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
I will recommend a film you probably have never heard about, but it was the number one film on National Review’s best conservative films of the last twenty five years...William F. Buckley apparently said it was one of the best films he ever saw.
I watched it, and was thoroughly impressed.
“The Lives of Others”, made in 2006. What was life really like behind the Iron Curtain? This movie, albeit fictional, shows the viewer...very well made, good story telling.
The Worlds Fastest Indian
Go back fifty years and you will include some really great movies.
I know. Actually, that’s more than ten.
The Quiet Man
Sgt. York
The Fountainhead
Groundhog Day
Ayn Rand: A Sense of Life
Just getting into the thirty year spot is Moonstruck.
In no particular order...
To Have and Have Not
Galaxy Quest
The Princess Bride
Strange Brew
The Big Lebowski
Red River
The Seven Samurai
The African Queen
Father Goose
Kill Bill (1 & 2)
Mr. Majestyk
Airplane
Blazing Saddles
Any of the Zatoichi series (with Shintaro Katsu)
Too bad it’s ONLY 15. I got more.
Secondhand Lions is an awesome movie. That would be in my 15 also.
2nd the “A River Runs Through It”
Rev. Maclean: Each one us of here today will at one time in our lives look upon a loved one who is in need and ask the same question: We are willing help, Lord, but what, if anything, is needed? For it is true we can seldom help those closest to us. Either we don’t know what part of ourselves to give or, more often than not, the part we have to give is not wanted. And so it those we live with and should know who elude us. But we can still love them - we can love completely without complete understanding.
King’s Speech
Absolutely.
Movies made since 81?
Silence of the Lambs. Raising Arizona. Mulholland Falls. Miller’s Crossing. First Blood. Aliens. Wall-E. The Usual Suspects.
Freegards
Star Trek II
United 93
The Passion of the Christ
Die Hard
Master and Commander
The Queen
Red Dawn
The Departed
Goodfellas
Miracle
Raiders Of the Lost Ark
The Blues Brothers
The Final Countdown
The Empire Strikes Back
The Right Stuff
Harvey.
“For years, I wrestled with reality, Dr. Chumley, and I’m happy to say that i was finally able to overcome it.”
Secondhand Lions
The Worlds Fastest Indian
I saw that recently. I didn't get it.
A father teaches fly fishing to two brothers.
One goes to college, the other becomes a reporter.
College boy comes home, they go fly fishing.
I didn't get it.
Monty Pythons Holy Grail
Lord of the Rings
Young Frankenstein
The Godfather I & II
300
However:
Moscow on the Hudson
Arthur
Biloxi Blues
Porky's
Fast Times At Ridgemont High
The Karate Kid
Sixteen Candles
Goodfellas
That Thing You Do
You've Got Mail
Grumpy Old Men
Grumpier Old Men
Broadway Danny Rose
Mighty Aphrodite
Purple Rose of Cairo
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