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Your 20 MUST SEE MOVIES before you die list. (28)Posted:Apr 26, 2008-2:25 AM
By: Zooba(Member)

In a recent Issue of MAXIM they had a article called

The 300 Movies You Must See Before You Die.

I'll make it easier here with 20. Please join in and share your list of "THE 20 MUST SEE MOVIES Before you die." These are your recommendations to others of films, you think they should, or would like them to see.

Thanks,

Zoob

My list in no particular order:

1. THE GODFATHER
2. THE GODFATHER PART II
3. THE WIZARD OF OZ
4. 2001: A SPACE ODESSEY
5. GANDHI
6. SPARTACUS
7. INTO THE WILD
8. SUPERMAN THE MOVIE
9. TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD
10. BEN-HUR
11. SPINAL TAP (THIS IS)
12. WEST SIDE STORY
13. THE BIRDS
14. STAR WARS (ORIGINAL) A NEW HOPE
15. E.T. THE EXTRA TERRESTRIAL
16. CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND
17. SCHINDLER'S LIST
18. LILIES OF THE FIELD
19. PLANET OF THE APES (ORIGINAL 1968)
20. RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK

Boy, that was hard.

In order to legally keep this on the Film Score side, one of the reasons for your recommendation may be, see the film just for the Film Score it contains.

Have fun and Thanks again!

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Your 20 MUST SEE MOVIES before you die list. (33)Posted:Apr 26, 2008-2:45 AM
By: Michael Arlidge(Member)

In no particular order:

2001: A Space Odyssey - various artists
The Adventures of Robin Hood - Erich Wolfgang Korngold
Alien - Jerry Goldsmith
Amadeus - various artists
Citizen Kane - Bernard Herrmann
The Godfather - Nino Rota
Gone With the Wind - Max Steiner
Goodfellas - various artists
The Great Escape - Elmer Bernstein
Jaws - John Williams
King Kong - Max Steiner
Lawrence of Arabia - Maurice Jarre
The Lord of the Rings (trilogy) - Howard Shore
Psycho - Bernard Herrmann
Raiders of the Lost Ark - John Williams
Schindler's List - John Williams
Star Wars - John Williams
A Streetcar Named Desire - Alex North
To Kill a Mockingbird - Elmer Bernstein
The Wizard of Oz - Herbert Stothart

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Your 20 MUST SEE MOVIES before you die list. (38)Posted:Apr 26, 2008-3:19 AM
By: ian642002(Member)

What is it with this mortality business and entertainment? It's everywhere you go: books you must read before you die. Music you must hear before you die. Food you must eat before you die.

How's about the Before You Dieists giving us a break by having 20 Films You Must See Before You Suffer A Serious Illness But Eventually Recover From In Order To Resume A Fit And Healthy Life? Who came up with this crap anyhow? Who wants us dead? When someone walks down a street and there's the fiery carriage from a jumbo jet slamming down towards them, what comes first - AAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh! or Oh, no! A fiery death awaits me and didn't really get around to seeing La Dolce Vita, Fellini's acclaimed meditation on celebrity and mortality with consummate performances from Marcello Mastroianni and Anita Ekberg! Aaaahgh!? Or if someone dies choking on their meal in a restaurant, will anyone hear the words 'The Godfather Parts 1 & 2!' rasped mournfully between gurgles?

If I had the occasion to walk through a graveyard, a glance at various gravestones sees simple, heartfelt messages of affection for loves ones who've passed on. It's a safe bet I'll never come across one that said 'William Arthur Blewitt, 1950-2008, Beloved Father. Left Us Too Soon. Never Got Around To Seeing 'Weekend At Bernie's'. And the funeral service? What would those be like?

"...he was a gracious man who always had time for everyone. Funny, humorous and warm. But I know, as do all of you gathered here today, that his life would never be full because the box set of Lethal Weapon movies remains unopened on his shelf. He goes to a better place, yes, but he must walk with a certain melancholy as he passes through the gates of Heaven, regretful as he ponders the opportunities lost to enjoy the explosive, lively adventures of Riggs and Murtaugh. Those car chases. The action sequences. The funky saxophone riffs. The quickfire cracks between Mel Gibson and Danny Glover, and, oh yes, the slapstick antics of Joe Pesci. He'll miss them all. Soon he'll be at rest, but I hope that there's a cinema in God's kingdom. Because if there isn't, he'll be mightily pissed...'

Lists, please, of the 20 Films You'll Have Plenty Of Time To Get Around To Seeing Before Doing That Funky New Dance, The Mortal Coil Boogie.

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Your 20 MUST SEE MOVIES before you die list. (44)Posted:Apr 26, 2008-3:54 AM
By: Bill Carson, Earl of Poncey(Member)

Okay then, 20 Movies I recommend people see - whether they're close to dying, slightly ill, have a cold, or fully fit: either for the music or because they're just neat films and purely coz I enjoyed 'em for their scripts, lines of dialogue, good plots, cinematography, whatever. No particular order, just 20.

