[Gem Windcaster]

The Godfather (with sequels) - I can't believe nobody mentioned it yet.
The Matrix
I agree about Serenity, but you have to watch the tv show first, to get into it.

[Night Hawk]

Benchmark of comedy? Billy Madison

Good fight movie: Fight Club

Good horror/suspence movie? The Thing (1982)

Good action? Enter the Dragon

Good military movie: Full Metal Jacket

Good foreign film...: Children of Heaven (subtitles)

Good ganster movie: Shottas

Special mention goes out to Bullitt, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Tom Yum Goong, and Highlander

That's off the top of my head anyway... oh and I gotta throw Top Gun out there just 'cus....

This post has been edited by Night Hawk: 09 July 2009 - 11:43 PM

[WhiskeyJackDaniels]

Ok, some of these have been mentioned already, but in no particular order this is my top 10:
The Departed
Goodfellas
A Few Good Men
Good Will Hunting
Rounders
Lonesome Dove (nobody has mentioned this yet, but trust me, it is by far the best Western ever made, and yes I'm including the Good the Bad and the Ugly, Rio Bravo, the Magnificent 7, and Unforgiven, Robert Duvall is just awesome, and it is based on a book that is great by Larry McMurty, plus there are a few prequels written that are awesome)
Saving Private Ryan (best war movie ever)
Gladiator (surprised this wasn't mentioned either)
Usual Suspects

some others that should be included in your list:
the Natural
Blood Diamond (new and big budget, but I thought very powerful)
the Hustler (and its sequel the Color of Money is alrite but not required watching)
Patton (definitely a classic with a great opening scene)
Rocky (tho if you haven't seen it or the sequels yet I'm not sure I wanna be your friend anymore)
Hoosiers (classic sports movie about an underdog)
The Cincinnati Kid (steve mcqueen, karl malden, and an unrecognizable Rip Torn if you've seen his later work like Dodgeball or MiB)

idk thats all I can think of off the top of my head...if this thread persists I'll be back (sorry about the repeats, if I copied you just take it as reassurance that you named a good movie)

[Slow Ben]

WhiskeyJackDaniels, on Jul 9 2009, 08:20 PM, said:

Lonesome Dove (nobody has mentioned this yet, but trust me, it is by far the best Western ever made, and yes I'm including the Good the Bad and the Ugly, Rio Bravo, the Magnificent 7, and Unforgiven, Robert Duvall is just awesome, and it is based on a book that is great by Larry McMurty, plus there are a few prequels written that are awesome)

Yes. Hands down my favorite movie. If you've got 6 hours its well worth it.

"Aint much of a crime, whackin a surly bartender."

[WhiskeyJackDaniels]

Slow Ben, on Jul 9 2009, 09:26 PM, said:

WhiskeyJackDaniels, on Jul 9 2009, 08:20 PM, said:

Lonesome Dove (nobody has mentioned this yet, but trust me, it is by far the best Western ever made, and yes I'm including the Good the Bad and the Ugly, Rio Bravo, the Magnificent 7, and Unforgiven, Robert Duvall is just awesome, and it is based on a book that is great by Larry McMurty, plus there are a few prequels written that are awesome)

Yes. Hands down my favorite movie. If you've got 6 hours its well worth it.

"Aint much of a crime, whackin a surly bartender."

"By God Woodrow, its been one hell of a party." That one always gets me

This post has been edited by WhiskeyJackDaniels: 10 July 2009 - 01:57 AM

[Icarium Kalam]

Dark City - highly underrated sf flic that never got the luv it deserved. Arguably did the Matrix before The Matrix.




- Abyss, part time film nut.
[/quote]

very good movie

[Tuberski]

HoosierDaddy, on Jul 8 2009, 04:39 PM, said:

Hoosiers & Full Metal Jacket.

Hey Hoosier, in the movie Grosse Point Blank, the scene at the beginning where he shoots the bike assassin is an homage to your "$2.00" quote.

