100 Movies To See Before You Die

[Sam Fisher]

http://movies.yahoo.com/feature/100-movies-to-see-before-you-die.html

12 Angry Men
2001: A Space Odyssey
The 400 Blows
8 ½
AThe African Queen
Alien
All About Eve
Annie Hall
Apocalypse Now
The Battle of Algiers
The Bicycle Thief
Blade Runner
Blazing Saddles
Blow Up
Blue Velvet
Bonnie and Clyde
Breathless
The Bridge on the River Kwai
Bringing Up Baby
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Casablanca
Chinatown
Citizen Kane
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Die Hard
Do the Right Thing
Double Indemnity
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Duck Soup
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
Enter the Dragon
The Exorcist
FFast Times At Ridgemont High
The French Connection
The Godfather
The Godfather, Part II
Goldfinger
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Goodfellas
The Graduate
Grand Illusion
Groundhog Day
H A Hard Day's Night
IIn the Mood For Love
It Happened One Night
It's a Wonderful Life
Jaws
King Kong
LThe Lady Eve
Lawrence of Arabia
The Lord of the Rings
M
M*A*S*H
The Maltese Falcon
The Matrix
Modern Times
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
National Lampoon's Animal House
Network
Nosferatu
On the Waterfront
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Paths of Glory
Princess Mononoke
Psycho
Pulp Fiction
Raging Bull
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Raise the Red Lantern
Rashomon
Rear Window
Rebel Without a Cause
Rocky
Roman Holiday
S Saving Private Ryan
Schindler's List
The Searchers
Seven Samurai
The Shawshank Redemption
The Silence of the Lambs
Singin' in the Rain
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Some Like It Hot
The Sound of Music
Star Wars
Sunset Blvd.
TTerminator 2: Judgment Day
The Third Man
This is Spinal Tap
Titanic
To Kill a Mockingbird
Toy Story
The Usual Suspects
Vertigo
WWhen Harry Met Sally
Wild Strawberries
Wings of Desire
The Wizard of Oz
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
The World of Apu

 

[Mutagen]

By Star Wars, I hope they mean the whole series. I'm also disappointed by the lack of comic movies. I'll keep the list in mind though.

 

[Gilpesh]

By Star Wars, I hope they mean the whole series. I'm also disappointed by the lack of comic movies. I'll keep the list in mind though.

I counted twelve. Out of the hundred movies to see before death... I think that's a good number. It could have been all super classics serious movies.

 

[Mutagen]

I meant common knowledge for the regular movie goer of the comics, obviously I should do research, but I won't.

 

[ABleedingCorpse]

I've seen 91 out of those 100 movies. I'd say I can do without the 9 I haven't seen.

 

[Gilpesh]

I compared notes with a friend of mine, turns out I missed two comedies. So that's fourteen comedies on the list... and that's a good number of comedies for a flick list like this.

 

[Sawyer]

I've seen only 30...

 

[Drizzle]

By Star Wars, I hope they mean the whole series.

Why would the prequels be on any list of movies to see before you die?

 

[Sam Fisher]

21

 

[SuperFerret]

There is a lot of suck and meh on that list, which is typical. There are a few very good movies on there (though it's missing Ghostbusters ).

 

[Sawyer]

There is a lot of suck and meh on that list, which is typical. There are a few very good movies on there (though it's missing Ghostbusters ).

Yeah, it's like, "uhh... do I really need to see When Harry Met Sally before I die? Really?" I think not.

 

[Mutagen]

Why would the prequels be on any list of movies to see before you die?

Well, they are all connected. I would sugguest seeing them all, if not having seen them. You can't watch one without watching all of them, imo. That is if they're not turned off by the dated originals. That's just all my friends though. As well as the other problems related to the prequels that I won't delve into, that my parents and other adults have told me. Personally, I love all of them and recommend seeing them before death.

 

[gwynplaine]

No Night of the hunter or White Heat. Not a good list.

 

[Rishi]

completely biased towards the "classics"

yawn

 

[dude stannis]

Not a bad list, I'd replace Terminator 2 with The Terminator, take out Titanic and replace it with Superman.

There's about ten obsucre old movies I can replace them with Heat, Children of Men, Se7en, Collateral, Memento, Zodiac, Reservoir Dogs, First Blood, The Thing and most importantly Once Upon a Time in the West.

 

[Eggyman]

I've seen 45 of them. Not sure what to make of that list and I am in full support of dude's replacements.

 

[Shuley]

I've seen most of them,what no taxi driver?

 

[Jack O Lantern]

I've seen 35

8 ½
Alien
Annie Hall
Blade Runner
Blazing Saddles
Bonnie and Clyde
Casablanca
Chinatown
Citizen Kane
Die Hard
Do the Right Thing
The Exorcist
The French Connection
Goodfellas
Groundhog Day
It's a Wonderful Life
The Lord of the Rings
The Matrix
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
National Lampoon's Animal House
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Pulp Fiction
Raging Bull
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Rocky
S Saving Private Ryan
The Silence of the Lambs
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Star Wars
TTerminator 2: Judgment Day
Titanic
Toy Story
The Usual Suspects
Wild Strawberries
The Wizard of Oz


It's a shame that they have two Scorsese pictures on this list but his best film Mean Streets never gets included in any of these lists.

 

[CFE]

I've seen most of them,what no taxi driver?

I was thinking this to...no Dr. Zhivago either

 

[gwynplaine]

I've seen most of them,what no taxi driver?

At least Goodfellas is in there.

 

[scifiwolf]

Given some of the ommissions, I'm surprised that Groundhog Day is on there. I totally agree about the entire Star Wars saga being excluded. Those movies changed the way movies are made, marketed, and viewed. I'm also surprised that Star Trek II is missing in action. That has perhaps the best death scene in all of cinema. Likewise, I'd say Dracula should be on there, but Nosferatu is an acceptable replacement.

Oh, and I've seen about 47 of those films. There are a few of the really old classics I've never seen, but I'm sure I will eventually.

 

[Mutagen]

Do you know how many hours I would have to spend watch all the ones I've missed, they might not even be good because of all the hype. Then again, I do have a lot of time to waste in retirement, but that's like 50 years from now, and even by then the movies will change anyway.

 

[dude stannis]

I've seen 45 of them. Not sure what to make of that list and I am in full support of dude's replacements.

Actually, I've since changed my mind....

I'd keep both The Terminator and Terminator 2

 

[zeptron]

I've only seen 10 of those movies.

 

[Rishi]

I've seen 33 of them for the record

but all in all theres probably only another 10 or so that id bother with