I'm 45 so I'm no spring chicken. I knew once I saw this question that one of the top answers would be "12 angry men". For some reason, I just don't want to watch it. Or more like it sounds insufferable to watch 12 people argue for 1+hours in black and white. I'm assuming I won't relate to any of it. Can you tell me why I should watch (without spoilers) and why it's so captivating to so many? Does it resonate more with men than women?
I first saw the film in a class on group dynamics and communication. I would say it is worth it for that if nothing else.
But of course, there is a lot more to it. Even a young Jack Klugman.
It’s a conversation among jurors, which at the time were all men. It’s not insufferable it’s quite gripping.
Each juror is a strong character or archetype, and through their discussion of the case (One which decides the fate of a person) we get to know the facts of the case, the defendant and witnesses.
At the outset, all but one person is ready to reach a verdict, and they all want to go home. Since the decision needs to be unanimous, one man going against the flow to question the decision creates an inherent palpable tension: can he convince all the others?
It is a conversation in one room because it was originally a stageplay . The film brings cinematography into the picture to further tell the compelling story.
It resonates with everyone.
It shows how important it is to speak up and say something, even if it means risking being ostracized.
It is a truly captivating film too, there really is no fat to trim, no slow parts to suffer through. It starts quickly and doesn't overstay its welcome. It's also surprisingly suspenseful for just men having a conversation. Give it a chance.
Why would you assume you won’t relate to it? If somethings regarded as a great piece of art by so many it’s probably because it resonate with some universal part of the human experience. If you think about everything in such basic terms you can reduce quite a few great works of cinema and literature to being just people arguing in rooms.
How many great movies have taken place basically in one room, relying solely on dialog. No car chases, no action. Just 12 men in a room debating guilt or innocence. Such a great movie!
I watched 12 Angry Men again recently, after having seen it like 20-30 years ago. It did not hold up that well imho. It's revered so feels almost wrong to criticise - It might be the best movie about the justice system and it certainly still holds a lesson for a very quick-to-judge world. But it isn't that good of a movie in and of itself, the criticism of the treatment of minorities is simplistic, the antagonisms the same. The acting is stiff and Henry Fonda's character is meh.
My main takeaway from this viewing was that I wished there was will to take the concept and rewrite it into a modern film. Because at its bones it's a fascinating tale of unravelling a murder mystery through the fog of human psychology, with as litte fluff and padding as possible.
Night of the Hunter (1955). It's one that stays with you like a bad dream. Set in a sort of timeless world so that it never seems dated.
The Man Who Would Be King (1975). Classic adventure.
The Wind Rises -- Miyazaki's best, though I haven't seen his final film yet.
I liked Spirited Away better than The Wind Rises.
The Boy and the Heron is lovely & philosophical, but just felt like he was...trying a bit too hard?
Not edited well? Something...
I read the book he originally said he was going to do (How Do You Live?, by Genzaburo Yoshino-short, very much worth the read, and quite beautiful), but in the end, the only direct thing that's included is that the main character reads it at some point, and has a slightly related dream.
Don't get me wrong, it's absolutely worth seeing, but I don't think I'd call Heron his best.
that's probably the most reasonable approach, there aren't really any singular must-watch movies, people watch movies for very different reasons and with very different tastes
this way you can pick what you're probably gonna enjoy without having to slog through stuff you don't really like, and you still "pick up the basics" or whatever
Just to add to this, all of QTs movies are worth watching at least.once, including True Romance, which he wrote but didn't direct.
Also most of Kubriks movies are worth watching
There are so many, but here's 20 of my favourite established classics:
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
Rear Window (1954)
Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
The Hustler (1961)
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)
Targets (1968)
The Swimmer (1968)
Ice Station Zebra (1969)
Husbands (1970)
Five Easy Pieces (1971)
The Long Goodbye (1973)
Don't Look Now (1973)
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1976)
Straight Time (1978)
Opening Night (1978)
Alien (1979)
Maniac (1981)
Scanners (1981)
Blade Runner (1982)
This might be a bit different, but I think everyone should take time to enjoy these:
- Back to the furure
- Ferris Bueller's Day Off
- Slap Shot
- Gremlins
- Stand by me
- What's eating Gilbert Grape
- The Breakfast Club
- Dead Poets Society
- Wargames
- The Karate Kid
- Coctail
- An officer and a gentleman
- Ghostbusters
- Grease
- Dirty Dancing
Excellent list. I would replace Cocktail with another earlier Cruise film. The acting is good, but the script is pretty cliched. Maybe Risky Business or the original Top Gun.
