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I saw Army of Darkness earlier tonight, and I must say that it is one of the most hilarious things I have ever seen in my life. From the catchphrases to the horrible CGs and overall bad acting, it all came together in a wonderful pit of goodness.

So, I put that forth as a "Must See Movie." The point of this thread is to list movies that you feel are must sees. It may be good not to list 300 movies, as that decreases your movie credibility...let's say we all start out with one.

So, what are some more must see movies?

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OK! Well, Army of Darkness would definitely be on my list, but one should at least see Evil Dead 2 beforehand (AoD is Evil Dead 3) Evil Dead 2 is essentially a more comedic remake of the original Evil Dead, which is also worth watching (and the acting debut of Bruce Campbell of Brisco County Jr. "fame" and the directing debut of Sam Raimi of Spiderman fame done while they were both students at Michigan State University)

But my list of must see movies... well I'll give a top 5 which is a good number I think
1 - Full Metal Jacket
An unbelievably funny and disturbing vietnam war film, with so much subtlety and twisted gallows humor you would think you were reading a Kurt Vonnegut novel. Stanley Kubrick's direction brutally attacks military philosophy and the horrors of war. Also the source of the quote "Me so horny, me love you long time."
2 - Dr. Strangelove (or How I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb)
More dark humor from Stanley Kubrick, this time about nuclear war, and what happens when nuclear proliferation goes astray. Perhaps the all time funniest nuclear holocaust film.
3 - Fight Club
An excellent psychological action drama featuring Brad Pitt and the genius that is Edward Norton (American History X, Primal Fear), oh yeah, and Meat Loaf with boobs. Shows what happens when man becomes too frustrated with a society that lacks meaning and excitement, and has only become maddening routine. My all time favorite twist ending - I guarantee it will make you watch it twice.
4 - The Big Lebowski
Kidnappings, Bowling, Beer, Screaming Fat Men, Marijuana, Sam Elliot! Even though I know every line by heart, this movie still makes me laugh out loud. It is so funny. Hands down John Goodman's greatest performance, with stellar backup from Jeff Bridges, Steve Buscemi, Julianne Moore, and John Turturro. If you haven't seen this, turn off the computer and go rent it now, or download it... but see it now. (Then see the other 4 if you haven't seen those) Great soundtrack too.
5 - High Fidelity
A guys movie about relationships. A twisted and hilarious view of a neurotic record store owner's romantic past as he deals with a breakup. Starring John Cusack and Jack Black (quite likely this movie is responsible for Jack Black's current popularity). Especially appropriate to be on a top 5 list of movies, due to many "top 5" dialogues throughout the film, although it is deserving of it's spot.


I could list many many more, A Clockwork Orange, Better Off Dead, all of Lord of the Rings, Heavy Metal, Waking Life, Spirited Away (omg can't believe I didn't mention that... best cartoon EVER) anyway... I could go on and on and on, but I'll restrain myself. Go out and rent Spirited Away and Big Lebowski. NOW.



Edit: Why haven't you seen Spirited Away yet? GO GO GO!

[Edited by Drizzo on 03-23-2004 at 08:09 AM GMT: fix some errors... why are you reading this part instead of watching these movies?]

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If I hadn't been unfortunate enough to see teh Arfenhouse 1 I wouldn't have understood, but as it is, I'd imagine that's an extremely accurate plot description... I actually saw it twice, because I decided to add subtitles, hoping it would get more coherent... I don't know what I was thinking...

Now go see Spirited Away

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For now, I'm going to put in for Shawshank Redemption, Soylent Green, The Princess Bride, Being John Malkovich, and Oscar.

Shawshank Redemption is based on a Stephen King short story, and is about a banker who was wrongly imprisoned for the murder of his wife and her lover. I've never seen a better movie.

Soylent Green is about a future where the two main problems are overpopulation and undernourishment, with society divided in to two distinct groups: the highly wealthy, and the highly poor.

The Princess Bride is based on a book that's based on a 4000 page poem, and stars Cary Elwes and Andre the Giant. It's hard to have more fun watching a movie than watching this one.

Being John Malkovich is deeply moving, deeply disturbing, and definitly worth seeing. Basically, a portal exists that you may enter in order to reside inside John Malkovich's brain for a short amount of time, and when your time is up you get ejected on to the New Jersey Turnpike. It's a very surreal movie, and worth your two hours.

