10 Movies to See Before You Die

arc_of_time_ · 17 Mar 2007 at 11:16

Angus-Higgins said:
My list (no particular order):

1) The Fast and the Furious
2) The Fast and the Furious 2: 2 Fast 2 Furious
3) The Fast and the Furious 3: Tokyo Drift
4) Jet Li's Fearless
5) Rainman
6) Casino Royale
7) Pirates of Silicon Valley
8) Fight Club
9) Kidulthood
10) Transporter 2

Angus Higgins

sorry but fast and the furious?? Not one of them deserves to be on any kind of great fillms never mind all 3 of them!! Each man to his own thought i suppose.

Supercow · 17 Mar 2007 at 11:19

arc_of_time_ said:
sorry but fast and the furious?? Not one of them deserves to be on any kind of great fillms never mind all 3 of them!! Each man to his own thought i suppose.

He must be a chav... err. Yo

Hedge · 17 Mar 2007 at 11:46

1. Pulp Fiction
2. Shawshank Redemption
3. Aliens
4. Rainman
5. Bladerunner
6. Indiana Jones
7. Human traffic
8. Ferris Buellers Day off
9. Taxi Driver
10. Thief.

Its pretty impossible to make this list for me

too many good films i aint put down

Angus-Higgins · 17 Mar 2007 at 15:57

sup3rc0w said:
He must be a chav... err. Yo

Or maybe I just like the films. :confused:

I quite like watching the films because they have nice cars, and it is action-packed; this is usually what I like in a film. (My favourite was "The Fast and the Furious 3: Tokyo Drift", but without the others I could not fill the list up).

Angus Higgins

BloodWolf · 17 Mar 2007 at 16:10

anything with keira knightley

pirates of the carribbean 1,2,3 tbh

seth · 17 Mar 2007 at 16:10

Ghost in the shell 1&2
Spirited away
Fight club
American history X
Event horizon
The fifth element
Donnie darko
Full metal jacket
Blade

10 really isnt enough.

daz · 17 Mar 2007 at 16:48

moss said:
Forgot about those 2, especially Magnolia

Although thinking about it now, perhaps Boogie Nights over Magnolia, although the subject matter of the film puts some people off, it's a great film with some excellent characters.

cheets64 · 17 Mar 2007 at 16:49

Dead Mans Shoes
Godfather Part 1
Godfather Part 2
Goodfellas
Taxi Driver
Sexy Beast

War Films

Schindler's List
Apocalypse Now
Saving Private Ryan
Der Untergang (Downfall)

you must seen them.

daz · 17 Mar 2007 at 16:51

Angus-Higgins said:
Or maybe I just like the films.

I quite like watching the films because they have nice cars, and it is action-packed; this is usually what I like in a film. (My favourite was "The Fast and the Furious 3: Tokyo Drift", but without the others I could not fill the list up).

Angus Higgins

I personally think you should watch more films if you think those are the best cinematic experiences around.

I've only picked relatively modern ones and completely missed out the likes of '12 Angry Men' or 'Psycho' which are fantastic films. It's really tough trying to pick just 10, and then you go and pick 3 of the worst examples of big budget films to come out of Hollywood...

cheets64 · 17 Mar 2007 at 16:55

He picked Transporter 2 what a load of crap that was.

alexakasloth · 17 Mar 2007 at 17:00

daz said:
I personally think you should watch more films if you think those are the best cinematic experiences around.

I personally think you should get off his back, if he thinks they are great films then that's his choice as they gave him what he was looking for in a film.

Scam · 17 Mar 2007 at 17:14

$loth said:
I personally think you should get off his back, if he thinks they are great films then that's his choice as they gave him what he was looking for in a film.

I'd agree with you if this was a 'post your favourite 10 films' thread, but it's not. This thread is about films you should see before you die, and as such i cant even come up with a list of 10, barely a couple in fact. As enjoyable as The F&F may be, even the guy that posted them should realise they're not 'welcome' in this thread. I watched Snatch the other day, the first time in a long while, and that confirmed it as one of my favourite films. I'd never dream of putting it in a list like this though.

regulus · 17 Mar 2007 at 18:30

Scam said:
I'd agree with you if this was a 'post your favourite 10 films' thread, but it's not. This thread is about films you should see before you die, and as such i cant even come up with a list of 10, barely a couple in fact. As enjoyable as The F&F may be, even the guy that posted them should realise they're not 'welcome' in this thread. I watched Snatch the other day, the first time in a long while, and that confirmed it as one of my favourite films. I'd never dream of putting it in a list like this though.

I'm surprised you can't come up with 10. Surely you've seen some movies that had a bigger impact on you than most movies? Someone recommended "In America" to me last night. I watched it this afternoon and my life was better and more happy today because of seeing such a great and uplifting flick. That's what I'm, and perhaps most of us, are after.

regulus · 17 Mar 2007 at 18:36

andy said:
this is actually too hard to do

Then name just one that touched your heart strings in anyway.

"andy" · 17 Mar 2007 at 18:43

i listed 10

but then realised how many others i should have mentioned

Secret_Window · 17 Mar 2007 at 19:25

1. Philadelphia
2. LOTR
3. Star Wars
4. Superman: The Movie
5. Terminator 2
6. Saving Private Ryan
7. Lost in translation
8. The Elephant Man
9. Love Actually
10. Pulp Fiction

G|mp · 17 Mar 2007 at 19:37

The Usual Suspects

Gayers.

shifty_uk · 17 Mar 2007 at 19:47

cheets64 said:
He picked Transporter 2 what a load of crap that was.

Such a bad movie!

I definitely believe Goodfellas, The Godfather trilogy and Saving Private Ryan belong on that list.

BillHicksRIP · 17 Mar 2007 at 19:50

1. Pulp Fiction
2. Amelie
3. Die Hard
4. Run Lola Run
5. Memento
6. Donnie Darko
7. The Bourne Identity
8. Goodfellas
9. Resevoir Dogs
10. Debbie Does Dallas

loopstah · 17 Mar 2007 at 20:05

The Shawshank Redemption
The Green Mile
Platoon
Runaway Train
Excalibur
Near Dark
Road to Perdition
Goodfellas
Life is Beautiful (La Vie Est Belle)
Go Tell the Spartans
Schindlers List

11 but I couldn't decide which one to drop after I had cut the list down a bit.

Not my 11 favourites films but 11 films I've seen that I think everyone should watch at least once.