1 The Wild Bunch
2 The Good the Bad and the Ugly
3 Spartacus
4 Ben Hur
5 The Godfather series
6 Goodfellas
7 Cool Hand Luke
8 Charley Varrick
9 The Outfit
10 Get Carter (Caine)
11 Once Upon A Time in America
12 Hard Times (Streetfighter)
13 Alien
14 Bullitt
15 Outlaw Josey Wales
16 Ipcress File
17 Patton
18 Where Eagles Dare
19 North By Northwest
20 Zulu

many classics ignored? Sure. Some weird choices? sure. Just films I can watch and watch and never tire of.

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Your 20 MUST SEE MOVIES before you die list. (49)Posted:Apr 26, 2008-4:13 AM
By: Zooba(Member)

May I add that I wish you all Happy and Healthy long lives and hope that you live as long as you wish to.

Maybe next we can list the 20 films you missed in this life that you'll be sure to try and catch in the next.

Dang, there I go again, opening another can of worms for those who may not believe in a next life.

In the words of the immortal Taylor:

"DAMM YOU DIRTY ZOOBA TO HELL! AND KEEP YOUR STINKIN PAWS OFF ME TOO!"

For some reason this seems strangely appropriate (the music that is, nothing political):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPsL2WVhFCc&feature=rec-fresh

Rest In Peace dear Maestro Poledouris.

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Your 20 MUST SEE MOVIES before you die list. (55)Posted:Apr 26, 2008-4:50 AM
By: rhonstar(Member)

My list in no particular order, but lumped by composer:

ISLANDS IN THE STREAM
HOOSIERS / RUDY
PLANET OF THE APES (Original)
DANCES WITH WOLVES
GLORY
PSYCHO (Original)
NORTH BY NORTHWEST
SOUND OF MUSIC
AMADEUS
BEN-HUR
THE TEN COMMANDMENTS
E.T. THE EXTRA TERRESTRIAL
INDIANA JONES TRILOGY (Soon to be 4)
SCHINDLER'S LIST
STAR WARS (Dual) TRILOGY
JESUS OF NAZARETH
LAWRENCE OF ARABIA
THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY
THE MISSION
MR. HOLLAND'S OPUS

Looking at the previous 3 lists (and I will be watching to one that are to come), I do not see why the Godfather series and the Lord Of The Rings Trilogy are so great. It just must be me, but I sat through they awhile back and they haven't done anything for me, even the music by Rota and Shore.

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Your 20 MUST SEE MOVIES before you die list. (60)Posted:Apr 26, 2008-4:56 AM
By: Zooba(Member)

rhonstar you listed GLORY.

Excellent film I forgot to list, but surely meant to.

I now update my list replacing GLORY for (sorry Harrison)

RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK.

GLORY is just a tad deeper, me thinks.

And don't call me surely/Shirley.

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Your 20 MUST SEE MOVIES before you die list. (66)Posted:Apr 26, 2008-5:02 AM
By: rhonstar(Member)

rhonstar you listed GLORY.

Excellent film I forgot to list, but surely meant to.

I now update my list replacing GLORY for (sorry Harrison)

RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK.

GLORY is just a tad deeper, me thinks.

Glory is just one of those films that work well all the way around. Although (please this is hopefully not going to start a Horner bashing session) the music has some recycled parts, you always get caught up in it and feel for every character, even Matthew Broderick!

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Your 20 MUST SEE MOVIES before you die list. (72)Posted:Apr 26, 2008-5:07 AM
By: plindboe(Member)

I can't believe no one has mentioned "Who's Harry Crumb?" yet.

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Your 20 MUST SEE MOVIES before you die list. (78)Posted:Apr 26, 2008-6:02 AM
By: franz_conrad(Member)

Some films I'm certainly glad to have seen before I die.

Ran (Kurosawa)
Rashomon (Kurosawa)
Groundhog Day (Ramis)
La Dolce Vita (Fellini)
Providence (Renais)
2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick)
Days of Heaven (Malick)
The New World (Malick)
Trois Coleurs: Bleu (Kieslowski)
Once Upon a Time in the West (Leone)
Kundun (Scorsese)
The Conversation (Coppola)
Ashes of Time (Wong Kar Wai)
In the Mood for Love (Wong Kar Wai)
Chungking Express (Wong Kar Wai)
The Insider (Mann)
Heat (Mann)
Vertigo (Hitchcock)
Touch of Evil (Welles)
Wings of Desire (Wenders)
Blade Runner (Scott)
Life of Brian (Jones)
Cries and Whispers (Bergman)
Solaris (Tarkovsky)

It hardly seems fair to cap the list there, but time is short.

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Your 20 MUST SEE MOVIES before you die list. (84)Posted:Apr 26, 2008-6:59 AM
By: Jon A. Bell(Member)

How's about the Before You Dieists giving us a break by having 20 Films You Must See Before You Suffer A Serious Illness But Eventually Recover From In Order To Resume A Fit And Healthy Life? Who came up with this crap anyhow? Who wants us dead? When someone walks down a street and there's the fiery carriage from a jumbo jet slamming down towards them, what comes first - AAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh! or Oh, no! A fiery death awaits me and didn't really get around to seeing La Dolce Vita, Fellini's acclaimed meditation on celebrity and mortality with consummate performances from Marcello Mastroianni and Anita Ekberg! Aaaahgh!? Or if someone dies choking on their meal in a restaurant, will anyone hear the words 'The Godfather Parts 1 & 2!' rasped mournfully between gurgles?

