Recommend Me Some Movies

[Richard Hannay]

Classics? I'm not too sure about but I guess To Kill A Mockingbird might fit into that (obligated to recommend a Gregory Peck movie).

"Might" nothing. To Kill A Mockingbird is wonderful. Period. (Fun fact: I believe it's Robert Duvall's first film.)

Also:

The 39 Steps (Alfred Hitchcock, 1935)
12 Angry Men (Sydney Lumet, 1957)
North By Northwest (Alfred Hitchcock, 1959)
The Manchurian Candidate (John Frankenheimer, 1962)
From Russia With Love (Terence Young, 1963)
Charade (Stanley Donen, 1963)
Dr Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (Stanley Kubrick, 1964)
A Clockwork Orange (Stanley Kubrick, 1971)
The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola, 1972)
Chinatown (Roman Polanski, 1974)
The Godfather Part 2 (Francis Ford Coppola, 1974)
Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese, 1976)
Alien (Ridley Scott, 1979)
Blade Runner (Ridley Scott, 1982)
Heat (Michael Mann, 1995)
Dark City (Alex Proyas, 1998)
π (Darren Aronofosky, 1998)
Collateral (Michael Mann, 2004)

 

[Abort-retry-fail]

Some that I know I liked that I didn't see in the previous comments unless I suck harder at skimming than I both thought and hoped;
Rain Man.
Die Hard up to but not including four. Don't know about three, haven't seen it.
S-T-A-R W-A-R-S ORIGINAL TRILOGY, ANYONE?
The Big Lebowski.
Dumb and Dumber, NOT the one without sequel without Jim and Jeff.
A minor list of movies I would stamp as worth checking out.

 

[Treblaine]

These should keep you going for a few days

Older Movies:

Where Eagles Dare

Bridge over the River Kwai

Wayne's World

Terminator

Predator

How to Murder Your Wife

A Bridge too Far

Tron

Blade Runner

Pale Rider

Unforgiven (this one might belong in Newer)

Blues Brothers

Brazil

Any Monty Python movie


Newer:

Gran Turino

Garden State

Zombieland

District 9

Hurt Locker

Epic list right there

 

[Treblaine]

Die Hard up to but not including four. Don't know about three, haven't seen it.

Die Hard with A Vengeance is like a fusion of 1 and 2... much more like Hard in plot, but more like Harder in approach... though the ending is somewhat of a letdown.

Die Hard 4 can suck my sweaty balls and I wish it did not even exist. You have FAILED at life if you've only seen the 4th movie in the die hard series.

 

[Wolfiesden]

If you seriously mean "classic" then...

Casablanka
Key Largo
The Longest Day
10 Commandments
Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory (1971)
Jason and the Argonauts
The Day the Earth Stood Still
Maltese Falcon
A League Of Their Own
Diam M for Murder
Blazing Saddles
The Blob
Sink the Bismarck
When Worlds Collide
A Bridge Too Far
The Birds
Stripes
Lawrence of Arabia
Forbidden Planet (1956)
The Snows of Kilimanjaro
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954)
Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959)
The Guns of Navarone
A Christmas Story
Song of the South
The Shining
The Absent-Minded Professor
Alice in Wonderland (1951)
Back to Bataan
The Flight of the Phoenix (1965)
Gone With the Wind
2001: A Space Odyssey
Bambi (1942)
The Fly (1958)
Goldfinger
E.T.
Hell to Eternity
The Good, The Bad And The Ugly
War of the Worlds (1953)
Old Yeller
The Pink Panther (1963)
Scarface

That should take you most of the summer

 

[Abort-retry-fail]

-Colory Snipsnap-

-Also Quite Snippy-

Die Hard 4 can suck my sweaty balls and I wish it did not even exist. You have FAILED at life if you've only seen the 4th movie in the die hard series.

Verily. The fourth movie is to me is a GIANT pussy-whipped piece of generic and boring PG-13 pretend-actioner. If not to all then at least to me; ACTION DOES NOT BLEND WELL WITH ANYTHING UNDER AN R-RATING.

 

[The Heik]

Hello There Escapist!

Well, I don't know about you, but today is the first day of spring break down here in Florida!

So cue Alice Cooper, because SCHOOOOOOOOOOOOLS! OUT. FOR. THE. [sub]spring[/sub].

Anyway, being the Anti-social cave-dwelling bastard that I am, instead of going out partying, I'm going to watch a bunch of movies!

Now, I consider myself a HUGE film geek. But unfortunately, due to the.... "Inconvenience" of my lazyness, and lack of awareness many classic movies have escaped me.

So! I need YOU, The Escapist, to give me some movies to watch. NOW GO!!!


GO NAO!! DO IT!!

Edit: By the way, I'm trying to get updated with all of the classics, I have only recently discovered my love of film.

"Hellzapoppin'" and "A funny thing happened on the way to the forum....."

These two are classics that I watch every year to restore my faith in the universe. They are THAT good.

BTW if you can find them in good quality, let me know, because my crappy VCR copies are pretty much done.

