Posted on 08/21/2011 12:00:53 PM PDT by mamelukesabre
I'm interested in what everyone would add to the list. In no particular order, my list of 15 "must see" movies of the last 30 years...
Bladerunner
The hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy
Stand and deliver
The big labowski
Buckaroo banzai
Oh brother where art thou?
Phenomenon
Fargo
Open range
Cindarella man
The Hitcher
Pay it forward
Once upon a time in america
Forest Gump
Last of the mohicans
Right.. I just thought was classic Nicholson!
You know, actors could keep their political opinions to themselves then..now, I don’t go to a movie of some lefty actor, not because I am “boycotting “ it, but i can’t get into their character/role cause I keep thinking of their comments off screen.
Your #8 (A Christmas Story) is worthy of ANY top 10 movie list! Thanks for the reminder. Ralphie and the Red Ryder BB gun and Flick’s tongue getting stuck to the pole and Scut Farcas and the leg lamp and Randy snorting his mashed potatoes up his nose at the dnner table and the evil sants and elves at the mall. The list could go on and on. Brilliant movie!
Well I like a lot of them as mentioned and have not seen some of them - I will throw in one that was recommended to me and i liked it a lot but is old!
Random Harvest
Old pre WW2 black and white....
I too love Babette’s Feast. One of the best movies I’ve ever seen, unquestionably.
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August Rush (nice sleeper)
I forget which Zatoichi flick it is, but there is this one where it is snowing at night that might be the best snow scene in any movie that I can recall. I think it was a later one, late 60’s and in colour. Very pscychedelic, a great effect.
Freegards
Forgot to put that one on my list. Excellent movie.
No one mentioned ET even my husband shed a few tears with that one...Hospital with George C Scott was a black comedy that was good. But it was from the 1970’s...
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All excellent. Aw, go for the second 15... :)
I loved Seconhand Lions.
Ha ha, I just saw it again last night, so I threw it in there. In a year it might not make the cut. Nolte, Chris Penn, Madsen, Palminteri, Malkovitch, and Bruce Dern. The scene where Nick Nolte and Mike Madsen realize that Nolte has been captured on camera having an affair is tremendous. Chaz Palminteri is great in it too.
Freegards
The Pianist
The Way Back
Nicholson is simply NOT a good actor. Burton is fine -- except with Taylor. Their work together is unspeakably atrocious. Beckett is a much better example of his best work.
You have no Hitchcock; probably the greatest director of all time.
Casablanca does not have Bacall. The female lead is Bergman. Casablanca is actually the only one of Bogart's moderately tolerable films; mostly because of other actors. It's a 4/5 star movie, and doesn't have to be on everybody's list. The rest of Humphrey Pushcart's films -- including Treasure of Sierra Madre, The Maltese Falcon, and The African Queen are pure crap. Humpty is probably the most overrated actor in history.
In the period during which you list, you have no Westerns, but Westerns dominated this period for at least 20 years. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance should be on any classics list.
Most of the films on your list are soap operas. I guess there's no accounting for taste.
Ice Station Zebra
Stand By Me
The Dirty Dozen
Animal House
Dirty Harry
Catch Me If You Can (pretty much any movie with Walken in it is good).
Scent of a Woman
The Eagle
The Good the Bad and the Ugly (I like all Eastwood westerns).
Stand By Me
Too many others to think of right now, but Secondhand Lions is an excellent film as others have suggested.
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