classic films

not sure if theres one up but mine atm have to be...

rambo 3
irriversible
the cell
and something about pete tong where he looses his hearing and ends up writing dope tunes.
candy
universal soldiers. (your not listening to me) hahahahaha

its all gone pete tong

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0388139/

the story doesnt have anything to do with him at all, although he does play himself in the movie.

so. its still good.
 

shouldnt you be exploring the filthy uk and doing something else besides being on here.   

apologies for letting you know the name of one of your favouritest favourite movies which you didnt know the name of



nah im at work for another ten mins or so... 10 hour shift today...

top gun can be missed plassed in this order. neither gummo.  

pissed and its 4 in the morn here. gimme a break chief. x

10 hrs. ouch. ummmmmm sucked in.

a few of my faves:

- Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
- The Butterfly Effect
- Battle Royale
- A Clockwork Orange
- Scarface
- New Jersey Drive
- Friday
- Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood
- Bad Santa

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
- The Butterfly Effect
- A Clockwork Orange
- Scarface
- Friday
- Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood



i like your style.
friday is a classic!
and fear and loathing when he takes that big chunk of acid. omg wroooooooooooong.

I'd like to nail this whole list before I croak: http://www.imdb.com/chart/top

ooooh... i'd forgotten all about that film. gonna hunt it down now!

clockwork orange and battle royale are definitely up there for me too.

Just some of da top of my head
that I like

- Requiem for a dream
- Pretty woman
- Dirty Dancing
- Perfume
- Pan's Labyrinth
- The Star Wars Trilogy
- The Alien Movies
- Predator 1 & 2


Thats I can remember for now whilst I am drunk


 

Trainspotting
American Beauty
Napoleon Dynamite -its classic to me lol
Big Fish
The Notebook
Memento
Clerks, Chasing Amy... all the Kevin Smith movies
28 Days Later
Shaun Of The Dead
Human Traffic
Alfie
Anchorman
Saw
Crash
Pulp Fiction, Sin City, Kill Bill
Fight Club
Donnie Darko
Requiem For a Dream

Have you read the book ?

Great book that one. Apparently the movie isn't in the same league, but unfortunately I haven't had the chance to see it yet.

ENTER THE DRAGON!

Yes I did I really enjoyed it, its one of my favourite novels.

Im kinda glad I read the book first. I found the movie visually pleasing especially in expressing smells etc

Its the little details that make that story work and I think the movie did the novel justice as much as possible


I really like the film The Beach too. Apparently the novel is better than the movie

- The color purple is a classic
- American History X
-Chocolat

Yes.


Yes, yes.

And I'll also add...

- Edward Scissorhands
- Bourne Trilogy
- The Ring (Japanese)
- The Grudge (Japanese)
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer
- Drop Dead Fred
- Reality Bites
- Empire Records
- Puberty Blues
- Natural Born Killers
- Dawn of the Dead
- Cannibal the Musical
- The Crow
- Memoirs of a Geisha
- House of Flying Daggers
- Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
- Heathers
- Interview with a Vampire
- Queen of the Damned
- Legend of the Overfiend
- Office Space
- Lost in Translation
- Ray
- Batman Begins
- Zatoichi the Blind Swordsman
- Lady Snowblood
- Shinobi
- Fearless
- Infernal Affairs
- Thank You for Smoking
- The Skeleton Key
- Secret Window
- Silent Hill
- The Lost Boys
- The Nightmare Before Christmas
- Pootie Tang
- So I Married An Axe Murderer
- Hot Fuzz
- Ray
- Lord of the Rings Trilogy
- Bram Stoker's Dracula
- The Fifth Element
- The Illusionist

*Battle Royale
*The Host
*The Warriors
*Todo sobre mi madre
*'Atame'
*Pans Labyrinth
*Reservoir Dogs
*Pulp Fiction
*Die Hards (ie all of em)
*Kill Bill 1 & 2 (but 1 is better)
*Ghostbusters
*Taxi Driver
*Goodfellas
*Mean Streets
*Chopper
*Serpico
*Dog Day Afternoon
*The Wiz
*Beverley Hills Cop
*Bullet in the Head
*Naked Weapon

fuck man i could go on forever...

one that seems not to have been mentioned but i'm sure plenty of people on here would've liked is

Dazed and confused

True story Lex! Puberty Blues is fucking rad

5 stars for that one! I love that movie

Oh yeh how can I forget: Degrassi High: Schools Out!

