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Copy Clerk  Posts: 103 Joined: 3 Jan 2008     | |
Brand Manager  Posts: 617 Joined: 8 Oct 2007   |
I've actually seen all of those except for Apt Pupil which I will now add to my list. I'm actually a BIG Stephen King fan, but I really like his books better than all of the mini-series and shows, except for the Shining...good god *shiver*. I know there are some really good 70's and 80's movies I should have watched as well that I'm sure I've missed. I'm a big fan of some of the stereotypical 80's movies: Lucas, Say Anything, Weird Science, Breakfast Club, Can't Buy Me Love, 16 Candles, ummm...I'm sure there are more but some like that. Necroswanson, I agree with you too. I've seen all of those and very good. The CoMC movie was great but very very different from the book. I was disappointed about that but still a great movie. Poor Jim Varney *tear* |
PROBATION  Posts: 2348 Joined: 29 Nov 2007    | Just rememebred to throw in Fargo. User was put on probation for: My girlfreind is so damn annoying!. (3 days) |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2449 Joined: 25 Jan 2008   | HEEEEEEEREEEE'S JOHNNY! 80's flicks... Can't go wrong with the Naked Gun series... Hotshots 1 & Deux, Willow, and of course Hackers. Red movies are pretty damn good too... Red Dawn, Red Heat, Red Sonja. |
Copy Clerk  Posts: 76 Joined: 5 Mar 2008  | Monty Python and The Holy Grail |
Copy Clerk Posts: 76 Joined: 5 Mar 2008 | and Airplane |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 2449 Joined: 25 Jan 2008 | My GODS... I am a true movie lover, but Fargo and Rushmore both put me to sleep. 'Lotta people liked them, but DAMN I haven't seen anything so uneventful as Rushmore in my life, and I've watched both Carrot Top and Billy Crystal do standup. You shouldn't have to mention Monty & the Grail... Anyone over the age of 13 who HASN'T seen it is already dead inside... RUN AWAY! |
Copy Clerk Posts: 76 Joined: 5 Mar 2008 | you might be one of the few people who actually need ritalin, but what you say about The Holy Grail is mostly true and provides further evidence that I'm surrouded by zombies. I put it on this thread because it IS a must see pre-2000 movie and there are some people who haven't seen it or heard of it (sad as that is) |
Beat Writer Posts: 147 Joined: 5 Mar 2008   | Duel. It's Stephen Spielberg's first film. It was a TV movie in North America, but a feature film in Europe. It's about a businessman driving through a beautiful desert-like area being chased by a pyschotic truckdriver. It has a lot of 70s cheese, but it's sweet as hell. It makes me want to own a Plymouth Valiant. Eat, Drink, Man, Woman. It's a Taiwanese film that is extremely charming and heartwarming. I highly recommend it. |
Anonymous Source Posts: 1 Joined: 6 Mar 2008 | All I know about are comedies. ;p Clue (Tim Curry, Christopher Lloyd, and a whole lot of other great talent)--yes, it IS based off of the game, but well-written in a way that a lot of spin-offs aren't. See No Evil, Hear No Evil (Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder). It's about a blind guy and a deaf guy that get accused of a murder. Funny from the very beginning. :) Real Genius (Val Kilmer primarily)--a bunch of college students who set their mind to a pretty great vigilante prank. They end up destroying the BBEG's house with popcorn. I mean, c'mon, you gotta love that. |
Beat Writer Posts: 165 Joined: 10 Feb 2008 |
The first book is a must read for anyone who likes sci-fi. The sequels vary in quality, particulary with "God emporer" which tends to be either loved or hated. Too bad Frank Herbert died after 6 dune books. At least they did get basterdized or anything by a close relative(how much would that have sucked). I personally liked the lynch movie, but it is kinda wierd(It's a lynch movie). The film is worth a watch in my opinion, if for nothing more then the visual effects. |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 2449 Joined: 25 Jan 2008 |
Tried it, didn't do to much but it DID make me a cynical hateful bastard. I will most definitely second Fanficbug's vote for Clue... More movies need to implement a multiple-ending system, and more movies need to include Tim Curry. |