Oscar is the funniest movie I've ever seen. It's about a 1930's gangster who promises his dad on his deathbed that he'll go straight, and then tries to, but everyone thinks he's up to something, from the Feds to the other gangsters. SEE THIS MOVIE!

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DiMono wrote:
For now, I'm going to put in for Shawshank Redemption, Soylent Green, The Princess Bride, Being John Malkovich, and Oscar.

Shawshank is A+, Princess Bride A+, BJM A, Oscar A- (great film, you forgot to mention it stars Sylvester Stallone, but I laughed my rump off.)

For anyone looking for an animated philosophy lecture, with comedy and surrealism, watch Waking Life an unbelievably unique and entertaining film.... a good date movie if your partner's a genius, because you get great conversations afterward. and watch Spirited Away too... watch it with your kids, they'll love it too

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Be sure to close your quote tags, Drizzo.

In case you didn't see it hiding in an earlier post, Better Off Dead is most excellent. Might I also reccommend Strange Brew, and I can't believe nobody said Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Clean, dumb, and funny are each of these. And for the Disney fans: The Brave Little Toaster and The Emperor's New Groove.

Gotta have em.

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What? Nobody thinks Empire Strikes Back is good enough to be in this section? Let's see, Matrix Reloaded, Evil Dead Trilogy, Memento, All Of Quentin Tarantino's Movies (pulp fiction, resevoir dogs, jackie brown, kill bill etc..), LOTR Trilogy, X-men 2, Airplane, Hotshots 1 & 2, Super Mario Brothers and of course: Baseketball. (sorry, I do have sick humor and i'm a great south park fan)

I'll say those are some of my favorites from the top of my head...
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I just assumed everyone had seen Empire Strikes Back, same with The Princess Bride... Memento is an excellent film though, well worth a viewing from everyone... nice and unique X-men 2 is so much better than the original
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I was disappointed in Jackie Brown though... I think it's the 20 minute long scenes of just her face as she drives with nothing going on... And SMB... dude, you musta been one little kid when that came out, because I was a HUGE nintendo fan, and probably only 12 or 13 and I still felt taken advantage of by that movie.... of course, Neverending Story on the other hand still holds up... ARTEX NOOOOO :~( ARTEX!!! ARTEEEEEEX!!!!!!

... or from early early childhood the care bears movie but we wont mention that, or anything about still knowing the words to the songs...


Oh yeah, and see Spirited Away

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Caveat: Spirited Away can seem a bit weird to American audiences. Then again, so's Being John Malkovich.

The X-Men movies are worth it - they're superhero movies that are actually good. I liked Kill Bill, though mostly through the brilliant cinematography. Whoever that camera guy is, he's a good hire.

South Park the Movie is, I feel, an underrated film - it has its moments of cleverness, and so long as you don't expect too much there are moments where it catches you by surprise by its sophisticated humour. Of course, then they have a song based entirely around swear words.

If you can get your hands on them, The Dish and Looking for Alibrandi are two very good Australian films. (A fair few films have been filmed in Australia, the Matrix trilogy among them, so our film industry is fairly healthy.) The Dish is about the radio telescope out in the small town of Parkes and its role in the Apollo 11 mission, and it has a very dry wit. Looking for Alibrandi, on the other hand, is a serious tale about an Italian-Australian girl in her final year, exams, racial tension, her father and so on, but it's very well acted and directed, and the film makes it very easy to get into the story, even for those not in that age-group. (It also contains one of my favourite scenes in any film, a funeral scene set to U2. Somehow, it works.)

I have a weakness for The Truman Show and The Fifth Element. I don't know why, I just like those movies.

I tend to enjoy films that are mis-billed, or that teeter between two genres. Dogma and Hollywood Homicide certainly fit into those categories - Dogma works better if you consider it a serious story, which ends up really taking the piss, and Hollywood Homicide works better if you just do't even read the back of the box and watch the thing - it's a definite comedy, but it does delve into police procedural a bit. Then again, the Eric Idle cameo suprised me so much that I was willing to give the film a chance. (And no, I haven't ruined it for you.)

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I haven't yet seen Spirited Away, and I know I'm missing out.
Another must-see animated film is Belleville Rendez-Vous. It's completely unique in pretty much every possible way.
And of course, Arfenhouse!!!!11!!11 and the other Disaster Labs movies (such as Shadow Government Puppet Show) rule utterly.

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I feel that, at this point, I need to stick up for Graverobbers From Outer Space, better known as Plan 9 From Outer Space. It's so bad that it's funny, and everyone should see it once. Following that, the movie Ed Wood is really quite good, as is Spaceballs. Oh, and everyone should see Duck Soup at least once, which is a very funny Marx Bros movie.