I really Like the Piano - Jane Campion

-Once were warriors
- whale rider

Fear of a Black Planet




been my fave for years

fear of a black hat you mean?

cb4 > fobh imo, but it is still a cool flick!

Niggas Wit Hats in the house!

lol yer thats the one. Wasn't thinkin

everyone always preferred cb4 but I've always thought Fear was heaps funnier

"well, they do say it's the quiet ones you have to look out for"

"Yeah! and if you've noticed, I aint said shit fo couple mins now!"

First Round - Will add as I remember more

The Lives of Others
Fargo
Lacombe Lucien
Sex, Lies and Videotape
L'enfant (The Child)
The Sweet Hereafter
Winter Light
Requiem For A Dream
The Believer
Babel
No Country For Old Men
Eternity And A Day
Stroszek
Apocalypse Now
Half Nelson
Magnolia
Mullholland Drive (Better than Lost Highway)

I don't even know where to start in this thead. A few I dont think I've seen mentioned yet are:

The Usual Suspects
Do the Right Thing
The Fifth Element
The Game

Fuck it, too tired to start listing them all. Maybe tomorrow.

Event Horizon. This is the best movie I have ever seen and I believe it will stay that way
Se7en.
Memento.
Can't be screwed thinking of any more now.

fuck i forgot the most essential film of all time!

SPINAL TAP!!!

Some classic funny/pisstake films:

Kentucky Fried Movie
Amazon Women on the Moon
Shaun of the Dead
BASEketball
Orgazmo
The Rutles

Yeah! 

Schindlers List.
Shawshank Redemption.

I heart these two movies.

downloaded this last week.

one of my all time favourites from high school that one.

"that's the beauty of all these high school chicks man. I get older, they stay the same age"



so do i.

can't be bothered listing them all. way too many on the list. a lot have been covered here already.

The machinist
American Physco
Midnight express
The killing fields
Full metal jacket
A scanner darkly

thats all i got for now

Haven't watched this in ages, great movie.

my fav right there

Yes thankyou Timmy for introducing me to this movie

So Far..............
American Psycho
Orgazmo
Dazed and confused
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Scarface
Predator 1
Pulp Fiction
Kill Bills
Enter the Dragon
Full metal jacket
Apocalypse Now Redux
Scarface
Star Wars 4,5,6
Shaun Of The Dead
Chopper
Ghostbusterses
Die Hardses
Big Lebowski
The Shining

I will add.................
A Fish Called Wanda
Fierce Creatures
Life of Brian
City of Lost Children
Nacho Libre
Groundhog Day
Drunken Masters and pretty much all the old Jackie Chan movies
The Castle
Stand By Me
Style Wars
Weekend at Bernies
Azumi 1&2
Ninja Scroll
Akira
Reservoir Dogs
Evil Dead (the budget one)
Mall Rats
Bad Taste
Devils Advocate
Manchurian Candidate
Zoolander
Hitchhikers Guide
Lock Stock
Snatch
Ghost in the Shell
Big fan of Lynch, Tarantino, Scorcese and Cohen Bro's - so pretty much anything by them.
So much more to add....
Yet to see The Machinist and Pans Labrynth.

Are you fucking kidding me?!?!

Negative

Oh yeah...

Terminator 2

 

I thought the thread title said CLASSIC Films...

List or stfu
 

I think it's more like PERSONAL classic films, but correct me if I'm wrong. I listed movies that I consider classics for myself.

Cassablanca
Ben-Hur
Spartacus
Gone with the wind
Mary Poppins

Milo and Otis. Completely forgot about this movie until I saw that screencleaner thing in What has made you laugh today.

oh yes

And no one has mentioned:

Brazil
12 Monkeys
Man Bites Dog
Fight Club

Okay. Can everyone please read previous posts before you mention a classic film and stop repeating what other people have written

If you can please do so, you will notice I mentioned "Requiem for a dream first" 

We dont need fifty people saying it is a classic film. One will do

Ive got da grumps!

Isn't anyone else allowed to say they like it?

*waits for fire-breathing*

No!

Erika LAW!

 

arrr.. end of the day I dont care.
 

Thought Id mention it thou

i don't care about any other movie, but requiem for a dream to me is such a classic,  and i'm glad i mentioned it first as i feel a kind of bond to it that no other human possibly could.

 

Has anyone seen a french movie called 'Le Grande Buffet' ?
Basically a movie about a bunch of guys who want to kill themselves by gourging themselves on the finest food, booze and whores france has to offer. Was a great movie when I was 10. Really want to see that again.

i'm all over anything by terry gilliam!

