Are these movies you’ve never seen?

Schindler's List is simply one of those movies everyone has to watch in their lifetimes.

Inception is a masterpiece imo

Wouldn't bother with American Hustle, good cast not a great movie.

comment by Pun Atreides (U21588)
posted 37 seconds ago
Schindler's List is simply one of those movies everyone has to watch in their lifetimes.

Inception is a masterpiece imo

Wouldn't bother with American Hustle, good cast not a great movie.
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I’d make it compulsory viewing in schools, as young as possible. If that doesn’t install humility into them then nothing will.

comment by The Guvnor XI -Iron sharpens Iron- (U12889)
posted about 5 hours ago
Subtitles can be distracting but I only use them when necessary, such as shows where the language spoken isn't English. It adds authenticity and substance and if it means I need to focus more and read quicker, that's something I am willing to do.
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It’s far better than watching it dubbed. That drives me insane!

comment by Terminator1 (U1863)
posted 1 minute ago
comment by Pun Atreides (U21588)
posted 37 seconds ago
Schindler's List is simply one of those movies everyone has to watch in their lifetimes.

Inception is a masterpiece imo

Wouldn't bother with American Hustle, good cast not a great movie.
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I’d make it compulsory viewing in schools, as young as possible. If that doesn’t install humility into them then nothing will.
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comment by Pun Atreides (U21588)
posted about a minute ago
comment by Terminator1 (U1863)
posted 1 minute ago
comment by Pun Atreides (U21588)
posted 37 seconds ago
Schindler's List is simply one of those movies everyone has to watch in their lifetimes.

Inception is a masterpiece imo

Wouldn't bother with American Hustle, good cast not a great movie.
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I’d make it compulsory viewing in schools, as young as possible. If that doesn’t install humility into them then nothing will.
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Saw that in middle school (7th grade I think) so about 11/12 years old.

comment by RtM (U1097)
posted 17 minutes ago
Are these movies you’ve never seen?
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Most of them yes, which is why it's such a random list.
Although there's a few I haven't watched for a while that I just want to recheck (for finalising my best/favourite films list). Ones on there I've seen before are:

Key Largo (1948)
The Third Man (1949) (part)
Rashomon (1950) (part)
Get Carter (1971)
No Way Out (1987)
The Departed (2006)
Inception (2010)

comment by Terminator1 (U1863)
posted 21 minutes ago
comment by Pun Atreides (U21588)
posted 37 seconds ago
Schindler's List is simply one of those movies everyone has to watch in their lifetimes.

Inception is a masterpiece imo

Wouldn't bother with American Hustle, good cast not a great movie.
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I’d make it compulsory viewing in schools, as young as possible. If that doesn’t install humility into them then nothing will.
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Rocky 1 and 2 would do the trick as would other movies like Shawshank Redemption.

That’s a crazy amount and is almost primarily all criterion collection films. Is that how you’re making your choices?

comment by RtM (U1097)
posted 3 minutes ago
That’s a crazy amount and is almost primarily all criterion collection films. Is that how you’re making your choices?
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I'll get through them. When I realise they aren't going to make my top 100 I stop watching them.

How I select them

My god.

So, about maybe 2 years ago? I started trying to find the best film of the 2010s. So for that I went through various lists, finding suggestions for best film of the decade. I then looked at the reviews and watched the trailers, and some of them I took through to a full viewing.

I ended up doing that with every decade going back to the 1920s.

I was also on forums, asking for suggestions for most of these decades, and again when I got a suggestion, I looked at the reviews and the trailers the same way.

Then after I'd done that I went through the Sight and Sound lists, so the top 100 as picked by directors, and the top 500 (I think) as picked by critics.

I then went through the They Shoot Pictures Don't They top 1000. Again not watching every film but identifying all those (non documentary) which I thought might be a possibility, and then doing the trailer and review round.

Recently I finished a 'book' on the 200 greatest actors and actresses. As a part of that I identify their notable movies. This latest list, has come from going through that list of those 200 actors' notable movies, and identifying the one which I haven't watched and (from trailers and reviews) which ones I think have a chance of getting in my best films list!

