the 10 films u must see before u die

j0e

well im not film buff so i cant really name any but i'm after ppls opinons on truly great films the have seen and think out ppl should watch

spunkymunky

Happy Gilmore
Almost Famous

Standard Toaster

One Flew Over The Cookoo's Nest
City Of God
Easy Rider
Goodfellas
Withnail & I
Rashomon
The Shawshank Redemption
Jaws
Silence of the Lambs
Some Like It Hot

That's the first 10 that popped into my head in that order....loads more...

Hugh Hefner

I couldn't possibly answer this question properly (nevermind at this time of the morning). There's just so many for so many reasons. Blah, I'm tired just thinking about it. Perhaps that's the pills taking effect. No matter, I'll soon die of massiv[nf;jk pehfhvbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbijbrevfhdds

lee_baby_simms

1.Braindead
2.Beaches

Pigman II

Cool Hand Luke
8 ½
Rashomon
Le Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Raiders of the Lost Ark
American Graffiti
Dog Day Afternoon
Godfather, The
West Side Story
Casablanca
Chinatown
Sunset Blvd.
Citizen Kane
Shawshank Redemption, The
Psycho
Goodfellas
It's a Wonderful Life
Star Wars

ivylooloo

Apocalypse Now
The Graduate
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Taxi Driver
Goodfellas
Platoon
Alien
Full Metal Jacket
The Silence of the Lambs
Citizen Kane

And some more recent favorites:
The Royal Tennenbaums
Mystic River

And of course I can't forget:
Raising Arizona. High-larious.

reece

Leaving las Vegas (best part - checking into the hotel 'The whole Year Inn'
Swingers
One flew over the cuckoo's nest (nurse rachett....I'll say no more)
Last of the mohicans (dir. Michael mann)
star wars
the empire strikes back
sideways
true romance
das boot
The taking of pelham 1 2 3 (tarintino copied parts of this for reservoir dogs)
then.....................if you got some extra time
Living In Oblivion
Ryans daughter - saw it recently - class,...........for it's time
Whatever Happened to Harold Smith?
the ending of scarface

Roar

jay and silent bob strike back
dude wheres my car
ghostbusters
back to the future
alice in wonderland
star wars 4 and 5, but not 1,2, or 6
his girl friday
team america
constantine
life of brian


dont know why i picked those...

kraggy

true romance
amelie
naked
capturing the freidmans
a very long engagement
pi
run lola run
requiem for a dream
shine
the insider

Spacedog

1) 2001 - A Space Oddisy
2) One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest
3) Full Metal Jacket
4) Dr. Strangelove
5) Pi
6) Requiem For a Dream
7) Akira
8) Interstella 5555
9) Waking Life
10) Blazing Saddles
11) Fight Club
12) The Matrix
13) Donnie Darko
14/15) Alien/s
16/17) Terminator 1/2
18) Easy Rider
19) 24 Hour Party People
20) Spinal Tap
21) 28 Days Later
22) American Beauty
23) Blade Runner
24) Frequency
25/26/27) Back To the Future 1/2/3
28) Monty Python and the Quest for the Holy Grail
29) Monty Python and the Life of Brian
30) Resivoir Dogs
31) Pulp Fiction
32/33) Kill Bill 1/2
34) Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
35) Stand By Me
36) The Commitments
37) Citizen Kane
38) Amelie
39) Run Lola Run
40) The Empire Strikes Back
41) Southpark - Bigger, Longer, and Uncut
42) Shawahank Redemption
43) Goodfellas
44) It's a Wonderful Life
45/46/47) Lord of the Rings 1/2/3
48) Intermission
49) O Brother Where Art Thou
50) Chocolat

How many is ten?

dearg_doom

Most of the above

and

La Haine
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

EDIT: how could I forget about:

Commando

Lemming

dearg_doom wrote:

Commando

Remember when I said I'd kill you last?

I lied .....


AEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAARgggggggggggggggggghhhhhhhh ....... *THUD *

Retr0gamer

Where's Sully?

I let him go

1) Showgirls
2) Maid in Manhattan
3) Johnny Mnemonic (sp?)
4) Hook
5) Because Mommy Works
6) The Princess and the Marine
7) Matrix Revolutions
8) Pearl Harbour
9) Sky Captain
10) Freddie got Fingered

After you have watched these films you will realise life isn't worth living

projectmayhem

The Matrix
Pulp Fiction
Resevoir Dogs
Donnie Darko
2001: A Space Odysey
Blade Runner
Star Wars
Fight Club
AKIRA
Alien

gobby

Nobody has mentioned Adaptation yet :eek:

Captain Trips

Scarface
One Upon A Time In America (absolute classic DeNiro, must see)
Run Lola Run

TOPDAWG

1) Braveheart (cant believe no1s had this one yet)
2) Old school
3) zoolander
4) evil woman
5) bad boys 1&2
6) A time to kill
7) saving private ryan (see braveheart)
8) the rock
9) face off
10) con air
11) american pie 1,2,3
12) matrix
13) shawshank redemption
14) forrest gump (see braveheart)
15) terminator 2 ( " " )
16) lock, stock......

all ones from the top of my head, as u can see their mostly what id call popcorn flicks where i just put the brain in the bin for an hour or 3 and watch a man getting hit with a football in the groin.

TOPDAWG

Roar wrote:

constantine



dont know why i picked those...

neither do i, neither do i. now get outta my shop.

The Bollox

1. Ferris Buellers Day Off
2. The Breakfast Club
3. The Matrix (the first only, fook the sequels)
4. Star Wars ORIGINALS!
5. Donnie Darko (original, the directors cut ruins the film)
6. American Pie 1, 2 & 3
7. Alien & Aliens
8. Die Hard, Harder and With A Vengance
9. Carlito's Way
10. Godfather 1 & 2

Chad ghostal

12 angry men
Godfather
Apocalypse now
Paths of glory
One flew over the cuckoos nest
Seven samurai
Badlands
Blade runner (directors cut)
Spinal Tap OR Airplane
Texas Chainsaw Massacre


tbh if you mix all of the lists youll get a good list..
space dogs is good (except for a few suspect entries)

evad_lhorg

ah come on!!!!!!!! THE BIG LEBOWSKI!!!!!!!!

also ichi the killer and battle royale.

delly

In no particular order:

1. Happy Gilmore
2. Back To The Future
3. Black Hawk Down
4. Das Boot
5. 28 Days Later
6. TAXI (en français)
7. The Fifth Element
8. Leon
9. Saving Private Ryan
10. The Matrix

TerrorFirmer

Die Hard
Starship Troopers
Platoon
Saving Private Ryan
Saints and Soldiers
The Terminator
Robocop
The Last Boy Scout
Starship Troopers 2
The Thing
Return of the Living Dead 3
Braindead
Cannibal Holocaust
Pit fighter

Pigman II

Just a small point does anyone else get the feeling that this thread stopped being the 'films you must see before you die' thread and started becoming the 'my favourite films #1073 thread' a long time ago?

For example (like Marts up there) 'The Breakfast Club' is one of my favourite films but I certainly didn't include it in my own list as it's not really a film of any curtural or artistic significance. Hense if you died never seeing it it probably wouldn't be such a big loss.

Anyway ....

Chad ghostal

Pigman II wrote:

Just a small point does anyone else get the feeling that this thread stopped being the 'films you must see before you die' thread and started becoming the 'my favourite films #1073 thread' a long time ago?

For example (like Marts up there) 'The Breakfast Club' is one of my favourite films but I certainly didn't include it in my own list as it's not really a film of any curtural or artistic significance. Hense if you died never seeing it it probably wouldn't be such a big loss.

Anyway ....