Ian, this is one of the funniest damn posts I've read on the FSM boards.

Comedian Larry Miller once said, years ago, "My dad is a hard-working, tough guy... and I'm not. When he was my age, he fought in a war, put himself through school, and worked at night so he could afford to build his own house. *My* greatest accomplishment is having all five 'Planet of the Apes' films on tape."

Cheers!

-- Jon

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Your 20 MUST SEE MOVIES before you die list. (89)Posted:Apr 26, 2008-8:22 AM
By: John Ford(Member)

Zooba,
Please contact me.John Ford
Johnvford@aol.com

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Your 20 MUST SEE MOVIES before you die list. (94)Posted:Apr 26, 2008-8:46 AM
By: Eugene Iemola(Member)

The Virgin Spring
The Godfather Part II
Last Year at Marienbad
Red River
Dr. Strangelove

On The Beach
Bonnie and Clyde
Ran
Vertigo
The Magnificent Ambersons

Bride of Frankenstein
Rosemary's Baby
Jaws
Blow Up
To Kill A Mockingbird

Rebel Without A Cause
The Third Man
The Searchers
Rocco and His Brothers
The Conformist

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Your 20 MUST SEE MOVIES before you die list. (100)Posted:Apr 26, 2008-10:11 AM
By: mgh(Member)

Citizen Kane
The Maltese Falcon
Out of the Past
Double Indemnity
The Killers
The Cat People (1942)
Curse of the Cat People (1944)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
The Night of the Hunter
Red River
The Searchers
The Wild Bunch
Alien
Aliens
Vertigo
North By Northwest
Psycho
The Magnificent Seven
To Kill A Mockingbird
Red (of the color Trilogy)
Zorba The Greek
Life of Brian
No Country for Old Men

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Your 20 MUST SEE MOVIES before you die list. (106)Posted:Apr 26, 2008-10:21 AM
By: bdm(Member)

Let's see...not in chronilogical order, just the order they come to my brain:

Intolerance
Birth of a Nation
Gone with the Wind
The Gold Rush
Citizen Kane
Casablanca
African Queen
The Searchers
Battleship Potempkin
Grapes of Wrath
10 Commandments
Ben-Hur
Lawrence of Arabia
American in Paris
Singing in the Rain
High Noon
The Conversation
The Godfather
The Godfather Part II
Ran

I have had to go back and edit as I am already at 20, and had past it...and there are still many silent and classic era films that would be on the list before any more contemporary films...who also deserve to be on the list.

Neat thing about the film industry, and contrary to popular belief, for every bad film there is a classic/must see one.

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Your 20 MUST SEE MOVIES before you die list. (112)Posted:Apr 26, 2008-11:37 AM
By: mgh(Member)

I can't believe no one has mentioned "Who's Harry Crumb?" yet.

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Who's Harry Crumb?

(Sorry, couldn't resist.)

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Your 20 MUST SEE MOVIES before you die list. (119)Posted:Apr 26, 2008-12:16 PM
By: drivingmissdaisy(Member)

The Hearse

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Your 20 MUST SEE MOVIES before you die list. (125)Posted:Apr 26, 2008-12:31 PM
By: nuts_score(Member)

If there's any films that won't be in the afterlife, I suggest you watch those before you croak. But I think a lot of these will probably be in the Great Beyond, waiting for us.

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Your 20 MUST SEE MOVIES before you die list. (130)Posted:Apr 26, 2008-3:00 PM
By: quiller007(Member)


I'm not going to die, so this is nothing
I have to worry about. That's why I own
over 2000 dvds. I have all the time
in the world.

Den

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Your 20 MUST SEE MOVIES before you die list. (136)Posted:Apr 27, 2008-2:04 AM
By: Ray Worley(Member)

Staying away from the theological angle...this just becomes my top 20 list.
THE LORD OF THE RINGS Trilogy (one long movie in my opinion)
LAWRENCE OF ARABIA
THE SEVEN SAMURAI
BLADE RUNNER
THE WILD BUNCH
EXCALIBUR
AMELIE
WAR AND PEACE (the ca. 1968 Mosfilm version)
THE UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF BEING
CINEMA PARADISO
THE SEARCHERS
WALKABOUT
AU HASARD BALTHAZAR
TAXI DRIVER
EL CID
A CLOCKWORK ORANGE
THE OUTLAW JOSEY WALES
LA DOLCE VITA
BRAM STOKER'S DRACULA
THE WIND AND THE LION

Looking at this list, it seems an odd mixture of testosterone-driven epic adventure films and sensitive, thought-provoking (mostly foreign) art films...although one is both...Seven Samurai.
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