Huh. That's a good question. When I look over my list of movies that I liked well enough to want to own someday, the only ones that I think other people might (or ought to) think belong among the all-time greats are Dr. Strangelove, Gosford Park, and The Milagro Beanfield War.
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dcp - Dec 28, 2008 3:42:34 pm PST #9174 of 10000
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
Kathy A - Dec 28, 2008 3:47:03 pm PST #9175 of 10000
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
looking at my dvd shelves...
Young Frankenstein
West Side Story
Singin' in the Rain
Easter Parade
The Wizard of Oz
The Great Escape
Amadeus
The Shawshank Redemption
Aliens
M
Dumbo
Mary Poppins
Jessica - Dec 28, 2008 3:47:11 pm PST #9176 of 10000
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
OH MY GOD NOBODY HAS MENTIONED THE PRINCESS BRIDE YET EITHER.
Seriously, people!
Also The Muppet Movie
Kathy A - Dec 28, 2008 3:48:45 pm PST #9177 of 10000
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Oh, and I know they're not old enough to earn classic status yet, but I have to put The Lord of the Rings on there.
Barb - Dec 28, 2008 3:49:26 pm PST #9178 of 10000
“Not dead yet!”
"Memento" would make my personal list, but I doubt seriously that a whole lot of people would agree with me.
I would.
And I'd totally put Amadeus on that list as well.
And Princess Bride
Also, American in Paris.
Gris - Dec 28, 2008 4:12:04 pm PST #9179 of 10000
Hey. New board.
Blu-Ray players are awesome, and The Dark Knight really is unstoppingly bleak. And good.
Probably not on the "all time greats" list, but possibly only out of prejudice against the genre? I don't know, I can't decide.
I'd put Breakfast at Tiffany's on there.
ETA: And The Little Mermaid.
Jessica - Dec 28, 2008 4:17:15 pm PST #9180 of 10000
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
I watched TDK again over the holidays, and I just couldn't get into it this time. For every brilliant little moment, there's a clunky overwritten scene where 2 characters rehash their thematic mission statements and stop the movie dead in its tracks. I wanted to go at the script with a machete.
SailAweigh - Dec 28, 2008 5:13:15 pm PST #9181 of 10000
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
The Shawshank Redemption
The one movie my daughter and I can agree on.
Steph L. - Dec 28, 2008 5:22:54 pm PST #9182 of 10000
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
but the idea is that almost everyone would consider it one of the greats.
Star Wars.
I watched TDK again over the holidays, and I just couldn't get into it this time. For every brilliant little moment, there's a clunky overwritten scene where 2 characters rehash their thematic mission statements and stop the movie dead in its tracks. I wanted to go at the script with a machete.
"I want to stop crime!" "I want Rachael!" "I want to fuck shit up!"
Plus, with the bleak.
(In the current Batman comic, there's this whole weird-ass thing where Batman has been captured, and the bad guys are trying to extract his memories to -- follow me, here -- power an army of Batman clones. The idea being that all the trauma, etc., that made him what he is will transfer over and make unstoppable Batmen.
The problem? There's so much trauma that the clones are clawing their own eyes out and dying. They can't handle the sum total of Batman's trauma [not just his parents dying; WAY more shit than that] all at once, and it's destroying them, while Batman is merrily going "Yes, and?"
Batman is officially King of the Land of Fucked-Upped-Ness.)
le nubian - Dec 28, 2008 5:28:47 pm PST #9183 of 10000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
that is hilarious in a way. I mean, damn.