What Should Be My 2000th Film?

[BadgerBrush]

So, I'm a big film fan, and I'm coming up to watching my 2000th film (don't ask how I know, I'm sad enough to have kept track).

I'm having some friends over to turn my 2000th film into a bit of an event - we'll watch it on a big projector, eat popcorn and pizza etc. etc, which will be really fun.

The problem is, I don't know what film it should be! It's difficult, because I want it to be a really good film, but how would I know if I haven't seen it yet? I was thinking something epic, like Lawrence of Arabia, but think it'll just bore my friends, so naive something light and entertaining would be better? But it's also got to be worthy if "film 2000" status!

AIBU to ask you all for some recommendations? To give an indication of what I've already watched - I've seen the majority of the IMDb top 250 films (plus 1750 others...)

I thought of more:

Leon
Lion
Marley and Me
How to lose a guy in 10 days

If in doubt, anything with Denzel Washington in it is bound to be good.

More!

The Princess bride
Pans labyrinth
The shape of water
Willow
Dark crystal
All of the terminator films but I like 2 the best.
Rambo films
Police academy films

Session 9
District 9
Chappy
Elysium

I'm just ignoring the light and breezy and am listing all that come to mind that Iv enjoyed of course you can ignore my suggestions.

I might come back with more if I can be arsed!

I don't know if you'd consider a foreign film, but I love 'Ne Le Dis à Personne' (Tell No One) - great French thriller. 'The Secret in Their Eyes' is an excellent Argentinian/ Spanish film - the Hollywood remake was awful though. Irish films may also be a way to go, if you prefer something in English! Michael Collins, The Van, The Snapper, Into the West (my favourite). I'd assume you've seen The Commitments!

I love the Notebook

Rec. Spanish film

If you want something really different but enjoyable, then I LOVED Isle of Dogs by Wes Anderson.

Battle Royale
Sleuth
Red Eye
Westward the Women
In A League of Their Own (probably the one you're most likely to have seen, though!)

If you haven't seen them:

Jules & Jim is a proper classic French film and is wonderful, if your friends don't mind subtitles.

If you all like Australian humour, you can't beat The Castle.

Delicatessen is my favourite film but you may well have seen it, and I wouldn't describe it as 'breezy' (it's a surreal comedy about cannibalism).

What We Do in the Shadows is joint favourite and I don't see how anyone could not love it.

Muriel's wedding

@ALittleBitAlexis LOVEEEE Delicatessen. Cannibalism in a lovely french lighthearted way

Short cuts by Altman
Do the right thing spike lee

Jean de Florette (and Manon des Sources afterwards, obviously)
Harold and Maude ( maybe not one to watch with squeamish friends)
Blue is the warmest colour
La Haine

Lighthearted:
The Intouchables
The Straight Story
Etre et Avoir
Priceless (Audrey Tautou in case there's others)
Limitless
Burnt
A Man Called Ove
Little White Lies
What's in a name?

Flash Gordon.

The Most Fertile Man in Ireland

The African Queen
Paper Moon
The Seven Samurai (the original)
Shirley Valentine
La Cafe aux Folles (the original)
Dr Zhivago
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown

I love Delicatessen too!
Babette's Feast
Snowpiercer

Have you seen Black Cat White Cat?

Its brilliant (8.1 on IMDB) and would absolutely fit the bill for a feel good, quirky & ridiculous movie for a group of friends.

How soon does this event have to be? If you don't mind waiting a few months till its out on dvd (hopefully before xmas) the Downton Abbey movie is out in September 😁

Maybe you should watch one made in the year 2000...just to narrow down your choices, if you can find one you haven't watched!

Pan's Labyrinth
12th man
Terminator
Fifth Element
Jingle all the way.. (yes, in July)
Exorcist
Great Escape
51st state

Failing that..

Sausage Party..

Le Grand Bleu
Smokey and the bandit
Festival Express
Spinal Tap (with commentary if you haven't already seen it!)

One of my favourite films is Love, Honour and Obey. Really good cast - Ray Winstone, Sadie Frost, Kathy Burke, Jude Law, Sean Pertwee, Johnny Lee Miller etc & all the cast of Operation Good Guys - also brilliant. Anyone else seen it - let me know what you thought!!

Another recommendation for All About Eve,
The Third Man, Cabaret.

Dead an loving it.

A bit obscure but light and funny piss take of Dracula

Bound
The last seduction
Secretary

Bubba ho-tep
The haunting (original not crap remake)
Creepshow (original)

Attack the block
Con air
The rock.

Cinema Paradiso? Beautifully emotional and the ending is a glorious tribute to cinema.