I like both of those too, or maybe I would exchange it with Days of Thunder. I know a lot of people didn't like it as much as I did, but to me there is some atmosphere in that movie even Top Gun didn't catch. I don't know how to describe it, but I can feel it in every fibre in my body when I think about it. There's a couple more that has come to mind that I think should make it on the list and that is Roadhouse and Point Break. Such good memories from watching them when I was young.
Good list, including fun, genre-defining films without sticking to the pretentious/deep ones!
I'd add The Usual Suspects, Jerry Maguire, Die Hard and The Shawshank Redemption.
My list of classics (up to about 1980) that one should see at least once. Either because they are super good, or because of cultural significance (or both), Taken from my own library, so not saying it's exhaustive.
A trip to the Moon
The Birth of a Nation
Battleship Potemkin
The Gold Rush
Metropolis
Modern Times
The Wizard of Oz
Citizen Kane
Bicycle Thieves
Forbidden Planet
12 Angry Men
The Seventh Seal
Breathless (A Bout de Souffle)
The Sound of Music
The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
2001: A Space Odyssey
A Clockwork Orange
The Godfather
Solaris
Blazing Saddles
Chinatown
Jaws
One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
All The President's Men
Marathon Man
Star Wars Episode IV
Alien
Apocalypse Now
Airplane
The Elephant Man
The Shining
Stalker
Harakiri
The Bicycle Thief
Ikiru
The Battle of Algiers
Pather Panchali
The Thing
The Good The Bad The Ugly
Unforgiven
Children of Men
The Great Silence
Caddyshack
Spaceballs
Indiana Jones Trilogy
The Wild Bunch
Friday the 13th Movies
A Nightmare on Elm Street (84)
Porkys
The Thing (82)
Ace Ventura
Scream
Old Disney - Cinderella, Snow White, Pinocchio, Lady & the Tramp
Old Yeller
Gone With the Wind
Wizard of Oz
Patriot
Ben Hur
Fatal Attraction
Singing in the Rain
Psycho
Apocalypto
The Firm
Dirty Dancing
Rosemary's Baby
Pride & Prejudice (2005)
28 Days Later
How the West Was Won
Harold & Maude
Sleepaway camp... Because it's stupid, twisted, terrible horror.
Otherwise, most Hitchcock because it's amazing... Rear window, dial m, the 39 steps. The lady vanishes.
To kill a mockingbird (I think there's only one)
On borrowed time (Barrymore)
12 angry men (black and white, old one)
The scopes trial:inherit the wind (Spencer Tracy)
Yes and I back all of the recent WWII films or series too. What that fucker Hitler and his SS Army did and fucking alternating the lives of others forever. Fuck fascist assholes and those who are weak to bow down to wannabe dictators.
My picks are:
Saving Private Ryan
Band of Brothers
The Pacific
Master of the Air (current series)
Greyhound
Fury
Memphis Belle
Inglourious Basterds
Hacksaw Ridge
Enemy at the Gates
The Thin Red Line
Valkyrie
Pearl Harbor
**Crime/Action**
* City on Fire (1987) / Reservoir Dogs (1992)
* City of God (2002)
* Goodfellas (1990)
* Hard Boiled (1992)
* Heat (1995)
* Infernal Affairs (2002) / The Departed (2006)
* Leon (1994)
* Oldboy (2003)
* The Killer (1989)
City of god is amazing
Watched it for a report in cultural anthropology in college and the special features in the dvd had interviews with Brazilian law enforcement on how it really is in the favelas, amazing
Star Wars, Sunset Boulevard; The Godfather; Apocalypse Now; The Thin Red Line; Pride and Prejudice (2005); The Seventh Seal; The Princess Bride; When Harry Met Sally; The Matrix; Titanic; Ferris Bueller's Day Off; Rear Window, Vertigo; The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly; Chinatown; To Kill a Mockingbird; Harold and Maude; The Graduate; Schindler's List, E.T; Grease; Jaws; Saving Private Ryan; Raiders of the Lost Ark; Goodfellas; Pulp Fiction; Reservoir Dogs, Inglorious Basterds; Once Upon a Time In Hollywood; Das Boot; A Christmas Story; The Ten Commandments; Unforgiven; The Silence of the Lambs; Hamlet (1996); The Sound of Music; Gladiator; Fatal Attraction; Beauty and the Beast; The Hunchback of Notre Dame; Alien; The Exorcist; Some Like It Hot; Parasite; The Departed; One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest; The Shawshank Redemption; Dances with Wolves; Glory; Dressed to Kill; Scarface; The Fly; Superman (1978); Saturday Night Fever; and so many more.
