I'm a big classic film buff, so ordinarily, I'd have a large list. However, I'll keep it to 20 films...and I'll leave the 'modern' movies to others, for the most part.
Silents:
The Kid - Charlie Chaplin
The General - Buster Keaton
Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse - Rudolph Valentino
Classic Film:
My Man Godfrey - William Powell/Carole Lombard (comedy)
It Happened One Night - Clark Gable/Claudette Colbert (comedy)
Some Like It Hot - Jack Lemmon/Tony Curtis/Marilyn Monroe (comedy)
Lost Horizon - Ronald Colman
Casablanca - Humphrey Bogart/Ingrid Bergman
Double Indemnity - Barbara Stanwyck/Fred MacMurray
Rear Window - James Stewart/Grace Kelly (Hitchcock)
North By Northwest - Cary Grant/Eva Marie Saint (Hitchcock)
High Noon - Gary Cooper/Grace Kelly (western)
The Searchers - John Wayne (western)
Sunset Boulevard - William Holden/Gloria Swanson
From Here To Eternity - Montgomery Clift/Burt Lancaster/Frank Sinatra
The Manchurian Candidate - Frank Sinatra/Angela Lansbury
To Kill a Mockingbird - Gregory Peck
Yankee Doodle Dandy - James Cagney (musical)
My Fair Lady - Audrey Hepburn/Rex Harrison (musical)
Singin' In The Rain - Gene Kelly/Debbie Reynolds (musical)
I intentionally left out some of the mega-long movies that are classics, but WAY long - Gone With The Wind, Ben Hur, Doctor Zhivago, Lawrence of Arabia. But if you've got the stamina, knock yourself out.
And if your objective is to watch a movie that you will not be able to shake for a week because it is just that harrowing: Apocalypse Now and Platoon are your best bets. These are both fabulous movies...but I can only watch each of them about once every 3-5 years as I have this vague sense of depression and terror for about a week afterwards.
Modern Movie Comment: Why no love for The Shawshank Redemption, The Hunt For Red October, Amadeus, Dances With Wolves, and Out of Africa? Fabulous movies!
I'm a big classic film buff, so ordinarily, I'd have a large list. However, I'll keep it to 20 films...and I'll leave the 'modern' movies to others, for the most part.
Silents:
The Kid - Charlie Chaplin
The General - Buster Keaton
Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse - Rudolph Valentino
Classic Film:
My Man Godfrey - William Powell/Carole Lombard (comedy)
It Happened One Night - Clark Gable/Claudette Colbert (comedy)
Some Like It Hot - Jack Lemmon/Tony Curtis/Marilyn Monroe (comedy)
Lost Horizon - Ronald Colman
Casablanca - Humphrey Bogart/Ingrid Bergman
Double Indemnity - Barbara Stanwyck/Fred MacMurray
Rear Window - James Stewart/Grace Kelly (Hitchcock)
North By Northwest - Cary Grant/Eva Marie Saint (Hitchcock)
High Noon - Gary Cooper/Grace Kelly (western)
The Searchers - John Wayne (western)
Sunset Boulevard - William Holden/Gloria Swanson
From Here To Eternity - Montgomery Clift/Burt Lancaster/Frank Sinatra
The Manchurian Candidate - Frank Sinatra/Angela Lansbury
To Kill a Mockingbird - Gregory Peck
Yankee Doodle Dandy - James Cagney (musical)
My Fair Lady - Audrey Hepburn/Rex Harrison (musical)
Singin' In The Rain - Gene Kelly/Debbie Reynolds (musical)
I intentionally left out some of the mega-long movies that are classics, but WAY long - Gone With The Wind, Ben Hur, Doctor Zhivago, Lawrence of Arabia. But if you've got the stamina, knock yourself out.
And if your objective is to watch a movie that you will not be able to shake for a week because it is just that harrowing: Apocalypse Now and Platoon are your best bets. These are both fabulous movies...but I can only watch each of them about once every 3-5 years as I have this vague sense of depression and terror for about a week afterwards.
Modern Movie Comment: Why no love for The Shawshank Redemption, The Hunt For Red October, Amadeus, Dances With Wolves, and Out of Africa? Fabulous movies!
Nice list :thumbup: I looove old movies! It's a shame that you can't watch them in the theatre around here ...
