Wanted: List of Good Movies!

[ToiletPastries]

And by 'good' I mean highly entertaining or a classic that everyone needs to watch. Something you'd want to watch more than once. I'm making a list so any of your ideas would be welcome. Thanks a bunch!

 

[Rellik]

Blazing Saddles
Space Balls
Robin Hood Men in Tights
Fight Club

just the first 4 that popped into my head. don't want to force it.... cuz then you'll just get crap i like, instead of things that pop up as classic.

 

[trykael]

Equilibrium
Firefly (the series), then Serenity (YOU HAVE TO WATCH THE SERIES FIRST!!!)
Deadpoets Society
Gattaca
Across the Universe
A Knights Tale
Payback
The Sting (CLASSIC)
Monty Python - The Quest for the Holy Grail

I forgot Kiss Kiss Bang Bang! (2006)
and The Last Starfighter


there are a few to get you started ;-)

 

[Toasteddude]

Batman Begins
The Dark Knight
Akira
Princess Mononoke
Watchmen
The Prestige
Forrest Gump
Kill Bill Vol 1+2
Iron Man
All of the Indiana Jones films
All of Star Wars
The Matrix (the first one)
The Pianist

 

[Stickyfinger]

old yeller - Old classic
Stripes - old comedy
It's a mad mad world - old comedy but hilarious
shawshank redemption
american psycho
menace to society
american history x
bladerunner
slingblade
pushing tin
bad santa
old school
fast times at ridgemont high
summer school
ski patrol
better off dead
breakfast club
last american virgin
super troopers
beerfest
club dred
april fools day
firday the 13th - first 3
nightmare on elm street 1 and 2
halloween 1 thru 3
the enitity
everthing by Monty Python
firefly, series and movie (serenity)
akira, the original anime movie
strangeland
wolf
the shining
the godfather, 1 and 2 only
good fellas
catch me if you can
titanic
escape from new york
escape for la
all the cheech and chong movies
payback
mad max films
passion of the christ (even if you are not christian, still a great movie)
blazing saddles
history of the world part 1
spaceballs
young frankenstien
the caddyshacks
fletch 1, and 2
the original tranformers cartoon movie




that is a mix of old and newer good movies....comedy drama, and horror

 

[foxhound-KD-]

man I love all the classics, bogey, eastwood, and the action/war movies , the longest day, saving private ryan, braveheart

but if youre really interested check out this list of 100 movies to see before you die, its alphabetical , would have preferred by genre but some you might like, some not but all classics to be sure.

http://movies.yahoo.com/feature/100-movies-to-see-before-you-die.html

 

[Sexy Beast]

Ok, here is my list of sure fire film to see. Warning though some are foreign and some are not for everyone.

8 1/2
12 Angry Men
2001: A Space Odyssey
Aguirre: The Wrath of God
Aliens
All About Eve
The Americanization of Emily
Annie Hall
Apocalypse Now
Barry Lyndon
The Battle of Algiers
Berlin Alexanderplatz (It's a mini series...but most just consider it a film)
The Bicycle Thief
Blood Simple
The Bridge on the River Kwai
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
The Caine Mutiny
Casablanca
Citizen Kane
A Clockwork Orange
Come and See
Cure (Slow moving and not for everyone)
Das Boot
Diabolique
Die Hard
Double Indemnity
Downfall
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Duck Soup
Evil Dead 2: Dead by Dawn
Fargo
Fight Club
The French Connection
Gandhi
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
GoodFellas
The Graduate
The Great Escape
Harakiri
Hearts of Darkness (Documentary)
The Hill
The Killing
Lady Snowblood
Lawrence of Arabia
Let the Right One In
M
MASH
Mysterious Skin
Network
North by Northwest
Notorious (1946)
Once Upon a Time in the West
Paths of Glory
The Princess Bride
Psycho
Pulp Fiction
Raging Bull
Rashomon
Rear Window
Requiem for a Dream
Reservoir Dogs
RoboCop
The Rolling Stones: Gimme Shelter (Documentary)
Seven
Seven Samurai
The Seventh Seal
A Shot in the Dark
Solaris (1972)
Strange Circus (Gore Warning here...actually a warning to most viewers)
Taxi to the Dark Side (Documentary)
There Will Be Blood
The Third Man
Through a Glass Darkly
Touch of Evil
The Train
The Usual Suspects
Waltz with Bashir (Documentary)
The Wild Bunch
Witness for the Prosecution
Yojimbo
Young Frankenstein


....and that is a short list.

