OT: G.O.A.T Movies
1. Bloodsport
2. Conan: The Barbarian
3. The Big Lebowski
I know, right? I loved it then and I still love it now. It's cheesy, bad, and based off a fake story, and yet it remains a timeless classic in my heart.
Terminator 2
Inception
The Other Guys
When Harry Met Sally
Alien
I would also include the insider and the prestige.
No order
Drive
The Godfather
Jackie Brown
Casino Royale
Alien
Fargo
Boogie Nights
Meet the Parents
Empire Strikes Back
Blade Runner
Waking LIfe by Richard Linkletter is fansatic when you're in the Wake and Bake stage of life.
I love Linkletter and Waking Life is fun. I watch it every few years. It has a cool tone.
Office Space
Caddy shack
Good, Bad & Ugly
The last Crusade... best Indy movie
A Christmas story... I know overplayed, but deserves mention with given criteria
I also would add National Lampoons Christmas Vacation. Love that movie.
Back to the Future
Field of Dreams
Shawshank
Gettysburg
Platoon
Patton
Meet the Parents
Dumb and Dumber
Godfather
Jurassic Park
Rocky
Die Hard
Subjectively the OP's list would pass a lot of polls. Probably with Shawshank in there. As for mine:
1. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows pt. 2
2. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows pt. 1
3. Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
4. The Shawshank Redemption
5. 8 Mile
6. Saving Mr. Banks
7. Moneyball
8. The Departed
9. The Dark Knight
10. The Social Network
Categories make this difficult. Tommy Boy, Happy Gilmore, Wedding Crashers, and American Pie all are great. Then you got The Lion King, Emperor's New Groove, Mulan, Madagascar, Dispecable Me, and the rest of the animated ones.
And, of course, the Human Centipede.
Nice Dreams
Still Smokin'
Since you like movies about Smoke, I'd add Smoke Signals on there. Thank You for Smoking is good too.
Dr. Strangelove and A Clockwork Orange.
My group of friends use phrases and references from the above as the Mgobloggers use Seinfeld.
- 1940s: Casablanca; It’s A Wonderful Life; Citizen Kane
- 1950s: North by Northwest; The Bridge on the River Kwai; On the Waterfront
- 1960s: Dr. Strangelove; The Graduate; Psycho
- 1970s: The Godfather; One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest; American Graffiti; BONUS: The Exorcist; Animal House; Close Encounters of the Third Kind; Star Wars: Episode IV and Woodstock
- 1980s: Back to the Future; Field of Dreams; Raiders of the Lost Ark; BONUS: Ferris Bueller’s Day Off; The Princess Bride, The Breakfast Club, The Right Stuff; The Big Chill and The Shining
- 1990s: Goodfellas; The Shawshank Redemption; Fargo; BONUS: Schindler's List; The Big Lebowski and Forrest Gump
- 2000s: The Dark Knight; Children of Men; The Departed
- 2010s (so far): Django Unchained; Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri; Argo
my knowledge of the titles comes to a screeching halt when you hit the 2000's. i am so unhip.
much less seen them. i think LOR and gladiator are the only two i've seen.
It might be an age thing.
But the movie did spawn the whole Mrs. Robinson thing. The Older woman fantasy or in this case reality.
The soundtrack from Simon & Garfunkel definitely is important.
Dustin Hoffman's breakout performance.
And then there's some classic lines like "Plastics"
It's not all about the Plot with this film, it's everything else.
