Just name the movies you think everyone should have seen at least once in their lifetime. Go!
- Monty Python and the Holy Grail
- The Big Lebowski
- Inception
Edit: Can’t believe I left these out:
- High Fidelity
- Princess Bride
ALRIGHT!
We’re throwing rocks tonight!
Terminator and Terminator 2: Judgement Day
*The Terminator […]
They dropped, for whatever reason, the The after the first movie.
Because there’s always more than one after that haha
He’s no longer The Terminator, just A Terminator
Thanks :) The The: also a good band, btw.
You’re twice the the he ever was!
Princess Mononoke
- The Thing Carpenter’s version
- Shawshank Redemption
- Yojimbo
- The Seventh Seal
- Duck Soup
- No Country For Old Men
- The Naked Gun
- Back to the Future
- The Guest
- Shrek
- The Hunt for Red October
- The Blues Brothers
- Dark City
- The rifftrax version of Jaws
- Double Indemnity
- Lord of the Rings trilogy
- Hot Fuzz
- The Dead Don’t Die
- Hunt for the Wilderpeople
- Free Solo
- In the Loop
- Evil Dead original
- Office Space
- Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
- The Cabin in the Woods
- Clue
- North by Northwest
- Brick
- The Sting
- Return of the Jedi
- Casablanca
- The Third Man
I fucking love In the Loop, but it took me a few viewings to understand what the hell was going on. I should watch it again.
The TV show was really good too, but the movie captures the absurdity so well.
Movie was more accessible, Thick of It series was blacker, crueller humour
Shoutout for mentioning Brick. Modern noir masterpiece I never see mentioned online. Great, eclectic list overall!
- The Fifth Element
- Big Trouble in Little China
- LOtR
- Akira
- Up
- Caddyshack
- Animal House
- Goodfellas
- The Godfather
- Shawshank Redemption
- Schindler’s List
- The Shining
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Idiocracy. It was funny when it came out. Now it hurts.
That might explain why I didn’t like it too much. I saw it last year, it probably hits too close to home :/
Seriously. Hulk Hogan spoke at the RNC thing tonight. Idiocracy is real. It’s happening.
Big Trouble in Little China
Princess Bride
Romancing the Stone
The Shining
Full Metal Jacket
Big Trouble in Little China
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Brazil
A Clockwork Orange
12 Monkeys
The Abominable Dr.Phibes
3 from Gilliam? Agreed, tho Might as well just watch everything he’s associated with.
Fisher King & Time Bandits are lovely. Zero Theorem, the Man Who Killed Don Quixote, Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, Adventures of Baron Munchausen.
All the Monty Python, of course.
Clockwork Orange was pivotal in my late teens, early twenties.
Eraserhead as well, other Lynch works: Blue Velvet, Twin Peaks & Lost Highway hold solid ground for me.
- The Thing ('82)
- Hot Fuzz
- Mad Max: Fury Road
- Spirited Away
- Taxi Driver
- The Matrix
- Unforgiven
- Nosferatu
- Suspiria ('77)
- 12 Angry Men
- Psycho
- The Wizard of Oz
“Should have seen” is strange, I’ll go with titles that, if you are into cinema probably you have heard about?
Citizen Kane
The Seventh Sigil
Apocalypse Now
Vertigo (Any Hitchcock movie really)
Seven Samurai (Any Kurosawa movie really)
Pretty much anything from Buster Keaton
Charlie Chaplin (I guess Modern Times)
The Godfather part I & II
Taxi Driver
On the Waterfront (Peak Marlon Brando stuff)
Some Truffaut stuff (I guess “Day for Night” would be the most relevant here)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind to get pretty much everything interesting from the Spielberg side of things
Man with a Camera (ok this one is not something I espect any conema lover to know, it’s a very early montage wonder from Russia, always good to get back there and get reminded progress doesn’t always go forward)
La Dolce Vita
2001: A Space Odyssey
Shining
A Clockwork Orange
Reservoir Dogs
Lost Highway (The better Mulholland Drive)
Blade Runner
The Matrix
Star Wars
There’s some good newer stuff but it’s much less “popular” so it wouldn’t make sense to expect anybody to know them. Very little new stuff looks like has the staying power to be relevant years down the line.
I guess The Lord of the Rings? But I consider it more of a great book that got a quality adaptation than a ground breaking stepping stone of cinema.
No country for old men, probably.
Just off the top of my head: Alien and Aliens are wonderful, Apocalypse Now needs no introduction, Interstellar, 2001: A Space Odyssey, and finally Oppenheimer, which is one of the best movies ever made in my opinion (what can I say, I’m a sucker for an incredibly well-told story).
The Road, so people should know what to expect in a decade or so.
No particular order. Also, it’s movies that I watched, can’t speak on essentials that I might be missing.
It’s kinda hard to make a list on essentials tho. Because your personal taste obviously plays a big role. I can’t see my girlfriend liking more than 10 percent of those…
Schindlers List
Gladiator
No country for old men
The grand Budapest hotel
The big Lebowski
The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers
Star Wars (the original one)
Requiem for a dream
Pulp fiction
The good, the bad, the ugly
The lives of others
La vita é Bella
All quiet on the western front (1930 version)
The dark knight
The Truman Show
2001: Space odyssey
Alien
7 Samurai
Princess Mononoke
Trainspotting
Boyz N the Hood
Scarface
The Godfather 1, 2
The Matrix
Clockwork Orange
Shutter Island
Kingdom of Heaven
Wolf of Wall Street
Honorable mentions because they are popular and everybody always talks about them (I like a lot of them, too. Don’t consider them essentials tho):
Inception
Interstellar
Fight Club
Harry Potter
Return of the King
Rest of Star Wars (whatever people consider the good ones at last)
Saving Private Ryan
Django Unchained
Toy Story
The Lion King
Donnie Darko
Office Space
Equilibrium
Amélie
Back to the Future