The 100, 50, 20 or 10 movie recommendation thread

[Hans66]

I want to make it into 100 actually. This topic i searched for prior to posting this thread now and....
OK, now considering the amount of movies that i have seen, and i think it would be a good idea if it was plain "movies" in the definition of longer motion pictures, not series or TV shows.
But i need to put down some thought myself if i want to put that up, i want to present 100 myself. Some other person 5 or 3 or whatever.
One? Fine, but add some words to it and just why it´s a "must see".

A thread with thought put into the choice of BEST movies seen and with a review, personal opinion about it is nice. Plot and all and your own opinion about it. Or just listing them, but best if something´s said about them as well thank you.
This is one of my passions, to watch movies and if the thread gets going i will put down thought into making a list of 100 movies since i have seen well above that.
But understand that will come if i get inspired to do it with some little interest in the subject here as well.
Someone interested in giving it a go with a 3 movie list recommendation?

Or i make it a 10 right now to start it off, just a quick one. I list not the most known, but a little, not Godfather trilogy, Scarface, Titanic, Terminator etc. :

1. One Flew Over the C_uckoo´s Nest (it was very popular in Sweden).
2. Andersonville (American civil war movie).
3. Das Boot (Wolfgang Pedersen movie about the WW 2 German u-boat crew).
4. The Hitcher (1986)
5. Shawshank Redemption (popular i know).
6. Full Metal Jacket
7. Natural Born Killers
8. A Clockwork Orange
9. (most of Jim Carrey´s movies).
10. Leaving Las Vegas

Yes, some well known, not Swedish ones since i don´t think they qualify. Not that entertaining compared to American movies and some English productions and for that i can mention the movie ID, one about English football hooligans and an "Aussie", Australian movie, Romper Stomper. Well, it takes place in Australia at least.
I didn´t mention Crocodile Dundee now at least!
Well! Someone being more INTELLECTUAL might frown now upon my choice of movies, but hey, that´s the way i am.
I´m no academic, high society, well educated and sophisticated one in my taste nor class in society and i like hamburgers as well, hell.

You guys turn!

Edit: Man down! Movie title rejected.... The censorship got it before we all could view what name this FINE piece of movie art actual name is.
I will draw a fine line in between that HORRIBLE birds name right now to avoid any casualties on this forum. Somebody might DIE from the shock of...

So be it

Edit: Papillon, means butterfly in....Botswana. No, French perhaps. 5 out of 5. 10 out of 10 rating from me.
About the prisoner with that nickname (played by Steve McQueen), and he was sent to Devils island outside of french New Guinea, South America from the top of my head, and the movie is about the hard prison life for him and his friend, played by Dustin Hoffman and their tries to get away from it all.
Papillon was a "pimp killer" allegedly and served time for it though probably innocent and not guilty of that crime. Manuscript\movie based on a true story then.
Sophisticated now perhaps and i don´t fancy to be "all that". Just me

 

[Narz]

Your #1 definitely belongs on any top 100 list, best book to movie adaptation ever (2nd best Fight Club, 3rd : Of Mice & Men).

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind may be my favorite movie. I don't really like movies enuf to make lists. I'm looking forward to the Breaking Bad movive

 

[Farm Boy]

The bird is a casualty of a bunch of morons tossing around hyper bull horsehockey. I'm probably the least civilized vocabularist around here and it's still probably good that sort of chromosomal deficiency got crapped on even with some collateral auto censor evasion.

 

[Ferocitus]

Here's 10 off the top of my head that I'd recommend seeing if you haven't.
Certainly not to everyone's taste, nor are they the greatest, but I think that there's something special in each and every one - things that work in a movie, but maybe not as well in a TV show or series.
Some should be watched simply because they are landmarks in cinema history, or that the performances of the actor(s) is top-knotch.
Some aren't brilliant movies, but they're just beautiful. YMMV.

1. Apocalypse Now - the greatest war movie ever made.
2. The Third Man - Orson Welles as Harry Lime, the most evil man in the world!
3. One Flew Over the ****oo's Nest - I read the book when I was 15, and hoped they never spoiled it with a movie. They didn't.
4. Slaughterhouse 5 - just because it is a good attempt at making a movie from a book, one which I thought would be well-nigh on impossible to make.
5. Bridge Over the River Kwai - Is that Obi-Wan Kenobi?
6. Dreams - Kurosawa's collection of very short episodes has some stunningly beautiful moments.
7. Metropolis - because it was so way ahead of its time.
8. The Seven Samurai - Magnificent, all 7 main characters.
9. Patton - not the greatest war movie, but George C. Scott's portrayal of the General is fantastic.
10. Moonrise Kingdom - Wes Anderson certainly has a great eye for composing some really beautiful scenes.
Bonus
11. If... - For everyone who hated teachers.

