Must see movies

[the quinn]

Not sure what to say...
What are the movies that everyone must see?
What are the best movies out this summer? (Dark Knight was amazing)
What are your favorites?

[Jade_Tarem]

Mr. Holland's Opus. Well written, well directed, and very well acted. You can appreciate it fully even if you know nothing about music.

"Fine. Slash away the arts. Pretty soon your kids will have nothing to read and write about."

Young Frankenstien. Mostly for the same reasons, except that this is a funny movie and not a serious one.

"A riot is an ugly thing, and it's about time we had one!"

A Christmas Carol. The George C. Scott version. A very well done movie all around, with skilled acting and decent special effects that enhance the plot instead of replacing it.

"Then perhaps you should pay more attention to what the surplus population is, and where it is. For it could be that in the eyes of God there are MILLIONS more worthy to enter the kingdom of Heaven, like this poor man's son..."

[Lolzords]

If it's any movie and not just ones in the cinema I'd have to say Fight Club, or This Is England, the latter simply because it's a very moving film.

Edit: Also, the Shawshank Redemption is a brilliant film.

[CrazedGoblin]

Not sure what to say...
What are the movies that everyone must see? Dark Knight
What are the best movies out this summer? Dark Knight
What is your favorites? Dark Knight

there we go fixed it for you :smalltongue:

[Tebryn]

Ironman is a must see, as for older movies, the kill bills for sure

[Jack Squat]

I've actually never been a fan of Tarantino's work, so I'd have to argue with Kill Bill being a "must see." With Young Frankenstein thrown into the works, I'd also have to argue with it being "older."

I would recommend any of the Mel Brook's films, although I don't consider any besides Robin Hood: Men in Tights, Young Frankenstein, Spaceballs, History of the World Part 1, Blazing Saddles, or The Producer's must sees.

The Bourne series: I know people out there who don't like it, but IMO, it's one of the best action movies out there, containing just enough good plot advancement to keep it from turning into a Van Dam movie.

Clear and Present Danger, Air Force One, The Fugitive, or any other movie with Harrison Ford in it that's not Star Wars or Indiana Jones. Those are great movies, and I do feel everyone should see them, but I also feel they are over recommended.

Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory: this is the one with Gene Wilder, and it is worlds better than the version with Depp.

Escape from L.A. IMO, this is the better one of the two. Of course, I own both :smallcool:

Who Framed Roger Rabbit: I'm always shocked when I hear people have never seen this. A quality, well-written movie this isn't, but it's still enjoyable.

The Jackal: To my knowledge, this is the only movie where Bruce Willis is a bad guy.

Shooter: When everyone hears me mention this, they think it's got to be just another stupid action movie; when they see it, they like it.

The Italian Job (the new one): Who doesn't like a good heist movie?

Iron Man: I would rate this as the best movie of the year. Dark Knight comes in close second, only because with how dark it is, I can't recommend it to everyone in good conscience.

Ones you should still see, although I won't force everyone to watch it:

Dark Knight. Enough said.

The Boondock Saints. If you like vigilantes, you'll like this movie. A little pretty gory, and they aren't light in cursing, but all in all, a good movie.

Serenity: Based off of Firefly (which is also awesome), but the fan base tends to make it out to be this absolute brilliant piece of work. It's a great watch, but it's not the movie to end all movies.


Star Wars/Indiana Jones: remember how I said these were over reccomended, well they are. but I'm still going to suggest you watch these if you haven't. If nothing else, they're good to have under your belt so people don't explode into a frenzy when you say you haven't seen them.

Any Chris Farley movie. No, these are not intelligent. However, like the Three Stooges, every man has the instinctual urge to watch his stuff.


More to come when I remember them.

[Tirian]

A Christmas Carol. The George C. Scott version. A very well done movie all around, with skilled acting and decent special effects that enhance the plot instead of replacing it.

Wow, I can't think of a worse way to misspell "Alastair Sim". It almost looks like you're recommending the wrong movie. :smallbiggrin:

I'll give ten suggestions (ordered by release date, or nearly). I won't say that anyone who doesn't put these at the top of their list is retarded, but I will say that they should be seen by anyone who feels that their lists of best movies is comprehensive.


