Meant for an American audience of course: http://movies.yahoo.com/feature/100-movies-to-see-before-you-die.html
I have only seen 42 of them...dang I better get busy.
My total's about 73. This makes me the better person.
Way too many pre-1980 movies.
I think this list sucks.
A lot of overhyped, bad movies (e.g. Titanic), lacks a lot of great movies (Fight Club, American Beauty, A Clockwork Orange, etc.). It looks like made by someone who saw them before he died a decade ago.
I mean seriously, Groundhog Day? It's an amusing little movie which I quite enjoyed but considering the magnitude of the movies they missed, this is criminal.
Marcin and francis are clueless as usually, not surprised.
Oh and seen 80 of them.
Quote from: katmai on March 24, 2009, 08:34:40 AM
Marcin and francis are clueless as usually, not surprised.
Oh and seen 80 of them.
::) ::) ::)
There's technical differences I just cannot get over. 1922 movies? Seriously?
Quote from: Brazen on March 24, 2009, 08:25:48 AM
My total's about 73. This makes me the better person.
:worship:
Metropolis and Things to Come should have been on there with the other Fritz Lang movies.
Quote from: Darth Wagtaros on March 24, 2009, 08:56:02 AM
Metropolis and Things to Come should have been on there with the other Fritz Lang movies.
:bleeding:
Groundhog Day is an American classic :mad:
48
Quote from: Darth Wagtaros on March 24, 2009, 08:56:02 AM
Metropolis and Things to Come should have been on there with the other Fritz Lang movies.
Correct.
Really, why does Marty suck so bad?
17
27. Haven't seen most of the ones that are older than I am.
Seen about all of them, except for a few foreign ones listed. Bicycle thief? Fuck that shit.
33.
Quote from: Ed Anger on March 24, 2009, 10:20:51 AM
Seen about all of them, except for a few foreign ones listed. Bicycle thief? Fuck that shit.
:cry: Now i'll take my moped and go to tell my momma you diss italian cinema!
L.
Quote from: Pedrito on March 24, 2009, 10:32:44 AM
Quote from: Ed Anger on March 24, 2009, 10:20:51 AM
Seen about all of them, except for a few foreign ones listed. Bicycle thief? Fuck that shit.
:cry: Now i'll take my moped and go to tell my momma you diss italian cinema!
L.
Damn Vespa drivers. Worse than bicycle riders.
Quote from: Ed Anger on March 24, 2009, 10:20:51 AM
Seen about all of them, except for a few foreign ones listed. Bicycle thief? Fuck that shit.
They are nearly all foreign movies, hardly a British one on the list :bowler:
66 btw
ps. our smilies are coming back :w00t:
Quote from: Ed Anger on March 24, 2009, 10:36:46 AM
Damn Vespa drivers. Worse than bicycle riders.
Tomorrow I'll post a pic of my Vespa :smarty:
L.
71.
Seen 62 of those, though the number goes up if I add the movies in my library that are on my list to watch. Probably to about 70.
51 ^_^
Groundhog Day is brilliant.
Quote from: Ed Anger on March 24, 2009, 10:36:46 AM
Quote from: Pedrito on March 24, 2009, 10:32:44 AM
Quote from: Ed Anger on March 24, 2009, 10:20:51 AM
Seen about all of them, except for a few foreign ones listed. Bicycle thief? Fuck that shit.
:cry: Now i'll take my moped and go to tell my momma you diss italian cinema!
L.
Damn Vespa drivers. Worse than bicycle riders.
Cept those Vespa Anti-tank scooters they had in the Cold War.
Oh and good list. A few movies I didn't like but mostly for reasons of taste rather then quality. Not much from the horror genre (which I'm not a fan of really, but should get some repersentation), I'd put in Night of the Living Dead. A movie that has had quite a bit of influence and is a pretty good film. I would think that for essential viewing you should have the best of a genre and/or very influential. Another one that should be added would be Gone with the Wind. Not one of my favorites but well made, beloved and influential film.
