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...)

Here's my list of films I'm on the lookout for right now, might be something on there?:

[ ] Drop Dead Gorgeous
[ ] Stop Making Sense
[ ] Swimming to Cambodia
[ ] The Killing Fields
[ ] Housesitter
[ ] Private Benjamin
[ ] The Boy Who Would be King
[ ] The Man Who Would be King
[ ] Yentl
[ ] The Parole Officer
[ ] Big
[ ] Sneakers
[ ] Round Midnight
[ ] Hear my Song
[ ] Shooting Fish

Napoleon Dynamite
Withnail and I

Both are quirky and funny

And as a random suggestion - The Beast Must Die - it is sort of interactive, as you are asked to try to work out who is the werewolf, then at the end there is a 'werewolf break' where you all say who you think the werewolf is.

Strictly Ballroom for a fun film
Picnic at Hanging Rock for a strange one
Brighton Rock

The Oscar winner from the year of your birth?

Christmas.
..I LOVE The Beast Must Die. All amicus and Hammer Horror films were works of art!

The first Dracula film with Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee would be amazing. As would The Gorgon.

I also watch a lot of films. My hands-down favourite of 2018 was Climax (no, not that sort of film):

"French dancers gather in a remote, empty school building to rehearse on a wintry night. The all-night celebration morphs into a hallucinatory nightmare when they learn their sangria is laced with LSD."

It's in French on Netflix and very good psychological horror, excellent music and some of the best dancing I've ever seen. It's not gruesome as such but quite disturbing – no one has a good time at this party. Well worth a watch, it's very well made by director Gaspar Noé.

Trailer:
Review:
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Yes to private Benjamin

12 Angry Men?

The Italian Job 1969 version with Michael Caine
The Philadelphia Story 1940 Katherine Hepburn, Cary Grant, James Stewart
The Great Escape 1963 - Steve McQueen

Ooh, my suggestions are:

Hot Fuzz
12 Angry Men
White Christmas
Run, fat boy, run
Attack the block
State of Play
Remains of the day
Arthur Christmas
Labyrinth
Salmon fishing in the Yemen

Lion
The Green Mile
Weekend at Bernie's (sorry).

This is so exciting! Where do you live @BadgerBrush? I know 2 tiny affordable cinemas...

The Scent of A Woman - Al Pacino

Border

Climax! Thats quite niche 🤣

Empire Records?

One of my favourite films of the last few years is the French film The Intouchables.

I love Private Benjamin - and Bird on a Wire.

How about
GONE wiyh the wind
The breakfast club
True Romance
Children of Men (fabulous)

Sixty Six. Very funny, very sweet, very British movie about a boy whose bar mitzvah is on the same day as the World Cup final and who plots to stop England making the final.

Or I assume you've seen this as it's a cult classic, but if not, The Room. Has to be seen to be believed...

Some kind of obscure black and white silent movie or horror.

Set yourself a challenge of finding the oldest movie you can.

I love Bride of Frankenstein but bet you have seen it.

Truly, Madly, Deeply - Alan Rickman and Juliet Stephenson
Original black and white French version of The Beauty and the Beast - La Belle et la Bete
The World's Fastest Indian - Anthony Hopkins
Pillow Talk - Doris Day and Rock Hudson
Roman Holiday - Audrey Hepburn and Gregory Peck
Pretty Woman - Richard Gere and Julia Roberts
Die Hard - Bruce Willis and Alan Rickman

DH says, in order of preference:
Brazil
Zulu
Kill List
The Neon Demon

Have you seen My Life As A Dog?

Or:
Before The Devil Knows You’re Dead
Nobody Knows
Happy As Lazzaro
Things To Do In Denver When You’re Dead
Welcome To Collinwood
Somewhere In Time

Ooh, or
Arlington Road
Office Space
The Secret In Their Eyes (original, not remake)

I’m sure you’ve seen La Vie En Rose but if not, watch that - Marion Cotillard is incredible. I’d recommend La Pianiste but only if you have unshockable friends 😂