Movies I need to watch(Must see's)

[Cookie Monster]

somewhat outdated list of my favourites:

12 Monkeys; 2001: A Space Odyssey; Almost Famous; Amélie; Barton Fink; Blazing Saddles; The Big Lebowski; A Clockwork Orange; The Dark Knight; Die Hard; District 9; Dr. Strangelove; The Empire Strikes Back; Fargo; The Fellowship of the Ring; Good Night and Good Luck; The Good the Bad and the Ugly; High Fidelity; Inception; Iron Man; Kill Bill; Kung Fu Hustle; Life of Brian; Monty Python and the Holy Grail; Moulin Rouge; Network; A New Hope; Once upon a Time in the West; Pan's Labyrinth; The Prestige; Pulp Fiction; Raiders of the Lost Ark; The Return of the King; Return of the Jedi; School of Rock; Serenity; Seven Samurai; Sideways; Sybil; Taxi Driver; This Is Spinal Tap; The Two Towers; Up; The Usual Suspects; Wall-E; Why We Fight

objectively each of these is worth at least an 8/10 and I would recommend all of them for people who are interested in their respective genres

Seraphim Falls, Pan's Labyrinth, 3:10 to Yuma, The Big Lebowski, Fargo, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, Pulp Fiction, Crank, Dog Soldiers, Moon, Mulholland Drive, Planet Terror, Super, Watchmen, District 9, Fight Club, The Fountain, Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, There Will Be Blood, Coraline, Twelve Monkeys, American History X, The Prestige, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Dogma, Drag Me to Hell, The Social Network, Troll Hunter, Army of Darkness, Troll Hunter, Requiem for a Dream, Drive, Carnage, Warrior, Sunshine.

Off the top of my head. These are all excellent and incredibly interesting movies. Maybe not for their plot, but there is something incredibly compelling or fascinating about a certain element (whether it be the direction, art design, writing, whatever) about all of these that definitely warrants a look.

^These suggestions are solid.

I'll add:

City of God, The Fall, Schindler's List, Dead Poet's Society, Lost in Translation, The Tree of Life, Drive, Midnight in Paris, and Waltz with Bashir. I'll probably make a longer list later.

 

[Interslicery]

No ones said Cube?

Cube.

 

[Unlucky]

Some from my collection:

Platoon
Apocalypse Now
Fight Club
Pulp Fiction (and any other Tarantino movie)
Eyes Wide Shut
Tenebrae; Deep Red (giallo movies by Dario Argento. They are old but greatly influenced the thriller genre)
Some Like It Hot (starring Marilyn Monroe, and which plot was copied by White Chicks)

 

[Celes Chere]

Sleepless in Seattle ;A;

A WALK TO REMEMBER~~~

I'm a sap

 

[Ite]

I know there are repeats, just take them as extra-recommendations. There are classics that I love, but also mixed in with recent movies I think are awesome, so there are must-sees for me.

Movies:

12 Monkeys
Akira
Alien
Aliens
Annie Hall
The Apartment
Back to the Future Trilogy
Big Fish
The Big Sleep
Blade Runner
Breakfast at Tiffany's
Casablanca
Charade
Children of Men
Citizen Kane
A Clockwork Orange
Closer
The Dark Crystal
District 9
Doctor Strangelove
Doubt
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
The Empire Strikes Back
Existenz
Fallen
Fargo
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Frost/Nixon
The Full Monty
Gone With the Wind
The Graduate
Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
In Bruges
Iron Man
The Kids are All Right
Labyrinth
Lost in Translation
The Maltese Falcon
The Matrix
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Network
The Nightmare Before Christmas
North by Northwest
Nosferatu
Notes on a Scandal
O Brother, Where Art Thou
On the Waterfront
Pan's Labyrinth
The Philidelphia Story
Pirates of the Caribbean (Curse of the Black Pearl)
Primer
The Princess Bride
Pulp Fiction
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Rear Window
Schindler's List
Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World
The Silence of the Lambs
Some Like it Hot
Spirited Away
Stand By Me
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
A Streetcar Named Desire
Superbad
Top Hat
Total Recall
Toy Story Trilogy
The Triplets of Belleville
Up in the Air
Vertigo
WALL-E
Willow

Also, you should watch Wes Anderson movies, probably in order of their creation because they start awesome and get miraculously better:
Rushmore, Royal Tenenbaums, The Life Aquatic, Darjeeling Ltd., Moonrise Kingdom

If you can find the "Live On Broadway" version of RENT I would recommend it because the movie they made in 2005 was absolute shit but the play itself is kind of awesome.

