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[Swad]

A thread for you to share with us the movies you think we should be watching. Feel free to post as often as you'd like!

While college doesn't allow me to watch as many new films as I'd like, here's a list of classics:

Citizen Kane
Probably the greatest movie ever. Don't miss it.

It's a Wonderful Life
Ok, so they show it every Christmas, but if you actually sit down and watch it (sans commercials), it'll really get to you.

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Another classic Capra film.

[bwhsh8r]

Grandmas Boy

How High

Cheech & Chong

Vertigo

Rocky & Bullwinkle (ok so thats a show)

007

A Fish Called Wanda

Monty Python and The Holy Grail

[Mr. Bond]

Yup...anything Monty Python is fine in my books! The Meaning of Life is good as well...I'll be seeing the Toronto production of Spamalot later this summer as well.

The Italion Job (The original) - Basically, I love watching anything from the 60's - early 70's...film rules were a lot more lax then, making for some more realistic stunts (not just purely CGI creations, as nice as some of them are). Plus, they get to drive ontop of the buildings of Turino!

And, well...any Bond film is good in my books. Although, I definetly like Connery's films a lot more than the others. Though the Brosnan one's slowly got better.

[Swad]

There's an original Italian Job? Hmm... have to check it out!

[cyrana]

Lost in Translation
Groundhog Day
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Breakfast at Tiffany's
Star Wars Ep V
The Lord of the Rings

[Colonel]

Office Space is the best!  

[Mr. Bond]

Heh...Office Space is a great one too!

Also, another one I forgot to mention, is the Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou. It was generally panned by the critics, but It really is one of my favourite movies. Bill Murray's deadpan humour is surely what makes the film...quite funny! It's got quite a nice cast as well...Owen Wilson, Willem Dafoe, Cate Blanchett.

I laguhed when I saw that almost all of the soundtrack (apart from the techno in between) was David Bowie songs, sung in portuguese and played on acoustic guitar.

[bwhsh8r]

Oh, also both gone in 60 seconds movies (although the original is better)

The ATL

Half Baked

[blackentangled]

virgin suicides (yet another coppola film)

[Pantalaimon]

I am sam

Chicago

One True Thing

Pay It Forward

The Green Mile

Mystic River

The Shawshank Redemption

Crash

Inside Man

[kevin_4e]

Mrs Smith Goes to Washington-Classic

12 Angry Men-Same crowd would like this as Mr Smith....Mash you should see that

Fight Club

16 Blocks

After the Sunset

Hostage

Inside Man

Into the Blue

Sahara

Poseidon

Lord of War

The list goes on and on....

[non sequitur]

Donnie Darko is ana amzing scifi that screws with your mind. if anyone buys or downloads, the director's cut is a necessary.

Indiana Jones, w00t! those movies rock.

[Gaber]

Snakes on a Plane, after seeing it, there is no reason to ever see any other movie. That is unless a SOAP 2 comes out sometime. No matter who you are, you will like it. Even if you hate it, you still get to see some nice nudity, so it doesn't matter, either way its the best movie ever made.

[Suzuka]

FFVII Advent Children - A bit hard to understand if you've never played the game, but it has a "FFVII Retrospective" That goes through importaint parts of the game.

V for Vendetta - Amazing movie, thats all I have to say

[zet45]

I'm 45 y old, so you'll understand why...
1. If you want a REAl actress, "the Queen".
2. If you want a good old road movie, "Little Miss Sunshine".
3. If you want understand the world today: "United 93".
4. Historical: best watch TV "Rome", HBO.
5. I can't remember a comic movie, also best to watch TV.

So, really, the best scripts, stories and movies are out of the cinema-theaters: TV+net. That's where the originality lives now.
But if you want to see pretty faces...

[truthoughts]

Full Metal Jacket
2001: A Space Odyssey
Pulp Fiction
The Big Lebowski

The dude abides...

[Lance989]

300
Man on Fire
Pulpfiction

way good movies

[Cosmik Debris]

Scarface
The Elephant Man
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
The Shining
Waking Life
Requiem For A Dream
Being John Malkovich
Natural Born Killers
American History X
Dazed And Confused
I Heart Huckabees
Pi
Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas
The Fountain
Dead Poets Society

[EFI]

In no particular order. They are all very, very good, but some are stand out excellent.

- The Road to Guantanamo
- Pans Labyrinth
- Freedom Writers <-- Stand out excellence
- Letters From Iwo Jima <-- Stand out excellence
- Apocalypto
- The Queen <-- Stand out excellence
- The Good Shepherd
- The Illusionist <-- Stand out excellence
- Litlte Miss Sunshine

[Lkr]

new Harry Potter was terrible