 

[Osok]

Just watched a movie the other night called the Wackness- Pretty funny movie.

 

[ToiletPastries]

Haha wow. Huge list.
Thanks a bunch guys, I'll check them all out. Now give me more movies to watch!

just the first 4 that popped into my head. don't want to force it.... cuz then you'll just get crap i like, instead of things that pop up as classic.

'Crap you like' is actually what I want as well.
I've seen 3 of those movies but I don't own any of them. Definitely gonna get those.

 

[acefisher1]

13th Warrior
Brick
Gundam Wing Endless Waltz
Escaflowne
Anything and everything Kevin Smith

 

[Captain Canuck]

American Beauty
The Life of David Gale
Paths of Glory
Carlito's Way
Apocalypse Now
Fargo
The French Connection
Reds
One Hour Photo
The Untouchables
In the Heat of the Night
Reservoir Dogs
25th Hour
The Sweet Hereafter
A Clockwork Orange
M
Metropolis(1927)
Lord of War
The Usual Suspects
Bullit
The Great Escape
Memento
Dr. Strangelove, Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
The Departed
Das Boot
Cool Hand Luke
Fight Club
Ronin
Lost in Translation
Blade Runner
Rounders
Man on the Moon
Road to Perdition
2001: A Space Odyssey
Casino
Being John Malkovich
Scarface
Black Hawk Down
Raging Bull
Saving Private Ryan
The Thin Red Line
Dog Day Afternoon
The Shawshank Redemption
The Shining
Full Metal Jacket
Barry Lyndon
The Graduate
Heat
Ghost in the Shell
Platoon
The Good the Bad and the Ugly
On the Waterfront
Training Day
Taxi Driver
Hoffa
Goodfellas
Citizen Kane
All Quiet on the Western Front
American Histroy X
Network
Pulp Fiction

Just a short list in no particular order, I know I'm missing a ton of stuff that deserves to be listed.

 

[ToiletPastries]

Thanks guys. I got 20 movies on the way and I haven't even gotten through every list. Keep 'em coming.

 

[.:cake:.]

School of rock
21
Indiana Jones (all of them)

 

[Carne]

Saving Private Ryan(War)
Band of Brothers (10 episodes, war).
Shaun of the Dead(Comedy/Horror).
Gladiator (Drama/Action)
O Brother, where art though? (Comedy)
Back to the Future 1, 2 and 3(Comedy).[/url]
Flags of our Fathers (War).
Letters from Iwo Jima (War).
Hot Fuzz (Action/Comedy).
Jurassic Park 1, 2 and 3(Action/Adventure).
3:10 to Yuma (Western/Action).
Planet Terror (Action/Horror).
Braveheart (Drama/War).
Children of Men (Thriller)
El laberinto del fauno (Drama/Fantasy)
Sin City (Action/Thriller)
No County for Old Men (Drama/Thriller)
Black Sheep (Horror/Comedy)

That's just some, I might add more later.

 

[i feel a psalm comin on]

grease
saturday night fever

it seems very few people like these movies

 

[Passerby]

the sting (classic)
the man who would be king (classic adventure pre indian jones)
patch adams
godfather 1, 2 and 3( do i have to tell you)
Forest Gump (classic)
good will hunting (classic)
goodfellas(classic)
O Brother, Where Art Thou
The Shawshank Redemption
The Royal Tenenbaums
Across the Universe

 

[Skeletor]

American History X

The Island

Sin City

Religulous

Clerks 1 and 2

The Italian Job

 

[Carmine]

The Gods Must be Crazy

Everything else I would say has already been said.

If you don't love The Gods Must be Crazy then I will eat my computer.

 

[!Woodstock!]

Schindler's List (War / Drama) (About the Jews in WWII)
We Were Soldiers (War) (Viet War)
Punisher (Action) (More action, less good storyline)
Payback (Action) (^^^)
Enemy At The Gates (War) (Russian Sniper vs. American Sniper in Stalingrad)
Dead and Breakfast (Comedy/Zombies)
Gladiator (Drama / Action) (Story of a Roman gladiator)
Death Race (2008) (Action) (Over-the-top action)
Memphis Belle (Classic/War) (Bombers in WWII)

 

[Captain Canuck]

The Gods Must be Crazy

That movie was pure awesome!:thumbup: