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mug2k
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Hi
I'm gonna put a 500gb HDD in my xbox so I can have a library of must have movies on it. What I want is the classics, the films everybody should have in there collection. What I've come up with so far is :-
LOTR Trilogy
Matrix Trilogy
40 Year Old Virgin
Star Wars (All 6)
300
Sin City
Any suggestions would be great !
Thanks,
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LeoNatan
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| Posted: Thu, 8th Nov 2007 15:30 Post subject: |
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Some epics for you:
Gladiator
Saving Private Ryan
Black Hawk Down
Braveheart
Alexander Revisited Final Cut
Kingdom of Heaven Director's Cut
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chiv
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| Posted: Thu, 8th Nov 2007 15:37 Post subject: |
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face off
fifth element
the rock
anything pixar 
princess bride
terminator 1 and 2 (skip 3)
predator
true lies
total recall
robocop
all absolute must-haves.
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Parallax_
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| Posted: Thu, 8th Nov 2007 15:47 Post subject: |
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I'm gonna introduce you to the "human misery" genre 
- 21 Grams
- 25th Hour
- American History X
- Babel
- Crash
- Hotel Rwanda
- House Of Sand And Fog
- Memento
- Requirem For A Dream
- Traffic
I am sure by now you figure just what this "genre" is about.
Some classics and other movies to consider:
12 Angry Men
12 Monkeys
A Beautiful Mind
A Clockwork Orange
A River Runs Through It
Alien Quadrilogy (fourth sucks, but hey...)
Alive
All The President's Men
American Beauty
Apocalypse Now
Awakenings
Back to the Future Trilogy
Ben-Hur
Big Lebowski
Blade Runner
Blue Velvet
Bourn On The Fourth of July
Bourne Trilogy
Brazil
Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid
Casablanca
Casino
Chinatown
Children of Men
Cidade de Deus
Citizen Kane
City of Lost Children
Close Encounters of The Third Kind
Dark City
Das Boot
Dead Poets Society
Delicatessen
Die Hard Quadrilogy
Dirty Harry
Do The Right Thing
Dog Day Afternoon
Donnie Darko
Dr. Strangelove
Dracula (30s)
Empire of The Sun
Event Horizon
Fargo
Fight Club
Forrest Gump
Frankenstein (30s)
French Connection (+sequel)
Full Metal Jacket
Gladiator
Goodfellas
Heat
Hero
Indiana Jones Trilogy
Infernal Affairs
Interview with the Vampire
Kill Bill
King Kong (30s)
L.A. Confidential
Lawrence of Arabia
Leon
Malcolm X
Mean Streets
Miller's Crossing
Mississippi Burning
Network
Oldboy
On The WaterFront
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
Pi
Pitch black
Primal Fear
Psycho
Pulp Fiction
Raging Bull
Rain Main
Ran
Reservoir Dogs
Rocky
Rumble Fish
Scarface
Schindler's List
Se7en
Serpico
Seven Samurai
Snatch
Solaris (original russian version)
Spartacus
Stalker
Starship Troopers
Taxi Driver
The Abyss
The Breakfast Club
The Bridge on the River Kwai
The Color of Money
The Conversation
The Crow
The Day of The Jackal
The Day The Earth Stood Still
The Deer Hunter
The Dollar Trilogy
The Elephant Man
The English Patient
The Godfather Trilogy
The Great Escape
The Green Mile
The Guns of Navarone
The Insider
The Killing Fields
The Last Emperor
The Mission
The Motorcycle Diaries
The Right Stuff
The Shawshank Redemption
The Shining
The Silence of The Lambs
The Sixth Sense
The Terminator
The Thin Red Line
The Thing
The Untouchables
The Usual Suspects
Time Bandits
Total Recall
Unforgiven
Vertigo
War Games
War of The Worlds (original, not remake crap)
.. and many more (hey, you asked ).
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| Posted: Thu, 8th Nov 2007 15:48 Post subject: |
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Parallax_
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| Posted: Thu, 8th Nov 2007 15:50 Post subject: |
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| Vodka-Redbull wrote: | | Crash and 25th Hour kinda fit in too |
Absolutely, oh, and American History X  |
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chiv
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| Posted: Thu, 8th Nov 2007 15:52 Post subject: |
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well if you want those kinds of misery films, i must say i really really enjoyed hotel rwanda... though id never watch it again, but out of all those tragedy type dramas, that one i enjoyed the most. didnt really like crash that much
and i wasnt gonna say it because people often misunderstand and hate it, but screw you all im gonna fuckin say it
starship troopers.
absolute fucking classic. and no im not kidding, it was an amazing film in every aspect.
