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The Wrestler,
There Will Be Blood,
No Country for Old Men,
The Big Lebowski,
Milk,
The Godfather I and II,
The Dark Knight,
The Departed,
Wall-E,
Up,
James Bond (Craig Ones)
Sevin
The Incredibles,
Shrek,
Fight Club
Memento
Toy Story I and II,
The Matrix,
Blade Runner,
A Clockwork Orange,
V for Vendetta,
Spiderman II,
Iron man I and II,
The Hurt Locker,
Inglorious Basterds,
Avatar,
District 9,
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas,
Boondock Saints,
The Hangover,
Star Wars
Star Trek (the new one)
Superbad
40 Year Old Virgin
Knocked Up
I love you, Man
Forgetting Sarah Marshall
Pulp Fiction
Terminator 2
Lord of the Rings Trilogy
and there has to be more but thats all for now haha
 
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Watchmen
the Dark Knight
Fight Club
The Matrix
the fir- i mean the only 3 Indiana Jones movies
Lord of the Rings
V for Vendetta
Star Wars ORIGINAL trilogy...or Revenge of the Sith, the only good one of the new trilogy
Saving Private Ryan
 
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This thread is rather tediously western-centric.
Nothing against western cinema. But the only recurring asian suggestion I've seen yet is Oldboy.

A few personal selections:

Der Himmel über Berlin (Wim Wenders, 1987, Germany)
Fa yeung nin wa (Kar Wai Wong, 2000, Hong Kong)
Blue Velvet (David Lynch, 1986, USA)
Tuya de hun shi (Quanan Wang, 2006, China)
Saikaku ichidai onna (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1952, Japan)
2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick, 1968, UK/USA)
Mononoke-hime (Hayao Miyazaki, 1997, Japan)
Bin-jip (Kim Ki-duk, 2004, South Korea)
The Fly (David Cronenberg, 1986, Canada/USA)
Toy Story 2 (John Lasseter, 1999, USA)
The Third Man (Carol Reed, 1949, UK)
Hable con ella (Pedro Almodóvar, 2002, Spain)
La belle et la bête (Jean Cocteau, 1946, France)
Persona (Ingmar Bergman, 1966, Sweden)
Alien (Ridley Scott, 1979, USA/UK)
La passion de Jeanne d'Arc (Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1928, France/Denmark)
Night on Earth (Jim Jarmusch, 1991, USA/Japan/France/Finland/Italy/Germany)
Singin' in the Rain (Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly, 1952, USA)

Just struck me how little south african cinema I've seen...
 
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ciortas1 said:
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Batman Begins and The Dark Knight. Just because the argument 'comic book movies are stupid' is something I hear way too often.
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Ugh, you thought Dark Knight and BB were intelligent movies? Man...The only good part of Dark Knight was Heath Ledger as the joker. You want to see an intelligent comic book movie? Go watch Watchmen, it makes the new batman movies look like they were written by a five year old. I'm not kidding.
Anyways, 1.Watchmen 2.The Labyrinth 3.Mallrats 4.Clerks 5. Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure
yea, that's all i can think of atm...
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Whoa whoa whoa, tone down the opinion-is-truth device. I didn't say, and I'll refrain from saying that Batman Begins and The Dark Knight were the epitome of an intelligent movie, however what I pointed out is that just because it's a comic book movie, it doesn't have to be silly. Also, I did see Watchmen and it was good, but for me, not as good as those two. Now the writing, it's really good in all three, but again, just because you didn't like those doesn't mean it's any worse.


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Man...The only good part of Dark Knight was Heath Ledger as the joker.
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Also, this part in particular. Do you want to get destroyed by quotes from thousands of reviews and interviews or what? Joker may have been the highlight of the movie, but boy is he far from being the only good thing in it.
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Yea I agree with this. And Watchmen better than The Dark Knight? Watchmen was ok, but nothing too special. But the comic book it was based on! Now that is amazing.

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This thread is rather tediously western-centric.
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Ahh, the classic comment with no supporting examples. Want to list some foreign films you enjoy?

I liked Pan's Labyrinth and Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, and a bunch of Jet Li and Bruce Lee movies.
 
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jigaboon said:
ciortas1 said:
Batman Begins and The Dark Knight. Just because the argument 'comic book movies are stupid' is something I hear way too often.
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Ugh, you thought Dark Knight and BB were intelligent movies? Man...The only good part of Dark Knight was Heath Ledger as the joker. You want to see an intelligent comic book movie? Go watch Watchmen, it makes the new batman movies look like they were written by a five year old. I'm not kidding.
Anyways, 1.Watchmen 2.The Labyrinth 3.Mallrats 4.Clerks 5. Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure
yea, that's all i can think of atm...
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Watchman was a travesty that proved the authors point: It couldn't be made into a movie. You are right though, I wouldn't call any Batman movie... intelligent. But the two new ones were great.

Hmmm... from looking at my movie rack...

Apocalypse Now: Excellent movie about the degradation of man and the true horrors of war. Awesome.

First Blood: Despite what its sequels turned in to, First Blood was one of the first movies to take PTSD head on, and does it surprisingly well, all the while throwing in entertaining action. Ignore the sequels, check out the first.

The Prestige: Probably one of the best overall movies I've ever watched. Probably my favorite straight up drama made in the last 10 years.

Rocky: Again, ignore what the sequels (with he exception of Rocky Balboa) have done. A movie about pure willpower.

Seven: Another movie about human suffering. An excellent drama/mystery/detective movie. Must see.

Terminator: Best chase/thriller movie of all time.

Terminator 2: Father of the modern action film, and arguably the best action movie of all time. Has been in my top 3 movies for as long as I can remember.

There are more, but these are my big ones.
 
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Pressing him further it turns out he had never seen the Godfather, Pulp Fiction, The Matrix, Blade Runner, or A Clockwork Orange.
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I didn't really like Blade Runner, I found it way to confusing. Then again, I read the book before watching the movie, and the book is a shit ton better than the movie.
 
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thenumberthirteen said:
A little background. I work at a cinema, and during a slow patch the staff all sat down for a cup of coffee. We started talking about the new James Bond movie being put on hold, and the trainee projectionist said he had never seen any of the James Bond movies. I was taken aback by this as they are such a large (in popularity and number of iterations)franchise and he works at a cinema. Pressing him further it turns out he had never seen the Godfather, Pulp Fiction, The Matrix, Blade Runner, or A Clockwork Orange.

So I ask you, Escapists, what films, if any, do you think everyone needs to see?
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Hiroshima mon amour,
Seriously, the impact of this movie on film history, the story, the depth, if you love movies you NEED to see it.
 
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True Romance, American Beauty, Withnail & I and Zulu.

Zulu especially, especially if they are a kid of the Lord Of The Rings generation, raised on CGI. Show them how they did massive, epic battles back in the day. (Even more impressive when you consider the hundreds of extras that were being directed in a language they didn't speak). Also it's a film made in the 1960's about British colonialism, yet manages to avoid any jingoistic or racist sentiment.

(Don't get me wrong though, I LOVE the Lord Of The Rings films!)
 
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The Original Italian Job. I can't think of anyone I know who hasn't seen it.
 
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Fight Club, Pulp Fiction, The Matrix and Thank You For Smoking

On a side note, people always yell at me because I've never seen the Karate Kid and I hated E.T.
 
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