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posted February 16, 2021 08:22 PM |
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Which top movies would you consider must-see classics?
It can be any genre or language or time period you want. Try to whittle it down to a small list.
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posted February 16, 2021 08:51 PM |
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Edited by angelito at 20:51, 16 Feb 2021.
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Comedy:
Life of Brian
The Naked Gun
The Meaning of Life
The Big Lebowski
Fantasy:
Avatar
Lord of the Rings
Avengers series
Harry Potter series
Action:
"...has fallen" series (all 3)
"96 hours" series (all 3)
White House Down
The Punisher
Horror:
Alien trilogy
The Thing
From dusk till dawn
Dawn of the dead
Mafia:
Goodfellas
Scarface
The Godfather
Casino
Animation:
Merida
Shrek
Ice Age series
Despicable Me
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posted February 16, 2021 08:58 PM |
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Merida is called "Brave" here, if that's what you're talking about.
Animated movies are great but that one didn't do much for me. Onward was kind of so-so as well and Frozen 2 was somewhere in the "This movie kind of sucks" category. The most recent one that I absolutely loved was Inside Out.
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posted February 16, 2021 09:02 PM |
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Lajanje na zvezde; Eng: Barking at the Stars.
Quintessential light-hearted Serbian teen comedy. My favorite movie, perhaps of all time. Watched it over a dozen times and I still find it funny. The humor is not the kind you'd find in teen comedies of that period (late 90-ies and early 00's are famous for the crass sex comedy movies like the American Pie). Most of the movie relies on aphorisms and engages the watchers intellectually while not comming off as pretentious and snobish in any way. The cast is perfect and the characters themselves are all relatable in some way. It trully makes you feel like you're part of their class with how the situations they find them selves are presented and how they live out the last two weeks of senior year.
While it might have some flaws with pacing (it feels a bit rushed in the latter half, due to time constraints I'd assume), I find it only makes you want to watch it again to try and get the most you can out of it.
In general, I'd say it is a certified hood classic.
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posted February 16, 2021 09:14 PM |
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The movies I could watch 10 times in a row, for various reasons:
Amadeus
Citizen Kane
Casablanca
Twelve Angry Men
Gone with the Wind
Star Wars (1st)
Independence Day
StarGate
The Silence of the Lambs
The Green Mile
Aimez-vous Brahms
City Lights
Le Corniaud (The Sucker)
300 spartans
Rocky I
L'aile et la cuisse (The Wing or the Thigh)
Le Grand Blond avec une chaussure noire (The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe)
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posted February 16, 2021 09:27 PM |
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angelito said:
Comedy:
Life of Brian
The Naked Gun
The Meaning of Life
The Big Lebowski
Fantasy:
Avatar
Lord of the Rings
Avengers series
Harry Potter series
Action:
"...has fallen" series (all 3)
"96 hours" series (all 3)
White House Down
The Punisher
Horror:
Alien trilogy
The Thing
From dusk till dawn
Dawn of the dead
Mafia:
Goodfellas
Scarface
The Godfather
Casino
Animation:
Merida
Shrek
Ice Age series
Despicable Me
This guy here knows his snow
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posted February 16, 2021 09:40 PM |
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Salamandre said:
The movies I could watch 10 times in a row, for various reasons:
...Gone with the Wind...
That comes out to 39 hours and 40 minutes. 
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posted February 16, 2021 09:46 PM |
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Amadeus was a great movie but what immediately pops in my mind is the completely stupid and completely awesome and addictive song by Falco.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sA3B6B5z0k0
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posted February 16, 2021 09:51 PM |
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Metropolis
M (1931)
City Lights
Modern Times
The Great Dictator
The Postman Always Rings Twice
The Big Sleep
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
Goldfinger
The Good the Bad and the Ugly
Dawn of the Dead
Halloween
Alien
The Shining
The Evil Dead
Blade Runner
Terminator
Angel Heart
The Silence of the Lambs
Se7en
Fight Club
EDIT: Pulp Fiction
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posted February 16, 2021 10:19 PM |
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Blade Runner is one of the those movies I feel weird for not liking because it's so popular and it's exactly the style of movie that I would love, combined with Harrison Ford who is one of my favorite actors, but I'm bored most of the time watching it. I love the ending scene but that is about it.
