Discussion 30 films to watch before you die

[igor_kavinski]

30 films you need to watch before you die

Don't miss out those movies

www.starsinsider.com

@DigDog

How many have you seen? Anything wrong with this list? What would be your #30moviesbeforeyoudie list?

EDIT: Sorry, it was an MSN article but those links usually disappear after a few days so posted the original site's URL. Unfortunately, starsinsider is a hella crappy site.

MSN

 

[sactoking]

Was it just my browser or did that site not actually show the names of the movies in the sideshow? Kinda hard to have a takeaway of "Ooh, I need to see this movie!" if you don't know what the movie is.

Having said that, Edward Scissorhands being #2 on the list kinda invalidates the rest of the list in my opinion. Might as well have Krull on the list.

 

[Muse]

Yeah, find the list and post it here. WTF.

 

[DigDog]

30 films you need to watch before you die

Don't miss out those movies

www.starsinsider.com

@DigDog

How many have you seen? Anything wrong with this list? What would be your #30moviesbeforeyoudie list?

i have NOT seen, Call Me By Your Name, Before Sunrise, Brokebutt Mountain, Separation, In The Mood For Love. I've seen the others.
Frankly, this is a shit list.

 

[Muse]

i have NOT seen, Call Me By Your Name, Before Sunrise, Brokebutt Mountain, Separation, In The Mood For Love. I've seen the others.
Frankly, this is a shit list.

The one of those I have seen is Before Sunrise. It is excellent, as well as the other 2 of the trilogy.

 

[Muse]

I haven't seen the list.

I suggest:

My Dinner with Andre

Casablanca

Pulp Fiction

One Eyed Jacks (get the BR, not one of the crappy knockoffs made when it was in the Public Domain)

The Philadelphia Story

"Most anything released by Criterion," I've been told, and for that there's The Criterion Channel

Sure, It Won an Oscar. But Is It Criterion?

How the Criterion Collection became the film world’s arbiter of taste.

www.nytimes.com

 

[DigDog]

Casablanca

Pulp Fiction

well, i mean, these aren't particularly daring recommendations, are they? two 10/10 films.

 

[Muse]

well, i mean, these aren't particularly daring recommendations, are they? two 10/10 films.

Of course, however there are some people who haven't seen them. We're not being asked for daring recommendations just ones not to be missed here. Those two should be seen several times.

 

[brianmanahan]

i've only watched 2 out of these 30, the truman show and back to the future

actually maybe only the truman show - i think i only saw back to the future 2, not the original

 

[igor_kavinski]

'Coming to America' (1988)

'Edward Scissorhands' (1990)

'Schindler's List' (1994)

'Parasite' (2019)

'Titanic' (1997)

'The Truman Show' (1998)

'Do the Right Thing' (1989)

'Call Me by Your Name' (2017)

'Life is Beautiful' (1997)

'The Godfather' (1972)

'Her' (2013)

'Casablanca' (1942)

'Before Sunrise' (1995)

'You've Got Mail' (1998)

'Pulp Fiction' (1994)

'Mean Girls' (2004)

'Brokeback Mountain' (2005)

'City of God' (2002)

'Forrest Gump' (1994)

"The Notebook" (2004)

'The Sound of Music' (1965)

'Get Out' (2017)

'Back to the Future' (1985)

'The Graduate' (1967)

'Dead Poets Society' (1989)

'Moonlight' (2016)

'The Rocky Horror Picture Show' (1975)

'A Separation' (2011)

'In the Mood for Love' (2000)



BOLD means I've seen it. RED means I probably won't see it. BLUE means I may have seen it but don't remember. GREEN means seen it and LOVED IT!

I probably missed a movie.

 

[GodisanAtheist]

Looks like a kinda click-baity list.

Nothing really revelatory there and honestly a lot of very mid movies (entertaining movies, but nothing that you couldn't live without seeing even as a movie buff).

 

[igor_kavinski]

My personal list off the top of my head:

Matrix

John Wick

Toy Story

Devil's Advocate

Mission Impossible

Love Actually

One flew over the cuckoo's nest

Awakenings

Jumanji

Jumanji (with Dwayne Johnson)

Die Hard

Gravity

Many that I can't remember coz seriously, the number of movies I love is HUGE.

 

[manly]

[snipped]

BOLD means I've seen it. RED means I probably won't see it. BLUE means I may have seen it but don't remember. GREEN means seen it and LOVED IT!

I probably missed a movie.

It wasn't a "bad" list, but obviously not exactly IMDB's Top 50 either.

Parasite, Life is Beautiful and City of God are all very good films. Ingrid Bergman is radiant in Casablanca, and The Sound of Music is a musical that most people should watch once in their lives.

 

[igor_kavinski]

"Most anything released by Criterion," I've been told

That reminds me.

This was a Criterion release: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0457430/

Man, that movie impressed the hell out of me, despite it being low budget and not even in English!

 

[Muse]

2 more on my list of must sees:

Jerry Maguire
Titanic

 

[WilliamM2]

"The Godfather" did not make the list? OK....

 

[highland145]

They missed Debbie does Dallas and Behind the Green Door.

 

[igor_kavinski]

"The Godfather" did not make the list? OK....

It did.

 

[igor_kavinski]

They missed Debbie does Dallas and Behind the Green Door.

Eyes wide shut

 

[WilliamM2]

It did.

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SomehowI missed it. Old eyes.
Of course i still think the list contans many completely forgettable fiilms.

 

[GodisanAtheist]

My most memorable movies list in no particular order:

- 12 Monkeys

- Seven

- Saving Private Ryan

- Letters from Iwo Jima

- Apocalypse Now

- Matrix

- Akira

- Jurassic Park

- Gladiator

- Alien

- Aliens

- Robocop

- Terminator 2

- Lord of the Rings (Whole Trilogy)

- Dr. Strange love

- The Thing (80's John Carpenter Edition)

- The Shining

- Blade Runner

- Pulp Fiction

- Star Wars (Original Trilogy)

- Tropic Thunder

- The Other Guys

- The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly

- Tombstone

- Citizen Kane (But only when paired with the more modern Mank).

I can probably dig deeper and come up with more, but that's what immediately comes to mind when I think movies.

Like any artform, what is a good movie is as informed by viewer preference as it is by the artists making the art.

 

[igor_kavinski]

- Seven

- Saving Private Ryan

- Jurassic Park

- Gladiator

- Terminator 2

- Lord of the Rings (Whole Trilogy)

- The Shining

- Blade Runner

- Star Wars (Original Trilogy)

Agree with the above.

 

[SKORPI0]

Much more agreeable to this lit of 100.

100 Films to See Before you Die

The definitive wolfcrow list of 100 films all filmmakers must see.

wolfcrow.com

 

[snoopy7548]

No Salo?

 

[SteveGrabowski]

Glad to see Do the Right Thing on the list; that's a masterpiece. Can't imagine one of these lists without Ikiru or Goodfellas though WTF.