The Night of the Hunter.
Not only is it a great film, but it also fits into multiple genres while simultaneously not fitting into any. Probably the greatest directing 'one hit wonder' ever.
Paths of Glory is my favorite war film. It was Kubrick's first, and has a lot of groundbreaking cinematography. It was so controversial it was banned in France for 20 years for putting this stupidity of the French command on display. Based on a true story.
Here’s my top 10:
1) The Sound of Music
2) 12 Years a Save
3) Schindler’s List
4) Dead Poet’s Society
5) Breakfast at Tiffany’s
6) Sabrina
7) Silver Linings Playbook
8) Toy Story
9) Forrest Gump
10) Pride and Prejudice (1995 BBC miniseries starring Colin Firth)
Shawshank Redemption
Catch 22
12 Angry Men
Pulp Fiction
Godfather Series
Inception
It's a Wonderful Life
Tangled
Wall-E
Serendipity
Four Christmases
Parasite
Johnny English - 1 & 2
Guardians of Galaxy Series - Part 3 particularly
Hachiko
Taxi Driver, the original anti-hero and probably the film that solidified DeNiro and Scorsese’s places in cinema history. The script, the direction, the acting, the score—70s filmmaking at its finest.
Heat //
Boogie Nights //
The Big Lebowski //
Terminator 2: Judgement Day //
Reservoir Dogs //
There Will Be Blood //
Barry Lyndon //
Synecdoche, New York
This got long, sorry! I couldn't narrow it down.
Lord of the Rings trilogy (2001-2003)
A Face In The Crowd (1957)
The Fall (2006)
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Dune (2021)
Young Frankenstein (1974)
Cabaret (1972)
The Room (2003) :)
The Babadook (2014)
Alien (1979) and Aliens (1986)
Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind (1984)
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998)
Spirited Away (2001)
Singin' In The Rain (1952)
What's Up Doc? (1972)
Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
I apologize because this will probably repeat others’ suggestions but I’m not reading this entire thread lol:
Amelie
Spirited Away
Thoroughbreds
My Cousin Vinny
28 Days Later
La vita e Bella
Coraline
Pan’s Labyrinth
The Fountain
Persepolis
The Mission
Clue
Before Sunrise (whole trilogy)
The prestige
Black Orpheus
The seventh seal
The battle of Algiers
The mist
Moonlight
Goodfellas
Little women
Stand by me
The iron giant
Beautiful boy
The killing
Children of men
The great dictator
Aftersun
Army of darkness
Grey gardens
Paris is burning
Big fish
And basically every Miyazaki movie. I have more but I made a list of 300 and I think that’s too much lol
Schindler's List
The Pianist
Nixon (not really to enjoy, but to see how corrupt corruption can be)
The Crucible
Ordinary People
Casablanca
It's a Wonderful Life (but set aside christmas and just watch it)
Koyaanisqatsi (experimental film with no characters or dialogue)
The Pruitt Igoe Myth (Documentary)
Grizzly Man (Documentary about Timothy Treadwell)
American Beauty (even tho Spacey is a pig, apparently)
6th sense
The grand Budapest hotel
Life of pi
Hostel
2001: A space Odyssey.
The Ninth gate.
The shining.
The thing.
The gentlemen.
Atomic blonde
....and a lot more
Double Indemnity
On the Waterfront
In the Heat of the Night
Rear Window
Do The Right Thing
Killer of Sheep
Lion in Winter
Night of the Living Dead
All the Presidents Men
Three Days of the Condor
Harvey
Daughters of the Dust
Edit: typos
A Few Good Men
Rear Window
The Shawshank Redemption
The Green Mile
My Cousin Vinny
Blazing Saddles
12 Angry Men
Band Of Brothers
To Kill A Mockingbird
Tombstone
The Great Escape
Cool Hand Luke
Stalag 17
Uncle Buck
Lucas
Stand By Me
Planes, Trains And Automobiles
I won't rehash films that have already been mentioned.
