If you can't appreciate these movies, you're wrong.

[Sarge 2.0]

And therefore are not allowed to have a conversation on film ever again. Or at least, if you do, you won't be taken seriously and people can just snicker at you in private or roll their eyes while you sit there, mouth agape, drooling.

I'll start:

Chinatown
Nashville
The Seventh Seal
The Godfather 1 and 2
The Marriage of Maria Braun
Ali:Fear Eats the Soul
Aguirre, the Wrath of God
McCabe & Mrs. Miller
Citizen Kane
Casablanca
The Discreet Charms of the Bourgeoisie
Jaws
The Maltese Falcon
Rosemary's Baby
Eraserhead
The Third Man
Barry Lyndon
My Dinner With Andre
Psycho
Fanny and Alexander
Barton Fink
Fargo
The Producers

Continue?

 

[CBGB]

Sarge 2.0 came, saw, and kicked this boards @$$!!!

Vertigo
King Kong
2001
Is all I can think of at the moment...

 

[Sarge 2.0]

All good. I finally watched Vertigo recently, and yes it deserves to be on this list.

 

[Franklin Richards]

The Ten Commandments
Blue Velvet
Reservoir Dogs
Mississippi Burnings
Amadeus
The Outlaw Josey Wales
Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb



more later.

 

[Sarge 2.0]

The 400 Blows
Jules and Jim
L'Avventura
Picnic at Hanging Rock
The Sweet Hereafter
Exotica
The Grand Illusion

 

[The FallenAngel]

Schindler's List
No Country for Old Men

 

[gwynplaine]

Transformers 2
Jennifer's body
The Final Destination
Twilight
t:.

On a more serious note, every movie Sarge mentioned, plus every movies ever made by Hal Ashby, a great editor and a great director, Stanley Kubrick of course (the greatest of them all), Jean Renoir, Milos Forman and a lot of other films that I have mentioned in various other threads and won't bring up again.
Oh and also Night of the Hunter, White Heat, Goodfellas and Wages of fear.
(Sarge, extra points for Barry Lyndon and Grand Illusion.)

 

[CashforStash]

And therefore are not allowed to have a conversation on film ever again. Or at least, if you do, you won't be taken seriously and people can just snicker at you in private or roll their eyes while you sit there, mouth agape, drooling.

I'll start:

Chinatown
Nashville
The Seventh Seal
The Godfather 1 and 2
The Marriage of Maria Braun
Ali:Fear Eats the Soul
Aguirre, the Wrath of God
McCabe & Mrs. Miller
Citizen Kane
Casablanca
The Discreet Charms of the Bourgeoisie
Jaws
The Maltese Falcon
Rosemary's Baby
Eraserhead
The Third Man
Barry Lyndon
My Dinner With Andre
Psycho
Fanny and Alexander
Barton Fink
Fargo
The Producers

Continue?

Close thread

 

[Max J Power]

Edit for a longer list, which is mostly a repost from the "What films are essential" thread.

Alien
All the President's Men
Annie Hall
Chinatown
Fargo
Goodfellas
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
The Godfather
M
No Country For Old Men
Pulp Fiction
Rashomon
Rear Window
Raging Bull
Saving Private Ryan
Schindler's List
Taxi Driver
There Will Be Blood
The Wild Bunch

 

[Paroxysm]

Fargo
Drugstore Cowboy
Midnight Cowboy
Go

 

[Bunker]

Raging Bull
Paths of Glory
Apocalypse Now
The Pianist
City of God
Downfall
Seven Samurai
Magnolia
Touch of Evil
Dial M for Murder

 

[cryptic name]

Badlands

 

[The Chairman]

Out of Sight
Diner
Rumble Fish
Who Framed Roger Rabbit

 

[SuperFerret]

Plan 9 from Outer Space.

Everybody needs to be able to watch and appreciate movies that're so bad, they're awesome.

 

[Polux]

I just bought "Plan 9 from Outer Space" the other day, haven´t seen it yet tho....this seems like a good night .

