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How many films on the "1001 Movies to See Before You Die" list have you seen?

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So this is a list of films to see before you die and so far, after 2.5 years of using the list and starting at roughly 20-30 films, I've seen... 187 out of 1099 (that's including every film that's been on the list).

How many of these have you seen?

Which ones should have been on the list?

And which ones would you recommend I watch that are also on instant Netflix?

 

Hope this sparks good discussion - here's the ones I've seen!

    [*]Sherlock, Jr. (1924) [*]The Gold Rush (1925) [*]The General (1926) [*]Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928) [*]City Lights (1931) [*]Dracula (1931) [*]Frankenstein (1931) [*]The Public Enemy (1931) [*]Duck Soup (1933) [*]King Kong (1933) [*]It Happened One Night (1934) [*]The Thin Man (1934) [*]The 39 Steps (1935) [*]Bride of Frankenstein (1935) [*]Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936) [*]Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) [*]The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) [*]Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) [*]The Wizard of Oz (1939) [*]His Girl Friday (1940) [*]The Philadelphia Story (1940) [*]Pinocchio (1940) [*]Dumbo (1941) [*]The Maltese Falcon (1941) [*]Sergeant York (1941) [*]Sullivan’s Travels (1941) [*]The Wolf-Man (1941) [*]To Be or Not to Be (1942) [*]Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942) [*]Casablanca (1943) [*]Double Indemnity (1944) [*]To Have and Have Not (1944) [*]Meet Me in St. Louis (1944) [*]The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) [*]Gilda (1946) [*]It’s a Wonderful Life (1946) [*]Great Expectations (1947) [*]The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) [*]The Bicycle Thief (1949) [*]A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) [*]The African Queen (1951) [*]The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) [*]High Noon (1952) [*]Singin’ in the Rain (1952) [*]Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953) [*]On the Waterfront (1954) [*]Rear Window (1954) [*]Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954) [*]Marty (1955) [*]The Night of the Hunter (1955) [*]Rebel Without a Cause (1955) [*]Forbidden Planet (1956) [*]The Ten Commandments (1956) [*]12 Angry Men (1957) [*]Ben-Hur (1959) [*]Some Like it Hot (1959) [*]Psycho (1960) [*]Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961) [*]To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) [*]The Manchurian Candidate (1962) [*]The Birds (1963) [*]The Nutty Professor (1963) [*]Dr. Strangelove (1964) [*]Goldfinger (1964) [*]A Hard Day’s Night (1964) [*]The Masque of the Red Death (1964) [*]The Sound of Music (1965) [*]The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1966) [*]Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966) [*]The Graduate (1967) [*]The Jungle Book (1967) [*]Night of the Living Dead (1968) [*]Planet of the Apes (1968) [*]Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) [*]Patton (1970) [*]Dirty Harry (1971) [*]Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971) [*]Deliverance (1972) [*]High Plains Drifter (1972) [*]The Godfather (1972) [*]American Graffiti (1973) [*]Badlands (1973) [*]The Exorcist (1973) [*]Serpico (1973) [*]Chinatown (1974) [*]Young Frankenstein (1974) [*]Jaws (1975) [*]One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975) [*]All the President’s Men (1976) [*]Carrie (1976) [*]Network (1976) [*]The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976) [*]Rocky (1976) [*]Annie Hall (1977) [*]Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) [*]Star Wars (1977) [*]Grease (1978) [*]Alien (1979) [*]Being There (1979) [*]Breaking Away (1979) [*]The Jerk (1979) [*]Kramer vs. Kramer (1979) [*]Mad Max (1979) [*]The Muppet Movie (1979) [*]Airplane! (1980) [*]The Shining (1980) [*]Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back (1980) [*]On Golden Pond (1981) [*]Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) [*]E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (1982) [*]Poltergeist (1982) [*]A Christmas Story (1983) [*]Scarface (1983) [*]Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi (1983) [*]Beverly Hills Cop (1984) [*]Ghostbusters (1984) [*]The Natural (1984) [*]The Terminator (1984) [*]Back to the Future (1985) [*]The Breakfast Club (1985) [*]The Color Purple (1985) [*]Aliens (1986) [*]The Fly (1986) [*]Platoon (1986) [*]Stand by Me (1986) [*]Top Gun (1986) [*]Fatal Attraction (1987) [*]Moonstruck (1987) [*]The Princess Bride (1987) [*]The Untouchables (1987) [*]Big (1988) [*]Bull Durham (1988) [*]Die Hard (1988) [*]The Naked Gun (1988) [*]Rain Man (1988) [*]Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) [*]Batman (1989) [*]Glory (1989) [*]Say Anything (1989) [*]When Harry Met Sally (1989) [*]Edward Scissorhands (1990) [*]Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) [*]Groundhog Day (1993) [*]Jurassic Park (1993) [*]Schindler’s List (1993) [*]Forrest Gump (1994) [*]The Lion King (1994) [*]The Shawshank Redemption (1994) [*]Babe (1995) [*]Braveheart (1995) [*]Clueless (1995) [*]Toy Story (1995) [*]The Usual Suspects (1995) [*]Independence Day (1996) [*]Scream (1996) [*]Titanic (1997) [*]Saving Private Ryan (1998) [*]There’s Something About Mary (1998) [*]The Matrix (1999) [*]The Sixth Sense (1999) [*]Gladiator (2000) [*]Meet the Parents (2000) [*]The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) [*]Chicago (2002) [*]The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) [*]The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) [*]The Aviator (2004) [*]Collateral (2004) [*]The Passion of the Christ (2004) [*]The Bourne Ultimatum (2007) [*]Paranormal Activity (2007) [*]The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008) [*]The Dark Knight (2008) [*]Slumdog Millionaire (2008) [*]WALL-E (2008) [*]Avatar (2009) [*]District 9 (2009) [*]The Hurt Locker (2009) [*]Inglorious Basterds (2009) [*]Inception (2010) [*]The King’s Speech (2010) [*]The Social Network (2010) [*]True Grit (2010) [*]The Artist (2011) [*]The Descendants (2011) [*]Hugo (2011) [*]War Horse (2011)

