50 Films you must see before you die

Tyler Durden

Causing quite a bit of banter, a programme over here ran a show telling us the fifty films you must see before you die. I've not seen many of these I have to admit!!

2001: A Space Odyssey
A Bout de Souffle
Aguirre, the Wrath of God
Alien
All About Eve
Apartment, The
Apocalypse Now
Badlands
Black Narcissus
Boyz N the Hood
Brazil
Breakfast Club, The
Cabaret
Chinatown
City of God
Come and See
Dawn of the Dead
Donnie Darko
Erin Brockovich
Fanny and Alexander
Fight Club
Heavenly Creatures
Hero
Ipcress File, The
King of Comedy, The
Ladykillers, The
Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India
Lost in Translation
Manhattan
Manhunter
Mulholland Drive
Night at the Opera
North by Northwest
Pink Flamingos
Player, The
Princess Mononoke
Pulp Fiction
Raising Arizona
Royal Tenenbaums, The
Scarface
Searchers, The
Secrets and Lies
Sexy Beast
Shawshank Redemption, The
Terminator 2: Judgement Day
This Sporting Life
Three Colours Blue
Touch of Evil
Trainspotting
Walkabout

Dakstang

WC's Resident Redneck

I haven't saw any of those.......

Hypocrisy at it's worst!

Tyler Durden

Not even Terminator 2??

Dakstang

WC's Resident Redneck

Not even Terminator 2. :lick:

Hypocrisy at it's worst!

Tyler Durden

I've seen in full

Alien
Apocalypse Now
Breakfast Club, The
Donnie Darko
Erin Brockovich
Fight Club
Lost in Translation
Pulp Fiction
Scarface
Shawshank Redemption, The
Terminator 2: Judgement Day
Trainspotting

And a lot of porn too

Mr. Kennedy

I've only seen T2, a few of those I am interested in seeing though.

Visit and shop for video games at my Amazon-based store, also get discounted HD DVDs while they last.

Dakstang

WC's Resident Redneck

I have heard that Donnie Darko is good.

I might check that out some time.

Hypocrisy at it's worst!

barfly467

Here's the ones I've seen. And recommend (highlighted in bold)

2001: A Space Odyssey
Alien
All About Eve
City of God - This movie is great. One of the best you'll ever see.
Donnie Darko - Also a kick ass movie, most of you will never understand it, I still don't.
Erin Brockovich - I could so without this movie, Julia Roberts playing a bitch
Fight Club - Book and movie kick ass
Hero - Is this the Jet Lei one? I like Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon better.
Ladykillers, The - the original, or Coen Bros?
Lost in Translation - It's ok
Mulholland Drive - Real Fucking mind twist
Player, The - Great movie, one of Tim Robbins best. Perfect dark comedy. See it.
Pulp Fiction - Great movie. Great story and dialogue.
Raising Arizona- I love this movie, but some people will get turned off by the White Trasheness.
Royal Tenenbaums, The - One of my favorite movies.
Scarface - It's ok.
Shawshank Redemption, The - Good movie
Terminator 2: Judgement Day - Great movie. Go Arnold.
Trainspotting - If you do not like drug movies, don't see it.

The Phantom

I just watched The Shawshank Redemption... awesome film. Guess I have another 49 to go.

I watched that program on channel 4, I think It was on saturday night. I only watched about an hour because the only film i'd heard of in that hour was T2

I can't believe See No Evil isn't on that list.

Freak

Wow guys, you haven't seen Shawshank Redemption, or Pulp Fiction?

I watch very few movies, but I've seen:

Breakfast Club, The
City of God
Donnie Darko
Fight Club
Heavenly Creatures
Lost in Translation
Pulp Fiction
Royal Tenenbaums, The
Scarface
Shawshank Redemption, The
Trainspotting

And they're all pretty good films. I've had a lot of issues with Fight Club and Donnie Darko (I don't follow movie plots well, and I'm still not convinced either makes sense), but I still enjoyed both.

I'm a little disappointed by how recent the vast majority of these choices are. Was the only criteria "movies you gotta see", or was there some other stipulation?