Now, on topic, I dunno if you´d think they belong to this list, but I happen to find all of Chris Nolan´s films to be modern classics, specially Memento and The Prestige....not to forget his Bat-films....huh...then again, ALL of his films !!!

Polux

 

[ChickenScratch]

Dumb thread, taste is subjective, nobody "has" to like any of those films.

 

[Polux]

Dumb thread, taste is subjective, nobody "has" to like any of those films.

Totally agree; then again, it´s just for fun, I don´t think anyone actually takes any of this seriously...and if they do, well....

Polux

 

[StrainedEyes]

Dumb thread, taste is subjective, nobody "has" to like any of those films.

No no, they do have to.

 

[Sarge 2.0]

Yeah, this thread isn't serious. It's more of a way to gauge the taste of a person by seeing what films they list in reaction to the stated premise. I kind of thought my hyperbolic language would drive the point home, but I guess that doesn't come through on the internet.

Although with some films, it's not subjective if you want to have a valuable and informed opinion. If you can't appreciate (not like) Citizen Kane, then there's no way you can be taken seriously when you talk about movies.

 

[SuperFerret]

When you speak about film as an artform, you mean. I've never seen anything special about Citizen Kane, but I don't look to movies to appreciate the art in it, I watch them for entertainment and Kane isn't my thing.

 

[Crook]

Same. I purposely held off on watching Citizen Kane for a good number of years because I wanted to build up my cinematic muscles, so to speak, before watching the most highly revered film of all time.

I can appreciate it as a film, but truth be told it did not live up to the hype. Godfather 1/2 did, Casablanca did, Psycho did...this did not.

 

[Mr.Webs]

Rope

The most underrated Hitchcock film, period.

Night At The Opera
Duck Soup
Eternal Sunshine Of A Spotless Mind
A Hard Day's Night
Children of Men
The Fly (Cronenberg)

 

[superhero]

i always thought that everyone needs to watch the teeange muntant ninjaturlle turutles first liveacttionmoive. i always thinkevery one should watch it . not too dark light the dark night it kind mix of the ninja turtles 1980 and the newer vesrion of 2002 cartoon. i stil like the second one. it was kind of silly. i'm looking forwrod to the newer ninja turtle moive coming out in 2011.

Super-man trigoly my favorite the firrstand second.
batman begins
the dark night
BACK TO futuer trigoly
inida jones trigoly
Bourn trigoly
the mummy
Spider-man 1 and2
ghostbusters
the goonies

 

[MAN O STEEL]

Superman: The Movie
First Blood
Teen Wolf
E.T
Tango & Cash
A Nightmare On Elm Street
Seven
Gran Torino
Million Dollar baby
Total Recall
Dirty Dancing
Ghost
Last Boy Scout
Saving private Ryan
Trailer Park Boys: The Movie
Iron man
Son In Law (Yeah I said it!)
Cloverfield (ewww my eye's hurt, I get nautious, man up mate!)
Pineapple Express
Starman
Kingpin
Stranger Than Fiction
Labyrinth
Boyz 'N' The Hood
Taken




Just to name a few






Steve

 

[Jolly Rolly]

And therefore are not allowed to have a conversation on film ever again. Or at least, if you do, you won't be taken seriously and people can just snicker at you in private or roll their eyes while you sit there, mouth agape, drooling.

I'll start:

Chinatown
Nashville
The Seventh Seal
The Godfather 1 and 2
The Marriage of Maria Braun
Ali:Fear Eats the Soul
Aguirre, the Wrath of God
McCabe & Mrs. Miller
Citizen Kane
Casablanca
The Discreet Charms of the Bourgeoisie
Jaws
The Maltese Falcon
Rosemary's Baby
Eraserhead
The Third Man
Barry Lyndon
My Dinner With Andre
Psycho
Fanny and Alexander
Barton Fink
Fargo
The Producers

Continue?

I've only seen the films highlighted, you can't expect me to see every damn movie ever made right?