Please, Pearl Jam, consider a Benaroya Hall vinyl reissue!
I'm a big classic film buff, so ordinarily, I'd have a large list. However, I'll keep it to 20 films...and I'll leave the 'modern' movies to others, for the most part.
Some Like It Hot - Jack Lemmon/Tony Curtis/Marilyn Monroe (comedy)
They are showing this next week at a bombed out church near me. The walls remain but the roof is gone and they put out plastic garden chairs for you to sit on and they sell tea/coffee and some alcohol. Its only £2 per person and they even show Tom and Jerry cartoons before the film Great place to watch a film. Can be a bit chilly in the evening though...
I'm a big classic film buff, so ordinarily, I'd have a large list. However, I'll keep it to 20 films...and I'll leave the 'modern' movies to others, for the most part.
Some Like It Hot - Jack Lemmon/Tony Curtis/Marilyn Monroe (comedy)
They are showing this next week at a bombed out church near me. The walls remain but the roof is gone and they put out plastic garden chairs for you to sit on and they sell tea/coffee and some alcohol. Its only £2 per person and they even show Tom and Jerry cartoons before the film Great place to watch a film. Can be a bit chilly in the evening though...
That sounds indeed like a great place to watch a movie!
Please, Pearl Jam, consider a Benaroya Hall vinyl reissue!
7/2/06 - Denver, CO
6/12/08 - Tampa, FL
8/23/09 - Chicago, IL
9/28/09 - Salt Lake City, UT (11 years too long!!!)
9/03/11 - East Troy, WI - PJ20 - Night 1
9/04/11 - East Troy, WI - PJ20 - Night 2
Loved this movie. However when I first saw it (in a film class), I did not know how to take the opening scene.
7/2/06 - Denver, CO
6/12/08 - Tampa, FL
8/23/09 - Chicago, IL
9/28/09 - Salt Lake City, UT (11 years too long!!!)
9/03/11 - East Troy, WI - PJ20 - Night 1
9/04/11 - East Troy, WI - PJ20 - Night 2
Newsies
The Goonies
Home Alone
Flight of the Navigater
American History X
Shawshank Redemption
Fight Club
A Christmas Story
Super Bad
Anything with Christian Bale
There is no order to this list, and it is wholly incomplete:
Se7en
Brazil
Dr. Strangelove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love The Bomb
Munich
Casablanca
Alien
The Godfather
The Godfather, Part II
Empire Strikes Back
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
Six Degrees of Separation
Apocalypse Now
Kramer vs Kramer
The Party
Scarface
Scent of a Woman
Seven
Sweet November City of Angels
The Rock
"...Dimitri...He talks to me...'.."The Ghost of Greece..".
"..That's One Happy Fuckin Ghost.."
“..That came up on the Pillow Case...This is for the Greek, With Our Apologies.....”
Schindler's List
The Piano
Tin Drum
Il Postino
Beauty and the Beast
Willy Wonka
Toy Story
Its a Wonderful Life
Wizard of Oz
Gladiator
Auntie Mame
Harold and Maude
Motel Hell
The Shining
Step Brothers ( i dont not have my balls on your drum set)
Everything You Wanted to Know About Sex
Sleeper
Hollywood Nights
American Graffiti
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Star Wars (original)
The Matrix
Dances With Wolves
The Fountain
The Big Red One
The Dirty Dozen
The Good Bad and the Ugly
Memoirs of a Geisha
Shawshank Redemption
Girl With the Pearl Earring
Pride and Prejudice
The Passion of Christ
Clockwork Orange
The Color Purple
Braveheart
Excalibur
Tucker
The Aviator
Singin' in the Rain
Start The Revolution Without Me
Tokyo Story
Psycho (original)
Strangers On A Train
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (original)
Peking Opera Blues
Swordsman II
Once Upon A Time In China
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
This Is Spinal Tap
Duck Soup
Annie Hall
Hannah And Her Sisters
Crimes And Misdemeanors
Persona
Breaking The Waves
Caged Heat
The Last Waltz
Taxi Driver
Raging Bull
The King Of Comedy
GoodFellas
The Beyond
Lone Wolf McQuade
Serenity
Deep Red
Suspiria
Inferno
Once Upon A Time In The West
Aguirre, The Wrath Of God
Grizzly Man
Out Of The Past
Shock Corridor
The Wild Bunch
Fast Times At Ridgemont High
The Accountant
Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!
Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls
Come And See (greatest war film I've ever seen)
Blade Runner
Alien
The Terminator
Hellraiser
Kiss Me Deadly
Touch Of Evil
Family Portraits: A Trilogy Of America
Kill Baby Kill
Lisa And The Devil
Black Sunday (with Barbara Steele)
Black Sabbath (with Boris Karloff)
The Black Cat (with Boris Karloff & Bela Lugosi)
The Seventh Victim
Citizen Kane
The Witchfinder General (aka Conqueror Worm)
Troll 2 (favorite "so bad it's good" movie ever...hilarious)
Christmas In August
Joint Security Area (JSA)
anything by Yasujiro Ozu, Werner Herzog, Akira Kurosawa, Terence Fisher, Mario Bava, Kenji Mizoguchi, Ingmar Bergman, David Lynch, Sergio Leone, Kinji Fukasaku, Sam Fuller, Seijun Suzuki, or Sam Peckinpah
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You see me empty, Sir, do not pause and inquire, simply assume and refill.
- Al Swearengen
Why do you say guilty pleasure? This is a classic...definitely one of my favorite movies of all time.[/quote]
It's one of those movies I can't turn off, I love it......guess I feel a little guilty for watching it.....again and again. But it is a great movie I wasnt trying to say its not
Why do you say guilty pleasure? This is a classic...definitely one of my favorite movies of all time.
It's one of those movies I can't turn off, I love it......guess I feel a little guilty for watching it.....again and again. But it is a great movie I wasnt trying to say its not[/quote]
Right there with you. I can't turn it off if I'm flipping channels & find it on TV...even though I own the DVD. Speaking of which...I wish the scene between Brad & his guidance counselor was an extra on the DVD. That scene is only in the TV print and not the theatrical (which is the one on the DVD).
You see me empty, Sir, do not pause and inquire, simply assume and refill.
- Al Swearengen
Rain Man
Crimson Tide
Dumb and Dumber
There Will Be Blood
Any Tarantino film
The Bourne Trilogy
The Fugitive
Invincible
Miracle
Raging Bull
Silence of the Lambs
Knocked Up
Deathwish
Almost Famous
Edward Scissorhands
Green Mile
We Bought A Zoo
Dumb and Dumber
The Wizard Of Oz
Close Encounters Of The Third Kind
E.T.
What's Eating Gilbert Grape?
Benny and Joon
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******************************** "Forgive every being, the bad feelings it's just me"
Se7en
There will be Blood
Shawshank Redemption
Saving Private Ryan
Gladiator
A Clockwork Orange
Lucky Number Slevin
The Dark Knight
To Kill a Mocking Bird
Cool hand Luke
No Country for Old Men
The Kings Speech
The Godfather
The Prestige
Inception
Braveheart
Last of the Mohicans
Animal House
and a lot lot more...
Right there with you. I can't turn it off if I'm flipping channels & find it on TV...even though I own the DVD. Speaking of which...I wish the scene between Brad & his guidance counselor was an extra on the DVD. That scene is only in the TV print and not the theatrical (which is the one on the DVD).[/quote]
got to feel bad for Brad. They should release an anniversary disc with all those missing scenes
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Silents:
The Kid - Charlie Chaplin
The General - Buster Keaton
Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse - Rudolph Valentino
Classic Film:
My Man Godfrey - William Powell/Carole Lombard (comedy)
It Happened One Night - Clark Gable/Claudette Colbert (comedy)
Some Like It Hot - Jack Lemmon/Tony Curtis/Marilyn Monroe (comedy)
Lost Horizon - Ronald Colman
Casablanca - Humphrey Bogart/Ingrid Bergman
Double Indemnity - Barbara Stanwyck/Fred MacMurray
Rear Window - James Stewart/Grace Kelly (Hitchcock)
North By Northwest - Cary Grant/Eva Marie Saint (Hitchcock)
High Noon - Gary Cooper/Grace Kelly (western)
The Searchers - John Wayne (western)
Sunset Boulevard - William Holden/Gloria Swanson
From Here To Eternity - Montgomery Clift/Burt Lancaster/Frank Sinatra
The Manchurian Candidate - Frank Sinatra/Angela Lansbury
To Kill a Mockingbird - Gregory Peck
Yankee Doodle Dandy - James Cagney (musical)
My Fair Lady - Audrey Hepburn/Rex Harrison (musical)
Singin' In The Rain - Gene Kelly/Debbie Reynolds (musical)
I intentionally left out some of the mega-long movies that are classics, but WAY long - Gone With The Wind, Ben Hur, Doctor Zhivago, Lawrence of Arabia. But if you've got the stamina, knock yourself out.