[Volkh]

Where the Buffalo Roam is an amazing movie if you are a fan of Hunter S Thompson. It was done in the 80's with Billy Murry playing Hunter.
Jesus' Son is another good movie with Billy Cudrup in it as a strung out looser who just kinda floats along ( no that's not the whole story ).
The Salton Sea with Val Kilmer, Val plays a guy who's wife was killed and dives into the under ground world of meth to find out who killed her since the cops won't do anything.
SLC Punks follows a group of punks in the mid 80s in Salk Lake City. It is one of Matthew Lillard early movies. Very Very Very good comentary
In To The Wild Wow, I was blown away with this story and how they captured it on film.

i'll have to add more later but that is my list to start with.

volkh

[Macros]

did someone just mention Billymadison as a BENCHMARK in comedy?

[MTS]

Probably not a benchmark, and I would've said Happy Gilmore over Madison but it's still awesome, so I'll take it. Best comedy of my generation would have to go to Anchorman I think.

This post has been edited by Mappo's Travelling Sack: 10 July 2009 - 10:34 AM

[MTS]

Alright, I've compiled a list of all of your suggestions. Here she is:

Seventh Seal
A Clockwork Orange
Pi
Memento
American Psycho
Requiem for a Dream
Some Like It Hot
Shawshank Redemption
Taking Chance
Reign Over Me
Fight Club
Blair Witch Project
The Good, The Bad and the Ugly
The Thing
Scream
Saw
The Unforgiven
Blade Runner
The Octagon
Dark City
Shichinin no samurai (seven samurai)
Yojimbo
Kakushi-toride no san-akunin (The Hidden Fortress)
Schindler’s List
American History X
Last Year At Marienbad
Citizen Kane
2001: A Space Odyssey
Apocalypse Now
Platoon
Alien
Casablanca
Gone with the Wind
Once Upon a Time in the West
The Hustler
12 Angry Men
Wings
The Broadway Melody
Boondock Saints
Weekend with Bernie
Hitchcock
Cool Hand Luke
On The Waterfront
The 13th Warrior
Remember the Titans
Any Given Sunday
In Bruges
Jason and the Argonauts
Glengarry Glenross
Once upon a time in the West
Rear Window
The French Connection
Kind Hearts and Coronets
Caddyshack
No Country For Old Men
The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
The Proposition
The Wackness
The Deer Hunter
Point Break
UP
Elegy
What’s Eating Gilbert Grape
Confidence
Belly
Half Baked
Tombstone
True Grit
North by Northwest
Vertigo
The Sting
The Maltese Falcon
Bull Durham
Slapshot
Scarface
The Godfather
Arsenic and Old Lace
Switching Channels
Stalingrad
Letters from Iwo Jima
Thin Red Line
M*A*S*H*
Wall-E
The Great Escape
Terminator 2
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
The Untouchables
Ginger Snaps
Donnie Darko
Winged Creatures
Battle Royal
Kelly’s Heroes
Bloodsport
Hoosiers
Full Metal Jacket
Die Hard.
Die Hard 2
Die Hard With a Vengeance
The Last Boy Scout
Midnight in the garden of good and evil
JFK
Toy Soldiers
T.A.P.S
Team America: World Police
BangKok Dangerous
Equilibrium
Ong Bak 1
Ong Bak 2
A History of Violence
Eastern Promises
Black Hawk Down
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Boogie Nights
Snatch
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
Complete works of Tarantino
Last of the Mohicans
Gangs of New York
Usual Suspects
Unbreakable
U-Turn
Predator
Pulp Fiction
Old Boy
Kung Fu Hustle
Planet Terror
In The Heat Of The Night
Mystic River
Fallen
Gone Baby Gone
Gran Torino
Tropic Thunder
The Matrix
Billy Madison
Enter The Dragon
Children of Heaven
Shottas
Bullitt
Highlander
Tom Yum Goong
Top Gun
The Departed
Goodfellas
A Few Good Men
Good Will Hunting
Rounders
Lonesome Dove
Saving Private Ryan
Gladiator
the Natural
Blood Diamond
The Hustler
Patton
Rocky
The Cincinnati Kid

I've seen maybe a third to half of the movies mentioned - looks like I've got some watching to do.

