Discussion 30 films to watch before you die

[SteveGrabowski]

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

Jeez three Kurosawa films and they didn't even include his best (Ikiru). I like Seven Samurai but Ikiru is a way better film.

 

[Muse]

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

I've seen most of those, 67 of them for sure. I actually have 8 1/2 blu-ray checked out from my local library right now. Saw it decades ago in a movie house.

 

[igor_kavinski]

100 Films to See Before you Die

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

wolfcrow.com

Scream made it onto the list??? Really???

My favorites from this list (not mentioned before) are:

Fargo
Groundhog day
Amadeus

and that's it??? Wow. Film makers must be a sad bunch. I ain't watching old movies when there's plenty of new stuff to watch. Not a cinema history buff.

 

[SteveGrabowski]

My favorites from this list (not mentioned before) are:

Fargo
Groundhog day
Amadeus

I can never get tired of that movie. Was reading an article speculating he and the crew died on the road in that blizzard and he basically spent at least 30 years in purgatory in Punxsutawney (since it probably took him 10 years to learn to play the piano, 10 years to become a doctor, 10 years to become a master ice sculptor, etc) before earning his place into heaven and the pieces all seem to fit.

 

[Dr. Detroit]

Glad to see Do the Right Thing on the list; that's a masterpiece.

Do The Right Thing is a masterpiece - Spike Lee did amazing things by capturing the tension in NYC on a hot humid day, amazing dialogue, great cinematography.
He never came close in his other films although School Daze "Yes, Dean Big Brother Almighty" and Crooklyn were fantastic film making.

 

[Dr. Detroit]

Films people need to see:

• Bridge On the River Kwai
• Touch of Evil
• Apocalypse Now
• Thin Red Line
• Deliverance
• Raiders of the Lost Ark
• Close Encounters of the Third Kind
• North by Northwest
• The Graduate
• Stand and Deliver
• Midnight Express
• Breakdown
• Commando
• Once Upon A Time In Hollywood
• Taken
• Wind River
• They Live
• Training Day
• Dunkirk
• Pale Rider
• Apocalypto
• Colors
• Biloxi Blues
• Caddyshack
• Die Hard
• Lethal Weapon
• Beverly Hills Cop
• National Lampoon's Vacation

 

[SteveGrabowski]

I gotta put Grave of the Fireflies on the list too. Gotta be my favorite war movie.

Love the title 火垂るの墓 where 火垂る is read hotaru which means firefly, but with this kanji it can also be interpreted as fire dropping (from the sky) since it takes place around the firebombings of Kobe.

 

[PowerEngineer]

Sad that 2001 Space Odyssey has yet to be mentioned. 😔

 

[Lost_in_the_HTTP]

No Lean On Me?

Or Cooley High?

Kelly's Heroes?

Ghostbusters?

 

[GankileeF7]

I gotta put Grave of the Fireflies on the list too. Gotta be my favorite war movie.

Love the title 火垂るの墓 where 火垂る is read hotaru which means firefly, but with this kanji it can also be interpreted as fire dropping (from the sky) since it takes place around the firebombings of Kobe.

🎱

 

[igor_kavinski]

• Once Upon A Time In Hollywood
• Taken
• Wind River
• Training Day
• Dunkirk

Seen and agree.

 

[mikeymikec]

How on earth "Titanic" is still on anyone's list.... wait, "You've Got Mail" ?!?!?

'Top' lists are rarely any good unless one actually respects the person's taste with regard to that topic to begin with.

 

[Lost_in_the_HTTP]

Also missing .. West Side Story.

 

[DAPUNISHER]

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

With their grading system explained I think their list makes sense. Half that list would not make my own though.

The list you guys made I like much more.

Have to add to the lists -

Sergeant York
Cyrano De Bergerac (1950)
The Rover
Big Trouble in Little China
Evil Dead 2
Unforgiven
The Outlaw Josey Wales
Glory
Pee-wee's Big Adventure
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
Fifth Element
The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
Forbidden Planet
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Jerimiah Johnson
Stalag 17
Enter the Dragon
Iron Man
The Andromeda Strain
Contact
Conan the Barbarian
Predator
The Terminator

 

[Dr. Detroit]

Have to add to the lists -

Sergeant York
The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)

These two films are must sees if you are a lover of film! Both are over 70yrs old and are just fantastic film-making.

 

[igor_kavinski]

Unforgiven
Enter the Dragon
Iron Man
Contact

Agree.

 

[esquared]

What kind of list doesn't include any Hitchcock movies?

