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1000 films to watch before you die.

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  • MillerCrossMillerCross
    You can change. You can.
    There is a canon of 98765467890985 good films out there. Some are bound to be omitted.

    What I don't understand is, why are people using Shrek as a flaw in the list? I mean, it's not amazing or anything but it's not exactly bad either. 
  • DYREDYRE
    Well for me it was mostly because both are animated.
  • RedEyedAbyssRedEyedAbyss
    edited 2011-12-08 21:13:18
    I personally think Shrek being on the list helps with dispelling the notion that comedies or animated movies can't be good by general standards. Though I preferred Shrek 2.
  • glennmagusharveyglennmagusharvey
    edited 2011-12-08 21:47:41
    Creature - Florida Dragon Turtle Human
    Let's see if I can find movies I've seen on there...

    * Final Fantasy: the Spirits Within: no (expected no)
    * Mary Poppins: yes
    * The Sound of Music: yes
    * All the President's Men: yes
    * Wag the Dog: no (expected yes)
    * Mr. Smith Goes to Washington: yes
    * First Kid: no (expected no)
    * Good Burger: no (expected no)
    * Ferris Buehler's Day Off: no (expected yes)
    * Happy Gilmore: no (expected yes)
    * A Beautiful Mind: no (expected yes)
    * Good Will Hunting (haven't seen this): no (expected yes)
    * Erin Brockovich (haven't seen this): no (expected yes)
    * The Fifth Element: no (expected yes)
    * The Sixth Sense (haven't seen this): no (expected yes)
    * The Princess Bride: no (expected yes)
    * Monty Python and the Holy Grail: no (expected yes)
  • MalkavianMalkavian
    MORONS! I'VE GOT MORONS ON MY PAYROLL!
    I'm pretty sure Princess Bride is in the action movies you must see before you die one and Grail in the cult one.
  • Wicked223Wicked223
    We Played Some Open Chords and Rejoiced, For the Earth Had Circled the Sun Yet Another Year
    Heh, I have 100 Sci-fi Films You Must See Before You Die and 100 War Movies You Must See Before You Die. They're pretty good books.
  • MalkavianMalkavian
    MORONS! I'VE GOT MORONS ON MY PAYROLL!
    Aren't they 101?

    Or am I nuts?
  • Wicked223Wicked223
    We Played Some Open Chords and Rejoiced, For the Earth Had Circled the Sun Yet Another Year
    ah yes, you're right. I don't have them in front of me right now, so I sort of made that mistake.
  • NyarlyNyarly
    edited 2011-12-10 10:13:18
    Likes cheesecake unironically.
    Amélie (2001)
    Beetlejuice (1988)
    The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
    E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
    The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! (1988)
    Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
    The Seven Samurai (1956)
    Spirited Away (2002)
    Shakespeare in Love (1998)
    Shrek (2001)
    Star Wars (1977)
    Toy Story (1995)
    Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)

    Those are the ones I saw. I think I also saw Airplane, but I'm not sure. In that case it would be a long time ago. Then again, I saw nearly every movie I know a long time ago...

    I tried The Godfather, but I found it too boring to finish it. I also tried Mad Max, but stopped in the middle and wanted to finish it later. But for some reason I never did. Probably should watch it sometime (and maybe the other two movies, my father has the entire trilogy as DVD set).

    Also, I'm not sure if I saw Snow White. I mean, I saw quite some Snow White movies (and fairy tale
    adaptations in general) when I was a kid, but the only one I can actually remember is a live-action one.

    Also (yeah, I know I overuse this word), I saw some Star Trek movies as kid, but can't remember which ones. So, I have no idea if I saw Wrath of Khan.

    Well, I'm not much of a movie buff. And I sure don't want to see all of them (everything I heard about It's a Wonderful Life, for instance, sounded unappealing).
  • MillerCrossMillerCross
    You can change. You can.
    I tried The Godfather, but I found it too boring to finish it.

    grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
  • ScythemantisScythemantis
    edited 2011-12-11 03:01:54
    No, no. The aliens but no alien thing invalidates the ENTIRE list. Alien was artistic, groundbreaking, atmospheric horror like nobody had ever seen before. It redefined a genre. It redefined the very concept of an alien lifeform in popular culture. Aliens is a cheap, cheesy action flick with no substance. Worth seeing, but not a shadow of the cinematic art piece that is the original. You gain nothing new or meaningful from watching it.
  • MillerCrossMillerCross
    You can change. You can.
    Aliens is a cheap, cheesy action flick with no substance.

    nononono stop that shit right there. 

    Aliens is, yes a cheesy action flick. But saying that it has no substance whatsoever, when it plays on so many ideas of what is expected from an eighties action movie (From the idea of a badass crew being mutilated and halved at the beginning of the movie, to Ripley being the hero and saving a man, instead of the other way around)

    Is it more ambitious than Alien? Hell naw, but I'd still say that Alien fails at something that Aliens did correctly. And it was making me scared of the xenomorphs.

    It redefined a genre. It redefined the very concept of an alien lifeform in popular culture.

    I'd say it's more of a retraux to the old pulp days when aliens were evil carnivores. Like The Giants Ants from Mars or whatever the fuck. 
  • ScythemantisScythemantis
    How can they be scarier in the second film? In the first, a single alien stalks the shadows and picks people off one by one. In the second, it takes hordes of them and they die like mooks :(
  • ForzareForzare
    Till shade is gone, till water is gone, into the Shadow with teeth bared, screaming defiance with the last breath, to spit in Sightblinder’s eye on the last Day.
    They're smart, they're stealthy in numbers, they fucking own a squad of highly trained marines with high tech weaponry.