Paperboy  Posts: 36 Joined: 6 Mar 2008  | My pick of must see pre - 2000 movies are as follows: The Thing [1982 version] |
Paperboy  Posts: 39 Joined: 13 Feb 2008 | The wicker man |
Brand Manager Posts: 617 Joined: 8 Oct 2007 | Good god people...I'll be watching movies until I'm old and gray!.....and I can't wait! Amazingly enough, I've seen about 85% of the movies everyone has talked about, but that still leaves me with a lot of movies to watch and I'm soooo pumped! Thank you everyone for putting a lot of thought into this! If there are more...please don't stop listing, just wanted to add my thanks. So...THANKS! You guys (girls are included in that b/c I'm from upstate NY and "guys" means everyone) ROCK! |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 2449 Joined: 25 Jan 2008 | Spin, if you're into Scifi, give some of these a try... -DeepStar Six Also, I could be wrong, but I truly don't recall seeing Donnie Darko mentioned yet... |
Brand Manager Posts: 617 Joined: 8 Oct 2007 |
Good God Knell! You weren't kidding when you knew movies! I love it! And, I have seen 2 on that whole list. I've actually run out of ink in my pen writing all of these great movies down. Did anyone mention Big Trouble In Little China? That's a great one too! |
Paperboy Posts: 15 Joined: 6 Mar 2008 | I can't believe nobody has said anything about this, even when mentioning Johnny Depp! Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998) A almost trippy drug movie that has some good acting, laugh out loud moments, and truly bizarre drug sequences and disturbing scenes. Don't take it seriously or expect some kind of deep revelation, but the only theme was to point out the overdosed consumerism during the 70's. Besides, where can you get human reptiles in a blood orgy, using a flyswatter at invisible bats, and watch the Depp be stoned out of his mind on a ether binge? This line will be in my head forever. :D "Two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine and a whole galaxy of multicolored uppers, downers, screamers, leaughers...Also a quart of tequilla, a quart of rum, a case of budweiser, a pint of raw ether, and two dozen amyls. We didn't actually need all this for the trip, but once you get locked into a serious drug collection, the tendancy is to push it as far as possible. The only thing that worried me was the ether. There is nothing more depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. And I knew we'd get to that rotten stuff soon." |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 2449 Joined: 25 Jan 2008 |
My Grandfather (Mother's side of family) is a movie nut, my mother is a movie nut, and I inherited the curse. Also, one of my aunts (Mother's sister) is an actress in Hollywood and is married to a TV producer. Movies are big in my family. Keeping the movie train rollin along, are you fond of Anime? Must-See anime movies (not series') I highly recommend... And my roommate would probably insist I mention "Grave of the Fireflies". It's just not my taste, but is hailed as one of Miyazaki's most powerful films. |
Copy Clerk Posts: 76 Joined: 5 Mar 2008 | The Princess Bride |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1069 Joined: 18 Sep 2007  | "Airplane!" and "Airplane 2: The Sequel!": Successors to the previously mentioned "Kentucky Fried Movie" and (IMO) the apex of the parody movie... in any case, they're the reason why the "Scary Movie" series doesn't really do much for me. "LA Confidential": Film noir, stylish, and an oh-so-relevant actioner with a perfect cast. "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?": Hilarious blend of live-action and cel-painted animation that put "cartoon physics" on the map. More when I think of 'em. -- Steve |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 2449 Joined: 25 Jan 2008 | LA Confidential was awesome, just can't place what category it would ever fall under... Epic perhaps... The Edge Not to start any argument with others over their suggestions, but be forewarned about "This is Spinal Tap" and "Waiting for Guffman". Both of these shows are the kind where you either love them to death and worship every aspect of them, or can't f**king stand what pieces of retarded crap they are. I fall under the latter, who knows, you may become a fanatic, but just go in knowing it's a real gamble. |
