10 Movies that must be seen

1. Apocolypse Now
2. Miracle Mile
3. Blade Runner
4. Unforgiven
5. Reservoir Dogs
6. Pulp Fiction
7. Circle of Iron
8. Flesh and Blood
9. Galaxy Quest
10. Razor's Edge

(Not necessarily in this order, but I'll provide my favorite quotes from each)

1. The Blues Brothers ("Honest... I ran out of gas. I, I had a flat tire. I didn't have enough money for cab fare. My tux didn't come back from the cleaners. An old friend came in from out of town. Someone stole my car. There was an earthquake! A terrible flood! Locusts!!! IT WASN'T MY FAULT, I SWEAR TO GOD!"

2. Air Force One ("Get... off... my... PLANE!!!")

3. The Lord Of The Rings Trilogy (Yes, all three. The extended versions.) ("In the place of a Dark Lord you would have a Queen! Not dark but beautiful and terrible as the Morn! Treacherous as the Seas! Stronger than the foundations of the Earth! All shall love me and despair! ...I have passed the test. I will diminish, and go into the West, and remain Galadriel."

4. Rent ("To hand-crafted beers made in local breweries / To yoga, to yogurt, to rice and beans and cheese / To leather, to dildos, to curry vindaloo / To huevos rancheros and Maya Angelou / Emotion, devotion, to causing a commotion / Creation, vacation / Mutual masturbation...")

5. The Lost Boys ("One thing about living in Santa Carla I never could stomach... all the damn vampires."

6. Queen Of The Damned ("I heard that Lestat keeps all his girls in his cellar, and it's really nice and they give you food and cable and weed."

7. Still Crazy ("The last tour I did was ten years ago. It was Aerosmith, but they've gone and cleaned up their act. It's all wheatgrass juice and fuckin' pumpkin seeds. I hope you guys are still crazy, or I'm outta here."

8. Monty Python And The Holy Grail ("You must cut down the mightiest tree in the forest... WITH... A HERRING!"

9. Monty Python's Life Of Brian - ("There shall in that time be rumors of things going astray... uhm... and there shall be a great confusion as to where things really are, and nobody will really know where lieth those little things with the sort of raffia-work base, that has an attachment. At that time, a friend shall lose his friend's hammer, and the young shall not know where lieth the things possessed by their fathers that their fathers put there only just the night before, about eight o'clock."

10. Taxi Driver - ("You talkin' to me? You talkin' to me? You talkin' to me? Then who the hell else are you talkin' to? You talkin' to me? Well, I'm the only one here. Who do the fuck do you think you're talking to? Oh, yeah? Ok."

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Here's mine (while I try to wake up with a cup of coffee and realize once I submit, I will remember even more movies, lol)

1. Somewhere in Time (my all time favorite, grab your box of kleenex movie)
2. The Usual Suspects
3. Forrest Gump
4. The Fifth Element
5. Star Wars
6. Serendipity
7. Bridget Jones Diary
8. The Princess Bride
9. History of the World Part I
10. Spies Like Us

Yea! I'm not alone! It was Pat Swayze in a leotard that did it for ya right?

Damn, Life of Brian so should have been in my list!

I'm bored, so here goes:

The Forbidden Zone (Herve Villachez! Oingo Boingo! Woo!)
La Femme Nikita
Henry and June
The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover
Raising Arizona
Fargo
A Night on Earth
Eraserhead
Fight Club
Shrek 2

I wanted to say Amelie too, but it's just the same as Fight Club only with a feminine twist to it and other people already mentioned it. I might post again. I can't settle on just 10.

1. Beaches
2. Arthur
3. Single White Female
4. Clerks
5. Dogma
6. Jersey Girl
7. On Golden Pond
8. LOTR Trilogy
9. The Bells Of St Mary (Holiday Fave that I must watch atleast once every Christmas lol.)
10. The Breakfast Club

The Godfather
It's a beautiful life (in Italian)
Interview with a Vampire
The Notebook
Shawshank Redemption
Forrest Gump
Fargo
Schindler's List
Die Hard
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Ok, here's my list:

Casablanca
The Kentucky Fried Movie
Killer Klowns from Outer Space
Attack of the Killer Tomatoes
Ju-on (don't see the Grudge remake. Original is heaps better)
Saw
Shawshank Redemption
Dark City
Fight Club
American Beauty

*sneaks in Star Wars, The Matrix, and the Lord of the Rings trilogy in under her wings*

Aaagh, I forgot The Pianist too!

Dang... so many good movies. Yeah, while it's movies you "must see," not movies that "are good"... why would you want to see a bad movie? MST3K notwithstanding.

You are all so very young....


The African Queen
The Birds
Casablanca
Psycho
Godfather
Shawshank
Pulp Fiction
Diva
The Milagro Beanfield War
Terminator

Interesting exercise; here's my take - I'm big on directors:

1. 12 Monkeys - Terry Gilliam: I've seen this more times than I can count and each time I notice something I hadn't before. I also kinda dig when a director can take a typecast actor (Willis) and make him or her be something that they never were before.
   