Nope, i excluded alot of my favourites to include films people should see before they die (12 angry men being imho a perfect example) ...
granted there should be more foreign films in there.. but im relativly ignorant of foreign films.. i could just add directors like bergman etc etc..but id be breaking the rules.!

its also an impossible list to make. the idea would be to make a list consisting of the best of every different genre of film .. but that'd be tough..and time consuming..unless you have an unbiased version of the imdb in your brain.

storker

Marts wrote:

1. Ferris Buellers Day Off
2. The Breakfast Club
3. The Matrix (the first only, fook the sequels)
4. Star Wars ORIGINALS!
5. Donnie Darko (original, the directors cut ruins the film)
6. American Pie 1, 2 & 3
7. Alien & Aliens
8. Die Hard, Harder and With A Vengance
9. Carlito's Way
10. Godfather 1 & 2

How could you have left out "Whistling Round the World" with Roger Whitaker?

And as for Debbie does Dallas...

Stork

Tobias Greeshman

1. Natural Born Killers
2. Star Wars IV and V
3. Shawshank Redemption
4. Monty Python: The Holy Grail
5. The Graduate
6. The Rainman
7. GoodFella's
8. Pulp Fiction

Tusky

Roar wrote:

jay and silent bob strike back
dude wheres my car
ghostbusters
back to the future
alice in wonderland
star wars 4 and 5, but not 1,2, or 6
his girl friday
team america
constantine
life of brian


dont know why i picked those...

You have terrible taste.

TOPDAWG

Chad ghostal wrote:

Nope, i excluded alot of my favourites to include films people should see before they die (12 angry men being imho a perfect example) ...
.

i meant to put that on mine actually, great show. didnt see the remake with james gandolfini in it tho.

OutlawPete

Scarface
It's A Wonderful Life
Reservoir Dogs
Glengarry Glen Ross
Pulp Fiction
Back To The Future
Shawshank Redemption
Withnail & I
Ferris Buellers Day Off
The Breakfast Club

vinylmatt

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Where's Sully?

I let him go

1) Showgirls
2) Maid in Manhattan
3) Johnny Mnemonic (sp?)
4) Hook
5) Because Mommy Works
6) The Princess and the Marine
7) Matrix Revolutions
8) Pearl Harbour
9) Sky Captain
10) Freddie got Fingered

After you have watched these films you will realise life isn't worth living

Hey!!! Freddie got Fingered is a classic!

I'd like to append Eat the Peach to your list in it's place: Pat Kenny is in it.

vinylbomb

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Where's Sully?

I let him go

1) Showgirls
2) Maid in Manhattan
3) Johnny Mnemonic (sp?)
4) Hook
5) Because Mommy Works
6) The Princess and the Marine
7) Matrix Revolutions
8) Pearl Harbour
9) Sky Captain
10) Freddie got Fingered

After you have watched these films you will realise life isn't worth living

This is the greatest list of films ever devised.

vinylmatt

Not strictly a film, but noteworthy as it includes the great sage himself (Pat Kenny), and Keyboard Cat.

rednik

Chinatown
Glengarry Glen Ross
The Godfather
The Sting
Rebel without a cause
Alien
Raging Bull
Scarface
The Usual Suspects
Blade Runner

DazMarz

-Godfather I & II
-Goodfellas
-White Heat
-Y Tu Mamá También
-Alien/Aliens
-The Big Lebowski
-The Departed
-Die Hard
-Jaws
-Star Wars IV-VI

tdv

I'd say...

Godfather Trilogy
Schiendlers List
Pulp Fiction
Goodfellas
Raging Bull
The Good,The Bad & The Ugly
Once Upon A Time In America
Scarface
Shawshank Redemption
The Terminator 2

Worthy mentions for....Taxi Driver, Carlitos Way, Dog Day Afternoon, Casino, A Bronx Tale, The Wizard Of Oz, Bowfinger, Forrest Gump & The Last Temptation Of Christ.