Watched Death Wish & Dirty Harry the other night. Easily the two toughest men to ever walk the earth. Also if you take you mind off the violence and lend an ear to the film score the music in both have enough funk to make your ass drop.

 

I love you Dave!

um.... er, I just would like to say that I actually mentioned it first  ahahahaha

However please feel free to continue to bond with the film

one my all time favourite films is: the adventures of ford fairlane: rock and roll detective. made in the 80s, it has priscilla presley, wayne newton, tone loc, vince neil, sheena e and loads of disgusting humour from andrew dice clay - a must see for everyone, imo!

on the wayne newton tip once again, vegas vacation... i dig all the vacation movies but vegas is probably my favourite. bright lights, strippers, money... i need to go to vegas before i die!

caddy shack is another classic... the original golfing comedy, only happy gilmore has come close to it.

action wise - the killer - is one of my all time faves. classic john woo + chow yun fat. anyone who has listened to raekwon's cuban links needs to see this.

will add some more later...

Fantastic book

some movies i consider classics (regardless of whether theyve already been mentioned)

Clerks
Scarface
Caddy Shack
Requiem for a Dream
Trainspotting
A Clockwork Orange
Urotsukidoji - Legend of the Overfiend; Legend of the Demon Womb
Akira
Ghost in the Shell
American Beauty
Battle Royale
Fight Club
Fargo
Silence of the Lambs
The Fly
Pulp Fiction
Reservoir Dogs

i could go on, but thats enough for now...

Hubert Selby Jr. is a brilliant writer.

 

i felt it deserved a mention, as it gets the distinct honor of being the most crazily fucked up, insane movie (well anime at least) i've ever seen...

if you want a precise definition of what 'tentacle rape' is...

look no further 

you liked it cos you were ten i reckon







Delicatessen
City of Lost Children
City of God
Old Boy
Strange Days
Carandiru
21 Grams
Irreversible
Boondock Saints
Great Outdoors ( )
The Game
Running Man



more to come

That's a tidy list right there. Fuck, it always takes me such a long time to make lists!!!

classic film indeed!

ali won't watch it with me.

i just run that off the top of my head


worked in a video store for near 5 years back 1997 - 2002

I'm jealous as fuck! When I was 15 I went down to the local Blockbuster and volunteered myself in return for free movie posters. They got me stacking the shelves!    Loved every minute of it though.

i usedta work in a store. shit pay, that was alrite cause i racked up 360 rentals in 300 days

escape from new york
big trouble in little china
flash gordon
krull
they call me bruce

"With this hand I can snap your arm, with this hand I can break your leg...look at my eyes...I am Oriental"
(or something like that  )

Second Round - Will add as I remember more

The Lives of Others
Fargo
Lacombe Lucien
Sex, Lies and Videotape
L'enfant (The Child)
The Sweet Hereafter
Winter Light
Requiem For A Dream
The Believer
Babel
No Country For Old Men
Eternity And A Day
Stroszek
Apocalypse Now
Half Nelson
Magnolia
Mullholland Drive (Better than Lost Highway)
2046
8 1/2

A few classics worth your watching from yesteryear ^_^

60s
Easy Rider
2001 - A Space Odyssey
The Good the Bad and the Ugly
The Great Escape
Yojimbo
Spartacus
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Psycho
In the Heat of the Night

70s:
The God Father I & II
Midnight Express
The French Connection
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Taxi Driver
Apocalypse Now
The Sting
Papillon
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
The Deer Hunter
The Day of the Jackal
Close Encounters of the 3ed Kind
Dirty Harry
Star Wars
A Clockwork Orange
The Killing Fields

80s
Breakfast Club
Lost Boys
Fast Times At Ridgemont High
The Untouchables
Rain Man
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Stand by Me
Goonies
Colors
The Shining
Raging Bull
Blade Runner
Platoon
Scarface

Great list! Even if you do have your dates wrong for a bunch of them...(Godfather/s are 70's, Crying Game was 92) 

Fixed, I think I meant the killing fields... The crying game is the one with cock eyed whittaker & the tranny innit?

There's another 60s samurai flick that wsa ok for its time as well, the one wu tang sampled... Can't remember what it was called though

  Yep...

The samurai flick you're thinking of might be a Shaw Brothers movie, I know the Wu Tang Clan sampled 36 Chambers Of Shaolin...

Failing that, possibly one of the Baby Cart Killer movies? Kurosawa's Rashomon maybe?

Holy shit. I so forgot about this film.

