Essential Movies
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Topic: Essential Movies
Posted By: 1800iareyay
Subject: Essential Movies
Date Posted: November 29 2006 at 20:43
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Which movies are classics of cinema?
starters:
Godfather 1 and 2
Apocalypse Now
Citizen Kane
Lord of the Rings
Gone With the Wind
This Is Spinal Tap
Dr. Strangelove
Animal House
Dogma
Blazing Saddles
Young Frankenstein
The Producers
Psycho
Jaws
Clerks
Office Space
Memento
Yojimbo
Seven Samurai
Pulp Fiction
Update
Scarface
Indiana Jones trilogy
Full Metal Jacket
Airplane
Goldfinger
Mulholland Drive
Dr. Strangelove Blade Runner Taxi Driver The Good, the Bad and the Ugly It's a Wonderful Life Sunset Boulevard Breakfast at Tiffany's Rear Window American Beauty Monty Python and the Holy Grail A Clockwork Orange
Deliverance
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Fargo
The Shining
The Day the Earth Stood Still 2001 Alien The Man Who Knew Too Much North by Northwest Patton Amadeus Star Wars Brazil The Matrix Gladiator Fight Club |
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Posted By: video vertigo
Date Posted: November 29 2006 at 20:51
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12 Monkeys
Star Wars Serenity Brazil (see the thread) The Matrix Memento Gladiator Fight Club The Good the Bad and The Ugly ------------- "The rock and roll business is pretty absurd, but the world of serious music is much worse." - Zappa |
Posted By: Scapler
Date Posted: November 29 2006 at 21:36
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Monty Python and the Quest for the Holy Grail Nightmare Before Christmas Tombstone ------------- Bassists are deadly 
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Posted By: The T
Date Posted: November 29 2006 at 22:09
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The Godfather I, II, III
Goodfellas
Battleship Potemkin
Nosferatu Eine Symphonie des Grauens
Citizen Kane
Fellini Roma (I didn't get it but it just baffled me)
Cinema Paradiso
The Olsen Twins: kick it again ------------- 
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Posted By: VanderGraafKommandöh
Date Posted: November 30 2006 at 00:47
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Debby Does Dallas (not our Debby) -------------   
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Posted By: KoS
Date Posted: November 30 2006 at 00:49
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Geck0 wrote:Posted By: VanderGraafKommandöh
Date Posted: November 30 2006 at 00:56
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A genuine recommendation: Schindler's List An amazing film. -------------
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Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: November 30 2006 at 01:01
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Dr. Strangelove
Failsafe Seven Days in May The Day the Earth Stood Still 2001 Alien The Man Who Knew Too Much North by Northwest Rear Window Vertigo Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon Barfly The French Connection JFK Zelig Patton Amadeus This is Spinal Tap |
Posted By: Witchwoodhermit
Date Posted: November 30 2006 at 01:17
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CLOCKWORK ORANGE
STRAW DOGS
DELIVERANCE
ONE FLEW OVER THE COOKOOS NEST
PULP FICTION
THINGS TO DO IN DENVER WHEN YOU'RE DEAD
MAGNOLIA
FARGO
FULL METAL JACKET
THE SHINING
... ------------- Here I'm shadowed by a dragon fig tree's fan ringed by ants and musing over man. |
Posted By: Vompatti
Date Posted: November 30 2006 at 08:47
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In totally random order: Mulholland Drive Dr. Strangelove Blade Runner The Seven Samurai Taxi Driver The Good, the Bad and the Ugly It's a Wonderful Life Sunset Boulevard Breakfast at Tiffany's Rear Window American Beauty Monty Python and the Holy Grail |
Posted By: Bj-1
Date Posted: November 30 2006 at 08:58
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Scarface
Indiana Jones trilogy
They Call Me Trinity/They STILL Call Me Trinity
Full Metal Jacket
Airplane
Grand Theft Auto
Ace Ventura: Pet Detective/When Nature Calls
007: Goldfinger ------------- RIO/AVANT/ZEUHL - The best thing you can get with yer pants on! |
Posted By: 1800iareyay
Date Posted: November 30 2006 at 18:15
| Killer suggestions. A lot of my faves (Full Metal Jacket, Star Wars). Would have added a lot of these last night but had to give up the comp |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: December 01 2006 at 02:48
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The Last Seduction
Bound
Blade Runner
John Carpenters The Thing
Alien
The Howling
The Long Good Friday
Brazil
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Donnie Darko
Memento
21 Grams
The Pledge
The Butterfly Effect
Barbarella
American Beauty
The Mothman Prophecies
Godfather II
Serpico
The French Connection
The Wicker Man
Apocalypse Now
Straw Dogs
Insomnia
Monsters Ball
Fight Club
Flash Gordon
Sin City
Dog Soldiers
American Werewolf In London
Single White Female
The Enemy At The Gates
The Game
The Name Of The Rose
Shallow Grave
The Hunt For Red October
The Time Machine (original)
The Sixth Sense
The Class of Nukem High
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Posted By: R o V e R
Date Posted: December 01 2006 at 02:58
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Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: December 01 2006 at 04:23
| Good photo, R o V e R, whomever wrote that lineage on the blackboard actually knew something. |