Nolanger

The 10 films u must see before u die that were made in the last 30 years

coconut5

I don't know, but 10 I love:

• The Shawshank Redemption
• The Last of the Mohicans
• Memento
• American History X
• Beauty & the Beast
• A Little Princess
• The Wizard of Oz
• The Prestige
• Big Fish
• My Girl

mechcit

ivylooloo wrote: »

Apocalypse Now
The Graduate
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Taxi Driver
Goodfellas
Platoon
Alien
Full Metal Jacket
The Silence of the Lambs
Citizen Kane

And some more recent favorites:
The Royal Tennenbaums
Mystic River

And of course I can't forget:
Raising Arizona. High-larious.

Really like your tast in movies......I think 12 monkeys, Scarface and Apocalypse Now would suit the list.

megadodge

12 here, possibly left out a few

Bulworth
Shawshank Redemption
Naked
American Beauty
Shine
Pulp Fiction
Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrells
Leon
Breakfast Club
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
Before Sunset (IMO better than the very good 'Before Sunrise')
Memento

c0rk3r

Spacedog wrote: »

19) 24 Hour Party People

Thank you. Watched this last night after seeing it on your list. Very enjoyable film. Cant go wrong with Steve Coogan and Paddy Considine

Kess73

Seven Samurai
The Seventh Seal
Jaws
It's A Wonderful Life
The Wizard Of Oz
La Haine
The Big Lebowski
The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly
Night Of The Living Dead (original version)
North By Northwest




Bloody hard just trying to pick ten must see films rather than your own top ten. Could have rattled off a list of 100 films with no great difficulty.

I tried to pick ten films that I regard as classic films that could be watched by a broad audience, rather than ten classics that would only appeal to a niche audience.

major bill

great thread


some have probably been mentioned before but heres mine in no particular order..

Once upon a time in the west
The long good friday
The Godfather trilogy
The good the bad the ugly
Braveheart
12 Angry men(original)
the champ
one flew over the cuckoos nest
Goodfellas/casino
saving private ryan

major bill

a few i forgot


apocalypse now
platoon
king of new york
taxi driver
gummo lol
kids
doctor zhivago
hamburger hill
city of god
lord of the flys

tony 2 tone

Most of these were posted before but feck it.
-12 Angry Men
-Taking of Pelham 123
-The Big Lebowski
-The King of New York (I ****ing love this film!)
-Blazing Saddles
-Willy Wonka (Best watched getting stuck in to a selection box )
-Batman (The Michael Keaton/Tim Burton original)
-City of God
-Fear and Loathing in Los Vegas
-Leon

reap-a-rat

1- The Lives of Others
2- Forrest Gump
3- The Lion King
4- Up
5- One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
6- The Shining
7- The Shawshank Redemption
8- Ferris Bueller's Day off
9- The Graduate
10- Life Is Beautiful

also Pulp Fiction and The Green Mile... And Shrek 1!! god damn it, 10 just isnt a big enough number!!!

Valmont

Spiderman 3
Transformers 2
Twilight
Harry Potter 2
The Lord of the Rings trilogy
Crossroads
Righteous Kill
Scary Movie 3
Epic Movie
Boondock Saints

Valmont

tony 2 tone wrote: »

-The King of New York (I ****ing love this film!)

Is that the film starring Christopher Walken? Good stuff.

Longboard

I'd aggree with the following.

1) The shawshank redemption
2) One flew over the cuckoos nest
3) Some like it hot
4) Pulp fiction
5) The green mile
7) In the name of the Father
8) My left foot
9) ET
10) Riding Giants (This one i would like to see on the big screen and no, its not a porno)

Surprised at the lack of irish/international films, most mentioned seem to be off the hollywood production line. I not critizing it, but it just goes to show who dictates the industry.

tony 2 tone

Valmont wrote: »

Is that the film starring Christopher Walken? Good stuff.

The very one. Has a good few well known actors in it too, David Caruso, Laurence Fishburne, Victor Argo, Wesley Snipes and Steve Buscemi.

Want to put Fight Club on me list too.