Classic Movies
For some time now I have been meaning to make a list of films that people consider to be a classic. By a classic I don't necessarily mean films that are from 1920. They're the films that you might say 'OMG YOU'VE NOT SEEN THAT?' to when discussing it with someone else. There are some films I haven't seen and some that I won't want to see, but I want to make a list of these kinds of films and watch as many of them this year as I can.
So, this is where I need your help...please can you list some films you consider classics and I'll either add them to the list or tell you I've already seen them.
If I haven't seen them you don't need to do the 'OMG YOU'VE NOT SEEN THAT?' I already know, I need to, haha.
PLEASE NOTE:
-NO HORROR FILMS WILL BE ADDED TO THE LIST, SO THERE'S NO POINT SUGGESTING ANY. I don't do horror, I don't even do a little bit of horror. So please don't waste your time suggesting them!
-TELLING ME WHAT HAPPENS IN A FILM OR THAT I WILL LIKE IT BECAUSE X Y AND Z WILL NOT BE APPRECIATED. I DON'T WANT TO KNOW. I DISLIKE SPOILERS.
I do have a handful myself which I will add to the list and I'll be asking on Twitter too.
1. Shawshank Redemption
2. Saving Private Ryan
3. Fame
4. Dirty Dancing
5. It's a Wonderful Life
6. The 39 Steps (Hitchcock version)
7. The Rocky Horror Picture Show
8. Ghost
9. 2001: A Space Odyssey
10. Bladerunner
11. Indiana Jones trilogy
12. Some Like It Hot
13. Empire of the Sun
14. The Color Purple
15. A Clockwork Orange
16. Casablanca
17. Pulp Fiction
18. Die Hard
19. The Terminator
20. The Godfather
21. Dogma
22. Billy Elliot
23. Good Morning, Vietnam
24. Gone With The Wind
25. GI Jane
26. Green Mile
27. One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest - 25th February 2013
Maybes (need to research):
The Great Dictator
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
The Fall (2006)
Forbidden Planet
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Office Space
Brazil
Fight Club
My Fair Lady
Kill Bill
Alien
Westworld
Priscilla Queen of the Desert
Princess Bride
Run Lola Run
Rear Window
The Birds
Robocop - might have seen
Memento
Fight Club
The Silence of The Lambs
Requiem For A Dream and (like Tarantino) anything by Aronofsky in general
The Purple rose of Cairo
The Private life of Sherlock Holmes (BEST Holmes movie EVER. Well, it was written by Billy Wilder, after all ;D)
Witness for the Prosecution
All about Eve
Scaramouche
Rear window
North by Northwest
Dial M for Murder
Cleopatra (Elizabeth Taylor)
Quo Vadis (Robert taylor, deborah kerr)
Ivanhoe (Robert Taylor, Elizabeth Taylor, Joan Fontaine)
The Honey Pot (Rex harrison, Maggie Smith)
Death on the Nile (Peter ustinov, Mia Farrow, Maggie SMith, ...)
Planet of the apes (Charlton Heston)
The Bridge on the river Kwai (Alec Guiness)
Arsenic and old lace
Singin' in the rain
Top hat
An American in Paris
The Pirate (Judy Garland & Gene Kelly)
My Fair Lady
Gentlemen prefer blondes
Big Fish
Elephantman
Galaxy Quest
Gran Torino
The Fifth Element
Larry Flint
My Man Godfrey
So, this is where I need your help...please can you list some films you consider classics and I'll either add them to the list or tell you I've already seen them.
If I haven't seen them you don't need to do the 'OMG YOU'VE NOT SEEN THAT?' I already know, I need to, haha.
PLEASE NOTE:
-NO HORROR FILMS WILL BE ADDED TO THE LIST, SO THERE'S NO POINT SUGGESTING ANY. I don't do horror, I don't even do a little bit of horror. So please don't waste your time suggesting them!
-TELLING ME WHAT HAPPENS IN A FILM OR THAT I WILL LIKE IT BECAUSE X Y AND Z WILL NOT BE APPRECIATED. I DON'T WANT TO KNOW. I DISLIKE SPOILERS.
I do have a handful myself which I will add to the list and I'll be asking on Twitter too.
1. Shawshank Redemption
2. Saving Private Ryan
3. Fame
4. Dirty Dancing
5. It's a Wonderful Life
6. The 39 Steps (Hitchcock version)
7. The Rocky Horror Picture Show
8. Ghost
9. 2001: A Space Odyssey
10. Bladerunner
11. Indiana Jones trilogy
12. Some Like It Hot
13. Empire of the Sun
14. The Color Purple
15. A Clockwork Orange
16. Casablanca
17. Pulp Fiction
18. Die Hard
19. The Terminator
20. The Godfather
21. Dogma
22. Billy Elliot
23. Good Morning, Vietnam
24. Gone With The Wind
25. GI Jane
26. Green Mile
27. One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest - 25th February 2013
Maybes (need to research):
The Great Dictator
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
The Fall (2006)
Forbidden Planet
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Office Space
Brazil
Fight Club
My Fair Lady
Kill Bill
Alien
Westworld
Priscilla Queen of the Desert
Princess Bride
Run Lola Run
Rear Window
The Birds
Robocop - might have seen
Memento
Fight Club
The Silence of The Lambs
Requiem For A Dream and (like Tarantino) anything by Aronofsky in general
The Purple rose of Cairo
The Private life of Sherlock Holmes (BEST Holmes movie EVER. Well, it was written by Billy Wilder, after all ;D)
Witness for the Prosecution
All about Eve
Scaramouche
Rear window
North by Northwest
Dial M for Murder
Cleopatra (Elizabeth Taylor)
Quo Vadis (Robert taylor, deborah kerr)
Ivanhoe (Robert Taylor, Elizabeth Taylor, Joan Fontaine)
The Honey Pot (Rex harrison, Maggie Smith)
Death on the Nile (Peter ustinov, Mia Farrow, Maggie SMith, ...)
Planet of the apes (Charlton Heston)
The Bridge on the river Kwai (Alec Guiness)
Arsenic and old lace
Singin' in the rain
Top hat
An American in Paris
The Pirate (Judy Garland & Gene Kelly)
My Fair Lady
Gentlemen prefer blondes
Big Fish
Elephantman
Galaxy Quest
Gran Torino
The Fifth Element
Larry Flint
My Man Godfrey