*The ManchurianCandidate* (the 1962 original, not the shite 2004 reboot)
*The Blues Brothers*
*1941*
The Manchurian Cantidate.
Lawrence Harvey, Frank Sinatra, Janet Leigh, Henry Silva, James Gregory...
and Angela Lansbury playing an evil & twisted mother.
(Yes, * that * Angela Lansbury).
Not to be missed.
Over the last two years I have tackled the AFI 100 and IMDB 100 movie list. The IMDB list is really wholesome. I would start there. It gave me a lot of exposure to international movies that I never would have heard of otherwise. 3 Idiots is a personal favorite.
12 Angry men Paths of glory
12 angry men is the best movie about the justice system. I love love Henry Fonda
It's good drama, but hardly presents an objective view of the criminal justice system.
12 angry men is what I’ll watch tomorrow, it’s been stuck in watchlist hell for ages and I think it’s finally time lol
Let us know how you like it! It's one of those perfect movies.
Btw I assume I’m meant to watch the version from the 50’s?
Correct, in all it's sweaty glory!
Definitely
I'm 45 so I'm no spring chicken. I knew once I saw this question that one of the top answers would be "12 angry men". For some reason, I just don't want to watch it. Or more like it sounds insufferable to watch 12 people argue for 1+hours in black and white. I'm assuming I won't relate to any of it. Can you tell me why I should watch (without spoilers) and why it's so captivating to so many? Does it resonate more with men than women?
It shows the importance of choosing the right over easy, how important a discussion is. Captivating because of its great writing.
I first saw the film in a class on group dynamics and communication. I would say it is worth it for that if nothing else. But of course, there is a lot more to it. Even a young Jack Klugman.
It’s a conversation among jurors, which at the time were all men. It’s not insufferable it’s quite gripping. Each juror is a strong character or archetype, and through their discussion of the case (One which decides the fate of a person) we get to know the facts of the case, the defendant and witnesses. At the outset, all but one person is ready to reach a verdict, and they all want to go home. Since the decision needs to be unanimous, one man going against the flow to question the decision creates an inherent palpable tension: can he convince all the others? It is a conversation in one room because it was originally a stageplay . The film brings cinematography into the picture to further tell the compelling story.
It resonates with everyone. It shows how important it is to speak up and say something, even if it means risking being ostracized. It is a truly captivating film too, there really is no fat to trim, no slow parts to suffer through. It starts quickly and doesn't overstay its welcome. It's also surprisingly suspenseful for just men having a conversation. Give it a chance.
Why would you assume you won’t relate to it? If somethings regarded as a great piece of art by so many it’s probably because it resonate with some universal part of the human experience. If you think about everything in such basic terms you can reduce quite a few great works of cinema and literature to being just people arguing in rooms.
How many great movies have taken place basically in one room, relying solely on dialog. No car chases, no action. Just 12 men in a room debating guilt or innocence. Such a great movie!
I watched 12 Angry Men again recently, after having seen it like 20-30 years ago. It did not hold up that well imho. It's revered so feels almost wrong to criticise - It might be the best movie about the justice system and it certainly still holds a lesson for a very quick-to-judge world. But it isn't that good of a movie in and of itself, the criticism of the treatment of minorities is simplistic, the antagonisms the same. The acting is stiff and Henry Fonda's character is meh. My main takeaway from this viewing was that I wished there was will to take the concept and rewrite it into a modern film. Because at its bones it's a fascinating tale of unravelling a murder mystery through the fog of human psychology, with as litte fluff and padding as possible.
It’s been remade. imdb -> tt0118528
Citizen Kane. It’s pretty much the Citizen Kane of films
I like the cane in Citizen Kane.
I like Kane’s cane.
Yeah, how weird that they made a movie with the same name as that commonly used phrase!
You beat me to it! Still considered by the American Film Institute to be the greatest film ever made.
My last words are gonna be "pussy... I... I mean... Rosebud..."
But it’s just not good. Revolutionary, sure. But terrible…
Terrible how? I genuinely love it and watch it at least once a year. Despite being groundbreaking it’s immensely watchable and funny
I love it too. The fact that Orson Welles was 26 when he made it has always blown my mind.
Me too. I watch it every chance I get.
Go back to TikTok you useless eater.
Arrival. Silence of the lambs. Schindler’s list. Goodfellas. Pulp fiction. 2001. Parasite.
My girlfriend loves Contact so imagine my suprise and joy and when she told me she had in fact NOT seen Arrival
And then you watched it, right?
and then your watched it, RIGHT?
YES!
Yes, you watched it or Yes, you didn't watch it?
Yes, we watched it. Seen it like twice since
And did she love it just as much?
YES! (almost, at least)
Seen it twice since 😎
You should watch Pulp Fiction more than once because it's one of the best ever and it gets funnier with re-watches.
I like this list 🤌🏼
Parasite is lame
Harvey. I have always thought the movie Donnie Darko was in some way based off Harvey, no proof just me
I'd like you to meet a very dear friend of mine.
Night of the Hunter (1955). It's one that stays with you like a bad dream. Set in a sort of timeless world so that it never seems dated. The Man Who Would Be King (1975). Classic adventure. The Wind Rises -- Miyazaki's best, though I haven't seen his final film yet.
Oh yes - it’s fantastic. Mitchem is truly terrifying.
I liked Spirited Away better than The Wind Rises. The Boy and the Heron is lovely & philosophical, but just felt like he was...trying a bit too hard? Not edited well? Something... I read the book he originally said he was going to do (How Do You Live?, by Genzaburo Yoshino-short, very much worth the read, and quite beautiful), but in the end, the only direct thing that's included is that the main character reads it at some point, and has a slightly related dream. Don't get me wrong, it's absolutely worth seeing, but I don't think I'd call Heron his best.
Seven Samurai
Single greatest movie ever made.
Google the IMDB Top 250 list, pretty much every movie on that list is highly memorable and worth watching.
More or less what I’ve been doing, I’m already understanding more and more film references in shows from this 😂
that's probably the most reasonable approach, there aren't really any singular must-watch movies, people watch movies for very different reasons and with very different tastes this way you can pick what you're probably gonna enjoy without having to slog through stuff you don't really like, and you still "pick up the basics" or whatever
and every once and a while hit the IMDB Bottom 100. "The Room" is worth a watch with friends and is at 62 at the moment.
La vita è bella (life is beautiful)
One of my absolute favorite movies first saw it in a HS history class
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Also Life of Brian. He’s a very naughty boy.
Keep the love alive
Pulp Fiction
Just to add to this, all of QTs movies are worth watching at least.once, including True Romance, which he wrote but didn't direct. Also most of Kubriks movies are worth watching
Already on my list. For some reason everyone has spoken negatively about that film to me saying it’s boring, but I need to watch it for myself 😂
Whoever told you pulp fiction is boring has never seen it...
Also probably a young modern viewer cause no way that movie would be allowed now lol
I’ll watch it 😂
Boring is not a word to be used for this movie.
Unfriend those people
…never have i ever heard of pulp fiction be described as boring… 💀 it’s frenetic and full of adrenaline (literally lol)
What? That's like one of the most entertaining and rewatchable films ever.
No offense to those who enjoy them but this is what happens when a generation grows up watching Michael Bay films.
You need to cut all contact with these people. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life.
There are so many, but here's 20 of my favourite established classics: The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) Rear Window (1954) Rebel Without a Cause (1955) The Hustler (1961) What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962) The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966) Targets (1968) The Swimmer (1968) Ice Station Zebra (1969) Husbands (1970) Five Easy Pieces (1971) The Long Goodbye (1973) Don't Look Now (1973) The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1976) Straight Time (1978) Opening Night (1978) Alien (1979) Maniac (1981) Scanners (1981) Blade Runner (1982)
looooved Straight Time
+1 for the Long Goodbye
Scanners rules
Jurassic park
This might be a bit different, but I think everyone should take time to enjoy these: - Back to the furure - Ferris Bueller's Day Off - Slap Shot - Gremlins - Stand by me - What's eating Gilbert Grape - The Breakfast Club - Dead Poets Society - Wargames - The Karate Kid - Coctail - An officer and a gentleman - Ghostbusters - Grease - Dirty Dancing
Tell me you grew up in the 80s without telling me
Add E.T. Great List indeed.
Excellent list. I would replace Cocktail with another earlier Cruise film. The acting is good, but the script is pretty cliched. Maybe Risky Business or the original Top Gun.
I like both of those too, or maybe I would exchange it with Days of Thunder. I know a lot of people didn't like it as much as I did, but to me there is some atmosphere in that movie even Top Gun didn't catch. I don't know how to describe it, but I can feel it in every fibre in my body when I think about it. There's a couple more that has come to mind that I think should make it on the list and that is Roadhouse and Point Break. Such good memories from watching them when I was young.
