Recommended Movies

[Ennui]

Discuss additions or changes to this list of my recommended films... which I took from my blog that you all should start reading. Feel free to just tell me how right I am as well.

If you want to take the time to do it, post your own recommended movies list. I'm trying to find more good movies but it's getting more difficult since I've seen so many.

2001 - A Space Odyssey
28 Days Later
28 Weeks Later
300
A Clockwork Orange
A Scanner Darkly
Akira
Aladdin
Alien
Aliens
Altered States
American Beauty
American History X
American Psycho
Apocalypto
Apocalypse Now
Army of Darkness
Battle Royale
Black Hawk Down
Blade Runner
Blood Diamond
The Big Lebowski
Bomb the System
Borat
The Boondock Saints
The Bourne Identity
The Bourne Supremacy
The Bourne Ultimatum
Brazil
Brick
Casino Royale
Children of Men
City of God
Cool Hand Luke
Contact
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Cube
Cube 2: Hypercube
Cube Zero
Das Boot
Deliverance
The Departed
Donnie Darko
Drugstore Cowboy
Enemy at the Gates
Equilibrium
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Fight Club
The Fountain
Garden State
The Godfather
The Godfather Part II
Gone in Sixty Seconds
Good Will Hunting
Goodfellas
The Green Mile
Half Baked
Harold and Kumar Go To White Castle
Hero
High Fidelity
Hot Fuzz
Hotel Rwanda
Ichi the Killer
Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Inside Man
Jurassic Park
Kill Bill Vol. 1
Kill Bill Vol. 2
Knocked Up
Little Miss Sunshine
Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
Lost in Translation
The Lord of the Rings
Magnolia
The Matrix
Memento
Minority Report
The Motorcycle Diaries
O Brother, Where Art Thou
One Flew Over the Cuckoo?s Nest
Pan?s Labyrinth
Pi
Pirates of the Caribbean
The Princess Bride
Pulp Fiction
Reservoir Dogs
Requiem for a Dream
Saving Private Ryan
Schindler's List
Serenity
The Shawshank Redemption
Sin City
Snatch
Star Wars
Starship Troopers
Stranger than Fiction
Sunshine
Super Troopers
This Is England
Trainspotting
Twelve Monkeys
Waking Life

 

[Reginald]

A few you forgot...

Batman Begins
Blue Velvet
Jackie Brown
Oldboy
Se7en
This Is Spinal Tap

 

[joule]

A few to add to the list...

Monster
A.I.
The Omega Man
Walk the Line
Titanic
Shaun of the Dead
Phone Booth
Blow
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Terminator 2
The Thing
Three Kings
Forrest Gump
Catch Me If You Can
A Perfect World
Cocktail
A History of Violence
Maria Full of Grace
The 40-Year-Old Virgin
True Romance
Spider-Man
Spider-Man 2
Phantasm
Dawn of the Dead (1978)
X-Men
X2: X-Men United
V for Vendetta
Jaws
King Kong
The Color of Money
The Exorcist
Crash
Scarface
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Kalifornia
X-Men 3: The Last Stand

And I happen to agree with most of your list.

 

[Ennui]

Keep it coming, this is excellent.

 

[Warbie]

Withnail & I
Jaws
Carlitto's Way
Mean Streets
Once Upon a Time in America
Taxi Driver
Donnie Brasco
Casino
Fargo
Miller's Crossing
Barton Fink
Terminator
Gattaca

Plus load of others, i'll be back!

Oh, for the love of god remove 28 weeks later!

 

[Asknoone]

Good list; here's some more off the top of my head.

L.A Confidential
Wall Street
Heat
Lion King
Planet of the Apes
Collateral
Usual Suspects

X-Men 3: The Last Stand

Recommended Movies.

 

[StardogChampion]

Here's my list here:

http://www.criticker.com/?fl=6239

You should all be using that website. Here's a few picks from the bunch:

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Chinatown

 

[ríomhaire]

All I can think of at the moment:

Comedy:
Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls
Airplane!
Airplane II: The Sequel
Blazing Saddles
Monty Python: And Now For Something Completely Different
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Monty Python's Life of Brian
Monty Python's The Meaning of Life
The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!
The Naked Gun 2?: The Smell of Fear
Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult
Robin Hood: Men in Tights
Shaun of the Dead
Spaceballs

Other:
28 Days Later
300
Children of Men
Dawn of the Dead (Original version)
Enemy at the Gates
Fight Club
Gattaca
The Green Mile
Hot Fuzz
Night of the Living Dead (Both versions)
The Shawshank Redemption
Sin City
Starship Troopers

 

[Laivasse]

La Haine!

 

[Dekstar]

I don't agree with Eternal Sunshine. Hated that film.

Also: OngBak and Rumble in the Bronx.

 

[knut]

Recommended/essential war films;

The Longest Day (WWII)
A Bridge Too Far (WWII) (< excellent cast, a lot of familar faces here.)
Stalingrad (WWII)
Downfall (WWII)
Platoon (Vietnam)
Full Metal Jacket (Vietnam)
Hamburger Hill (Vietnam)

 

[Deleted member 56031]

Cube 2: Hypercube

BEST MOVIE EVER

 

[Atomic_Piggy]

2001 - A Space Odyssey

You may also want 2010: The year we make contact

Nothing on the book, but still awesome.

 

[Reginald]

Few more:
The Blues Brothers
Blues Brothers 2000
Dr Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying And Love the Bomb
Hero
House of Flying Daggers
Moulin Rouge
Shallow Grave

 

[Headcrab Pie]

V for Vendeta

 

[Dalamari]

Dark City
Buffalo '66

 

[Dog--]

A Scanner Darkly really was damn good, Ennui.


Other good movies:

Bridge on the River Kwai
The Great Escape
Detroit Rock City
Desperado
Once Upon a Time in Mexico
Night at the Museum (I thought it'd be shit, but it's pretty entertaining)
Shanghai Noon
Starship Troopers
300
Blow

That's all I can think of right now..

 

[jimbo118]

Memento.

 

[Warbie]

Memento.

Awesome film.

Ravenous - another Guy Pearce movie with Robert Carlyle, cannibalism and a great soundtrack by Damon Albarn.

 

[jimbo118]

Awesome film.

the script was sweet.

Natalie: What's the last thing that you do remember?
Leonard Shelby: My wife...
Natalie: That's sweet.
Leonard Shelby: ...dying.

 

[Reginald]

A Scanner Darkly really was damn good, Ennui.


Other good movies:

Bridge on the River Kwai
The Great Escape
Detroit Rock City
Desperado
Once Upon a Time in Mexico
Night at the Museum (I thought it'd be shit, but it's pretty entertaining)
Shanghai Noon
Starship Troopers
300
Blow

That's all I can think of right now..

Films 6 & 7 on your list both <number 10 on your list>