And if your objective is to watch a movie that you will not be able to shake for a week because it is just that harrowing: Apocalypse Now and Platoon are your best bets. These are both fabulous movies...but I can only watch each of them about once every 3-5 years as I have this vague sense of depression and terror for about a week afterwards.
Modern Movie Comment: Why no love for The Shawshank Redemption, The Hunt For Red October, Amadeus, Dances With Wolves, and Out of Africa? Fabulous movies!
The Big Lebowski
Dial "M" for Murder
Bill Cosby "Himself"
The Beastmaster
Die Hard
Monty Python's Quest for the Holy Grail
Abrn Hlls '98 - Clarkston 2 '03 - Grd Rpds '06 - Abrn Hlls '06 - Clvd '10 - PJ20 - Berlin 1+2 '12 - Wrigley '13 - Pitt '13- buff '13- Philly 1+2 '13 - Seattle '13
True Romance
Rebel Without a Cause
Dial "M" For Murder
any Coen brothers movie
Into the Wild
Nice list :thumbup: I looove old movies! It's a shame that you can't watch them in the theatre around here ...
They are showing this next week at a bombed out church near me. The walls remain but the roof is gone and they put out plastic garden chairs for you to sit on and they sell tea/coffee and some alcohol. Its only £2 per person and they even show Tom and Jerry cartoons before the film
That sounds indeed like a great place to watch a movie!
The Limey
Secrets and Lies
American Hollow
Marty
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fy-CBs0XNlM
a beautiful film...
6/12/08 - Tampa, FL
8/23/09 - Chicago, IL
9/28/09 - Salt Lake City, UT (11 years too long!!!)
9/03/11 - East Troy, WI - PJ20 - Night 1
9/04/11 - East Troy, WI - PJ20 - Night 2
Loved this movie. However when I first saw it (in a film class), I did not know how to take the opening scene.
6/12/08 - Tampa, FL
8/23/09 - Chicago, IL
9/28/09 - Salt Lake City, UT (11 years too long!!!)
9/03/11 - East Troy, WI - PJ20 - Night 1
9/04/11 - East Troy, WI - PJ20 - Night 2
The Goonies
Home Alone
Flight of the Navigater
American History X
Shawshank Redemption
Fight Club
A Christmas Story
Super Bad
Anything with Christian Bale
Bad News Bears - 1976 so not PC and I love it!!
Four Rooms - 1995
The Big Lewboski - 1998
K Pax - 2001
Alien
Grease
-"smoke"
Both have all-star casts.
Guilty pleasure.....fast times at Ridgemont high!
Se7en
Brazil
Dr. Strangelove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love The Bomb
Munich
Casablanca
Alien
The Godfather
The Godfather, Part II
Empire Strikes Back
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
Six Degrees of Separation
Kramer vs Kramer
The Party
Scarface
Scent of a Woman
Seven
Sweet November
City of Angels
The Rock
"..That's One Happy Fuckin Ghost.."
“..That came up on the Pillow Case...This is for the Greek, With Our Apologies.....”
the movie that scared me from having kids was a movie called KIDS. just a really f`ed up movie and would suggest everybody to watch it
The Piano
Tin Drum
Il Postino
Beauty and the Beast
Willy Wonka
Toy Story
Its a Wonderful Life
Wizard of Oz
Gladiator
Auntie Mame
Harold and Maude
Motel Hell
The Shining
Step Brothers ( i dont not have my balls on your drum set)
Everything You Wanted to Know About Sex
Sleeper
Hollywood Nights
American Graffiti
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Star Wars (original)
The Matrix
Dances With Wolves
The Fountain
The Big Red One
The Dirty Dozen
The Good Bad and the Ugly
Memoirs of a Geisha
Shawshank Redemption
Girl With the Pearl Earring
Pride and Prejudice
The Passion of Christ
Clockwork Orange
The Color Purple
Braveheart
Excalibur
Tucker
The Aviator
Singin' in the Rain
Start The Revolution Without Me
Why do you say guilty pleasure? This is a classic...definitely one of my favorite movies of all time.