59. And: Sound of Music? :bleeding:
I need to brush up on 1940s movies.
I have seen all but 5 on the list:
8 1/2, In the Mood for Love, Modern Times (i've seen about a dozen other Chaplins though), Wild Strawberries, The World of Apu
Snow White I saw, but not since I was 7 years old.
65.
When Harry Met Sally? :unsure:
Seen roughly 75.
Quote from: Darth Wagtaros on March 24, 2009, 08:56:02 AM
Metropolis and Things to Come should have been on there with the other Fritz Lang movies.
Things to Come wasn't a Fritz Lang Movie; William Menzies was the director. HG Wells told everyone how much he hated Metropolis and told the director and actors to do everything the opposite of Lang in Things to Come.
I've seen 83 of the movies on the list. :)
Beaten by Sav and JR <_<
Quote from: katmai on March 24, 2009, 04:25:02 PM
Beaten by Sav and JR <_<
I only scored so high because there are, in the words of Grey Fox, "Way too many pre-1980 movies" on the list.
Quote from: katmai on March 24, 2009, 04:25:02 PM
Beaten by Sav and JR <_<
Thanks for the recognition Paco. :mad:
I've seen 14 of them in their entirety (though one of them was dubbed in Russian). I better not die any time soon.
Only 41. And I probably ought to see some of those again--I haven't seen some of them in more than 30 years, and even some of the ones made since then, I haven't seen since they first came out (f.e., Blue Velvet--hard to believe that it's been 23 years since it was released).
53. I'm not much of a fan of a lot of older cinema.
48. Not a bad list.
Quote from: Ed Anger on March 24, 2009, 04:36:45 PM
Quote from: katmai on March 24, 2009, 04:25:02 PM
Beaten by Sav and JR <_<
Thanks for the recognition Paco. :mad:
I've seen most of them but the Foreign ones isn't a number!
I have: seen them all!
63. As in every list of this kind, I miss some movies that IMHO should have been included, and one or two that... well, let's just say that they are controversial. National Lampoon's Animal House? If I have to watch it before I die, I'm worried about enthropy killing the Universe before I buy the farm.
And I will never understand why 'Saving Private Ryan' is so highly valued, only the very first minutes, the landing, are any good; the rest is eminently forgetable. Any 'Band of Brothers' episode, for example, is far better than SPR. And 'Band of Brothers' is a TV series...
37 and I hardly watch any movies. Oh, I have beaten Garbon :P
Quote from: Alatriste on March 25, 2009, 01:56:21 AM
63. As in every list of this kind, I miss some movies that IMHO should have been included, and one or two that... well, let's just say that they are controversial. National Lampoon's Animal House? If I have to watch it before I die, I'm worried about enthropy killing the Universe before I buy the farm.
You're worse than Hitler when he bombed Pearl Harbor. :(
Quote from: Brazen on March 24, 2009, 08:25:48 AM
My total's about 73. This makes me the better person.
71 :shakefist:
Quote from: The Nickname Who Was Thursday on March 25, 2009, 03:05:44 AM
You're worse than Hitler when he bombed Pearl Harbor. :(
Amen. Animal House definitely belongs. Room should have been made for Caddy Shack too.
:cheers:
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Some are awful.
I'm not going to count. I've seen a lot of them though.
And Band a part > all the other pretentious French crap they mention.
Quote from: The Nickname Who Was Thursday on March 25, 2009, 03:05:44 AM
Quote from: Alatriste on March 25, 2009, 01:56:21 AM
63. As in every list of this kind, I miss some movies that IMHO should have been included, and one or two that... well, let's just say that they are controversial. National Lampoon's Animal House? If I have to watch it before I die, I'm worried about enthropy killing the Universe before I buy the farm.
You're worse than Hitler when he bombed Pearl Harbor. :(
Hey, that was his finest moment: he was so clever most people still blame the Japanese!
