recommend five movies

[Marter]

<url=http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/326.231661-2-50-Reviews-Snow-Angels-2007>Snow Angels
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Shooter
Inception

I...uh, haven't reviewed the last two yet, so I can't link to why I recommend them. Watch them anyway though.

 

[LemonMelon]

1 from either Alien or Aliens

1 from either The Godfather or The Godfather Part II

1 from any of the Back to the Future movies

1 from any of Sergio Leone's spaghetti westerns

and just to throw a spanner in the works, The Thin Red Line

Well if he's never seen a movie before, I'd probably want him to see the first one of any of those movies. That way he's not saying "Wait.. what the hell was that?" the whole time.

 

[Arqus_Zed]

Fight Club (To give him a revelation)
Old Boy (To give him a mindfuck)
Reservoir Dogs (To give him both progression, dialogue and violence in ways he has never seen before)
Castle In The Sky (To show the magnificence of Japanimation)
The Land Before Time (To show the magnificence of Don Bluth animation)

And I must say, it pleases me that a couple of these titles already got mentioned.

 

[EvilMaggot]

Big trouble in little china (saw it for the first time last night and OHMAHGAWD!) fantastic!!!
From dusk till dawn
Princess mononoke
Kill bill
Hot Fuzz

Princess mononoke is a very good anime/movie saw it yesterday in the cinema here in Denmark where they show some old movies in the theaters again ^^ worth a watch alot of undertones to it aswell, fight for the enviroment against the industrial humans and stuff like that

Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
Lord of the Rings: Return of the King
Avatar
Gladiator
Braveheart

 

[Good morning blues]

Star Wars, Casablanca, Superbad, The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, and Heat.

Adventure, intrigue, comedy, suspense, and action. I think that should about cover it.

 

[octafish]

They've never seen a film before?
I'd pick some films with a simple yet elegant visual language, not something with hyperactive cuts, or that references other works.

Rashomon
The Third Man
The Searchers
Casablanca
Rififi

Good stories with compelling characters told elegantly.

Might need some comedy though which would mean either The General, or A Night at the Opera.

 

[Cheery Lunatic]

Some Like it Hot
Laura
Empire of the Sun
Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Inception

That way they become steadily more impressed.

 

[Mr.France]

The Seventh Seal
Shoot'em Up
v For Vendetta
Wings Of Desire
MASH

I might know some others who deserve better to be in this list, but I couldn't remember them.

 

[Saraphim]

Children of Men
Taken
Man on Fire
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[esperandote]

Mary Poppins
Life's Beautiful
The Matrix
1408
(something on 3D)

 

[CarpathianMuffin]

Star Wars
Toy Story
Shaun of the Dead
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Inception

I think that covers most of the general bases.

Pretty much covers mine.

 

[Yureina]

Gladiator
Pulp Fiction
Dr. Strangelove
The Matrix
Platoon

Those are the ones i'd pick.

 

[Sacman]

Blade Runner, Metropolis, The Matrix, Pulp Fiction, and Ghost In The Shell...

 

[Twilight_guy]

Um... I would say Citizen Cain, Star wars, Indian Jones, Alien, and the lion king. I feel that's a fairly good mix.

 

[Talshere]

StarWars (Original trilogy)
The Matrix (The first one)
Inception
Toy Story films
LotR

 

[Thedayrecker]

Fight Club
The Big Lebowski
Pulp Fiction
Sin City
and (if you like Beatles music) the Yellow Subamarine cartoon, or Across the Universe

 

[I Max95]

Serenity
V for Vendetta
Inception
scott pilgrim vs the world
and Toy story 3

 

[Casual Shinji]

Ghostbusters
2001: A Space Odyssey
Spirited Away
LoTR
Eraserhead

 

[Maxman3002]

Theres a lot of films id like to mention here but im going to try and vary the genres as much as I know them:

Fight Club (Because everyone should)

Human Traffic, Trainspotting or 28 Days Later (For the Englishness)

Madagascar 2 or, if failing that, any pixar film or dreamworks film that doesnt have a number at the end of it (For the comedy, and to see some animation)

Never Ending Story (To understand my childhood nightmares)

Alien or The Matrix (To get the majority of movie related jokes or spinoffs)

Unfortunatly there was a ton of films that should also be seen that are being missed (Any marvel film, all the batman films, kickass, zombieland, all the other dreamworks and pixar films that didnt get watched...)