What Movies Are You Watching Lately

[hpreston]

Seen:
The Godfather
Star Wars
Jaws
Raiders of the Lost Ark(I believe)

Never finished:
Chinatown
Casablanca

Not a sci-fan/MASH, so never caught:
Blade Runner
MASH

Never watched:
Lawrence of Arabia
Seven Samurai

Need to get to:
North by Northwest
Apocalypse Now
Raging Bull(and I am a HUGE boxing fan)

Don't know:
Metropolis

If you don’t like Sci-Fi skip Blade Runner and Metropolis

MASH the film is so different than the show that came later, I’d still recommend it. Otherwise add Nashville to your list (same director)

 

[Cotillion]

Seen:
The Godfather
Star Wars
Jaws
Raiders of the Lost Ark(I believe)

Never finished:
Chinatown
Casablanca

Not a sci-fan/MASH, so never caught:
Blade Runner
MASH

Never watched:
Lawrence of Arabia
Seven Samurai

Need to get to:
North by Northwest
Apocalypse Now
Raging Bull(and I am a HUGE boxing fan)

Don't know:
Metropolis

North by Northwest and Vertigo should be essential movies.
The Godfather 2 if you haven't seen it is essential.
12 Angry Men is essential.
I'd also add Rashomon, Rear Window, Double Indemnity, and Dr Strangelove to classic essentials.

For my tastes, for modern movies, I'd say No Country for Old Men, Hell or High Water, Drive, City of God, and Oldboy (2003) are essentials but crime is my genre.

 

[ter1413]

North by Northwest and Vertigo should be essential movies.
The Godfather 2 if you haven't seen it is essential.
12 Angry Men is essential.
I'd also add Rashomon, Rear Window, Double Indemnity, and Dr Strangelove to classic essentials.

For my tastes, for modern movies, I'd say No Country for Old Men, Hell or High Water, Drive, City of God, and Oldboy (2003) are essentials but crime is my genre.

I am actually putting together a list of some of my favorites. Will post.

-Godfather 2 was not as good as 1 in my opinion. But 1 is SO good.
-12 Angry Men...definitely(on my list.)
-Double Indemnity....in my top 5 of all time.
-No Country for Old Men...overrated. Watched it once. Never had to need to revisit.
-City of God...ok...great soundtrack. Caught it once.

 

[wojt]

North by Northwest and Vertigo should be essential movies.
The Godfather 2 if you haven't seen it is essential.
12 Angry Men is essential.
I'd also add Rashomon, Rear Window, Double Indemnity, and Dr Strangelove to classic essentials.

For my tastes, for modern movies, I'd say No Country for Old Men, Hell or High Water, Drive, City of God, and Oldboy (2003) are essentials but crime is my genre.

these are really great movies and essential,

I'd add to that some of my favorites that are less known and my have slipped under the radar for some, but if you like classic cinema should be a good watch:

Ace in the Hole
Out of the Past
Harvey
The Hill
The Train
Anatomy of a Murder
Harakiri
Laura
Lifeboat
To Have and Have Not
Heaven Can Wait
Divorce Italian Style
The Shop Around the Corner
To be or not to be
Stairway to Heaven aka A Matter of Life and Death
To catch a thief


..they don't make them like they used to.

 

[Texasmade]

these are really great movies and essential,

I'd add to that some of my favorites that are less known and my have slipped under the radar for some, but if you like classic cinema should be a good watch:

Ace in the Hole
Out of the Past
Harvey
The Hill
The Train
Anatomy of a Murder
Harakiri
Laura
Lifeboat
To Have and Have Not
Heaven Can Wait
Divorce Italian Style
The Shop Around the Corner
To be or not to be
Stairway to Heaven aka A Matter of Life and Death


..they don't make them like they used to.

I've literally never heard of a single one of these movies.

 

[wojt]

I've literally never heard of a single one of these movies.

Most were big films with big actors but faded into obscurity since then. In my opinion they are on par with the essential classics from that era. Laura can be viewed for Gene Tierney alone

 

[mhip]

I am actually putting together a list of some of my favorites. Will post.

-Godfather 2 was not as good as 1 in my opinion. But 1 is SO good.
-12 Angry Men...definitely(on my list.)
-Double Indemnity....in my top 5 of all time.
-No Country for Old Men...overrated. Watched it once. Never had to need to revisit.
-City of God...ok...great soundtrack. Caught it once.

I'd like to add "Staying Alive"...
I've probably seen it 30-ish times.
Soooooo underrated.

 

[ter1413]

these are really great movies and essential,

The Shop Around the Corner

..they don't make them like they used to.

