Thetownend.com

I got this book for my birthday that I have just picked up and started to have a look at.

Actually it is called "1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die" but hey, I'm English, not American  ;D

So do the TEF concur with the editors?

I thought of a few and then checked to see.

Apollo 13 - no
Badlands - yes
Goodfellas - yes
Dirty Harry - yes
Pulp Fiction- yes
Metropolis - yes
The Wolf of Wall Street - yes
The Matrix - yes

The films are chronological from 1903 to 2014

Post up yours if you can be stuffed. I will be back now and again to confirm  :beers:

Funnily enough just been through my collection with the wife, and she did only 17 shit of 200 even though she doesn't like blokes films.

My top 5 are : The good the bad and the ugly, Once upon a time in the West, Goodfellas, American Graffiti and Pretty Woman. Actually the last one is a lie, It's Life of Brian

Nearly, SR. Ha ha, that made I larf. All of them except Pretty Woman - yes, Life of Brian - no

 :doh:

Shawshank Redemption will be said though I think it's overrated.

For me:
Godfather I, II
City of God
Mullholland Drive
Boyhood
Eternal Sunshine..
Scream
Under the skin

Does it count documentary films?

Difficult. How many of these get in your book?

Brazil
Belly of an Architect
Saving Private Ryan
In The Mood for Love
Le Goût des Autres
Downfall
Lost in Translation
The Lives of Others
The Hours
Crimes and Misdemeanors

Convoy
BMX Bandits
The Goonies
Top Gun

These are a few I just pulled from Plex:

The Big Lebowski
Heat
Inception
Jurassic Park
Leon: The Professional
Office Space
Pulp Fiction
Rain Man
The Usual Suspects

Everyone needs to see Moon, right now.

My top 5 (in no particular order) are:

Back to The Future
Captain Phillips
Pulp Fiction
Indiana Jones (Raiders)
The whole of the most recent Batman series.

This was hard though, I love far too many films.

I will, but later today...provided it's not cloudy.

Blade runner
Shawshank redemption ( :smugfu: Ells)
Dumb and dumber
Usual suspects
Snatch

Can't think of many, I'm not really the movie type

Oh, add Labyrinth and Never Ending Story.

labyrinth is on c5 today. the Mrs was horrified I have never seen it (AFAIK).

difficult one this, because I'll just end up listing my favourites which isn't quite the same as 'must see', but f' it... I'll leave out those already mentioned

blues brothers
trainspotting
die hard
star wars
casino*

*panic selection, too much choice


obviously trainspotting won't be in an American book.

Memento
Clerks
Anchorman
Everything is illuminated
The prestige
High fidelity
Gravity
Inception
Interstellar
The martian

Very impressive, there's a few there I have never heard of. Docs do in the sense that Bowling For Columbine did  :hmmm:

Very eclectic mix there!

This was the adult version, not the children's Sippo

Moon - NO

Although is that post 2014 John?

Ooh Big Lebowski and Usual Suspects are good calls.

And did anyone else like those offbeat Hal Hartley films - Simple Men and what were the others?

NOPE to both

Never Ending Story just prompted me to look up Groundhog Day - YES

It's an English produced book Batch and covers global films. Lots of asian, German and French etc. films in there. You know, the ones that nobody watches except if you really are a film nut  8)

Interesting selections

Stupid book.

These two made it in:

The Unbelievable Truth
Trust

The other one noted but not in the book is Flirt

I'm a bit confused, is it a list of recommended films chosen by someone for others to watch, or is it a bucket list of those the author hasn't seen but thinks they should?

Personally, there are no films that I think I should see, if they were that important, I'd have watched them already.

Oh yeah, at least one of those two need to go in my top ten. Bugger.

It's in its tenth year of publishing. About 60 contributors distilled the list. The preface says "it is not intended as a best of collection...it is an attempt to refine the thousands and thousands of films ever made into those that have inspired and vanguarded...you may hate some of them but they have been included on merit"

I guess that there are loads of "Best 100 films" knocking around which are usually on box office ratings. This is somewhat different in its approach I think. To motivate to see interesting films that you would otherwise not know about perhaps.

Right, so a recommendation list for some decent less well known films. Do you underline them like engine numbers in an Ian Allan , when you've seen them?

