I'm making a list of movies that everyone absolutely has to see before they die. Feel free to chime in on movies you think need to be added and why if it isn't a no-brainer.

 

My list thus far:

The Boondock Saints

The Devil's Advocate

Snatch

Office Space

The Godfather Trilogy

The Indiana Jones Trilogy

Episodes IV-VI of Star Wars

Star Trek II, Star Trek IV, and Star Trek VIII

At least four James Bond movies, two of which must star Sean Connery as Bond

Patton

Apocalypse Now

Platoon

Se7en

Pulp Fiction

Caddyshack

Major League

Field of Dreams

Hoosiers

Rudy

The Natural

Wall Street

American Beauty

The Matrix Trilogy

Nightmare on Elm Street

The Exorcist

Halloween (original)

2001: A Space Odyssey

American History X

 

And my two controversial picks:

Big Trouble in Little China- Deep down inside, you know you love how absolutely terrible this movie is.

Gremlins- They're just so cute and cuddly

Lord of the Rings Trilogy

Braveheart

Forrest Gump

I definitely forgot Shawshank Redemption, Fight Club, and Minority Report.

Forrest Gump

Shawshank Redemption

Rebound: The Legend of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault

Hoop Dreams

Top Gun

Saving Private Ryan

Jurrasic Park

Grr, Scarface and The Untouchables as well

Rebound: The Legend of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault

Cual?

Grr, Scarface and The Untouchables as well

Rebound: The Legend of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault

Cual?

 

...Sorry to be ignorant but what does Cual mean?

 

Edit: Also One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is an amazing movie.

Cual means which

Cual means which

 

 

 

I didn't know there were more than 1 version, it's the one with Don Cheadle.

Grr, Scarface and The Untouchables as well

Rebound: The Legend of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault

Cual?

 

It was an HBO movie starring Don Cheadle. It was good, but I don't think people will be missing that much if they die having not seen it.

I'll break mine up into categories, 5 in each:

 

War

Das Boot

Braveheart

Zulu

Full Metal Jacket

Saving Private Ryan

Black Hawk Down

Gladiator

 

Drama

A Beautiful Mind

Rain Man

Raging Bull

Traffic

Goodfellas

Taxi Driver

The Silence Of The Lambs

 

Action

Heat

Die Hard

Reservoir Dogs

Dirty Harry

The French Connection

Kill Bill Vol. 1 & 2

Sin City

Pulp Fiction

 

Comedy

The 40 Year Old Virgin

Clerks

Fletch

National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation

Animal House

Stripes

 

Documentary

Hoop Dreams

Murderball

 

All I can think of right now, I will be coming back often.

It was an HBO movie starring Don Cheadle. It was good, but I don't think people will be missing that much if they die having not seen it.

That was my point, pretty much.

Add:

 

Schindler's List

The Pianist

The Good, The Bad, The Ugly

Requiem For A Dream

My favorites:

 

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

The Truman Show

Lost In Translation

Spirited Away

Donnie Darko

Groundhog Day

Say Anything

Mission: Impossible

Pee Wee's Big Adventure

The Princess Bride

Magnolia

Braveheart

Aliens

Amadeus

High Noon

Before Sunset

The Neverending Story

 

There are tons of other movies I love, but those are the ones that have meant the most to me.

 

It was an HBO movie starring Don Cheadle. It was good, but I don't think people will be missing that much if they die having not seen it.

That was my point, pretty much.

 

Well, really, to each his own, I guess. I like that movie more than 7 of the movies on your list...and that's only counting the ones I've seen, so I can't count the Star Trek movies, for example.

Damn, how'd I forget:

 

Mr. Smith Goes To Washington

 

In my top 10 movies ever.

Well, really, to each his own, I guess. I like that movie more than 7 of the movies on your list...and that's only counting the ones I've seen, so I can't count the Star Trek movies, for example.

Thing is, I went more for classics than movies I liked. I obviously threw in some of my all time favorites, but a couple of the movies on my list I don't even think are that great. You just have to see them because of what they mean.

 

Take Halloween for example. I really don't think it's that special of a movie, but the character of Mike Myers is such a famous one in movie lore that it's worth watching just to become acquanted with him.

 

I also just thought of a couple more: Citizen Kane and Casablanca

Independence Day--doomsday classic.

Back to the Future

Young Frankenstein

Blazing Saddles

Monty Python and Holy Grail

American Pie.....everyone deserves to see Shannon's ta tas.

Hotel Rwanda

Garden State

Citizen Kane

Casablanca

Lawrence of Arabia

Seven Samurai

The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly

The Shining

Psycho

North by Northwest

Birth of a Nation

To Kill a Mockingbird

Taxi Driver

LA Confidential

Blade Runner

Ben-Hur

The Ten Commandments

The Thing

Bonnie and Clyde

This Is Spinal Tap

Well, really, to each his own, I guess. I like that movie more than 7 of the movies on your list...and that's only counting the ones I've seen, so I can't count the Star Trek movies, for example.

Thing is, I went more for classics than movies I liked. I obviously threw in some of my all time favorites, but a couple of the movies on my list I don't even think are that great. You just have to see them because of what they mean.

 

Take Halloween for example. I really don't think it's that special of a movie, but the character of Mike Myers is such a famous one in movie lore that it's worth watching just to become acquanted with him.

 

I also just thought of a couple more: Citizen Kane and Casablanca

 

Fair enough. But the last two movies of the Matrix trilogy, for example, will never be found on a list of classic movies. They're two of the worst movies I've ever seen, and I fell asleep during both of them.

Hoop Dreams

Momento

Hotel Rwanda

Crash

It's A Wonderful Life

The Godfather

Pulp Fiction

 

All very good films that hung with me for a long, long time.

 

EDIT: Just so it's clear, these are not my favorite films, just the ones I think everyone should see at one point of another, as they are very important (Rwanda, Dreams) or are very good story telling (Wonderful Life, Crash, Momento).

this thread makes me want to go on Netflix watch all these movies.

To Kill a Mockingbird

 

 

I mean, the book is great but the movie is so bland.