North by northwest
Rear Window
The Man who knew too much
Vertigo
The Birds
Psycho
Notorious
Strangers on a train
Just to name few

Bogart movies
Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Maltese Falcon
The Big Sleep
African Queen
To Have and Have not

Gable:
It Happened one night
Gone With the Wind
Mutiny on the Bounty

Cagney
White Heat


OP said he's not watching old movies so I guess for him, nineties and newer is it. so i guess fuck off to the previous 70-80 years of movie making

Any list that doesn't include some of these classic pictures is a shit list IMO.

 

[igor_kavinski]

OP said he's not watching old movies so I guess for him, nineties and newer is it.

Born in 1980 so not my fault

But I did like Star Wars!

 

[esquared]

in 1980 so not my fault

But I did like Star Wars!

Yeah and???
I wasn't born in the 20's, 30's, 40's either.

So any movie made before your birthday isn't worth watching?

 

[igor_kavinski]

Treasure of the Sierra Madre

That was a hard movie to watch for me, as a kid. I was like, yikes! Gold bad, bad bad! It also kinda made me hate Mexico and Mexicans forever.

 

[igor_kavinski]

Yeah and???
I wasn't born in the 20's, 30's, 40's either.

So any movie made before your birthday isn't worth watching?

Didn't really say that. But it's harder watching those coz as a kid, I was exposed to a lot more of the 80s and 90s stuff so have come to expect a minimum level of cinematography or style from a movie. Older movies, just look old and kinda hard to get myself to watch them. But some of them can be gripping from the get-go. I remember I watched this one movie with great interest, about a hospital that was killing patients with some anesthesia gas or something. Now that was pretty impressive plot for an old movie. Sorry, can't remember the name.

 

[DAPUNISHER]

What kind of list doesn't include any Hitchcock movies?

North by northwest
Rear Window
The Man who knew too much
Vertigo
The Birds
Psycho
Notorious
Strangers on a train
Just to name few

Bogart movies
Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Maltese Falcon
The Big Sleep
African Queen
To Have and Have not

Gable:
It Happened one night
Gone With the Wind
Mutiny on the Bounty

Cagney
White Heat


OP said he's not watching old movies so I guess for him, nineties and newer is it. so i guess fuck off to the previous 70-80 years of movie making

Any list that doesn't include some of these classic pictures is a shit list IMO.

Even my son liked African Queen. They watched it in a class when he was in H.S.

My favorite Cagney movie is Blood on the Sun. He has a full on MMA fight in that film. Both he and Bogart were Judoka. Bogart has a judo match with his old friend in Tokyo Joe.

North By Northwest inspired Bond movies.

Forbidden Planet heavily influenced Star Trek.

 

[Lost_in_the_HTTP]

Didn't really say that. But it's harder watching those coz as a kid, I was exposed to a lot more of the 80s and 90s stuff so have come to expect a minimum level of cinematography or style from a movie. Older movies, just look old and kinda hard to get myself to watch them. But some of them can be gripping from the get-go. I remember I watched this one movie with great interest, about a hospital that was killing patients with some anesthesia gas or something. Now that was pretty impressive plot for an old movie. Sorry, can't remember the name.

But that's exactly why the older ones are better. They really had to work to make films. Once they started shooting on tape instead of film, things went down hill. Then came the computer fakery instead of real scenes.

Watch Grand Prix or some of the other Cinerama stuff shot on three 70 MM cameras and stitched together for curved wide screen and then think about cinematography.

Grand Prix (1966 film) - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Garner worked with the drivers and drove the Formula 1 cars, no green screen stuff.


Think about what it took to make films like The Good, The Bad and The Ugly, then talk about cinematography.

 

[Lost_in_the_HTTP]

Also missing from all of the lists above

Young Frankenstein and most other Mel Brooks stuff as well as all of the classic monster movies, Frankenstein, Dracula and so on.


And what kind of movie list doesn't include Airport?

Joe Patroni:

"That's one nice thing about the 707. It can do everything but read."

"You might fly these things but I take them apart and put them back together again. If you had any guts we'd be on the runway by now."

"Who do ya think you're talking to, some kid that fixes bicycles? I know every inch of the 707! Take the wings off this and you could use it as a TANK! This plane is built to withstand anything... except a bad pilot."

 

[manly]

in 1980 so not my fault



Yeah and???
I wasn't born in the 20's, 30's, 40's either.

So any movie made before your birthday isn't worth watching?

Classic films are quite different, and they don't appeal to everyone. They're a lot more like plays recorded on camera than modern films with SFX and CGI up the ass.

I agree with you there are plenty of classic talkies worth watching. I've probably seen only one or two silent films ever, occasional Charlie Chaplin scenes notwithstanding.

With so much content available in the streaming era, it's just impossible to watch a lot of stuff that we think we want to watch (or read, or listen to, or game on). Most of us really have to ration what media we consume, unless you're the type to binge watch TV.