Casablanca
The Manchurian Candidate
The Godfather
The Sting
The Blues Brothers
Raiders of the Lost Ark
The Princess Bride
Jean de Florette / Manon of the Spring
Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
The Incredibles

[rubakhin]

Recent stuff:

Aleksandra by Sokurov is doing the art house circuit, it just passed by my city a few weeks ago. If you get a chance, you need to watch it.

Mongol by Sergei Bodrov actually seems to have gotten a wide release, which is incredible considering that it was filmed entirely in Mongolian and Americans hate subtitles. (It's also a brilliant movie about the rise of Genghis Khan, worth watching for the action junkies even if you don't like foreign stuff.)

[Tragic_Comedian]

Copy and pasted from an earlier post on the subject:

The Ten Commandments

Misery

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

Planet of the Apes and all the sequels

Santa Claus Conquers the Martians (well, I liked it...)

All the Back to the Future movies

Edward Scissorhands

The Labyrinth

Pee-wee's Big Adventure

Citizen Kane (great movie, but not the earth-shattering thing I expected)

The Dark Crystal

Errr... 'Bout any of the old Hammer horror films, really.

Nosferatu

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari

Maria Marten, or Murder in the Red Barn, and Tod Slaughter's other films (especially Sweeney Todd and Crimes at the Dark House!), although I admit he's not for everybody. His acting style is very theatrical and maybe he hams it up a bit, but give him a shot.

[TheThan]

Well I’ve given this list out before, but it’s a good list and bares repeating (that and I’ve expanded it by adding a whole genre).

Adventure movies
Indiana Jones and the raiders of the lost ark
Indiana Jones and the temple of doom
Indiana Jones and the last crusade
Sahara
King solomon’s mines (the 1950s one)
Allan Quartermain and king soloman’s mines
Allan Quartermain and the lost city of gold
Adventures of Robin Hood (Errol Flynn)
Captain Blood
Operation condor
Operation condor II
The Mummy ( the Brendan Fraser one )
The Mummy returns (sequal to the above)

Westerns
Stagecoach
El Dorado
True Grit
Roster Cogburn
The searchers
Tombstone
Silverado
Quigly down under
A fist full of dollars
For a few dollars more
The good the bad and the ugly
Death hunt
The magnificent seven

Sci-fi movies
Star wars episode I The Phantom Menace
Star Wars Episode II attack of the clones
Star Wars episode III the revenge of the Sith
Star Wars episode IV A New Hope
Star Wars episode V the Empire Strikes Back
Star Wars Episode VI The Return of the Jedi
Star wars clone wars (animated mini series, more like a movie when watched together).
Star wars: the caravan of courage (made for TV movie… ewoks)
Star wars: the battle for Endor (sequel to the caravan of courage)

Star trek II the wrath of Kahn (the best one)
Star trek III the search for Spock
Star trek IV the voyage home
Star trek VI the undiscovered country.

Space odyssey 2001
Blade runner
Serenity (and firefly, but that’s a tv series).
Alien
Aliens
Alien 3 (for completeness)
Predator
Predator 2
Alien vs predator
Planet of the apes (RIP Charlton Heaston)
The last starfighter
The day the earth stood still
Forbidden planet
Journey to the center of the earth
The time machine
From the earth to the moon
I robot
Battle star Galactica (the original series two hour pilot)

Martial arts
Hero
Crouching tiger hidden dragon
Kung Fu Hustle
The legend of drunken master (any version as long as it’s got Jacky Chan in it)
Who am I
Mr. Nice guy
Rumble in the Bronx
Super cop
Wheels on meals (at least is supposed to be good, can’t say from first hand knowledge)
The Chinese connection
The return of the dragon
Enter the dragon
Fists of fury
Karate Kid
Seven Samurai

War movies
Tora Tora Tora
Apocolyps now
The green berets
The longest day
The sands of Iwo Jima
Rambo, fist blood
Rambo, First blood part II
Rambo III
John Rambo (Rambo IV)
Missing in action
Missing in action II: the beginning (why oh why do they do things backwards?)
Bradock: missing in action III
The Dirty dozen
The great escape
Stalag 17
Patton

Historical fiction (or close to it)
The last of the Mohicans
Master and Commander the far side of the ocean
The bounty (Mel Gibson, Anthony Hopkins)
The Patriot (the Mel Gibson one)
Braveheart