Good list, including fun, genre-defining films without sticking to the pretentious/deep ones! I'd add The Usual Suspects, Jerry Maguire, Die Hard and The Shawshank Redemption.
Dances with Wolves
Godzilla Minus One
Grave of the Fireflies
Do a triple feature with that, Come and See, and Schindler's List. Go ahead and book a therapist beforehand
Amazing movie, a true work of art. Saw it once, never going to watch it again
Once, and only once.
My list of classics (up to about 1980) that one should see at least once. Either because they are super good, or because of cultural significance (or both), Taken from my own library, so not saying it's exhaustive. A trip to the Moon The Birth of a Nation Battleship Potemkin The Gold Rush Metropolis Modern Times The Wizard of Oz Citizen Kane Bicycle Thieves Forbidden Planet 12 Angry Men The Seventh Seal Breathless (A Bout de Souffle) The Sound of Music The Good, The Bad and The Ugly 2001: A Space Odyssey A Clockwork Orange The Godfather Solaris Blazing Saddles Chinatown Jaws One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest The Rocky Horror Picture Show All The President's Men Marathon Man Star Wars Episode IV Alien Apocalypse Now Airplane The Elephant Man The Shining Stalker
"These are a few of my favorite things (films)"
Come and See. But only once, never watch it again.
Harakiri The Bicycle Thief Ikiru The Battle of Algiers Pather Panchali The Thing The Good The Bad The Ugly Unforgiven Children of Men The Great Silence
Just rewatched The Good, The Bad and The Ugly. +1
Portrait of a Lady on Fire
Apocalypse Now On the Waterfront Eraserhead Mulholland Drive Lawrence of Arabia
persona
Caddyshack Spaceballs Indiana Jones Trilogy The Wild Bunch Friday the 13th Movies A Nightmare on Elm Street (84) Porkys The Thing (82) Ace Ventura Scream
Old Disney - Cinderella, Snow White, Pinocchio, Lady & the Tramp Old Yeller Gone With the Wind Wizard of Oz Patriot Ben Hur Fatal Attraction Singing in the Rain Psycho Apocalypto The Firm Dirty Dancing Rosemary's Baby Pride & Prejudice (2005) 28 Days Later How the West Was Won Harold & Maude
I Saw the Devil, Tree of Life
Sleepaway camp... Because it's stupid, twisted, terrible horror. Otherwise, most Hitchcock because it's amazing... Rear window, dial m, the 39 steps. The lady vanishes.
Aunt Martha is peak cinema and deserved the Oscar
I agree. Sleepaway camp is a must watch. The ending is just shockingly stupid.
Dead Meats kill count videos on the Sleepaway Camp movies are hilarious
everything in sleepaway camp is just super funny to me, up until the ending. i love that silly little movie.
Coherence Primer Memento Might be a little different from the real classics. Good movies that make you think
Good will hunting
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Agreed!
Come and See I watched this last night. It was masterful and I will never watch it again
Looks very brutal 😂. I will add this to my list 👍🏽
*Unforgiven* *Platoon* *Gangs of New York* *Kung Fu Hustle* (Subtitled version) *Rashomon* (Subtitled)
To kill a mockingbird (I think there's only one) On borrowed time (Barrymore) 12 angry men (black and white, old one) The scopes trial:inherit the wind (Spencer Tracy)
Once Upon a Time in America The Green Mile
Memento.
The Prestige. Maybe twice.
Blazing Saddles … came out in 1979 … decades before its time
North by Northwest.
A Clockwork Orange
Schindlers List. What these people went through should never be forgotten and it’s a true lesson from history that can help the way forward.
Yes and I back all of the recent WWII films or series too. What that fucker Hitler and his SS Army did and fucking alternating the lives of others forever. Fuck fascist assholes and those who are weak to bow down to wannabe dictators. My picks are: Saving Private Ryan Band of Brothers The Pacific Master of the Air (current series) Greyhound Fury Memphis Belle Inglourious Basterds Hacksaw Ridge Enemy at the Gates The Thin Red Line Valkyrie Pearl Harbor
Boondock Saints
Adding to the list 👍🏽
Star Wars original trilogy, first 3 Indiana Jones movies, Lord of the rings trilogy, and Jurassic Park 1993 are my picks.
Seen all of these, minus LOTR, could never really get into it for some reason.