I didn't like Matrix Reloaded, as it felt to me like a cash-grab using bullet-time WAAAAAY too frequently. There are in fact times when it looks like the Wachowskis said "hey, Neo's doing something. Let's use bullet-time!" I will definitely put in for the original Matrix though, I don't have a large enough vocabulary to express my thoughts on that movie.

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I definitely forgot UHF from my previous list. It is so funny! You have Michael Richards (AKA Cosmo Krammer), Fran Drescher (AKA The Nanny), and of course Weird Al Yankovich in his only movie ever. The off-the-wall special effects make this hilarious.
Also from Orion Studios in that time period was The Three Amigos. Martin Short, Steve Martin, Chevy Chase as bumbling Mexican heroes.
And one more, that is a similar "actors play their roles to save the world" thing, is Galaxy Quest, starring Tim Allen and Sigourney Weaver.

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As Matt says, The Dish is a a very funny movie, and one of very few that I have watched more than once. Dimono's recommendation of Plan 9 From Outer Space is a good one too. That one made cult status in the 60's. The ghoul was originally played by Bela Lugosi, but he died during the making of the film. For the rest of the film, the ghoul was played by the producer's wife's chiropractor, who held a cape in front of his face the whole time. The director, Ed Wood, became known for making hilariously bad movies.

I'm not much of a movie goer, but the one that made a great impact on me was One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, though there are reasons best not gone into here that could have made it so. I saw The Passion Of The Christ last night and thought it was an overhyped gory mess. I couldn't recommend that one to anyone - so possibly I shouldn't have mentioned it as the thread is Must See Movies. :P
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I have to say that I really enjoyed The Count of Monte Cristo... among many others already stated on this thread.
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I have two words for you all, followed by five more words:

Apocalypse Now


Attack of the Killer Tomatoes


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bandit1200 wrote:
As Matt says, The Dish is a a very funny movie, and one of very few that I have watched more than once. Dimono's recommendation of Plan 9 From Outer Space is a good one too. That one made cult status in the 60's. The ghoul was originally played by Bela Lugosi, but he died during the making of the film. For the rest of the film, the ghoul was played by the producer's wife's chiropractor, who held a cape in front of his face the whole time. The director, Ed Wood, became known for making hilariously bad movies.

That's not an entirely accurate statement - Ed wood was already known for making hilariously bad movies by that point.Plan 9 was just the most extreme case.

Speaking of which, the Tim Burton movie Ed Wood is well worth seeing.

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DiMono wrote:
I have two words for you all, followed by five more words:
Apocalypse Now
Attack of the Killer Tomatoes
I'll go with your two words, but I can't imagine why in the world you'd even utter those five words. We've already had our quota of so-bad-they're-good movies. And this one is more so-bad-it's-bad.

There have been lots of good movies named here, I'll add a few I haven't seen mentioned yet:

Rear Window
The Right Stuff
The Silence of the Lambs
Some Like it Hot
Double Indemnity


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Don't forget Wild Wild West.

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Nillo wrote:
Don't forget Wild Wild West.

But I really, really want to.

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There's a 3 hour 42 minute Kevin Smith feature called An Evening With Kevin Smith, where he videotaped five of his U.S. College Q&As and spliced them together in amusing orders. One of the stories he tells about 2 hours in makes Wild Wild West much more funny than it is.

(for the uninitiated who don't know who Kevin Smith is, he's the fine creative mind behind Clerks, Mallrats, Chasing Amy, Dogma, Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back, and Jersey Girl, and he was a producer on Good Will Hunting.

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Jersey Girl has been released?

oh yeah, and I just saw Fear of a Black Hat the other day, it's like This is Spinal Tap! but about a hip-hop group known as N.W.H. and their journey through fame. Quite amusing, especially if you're familiar with the old school hip-hop they parody.

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Early on in Charlie Kaufman's Synecdoche, NY a woman named Hazel drives up to a burning house. She rings the doorbell, quickly drawing her hand away because of the heat. She speaks with a real estate agent about the prospect of buying the house and the conversation is mundane. They talk about how good a price the house is being offered for, how well the size fits someone who lives alone and the unfinished but accommodating basement. We begin to suspect that the fire is purely a metaphor, simply an interesting symbol to enhance what the house and its purchase means to Hazel. Then:
Hazel: I like it. I do! I'm - I'm just really concerned about dying in the fire.
Burning House Realtor: It's a big decision - how one prefers to die.
So the house IS perpetually on fire, it's just that nobody seems to mind. It isn't that the characters ignore it so much that they do not feel that it is worth mentioning.

