Help me pick a movie please...
Thursday, August 14th, 2008 - 1:49am
So there are a lot, and I mean a lot of movies that are considered classics that I've not seen. These include:
Any of the Godfather movies
Fight Club
Black Cauldron
Metropolis
The Great Escape
Reservoir Dogs
and a bunch more (my friends and I came up with a list of about 50 movies). Since finally seeing the LOTR trilogy for the first time, I'm trying to decide what to watch next, and could use a little help.
What, in your honest opinion, should I get next? Thanks in advance for the help/advice. 
You're going to get a lot of screaming about Godfather.
For me though... Fight Club.
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It depends to some extent on your tastes, tolerance for older/slower-paced movies, and so on, but my choice would be:
Fight Club
I like so many things about this movie - the nihilsitic themes, the dark humour, the acting, the characters, the dialogue, etc. etc.
You should see them all eventually of course!
Edit: I should point out that I still haven't got round to seeing Metropolis or Black Cauldron, though.
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Godfather(s): One, good. Two, good. Three, not so good. It's an investment...
Fight Club: Solid flick, but pick up the book instead (Palahniuk writes some crazy good stories).
Reservoir Dogs. My pick. Tarantino can write and direct and I'm a sucker for movies where all the action is in how the characters interact. Plus the soundtrack rocks.
Metropolis: It's silent, so keep that in mind. Also, they found 25 additional minutes of footage last month that make parts of the movie make (more) sense. I'd wait until someone edits them back in a special edition.
Great Escape: A bit overrated in my book (the Brits are great actors, McQueen, sadly, is not). I'd pick Stalag 17 if you want a better German POW story or Bridge Over the River Kwia if you want the best POW movie.
I'd watch Casablanca, Psycho, or even Citizen Kane before Fight Club.
But then, I think about Fight Club the same way Peter Griffin thinks about the Godfather.
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- Reservoir Dogs is my favorite from the list.
- The first Godfather is quite good as well.
- Fight Club is a fun as hell movie, definitely worth watching. It's one of the few instances of a movie being better then the book, even the author says as much.
- Metropolis is pretty impenetrable in this day and age, I don't know how much you'd get out of it.
- The Black Cauldron as in the Disney cartoon? Pretty weak.
- The Great Escape is cool if you can handle the acting style of the period.
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My vote goes for Reservoir Dogs too. Get some friends together and maybe a bottle of your choice and have a hell of a fine evening.
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Out of those, Fight Club. Then Reservoir Dogs.
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Definitely the Godfather. If you haven't seen it yet, get Shawshank Redemption. My personal favorite.
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I'd say Fight Club. Resevoir Dogs is a good movie to get into Tarantino flicks, but I'd say its his weakest one. Once you've seen Pulp Fiction or Kill Bill Vol. II, its hard to go back.
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I thought Reservoir Dogs was pretty excellent compared to True Romance or Killing Zoe. Also, I loved the look and style of Death Proof as one of his better movies.
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I'd go with Fight Club, and the movie over the book (surprisingly). (Shawshank, similarly - movie over the book.)
I find I have to be in a very specific mood for Rez Dogs, and I'm not even sure what that mood is. I just know that I've really enjoyed it a couple of times and turned it off partway through a couple of times.
If you are talking about the Disney Black Cauldron, pick up the books instead.
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-on L4DI need to go back and watch Godfather, myself. I watched it just out of high school and didn't see what the big deal was.
Fight Club
Reservoir Dogs
Just ignore the Black Cauldron. Easily the lowest point of Disney animation.
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This thread confuses me. Why can't you watch all of the movies on the list?
Then how would we argue?
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Some Like It Hot, Rear Window, Scarface (1932, with a more primal version of 'Say hello to my little friend!). You have to know what to expect from Metropolis, I've seen it [too many] times, and for its time has some really interesting technical work done. The overacting of silent films is hit-or-miss with some people, sometimes even in the same movie. Phantom of the Opera (1925) is great, and watching the scene at the ball when the film goes to faux-color is awesome.
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Oh, I will eventually, just wanted suggestions on which to watch next.
Out of the choices, I'd go with Fight Club and Reservoir Dogs.
Every five years or so, I try watching the Godfather Saga and I just can't get into it. I dunno why.
But, if you are looking for a great mob movie, you can't go wrong with Goodfellas; if you've not seen it already.
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Two words: Death Proof.
I'd go for Fight Club out of those, or The Godfather Part I.
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I vote Fight Club too, but I'd really like to say "thank god you finally saw the LoTR trilogy." These are among my favorite movies of all time. Simply epic in every way.
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I've never seen any of the LoTR movies or Jurassic Park movies. I just haven't bothered.
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Goodfellas wait its not on your list? Honestly hit up IMDB and start going down the list of top rated. If you don't like foreign or ancient movies skip them to make it quicker.
edit: oh yea, Buono, il brutto, il cattivo., is not foreign so don't skip that one. Also feel free to skip anything that is so new that its been hyped up beyond its worth. Don't get me wrong I loved The Dark Knight but it is not the 3rd best movie ever made.
I always forget about this movie, as well as Donnie Brasco. Brasco isn't on the same level as Goodfellas, but it's a damn good flick.
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What did I read the same book as you? The book was complete garbage, like 5 pages in I knew who Tyler was and then the author proceeded to beat me over the head with it over and over again with his "hints". I was actually more surprised that ANYONE would turn it into a movie, thankfully the script writers had more skill and talent than the author so they could turn it into a great movie.
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For QT movies its easy to rate: Pulp Fiction, Rez Dogs, everything else.
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As for which movie you want to watch 1st... I would rent all of them and then do a movie fest on Saturday. The weakest one being the Black Cauldron, the story is a little lame but the puppets and backgrounds and line action is just great for its day.
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In terms of social capital, Fight Club might have the most quote/reference value these days, followed by Res. Dogs and Godfather.
But Great Escape is just sweetness and light all the way through.
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From the list you posted, Reservoir Dogs would be my first suggestion, and The Great Escape a close second.
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Resevoir Dogs isn't a bad movie. It was the first Tarantino movie I saw. I just didn't think it measures up to his other stuff. I'm not counting True Romance because he didn't direct it (noticible by the chronological presentation of the story).
And I like Deathproof a lot. The theater experience was ruined by the stereotypically loud and unappreciative octogenarian couple sitting behind me. They kept commenting on what their daughter told them about it.
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Having recently watched all of the Godfather movies, I'd say don't do those until you can devote a significant amount of time to movie watching. Each installment is 3+ hours.
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Man, I think that puts our movie compability way, way down there. Death Proof was about the worst movie I saw last year. It probably edges out PotC3, because at least it's an hour shorter, but that still puts it behind Dead or Alive. Yes, that Dead or Alive movie. The one with the evil sunglasses. One moderately amusing stunt sequence is not enough to carry a two hour movie*, especially if the rest of the two hours is taken up by bad actors jabbering about ditches.
*I saw the longer, European version. The Grindhouse version has to be the better movie, because it's shorter. And probably has less ten-minute monologues about ditches.
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