Essential cult classics you've never seen

It’s not even that gross!

Just maybe two or three scenes...

But honestly, it's totally worth it....

I haven't seen Brazil, and honestly, I feel bad about it.
Every single time, without fail, whenever I actually get a chance to sit down and watch it, something stupid happens.
Maybe I just missed my window, but this film has slipped through my fingers more than a few times now.

Jose Miller3 said:It’s not even that gross!

It isn't exactly disgusting... maybe there's another word for it... but "disgusting" just doesn't fit. Not at all.

Casey Williams9 said:I haven't seen Brazil, and I'm bummed about it.

Hey, me neither! ...And I feel bad too.😢

I haven't even seen those highly controlled trains.

anonymous said:Let's go with A Clockwork Orange. I heard it was pretty gross. And honestly, I don't need that—especially if it involves 🙂

Gross???? Where are you coming from? Sure, there might be some intense scenes or a bit of "extreme violence," but it isn't gross—it's actually quite captivating... besides, Stanley Kubrick is a master at building atmosphere, and he doesn't rely on cheap, revolting special effects just to shock the audience 👍 👍

newcomer said:A new "anthology" for "our generation": IMDB.com's 50 best indie (though what does that even mean?) films.
I've watched 38 from the list. 😉
Honestly, there were a few on here I'd never even heard of. 😕 Also, the order doesn't matter much to me; I'll take them in any sequence. It's just too hard to pick a single absolute favorite, so the ranking itself feels pretty arbitrary. How many of you have actually sat through this list?

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Well, I guess I'm the outlier here. I'll admit it—I'm repenting and feeling the shame—but I have never once seen Terminator. Not one time. Out of all those "essential" classics.
What kind of ridiculous list is this anyway?

Casablanca... everyone reacts exactly like this when I bring it up:😲

Papillon.

Man, seriously, where did my ride go?

I’ve been cursing my luck for a long time now, living in a place where you just can't get your hands on the true cinematic masterpieces of the past. When I talk to my friends out in the rest of the world—you know, people in the USA or Australia... they honestly can't believe that here in America, it's this hard to find things like:

D.W. Griffith's Intolerance; Fritz Lang's Metropolis; Sergei Eisenstein's Battleship Potemkin; Akira Kurosawa's Rashomon or Seven Samurai; Billy Wilder's Sunset Boulevard; John Huston's The Maltese Falcon; Frank Capra's Mr. Smith goes to Washington, D.C.; or even the way they told the story in On the Waterfront...

And that's just a tiny fraction of the list of movies I'm dying to see, but I just don't have the chance. All I can really do is sit around and wait for some TV network I actually watch to finally show mercy and air one of these classics.
It's not exactly making me happy...

newcomer said:So, they've released this new "anthology" supposedly meant for "our generation"... it's just that IMDb list of the 50 best indie films. Though, honestly, what does "indie" even mean anymore? It's such a vague term... everything feels like it's losing its meaning these days. Just one more list...
Just finished number 38 on the List...
I've honestly never even heard of some of the movies on this List... and honestly, I'm looking at the whole thing as one big collection rather than a ranking. It’s just so incredibly hard to pick a single "best" one, so the numbers don't really mean much to me... they're all just great in their own way. How many of these have you guys actually sat down and watched?

I've managed to get through 39 of them so far. There are still quite a few I haven't touched... mostly because they're older classics and I just can't track down a decent copy anywhere (check the post above for details)... like *A Man for All Seasons*. And then there are others that just haven't really made their way to the US market yet... things like *Whale Rider* or *The Sweet Hereafter*... so I'm still waiting...

I haven't actually sat down to watch "The Dark Knight" yet🙂
but considering how many awards it swept up...

"Good" is a relative and deeply personal concept, but...
There are those films you hear about constantly—the ones everyone insists are essential viewing—yet somehow, I still haven't sat down to watch them.

I have yet to see films like Fargo, The Big Lebowski, Citizen Kane, Underground, Lomeči val, the Kill Bill series, or Battleship Potemkin. I am sure more will come to mind. 😁

I would kindly ask everyone to please suggest some relatively well-known films here, if it isn't too much trouble. 😁 Please refrain from bringing up things like Finnish surrealism or similar concepts. 😬

Casey Williams9 said:I haven't seen Brazil yet, and I'm actually quite disappointed about that.
Every single time—honestly, every time I actually get the chance to watch him—something stupid happens and interrupts me.
I probably missed the mark on that one, but I’ve let this film slip past me a few times now.

There is quite a lot of noise being made regarding Brazil...
The film features several truly legendary scenes and performances...
The concept itself is interesting, but the execution feels a bit grating—it’s one of those things where you find yourself just counting down the minutes until it's over. 😁

To get this discussion moving, I’d suggest watching at least a few of these:

1) The Birth of a Nation
2) The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
3) Nosferatu
4) Modern Times
5) Battleship Potemkin
6) M
7) Metropolis
10) The Postman's Carriage
11) City Lights (1931)
12) The Grand Illusion (1937 - French)
13) Fantasia (1940)
14) Citizen Kane (1941)
15) The Maltese Falcon (1941)
16) Casablanca (1942)
17) Double Indemnity (1944)
18) Bicycle Thieves (1948 - Italian)
19) The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
20) Sunset Boulevard (1950)
21) Rashomon (1950 - Japanese)
22) Strangers on a Train (1951)
23) High Noon (1952)
24) The Seven Samurai (1954 - Japanese)
25) Paths of Glory (1957)
26) The Seventh Seal (1957 - Sweden)
28) Vertigo (1958)
29) North by Northwest (1959)
30) The Rope
31) The 400 Blows (1959 - French)
32) Some Like It Hot (1959)
33) Psycho (1960)
34) La Dolce Vita (1962 - Italian)
35) Lawrence of Arabia (1962 - British)
36) 8 1/2 (1963 - Italian)
37) Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to stop Worrying... (1964 - British)
38) Blow-Up (1966 - British/Italian)
39) The Graduate (1967)
40) 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968 - British)
41) The Wild Bunch (1969)
42) Midnight Cowboy (1969)
43) Andrei Rublev
44) Stalker
45) Alphaville
46) Umberto D.
47) Duel
48) Strike
49) Hell in the Pacific
.... and so on.

Without that foundation, any debate feels a bit hollow, I suppose.

Jose Miller3 said:Another 'anthology' for 'our generation': IMDB.com's 50 best independent (though I wonder what that even implies) films.
I managed to catch 38 from the list. 😉
I haven't even heard of some of the titles mentioned here. 😕 Honestly, I don't really care about the order of the list. It’s far too difficult to pick just one "best," so the rankings don't mean much to me. How many of you have actually seen them?

If you want a 'serious' list of legendary directors, check it out here

This list is complete garbage. It misses all the essential classics, and most of the stuff they ranked highly isn't even worth mentioning.

Psycho

khm... Citizen Kane, Casablanca, Gone with the Wind, Apocalypse Now, it'd be...

Out of those, you know, from that top 50 list being discussed here, I've probably seen maybe 18 of them... or perhaps even more, though I'm not entirely sure how they all translate from the English titles...

What is the big deal with Citizen Kane?

Everyone treats it like some holy grail, yet I can't find it anywhere on my streaming services.

newcomer said:A supposed 'anthology' for 'our generation': IMDB.com's top 50 indie (if that even means anything) films.
I've seen 38 of them on this list 😉

I'm at 34.