Synecdoche, NY succeeds at, if nothing else, building a convincing dream landscape. Or maybe it's a meta-dream landcape. Or purgatory. Or an enhanced reality from the point of view of the psychotic. Or maybe just the sycotic. The plot (as much as it can be called a plot) focuses on a sickly theatre director (played perfectly by Philip Seymour Hoffman) who receives a MacArthur grant some time after his wife leaves him. Taking his wife's advice that there is nothing artistically exciting about putting on someone else's work (the grant has been earned, presumably, by his production of Miller's Death of a Salesman with young people playing Willy and Linda. We take it on the director's good word that the play received rave reviews but every character who comments on it is unimpressed) he tells his therapist that he wants to create a large scale, all-encompassing and "brutally honest" autobiographical production. He buys an impossibly large theatre space in Manhattan and hires a cast of well over 50. The production continues to grow and soon he not only has actors playing people in his life, but actors playing those actors. He casts a man with no theatre experience whatsoever as himself because the man claims to have been stalking him for 20 years. He is soon instructing his set team to literally construct fourth walls and before long the rehearsal space is a scale replica of Manhattan. At one point an actor asks when they are going to get an audience, "we've been rehearsing for 17 years!" In the meantime his own life takes on strange twists as he pursues various relationships with different actresses (most of them playing the same role, that of Hazel the box-office girl), attempts to track down his daughter who has become both the muse and canvas of a renowned German tattoo artist and obsessively cleans his wife's apartment after he is mistaken by a blind old landlord for the cleaning lady. That he later hires someone to play the cleaning lady (the scenes we see this character in during rehearsal are his actions, not the perpetually off screen real woman) reveals the bizarre depths of his mind's...uh...something.

The man's name is Caden Cotard. Some quick research tells me that the Cotard delusion involves the mistaken belief that oneself is literally or figuratively dead. Indeed Caden is extremely preoccupied by death and holds a strong belief that he is dying over the course of the 40 or so years the film takes place over. He has a vague disease that is slowly destroying his autonomic functions, but seems to be treatable: in one scene he chases after a woman who knows his daughter's whereabouts and finds the present he sent her in a dumpster. He takes the time to apply tear replacement eyedrops before crying over it.

Roger Ebert has claimed that this is his favorite film of the last decade. Personally I cannot say whether this is a good film (although I am quite sure it is not a bad one). I can say however that there are moments of artistic brilliance. I can say that every performance is brilliant. I can say that I watched this film with intense fascination and can say that I have not stopped replaying the final scenes in my head, trying desperately to figure out why they made such an impression on me. I can say that it one of the most fascinatingly baffling films I have ever seen and one of the most bafflingly fascinating. I can say that it is undoubtedly worth seeing.

EDIT: I saw it again today and can now say with some more conviction that it is good, or at the very least that the last 15 minutes are incredible.

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Shoot 'em Up is one of the most creative, self-consciously excessive and funniest action movies I've ever seen. Every action scene is accompanied by an awesome soundtrack, ends with a one-liner and somehow involves carrots. We never learn the first names of the hero and villain and we don't have to: the plot line (which is enthusiastically pro gun control) serves as a punchline and only a punchline. The movie is more of an excuse to show Paul Giamatti being evil, Clive Owen killing his men and Monica Belucci looking pretty. The film starts with the hero delivering a baby during a firefight (he severs the umbilical cord with his gun) and things get more absurd from there. I believe I mentioned that carrots are involved.

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Shoot 'em Up is good.
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My recommendation list would have to be Batman (1989), Terminator 1 and 2, and the Back to the Future series. Those are my favorite movies, which also seem to be very liked as well.

I'd also recommend Jurassic Park, Ghostbusters, the Toy Story trilogy, Monsters Inc. and Finding Nemo, some more movies I really liked. (Though there's opinion to factor in all of this).

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Natural Born Killers: quite simply the best love story ever produced
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Unbreakable. Bruce Willis and Samuel L Jackson. That is all.

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I just showed Unbreakable to a couple of friends a few weeks back. One thought it was "interesting" and the other was bored stiff. It's one of my favourite films.

I'll throw one out there: Memento. It will keep you on the edge of your seat and thinking hard the entire time.

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