Make my mind up for me!

Sinfonia

Just went through a checklist site for the imdb top 250, and got rid of everything I've seen.
Then I narrowed down my choice to 14 films.

So which of the following should I watch tonight, and why? (Also, yes, it's true, I haven't seen any of these yet :pac: )

1. The Good, The Bad & The Ugly
2. Rear Window
3. Raiders of the Lost Ark
4. Dr. Strangelove
5. Chinatown
6. Cinema Paradiso
7. Once Upon a Time in America
8. Raging Bull
9. Unforgiven
10. Judgment at Nuremberg
11. The Wrestler
12. Barry Lyndon
13. Magnolia
14. The Social Network

Mickeroo

The Good the Bad and the Ugly

Because it is the most iconic spaghetti western ever made, because Clint Eastwood has never been better, because the music kicks unholy ass and because I said so

It's also essential you watch it before you watch Once Upon a Time in the West(my favourite western ever) and particularly Unforgiven as that film is more or less a deconstruction of the man with no-name character.

EDIT: just saw its Once Upon a Time in America not West.

Frank Black

All of them - bit if you fancy a rollicking good action adventure, then Raiders of the Lost Ark.


I envy you.

shannie

Social Network, then come back and tell me was it good :P

losthorizon

Really the Good, the bad and the Ugly is partof a trilogy so I would watch it as part of that. See the other two films first.

Yes, see all of them but Raiders is good for a bit of Fun filled adventure

Otis Driftwood

Raging Bull.

Why?

De Niro,Pesci and Scorsese in a story about Jake Le Motta.

Nuff said.

:cool:

Bobby Baccala

The wrestler is always a good one but once upon a time in america will stay with you for a long time

UrbanSea

Thanks for putting up the thread,I could do with seeing a few of these Only one I saw was the Social Network,it was decent but not spectacular.

Fishooks12

I'd say The Social Network but that's probably because I'm dying to see it again myself!

Pleased to say I've seen them all

Gamb!t

6,8 or 9 or great movies.

Antar Bolaeisk

Another vote for "The Good, The Bad and The Ugly" although it is part of a trilogy so you may want to watch the others first.

"Rear Window" is excellent as well (well, they all are really) but out of the rest that's probably the one I most enjoyed.

Oh and "The Social Network".

Oh_Noes

Cinema Paradiso or Raging Bull.

Throw Social Network in the bin.

kearneybobs

P4DDY2K11 wrote: »

The wrestler is always a good one but once upon a time in america will stay with you for a long time

You'll need to stay with it for a long time first.
At almost 4 hours runtime you really need a whole night just to watch it.

Sinfonia

I ended up watching none of the above (but I will!)

I saw Drive and Midnight in Paris instead, both excellent!

Tipsy McSwagger

I can't believe you have never seen Raiders:eek:

FlashD

^^^ Same here.

What about 'The Last Crusade' OP, have you seen that? Both films are on a par but 'Raiders' holds the edge as its the first.

krudler

Raiders Raiders Raiders, its a perfect summer blockbuster. There are a few movies that absolutely define the big crowd pleasing summer movie. Raiders, Jaws, Star Wars and Jurassic Park are in that list.

Sinfonia

I've never seen any Indiana Jones film (I've been told that I therefore had a deprived childhood..!)

I have a fair few similar confessions; films I haven't seen in the classic serial action/adventure genre:

- Anything in the Star Wars series except for Phantom Menace which I hated. IV, V and VI are also on my 'must watch' list, even though they're not in the list in the OP.
- Anything in the Rambo series
- Rocky: I've only seen IV and 'Balboa'
- Any film involving Alien, Predator or both
- Terminator: I've only seen the second one
- Bourne: Are these highly regarded? I saw the first one (which I think is The Bourne Identity and didn't like it. Actually come to think of it I think I may have also seen the later one that got tons of hype - Ultimatum perhaps. Not a fan)

krudler

Sinfonia wrote: »

I've never seen any Indiana Jones film (I've been told that I therefore had a deprived childhood..!)

I have a fair few similar confessions; films I haven't seen in the classic serial action/adventure genre:

- Anything in the Star Wars series except for Phantom Menace which I hated. IV, V and VI are also on my 'must watch' list, even though they're not in the list in the OP.
- Anything in the Rambo series
- Rocky: I've only seen IV and 'Balboa'
- Any film involving Alien, Predator or both
- Terminator: I've only seen the second one
- Bourne: Are these highly regarded? I saw the first one (which I think is The Bourne Identity and didn't like it. Actually come to think of it I think I may have also seen the later one that got tons of hype - Ultimatum perhaps. Not a fan)

*faints*

rectify all of that post haste.

Mickeroo

Sinfonia wrote: »

I've never seen any Indiana Jones film (I've been told that I therefore had a deprived childhood..!)

I have a fair few similar confessions; films I haven't seen in the classic serial action/adventure genre:

- Anything in the Star Wars series except for Phantom Menace which I hated. IV, V and VI are also on my 'must watch' list, even though they're not in the list in the OP.
- Anything in the Rambo series
- Rocky: I've only seen IV and 'Balboa'
- Any film involving Alien, Predator or both
- Terminator: I've only seen the second one
- Bourne: Are these highly regarded? I saw the first one (which I think is The Bourne Identity and didn't like it. Actually come to think of it I think I may have also seen the later one that got tons of hype - Ultimatum perhaps. Not a fan)

You need to get on that ****! I'm actually kind of jealous!