When I watched it as a youngster it was probably the funniest movie I had ever seen. I wonder if it still is?

It Wasn't Shichinin no Samurai (the seven samurai)? That was released in 52 though.

Also a huge fan of Howling 3: the Marsupials

This wins the award for Movie I Least Expected To See In the Classic Films Thread! 

Has anyone mentioned Life is Beautiful (Vita è bella) in here?

Easily one of the greatest movies ever made. Even brought an old jaded bastard like me to tears at the end.

That's the Aussie one hey, shot in Sydney I think? I remember catching it on early morning TV about 10 years ago...a fucking shocker it was, and I'm a fan of shlocky horror movie too! How can you call it a classic lol!

Ah yes, that movie is amazing.
As is Cinema Paradiso..

Who Framed Roger Rabbit!!!

they showed 'bugsy malone' last night

old school gangster movie with kids and cream guns featuring a very very young scott baio and jodie foster

not quite as good as i remember but only because i dont really like the musical side of it now, but still a classic movie!

Nooooo Bugsy Malone has always been an embarrassingly terrible film!

Has anyone mentioned Spaceballs yet? If not..... Spaceballs!


And Being John Malkovich!

ali makes me watch it every couple of months pretty much. it's one of her's and my favourites for sure.

just gonna jump my Erika is a poo head band wagon again.. but this thread is titled

Classic films not "my favourite films!" 

I have noticed alot of films people just adding in here that they think are good, yet they are hardly anything Classic!

To me a classic film is something that stands the test of time. Like scarface. Not something that turns to shit within 12 months or more.
shesh

reading a thread full of lists is hardly enjoyable as well! This thread would be far more enjoyable if people posted one movie at at time, and why they liked it. Keeps a good conversation. Just posting lists is a load of time wasting if you ask me. And I know it takes ages for people to make the lists. (not trying to get personal but i have skimmed through pages and pages of lists of classic films. BOORING. I just skim straight past em.

really... end of the day do ya really care if someone likes 30 movies? 

Spaceballs is a classic film 

Im not commenting on your space balls preference im commenting on some other films put up on here which are definately not under the genre of a classic film.

Im also commenting on boring lists

oh well im just gonna shuddup

 

Bullet point time...

-Hardly any movies listed here are less than 12 months old
- Thread is titled 'Classic Films', not 'Empire's Top 100 Films of All Time', therefore I interpret the title gives us the freedom of mentioning those movies that we as individuals feel stand the test of time
- Everyone has different opinions. Who's to say that everyone thinks 'Scarface' is a classic?!? (Which it is by the way... FUCKING OATH!!!)
- Isn't reading threads full of lists one of the joys of trawling through the internet? What else is there to do?  
- 'Girls of the Playboy Manntion' fail the 'stands the test of time' part of most people's checklists

You shit-stirrer, you!  

(Tryed to find a winking emo, but couldn't... for the record I'm not having a go, just playing the game, young Erika!)

BAHAHAHAHAHAHA

 

good one

that actually made my day

its true though!

IMO this thread should be titled "My personal classic films" not "Classic films!"

man there are some shit threads on this forum! I am gonna start naming and shaming shit threads! BORRRRRRRRING

 

The old name and shame game. Put a plastic wig on you and start calling yourself Ray Martin.

"Well, looks like the Aussie Battler has been done over, once again, by the bloody stupidity of those with opinions. Here on A Current Affair, we dig dirt on those that lurk beneath the net surface, waiting to pounce on unsuspecting 'surfers' and unleash a devestating torrent of misleading thread information. Well, I have news for you nerds, praying on the innocents of this great, golden country of ours. Guess what, you FAIL!"

 

You have to admit there is a lot of crapola on AM

c'mon now

And I love every bit of it!!! 

grrr a bumch of my posts were deleted!

GRRR
I wasnt even breaking the rules!  

Just becos a mod didnt like what i had to say! This is not a dictatorship!

Troublemaker!!! 

You did break the grammar rule. Maybe Leezee removed your posts. You know how strict he is when it comes to grammar.

You have to admit that eventually someone's gonna come out and say the ol' chestnut: if you don't like it, don't read it, don't go into the thread. Easy.

oh dont worry i dont

House Party
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Cheech & Chong
Predator
 

oh fuck yes def a classic!

nothing like seeing 15 year old asian schoolkids murder and mutilate eachother

since we're on the asian theme ill add 2 more classics!!
-hard boiled
-the killer

True Romance probably one of my most fav films ever

the good the bad and the ugly is one of my all time faves. mustve watched it about 20 times or more.
after watching a few of the sergio leone spaghetti westerns, i dunno why anyone would bother with that glorified USofA john wayne style cack. a fistful of dollars... for a few dollars more...

clint eastwood is the fucken man!
clint eastwood > chuck norris.

