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Classic must-see films! Your ideas please.

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KBear · 15/01/2006 17:31

My friend and I have decided to make this the year we watch classic movies like Gone with the Wind that we've never seen. We thought of a few but what do you consider to be a classic movie? Old and new.

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emmatom · 15/01/2006 17:32

thelma and louise

shrek (1 and 2)

nanny mcphee

brokeback mountain

titanic

Loobie · 15/01/2006 17:38

Mines are very sad i must warn you!!
Dirty dancing

Top gun

Cocktail

Beaches

Pretty women

satine · 15/01/2006 17:38

citizen Kane - real classic
Cinema Paradiso - wonderful and lots of other films use themes from it
Amelie - not that old, I know, but one of my favourites
Casablanca - great
Rear Window - my favourite Hitchcock movie and Grace Kelly is just luminous in it
This is Spinal Tap - well, goes without saying
It's a wonderful life - if you didn't watch it at Christmas!
Some like it hot - silly but Marilyn is just so great
The Godfather - another classic
Blimey, I could go on all night!

satine · 15/01/2006 17:39

Can you tell I work in a cinema?!

Tinker · 15/01/2006 17:41

Pretty Woman????????????

Meanoldmummy · 15/01/2006 17:41

Brief Encounter
The 39 Steps
The Big Sleep
Marnie
Vertigo
The Pit and the Pendulum
Delicatessen

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KBear · 15/01/2006 17:41

Loobie - those are the films I have watched endlessly all through my 20's!! satine - keep em coming.

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onefootinthegravy · 15/01/2006 17:45

It has to be The Green Mile - have never met anyone that hasnt loved this film - absolutely fab!!

Loobie · 15/01/2006 17:46

Kbear thas me im still in my 20's only just -30 this year,then the twenties will all be gone!!

meggmoo · 15/01/2006 17:49

Some fab ones here
Manon de sources
Gladiator
Breakfast at Tiffany's
Roman holiday
The Pledge
When Harry met Sally
Whithnail and I
Amelie
Betty Blue
Leon
Subway
Pleasantville
To KIll a Mockingbird (sigh)
Singing in the Rain
A Beautiful Mind
Bugsy Malone
Chocolat
Erin Brokovich
As good as it gets
Good Will Hunting
The Untouchables
Charlie & the Choc Factory
Leaving Las Vegas
LA Confidential
Jean De Florette
Just some of my faves
K Pax

Mercy · 15/01/2006 17:53

Satine - I love Rear WIndow too!

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KBear · 15/01/2006 18:02

Loobie - but I watched them when they first came out! I'm 37 ha ha

Used to sit on a Saturday morning all wrapped in a duvet with my hangover for company and watch DD and Top Gun and mull over the night before with the girls!

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satine · 15/01/2006 18:02

Meggmoo - I really liked The Pledge, it was a powerful film and it really stayed with me for ages. Jack Nicholson was so good in it. And I also love Manon de Sources and Jean de Florette. Bladerunner is another quite influential film and it's so atmospheric. I'm not so keen on Breakfast at Tiffany's - sorry to admit that Audrey gets on my nerves, style icon though she certainly is - and the moral side of her job is neatly sidestepped (bit like Pretty Woman!!). I saw a really creepy thriller called The Vanishing the other day - it's a Belgian film (avoid the US remake) and it's truly disturbing. And I do love Moulin Rouge - completely over the top and in your face but I can't get enough of the first twenty minutes - especially in a cinema!

ggglimpopo · 15/01/2006 18:31

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spacedonkey · 15/01/2006 18:36

The Graduate
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
The African Queen
City of God
Etre et Avoir
Terminator (the first one)
My Life as a Dog
Bringing up Baby
All About My Mother
Pulp Fiction
Singing in the Rain
Shawshank (surely everyone has seen that though?!)

Meanoldmummy · 15/01/2006 18:37

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is a blinding film.

Blandmum · 15/01/2006 18:37

The Way to the Stars (40s ww2 film)
Goodby Mr Chips (original Robert Donat version)
Singin' in the Rain
Gone with the Wind
To Kill a Mockingbird
12 Angry Men
Citizen Kane
Imitation of Life (uber weepie!)
Song of Bernadette and the Nuns Story (don't forget your wimple)
Gaslight (the original)
Battle of Britain
When Harry Met Sally
Last Emperor
Usual Suspects
Schindlers List (everyone should see this but possibly only once)

ScummyMummy · 15/01/2006 18:37

Off top of head:
Some like it hot
Kind hearts and Coronets
Cinema Paradiso
Dr Strangelove
Muriel's Wedding
South Park the movie
This is Spinal Tap

Blandmum · 15/01/2006 18:38

Forgot Shawshank and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest but agree 100%

spacedonkey · 15/01/2006 18:38

oh yes, yes, yes - Kind Hearts and Coronets and Cinema Paradiso!

Blandmum · 15/01/2006 18:38

Oh and Kind Hearts!

bundle · 15/01/2006 18:39

ggg - Flirting (I loved it)

Il Postino
Inn of the 6th Happiness (slush but I love it)
It's a Wonderful Life
City of God (but don't - like me - see if when you're pregnant)
Oliver!

spacedonkey · 15/01/2006 18:40

West Side Story
This is Spinal Tap (and Best in Show)

Magnolia
Happiness

spacedonkey · 15/01/2006 18:41

gawd yes, City of God is not for the faint hearted