Press Junketeer Posts: 427 Joined: 6 Feb 2008 | Will try to keep my list of films to ones that havent been listed (& in no real order): Metropolis (the fritz lang & anime versions) [another 70's sci-fi film I cant remember the name involving an ebil guy trying to conquer a planet that only had one spaceship & the ppl send that spaceship & its pilot on a comng of age journey collecting an assorted army of various aliens including one kewl group of tall white as snow aliens that fly their ship telecenetically & at one point one of those aliens gets captured by the ebil guy & for some reason that ebil guy has the aliens arm replace his own arm at whichpoint the aliens try to kill him telecenetically but fail...if ne1 knows its name pleas say :-)] thats all I can think of for moment. couple others I wanted to add but cant are Blood; The last vampire & Park Chan-wook's Vengence trilogy (if youve only seen Oldboy please at least see Sympathy for Mr Vengence) oh, & I still have to watch (amoung many): Network; Citizen Kane; Fritz Lang's M; Nosferatu; Napoleon (silent movie vibe going here) |
Paperboy Posts: 36 Joined: 6 Mar 2008 | @Spinwiz I'd add a few more with a 5 star rating for those I think are truly masterworks: A Man who Would be King - great action/adventure flick with Michael Caine & Sean Connery I could go on but instead here's a link to IMDB's top 250 of all time: Enjoy |
Paperboy Posts: 36 Joined: 6 Mar 2008 |
That film is "Battle Beyond the Stars" Another version of The 7 Samurai/Magnificent 7 set in space. |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 2449 Joined: 25 Jan 2008 | While we're digging up old memories... Does anyone remember an old show about 3 (or was it 4) kids on a spaceship who had identical looking battlemechs (colored stripes were the way to ID who was who)... It used to play on YTV in canada over a decade back, and for the last year it's been REALLY bugging me I can't remember it. Other good shows... Shaft. Both the old one with Issac Hayes, and the new one with Samuel Jackson. And the golden jewel of all old movies... 54 (Studio 54) Some rather new titles also not to be passed up... TRUST ME, don't NOT see these! |
Press Junketeer Posts: 427 Joined: 6 Feb 2008 |
Another forgotten classic from my youth, ty. also: I dont think anyone has listed One Flew Over the Cukoos yet. Surprising as its frankly one of the greatest films ever made with possibly the only genuinely hate inducing "villain" ever in any movie ive seen. Or Come & See (one of the most disturbing war movies ive seen, certainly the most uncomfortable) oh & 2 more 2000+ films that must be seen. Amelie (yes everyone has heard of it, but its one of the best films about nothing much ive ever seen) & The Assassination of Richard Nixon (Sean Penn on screen for 2 hours, & you never get bored) |
Copy Clerk  Posts: 90 Joined: 21 Feb 2008 | I'll second Event Horizon. |
Brand Manager Posts: 617 Joined: 8 Oct 2007 | I have so much hand cramp from writing all of these down I'm actually typing this with my toes. :) Thank you all (Knell and Evil especially)...I'll keep writing them down! |
Lead Web Developer  Posts: 1527 Joined: 5 Aug 2003    | If you want "off the beaten path", anything by Jan Svankmajer (see below). Alice - http://imdb.com/title/tt0095715/ Additionally: (Yes, I know some are newer than 2000) Blow Up - http://imdb.com/title/tt0060176/ I have more too, but that's a start. :D |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1286 Joined: 7 Mar 2008  | for stuff not said UHF - it's wierd al's movie and just so awesome most anything with bruce campbell and sho kosugi in it if i think of more i'll post them |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 2449 Joined: 25 Jan 2008 | |
Woah, you'Re right. I totally forgot good old Johnny. The sequel was pretty good too :)