Posted on 04/13/2005 10:30:15 AM PDT by Jakarta ex-pat
I'm sure I've left a couple out, but here is my A-Z of must see movies!
A) Arsenic and old lace, Aliens , Assault on Precinct 13 (original), The African queen, Aliens, A clockwork Orange, Annie Get Your Gun, Adventures of Robin Hood, A fistful of Dollars, Apollo 13, Armageddon, Adventures in Babysitting,
B) Ben Hur, Being There, Beauty and the beast, Braveheart, Battle of Algiers, Brassed off, Breakdown, The Birds, Blazing Saddles, Brotherhood of the Wolf, Black robe,
C) Citizen Kane, The Crazies, Carousel, Carmen Jones, Catch me If you Can, Cruel intentions,
D) Das Boot, Dr.Strangelove, Die Hard, Dodgeball, The Dambusters, Duel, The Duelists, Deliverance, Dirty Dancing, Dawn of the dead (original),
E) Event Horizon, Enter The Dragon, Election,
F) Fiddler on the Roof, Freaks, From Here To Eternity, Falling Down, Fort Apache, Full Metal jacket,
G) Glory, Gandhi, The Great escape, The Gold Rush, The Godfather , Galaxy Quest, Groundhog Day, Genevieve, Gods and Generals, Goodfellas, Ghost,
H) High Noon, Hotel Rwanda, Heavenly Creatures, Halloween, Henry V (Olivier), The Hot Chick,
I) Inn of Sixth Happiness, It’s A wonderful Life, Ice Station Zebra, Ice Cold In alex, The Incredibles, In Which we Serve,
J) Jaws, Judgement at Nuremberg, Jerry Maguire, Jesus Christ Superstar, Joan of Arc, The Jungle Book,
K)Kind Hearts and Coronets, The kid (Chaplin),
L) The Long Good Friday, The Lord of the Rings (all), The Ladykillers (original), Lethal weapon, Leaving Las Vegas, Last Train From Gun Hill, Lagaan, The Last of the Mohicans (Michale Mann), Lawrence of Arabia, Life is Beautiful, The Lion King, The Last samurai,
M) Moulin Rouge (original), The Mission, Monty Python and The Holy Grail, My Father The Hero, Mad max II, The Mask of Zorro, (Hopkins), Maverick, Meet the parents, Mulan, Mutiny on the bounty (Laughton),
N) North By Northwest, Nightmare Before Christmas, The Natural, National Velvet,
O) Once Were Warriors, Once Upon A Time In America, One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest, The Onion Field, Oliver, On Her Majesty’s secret Service,
P) Psycho, Passport To Pimlico, Platoon, Predator 2, Planes Trains and automobiles, Paper Tiger, The Parent Trap (Dennis Quaid), Paper Moon, Pinocchio,
Q) Quiz Show,
R) Romper Stomper, Ran, Reservoir Dogs, The Return of The Jedi, The Red Badge of Courage, The Railway children, Rogue Trader, Rocky, Romeo and Juliet (Di Caprio),
S)Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, The Shining, Sergeant Rock, Shenandoah, The Sound of Music, Strictly Ballroom, Silence of the Lambs, Some Like it Hot, South Pacific, Straw Dogs, Shane, Start The Revolution Without Me, Spider Man, Serial Mom, Scrooge (Alistair Sim), Samson And Delilah, Saving Private Ryan, Scaramouche, Scarface (both), The School of Rock, Seabiscuit, Schiendler’s List, The seven samurai,
T) Tombstone, True Grit, The Thing, The Ten Commandments, Ten rillington Place, To Kill A Mockingbird, Tom Horn, The Treasure of Sierra madre, Tarus Bulba, Tora Tora Tora,
U) Unfogiven, The Usual Suspects,
V) The Vikings,
W) West Side Story, Westworld, White Heat, The war of the Roses, Weekend At Bernie’s, Where The red fern Grows, Whatever Happened to Baby Jane, The Warlord, whale Rider, The Wizard of Oz,
Y) Young Frankenstein,
Z) Zulu
You daon't have Blazing Saddles & Airplane on the list? Pffffft.
Good list! I might change a few, but anyone who appreciates both Fort Apache and Shenandoah is fine by me.
And for Q you need.... QUO VADIS
The pre-quel to Ben-Hur ;-) Well, same music, same stunts, and hysterical smarmy smart-alec foil to the emperor...
I have seen Shenandoah so many times, & I still cry at the end!
C - COURT JESTER
hysterical, best comedy ever
K - King & I (Rogers/Hammerstein) - you have other R&H but mysteriously not the best 1! Sound of Music very well done and arguably best, but K&I smoldering attraction story and very well done production. Better than OK and Carousel or SP for sure.
I love Shenandoah, and I'm always surprised at how few people have seen it. It's certainly one of the best Civil War movies from the pre 1990s.
Please refer to b
"Oh. It's twue. It's twue."
I agree. My Favorite Civil War flick is Gettysburg.
Anne of the Thousand Days
The Big Lebowski (for John Goodman mainly)
The Late Show (Art Carney & Lily Tomlin)
The Lion in Winter
Lolita (the remake; almost anything with Jeremy Irons)
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Raising Arizona
Shadowlands (actually, almost anything with Anthony Hopkins)
I love Gettysburg, even with the bad beards they used! Atephen Lang was so much better as Pickett in it than he was as Stonewall in Gods & Generals - but he was a lot better in G&G than Jeff Daniels was. Daniels looked 20 years older in G&G than he did in Gettysburg, even though Chamberlain was supposed to be younger.
warning: I just realized this post might not make any sense.
lol, It did!
Definately Raising Arizona (or anything with Holly Hunter in it)
Brigadoon, Forrest Gump, A Bug' Life, Garden State, Band of Brothers, Snatch, Tombstone, The Grudge, The Ring, O Brother Where Art Thou . . .
Oh, yeah, Airplane and The Odd Couple . . .To Kill A Mockingbird, Napoleon Dynamite, Signs, Unbreakable, Sixth Sense . . .
The Quiet Man
Really, I did read that. It's my glasses (new) that failed me. It's never my fault.
My father loved John Ford movies so much that he insisted my sister be named "Maureen" after Maureen O'Hara.
The HOT Chick?? Gonna have to rent that one.
Cabaret
The Color of Money
Hush Hush, Sweet Charlotte
It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
Presumed Innocent
The Remains of the Day
The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming
Waterland
Around the World in 80 Days
Casablanca
Chinatown
Cool Hand Luke
Dr. Zhivago
The Long Hot Summer
The Illustrated Man
How the West Was Won
Miracle on 34th Street
Once Upon A Time In The West
The Thirty Nine Steps
The Wind & the Lion
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