TV Shows:

THE WEST WING. Seriously. Seasons 1-4 of this show are amazing (don't bother with Season 5 on) Anyway, more:

Pushing Daisies
Arrested Development
Game of Thrones
Clone High
Trigun
Sealab 2021
Frisky Dingo
Home Movies
Archer
Community
Battlestar Galactica (2003 on)
How I Met Your Mother (Season 2 is the peak)
Misfits (Seasons 1 and 2 only)

special mention: Babylon 5. The production value is the shittiest thing, the actors are terrible, the music is canned, the effects are dated, the design is absurd and the dialogue is sometimes god-awful. Why recommend it? Because the story is probably the biggest payoff ever on TV. They wrote the plot of every episode in all five seasons before even pitching it. If you can stand to watch that show, you will appreciate the fuck out of it.

 

[Ⓐaron]

I love The West Wing, but I love the seasons after season four almost as much as the first four. It became an almost completely different show after Aaron Sorkin left, though, so I can see why the later seasons got such a divided reaction.

 

[Hisako]

Spirited Away

gosh you know what
just any Ghibli movie

fucking magical

 

[Cookie Monster]

Big Fish
Children of Men
Doubt
Fallen
Fargo
Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
In Bruges
Stand By Me
Up in the Air

Hell yes.

 

[Octo]

I came to GITS in a rather weird way, PS1 game, film, manga and then the anime series. I don't think it adversely affected my enjoyment

Anyway, I forgot a few, these aren't all necessarily brilliant films (some are!) but are kind of uh... cultural staples? Or something *shrug* Apologies for any repeats.

The Neverending Story
Legend
Manhunter
Silence of the Lambs
The Shawshank Redemption
Jacobs Ladder
Thelma and Louise
Little Shop of Horrors
Misery
Time Bandits
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
Frost/Nixon
1984
The Elephant Man

 

[Alessa Gillespie]

TV Shows:
Pushing Daisies

TV Shows:
Pushing Daisies

TV Shows:
Pushing Daisies

 

[Celes Chere]

Big Fish

OMG yes. This reminds me that I need to rewatch this movie soon! I love it. ;3;

 

[Ryushikaze]

A more recent one, but an out and out spectacle from start to finish is the movie Redline.

All I will tell you to start is that it's an animated film set in the far future about a cross country race where anything goes, across a military planet that doesn't want them there and plans on using any means necessary to take them all out.

It is a love story.

 

[Carlie]

I'll add a few more:

Gremlins

Do The Right Thing

The Karate Kid

Boyz n the Hood

Hugo

 

[Hisako]

If you have an appreciation for good war movies, The Thin Red Line, Saving Private Ryan and Black Hawk Down are great. Notice that the movies don't really revolve so much the war itself than the individual people involved - character driven an' shit. They're also 2+ hour slogs which are physically tiring, pretty fitting for the subject material involved

Black Hawk Down is a personal favorite of mine.

 

[Animexcel]

Some more on top of my head.

Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure
Three Amigos
The Fugitive
Source Code
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
The Land Before Time
Galaxy Quest
Meet the Parents
Zoolander
Talledega Nights
Happy Gilmore

Tokyo Godfathers
Paprika
The Girl Who Leapt Through Time

 

[Geostigma]

Catfish (very interesting documentary, its at least worth checking out the wikipedia entry)

While you were sleeping (yes the sandra bullock romantic comedy from the 90's, its a good one).

Wallstreet (both of them.)

Rounders
Reservoir Dogs
Forgetting Sarah Marshall
I Love You Man
Bridesmaids

 

[Ryushikaze]

I'll add a few more:

Gremlins

Also Gremlins 2, the movie that decided 'Let's turn the darkly humorous horror film into an out and out comedy' and managed, IMO, to do it pretty well.

 

[Carlie]

Also:

The Bourne Series

Enter The Dragon

 

[Hisako]

Shit did anyone mention Stranger Than Fiction?

Because Stranger Than Fiction was fucking funny and thoughtful.
Absolutely loved it. Will Ferrell doing a great straight-faced job, Dustin Hoffman playing his role perfectly, Emma Thompson being what every writer feels like when they have writers block ;-;

It reaches out to me on so many levels and I love it.

 

[Ite]

I loved that movie, but Ferrell didn't do it for me -- but the writing, and Hoffman, and Thompson. All great.

 

[Cookie Monster]

Lord of War

 

[Hisako]

I loved that movie, but Ferrell didn't do it for me -- but the writing, and Hoffman, and Thompson. All great.

I can't really imagine any other actor who might have fit that role better, tbh - Ferrell pulls off that great hangdog look that makes him the totally nerdy butt-monkey that Harold Crick is.

Queen Latifah was alright too. And Maggie Gyllenhaal was cute.

look at that tax man what a butt monkey

 

[Verena]

The boat (1981 by k. Doldinger)

The theme

Same as techno version

 

[Makoeyes987]

Could you please stop necroing threads from over a decade ago? Just make a new thread.

 

[Erotic Materia]