.

[Egiam]

If you're going to go, you might as well go all the way. Kurosawa made a sequal to Yojimbo called Sanjuro. So watch For a Few Dollars More, and then Sanjuro.

I'm sorry... I'm not following you. Which movies in which order? Is a Few Dollars More related to Yojimbo?

[Berserk Monk]

Raiders of the Lost Ark

Any of the Indiana Jones films save Crystal Skull

[chiasaur11]

As I just thought of it:

Kung Fu Hustle.

Possibly the best fight scenes ever.

[Berserk Monk]

As I just thought of it:

Kung Fu Hustle.

Possibly the best fight scenes ever.

Shaolin Soccer is pretty good too.

[Godskook]

A Knight's Tale
300
The Master and Commander
Ever After(Best Cinderalla story I've ever seen, can get guys to watch it)
Grumpy Old Men
Lethal Weapon 1-4
Die Hard 1-3(NOT 4)
Secondhand Lions
I Robot
I am Legend
Uncle Buck

[Dienekes]

Gotta say Godskoot, must disagree on A Knight's Tale, I, Robot, and I am Legend, and 300 (sorta, I really liked the movie but I would never in a million years call it great)

[Mystic Muse]

I liked Kelly's heroes. people have already mentioned a lot of the other good ones so I have to think.
the mummy and the mummy returns. The third was just blah.
the rain maker was good. depressing but good.
UHF starring weird al yankovic.
Jaws. although I'd be surprised if you missed this.

that's all I can think of.

[Southern Cross]

Here is my list of suggestions:
Anything where Ray Harryhausen does the special effects.
Practically everything directed by Jack Arnold (with the possible exception of Monster on the Campus).
Most of the work of Peter Cushing (or at least everything with Christopher Lee as a co-star) with the noticeable exception of The Blood Beast Terror,which even Cushing considered his worst film).
I'm also a Godzilla fan.At the very least the original Godzilla is a must-see.Even the American version is an above-average giant monster on the loose film.
I'm also a fan of the old Universal movies,though their quality gets worse with every sequel.(With the exception of Dracula's Daughter and Son of Dracula.I must be one of the few people who actually think that Son of Dracula is a better film than Dracula's Daughter,despite the horribly miscast Lon Chaney as the aforementioned son of Dracula).

[MCerberus]

I always plug Oh Brother, Where art Thou. I just find it a really awesome movie, and one of the few successful updates to a classic story.


Oh, and Blues Brothers. I'm on a mission from ged.

[Brewdude]

Momento
Better off Dead

[CarpeGuitarrem]

I always plug Oh Brother, Where art Thou. I just find it a really awesome movie, and one of the few successful updates to a classic story.


Oh, and Blues Brothers. I'm on a mission from ged.
Totally. Those movies were something special.