If you could only have 15 movies

[jpotter33]

Wizard of Oz
Warrior
Man of steel, BVS
Scrooge- Albert Finney
Raising Arizona
The Naked Gun
Karate Kid
Lars and  The real Girl
The giver
Jaws
Hoosiers
The Thing
Seven
Shawshank Redemption
Better off Dead

Totally forgot about Seven. That's a great one.

[Timdawgg]

1. Seven
2. Saving Private Ryan
3. Cast Away
4. Apocalypse Now
5. The Blair Witch Project
6. Empire Strikes Back
7. Zombieland
8. Charlie & The Chocolate Factory
9. The Sixth Sense
10. House of 1000 Corpses
11. Inglorious ****s
12. The Green Mile
13. Gangs of New York
14. The Dark Knight
15. Band of Brothers (Not a movie but I could not live without it)

[ABOS (A bit of Sanity)]

1. Gladiator
2. Jaws
3. Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
4. The Departed
5. The Dark Knight
6. Inception
7. Goodfellas
8. Saving Private Ryan
9. Goodwill Hunting
10. Star Wars: The Force Awkens
11. Warrior
12. Heat
13. The Avengers
14. Catch Me if you Can
15. Braveheart

[hwangjini_1]

Wizard of Oz
Warrior
Man of steel, BVS
Scrooge- Albert Finney
Raising Arizona
The Naked Gun
Karate Kid
Lars and  The real Girl
The giver
Jaws
Hoosiers
The Thing
Seven
Shawshank Redemption
Better off Dead

Totally forgot about Seven. That's a great one.

crap. your post reminded of the seven samurai. i want that on my list! is it too late to amend?

oh, and maybe throw in my life as a dog.

[greece66]

in no particular order:

Monty Python's in search of the holy grail (no one mentioned this? really?)
battleship potempkin
metropolis
high noon
apocalypse now
wizard of oz
star wars
schindler's list
one flew over the cuckoo's nest
chunhyang chon (the latest version, its korean by the way)
godfather matrix (the post below reminded of it.)
12 angry men (the original)
fiddler on the roof
its a wonderful life
ben hur

and two movies that were brilliantly done, but for totally evil causes (okay, the first one is not quite a movie exactly...)

triumph of the will
birth of a nation

rly nice list

I have not watched these

12 angry men (the original)
fiddler on the roof

and I should, esp. given Zero Mostel stars in one.

OK there are two ways to think of this. First is GOAT movies; second is movies I like to watch again and again

I start with the first - order does not mean anything

GOAT movies
(I left out the obvious classics like One flew over the cuckoo's nest, Godfather and Citizen Kane; I went instead for personal favourites). I added years in cases where a confusion is possible.

1. Nostalghia (1983)
2.The cabinet of Dr Caligari (1920)
3. Andrei Rublev
4. Harakiri (1962)
5. Playtime (1973)
6. Wild strawberries
7. Barry Lyndon (my fave Kubrick movie)
8. Madadayo (underappreciated Kurosawa film)
9. Land of silence and darkness
10. Invincible (2001)
11. Woman in the Dunes
12. Aguirre the wrath of God
13. Eternity and a Day
14. Kwaidan
15.Ulysses' Gaze

Also, can someone explain me the appeal of 'Tokyo Story'? I never understood this movie although everyone says how great it is.

movies I like watching again and again

1. The Big Lebowski (by far my fave movie)
This movie is so freaking good.

2.Comedies
-Coming to America
-Borat
-Clerks
- A night at the opera (my fave Marx brother movie)
- The Blues Brothers
-National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
-Superbad
-Napoleon Dynamite
-Anchorman: the legend of Ron Burgundy
-Trainspotting
-Blazing saddles
-All three Monty Python movies
-Anything by Ciccio e Franco.

3. War movies
 -Glory
-Braveheart
-The recent Russian 'Stalingrad' movie
-Spaghetti westerns by Sergio Leone
- Kurosawa films (esp. the seven samurai, Yojimbo, and Ran)
-I also have a particular liking for Vietnam movies, I watch them over and over again: Platoon, Goodmorning Vietnam, Full metal jacket...
-and ofc The wild bunch... love the final scene

Other than comedies and violent stuff, I rly like some David Lynch movies (Blue Velvet, Mulholland Drive, Lost Highway, Dune), a few sci-fi stuff (Twelve Monkies, The Matrix), and classic Soviet films (The Meeting Place Should Not Be Changed, The Irony of Fate).

Edit: I forgot Adventureland. Prolly the only romantic comedy I can stand watching on a regular basis. And added  Clerks to comedies and trainspotting to comedies.

Edit II: [dang] how could I forget Ghostbusters ...

[dannyboy35]

I appreciate David Lynch is talented but [dang] if I can figure out what in the world is going on in his movies. I offered to pay a friend 20 bucks and try to explain what he thought was going on in mulholland drive. I'd like to know because I bet I'd appreciate it.

[dannyboy35]

Oh, and Lost Highway even more so.

