10 Movies everyone should own.

Britalian · Nov 19, 2009

I tried to watch the Matrix for the first time a few months ago and ejected after 15' or so. Reeves is completely unwatchable. He makes my sideboard seem animated.

Hombre Secreto · Nov 19, 2009

Originally Posted by GQgeek

No, I'm looking for good movies period.

And Crank? Really?

Those Crank movies are so bad... they are actually good.

Cleav · Nov 19, 2009

Halcyon days

baseball_guy · Nov 19, 2009

Originally Posted by Ataturk

I take "movies you should own" to mean movies that you'd like to watch, presumably more than once.

Some movies get better with multiple viewings. The Godfather is a movie that I get more out of watching it now then when I first watched it. Casino entertains me even though I have seen it a dozen times. I can't count the number of times Rocky came on TV and I couldn't change the channel. Jackie Gleason makes me smile as Buford T Justice.

Neo_Version 7 · Nov 20, 2009

Originally Posted by Britalian

I tried to watch the Matrix for the first time a few months ago and ejected after 15' or so. Reeves is completely unwatchable. He makes my sideboard seem animated.

I can see this happening with something like The Day The Earth Stood Still but with The Matrix?

Mr Herbert · Nov 20, 2009

Blade Runner
The Thin Red Line
Downfall
Apocalypse Now
Live Flesh
Tristram Shandy - A Cock and Bull Story
The Proposition
Breaker Morant
12 Canoes
Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon

Egdon Heath · Nov 20, 2009

Were this a list of movies you shouldn't own, not because they're bad, but because they glue lasting images into your head that you really don't want stuck there, I would list:
Blue Velvet Natural Born Killers A Clockwork Orange Reservoir Dogs.
However, those images can be partially rinsed away with a big fat helping of Barry Levinson, particularly Dinner and Tin Men.

epb · Nov 20, 2009

Originally Posted by Neo_Version 7

I can see this happening with something like The Day The Earth Stood Still but with The Matrix?

I can sort of see it - great as the film is, it starts off fairly slow, aside from the intro scene where Trinity is chased by agents.

coldarchon · Nov 20, 2009

Originally Posted by epb

I can sort of see it - great as the film is, it starts off fairly slow, aside from the intro scene where Trinity is chased by agents.
so you expected a sci-fi version of alice in wonderland to start with hypnagogic hallucinations?

Gherkins · Nov 20, 2009

Operation Petticoat
Bringing up Baby
The Year of Living Dangerously
the original Alien
the original Pirates of the Caribbean
High Noon
Excalibur
North by Northwest
To Catch a Thief
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

edit: Make that eleven - Much Ado about Nothing

epb · Nov 20, 2009

Originally Posted by coldarchon

so you expected a sci-fi version of alice in wonderland to start with hypnagogic hallucinations?

I was talking about someone else's response. I don't know how or why, maybe because I don't own a television, but I first saw The Matrix completely cold - I had no idea what it was about, or even who was in it. When Neo woke up in that goo, I was staring at the screen like

Me, I don't mind if a movie starts slow and gets moving, but Hollywood knows most people simply don't have the attention span. Now everything starts with a bang then backtracks to fill in the story, so they don't lose the Playstation generation.

Contingency Plan · Nov 20, 2009

twilight

Roy · Nov 20, 2009

Godfather
AmÃ

lie
La Dolce Vita
La Vita Ã

Bella
Pulp Fiction
Shawshank Redemption
Schindlers List
Kurosawas Seven Samurai
Dr. Strangelove
Scent of a woman

GQgeek · Nov 20, 2009

Originally Posted by Contingency Plan

twilight

I'm glad you didn't name another nine.

Neo_Version 7 · Nov 20, 2009

Originally Posted by Contingency Plan

twilight

No. Just....no.

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