Don't bother with the 2 Alien Vs Predator films though, awful stuff, the rest are fine.

Brian?

Sinfonia wrote: »

I've never seen any Indiana Jones film (I've been told that I therefore had a deprived childhood..!)

I have a fair few similar confessions; films I haven't seen in the classic serial action/adventure genre:

- Anything in the Star Wars series except for Phantom Menace which I hated. IV, V and VI are also on my 'must watch' list, even though they're not in the list in the OP.
- Anything in the Rambo series
- Rocky: I've only seen IV and 'Balboa'
- Any film involving Alien, Predator or both
- Terminator: I've only seen the second one
- Bourne: Are these highly regarded? I saw the first one (which I think is The Bourne Identity and didn't like it. Actually come to think of it I think I may have also seen the later one that got tons of hype - Ultimatum perhaps. Not a fan)

You haven't missed out on that much. Rocky is very good, Predator is brilliant and the rest are average to poor. Terminator 2 is by far and away the best one so well done .

irishh_bob

losthorizon wrote: »

Really the Good, the bad and the Ugly is partof a trilogy so I would watch it as part of that. See the other two films first.

Yes, see all of them but Raiders is good for a bit of Fun filled adventure

it isnt nesscesery to see the fistfull of dollars or a few dollars more in order to appreciate the good , bad , ugly fully , thier not sequels per say

Mickeroo

irishh_bob wrote: »

it isnt nesscesery to see the fistfull of dollars or a few dollars more in order to appreciate the good , bad , ugly fully , thier not sequels per say

Yea I agree, it's not a trilogy in the literal sense at all imo.

jpm4

Mickeroo wrote: »

Yea I agree, it's not a trilogy in the literal sense at all imo.

Yup, and if anything TGTBATG seems to be some sort of prequel to the others (Clint picks up his poncho towards to the end of the movie). But it doesn't matter a damn really, the films have nothing to do with each other.

That film then The Unforgiven.

Goldstein

briankeating wrote: »

You haven't missed out on that much. Rocky is very good, Predator is brilliant and the rest are average to poor...

The rest:
Alien
Aliens
A New Hope
The Empire Strikes Back
Return of the Jedi
The Terminator
First Blood Part I

Not sure if serious. Those movies should be on the leaving cert syllabus.

don ramo

i havent seen 147 films on IMDBs top 250 list, :eek:

kinda shocked myself there, ill have to start getting through it:)

FlashD

Goldstein wrote: »

The rest:
Alien
Aliens
A New Hope
The Empire Strikes Back
Return of the Jedi
The Terminator
First Blood Part I

Not sure if serious. Those movies should be on the leaving cert syllabus.

Not sure if serious. Some of those have an 18 cert.

Brian?

Goldstein wrote: »

The rest:
Alien
Aliens
A New Hope
The Empire Strikes Back
Return of the Jedi
The Terminator
First Blood Part I

Not sure if serious. Those movies should be on the leaving cert syllabus.

I am deadly serious. I dislike all Star Wars films, except the last new one. Alien and Aliens and Terminator are ok. Actually Terminator is a bit better than ok but nowhere near as good as Terminator 2, a rare example of a sequel being superiour to the original.

Brian?

jpm4 wrote: »

Yup, and if anything TGTBATG seems to be some sort of prequel to the others (Clint picks up his poncho towards to the end of the movie). But it doesn't matter a damn really, the films have nothing to do with each other.

That film then The Unforgiven.

I don't think it is a prequel, I could be wrong though. They are all based on Japanese Samurai films so it was just a matter of shoe horning the story into a western format.

As far as I remember there was no linear sequence to the Ronin with no name films either, Yojimbo and Sanjuro.

Tipsy McSwagger

briankeating wrote: »

You haven't missed out on that much. Rocky is very good, Predator is brilliant and the rest are average to poor. Terminator 2 is by far and away the best one so well done .

What about First Blood? One of the greatest films ever.

FlashD

briankeating wrote: »

I am deadly serious. I dislike all Star Wars films, except the last new one. Alien and Aliens and Terminator are ok. Actually Terminator is a bit better than ok but nowhere near as good as Terminator 2, a rare example of a sequel being superiour to the original.

The old star wars flicks are the best, them new ones are a disgrace loaded with cardboard characters and CGI rubbish....they look like video games.

Aliens is a solid classic, one of the best flicks of all time, pure solid gold no messing action from start to finish, a rare example of a sequel being superior to the original.

T1 is better than T2, darker, more menacing and meaner. Arnie plays a badass unlike T2 where he's the nice guy helping out that annoying kid. Who can forget those amazing scenes of shooting up a cop shop and sorting out his eyeball, a not so rare example of the original being better than the sequel.

Regards.

Brian?

FlashD wrote: »

The old star wars flicks are the best, them new ones are a disgrace loaded with cardboard characters and CGI rubbish....they look like video games.

Aliens is a solid classic, one of the best flicks of all time, pure solid gold no messing action from start to finish, a rare example of a sequel being superior to the original.

T1 is better than T2, darker, more menacing and meaner. Arnie plays a badass unlike T2 where he's the nice guy helping out that annoying kid. Who can forget those amazing scenes of shooting up a cop shop and sorting out his eyeball, a not so rare example of the original being better than the sequel.

Regards.

I disagree with all of that, but sure that's opinions for you.