2. Punch Drunk Love - Paul Anderson: Almost everything about this film is designed to leave the viewer reeling as if punch-drunk. From the hyper-real supermarket (pudding!) to the abstract color interludes to featuring Shelly Duval as a singer. Another example of a director making the actor better than he was (e.g. "Yes, this film has Sandler as the protagonist but it is not a Sandler film".
   
3. The Truman Show - Peter Weir: If there has been an allegory of a man sparring with his creator done this well, I've yet to see it. Also not a Jim Carey film.
   
4. Short Cuts - Robert Altman: An ensemble piece with thirty-some actors living their intertwined lives and being all too human about it.
   
5. At Play in the Fields of the Lord - Hector Babenco: Not for those who dislike 3 hour films about the conflict of desires and morality playing out (or mostly already played out) amidst the Yanomamö of the Amazon basin.
   
6. Sweet Movie - Dusan Makavejev: A surreal - in the sense of pretty damned offensive - look at well... I'm not quite sure... but I think Marxism and its effect on 20th century Europe.
   
7. Track 29 - Nicholas Roeg: Roeg is a toughy; his films have so much promise and then sorta fall apart. It was a toss-up between this and "The Man Who Fell to Earth" but this one doesn't meander so badly.
   
8. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead - Tom Stoppard: Easily one of the most deeply funny films I've ever seen. It made the transition from stage so well as the playwright decided to try his hand at directing.
   
9. The World According to Garp - George Hill: It is hard to cram such a spawling novel into a film but what does make it in is done with amazing finesse. I confess I had to look up Hill whom I hadn't realized also made "The Sting", "Slaughterhouse Five", and "Butch Cassidy" which brings me to...
   
10. Mother Night - Keith Gordon: There have been a number of attempts to bring Vonnegut to the screen (for which Jerry Lewis will do time in purgatory (yes that Jerry Lewis)) but this was easily the most artful.
    
11. The King of Comedy - Martin Scorcese: Scorcese had to make the list and what better way than through the rather off-beat black comedy with - get this - Jerry Lewis. DeNiro plays a desperate, delusional anti-hero with much more gravity than the farces he has wound up in during the past decade.
    
12. Truly Madly Deeply - Anthony Minghela: Brilliant, touching, elegant, sweet, comic, earthy, total sleeper from the BeeB. If Shakespeare was alive and writing screenplays, he might have made this.

I lost count.

*burries face in Nala's wing and shakes in fright*

Well, it really is hard to define "bad" sometimes when the bad movie in question has reduced you to hysterical laughing fits. That kind of unbridled joy is priceless.

1. City of Angels... best.movie.ever!
2. The Sea Inside (A Movie based on a True Story)
3. What Dreams my Come
4, 5, 6. Lord of the Rings Trilogy

That's it.

Jessica

In no particular order...

1. Scarface
2. Goodfellas
3. Natural Born Killers
4. Pulp Fiction
5. Wizard of Oz
6. What Dreams May Come
7. Goonies
8. Casino
9. Meet the Parents
10. War of The Worlds


Plus I am a horror movie fan so I love them all!

It's tough to decide but I'll try...

1. Dear Frankie
   
2. Before Sunrise + Before Sunset
   
3. My life without me
   
4. Waking Ned Devine
   
5. Magnolia
   
6. Jacob's Ladder
   
7. Wings of Desire
   
8. The Legend of Rita
   
9. LOTR
   
10. Amores perros
    
11. City of god
    
12. Unconditional love (K. Bates/R. Everett)
    
13. Ed Wood
    
14. ...
    

Hmm... ok... that was more than 10 I guess...

* Walkabout (1971)
* Billy Budd (1962)
* Night of the Iguana (1964)
* The Third Man (1949)
* Carmen (1983) dir: Carlos Saura
* Open Season aka The Recon Game (1974)
* 1984 (1984)
* The Last Detail (1973)
* Akira Kurosawa's Dreams (1990)
* Blowup (1966)

Kevin Smith rocks.

Anybody watched "An Evening With Kevin Smith"? It's a compilation of where he's lectured at quite a few different colleges and is absolutely hilarious... especially the part where he describes how he met Jason Mewes.

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I loved the 1984 version of this movie (or are you talking about the 1946 one?).

To be honest, i havent seen the 1946 version maybe I need to put it on my list.

I have to say, though, the 1984 version is one of the few times that I liked a movie better than the novel it was based on (yes, I did read the book ). By rolling the charactors of the narrator and Larry Darrell into one person for the movie they created a sort of super-sentient person. I was amazed at how badly this movie was panned when it came out, but when I saw it on DVD I had to pick up a copy. Bill Murray at his best.

I don't know.. Just don't watch Minority Report..

Hey! Minority Report's a fine popcorn movie!

Its 2 and a half hours I'm never getting back.. I would have walked out in the first 10 minutes but I just kept going "it'll get better, its gotta get better.. It WILL get better" until the end and then I was like.. WHAT?!?!?

The end did suffer the same horrible fate as certain other Speilberg films (AI I'm looking at you) but I quite enjoyed it. Maybe I'm just easily pleased.

Lol, I should think my brain just couldn't cope with it, if I remember correctly I rented it on DVD and there were children in the room asking "who what where" questions..