I want to watch a great movie tonight, any suggestions?

Batutta said:
First, what do you consider to be a great movie?
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I watch everything, a mixture of comedy, modern, classics, etc. According to IMDb, I've rated all these a 10 over time...



Sullivan's Travels 1941
Rio Bravo 1959
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington 1939
Wuthering Heights 1939
Duck, You Sucker 1971
Inception 2010
Pulp Fiction 1994
Fight Club 1999
The Matrix 1999
Schindler's List
The Prestige 2006
300 2006
Goodfellas 1990
Superbad 2007
The Green Mile 1999
Back to the Future 1985
Requiem for a Dream 2000
The Shining 1980
Leon: The Professional 1994
Snatch. 2000
Saving Private Ryan 1998
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly 1966
A Clockwork Orange 1971
The Silence of the Lambs 1991
Big Fish 2003
Pan's Labyrinth 2006
Amélie 2001
American Psycho 2000
Scarface 1983 Feature 10
The Bourne Identity 2002
Crash 2004
Life Is Beautiful 1997
Terminator 2: Judgment Day 1991
The Wizard of Oz 1939
Ben-Hur 1959
Tropic Thunder 2008
Law Abiding Citizen 2009
Wedding Crashers 2005
Unforgiven 1992
Edward Scissorhands 1990
The Butterfly Effect 2004
Once Upon a Time in the West 1968
Groundhog Day 1993
Cruel Intentions 1999
It's a Wonderful Life 1946
Mr. Nobody 2009
Back to the Future Part II 1989
Die Hard: With a Vengeance 1995
Vanilla Sky 2001
Back to the Future Part III 1990
The Royal Tenenbaums 2001
Lawrence of Arabia 1962
Cinema Paradiso 1988
Coming to America 1988
The Wedding Singer 1998
Double Indemnity 1944
For a Few Dollars More 1965
Sleepless in Seattle 1993
A Fistful of Dollars 1964
Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story 2007
 
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movies I've rated a 9 in IMDb, I try to rate everything I've ever seen on there, as you can see I'm mostly into comedy, but I watch a wide range of things....

Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures 2001
Only the Lonely 1991
Screwed 2000
Addicted to Love
Chris Rock: Bigger & Blacker 1999
All Quiet on the Western Front 1930
Beverly Hills Cop III 1994
See No Evil, Hear No Evil 1989
Saving Silverman 2001
Nothing to Lose 1997
Money Talks 1997
In the Heat of the Night 1967
Return to Oz 1985
Crimes and Misdemeanors 1989
Hard Boiled 1992
The Killer 1989
Boomerang 1992
The Golden Child 1986
The Crush 1993
Black Sheep 1996
Another 48 Hrs. 1990 Fe
Titanic 1997
The Shawshank Redemption 1994
Avatar 2009
Turner & Hooch 1989
The Dark Knight 2008
The Departed 2006
The Godfather 1972
The Social Network 2010
Kick-Ass 2010
The Hangover 2009
The Lion King 1994
Shutter Island 2010
City of God 2002
Total Recall 1990
Limitless 2011
American Beauty 1999
Se7en 1995
Taken 2008
Gladiator 2000
WALL·E 2008
Sin City 2005
Toy Story 3 2010
Aliens 1986
12 Angry Men 1957
American History X 1998
The Bourne Ultimatum 2007
Oldboy 2003
Reservoir Dogs 1992
Kill Bill: Vol. 1 2003
Step Brothers 2008
The Book of Eli 2010
E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial 1982
There Will Be Blood 2007
Ocean's Eleven 2001
Die Hard 1988
Heat 1995
Slumdog Millionaire 2008
Gran Torino 2008
The Hurt Locker 2008
Psycho 1960
Juno 2007
The Ugly Truth 2009
The 40 Year Old Virgin 2005
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels 1998
The Terminator 1984
Knight and Day 2010
The Sixth Sense 1999
The Fifth Element 1997
Salt 2010
The Bourne Supremacy 2004
Batman 1989
Pretty Woman 1990
Seven Samurai 1954
The Exorcist 1973
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory 1971
Kill Bill: Vol. 2 2004
The Heartbreak Kid 2007
Ocean's Thirteen 2007
Casino 1995
Rear Window 1954
City Lights 1931
To Kill a Mockingbird 1962
Constantine 2005
Eyes Wide Shut 1999
Training Day 2001
The Devil's Advocate 1997
Happy Gilmore 1996
Spartacus 1960
Collateral 2004
M 1931
The Graduate 1967
Ocean's Twelve 2004
The Firm 1993
Stranger Than Fiction 2006
Citizen Kane 1941
Hard Candy 2005
The NeverEnding Story 1984
Ghostbusters 1984
Hannibal 2001
The Time Traveler's Wife 2009
Tombstone 1993
Jackie Brown 1997
The Holiday 2006
Annie Hall 1977
The Crow 1994
The Bucket List 2007
Die Hard 2 1990
North by Northwest 1959
Raging Bull 1980
RoboCop 1987
Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay 2008
Wall Street 1987
Willow 1988
Traffic 2000
Grandma's Boy 2006
Austin Powers in Goldmember 2002
Meet the Parents 2000
My Best Friend's Girl 2008
Lethal Weapon 1987
Mr. Brooks 2007
Ed Wood 1994
When Harry Met Sally... 1989
High Fidelity 2000
Hackers 1995
Singin' in the Rain 1952
Eraserhead 1977
Point Break 1991
Rush Hour 1998
Enemy of the State 1998
Spread 2009
Dog Day Afternoon 1975
Glory 1989
JFK 1991
The Apartment 1960
Beverly Hills Cop 1984
Running Scared 2006
Lethal Weapon 2 1989
Rush Hour 2 2001
Rush Hour 3 2007
Alfie 2004
Glengarry Glen Ross 1992
8½ 1963
The Negotiator 1998
Can't Hardly Wait 1998
Lethal Weapon 4 1998
Kingpin 1996
White Men Can't Jump 1992
Lethal Weapon 3 1992
On the Waterfront 1954
Blast from the Past 1999
Stagecoach 1939
Ghostbusters II 1989
Tommy Boy 1995
All the President's Men 1976
Grosse Pointe Blank 1997
The Searchers 1956
Planes, Trains & Automobiles 1987
The Benchwarmers 2006
Beverly Hills Cop II 1987
It Happened One Night 1934
 