 

[sophie]

Your #1 definitely belongs on any top 100 list, best book to movie adaptation ever (2nd best Fight Club, 3rd : Of Mice & Men).

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind may be my favorite movie. I don't really like movies enuf to make lists. I'm looking forward to the Breaking Bad movive

Starship Troopers, The Godfather, Lord of the Rings, The Shining, and Catch 22 are also excellent examples of book adaptions, all of which I would rank above any of those top 3.

 

[Farm Boy]

Starship Troopers, while good, might as well have been something entirely unrelated to its namesake book.

 

[sophie]

Starship Troopers, while good, might as well have been something entirely unrelated to its namesake book.

Yes.

 

[Farm Boy]

Gates of Fire, now with more regarding the dangers of militarism! Watch Sparta fight Abe Lincoln in a duel for the ages!

 

[Hans66]

Starship Troopers, while good, might as well have been something entirely unrelated to its namesake book.

I loved it. "That´s the way to do it, popcorn for nothing and the flicks for free" Dire Straits.

The soundtrack in it:

 

[Farm Boy]

Oh yes, Owen is totes right for referencing it. Smart cookie that one. The movie is great. I merely challenge whether or not something so different from the original product can actually be an "adaptation" when mostly what it steals is name and basic ***** structure. I don't think it's the right word/concept.

 

[Gori the Grey]

Babette's Feast. If I can think of nine others I will, but in the meanwhile, go watch that.

 

[sophie]

Oh yes, Owen is totes right for referencing it. Smart cookie that one. The movie is great. I merely challenge whether or not something so different from the original product can actually be an "adaptation" when mostly what it steals is name and basic ***** structure. I don't think it's the right word/concept.

I dunno, depends on what you see the point of adaptation to be. To me, the interesting thing is looking at how a creative team takes an existing work and recontextualizes it to satisfy the needs of the medium and the expressive desires of that particular creative team. I think it's interesting that I got pushback for referencing Starship Troopers, but not The Shining, which takes enormous liberties with the source work, largely in service of Kubrick's specific directorial vision, and which was absolutely despised by King on release. To me, the ability to take a massive fascism-apologia, and recontextualize it into an examination of Nazism and the people living and serving under the Nazi regime, represents the epitome of a good adaptation.

 

[EgonSpengler]

5 Hong Kong movies - non-Kung Fu, non-Wong Kar Wai Edition:

1. Ah Kam (aka The Stuntwoman)
   
2. A Better Tomorrow
   
3. Comrades: Almost a Love Story
4. Full Throttle
   
5. God of Gamblers

5 Hong Kong movies - Wong Kar Wai Edition:

1. 2046
2. Chungking Express
3. Days of Being Wild
4. Fallen Angels
5. In the Mood for Love

5 Hong Kong movies - Kung Fu Edition:

1. Hero
2. House of Flying Daggers
3. My Father is a Hero (aka The Enforcer, aka Jet Li's The Enforcer)
4. New Dragon Gate Inn
5. Project S (aka Once a Cop, aka Supercop 2)

 

[Farm Boy]

I dunno, depends on what you see the point of adaptation to be. To me, the interesting thing is looking at how a creative team takes an existing work and recontextualizes it to satisfy the needs of the medium and the expressive desires of that particular creative team. I think it's interesting that I got pushback for referencing Starship Troopers, but not The Shining, which takes enormous liberties with the source work, largely in service of Kubrick's specific directorial vision, and which was absolutely despised by King on release. To me, the ability to take a massive fascism-apologia, and recontextualize it into an examination of Nazism and the people living and serving under the Nazi regime, represents the epitome of a good adaptation.

Never read the shining. Don't actually like Kubrick, never made it all the way through the movie either.

Did read the fascist utopian sci-fi novel, did also read Stranger in a Strange land, and the Moon is a Harsh Mistress. He liked rolling around the systems in his head, I think.

Lincoln would totally emancipate the crap out of those Spartans, btw. Somebody needs to get on that one.