Quote from: dps on March 24, 2009, 08:36:27 PM
Only 41. And I probably ought to see some of those again--I haven't seen some of them in more than 30 years, and even some of the ones made since then, I haven't seen since they first came out (f.e., Blue Velvet--hard to believe that it's been 23 years since it was released).
I can't believe that was on the list... it was entertaining, creepy and fucked up, but I don't know that I consider it to be a "great film". If the list makers insist on a David Lynch film, and they probably did due to the creepy and fucked-up qualities of his films, Eraserhead would have been a better choice.
Also, why aren't Patton and Spartacus on this list‽:ultra:
Quote from: Alatriste on March 25, 2009, 05:12:41 AM
Hey, that was his finest moment: he was so clever most people still blame the Japanese!
So sad. If only you had seen Animal House.
Quote from: Caliga on March 25, 2009, 07:10:39 AM
Also, why aren't Patton and Spartacus on this list‽:ultra:
Probably because Spartacus is a mediocre movie despite the spiffy presentation of the Roman Maniples.
Quote from: Valmy on March 25, 2009, 08:38:20 AMProbably because Spartacus is a mediocre movie despite the spiffy presentation of the Roman Maniples.
:mad:
I wanted some damn props for using an interrobang earlier in the thread. :(
I've seen 26 of them. I didn't think I would have seen that many, as I'm not much of a movie buff.
Every single one of them. some dozens of times.
90. Most of the ones that I've missed are foreign.
Quote from: Alatriste on March 25, 2009, 01:56:21 AMNational Lampoon's Animal House? If I have to watch it before I die, I'm worried about enthropy killing the Universe before I buy the farm.
For us it's neglectable, in the US it seems to be iconic. It's a matter of bias in the drafting of the list.
Oh, and around 50 here.
Animal House is easy to watch. Skip any parts with Donald Sutherland and karen Allen with him and the road trip. Then it is very watchable.
Decent list. Also, I'm proud of my fellow Languishites for shouting down Martinus and his Groundhog Day hatred. :hug:
Quote from: The Larch on March 25, 2009, 05:05:19 PM
Quote from: Alatriste on March 25, 2009, 01:56:21 AMNational Lampoon's Animal House? If I have to watch it before I die, I'm worried about enthropy killing the Universe before I buy the farm.
For us it's neglectable, in the US it seems to be iconic. It's a matter of bias in the drafting of the list.
Oh, and around 50 here.
I'm surprised Animal House doesn't tranlate well to Europe; it has some of John Belushi's finest work. Is it because the Frat House stereotypes don't apply to the European University system?
Quote from: Savonarola on March 27, 2009, 08:52:35 AM
I'm surprised Animal House doesn't tranlate well to Europe; it has some of John Belushi's finest work. Is it because the Frat House stereotypes don't apply to the European University system?
I think so. I'm with the Spaniards in that it's not a film I'd heard of until I came to this board.
Also John Belushi's nowhere near as famous as I think he is in the US. I mean I think he did Saturday Night Live there for some years so he's got this history for Americans. I, at least, only really know him from the Blues Brothers.
Blues Brothers & Animal House are both seminal films for a certain generation(mine) in North America (and by NA I mean US & Canada.) Sheilbh. Most Males my age have seen these films a zillion times. Like a classically trained Shakespearean actor quoting the bard.: I/We used to be able to quote any passage you asked back in tha day from these movies, Caddyshack, and other SNL related material.
There's a very sentimental attachment to many of these films felt by many people between 40 and 50 in Canda & the US.
Quebec excepted. No fraternities here. Never saw Animal House (never heard of it either) and discovered Blues Brothers very late. Strangely, the other National Lampoon stuff were unfrequently aired (at least I vaguely recall some of them with Chevy Chase).
Quote from: Oexmelin on March 28, 2009, 02:43:08 PM
Strangely, the other National Lampoon stuff were unfrequently aired (at least I vaguely recall some of them with Chevy Chase).
For the love of god, skip European and Vegas vacation. The first one and the Christmas one are good.
84. Pretty good, I guess.