Movies To See Before I Die (v4)

[concretekiss]

~Blues Brothers (comedy)**** notable; when John gets the ‘holy spirit’ in the church
~Reuben and Ed (comedy) I cannot find this GD movie!
~Apocalypse Now (war drama)***** notable; everyone is very sweaty & intense in this movie. Everyone needs a baby-wipe.
~The Last Temptation of Christ (religious drama)*
~Sunset Blvd. (showbiz drama)
~Cabaret (drama)
~City of Lost Children (fairy tale) *****
~The Deer Hunter (war drama)
~Elizabeth (historical/biographical drama)
~Casablanca (war drama)*** notable; Ingrid you whore
~Lady Sings the Blues (biographical drama)
~Hat Full of Rain (drug addiction drama) can’t find
~Panic in Needle Park (drug addiction drama- Al Pacino) ***
~Times Square (drama) ** notable; very Legend of Billy Jean. Good soundtrack
~Valley Girl (comedy)
~Valley of the Dolls (showbiz drama)
~Raising Arizona (comedy) *****
~Harold and Maude (?) *** note; overrated!
~Days of Wine and Roses (drug addiction drama)
~Godfather (mafia drama)
~Happiness (drama?)
~Tenacious D (comedy)
~Gladiator (historical drama) ***
~I Shot Andy Warhol (biographical drama)
~Disco Pigs (drama)
~Surviving Picasso (biographical drama)
~Boxing Helena (drama) * note; b-softcore porn
~Rosemary's Baby (drama)
~Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? (drama, i've only seen parts of this)
~Philadelphia (drama)
~All About My Mother (foreign drama) **** note; hard to watch, cry cry cry
~One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (drama)
~Freaks (?)
~It’s a Wonderful Life

In addition;
~Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (comedy)
~On the Town (classic)
~Four Rooms (comedy)
~Noises Off (comedy)
~Hair (musical)
~Serpent and the Rainbow (horror)
~Wild @ Heart (drama, black comedy) OMG Crispin!
~Delicatessan
~Palindromes
~Withnail & I

Comments

[ourglasslake.livejournal.com]

The only one of the ones you haven't seen that I *have* seen is Gladiator, and I'd have to say it may not be worth it. Especially if you think Harold and Maude is overrated!!

[flightviolation.livejournal.com]

oh crap wait i HAVE seen gladiator...i need to strike it...

yeah i only gave it 3 stars, cuz it's just like a billiard game but with heads.
i liked Joaquin, tho. he's foxay.

[ourglasslake.livejournal.com]

Totally. Even as an evil, incestuous emperor, he's way hotter than any gladiators.

[penguingod.livejournal.com]

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead is the shit.

[mehinda.livejournal.com]

I have The Deer Hunter, Rosemary's Baby, It's a Wonderful Life, and The Godfather. You should come up here & we could have a DVD fest.

Also, I never really cared for Serpent and the Rainbow the movie, but I did enjoy the book (if ethnobotany rings your bell, and really for whom doesn't it?). I recommend reading the book and watching the video to Duran Duran's Waiting for the Night Boat. It's much creepier ;-)

I haven't seen a lot of these either. Do you NetFlix? We should befriend each other.

[flightviolation.livejournal.com]

i desperately need to netflix, but i'm already such a hermit, grrrl...i fear netflix will propel me deeper into the pillow hut of my bed.
i think i remember as a child the previews to Serpent and some dude getting sucked into the ground? *shiver*
so, the Godfather doesn't seem too 'Dewd Movie' for you?

[mehinda.livejournal.com]

Oh, goodness no. I love the Godfather, particularly the second one. The third one stinks like French cheese.

Do you like horror movies? I recently saw Black Christmas and thought it was outstanding. I guess one would call it proto-slasher.

[flightviolation.livejournal.com]

i like horror ok. i just don't get around to it often because i can't see it by myself.
i liked What Lies Beneath
Devil's Advocate (only for its horror though. the story suuucked)
Exorcist
28Days Later
LOVED American Psycho, though i don't view it as a horror, but more of a comedy

they have to be sort of believable...

[mehinda.livejournal.com]

Black Christmas is fairly believable. There's no supernatural element to it, just a stalker and a house full of oversexed sorority girls.

[flightviolation.livejournal.com]

awesome

[quiet-flame.livejournal.com]

oh, Noises Off is so great. my community theatre group did the play and my dad played the burglar. it's brilliant and has a special place in my heart.

[flightviolation.livejournal.com]

it's Carol Burnet who sold me on this one.

[browniegirl322.livejournal.com]

its my favorite play ever

hilarious, right

[flightviolation.livejournal.com]

yay, i'll try to rent that one next. i hope i can find it!

sunset blvd is on both lists... :)

[browniegirl322.livejournal.com]

of those you have not yet seen i recommend:
Caberet (but see the play, not the movie...the movie's not that good but the play usually is)
Elizabeth
Hat Full of Rain (totally impossible to find. The only people that have this like taped it off PBS the one time it was on. My theater prof had to like steal it from someone to show it to us)
Rosemary's Baby--what are you waiting for. Techniques in this were innovative--we take them for granted today. The phone scene, that's all I'm saying, genius :).

woops! i removed it.

[flightviolation.livejournal.com]

and DAMMIT about Hat Full of Rain. i saw only parts of this movie once as a teenager, and was so strikken.
i finished Elizabeth last night...& wow.

thanks you for the suggestions, m'love *muah*

[ohiojake.livejournal.com]

happiness is like a trainwreck, but i like it

rosencrantz is, indeed, the bomb


you should add 'withnail and I" to your list

if you liked city of lost children, then watch delicatessan.

a very long engagement was ok, but delicatessan is friggin brilliant

also, sunset blvd is damn fine

[flightviolation.livejournal.com]

thankyou thankyou...i knew i was forgetting something. delicatessan n' sunset blvd. have been recommended before.

loooved city of lost children, i mean who tells fairy tales nowadays? so visually and mentally stimulating.

happiness

[dfleming.livejournal.com]

I just watched Palindromes this weekend (same director of Happiness). I loved Happiness, and I loved Palindromes. Palindromes might be the one to start with, I'm thinking. It starts out slow, but then gets hilarious. Tod Solondz is obsessed with child molestors...

Others I loved by Neil LaBute - Your Friends and Neighbors and In the Company of Men. Not up everyone's alley, but I loved them. Of course, we will always differ on Harold and Maude - must be a generational thing....

Re: happiness

[flightviolation.livejournal.com]

nah, i've yet to meet anyone who wasn't in love with Harold & Maude nomatter the generation.
maybe having friends of mine kill themselves gave me a sour taste for movies that romanticize suicide. i just didn't think the lady all that cool in the end.

i've been hearing about Palindromes and when i read the back this weekend i didn't quite understand the appeal. i'ma take you up on it. i've been hearing alot of good about it.

Me, You & Everyone We Know deals with statutory whateveryoucallit, sexual deviation? but in an accessible way? eeeee touchy subject. (NPI)

Re: happiness

[dfleming.livejournal.com]

I liked Me & You and Everyone We Know - good film. Palindromes didn't get good reviews, but I really liked it. Especially the Sunshine family -

[theonlyguyever.livejournal.com]

~Four Rooms (comedy)

[theonlyguyever.livejournal.com]

OMG YOU DIDNT

[flightviolation.livejournal.com]

I COULD NOT STOP MYSELF

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