Horror
Dracula
The mummy
The wolf man
Frankenstein
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Psycho
Night of the living dead
Creature from the black lagoon

[the quinn]

Thanks everyone for what you have said
Seeing that I am young, I haven't seen many of these
My favorites are:
Serenity (Everyone seems to like that one)
The lord of the rings Trilogy
Starwars, all of them
Dark Knight, I thought it was my favorite superhero and best movie out this summer
I enjoyed V for Vendetta

Maybe I will draw TV Series into the thread
I enjoyed Firefly
Battlestar Galactica, the new one
Star Treks

[Jack Squat]

hmm, for tv shows, I'd reccomend:

Stargate SG-1 (up until season 9, although it was still good after)

The A-Team

Hogan's Heros

ALF

Firefly

Macgyver

Drive

Gilligan's Island

All MGM, Hannah Barbara, and Warner Bros. Cartoons.

[Cristo Meyers]

Only thing I can add to the list so far is Jacob's Ladder.

It's what a horror/suspense movie was supposed to be before the slasher gorefest took over.

[Innis Cabal]

How has Big Trouble in Little China not been mentioned?

[Semidi]

A few that I haven't seen mentioned:
China Town, The Shining, Fitzcarraldo, Aguirre the Wrath of God, Grizzly Man (can you tell I'm a Herzog fan?), Memento, Rear Window (Hitchcock version), The Battle of Algiers, Bubba-Ho Tep, The Evil Dead series, Easy Rider, Doctor Strangelove, and Taxi Driver.

I could mention more, but I'll stop now.

[Dewey]

It was mentioned already, but Mongol is DEFINITELY a must-see-movie. I just got home from the movie theater, and it kicks a**. Go see it.

Also, you have to see "The Princess Bride".

[WalkingTarget]

For anybody who is attending, has attended, or plans to attend college: Animal House. It's the holotype (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holotype) of "college films" (in my opinion) so watch it already so I can stop explaining references to it in other films/shows to you.

As for films that people should watch on general principle: just go get something by Alfred Hitchcock.

[Khanderas]

Mr. Holland's Opus. Well written, well directed, and very well acted. You can appreciate it fully even if you know nothing about music.

Seconded.

In the same category of movies that makes me cry:
Dead poets society.

[Irenaeus]

Must see? Not many. Blade Runner comes to mind, Miller's Crossing, Casablance.

Best series are Twin Peaks, The Wire and Arrested Development. With The Wire being the most consistantly great show I have ever seen. One weak season out of five total, and that one is still better than most other series out there.

Pure gold.

[DraPrime]

Must see? Well the first two Mad Max movies are fantastic, and should be seen by all.

[Sneak]

Cool Hand Luke
The Princess Bride
Pulp Fiction
The Big Lebowski

[shadowxknight]

Good Movies This Summer:
Hancock
Step-Brothers

Personal Favorites:
300
Accepted
21

[Hawriel]

Oh my god. TheThan you cant really be saying that Green Berrets is a good movie. It was horrid. It was blatent propiganda. Its so bad Ive had a history teacher use it for a punch line to relieve stress after a sememster of long lectures.


Here are afew movies I think are must sees. Because they are fun or and or just good movies.

Connan the Barbarian

Wizards

Platoon

Dragon Slayer

Bladerunner

The Departed

[MrEdwardNigma]

Donnie Darko is the greatest movie of all time.

Fight club is a close second.

I'd name some classics too, but considering which movies you like it might not be your thing. Besides, Citizen Kane's been mentioned.

[Cespenar]

Heh, quite naturally, many of the movies listed here are quite good and easily "secondable", but my current mood makes me tell just two names: Shaolin Soccer and Kung Fu Hustle.

[Meat Shield]

Shan't bother repeating any of mine that are mentioned above, but I have long thought that Schindler's List is required watching, because we all need to know how depraved the souls of men can become, and why it is important to fight that evil anyway we can. And the opening scene of Saving Private Ryan for those that think that war is a happy and glorious calling.

[Corlindale]

I'm kind of a movie nerd myself, and I'll be extremely hard pressed to name just one favourite. So I won't attempt to, and what follows will be a completely disordered list of recommendations in various genres, mainly movies I suspect are unknown to most people.