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posted February 16, 2021 10:43 PM |
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blizzardboy said:
That comes out to 39 hours and 40 minutes.
Well, it was a metaphor, to say every time I watch them I catch fresh details which I enjoy and keep me glued. There are dozens of other movies which I consider great, however I don't feel the need to watch again so soon.
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posted February 16, 2021 10:45 PM |
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Salamandre said:
Well, it was a metaphor
That's not what a metaphor is. I think you meant a hyperbole
Okay, I'll stop being a dick now.
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posted February 16, 2021 10:54 PM |
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blizzardboy said:
Blade Runner is one of the those movies I feel weird for not liking because it's so popular and it's exactly the style of movie that I would love, combined with Harrison Ford who is one of my favorite actors, but I'm bored most of the time watching it. I love the ending scene but that is about it.
There are a lot of popular movies I don't like and/or find boring as well. For example, From Dusk Till Dawn was listed which I find pretty boring. I was never a big fan of Casablanca and I found Alien II appaling. It's taste.
Blade Runner is noteworthy as an atmospheric movie, imo.
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posted February 16, 2021 11:01 PM |
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No offense, Angelito, but for the most part that's a very bizarre list of must-see or 'best of genre' movies.
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posted February 16, 2021 11:21 PM |
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The main one that threw me off was the Ice Age series. Like wtf. That's like having "Beverly Hills Chihuahua 3: Viva La Fiesta!" on the list, but whatever. Maybe he's just really, really psyched up about woolly mammoths and squirrels or something.
Anyway, back on topic. If anybody else would like to share their list so that I can publicly ridicule it, feel free. This is a respectful and non-judgmental thread, most of the time.
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posted February 16, 2021 11:31 PM |
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Salamandre said:
Le Grand Blond avec une chaussure noire (The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe)
Nobody knows the movie itself, but its soundtrack has been ripped off in so many cheap production Turkish comedy movies of the 1970’s, if you pick a random Turk old enough and play this to them, they’ll start humming it by intuition:
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I dont feel like making a list right now but Cinema Paradiso, The Godfather, Once Upon a Time In America, 12 Angry Men, From Here to Eternity, Kansas City (the music mostly), The Player, Amadeus, North by Northwest will all be certainly in it.
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posted February 16, 2021 11:41 PM |
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The music in that movie is pure Romanian folklore.
A pity that the few French movies and actors (Louis de Funès, Pierre Richard) that can compete with Hollywood blockbusters depend so much on the unique elocution such people had, which is untranslatable.
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posted February 17, 2021 12:04 AM |
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blizzardboy said:
The main one that threw me off was the Ice Age series. Like wtf. That's like having "Beverly Hills Chihuahua 3: Viva La Fiesta!" on the list, but whatever. Maybe he's just really, really psyched up about woolly mammoths and squirrels or something.
"..has fallen" series as must see action movies? C'mon. I mean, ok, they're fine as popcorn munchers go but I don't think I'd put them on my top 50 action movies, let alone top 5.
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posted February 17, 2021 12:21 AM |
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Just off the top of my head...
Gladiator
John Carpenter’s The Thing
Braveheart
Saving Private Ryan
Full metal jacket
Goodfellas
The Zodiac
The Departed
Alien
Silence of the lambs
Rush hour
Air bud
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posted February 17, 2021 12:48 AM |
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Okay. Now I realize making a small list is really annoying, but here's a list of a dozen movies with a mix of genres:
The Fugitive
Cast Away
Citizen Kane
Ben Hur
Empire Strikes Back
The Passion of Joan of Arc
It’s a Wonderful Life
Batman (1989)
Alien
The Lion King (1994)
Lord of the Flies
Airplane
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