20 Must See Movies (cinema, theater, family, western)

[Mr. Humble]

Of any era, any genre, and for whatever reasons..

On The Waterfront
It's a Wonderful Life
Mystic River
Raging Bull
Dog Day Afternoon

Sophie's Choice
American Beauty
From Here to Eternity
The Verdict
Godfather II

Easy Rider
Taxi Driver
State of Grace
The Graduate
Ordinary People

In the Heat of the Night
Unforgiven
The Big Lebowski
The Big Chill
Angels with Dirty Faces

[Mark S.]

A good list. Personally, I think The Big Chill, American Beauty, and Raging Bull are over-rated. Good movies, yes, but they wouldn't make my "best of" list.

[Mr. Humble]

Originally Posted by Mark S.

A good list. Personally, I think The Big Chill, American Beauty, and Raging Bull are over-rated. Good movies, yes, but they wouldn't make my "best of" list.

The Big Chill, I'll give you. I'll confess to a weakness for reunion flicks. Come to think of it, I do have a bias for the other two as well. Raging Bull, believe it or not, reminds me of a part of my childhood, and American Beauty, well, I am a middle age guy who glorifies his youth; thank God the only women I have a yen for are legal!!

I might throw in a few Bogart classics. Treasure of the Sierra Madre, Maltese Falcon, and instead of The Big Chill, how 'bout The Big Sleep?

[tuteishungry]

Originally Posted by Mr. Humble

Of any era, any genre, and for whatever reasons..

On The Waterfront
It's a Wonderful Life
Mystic River
Raging Bull
Dog Day Afternoon

Sophie's Choice
American Beauty
From Here to Eternity
The Verdict
Godfather II

Easy Rider
Taxi Driver
State of Grace
The Graduate
Ordinary People

In the Heat of the Night
Unforgiven
The Big Lebowski
The Big Chill
Angels with Dirty Faces

Amelie
What the Bleep Do We Know?
Waking Life
The Devil and Daniel Johnston
American Splendor
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

[Mr. Humble]

Originally Posted by tuteishungry

Amelie
What the Bleep Do We Know?
Waking Life
The Devil and Daniel Johnston
American Splendor
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Great choices, haven't seen the first two though. Eternal Sunshine blew me away. Jim Carey to me is one of those guys that can do anything. Like Robin Williams in that way.

[Giesela]

Gone With The Wind - on a big screen only

You have some good ones on your list and now their all I can think of! Shouldn't have read it.
Some of your list doesn't do that much for me.
American Beauty - agreed

They aren't great movies but had such a huge impact on my generation of kids - Ol Yeller - oh the sobbing! The Incredible Journey. More sobbing. Even Bambi. We are a family of big animal lovers

2001 Space Odyssey
Dr. Zhivago - ? maybe
The original Manchurian Candidate - I think I saw this in a big refurbished theater with live music in the 80s - was very impressed

[Mark S.]

I can appreciate 2001 as a masterpiece of cinematic art.

As a story? It doesn't work. The pacing is turgid. If Kubrick's theme had been, "Space is cold and quiet and boring" ... mission accomplished. And the ending? Had I not read the book before seeing the movie I would have had no clue what was going on.

Still, HAL is one of the greatest movie villains of all time. You gotta give the movie that.

[rogead]

Battleship Potemkin
Intolerance
Metropolis
Modern Times
Nosferatu
The Crowd
All Quiet on the Western Front
The Grapes of Wrath
Citizen Kane
Forbidden Games
The Bicycle Thief
Mr Smith Goes to Washington
The Seventh Seal
Seven Samurai
The Best Years of Our Lives
Casablanca
The Night of the Hunter
L'Avventura
2001 A Space Odyssey
Taxi Driver

[Giesela]

Originally Posted by Mark S.

I can appreciate 2001 as a masterpiece of cinematic art.

As a story? It doesn't work. The pacing is turgid. If Kubrick's theme had been, "Space is cold and quiet and boring" ... mission accomplished. And the ending? Had I not read the book before seeing the movie I would have had no clue what was going on.

Still, HAL is one of the greatest movie villains of all time. You gotta give the movie that.

I remember the monkey with the bones and the cross to tools and the idea that maybe aliens had helped us make the leap - WOooowowoWoowowoW! Cool Man! It was the 60s and a pretty novel iidea to me at the time.

[Mark S.]

Originally Posted by Giesela

I remember the monkey with the bones and the cross to tools and the idea that maybe aliens had helped us make the leap - WOooowowoWoowowoW! Cool Man! It was the 60s and a pretty novel iidea to me at the time.

The first time some friends of mine sat down to watch that movie, they were all sitting in the room, just staring. My friend Alan's jaw kept getting tighter and tighter. About 20 minutes into the movie he stood up and screamed, "SOMEBODY SAY SOMETHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII IIIIIIIIIIIIING!"