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Well, I am on a Film Noir jag right now, and I see that you liked "Double Indemnity". I just came across a Film Noir classic that blew my mind... "Brute Force".

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0039224/

Directed by Jules Dassin :thumbup: Photographed by William H. Daniels, ASC :thumbup::thumbup:, from a screenplay by Richard Brooks :thumbup: Staring Burt Lancaster and, as one of the vilest villains I have seen in a while, Hume Cronyn.

If you just watch it for the visuals, I think it is a must see. Great Film Noir. It is available as part of the Criterion Collection on Hulu Plus. If you don't have it, just sign up for the free trial, and cancel latter if you want. With the Criterion Collection on it through, I have decided to keep Hulu Plus... for a while at least. $8.00/month well spent.
 
David G. Smith said:
Well, I am on a Film Noir jag right now, and I see that you liked "Double Indemnity". I just came across a Film Noir classic that blew my mind... "Brute Force".

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0039224/

Directed by Jules Dassin :thumbup: Photographed by William H. Daniels, ASC :thumbup::thumbup:, from a screenplay by Richard Brooks :thumbup: Staring Burt Lancaster and, as one of the vilest villains I have seen in a while, Hume Cronyn.

If you just watch it for the visuals, I think it is a must see. Great Film Noir. It is available as part of the Criterion Collection on Hulu Plus. If you don't have it, just sign up for the free trial, and cancel latter if you want. With the Criterion Collection on it through, I have decided to keep Hulu Plus... for a while at least. $8.00/month well spent.
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Thanks man, will definitely check it out!!!!
 
You've listed the ones I would have pointed you to. Maybe watch them with a different perspective? Especially Saving Private Ryan.

Didn't see Apollo 13 in your list.
 
High Noon (1952), Rumblefish (1983), Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004); the original poster has very eclectic taste... so these are some really disparate selections that I don't believe were on the list as already viewed.
 
since you have listed a lot of westerns, scifi, and crime with the comedies(did not see enough noir by the way, or akira kurosawa)

crime: since you mentioned some older woo films and oldboy,

a bittersweet life(2005)
i saw the devil(2010)
there was a good movie that i have seen a few years back, can't remember the name, but maybe someone on the board can shine in, i think it was Chinese movie in the 2000s

SPOILER ALERT

fyi, i don't remember the subtitles to be very accurate,
the movie started with an order to take out a mob member/retired assassin/old friend in his home while his family is with him, after the first fight sequence in the guys apartment(and i do remember it to be an amazing action sequence that sold me completely to watch the rest of the film), the team and the guy decided to join forces against the mob boss. there might have been a robbery scene, or a scene in a police department, there was definitely a scene at night in a restaurant/open area from what i can remember, there was also a scene in slow motion in a hallway/ maybe of another restaurant or a building later on in the film.

END OF SPOILER

western:
high noon
true grit(original)
the wild bunch(1969)
magnificent seven

maybe someone else can fill in for the sci-fi.
 
Midnight Run is an excellent comedy, starring Robert De Niro and Charles Grodin.
Directed by Martin Brest (Beverly Hills Cop, Scent of a Woman, Meet Joe Black)
 
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