 

[UnityRiot]

Classics are overrated. How about these:

The Squid and the Whale
Elephant
Bram Stoker's Dracula [sub](The one with Gary Oldman)[/sub]
Empire Records

I love those @_@

Is that sarcasm? 'Cos they're all good movies.

No. I really do love those movies. Elephant is probably one of my all time favorites.

 

[ProfessorLayton]

Up in the Air and Hot Fuzz. Honestly, if those were the only two movies I would ever see in my entire life, I would be content.

 

[DuplicateValue]

Classics are overrated. How about these:

The Squid and the Whale
Elephant
Bram Stoker's Dracula [sub](The one with Gary Oldman)[/sub]
Empire Records

I love those @_@

Is that sarcasm? 'Cos they're all good movies.

No. I really do love those movies. Elephant is probably one of my all time favorites.

Oh right.

You know "@_@" is a rolling-your-eyes face, right?

 

[Squilookle]

...Movies...

You, sir, have got yourself some class. Though I could tell that the instant I saw Where Eagles Dare on the list.

 

[UnityRiot]

Classics are overrated. How about these:

The Squid and the Whale
Elephant
Bram Stoker's Dracula [sub](The one with Gary Oldman)[/sub]
Empire Records

I love those @_@

Is that sarcasm? 'Cos they're all good movies.

No. I really do love those movies. Elephant is probably one of my all time favorites.

Oh right.

You know "@_@" is a rolling-your-eyes face, right?

Hmm, I guess I should've used ^.^ then XDD. Oh well.

 

[Pegghead]

My favourite movie...OF ALL TIME is Gran torino, if you're looking for something that is pure goodness then I suggest watching this masterpiece of a film starring Clint Eastwood.

Or if you're looking for a bit of MANtertainment then be like me around fellow cave-dwelling mates on the odd friday nights of the year and rent wonderful zombie films, some of my favourites are Evil dead 2 (5 strangers have to hold out for one night against the armies of darkness in a rustic log cabin), 28 days later (Yadda yadda yadda not technically zombies I know, but what would you say when a horde of those fuckers were charging at you sputing gibberish and hungering for flesh?) and Shaun of the Dead (I don't have to say anything).

 

[Sylocat]

Pretty much anything by Howard Hawks, especially:

Bringing Up Baby (no, don't worry, it's not about a baby... it's about a leopard named "Baby." Yes, I'm serious)
His Girl Friday
Twentieth Century
The Big Sleep (yes, he even did film noir)


In the classic film vein, I'd also recommend:

Arsenic and Old Lace
The Lady Eve
My Man Godfrey
The Bad and the Beautiful
Charade

 

[Chechosaurus]

Classics eh?

Spoiler

Heat
Fight Club
A Clockwork Orange
Airplane
Blade Runner (Don't watch if you've read to book)
Cheech and Chong's Up in Smoke
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Full Metal Jacket
Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
Office Space
Pulp Fiction
True Romance
Taxi Driver
V for Vendetta
Vanishing Point
Reservoir Dogs
Napoleon Dynamite

As for just awesome films?

Spoiler

Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang
Charlie Bartlett
Taken
Shaun of the Dead
Hot Fuzz
Lars and the Real Girl
No Country for Old Men
Hard Candy
Layer Cake
Eagle vs. Shark
In Bruge
Human Traffic
Choke
Blow
A Scanner Darkly
3:10 to Yuma
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
The Darwin Awards

And SO many more. These just ones that come to the top of my head.

 

[JoJo Bizzaro 7]

Well, off the top of my head...

Any movie by Stanley Kubrick (if not all of them then DEFINITELY 2001. That movie changed me.)
Eraserhead
The Evil Dead Trilogy
Cape Fear (original)
A Beautiful Mind
Dazed and Confused
The Wicker Man (original, not the crappy Nicholas Cage remake.)
The Boondock Saints
Death Proof
The Blues Brothers (their on a mission from God.)
Lenny
I'm Not There
Seven Pounds
Sex Drive (I know it doesn't fit in the list, but it was funny to me.)
Airplane!
Hot Fuzz
Any movie by Mel Brooks

I could go on, but those are the ones that come to mind at the moment.

Classics are overrated.

Some are, but don't generalize like that. You're liable to piss some vintage movie buffs off, *wink wink, nudge nudge*

 

[Con Carne]

This list includes movies in theaters and on DVD.
Day Breakers, Edge of Darkness, How to Train a Dragon, Hot Tub Time Machine, Repo Men, Sherlock Holmes, The last half of Ninja Assassin, Boondock Saints 2, Zombieland, Gamer, Up, Pandorum, The Blindside, She's Out of My League, Copout.

 

[ImSkeletor]

12 MONKEYS
no better choice

 

[Vrex360]

REPO! The genetic Opera
Alien
Aliens
Boondock Saints
BeetleJuice
Ginger Snaps
Evil Dead
District 9
Brotherhood of the Wolf
Pan's Labrynth
Silence of the Lambs
Spirited Away
Wall-e
28 days later
King Kong
Bowling for Columbine
Jarhead



.... dammit, I can't think of any others right now. Sorry, I too am a huge movie buff but right now on the spot a lot of my memories have dried up, I shall return when I think of more

 

[BooBooKittyFuck]

Blacula!