[dannyboy35]

in no particular order:

Monty Python's in search of the holy grail (no one mentioned this? really?)
battleship potempkin
metropolis
high noon
apocalypse now
wizard of oz
star wars
schindler's list
one flew over the cuckoo's nest
chunhyang chon (the latest version, its korean by the way)
godfather matrix (the post below reminded of it.)
12 angry men (the original)
fiddler on the roof
its a wonderful life
ben hur

and two movies that were brilliantly done, but for totally evil causes (okay, the first one is not quite a movie exactly...)

triumph of the will
birth of a nation

rly nice list

I have not watched these

12 angry men (the original)
fiddler on the roof

and I should, esp. given Zero Mostel stars in one.

OK there are two ways to think of this. First is GOAT movies; second is movies I like to watch again and again

I start with the first - order does not mean anything

GOAT movies
(I left out the obvious classics like One flew over the cuckoo's nest, Godfather and Citizen Kane; I went instead for personal favourites). I added years in cases where a confusion is possible.

1. Nostalghia (1983)
2.The cabinet of Dr Caligari (1920)
3. Andrei Rublev
4. Harakiri (1962)
5. Playtime (1973)
6. Wild strawberries
7. Barry Lyndon (my fave Kubrick movie)
8. Madadayo (underappreciated Kurosawa film)
9. Land of silence and darkness
10. Invincible (2001)
11. Woman in the Dunes
12. Aguirre the wrath of God
13. Eternity and a Day
14. Kwaidan
15.Ulysses' Gaze

Also, can someone explain me the appeal of 'Tokyo Story'? I never understood this movie although everyone says how great it is.

movies I like watching again and again

1. The Big Lebowski (by far my fave movie)
This movie is so freaking good.

2.Comedies
-Coming to America
-Borat
-Clerks
- A night at the opera (my fave Marx brother movie)
- The Blues Brothers
-National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
-Superbad
-Napoleon Dynamite
-Anchorman: the legend of Ron Burgundy
-Trainspotting
-Blazing saddles
-All three Monty Python movies
-Anything by Ciccio e Franco.

3. War movies
 -Glory
-Braveheart
-The recent Russian 'Stalingrad' movie
-Spaghetti westerns by Sergio Leone
- Kurosawa films (esp. the seven samurai, Yojimbo, and Ran)
-I also have a particular liking for Vietnam movies, I watch them over and over again: Platoon, Goodmorning Vietnam, Full metal jacket...
-and ofc The wild bunch... love the final scene

Other than comedies and violent stuff, I rly like some David Lynch movies (Blue Velvet, Mulholland Drive, Lost Highway, Dune), a few sci-fi stuff (Twelve Monkies, The Matrix), and classic Soviet films (The Meeting Place Should Not Be Changed, The Irony of Fate).

Edit: I forgot Adventureland. Prolly the only romantic comedy I can stand watching on a regular basis. And added  Clerks to comedies and trainspotting to comedies.

Edit II: [dang] how could I forget Ghostbusters ...

I'm with  you on romantic comedies. One I absolutely hated was Love Actually with Andrew Lincoln's character needing a punch in the face. I was so confused that the girlfriend and him had this secret. So not cool. My wife and I were laughing at how bad that was.

[jpotter33]

in no particular order:

Monty Python's in search of the holy grail (no one mentioned this? really?)
battleship potempkin
metropolis
high noon
apocalypse now
wizard of oz
star wars
schindler's list
one flew over the cuckoo's nest
chunhyang chon (the latest version, its korean by the way)
godfather matrix (the post below reminded of it.)
12 angry men (the original)
fiddler on the roof
its a wonderful life
ben hur

and two movies that were brilliantly done, but for totally evil causes (okay, the first one is not quite a movie exactly...)

triumph of the will
birth of a nation

rly nice list

I have not watched these

12 angry men (the original)
fiddler on the roof

and I should, esp. given Zero Mostel stars in one.

OK there are two ways to think of this. First is GOAT movies; second is movies I like to watch again and again

I start with the first - order does not mean anything

GOAT movies
(I left out the obvious classics like One flew over the cuckoo's nest, Godfather and Citizen Kane; I went instead for personal favourites). I added years in cases where a confusion is possible.

1. Nostalghia (1983)
2.The cabinet of Dr Caligari (1920)
3. Andrei Rublev
4. Harakiri (1962)
5. Playtime (1973)
6. Wild strawberries
7. Barry Lyndon (my fave Kubrick movie)
8. Madadayo (underappreciated Kurosawa film)
9. Land of silence and darkness
10. Invincible (2001)
11. Woman in the Dunes
12. Aguirre the wrath of God
13. Eternity and a Day
14. Kwaidan
15.Ulysses' Gaze

Also, can someone explain me the appeal of 'Tokyo Story'? I never understood this movie although everyone says how great it is.

movies I like watching again and again

1. The Big Lebowski (by far my fave movie)
This movie is so freaking good.

2.Comedies
-Coming to America
-Borat
-Clerks
- A night at the opera (my fave Marx brother movie)
- The Blues Brothers
-National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
-Superbad
-Napoleon Dynamite
-Anchorman: the legend of Ron Burgundy
-Trainspotting
-Blazing saddles
-All three Monty Python movies
-Anything by Ciccio e Franco.