Any more people want to add?

[amphibian]

I haven't seen 47 of those movies - I think.

To the Netflix queue, Robin!

[Obdigore]

I assume everyone has seen 13th Warrior, yes?

[Slow Ben]

WhiskeyJackDaniels, on Jul 9 2009, 08:52 PM, said:

"By God Woodrow, its been one hell of a party." That one always gets me

Are you TRYING to make me cry?

@CO. If they havent, they should.

This post has been edited by Slow Ben: 10 July 2009 - 09:01 PM

[Aptorian]

Zanth13, on Jul 7 2009, 05:46 PM, said:

I really love Richard Simmons and I think you should all watch his collected works...

DVD

• Richard Simmons and the Silver Foxes
  
• Disco Sweat
  
• 60's Blast Off
  
• 80's Blast Off
  
• SuperSweatin': Party Off the Pounds
  
• SuperTonin': Totally Tonin
  
• SuperTonin': Totally Tonin' with Toning Rings
  
• Sit Tight
  
• Sweatin'to the Oldies
  
• Sweatin' to the Oldies 2
  
• Sweatin' to the Oldies 3
  
• Sweatin' to the Oldies 4
  
• Love Yourself and Win
  
• Boogie Down the Pounds

Video

• Everyday with Richard Simmons
  
• The Stomach Formula
  
• Get Started
  
• Reach for Fitness
  
• Richard Simmons and the Silver Foxes
  
• Sweatin' to the Oldies
  
• Sweatin' to the Oldies 2
  
• Sweatin' to the Oldies 3
  
• Sweat and Shout (also sold as Sweatin to the Oldies 4)
  
• Day By Day (Volumes 1-12)
  
• Pump and Sweat
  
• Step and Sweat
  
• Tone and Sweat
  
• Disco Sweat
  
• Stretchin' to the Classics
  
• Dance Your Pants Off!
  
• Tonin' Uptown
  
• Tonin' Downtown
  
• Groovin' In The House
  
• The Ab Formula
  
• No Ifs Ands or Butts
  
• Love to Stretch
  
• Blast Off
  
• Broadway Sweat
  
• Tone Up On Broadway
  
• Broadway Blast Off
  
• Platinum Sweat
  
• Sit Tight
  
• Latin Blast Off (also marketed as Sudar Mucho)
  
• Mega Mix Blast Off
  
• Mega Mix 2 Blast Off
  
• Disco Blast Off
  
• 60's Blast Off
  
• 80's Blast Off
  
• Blast and Tone

Fixed that for you

[Volkh]

just leave my movies off the list!

and really guys most of the stuff is true hollywood fluff. don't get me wrong i've enjoyed alot of them but they weren't "great" movies.

[Slow Ben]

Volkh, will it make you feel better if i tell you i own Salton Sea and its a friggin great movie?


And though Hollywood puts out a lot of crap. It doesnt mean they cant put out great movies also.

This post has been edited by Slow Ben: 11 July 2009 - 12:34 AM

[Volkh]

Ben you are awesome man! I kinda thought the idea stated in the opening post was to find some of those hidden gems and powerfull stories and proformances?

[Gilgamesh1082]

Chiming in here with something I rarely seen mentioned.

One Hour Photo starring Robin Williams. Its easily his best film.

[Aptorian]

Whoah... while One Hour Photo was good, nothing beats Good Morning Vietnam!

I also quite like Insomnia and ... uhm, can't remember the name... the one where he plays a radical new teacher on a old private school.