Port of Shadows is fantastic.

it's daft as a brush, but there's gorgeous camera work, and it's perfect as the first noir.

The Gentlemen....just watched ep 1

Oh yes

These are my films since 1980 (and up to the end of the last decade):

Blade Runner: the Director’s Cut (1982/1992)
E.T. The Extra Terrestrial (1982)
The King of Comedy (1982)
Paris, Texas (1984)
Homecoming (1984) Hong Kong
Blue Velvet (1986)
Withnail & I (1987) UK
When Harry Met Sally (1989)
Days of Being Wild (1990) Hong Kong
The Commitments (1991) Ireland
The Player (1992)
The Remains of the day (1993) UK
Vive L'Amour (1994) Taiwan
Il Postino (1996) Italy
L.A. Confidential (1997)
Mulholland Drive (2000)
In the Mood for Love (2000) Hong Kong
Donnie Darko: the director's cut (2001)
Distant/Uzak (2002) Turkiye
No Country for Old Men (2007)
There Will be Blood (2008)
Wall-E (2008) Japan/US
Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (2011) Turkiye
Argo (2012)
Django Unchained (2012)
Nightcrawler (2014)


There's a few more on my 'to watch' list.

comment by Terminator1 (U1863)
posted 1 day, 10 hours ago
Very excited for the start of this. I’ve mentioned this before, really looks like it’s going to be a good one, with a few of the GoT cast starring in it. To really get the best out of it you really need to read the trilogy, though it’s an epic read so I guess most won’t want to!

3 Body Problem: Game of Thrones creators on why they swapped dragons for aliens https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-68484524


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are they the writers?

okay its based on a book, hopefully its fully finished so they dont add there own crap ideas in

My silent movies:

Easy Street (1917)
Sherlock Jr (1924)
The Adventures of Prince Achmed (1926) Germany
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927)
The Passion of Joan of Arc (1927) France
Napoleon (Acts 1 and 4) (1927) France
Pandora’s Box (1929) Germany

there's a good Swedish one too, but it's a bit long for a silent film.

comment by Sheriff JW Pepper (U1007)
posted a day ago
The Gentlemen....just watched ep 1

Oh yes
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3 episodes in and so far really good. Classic Guy Ritchie

I think this is my complete list up to the end of the 40s:

SILENT FILMS
Easy Street (1917)
Sherlock Jr (1924)
The Adventures of Prince Achmed (1926) Germany
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927)
The Passion of Joan of Arc (1927) France
Napoleon (Acts 1 and 4) (1927) France
Pandora’s Box (1929) Germany

TALKIES
Blackmail (1929)UK
M (1931) Germany
Scarface (1932)
Port of Shadows (1938) France
The Roaring Twenties (1939)
Citizen Kane (1941)
Day of Wrath (1943) Denmark
Rome, Open City (1945) Italy
My Darling Clementine (1946)
Out of the Past (1947)
I'd maybe also include Key Largo (1948)*

*for Edward G Robinson

The silent films are mainly for the film making interest, and the talkies are mainly due to being a great watch.

the idea of a 1980s top 10 v a pre-1980s top 10

Dude from Kick Ass the next Bond? Didn’t see that coming.

comment by FFS Mike. (U1170)
posted 3 minutes ago
Dude from Kick Ass the next Bond? Didn’t see that coming.
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Is this confirmed?

My pick would be Cavill.

comment by FFS Mike. (U1170)
posted 5 minutes ago
Dude from Kick Ass the next Bond? Didn’t see that coming.
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He's a good actor and I can see it.

Agree with Guv though, Cavill would be my pick.

comment by Pun Atreides (U21588)
posted 2 minutes ago
comment by FFS Mike. (U1170)
posted 5 minutes ago
Dude from Kick Ass the next Bond? Didn’t see that coming.
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He's a good actor and I can see it.

Agree with Guv though, Cavill would be my pick.
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thought he was excellent in Bullet Train, he seems pretty diverse as an actor also.

I dont really care for Bond much nowadays, preferred the old misogynistic cheesy Bond films, not the Bourne like films we get today.

Yeah he was entertaining in Bullet Train