Beaches?
I prefer the sequel Sons of Beaches.
Ah! This reminds me: Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Full Metal Jacket
Unforgiven
Rush (the car racing one)
Beerfest
The Shawshank Redemption
Little Caesar
A Tree Grows In Brooklyn
The Little Foxes
The Green Mile
Great Expectations
Hobson’s Choice
Night of the Hunter
Spartacus
Shane
Aliens
Jaws
The Thing (Horror, but well worth it)
Unforgiven
The Wizard of Oz
2001: A Space Odyssey
Apocalypse Now
Then anything else doesn’t matter you’ll have seen the best mankind has to over.
Boogie Nights
My Life as a Dog
Kelly’s Heroes
Casino
The Aristocrats
Crimes and Misdemeanors
The Third Man
Stagecoach
Red River
My Darling Clemintine
Singin’ in the Rain
Rebecca
The Wild Bunch
In the field of Westerns, and not yet noted:
The Big Country
High Noon
Pale Rider
The Ballad of Cable Hogue
The Magnificent Seven
The Professionals
Tombstone
Hombre
Silverado
Bringing Up Baby
The Lion in Winter
In the field of stoner movies:
Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay
Half Baked
Pineapple Express
Up In Smoke
Reefer Madness (for ironic purposes)
The Big Lebowski
Homegrown
The African Queen
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Once Upon a Time in the West
The Oxbow Incident
The Bedford Incident
Failsafe
12 Angry Men
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
7 Days in May
Judgement at Nuremberg
Triumph of the Will
All Quiet on the Western Front
Paths of Glory
Passport to Pimlico
Lets Kill Uncle
Hope and Glory
Empire of the Sun
Godzilla (actually, watch Godjira, the original edit for Japan, if you can)
The Seven Samurai
How about some classic comedies?
A Night at the Opera
Arsenic and Old Lace
Some Like It Hot
A Shot in the Dark
I remember “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum” as being really good, but I haven’t seen it in a long time.
Lots of classic movies and “films” listed here. When you want something to just entertain in a wierd offhand way try;
Very Bad Things
A Simple Plan
Feeling Minnesota
One Night At McCool’s
None of them will make any top (pick a number) list but they are entertaining.
I think we would be friends IRL, RikWriter. I see a lot of my other favourite movies across genres here, so I will avoid repeating them, but will add (in no particular order):
[ul]
[li]Pacific Rim[/li][li]Avatar[/li][li]Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings trilogy[/li][li]Big Trouble in Little China[/li][li]The Matrix (two sequels optional; may take blue pill if desired)[/li][li]Oblivion (2013 film with Tom Cruise and Morgan Freeman)[/li][li]Army of Darkness (viewing of The Evil Dead movies not required for enjoyment)[/li][li]Starship Troopers[/li][li]RoboCop (original 1987 version with Peter Weller)[/li][li]Batman (1989 movie with Michael Keaton and Jack Nicholson)[/li][li]Superman II (1980 movie starring Christopher Reeve)[/li][li]Back to the Future (all three movies required viewing)[/li][li]Flash Gordon (1980 version with Sam J. Jones as Flash and soundtrack by Queen)[/li][li]Highlander (soundtrack also by Queen; avoid the sequels)[/li][li]Minority Report[/li][li]Jurassic Park[/li][li]Pulp Fiction[/li][li]Predator and Predator 2[/li][li]The Road Warrior (aka Mad Max 2)[/li][li]Escape from New York[/li][li]Snatch[/li][li]Stripes[/li][li]Caddyshack (skip the sequel)[/li][li]Fletch[/li][li]Ferris Bueller’s Day Off[/li][li]Better Off Dead[/li][li]National Lampoon’s Vacation (plus any Chevy Chase/Beverly D’Angelo sequels as time allows)[/li][li]This is Spinal Tap[/li][li]Silent Running[/li][li]Heavy Metal (1981 movie; avoid the sequel)[/li][li]Wizards (1977 Ralphi Bakshi film)[/li][li]Conan the Barbarian (1982 version with Arnold as title hero; sequel optional)[/li][li]Men in Black (there are also two sequels, but the first one is the best)[/li] [li]Nausicaa of the Valley of Wind[/li][li]Lupin III and the Castle of Cagliostro (its greatness might be lost on you if you’re not familiar with the characters)[/li][li]The Incredibles[/li][/ul]
All these are at least worth a rental. Many of them are the kind of movies I could watch over and over again, any time they came on, and so I own them.
I feel like I’m making a list to show to my son as he grows up to make sure he doesn’t miss out. For my part, I will have to look into some of these other suggestions.
Incomplete without:
Roadhouse
Young Doctor Frankenstein
Blazing Saddles
The Spaghetti Western (Dollars) Trilogy
Dirty Harry
Death Wish - Bronson
I see there are a fair number of shitty movies too, and it’s reasonable to say you should watch some shitty mover to – to learn how shitty they can get.
May I suggest the shittiest of the shitty, certainly of this century – The Wicker Man 2006 remake with Nick Cage.