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Some of my favorites that weren't on your list are:Pulp FictionApocalypse NowThe Marriage of Maria BraunBlack SwanWest Side StoryThere Will Be Blood

I definitely have been meaning to watch Pulp Fiction, Apocalypse Now, and West Side Story! Good thing AN is on instant Netflix. Black Swan and There Will Be Blood are on cable quite a bit but I should probably just put em in my queue.Can't say I've heard of The Marriage of Maria Braun though... I'll have to look that one up!
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I definitely have been meaning to watch Pulp Fiction, Apocalypse Now, and West Side Story! Good thing AN is on instant Netflix. Black Swan and There Will Be Blood are on cable quite a bit but I should probably just put em in my queue.Can't say I've heard of The Marriage of Maria Braun though... I'll have to look that one up!

 

It's a German movie by a guy named Fassbinder that I watched in my intro film class. I expected it to be dull but I was blown away. It's definitely not for everyone though, since there are big chunks where not much happens plot-wise.

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It's a German movie by a guy named Fassbinder that I watched in my intro film class. I expected it to be dull but I was blown away. It's definitely not for everyone though, since there are big chunks where not much happens plot-wise.

Ok, gonna put it in my Netflix queue! I've only watched 1 foreign film (Bicycle Thief) but I've been wanting to broaden my horizons film-wise. I'm gonna give it a chance.Any films I listed that you haven't seen?
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Ok, gonna put it in my Netflix queue! I've only watched 1 foreign film (Bicycle Thief) but I've been wanting to broaden my horizons film-wise. I'm gonna give it a chance.Any films I listed that you haven't seen?

 

A lot, unfortunately. Almost half. Most of the pre-1960 films, for starters. I'm taking Film History from 1925-65 in the fall, though, so hopefully I can see some more older films.

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A lot, unfortunately. Almost half. Most of the pre-1960 films, for starters. I'm taking Film History from 1925-65 in the fall, though, so hopefully I can see some more older films.

Yeah a lot of them are really short though - Duck Soup, Frankenstein, Dracula, and those Buster Keaton films are all 60-70 minutes tops. And I'd say Frank Capra, John Ford, Hitchcock, William Wyler, and Michael Curtiz are five directors to follow from Old Hollywood. Good luck with watching the classics!
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