3. War movies
 -Glory
-Braveheart
-The recent Russian 'Stalingrad' movie
-Spaghetti westerns by Sergio Leone
- Kurosawa films (esp. the seven samurai, Yojimbo, and Ran)
-I also have a particular liking for Vietnam movies, I watch them over and over again: Platoon, Goodmorning Vietnam, Full metal jacket...
-and ofc The wild bunch... love the final scene

Other than comedies and violent stuff, I rly like some David Lynch movies (Blue Velvet, Mulholland Drive, Lost Highway, Dune), a few sci-fi stuff (Twelve Monkies, The Matrix), and classic Soviet films (The Meeting Place Should Not Be Changed, The Irony of Fate).

Edit: I forgot Adventureland. Prolly the only romantic comedy I can stand watching on a regular basis. And added  Clerks to comedies and trainspotting to comedies.

Edit II: [dang] how could I forget Ghostbusters ...

Haha! I was waiting for someone to put Borat down, but I certainly didn't think it'd be you, Greece666! That one was a finalist for my list, too, but I ended up taking it off due to thinking it may be a little inappropriate lol

EDIT: Blazing Saddles is another all-time great, too - "Hey, where all the white women at?"

[Surferdad]

Blazing Saddles, dang I missed that one!  After following this thread for 3 days, I want a do-over.

[greece66]

Haha! I was waiting for someone to put Borat down, but I certainly didn't think it'd be you, Greece666! That one was a finalist for my list, too, but I ended up taking it off due to thinking it may be a little inappropriate lol

EDIT: Blazing Saddles is another all-time great, too - "Hey, where all the white women at?"

'well, let's play chess'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRb3u0PtEZE

[2short]

I'm going on the top of my head here. I reserve the right to change things if need be. But, here's my 15.

Rocky (I)
The Godfather
The Godfather II
Die Hard
Mad Max: Fury Road
Scott Pilgrim vs The World
The Hangover (1)
The Big Lebowski
I-Robot
The Blair Witch Project
Jurassic Park (1st)
The Army of Darkness
All three Lord of the Rings (that will put me to 15)

I feel I gotta give Scott Pilgrim a chance. I know it's got a cult following. Great call on Army of Darkness. I've watched that multiple times with friends. Great lines everywhere. " this is my boomstick!!" " Shop smart, S Smart! Got it?!!"

Scott pilgrim is a keeper.  I didn't put it on my 15 but love the movie.  Bluths!

[2short]

Awesome topic.

-Star Wars
-Empire Strikes Back
-Return of the Jedi
-Ghostbusters
-Dazed & Confused
-Good Will Hunting
-Real Genius
-Outside Providence
-Predator
-The Godfather
-Raiders of the Lost Ark
-The Goonies
-Back to the Future  Aliens
-Boogie Nights
-Goodfellas

EDIT:  Sorry, Marty McFly.  I needed Aliens in there.

I gotta say Outside Providence is a must see for anyone roughly my age and from New England. 

[greece66]

Planes, Trains, and Automobiles
Moonrise Kingdom
Grand Budapest Hotel
Mad Max: Fury Road
Mad Max: Road Warrior
The Usual Suspects
Fight Club
Shaun of the Dead
Hot Fuzz
The World's End
Pulp Fiction
Django Unchained
Inglourious Basterds
V for Vendetta
The Princess Bride
The Hunt for Red October
Hercules (the Disney version)

This was harder than I expected, I had to cut it down to 15 at the end, but I'm sure I missed a couple anyway (and it was really hard not to include Serenity)

Edit: Dang, I forgot about the Dark Knight.  I don't know if it replaces anything, though

Grand Budapest Hotel was a really interesting movie. The plot was very subtle. 

[greece66]

..as your home collection, what would they be? By my friends rules we thought  up , we granted everyone the Star Wars trilogy and the Indiana jones first 3 films because we're all dorks and consider them holy trilogies.
  Different things we thought up is considering rewatchability, just having as part of the collection cuz you loved it that much, and you may or may not want to consider genres. Like you may want to have a Christmas movie on hand or a horror. To each his/ her own.

So it's not just about quality, but rewatchability, too? And Star Wars and Indy are free? Hmm, still pretty hard to whittle it down to 15...

Oldboy (korean version)
Trainspotting
City of God
Pulp Fiction
Shaun of the Dead
Amélie
Mutiny on the Bounty (Brando version)
Irma la Douce
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
Boogie Nights
Magnolia
The Muppet Christmas Carol (don't laugh)
Life Is Beautiful
Hurlyburly

and one of the many italian Spencer/Hill movies nobody in the US has ever heard of. Probably "Il Soldato di Ventura", although it's only Spencer without Hill...so maybe "...altrimenti ci arrabbiamo!" or "Nati con la camicia".

Bud Spencer <3

Since we are on Italian films IMO Brancaleone > Monty Python and the Holy Grail

Also, no German films (?)

Edit: forgot to mention I also love the Muppet x-mas carol. Love the muppets in general anyway