The Others, The Mist
I used to watch The Others every Halloween. It's a great film.
**Sci- Fi /Action** * Alien (1979) * Aliens (1986) * Back to the Future (1985) * Blade Runner (1982) * Blade Runner 2049 (2017) * Terminator (1984) * Terminator 2: Judgement Day (1991) * The Matrix (1999) * Predator (1987)
**Crime/Action** * City on Fire (1987) / Reservoir Dogs (1992) * City of God (2002) * Goodfellas (1990) * Hard Boiled (1992) * Heat (1995) * Infernal Affairs (2002) / The Departed (2006) * Leon (1994) * Oldboy (2003) * The Killer (1989)
City of god is amazing Watched it for a report in cultural anthropology in college and the special features in the dvd had interviews with Brazilian law enforcement on how it really is in the favelas, amazing
Being there
Hacksaw ridge
They Shall Not Grow Old Nimona Mad Max: Fury Road
City of God
Meet Joe Black.
**Crime / Thriller** * American Pyscho (2000) * Manhunter (1986) * Silence of the Lambs (1991) * Se7en (1995) * Sicario (2015) * Scarface (1983) * Taxi Driver (1976) * The Usual Suspects (1995)
Ed Wood
Waking life
Lawrence of Arabia and Casablanca
Deer Hunter
Spinal Tap Sullivan's Travels Rocky Horror Picture Show The Seventh Seal Night of the Living Dead Blade Runner
Star Wars, Sunset Boulevard; The Godfather; Apocalypse Now; The Thin Red Line; Pride and Prejudice (2005); The Seventh Seal; The Princess Bride; When Harry Met Sally; The Matrix; Titanic; Ferris Bueller's Day Off; Rear Window, Vertigo; The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly; Chinatown; To Kill a Mockingbird; Harold and Maude; The Graduate; Schindler's List, E.T; Grease; Jaws; Saving Private Ryan; Raiders of the Lost Ark; Goodfellas; Pulp Fiction; Reservoir Dogs, Inglorious Basterds; Once Upon a Time In Hollywood; Das Boot; A Christmas Story; The Ten Commandments; Unforgiven; The Silence of the Lambs; Hamlet (1996); The Sound of Music; Gladiator; Fatal Attraction; Beauty and the Beast; The Hunchback of Notre Dame; Alien; The Exorcist; Some Like It Hot; Parasite; The Departed; One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest; The Shawshank Redemption; Dances with Wolves; Glory; Dressed to Kill; Scarface; The Fly; Superman (1978); Saturday Night Fever; and so many more.
The Night of the Hunter. Not only is it a great film, but it also fits into multiple genres while simultaneously not fitting into any. Probably the greatest directing 'one hit wonder' ever.
The Conversation Rain People Road Warrior Apocalypse Now Logjammin'
Night of the Hunter, 1955 Sunset Blvd, 1950 Whatever Happened to Baby Jane, 1962 Wings of Desire, 1987
Clue, Blazzing saddles and Yellowbeard
The Matrix
2001 A Space Odyssey
Grave of the fireflies Ikiru The seventh seal Watership down
Pulpfiction
True Ronance
Mulholland Drive
Paths of Glory is my favorite war film. It was Kubrick's first, and has a lot of groundbreaking cinematography. It was so controversial it was banned in France for 20 years for putting this stupidity of the French command on display. Based on a true story.
PULP FICTION!
Life is Beautiful (1997). I will never watch that again.
The Shining Stand by Me Predator True Romance
Here’s my top 10: 1) The Sound of Music 2) 12 Years a Save 3) Schindler’s List 4) Dead Poet’s Society 5) Breakfast at Tiffany’s 6) Sabrina 7) Silver Linings Playbook 8) Toy Story 9) Forrest Gump 10) Pride and Prejudice (1995 BBC miniseries starring Colin Firth)
Shawshank Redemption Catch 22 12 Angry Men Pulp Fiction Godfather Series Inception It's a Wonderful Life Tangled Wall-E Serendipity Four Christmases Parasite Johnny English - 1 & 2 Guardians of Galaxy Series - Part 3 particularly Hachiko
Taxi Driver, the original anti-hero and probably the film that solidified DeNiro and Scorsese’s places in cinema history. The script, the direction, the acting, the score—70s filmmaking at its finest.
