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I 'm surprised you haven't seen Lawrence of Arabia.. at least once!
I wouldn't be a fan of other spaghetti westerns, but Sergio Leones trilogy (+ Once Upon a Time in the West) are marvellous watches!
I know @Mathis1 Lawrence of Arabia is one i should really watch. Trouble is, i've seen so many clips and scenes from it already. (No excuse, i know!)
I have seen Once Upon A Time In The West and technically i was impressed, but they don't do much for me, apart from the photography and music.
I do love Leone's Once Upon A Time In America.
I am a fan of Italian Horror though. Love Dario Argento's early work up until Tenebrae.
Hitchcock is my favorite director and yeah, Rope is quite underrated. I would like to try to see every Hitchcock film, he made 50 or so, off the top of my head. I've seen 26 of his, about half. All the big ones and then some. Vertigo is my favorite.
Lawrence is such an epic, that a couple of clips can't do it justice!
As for Once Upon a Time in the West, it has a terrific cast, and the opening is one of my all time favourites
I actually only like the early part of Once Upon a Time. in America, when they were kids, and tthe music of course!
My younger brother has been recommending Dario Argentos movies to me. He has most of them on DVD. Which should I start with?
Deep Red.
Personally @Mathis1 i'd go with Suspiria
I think that's his best film.
It's wonderful. If you ever want to see THE depiction of a nightmare on the screen, look no further.
STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS
STAR WARS: THE LAST JEDI
I've never seen any of the Marvel movies after the first 2012 AVENGERS,
with only a few exceptions. I did see the 2 DEADPOOL films, and the Spiderman Homecoming movie.
Not masterpieces, but I sure love them...
I've heard they were pretty good. Better than the prequels.
Everybody has to see Monty Python and The Holy Grail before they check out!
Get to it...!
Regarding those 'Star Wars' films you ain't missing much....
TFA is not that bad compared to TLJ.
Ashamed? It sometimes is cringeworthy to admit I have never seen Gone with the Wind, nor have I read the book...although both the novel and the movie have been in my household literally for several decades. But ashamed? No. We shouldn't elevate mere movies, made for commercial reasons, to something that is indispensable for being accepted as a cultured person. I haven't seen most of Shakespeare's plays, haven't read most of the most-cherished lyricists, know hardly any operas, and have repeatedly quit in the middle of novels by Nobel laureates out of sheer ennui. Should I really be "ashamed" that I haven't seen some commercial. albeit popular, mass-production trash, just because it causes me not to "belong"? Anyway, I don't.
The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
Ben-Hur (1959)
Network (1976)
Cool Hand Luke (1967)
The Deer Hunter (1978)
Fargo (1996)
On the Waterfront (1954)
The Third Man (1949)
Gone with the Wind (1939)
There Will Be Blood (2007)
Chinatown (1974)
Raging Bull (1980)
Heat (1995)
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
The Apartment (1960)
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
The Sting (1973)
Taxi Driver (1976)
Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
Citizen Kane (1941)
Das Boot (1981)
Braveheart (1995)
Sunset Boulevard (1950)
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
Apocalypse Now (1979)
Psycho (1960)
American History X (1998)
The Usual Suspects (1995)
The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
Shichinin no samurai (1954)
Fight Club (1999)
12 Angry Men (1957)
Most people say Life of Brian is the best but for me it’s Monty Python and the Holy Grail !
Of course you're right with your points above @j_w_pepper. Being ashamed to not having seen a film is maybe a bit of a stretch. For my own part, these are films that I feel I should make time for, or have had the opportunity to watch, only to instead picking an old favourite. There's nothing wrong with that of course.
I really do encourage you to watch all of these. While I still wonder how a majority of IMDb voters place Shawshank at No. 1 (it's a good movie, no doubt, but the best ever??? - hardly, not nearly IMO), the IMDb Top 250 is a very good indication of what one should have seen...if one is interested in good movies, but not to avoid being ashamed or marginalised by society becaused you missed them.
I very much doubt I'll get through this list of mine, but I'm sure I'll at least watch the films that are of particular interest, such as Psycho. I really like Hitchcock films, but I've never got around to watching this one.
What surprised me the most was the order of that list. Last time I checked (which must be several years ago), The Godfather and The Godfather Part II were the top two, and the rest of the list was quite different. Plenty of new additions to the list as well.
Never mind the order. I agree there is no way of having Shawshank ahead of Godfather I and II. There is also no way that I'd really consider The Dark Knight at No. 4, since I find even Batman Begins superior. The list is heavily subject to current trends and attempts by fan groups to push their favourite, which in turn makes it susceptible to Hollywood marketing campaigns. But overall, it makes no difference if a movie like Shawshank is at No. 1 or No. 179. You can be pretty sure that of the top 250, at least 200 are excellent in some way. And that goes especially for those "old" movies that are not being pushed by their producers any more and still prevail in that list.