Wow! One of my favorite Xmas time movies. Really like that. Funny as You've Got Mail is also on my list. Not a 5* flick, just a remake that I really like as much as the original.

 

[ter1413]

Some of my favorites:

-The Hustler
-Double Indemnity
-You've Got Mail
-Jaws
-Shawshank
-12 Angry men
-Se7en
-Silence of the Lambs
-Witness for the Prosecution
-The Sting
-Full metal jacket
-Scarface
-Heat
-Die Hard
-King Kong(original)
-3 Days of the Condor
-Hunt for Red October
-Animal House
-Love Jones
-Beverly Hills Cop
-Inside Man(Denzel, Clive & Jodie)
-Dog Day Afternoon
-Carlito's Way
-Do the Right Thing
-The Ten commandments
-A Few Good Men
-Malcolm X
-A Soldier Story
-Pelham 123(original)
-The Song of Bernadette
-Menace To Society
-The Affair(C. Vance)
-Miracle on 34th St(original)

-Edit.....Wizard of Oz
-Edit.....The French Connection
-Edit.....Fail Safe
-Edit....Invasion of the Body Snatchers(original)



Just a few that I can watch over and over. Not home right now or I would look on my shelf at some of the DVD's I own.

Some are 4-5 star. Some are just flicks that I can watch anytime. All are solid IMO!

 

[wojt]

Wow! One of my favorite Xmas time movies. Really like that. Funny as You've Got Mail is also on my list. Not a 5* flick, just a remake that I really like as much as the original.

Directed by Ernst Lubitsch whom I really like. Some of his flicks like Ninotchka(another great watch) were written by Billy Wilder who is maybe my all time favorite director/writer. You can watching these old Lubitsch movies that he was huge influence on Wilder.

 

[ter1413]

Directed by Ernst Lubitsch whom I really like. Some of his flicks like Ninotchka(another great watch) were written by Billy Wilder who is maybe my all time favorite director/writer. You can watching these old Lubitsch movies that he was huge influence on Wilder.

Take a look at my list. 2 Billy Wilder films on there!

 

[imatlas]

Had to look up the name. Under the Skin

Rarely do sci-fi so I never caught that.

May give it a look for the bewbs!

It's the role she was born to play. A sexy alien with completely flat affect.

Wow! One of my favorite Xmas time movies. Really like that. Funny as You've Got Mail is also on my list. Not a 5* flick, just a remake that I really like as much as the original.

I worked with a guy named Matuszek for a while, and I thought of The Shop Around the Corner every time we spoke. He'd never heard of .

 

[imatlas]

Films that I consider essential viewing:

Comedies:
It Happened One Night
Arsenic and Old Lace
Roman Holiday
Sabrina
Sabrina (seriously, the remake is excellent)
Bill & Ted

Drama:
Casablanca
Napoleon
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
North by Northwest
Rear Window
In the Heat of the Night
Easy Rider
Taxi Driver
Apocalypse Now
The Godfather

Horror:
Night of the Living Dead (orig.)
2001
Jaws
Alien
Martin
Aliens
Halloween
Suspiria
Let's Scare Jessica to Death
Get Out
Candyman
Let the Right One In (Swedish version)
Dawn of the Dead (the remake!!!)
Evil Dead

Unclassifiable Insanity:

Faust by Svankmajer
Alice, also by Svankmajer
Nekromantik
Der Todesking

 

[ter1413]

AFI’s 100 YEARS…100 MOVIES

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That's an old list. How many have you seen?

 

[wojt]

Some of my favorites:

-The Hustler
-Double Indemnity
-You've Got Mail
-Jaws
-Shawshank
-12 Angry men
-Se7en
-Silence of the Lambs
-Witness for the Prosecution
-The Sting
-Full metal jacket
-Scarface
-Heat
-Die Hard
-King Kong(original)
-3 Days of the Condor
-Hunt for Red October
-Animal House
-Love Jones
-Beverly Hills Cop
-Inside Man(Denzel, Clive & Jodie)
-Dog Day Afternoon
-Carlito's Way
-Do the Right Thing
-The Ten commandments
-A Few Good Men
-Malcolm X
-A Soldier Story
-Pelham 123(original)
-The Song of Bernadette
-Menace To Society
-The Affair(C. Vance)
-Miracle on 34th St(original)


Just a few that I can watch over and over. Not home right now or I would look on my shelf at some of the DVD's I own.

Some are 4-5 star. Some are just flicks that I can watch anytime. All are solid IMO!

Haven't seen the bolded ones, but added some to fill up my watch list. Gotta watch that Shawshank eventually. 🙂

Take a look at my list. 2 Billy Wilder films on there!

Unfortunately, I've already seen all but three or four of his movies, and all of his best.