(Generally I consider the Top 250 at www.imdb.com a good rough guide to movies worth seeing - I've seldom been disappointed at these, though one does have to allow for new releases occasionally climbing very high on the list for short periods of time.)

Labyrinth: Already mentioned. Apart from the hard-to-match majesty of the LOTR movies, this is the best fantasy movie I've seen. Perhaps part of it is the fact that I remember it fondly from my childhood - but since I purchased it anew on DVD a year ago, I've already seen and enjoyed it many times again.
It's both epic and genuinely funny, and even with what little they had they managed to create a fascinating world full of colorful characters the like of which I haven't seen anywhere else (Sir Didymus is probably my favourite:smallsmile:)

8½: Moving into the field of more "artsy" movies, this little masterpiece from brilliant Italien director Federico Fellini deserves mention. It is a wonderfully surreal tale about a movie director in the process of making the exact movie one is watching, while simultaneously and in parallel trying to make sense of his life, and determine how the movie should best portray it.
Yeah, it is as weird and paradoxically self-referential as it sounds, and the film can be a bit hard to make sense of (it doesn't have a chronological plot as such), but it includes a lot of truly memorable scenes as well as some funny moments.

Grave of the Fireflies Actually not certain I can recommend this one with a good conscience. This is, without any doubt, the saddest and most depressing movie I have ever seen. It's about two japanese children trying to survive on their own in WWII Japan. Oh, and it's animated (I've heard that there is a live-action version, and that it doesn't in any way measure up to the original).
I consider it a great quality in a movie if it can convey emotion effectively, and this movie certainly delivers on that account. It's kind of weird, because I really like this movie and admire what it does, but somehow I've never really felt like re-watching it. I've heard from others that the movie didn't have as strong an impact on them because they felt it was trying too hard to be tear-jerking, but it certainly affected me strongly. You have been warned.

Other must-sees:
The Seventh Seal (and Ingmar Bergman movies in general - that man is a genius)

Funny Games (a great deal unpleasant to watch at times, but interesting criticism of violence as entertainment. Haven't seen the American remake, but cannot for a moment imagine it being better than the German original).

Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind, Lost in Translation and Le fabuleux destin d'Amelie Poulain (my top-3 romantic movies - a genre I'm not generally a fan of, barring the preceding strong exceptions).

That's it for now, may think of some crucial ones I left out later on.

[Sneak]

Grave of the Fireflies Actually not certain I can recommend this one with a good conscience. This is, without any doubt, the saddest and most depressing movie I have ever seen. It's about two japanese children trying to survive on their own in WWII Japan. Oh, and it's animated (I've heard that there is a live-action version, and that it doesn't in any way measure up to the original).
I consider it a great quality in a movie if it can convey emotion effectively, and this movie certainly delivers on that account. It's kind of weird, because I really like this movie and admire what it does, but somehow I've never really felt like re-watching it. I've heard from others that the movie didn't have as strong an impact on them because they felt it was trying too hard to be tear-jerking, but it certainly affected me strongly. You have been warned.

Seconded. You may not think that an animated movie can have such a serious tone, but it actually works quite well for this movie. Everyone should watch it (and be terribly, terribly sad for an hour or so afterwards).

[Tom_Violence]

The Jackal: To my knowledge, this is the only movie where Bruce Willis is a bad guy.

Its also unfortunately one of the worst films ever. The Day Of The Jackal is vastly superior.

Anyway, here's my suggestion for the mix: Brazil, for being one of the best dystopian epics ever envisioned. Go go Mr. Gilliam!

[Haruki-kun]

AMV Hell.

What? :smalltongue:

[Jack Squat]

Its also unfortunately one of the worst films ever. The Day Of The Jackal is vastly superior.

Jack Black dies in it, can't say it's all bad :smalltongue:

I enjoy the movie...of course, I also got it out of the 5 dollar bin at Wal-Mart.

[ARMOURERERIC]

Heat: DeNiro, Pacino, Kilmer, Vaugn, and a young Natalie Portman

Pleasantville, A cast who was just starting out and all became big stars

Casino, although the book is an awesome true crime historical read.

Hollywoodland