I don't personally Reg, but you might well do...  ;)

(https://www.stellabooks.com/images/featured-books/125/abc-locomotives-1.jpg)

Trying to avoid anything already mentioned...

La Haine
Dawn of the Dead (original)
Dead Man's Shoes
Den brysomme mannen (The Bothersome Man)
Nil by Mouth

http://www.listchallenges.com/1001-movies-you-must-see-before-you-die-all

Betty Blue - It the only foreign language film I can think of right now.

Well that kills this thread then  :spank:

I'm not going to list my top 1001 films but it's a good list to check how many you've seen

Yeah, actually thinking about it Si that's a good idea. It changes what the thread is about as the whole point of the book is to inspire and I sure ain't gonna type in 1,001 film titles

 :pint:

5 top quality films that have not yet been mentioned.

Terminator
Terminator 2
The green mile
Jaws
ET

168 of 1160 movies films

well that's disappointing

There's already a few I've seen which I don't agree with and a few I think should be on there. The Cabin in the Woods is complete crap in my opinion (for example).

Nice...yes, any list type thing requires underlining, or at least ticking off, depending on the format. My CAMRA pub guide to Wiltshire, being one of my favourites.

Others are lists of LDP's and preserved railways.....traditional counties of Britain and Ireland visited; off shore islands of the British Isles visited; and ferry ports used for leaving our sceptred isle....and of course football grounds, extant and defunct.

I did that with the Brakspear's pub map yonks ago when I lived in that area. When they still had a brewery in Henley of course...


Another birthday present and another list to tick off Reg, 50 of the greatest:

(http://www.theworks.co.uk/images/9780007951666_Z.jpg)

Ooops, I guess that deserves another thread...  :D

I'd like to add, no country for old men, full metal jacket, saving private ryan and Drive.
I would also add the original planet of the apes first three anyway and original mad max one and two, not so keen on three although 100% better than the latest one,

 Other lists which I've been working on for years, include, stone circles and standing stones, Neolithic long barrows and Iron Age hillforts. I also had a phase of brass rubbing in Cotswold churches, but the locking up of churches put a stop to that.

Ownership of all the 204 Landranger OS maps is also an ambition, but the gaps have to be filled by finding them in charity shops, library kick outs etc, not by purchasing them from dealers.

I'm fortunate, that I don't have an obsessive personality, because there's a lot to still be done.   

184. On the plus side it's brought more films I've intended to watch but still haven't back to my attention.

Oh, I only got 158  on the link thingy.

Too many to list, but I'd recommend these:

Quadrophenia.
National Lampoons Animal House.
The Wanderers.
The Warriors.
The Roaring Twenties.
Raging Bull.
Taxi Driver.
12 Angry Men.
It's A Wonderful Life.
Harvey.
The Great Escape.
The Italian Job (Original)
Get Carter (Original)
Rocky.
Stagecoach.
...............fucking hell, I could spend hours doing this.

The Muppet Movie  :D very Lynch-esque..
12 Angry Men is a brilliant shout.

For the record I do think the Shawshank Redemption is good, it's just not the best film ever.

I love documentary films but I'm not sure I'd add too many of my favourites to the list because they are heart breakingly depressing (Deliver us from evil, Black Tar Heroin: The dark side of the street, capturing the Friedmans)

In terms of foreign films, Christiane F. (Soundtrack by Bowie) And Y Tu Mama Tambien would make my list.

193 for me, could have been more but wasn't certain.
Have seen one Animal Farm, not sure if its that one tho  :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

576 for me. Not sure I'd rate them all as 'Must see before you die'. A lot of them were oldies from the 30's, 40's & 50's; one of the benefits of growing up in the Seventies, when there seemed to be more black & white films shown on tv.

195 for me, although I'm sure I have probably seen more of the old ones on TV that I don't remember

Agree with most people's choices. But no-one has mentioned Scum?  great film

Where's ya tool?

"Vegetarians? I facking shit 'em"

I've seen 412 as far as I can work out, thought it would have been more.

I hate being told thing I have to do before I die.  Who fucking says?  Do 'they' say I have to?  If they do they are a bunch of sanctimonious tossers.  Ive got better things to do.

What about 1000 fantastic pairs of tits you must see ?

 :clap:

Or fondle

131 / 1160

Very poor.

If I included films I had started to watch but stopped/gave up I reckon an additional 50+