Famous mives I haven't seen

[Hominid]

Geek confession time...


Casablanca
Rear Window
Vertigo
North By Northwest
Barry Lyndon
12 Angry Men
Lawrence of Arabia
Doctor Zhivago
Sunset Blvd
Some Like It Hot
Chinatown
To Kill A Mockingbird
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
M
The Maltese Falcon
8 1/2
Rashômon
Modern Times
The Manchurian Candidate
Touch of Evil
the Sting
Cool Hand Luke
Strangers on a Train
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
On The Waterfront
The Apartment
City Lights
Cinema Paradiso
High Noon
The Graduate


Thoughts? Anything conisdered a "classic" you never saw? Which one of those should I go downl...rent first?

[TylerDurden182]

Go watch Chinatown, City Lights, The Apartment, and Lawrence of Arabia now... seriously, why are you still reading this.

[vesaker]

heh the only one of those i actually have seen is To Kill a Mockingbird

[< a c e >]

My list is growing bigger and bigger, day by day!

[RandalGraves]

All the Godfathers
Lawrence of Arabia
All the Indiana Jones

[Avid_Fan]

Casablanca
Rear Window
Vertigo
M
City Lights
Chinatown
Sunset Blvd

Pronto.

[Monotreme]

The only two off that list that I haven't seen are High Noon and Doctor Zhivago. Seriously, you need to see ALL of the movies on that list, but in terms of your biggest crime, that would be Casablanca. Go watch it. Now. And don't come back until you've seen it 7 times.

[m_burlock]

Elitisum = Facisum.

[Hannibal21]

I envy you, Hominid. I would KILL to see what it would be like in experiencing these movies for the first time all over again!

Consider yourself lucky. With the exception of Rear Window and The Sting (both very good movies, but not great IMO), all of these are essentials, and I would suggest that you start with the two best movies on the list: Casablanca and Vertigo.

[Le_Big_Mac]

Most of these I do have in my Netflix queue or less in my current or upcoming DVR recordings, or my dad owns and I'll see some day, so don't attack me for them:

Metropolis
Citizen Kane
Birth of a Nation
Lawrence of Arabia
M
Vertigo
Double Indemnity
Paths of Glory
Red River
Unforgiven
Barry Lyndon
The Pink Panther
Gone With the Wind
On the Waterfront
The Elephant Man
The Apartment
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Band of Outsiders
8 1/2
12 Angry Men
The Maltese Falcon
Treasure of the Sierra Madre
City Lights
Chinatown
Sunset Boulevard
Cool Hand Luke
The Graduate
Some Like It Hot
Cage aux Folles
Modern Times
Doctor Zhivago
Touch of Evil
To Kill A Mocking Bird
It's a Wonderful Life!
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
The Thing
The Manchurian Candidate
The Seven Samurai
Throne of Blood
Ran
Ikiru
The Dirty Dozen

[TheMazVolta]

I would say Chinatown and Sunset Blvd should be at the top. Alot of great flicks on there.

[Monotreme]

Originally posted by Hannibal21
I envy you, Hominid. I would KILL to see what it would be like in experiencing these movies for the first time all over again!

Consider yourself lucky. With the exception of Rear Window and The Sting (both very good movies, but not great IMO), all of these are essentials, and I would suggest that you start with the two best movies on the list: Casablanca and Vertigo.

I actually think Rear Window and The Sting are among the best movies on that list, but it's just my opinion.

Anyway, after Casablanca definitely do Sunset Blvd, Chinatown and Modern Times, very important!

[Cronos]

see The Apartment, To Kill A Mockingbird and M, out of the ones ive seen they are the only ones that are really great

reminds me i still have to watch The Godfather 2 and 3

[Johnny S]

Looking at IMDB's top 50 movies, I have not seen the high majority of them.

3. 8.9 The Godfather: Part II (1974) 107,576
5. 8.8 Buono, il brutto, il cattivo, Il (1966) 53,240
6. 8.8 Casablanca (1942) 91,796
7. 8.8 Schindler's List (1993) 136,106
10. 8.7 Shichinin no samurai (1954) 49,669
11. 8.7 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) 98,893
13. 8.7 Rear Window (1954) 58,225
15. 8.6 12 Angry Men (1957) 44,201
16. 8.6 Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) 125,365
17. 8.6 The Usual Suspects (1995) 142,821
18. 8.6 Cidade de Deus (2002) 55,972
19. 8.6 Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) 87,766
23. 8.6 Citizen Kane (1941) 81,357
24. 8.6 C'era una volta il West (1968) 28,998
25. 8.6 North by Northwest (1959) 49,215
26. 8.6 Memento (2000) 131,466
28. 8.5 Lawrence of Arabia (1962) 42,952
30. 8.5 Sunset Blvd. (1950) 24,683
31. 8.5 Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain, Le (2001) 90,400
35. 8.4 Vertigo (1958) 47,108
37. 8.4 Taxi Driver (1976) 69,528
38. 8.4 Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) 91,673
39. 8.4 Se7en (1995) 127,998
40. 8.4 Paths of Glory (1957) 21,173
41. 8.4 Léon (1994) 81,862
42. 8.4 Chinatown (1974) 37,180
44. 8.4 American History X (1998) 92,869
45. 8.4 The Third Man (1949) 26,366
46. 8.4 Untergang, Der (2004) 29,469
47. 8.4 The Pianist (2002) 52,327
48. 8.3 Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) 85,413
49. 8.3 The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) 15,176
50. 8.3 M (1931)

[Le_Big_Mac]

Wow, you really need to get on some of those. Il buono, il brutto, cattivo, Taxi Driver, Casablanca, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, and Monty Python and the Holy Grail above all.

[HeavyFknMetal]

You people seriously need to start getting on these. I don't know how one can continue to go through life without seeing The Godfather.

As far as "classic" films I haven't seen, I don't even know. I've seen all but 2 movies or so on the AFI top 100, and I have to go pretty deep on the IMDB top 250 before I hit a movie I haven't seen. I guess I haven't seen Yankee Doodle Dandy, Wuthering Heights, and like Gandhi.