I stole this from Printed Matter, but I'm sure the idea still works when applied to film and television.

So, I'll start and you add.

The Shawshank Redemption
Goodfellas
Westside Story
The English Patient

I like this thread for some strange reason.

I'll throw a few out there.

Godfather I
Godfather II
Dr. Strangelove
The Big Lebowski
Little Caeser
Star Wars
To Kill a Mockingbird
Terminator
Terminator II
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
It's a Wonderful Life
Apocalypse Now
Shane
Blazing Saddles
Pulp Fiction
Indiana Jones (All of them)
2001: A Space Odyssey
The Quiet Man
The Hustler
Easy Rider
The Graduate
The Deer Hunter
Taxi Driver

Everyone must see:
The Bourne Identity
The Bourne Supremacy
Glaldiator
The Matrix
The Matrix: Reloaded
The Matrix: Revolutions
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Man on Fire
Unleashed

Forrest Gump.

Spice World.

The Trois Couleurs trilogy. (Bleu, Blanc, Rouge)
American Beauty.
Das Boot.
Blade Runner.
Metropolis.
Nosferatu.

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Originally posted by YouForgotPoland:
Spice World.

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Hell yeah.

City Of God
Nightwatch
Carandiru

Yes, I know I watch too many foreign movies.

Just a few here:


Eraserhead
Dawn of the Dead(1978)
Day of the Dead
Time Bandits
Frankenstein(1931)
Forbidden Planet
Ninja Scroll
Pitch Black
Blade Runner
King Kong(1933+(2005)




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Originally posted by YouForgotPoland:
Spice World.

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I always liked Geri...then I grew up and realised that it was because she had hot tits.

Required or recommended? I would hardly consider some of these movies listed above "required" for humans.

Don't worry about it, he isn't doing the thread properly anyhow, so it'll just disappear like all the others.

This is how it's done: http://www.totse.com/bbs/Forum27/HTML/001678.html

A thread of that sort in here would be excellent if anybody is willing to do it.

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Ugh what is with people in liking The Big Lebowski!! God damn stupid movie :P

The Lord of the Rings Trilogy
Million Dollar Baby
The Shawshank Redemption
Pulp Ficton
Thelma and Louise

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Ugh what is with people in liking The Big Lebowski!! God damn stupid movie :P

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I saw it when it first came out at the theatre on my first date, so it makes me nostalgic. It has nothing to do with the actual movie or content, so it's sort of a biased review, I only saw it because it was playing at a cheap theatre with $2 tickets. I didn't understand alot of the content in the movie at the time, but I found it pretty funny.

There were only...three or four people in the theatre.

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Originally posted by Lord Sorpington:
I stole this from Printed Matter, but I'm sure the idea still works when applied to film and television.

So, I'll start and you add.

The Shawshank Redemption
Goodfellas
Westside Story
The English Patient

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you must either be a fag or a girl

goodfellas is about a faggot narc

westside story is incredibly gay

and i have a pen0r so i've never watched the english patient

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Originally posted by kAtE-:
Ugh what is with people in liking The Big Lebowski!! God damn stupid movie :P

The Lord of the Rings Trilogy
Million Dollar Baby
The Shawshank Redemption
Pulp Ficton
Thelma and Louise

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the lord of the rings?? wtf

Lord of the Rings is quite impressive and the story alone is worth it being on the list.

The English Patient is a good enough movie based on a pretty good book, but I already know how much you love books like that NWA

Goodfellas is a top notch movie. As far as mob movies go it's right below Casino.

lord of the rings makes people with good taste fall asleep

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Lord of the Rings is quite impressive and the story alone is worth it being on the list.

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The movie and the book to me, seem extremely different. Back when Tolkien was writing about his Lord of the Rings universe, he had other themes in mind when writing it: the war that had occured, I think he was a soldier or something, also, they say the Ring was a symbol for power and war. All this boils down to context. But Peter Jackson's adaption butchered, if you will, Tolkien's original themes. It was all about friendship and love, but Tolkien had a more existentialist world, highlighting limititations of fellowship.

I don't think The Lord of the Rings trilogy should be included in this canon. It was mostly eyecandy and epic battles. If you read the books, Tolkien spares only a few pages on the battles. The fight scene in Isenguard went for only 3 pages while it took a chunk out of the Two Towers movie. While Jackson may have included some themes which Tolkien had mentioned, the implications from the movie are defintely differnt.

Yes, but its done so extremely well.
And no I am NOT biased because I'm kiwi.
If I had my way - everyone would be required to watch and read Harry Potter - but thats because I'm a little bit obsessed with Harry Potter.

The Graduate
Yellow Submarine
American Beauty
Original Star Wars Trilogy
Munich(although I might be biased because I just saw this movie)

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Yes, but its done so extremely well.
And no I am NOT biased because I'm kiwi.
If I had my way - everyone would be required to watch and read Harry Potter - but thats because I'm a little bit obsessed with Harry Potter.

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It's done well, but it's highly overrated. It's like they haven't seen an epic battle before.

Films like...Blade Runner or 2001 has a reason to be in the canon. By changing the themes in LOTR, Peter Jackson ensured that the LOTR film trilogy WONT make the canon, because it doesn't really have anything important to say.

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Originally posted by Infernal:
It's done well, but it's highly overrated. It's like they haven't seen an epic battle before.

Films like...Blade Runner or 2001 has a reason to be in the canon. By changing the themes in LOTR, Peter Jackson ensured that the LOTR film trilogy WONT make the canon, because it doesn't really have anything important to say.

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Oh well, I still disagree.

Who ever said American Beauty - yes!!

2001: A Space Odyssey

Everything else in the world is, at very best, second-tier.

Once Were Warriors

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Originally posted by Gorloche:
2001: A Space Odyssey

Everything else in the world is, at very best, second-tier.

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no