Recommend 10 great movies please

Here's 1000:

http://www.nytimes.com/ref/movies/1000best.html

Roger Ebert's Great Movies:

http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=REVIEWS08

10 great movies off the top of my head:

Godfather

2001: A Space Odyssey

Aguirre the Wrath of God

M

Metropolis

Walkabout

12 Angry Men

Bicycle Thief (or Bicycle Thieves)

Beauty and the Beast (1946 Cocteau)

Chinatown

I could name more.

I was going to recommend you 10 movies, but no real man gets a vasectomy and thus you are not deserving of my recommendation. No one help this sad excuse for a man.

Godfather 1

Godfather 2

Raging Bull

Aplocalypse Now

French Connection

Patton

Manchurian Candidate (the original)

Cool Hand Luke

The Hustler

On the Waterfron

I would add High Noon, Casablanca, Springtime in Paris and Gone with the Wind to add a litle historical perspective to your list.

VASECTAMY??????

YA MIGHT AS WELL CUT MUH DICK OFF!

real man wrote:

I was going to recommend you 10 movies, but no real man gets a vasectomy and thus you are not deserving of my recommendation. No one help this sad excuse for a man.

Actually I will be balling the socks off of your wife once I heal up. She does not like condoms and since you are doing a poor job of satisfying her a REAL man has to give it to her. I had no idea she was so religious.

I don't really want to knock her up because I like getting the milk for free. You will get suspicious if she finally has some attractive kids. You may be ugly but you can't be that stupid.

3 awesome trilogies (when you have the there is nothing better than watching the whole story straight through)

-the godfather part 1,2 and 3 (I know 3 isn't the greatest but it wraps up the story)

-the lord of the rings trilogy

-the starwars trilogies (episodes 4, 5 and 6)

3 great epics

-Braveheart

-Troy

-Saving private ryan

3 great westerns

-Unforgiven

-Tombstone

-The good the bad and the ugly

3 great dramas

-Legends of the fall

-The wind that shakes the barley

-The departed

some crazy runner guy wrote:

3 awesome trilogies (when you have the there is nothing better than watching the whole story straight through)

-the godfather part 1,2 and 3 (I know 3 isn't the greatest but it wraps up the story)

-the lord of the rings trilogy

-the starwars trilogies (episodes 4, 5 and 6)

3 great epics

-Braveheart

-Troy

-Saving private ryan

3 great westerns

-Unforgiven

-Tombstone

-The good the bad and the ugly

3 great dramas

-Legends of the fall

-The wind that shakes the barley

-The departed

you can't be serious. troy is a terrible movie

Citizen Cane

Bonnie and Clyde

Anything by Malick (Badlands, Days of Heaven, etc.)

The Shining

8 1/2

Lawrence of Arabia

Favorites:

Fight Club

Shawshank Redemption

Almost Famous

Se7en

Pulp Fiction

American History X

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Miracle

The Prestige

Dazed and Confused

Pulp Fiction

True Romance

Bad Santa

Home Alone

The third man

Citizen cane

One flew over the cuckoos nest

Blackhawk down

Apocalypse now

sdffdsf wrote:

Pulp Fiction

True Romance

Bad Santa

Home Alone

Have seen all of these, liked them all. Last two not an option, too much laughter = strain on the junk.

"you got a mouth on you, midget."

-Les Diaboliques

-La Haine

-The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari

-Goodbye Lenin!

-13 Tzameti

-Amélie

-Come and See

-I Vitelloni

-Pusher

-Das Leben der Anderen

I went all foreign, some are really popular, others not so much. If you want some sadness, check out Grave of the Fireflies.

Dan T wrote:

I will be laid up Friday through the weekend. I am going to put the DVD player through a workout and I need some movie recommendations. 10 of your favorites please.

I will also be doing some reading but as runners often think alike I would think I would have similar tastes in movies as the vast majority of you.

The only condition I have for your recommendations is NO COMEDIES. I am getting a vasectomy on Friday and I would rather not laugh too much.

I thank you and my severed vas deferens thank you.

Don't do it sex will never be the same !! Never !!!

not good at all wrote:

some crazy runner guy wrote:

3 awesome trilogies (when you have the there is nothing better than watching the whole story straight through)

-the godfather part 1,2 and 3 (I know 3 isn't the greatest but it wraps up the story)

-the lord of the rings trilogy

-the starwars trilogies (episodes 4, 5 and 6)

3 great epics

-Braveheart

-Troy

-Saving private ryan

3 great westerns

-Unforgiven

-Tombstone

-The good the bad and the ugly

3 great dramas

-Legends of the fall

-The wind that shakes the barley

-The departed

you can't be serious. troy is a terrible movie

Troy rocks!!!

Das Boot is strong, and quite long.

1) Casablanca - the greatest movie ever made

2) Roadhouse - Patrick Swayze as a philosophy professor turned bouncer, need I say more?

3) Hero - fantastic martial arts movie with incredible visuals and an ending so moving you might cry.

4) The Seventh Seal - if you are a disaffected religious person, or are much of an existentialist, you'll think this movie is about you. If not, you may as well skip it.

5) The Big Sleep - Humphrey Bogart in a Howard Hawkes film with a screenplay by William Faulkner.

6) His Girl Friday - 30s screwball comedy, best dialogue ever in a Hollywood movie.

7) The Sound of Music - How DO you solve a problem like Maria?

8) Both Kill Bills - You said you liked Quentin Tarantino, and this is one of his better ones.

9) Jules et Jim - touching French film about two friends in early twentieth century France.

10) Volver - One of Pedro Almodovar's finer efforts, and man is Penelope Cruz ever hot in this one.

Going back a few years and broadening the genre a bit...

North by Northwest - Cary Grant in an Alfred Hitchcock classic

Casablanca - Humphrey Bogart

African Queen - Humphrey Bogart

Charade - Cary Grant

Top Gun - Tom Cruise

Jurassic Park - spectacular visuals and music

Raiders of the Lost Ark

True Lies

and if you like SciFi

Omega Man - Charlton Heston

Alien

Aliens

Predator

The Terminator