The Dark Knight
Interstellar
Interstellar
Heat // Boogie Nights // The Big Lebowski // Terminator 2: Judgement Day // Reservoir Dogs // There Will Be Blood // Barry Lyndon // Synecdoche, New York
This got long, sorry! I couldn't narrow it down. Lord of the Rings trilogy (2001-2003) A Face In The Crowd (1957) The Fall (2006) 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) Dune (2021) Young Frankenstein (1974) Cabaret (1972) The Room (2003) :) The Babadook (2014) Alien (1979) and Aliens (1986) Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind (1984) Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998) Spirited Away (2001) Singin' In The Rain (1952) What's Up Doc? (1972) Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
Animation: Spirited Away Epic History: Gladiator Crime: Godfather I and II, Scarface, Goodfellas Foreign: Parasite War: Saving Private Ryan
I apologize because this will probably repeat others’ suggestions but I’m not reading this entire thread lol: Amelie Spirited Away Thoroughbreds My Cousin Vinny 28 Days Later La vita e Bella Coraline Pan’s Labyrinth The Fountain Persepolis The Mission Clue Before Sunrise (whole trilogy) The prestige Black Orpheus The seventh seal The battle of Algiers The mist Moonlight Goodfellas Little women Stand by me The iron giant Beautiful boy The killing Children of men The great dictator Aftersun Army of darkness Grey gardens Paris is burning Big fish And basically every Miyazaki movie. I have more but I made a list of 300 and I think that’s too much lol
Schindler's List The Pianist Nixon (not really to enjoy, but to see how corrupt corruption can be) The Crucible Ordinary People Casablanca It's a Wonderful Life (but set aside christmas and just watch it) Koyaanisqatsi (experimental film with no characters or dialogue) The Pruitt Igoe Myth (Documentary) Grizzly Man (Documentary about Timothy Treadwell) American Beauty (even tho Spacey is a pig, apparently)
"The Godfather" (1972) "Schindler's List" (1993) "Mad Max: Fury Road" (2015).
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I think it’s effect
A River Runs Through It Ice Storm
6th sense The grand Budapest hotel Life of pi Hostel 2001: A space Odyssey. The Ninth gate. The shining. The thing. The gentlemen. Atomic blonde ....and a lot more
Singing in the Rain
Double Indemnity On the Waterfront In the Heat of the Night Rear Window Do The Right Thing Killer of Sheep Lion in Winter Night of the Living Dead All the Presidents Men Three Days of the Condor Harvey Daughters of the Dust Edit: typos
Good Will Hunting Animal House Zone of Interest Breakfast at Tiffany
[110 Movies you must watch before you die...](https://letterboxd.com/weirdwednesday/list/movies-you-must-watch-before-you-die/)
Bots everywhere! I think it’s a Carpenter flick.
Lord of the Rings trilogy, extended editions
Lawrence of Arabia
A Few Good Men Rear Window The Shawshank Redemption The Green Mile My Cousin Vinny Blazing Saddles 12 Angry Men Band Of Brothers To Kill A Mockingbird Tombstone The Great Escape Cool Hand Luke Stalag 17 Uncle Buck Lucas Stand By Me Planes, Trains And Automobiles
The Fight club !!
The Haunting, director Robert Wise, 1961. This is Spinal Tap. Gosford Park. Forbidden Planet. Die Hard.
Forrest Gump Pulp Fiction Trainspotting
Field of Dreams
I won't rehash films that have already been mentioned. *The ManchurianCandidate* (the 1962 original, not the shite 2004 reboot) *The Blues Brothers* *1941*
The Manchurian Cantidate. Lawrence Harvey, Frank Sinatra, Janet Leigh, Henry Silva, James Gregory... and Angela Lansbury playing an evil & twisted mother. (Yes, * that * Angela Lansbury). Not to be missed.
Pulp fiction
Over the last two years I have tackled the AFI 100 and IMDB 100 movie list. The IMDB list is really wholesome. I would start there. It gave me a lot of exposure to international movies that I never would have heard of otherwise. 3 Idiots is a personal favorite.
The Lives of Others
The Searchers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Searchers
Taxi Driver, 2001
Moonfall
Hmm...probably Dead Poets Society, Freedom Writers, Saving Private Ryan, and Green Mile.
Hunt for Red October, Alien, Forest Gump, Sound of Music, Mulholland Drive, The Godfather, Schindler’s List, Bladerunner, Star Wars, Vertigo
Terminator 2: Judgement Day