I was just talking about how much of a legend clint is in my break.
Hes a fukn hero. I love westerns.
My workmate was saying there is some new western which has just come out, with Russel Crowe which is supposed to be awesome.
John Wayne = Fail

I love the spine for Firefox on video back when Blockbuster actually used to be a video shop. It had this weird font, so the spine seemed to read
CUNT EASTWOOD  FIREFOX
Due, to the L and I being too close together

It's all about Escape From Alcatraz...

Unforgiven was some classic Western shit too, Clint winding back the clock on his career!

Watched 'Goodfellas' again on the weekend. Still in my top 5.

 

Burglar with Whoopi Goldberg

Watched The Adventures of Mark Twain for the first time today. Such an amazing movie depth wise, and the claymation is mindblowing.

Classics hmmm?
doesn't a classic have to be like twenty five years old or something or is that just cars?

I'm gonna go with,
boondock saints
fear and loathing
leaving las vegas
Con air( what a classic piece of shit, so cliche its perfect)
God father 2
Taxi driver
human traffic
Super Troopers (ha ha ha classic)
reservoir dogs
dusk till dawn
Memento
Requiem for a dream
shallow grave
Dogma
the incredibles(best animation flick i've seen)
High Tension(the best slasher flick ever. A must watch!)
+ all the obvious ones like aliens, Rambo, American history X,Fargo, Donnie Darko, Pulp Fiction etc

someone else who knows the score!

Steve Buscemi was the creepiest EVER!!!! in that film! Love it.

Some more classics:
Vertigo
The Birds (scary shit!!!)
Lolita
The Killing
Showboat
Cabaret

The birds was scary but by todays standard it just comes off creepy, same with clock work orange. Didn't like lolita. Bland story no real highs or lows(except their age).

Slavoj Zizek's rambling about oedipal sexuality in The Birds during the early stages of 'The Pervert's Guide To Cinema' is great; It has made me want to see the film.

I am scared to go near any version of Lolita though. Vladimir Nabokov is one of the greatest writers that ever lived, and probably the most talented manipulator of language. I can't see how a film could possibly capture that. I am always prepared to be proven wrong though.

A Clockwork Orange was never supposed to be scary.

Yeah i guess scary's not the word maybe tormented!
Don't get me wrong I think Clockwork is great and so is birds. both are definately masterpieces! I think they both come off as dated while watching and lose their effect somewhat.Full metal jacket and Physco have a more timeless look for eg.

Spirited Away
Howls Moving Castle
 

nah birds is wayy creepy, its not about horror or gore but about the terror that cloaks the town when the townspeople lose their minds trying to get away from the birds. it was never meant to be a gorefest. i'd compare the japanese and korean films of today to hitchcock's masterpieces, its all about mood and suspense instead of special effects and grisly images.

kubrick's lolita is pretty good, you are right films hardly ever come close, but it IS well done. sellers is a standout in serious roles! i also think john carpenter's The Thing is a pretty classic film, for a remake and for also being in the schlock category it really does stand out in a crowd.

Decent list Melvin. A few in there I thought were shit, but definitely a lot of classics. As for High Tension, it was an amazing slasher flick. Was, that is, until it finished with one of the biggest, most disappointing, cop-outs of a so-called twist ending I have ever had the pleasure to see. Don't get me wrong, I love my twist endings (The Usual Suspects is my favourite movie of all-time in case you didn't guess), but High Tension's twist made M. Night Shyamalan look on in horror. Fuck, that pissed me off!

Ok so it was definately a "what the fuck" twist but the quality of the chase definately made up for it!

Top quality movie until the last five minutes imo.

Yeah probably could have worked better without a twist. pure slasher!

Whilst The Usual Suspects is one of the better films I have seen, and the twist is essential, you can see the twist coming at about the 30-40 minute mark.As far as Spacey flicks go, the twist (if you can call it that) in Se7en was far better in my opinion. 

oh hell yes!

It was never any good either.

Easily the most overrated film ever. Doesn't even deserve a mention in this thread.

Cant agree with you on that one! Clockwork is a pretty good movie. Not one of kubricks best(IMO) but still way better than half the movies mentioned in this thread. Definately a classic!