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"Great films I have not seen"

As some of you may know, and many of you won't, I'm turning into a bit of a film buff, in so far as I love watching films, reading about films and talking about films. So much so, in fact, that the older I get and more movies I absorb, I'm seriously considering including something film-like into possible future careers. Herein lies the rub; I've only been properly into movies for about 4 years or so (wasted the rest of my youth playing videogames and jerking off, frankly) and though I've built up a pretty reasonable DVD collection and back catalogue of movies over the past few years (not to mention a level of trivia that would make the nerdiest film geek blush) I still haven't seen enough truly great classic movies to official call myself a 'buff'.

So here's the thing. I'm setting off to Uni in the autumn, which is round about the time I officially stop having money and being able to buy things. Not only does this suck for obvious reasons, but I'll also lose my broadband super-powers and won't be able to download movies like I can at the moment. Therefore, before I go I'm totally abusing my 1MB connection and am pilfering as much media as possible. I'm talking great, classic movies here, not Dude, Where's My Car or anything starring Freddie Prinze Jr, and I'm also not talking about things that are currently at, or have just been at the cinema - chances are I've seen it if it's half-decent. I want your suggestions for classic movies.

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This right here is a list of all the films I own on DVD. I have a select few burned to disc that I've 'obtained' thanks to Kazaa. Obviously I have also seen a large amount of films, which I subsequently do not own. This list is a small collection of films I have yet to see, plan to in the near future and really should do if I want to build up a proper knowledge of movies.

The Godfather I-III (I'm geniunely ashamed I have yet to see these)
Raising Arizona
Blood Simple
Trees Lounge
Schindler's List
Citizen Kane
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
Dr Strangelove
Apocalypse Now (see first on list, used to own but lost it)
The Third Man
Das Boot (missed it on telly yesterday)
Chinatown
Raging Bull
2001
Blade Runner (erk)
The Princess Bride (may have seen, not for about ten years though)
The Deer Hunter
The Conversation
Mystic River
Magnolia
Dog Day Afternoon
Miller's Crossing
21 Grams
The Untouchables
Heat
Once Upon A Time IN America
The Game (big Fincher fan)
Killing Zoe
Scarface
Bottle Rocket
Rushmore
Get Carter (own on VHS, quality is unwatchable)
... and the list goes on.

So, if you'd be so kind to add any movies which you think I'd benefit from watching, I'll appreciate it greatly - even better, stick a link to a cheapo DVD of it. Alternatively (and this is pushing it, frankly) if anyone wants to be super-generous and do me a copy of any of the above on disc, I'd repay them with eternal man-love (and give them a credit in my first movie). Or just a lend - I've got more stamps than I know what to do with, and a mean army of padded envelopes.

I'm seriously giving this a go; apart from girls and music, film is practically all I think about. All help will be appreciated.

These should keep you busy:

Spinal Tap Edit: I see you've got this, so try Taxi instead (French film, not de niro
Attack of the Killer Tomatoes
Porkies (1, 2, and perhaps 3)
Karate Kid
The Blob
The Fog
The Birds
Rocky

Oh yes.

And Donnie Brasco

And, although you've probably seen it, Lock Stock And 2 Smoking Barrels is like Snatch, but better.

All Godfather Films (Keep meaning to buy em on DVD)
Citizen Kane
I've only seen Apocalypse now from The Ride Of The Valkyrie bit, so I need to watch the rest.
Enter The Dragon, just cos I want to see it

That's about it really.
And those are the ones I haven't seen.
I dunno why i put em on.

Films you could benfit from seeing that I've got:

Blazing Saddles.
It's fantatic.
But the rest of them, you've got up there.
:(

Amadeus
Annie Hall
A Day at the Races
American Beauty
All of Tarantino's films
Goodfellas
Taxi Driver
All them films related to Spike Jonze, Michel Gondry, Kaufman etc., espcially Adaptation
Living in Oblivion
And many more!

Mav wrote:
> Mr Snuggly wrote:
> Dammit, I knew I forgot Amelie! I'll never watch them all at this
> rate!
>
> It's nothing special, in my opinion.
>
> I'm not an expert on foreign films, but out of those I've seen, Il
> Postino stands out as the best. It's superb.

Ill Postino was good, but Amelie made me warm and fuzzy inside, and gave me a grin from ear to ear. When you're a hold hearted sonofabitch like me, thats a major achievement. ;)

Light wrote:
> How about the film that bequeathed you your tagline? Altogether now;
> "Where's your tool?"

"waaaaaat fackiiiinnnggggg tooooll!!!!!!!!!"

Aye, the best borstal comedy ever written, the mighty "Scum".

Well, apart from the greenhouse scene.

Oh and the original scarface is hard to watch because it's hard to tell what they're saying most of the time.

Better than the remake though, don't watch the remake if you can, the original is the way to go, it's a proper insight into how films were made back in the day and what was allowed to be showed etc.

The moral reason for making the film thats shown at the start is sheer class.

Whatever happens, no matter what anyone tells you don't watch any troma films except the alferd packer musical because they're all crap.

You should watch Orgazmo though because it f'in rules and battle royale, if you haven't already. Maybe even Verus but it's nothing too special, not really a priority as such.

There is only one film that you must see in my opinion, that hasn't yet been mentioned.

It's called Cypher, directed by Vincenzo Natali and stars Jeremy Northam and Lucy Liu. It's a sci fi movie with a whole confusing thing going on.

Quite simply one of my favourite ever movies.