    The first time the marines run into the aliens, like no aliens die and half the marines go down, IIRC. They were definitely a /lot/ more threatening than just random mooks.
  • MillerCrossMillerCross
    You can change. You can.
    Indeed. Also, the marines spent more time running and hopping that they could shoot their enemy down somehow and always failing. And thus running farther. 

    It bears mentioning that the Nostromo's crew from the first one wasn't military trained either, so it's not like killing them off one by one while being nigh indestructible is exactly difficult.
  • MalkavianMalkavian
    edited 2011-12-11 12:22:45
    MORONS! I'VE GOT MORONS ON MY PAYROLL!
    I'm gonna list the ones I have seen...

    this could take some time.

    The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) 
    The African Queen (1952)
    Airplane! (1980) 
    Aladdin (1992)
    Aliens (1986)
    Amadeus (1984) 
    Amélie (2001)
    Anastasia (1956)
    Annie Hall (1977)
    Back to the Future (1985)
    Being John Malkovich (1999) 
    Ben-Hur (1959) 
    The Bicycle Thief (1949) 
    The Big Sleep (1946) 
    The Birds (1963)
    Blade Runner (1982)
    Blazing Saddles (1974)
    Blue Velvet (1986)
    Brazil (1985)
    The Breakfast Club (1985)
    Casablanca (1942) 
    Chinatown (1974)
    Citizen Kane (1941)
    Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
    Clueless (1995)
    The Count of Monte Cristo (1934)
    Dawn of the Dead (1979)
    The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
    Death of a Salesman (1951)
    Dial M for Murder (1954)
    Die Hard (1988)
    The Dirty Dozen (1967) 
    Dirty Harry (1971)
    Dracula (1931)
    Duck Soup (1933)
    Dumbo (1941) 

    ...fuck I'm only on D, This might take even longer than I thought. 
  • MalkavianMalkavian
    MORONS! I'VE GOT MORONS ON MY PAYROLL!
    E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
    The Exorcist (1973)
    Fantasia (1940) 
    Fargo (1996)
    The Fisher King (1991)
    The Fly (1958)
    Frankenstein (1931)
    The Fugitive (1947)
    The Full Monty (1997)
    Gandhi (1982)
    The Godfather (1972)
    The Godfather Part II (1974)
    Goldfinger (1964)
    Gone With the Wind (1939)
    The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1968)
    GoodFellas (1990)
    The Graduate (1967)
    The Great Dictator (1940)
    Hamlet (2000)
    A Hard Day's Night (1964)
    It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
     Jailhouse Rock (1957) 
    Jaws (1975)
    The King and I (1956)
    King Kong (1933)
    Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985)
    L.A. Confidential (1997)
    Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
    Like Water for Chocolate (1992, reviewed 1993)
    M (1931, reviewed 1933)
    Mad Max (1980)
    Malcolm X (1992)
    The Maltese Falcon (1941)
    Mary Poppins (1964)
    M*A*S*H (1970)
    Midnight Cowboy (1969)
    Miracle on 34th Street (1947)
    Monsters, Inc. (2001)
    My Fair Lady (1964)
    Night of the Living Dead (1968)
    A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
    North by Northwest (1959)
    On the Waterfront (1954)
    The People Vs. Larry Flynt (1996)
    Persona (1967)
    The Pink Panther (1964)
    Pinocchio (1940)
    The Player (1992)
    Poltergeist (1992) 
    Il Postino (The Postman) (1994)
    The Producers (1968)
    Psycho (1960)
    Pulp Fiction (1994)
  • MillerCrossMillerCross
    You can change. You can.
    jegus, malk, where is your life
  • MalkavianMalkavian
    MORONS! I'VE GOT MORONS ON MY PAYROLL!
    Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
    Rashomon (1951)
    Re-Animator (1985)
    Rear Window (1954)
    Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
    Reservoir Dogs (1992)
    The Road Warrior (1982)
    Roger & Me (1989)
    Rosemary's Baby (1968)
    Saving Private Ryan (1998)
    Schindler's List (1993)
    The Searchers (1956)
    The Seven Samurai (1956)
    The Seventh Seal (1958)
    Shane (1953)
    The Shining (1980)
    Shrek (2001)
    The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
    Singin' in the Rain (1952)
    Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1938)
    The Sound of Music (1965)
    Spartacus (1960)
    Spirited Away (2002)
    Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982)
    Star Wars (1977)
    Straw Dogs (1971)
    A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
    Sunset Boulevard (1950)

  • MalkavianMalkavian
    MORONS! I'VE GOT MORONS ON MY PAYROLL!
    The Ten Commandments (1956)
    The Thief of Bagdad (1940)
    This Is Spinal Tap (1984)
    Throne of Blood (1957)  
    To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
    Toy Story (1995)
    True Grit (1969)
    12 Angry Men (1957)
    2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
    Unforgiven (1992)
    Vertigo (1958) 
    Videodrome (1982)
    West Side Story (1961)
    When Harry Met Sally (1989)
    Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)
    The Wizard of Oz (1939)
    Wuthering Heights (1939)
    Yellow Submarine (1968)
    Yojimbo (1961)
    Young Frankenstein (1974)

    There. Now you can judge me for not having seen Black Orpheus.

    Juan: I have the free time to make this list. Where do you think?
  • MillerCrossMillerCross
    You can change. You can.
    Juan: I have the free time to make this list. Where do you think?

    ok, new question: Can I buy your free time?
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