- Al Swearengen
http://www.cantstoptheserenity.com
Psycho (original)
Strangers On A Train
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (original)
Peking Opera Blues
Swordsman II
Once Upon A Time In China
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
This Is Spinal Tap
Duck Soup
Annie Hall
Hannah And Her Sisters
Crimes And Misdemeanors
Persona
Breaking The Waves
Caged Heat
The Last Waltz
Taxi Driver
Raging Bull
The King Of Comedy
GoodFellas
The Beyond
Lone Wolf McQuade
Serenity
Deep Red
Suspiria
Inferno
Once Upon A Time In The West
Aguirre, The Wrath Of God
Grizzly Man
Out Of The Past
Shock Corridor
The Wild Bunch
Fast Times At Ridgemont High
The Accountant
Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!
Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls
Come And See (greatest war film I've ever seen)
Blade Runner
Alien
The Terminator
Hellraiser
Kiss Me Deadly
Touch Of Evil
Family Portraits: A Trilogy Of America
Kill Baby Kill
Lisa And The Devil
Black Sunday (with Barbara Steele)
Black Sabbath (with Boris Karloff)
The Black Cat (with Boris Karloff & Bela Lugosi)
The Seventh Victim
Citizen Kane
The Witchfinder General (aka Conqueror Worm)
Troll 2 (favorite "so bad it's good" movie ever...hilarious)
Christmas In August
Joint Security Area (JSA)
anything by Yasujiro Ozu, Werner Herzog, Akira Kurosawa, Terence Fisher, Mario Bava, Kenji Mizoguchi, Ingmar Bergman, David Lynch, Sergio Leone, Kinji Fukasaku, Sam Fuller, Seijun Suzuki, or Sam Peckinpah
- Al Swearengen
http://www.cantstoptheserenity.com
It's one of those movies I can't turn off, I love it......guess I feel a little guilty for watching it.....again and again. But it is a great movie I wasnt trying to say its not
It's one of those movies I can't turn off, I love it......guess I feel a little guilty for watching it.....again and again. But it is a great movie I wasnt trying to say its not[/quote]
Right there with you. I can't turn it off if I'm flipping channels & find it on TV...even though I own the DVD. Speaking of which...I wish the scene between Brad & his guidance counselor was an extra on the DVD. That scene is only in the TV print and not the theatrical (which is the one on the DVD).
- Al Swearengen
http://www.cantstoptheserenity.com
Crimson Tide
Dumb and Dumber
There Will Be Blood
Any Tarantino film
The Bourne Trilogy
The Fugitive
Invincible
Miracle
Raging Bull
Silence of the Lambs
Knocked Up
Deathwish
Just to name a few
9/29/04 Boston, 6/28/08 Mansfield, 8/23/09 Chicago, 5/15/10 Hartford
5/17/10 Boston, 10/15/13 Worcester, 10/16/13 Worcester, 10/25/13 Hartford
8/5/16 Fenway, 8/7/16 Fenway
EV Solo: 6/16/11 Boston, 6/18/11 Hartford,
Edward Scissorhands
Green Mile
We Bought A Zoo
Dumb and Dumber
The Wizard Of Oz
Close Encounters Of The Third Kind
E.T.
What's Eating Gilbert Grape?
Benny and Joon
"Forgive every being,
the bad feelings
it's just me"
There will be Blood
Shawshank Redemption
Saving Private Ryan
Gladiator
A Clockwork Orange
Lucky Number Slevin
The Dark Knight
To Kill a Mocking Bird
Cool hand Luke
No Country for Old Men
The Kings Speech
The Godfather
The Prestige
Inception
Braveheart
Last of the Mohicans
Animal House
and a lot lot more...
got to feel bad for Brad. They should release an anniversary disc with all those missing scenes
"you tell em the law is comin. You tell em i"m comin, and hells comin with me..you hear, hells comin with me!!"
http://youtu.be/ynKoZD-sFi4
Forest Gump