Ok, even a list of classics, like the one honeykid listed, has films on it that lots of people probably won't like. For example, I've never been able to get through Gone With the Wind. I don't know why, but I just can't watch it.
Plus, Scarface, if it's the DePalma one, is kind of dated and over-the-top. I can't imagine telling someone they simply have to see it.
Can't we just go into the reviews forum and read each other's top whatever lists and get the same effect?
By the way, Titanic is absolute crap. Sorry, but I wouldn't tell anyone to see that one either. Hell, I'm sorry, lundy, but I would say that The Sound of Music and Pan's Labyrinth are the only must-see material on your list. They aren't even the best films in their respective genre's! You need to branch out and watch some more films. This isn't a personal attack, I just think you need to watch way more movies. If you think Pan's Labyrinth is great then I think you have decent taste in you somewhere, you just need to watch a more diverse selection of films.
To the OP, I don't want to recommend any films to people because taste is such a personal thing. I can tell you my favorites and you can judge wether or not you want to watch them based on my opinion and what you know of my taste, but making a list of "must-see" films seems silly to me.
Now, if we did a list of films that film fans must see before they die, that would be something. But I can't recommend the same films to my wife and my sister and my mom and my grandmother, so making a list of "must-see" films seems pointless to me.
Now, let me go bah-humbug somewhere else.
Plus, Scarface, if it's the DePalma one, is kind of dated and over-the-top. I can't imagine telling someone they simply have to see it.
Can't we just go into the reviews forum and read each other's top whatever lists and get the same effect?
By the way, Titanic is absolute crap. Sorry, but I wouldn't tell anyone to see that one either. Hell, I'm sorry, lundy, but I would say that The Sound of Music and Pan's Labyrinth are the only must-see material on your list. They aren't even the best films in their respective genre's! You need to branch out and watch some more films. This isn't a personal attack, I just think you need to watch way more movies. If you think Pan's Labyrinth is great then I think you have decent taste in you somewhere, you just need to watch a more diverse selection of films.
To the OP, I don't want to recommend any films to people because taste is such a personal thing. I can tell you my favorites and you can judge wether or not you want to watch them based on my opinion and what you know of my taste, but making a list of "must-see" films seems silly to me.
Now, if we did a list of films that film fans must see before they die, that would be something. But I can't recommend the same films to my wife and my sister and my mom and my grandmother, so making a list of "must-see" films seems pointless to me.
Now, let me go bah-humbug somewhere else.
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