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mug2k
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chiv
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| Posted: Thu, 8th Nov 2007 16:22 Post subject: |
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scratch that... just the first pirates movie, and pretend 2 and 3 dont exist.
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| Posted: Thu, 8th Nov 2007 16:24 Post subject: |
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| chiv wrote: | and i wasnt gonna say it because people often misunderstand and hate it, but screw you all im gonna fuckin say it
starship troopers.
absolute fucking classic. and no im not kidding, it was an amazing film in every aspect. |
It had the potential to be a franchise (and not that crappy stv sequel) but I think that the star-cast (except for Michael Ironside) kind of killed it.
My contribution to the list
As Good As It Gets
Pitch Black
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chiv
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| Posted: Thu, 8th Nov 2007 16:29 Post subject: |
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id have much prefered it if it wasnt a franchise, and just stayed as the original.
and realise that the film was satirical, not simply an action or sci fi film.. the cast were primarily chosen to be 'pretty' which was part of it, and everything was meant to be larger than life, which is why the cast was quite good for what was intended... its just a pity people took the film as a serious sci-fi one, which is why they hate the film because it is purposely quite cheesy...
its basically the same kind of satire as robocop (same director afterall), but oh well... you either love it for what it is, or you dont, i guess
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| Posted: Thu, 8th Nov 2007 17:01 Post subject: |
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yup, Spun - one of my favorites. seen it half a dozen times at least
"Only one country can destroy NATO in 40 minutes - it's Russia"
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| Posted: Thu, 8th Nov 2007 17:12 Post subject: |
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Some of my own (Which parallax didn't mention)...
Misery
Mad Max trilogy
Departed
Halloween
Pitch black
Baseketball
The game
independence day
Enemy of the state
The mechanical orange
The merchant of venice
Ronin
(Probably missed many more)
Last edited by oxyeL on Thu, 8th Nov 2007 17:16; edited 1 time in total
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chiv
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| Posted: Thu, 8th Nov 2007 17:21 Post subject: |
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fair nuff.
another thing i gotta say about it... even today, the visuals in that film stack up against the best of em, and thats truely an impressive thing... you cant say that about many films.
just sucks that verhoeven stopped making action films, and went pussy on us after hollowman ended up sucking (but again, visually it is one of the most impressive films ever made) - i want him to come back and make action films... hes one of the few directors that knows how.
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| Posted: Thu, 8th Nov 2007 17:55 Post subject: |
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Resorvoir Dogs
Kill Bill
Grindhouse
From Dusk til Dawn
True Romance
OldBoy
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Mutantius
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| Posted: Thu, 8th Nov 2007 17:58 Post subject: |
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Some horror selections.
Friday the 13th series.
Night of The Living Dead.
Dawn of The Dead.
Day of The Dead.
Nightmare on Elm Street series.
Scream 1,2 & 3.
Hellraiser.
Evil Dead 1,2 & 3.
Dawn of The Dead 2004.
Saw.
Haute Tension.
Hills Have Eyes both the original and the Aje remake!
The Last House on The Left.
The Fly.
Sunshine (tho prolly more Sci-Fi than horror)
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I see some havent mentioned these Kubrick classics,
Clockwork Orange.
Eyes Wide Shut.
2001: A Space Odyssey.
Barry Lyndon.
Lolita.
The Killing (Delived inspiration to Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs)
"Why don't you zip it, Zipfero?" - fraich3
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To that list, add:
American Psycho
Batman Begins
Friday 13th-series, up to #8
Halloween-series, everyone but the third
A Nightmare on Elm Street-series 1, 3, 4 & 7
Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Original and Remake)
Edit: Damn you Mutantius!!!
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Mutantius
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Mutantius
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Cohen
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| Posted: Thu, 8th Nov 2007 18:47 Post subject: |
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Donnie Darko.
Best film ever made
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chiv
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| Posted: Thu, 8th Nov 2007 20:40 Post subject: |
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lots of people are listing 'good' movies, but most of these are hardly must-see's...
eyes wide shut?
scream?
independence day?
come on!...
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deelix
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| Posted: Thu, 8th Nov 2007 22:14 Post subject: |
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The Shawshank Redemption
The Usual suspects
The gods must be crazy (2)
The Matrix
Saving Private Ryan
Crash
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