- 1940s: All the King’s Men; And Then There Were None; Double Indemnity; Key Largo; Rope Spellbound; The Grapes of Wrath; The Maltese Falcon; The Third Man; The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
- 1950s: 12 Angry Men; Anatomy of a Murder; Ben-Hur; Dial M for Murder; High Noon; Invasion of the Body Snatchers; Paths of Glory; Rear Window; Rebel Without A Cause; Singin’ in the Rain; Strangers on a Train; The Day the Earth Stood Still; The Searchers; The Ten Commandments; Witness for the Prosecution
- 1960s: 8-1/2; 2001: A Space Odyssey; A Hard Day’s Night; A Man for All Seasons; Bonnie and Clyde; Bullitt; Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid; Cape Fear; Charade; Cool Hand Luke; Easy Rider; Goldfinger; Help; In Cold Blood; In the Heat of the Night; Judgment at Nuremberg; Lawrence of Arabia; Lord of the Flies; Midnight Cowboy; Planet of the Apes; Rosemary’s Baby; Spartacus; Take the Money and Run; The Bad News Bears; The Dirty Dozen; The Great Escape; The Guns of Navarone; The List of Adrian Messenger; The Magnificent Seven; The Pink Panther; The Wild Bunch; The Wronmg Box; To Kill A Mockingbird; Wait Until Dark
- 1970s: Alien; A Clockwork Orange; All the President’s Men; Annie Hall; Apocalypse Now; Badlands; Being There; Blazing Saddles; Carrie; Chinatown; Coming Home; Deliverance; Dirty Harry; Don’t Look Now; Five Easy Pieces; Jaws; Kelly’s Heroes; Klute; Manhattan; Marathon Man; M*A*S*H; Mean Streets; Midnight Express; Monty Python and the Holy Grail; Network; Paper Moon; Patton; Rocky; Saturday Night Fever; Serpico; Shampoo; Straw Dogs; Taxi Driver; The Conversation; The Deer Hunter; The Exorcist; The French Connection; The Godfather, Part II; The Last Picture Show; The Omen; The Parallax View; The Sting; Three Days of the Condor; Young Frankenstein
- 1980s: A Fish Called Wanda; Airplane; Atlantic City; Beverly Hills Cop; Big; Blood Simple; Blue Velvet; Body Heat; Broadcast News; Bull Durham; Caddyshack; Chariots of Fire; Crimes and Misdemeanors; Das Boot; Die Hard; Dirty Dancing; Do the Right Thing; E. T. The Extraterrestrial; Fast Times at Ridgemont High; Fatal Attraction; Full Metal Jacket; Ghostbusters; Glory; Hannah and Her Sisters; Hoosiers; Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade; Local Hero; Once Upon a Time in America; Platoon; Poltergeist; Raging Bull; Rain Man; Raising Arizona; Scarface; Sex, Lies and Videotape; Stand By Me; Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back; Star Wars: Episode V - Return of the Jedi; Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan; The Blues Brothers; The Elephant Man; The Karate Kid; The Killing Fields; The Terminator; The Untouchables; This Is Spinal Tap; Tootsie; When Harry Met Sally; Who Framed Roger Rabbit; Witness
- 1990s: A Few Good Men; American Beauty; Apollo 13; Bottle Rocket; Boyz n The Hood; Braveheart; Clerks; Dazed and Confused; Dead Man Walking; Donnie Brasco; Election; Fight Club; Get Shorty; Glengarry Glen Ross; Good Will Hunting; Groundhog Day; Heat; Jackie Brown; Jerry Maguire; JFK; Jurassic Park; Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels; Miller’s Crossing; My Cousin Vinny; Office Space; Philadelphia; Pulp Fiction; Quiz Show; Reservoir Dogs; Rounders; Saving Private Ryan; Se7en; The Fugitive; The Green Mile; The Insider; The Silence of the Lambs; The Sixth Sense; The Usual Suspects; There’s Something About Mary; Three Kings; Titanic; Trainspotting; True Romance; Wag the Dog
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2000s: A Mighty Wind; Almost Famous; An Inconvenient Truth; Batman Begins; Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead; Best in Show; Black Hawk Down; Casino Royale; Charlie Wilson’s War; Cinderella Man; Collateral; Frost/Nixon; Good Night, and Good Luck; Gran Torino; I’m Not There; In Bruges; Inglourious Basterds; Iron Man; Inside Man; Little Miss Sunshine; Match Point; Michael Clayton; Miracle; Munich; Mystic River; No Country for Old Men; Shrek; Sideways; Star Trek; Thank You for Smoking; The Boy in the Striped Pajamas; The Hurt Locker; The Lord of the Rings Trilogy; The Pianist; The Wrestler; Traffic; Up; Up in the Air; V for Vendetta; Wedding Crashers; Zodiac
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2010s: 12 Years A Slave; 13th; American Hustle; Baby Driver; Black Mass; Boyhood; Bridesmaids; Bridge of Spies; Captain Phillips; Contagion; Creed; Drive; Dunkirk; Fruitvale Station; Get Out; Gone Girl; Hell or High Water; Hidden Figures; Inception; Inside Job; Inside Llewyn Davis; Juno; Last Flag Flying; Life Itself; Lincoln; Loving; Mad Max: Fury Road; Manchester By The Sea; Midnight in Paris; Miss Sloane; Molly’s Game; Moneyball; Moonlight; Nebraska; O.J.: Made in America; Selma; Seven Psychopaths; Silver Linings Playbook; Skyfall; Spotlight; Sully; The Adjustment Bureau; The Avengers; The Big Short; The Dallas Buyers Club; The Descendants; The Help; The Revenant; The Social Network; The Theory of Everything; The Wolf of Wall Street; Thor: Ragnarok; Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy; True Grit; War Horse; Wind River; Wonder Woman; Zero Dark Thirty
another great list. at least the parts i recognize.
LINK to my first post on this topic where Casablanca was listed as the first movie from the 1940s.
As I was compiling these lists, I was thinking of all the quotes and clips from these films that often make their way into comments on MGoBlog.