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Great, Just great…
The Mission (all time favorite, also a thinker movie. Missionaries and slavery in the 1700s)
Empire of the Sun
This is England (being a kid in the 80’s was kinda like this, except without the nazis)
Pan’s Labyrinth (F)
The Watchmen (Superheroes are people too, and some of them are pretty messed up)

Teen Stuff
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (Bueller, Bueller, Bueller?)
Superbad
3 O’Clock High
Breakfast Club (Seminal 80’s movie)
Stand By Me
Clerks
Say Anything (Classic teen movie, watch and tell your parents you saw it. Have a conversation.)

War
Platoon
Saving Private Ryan
Full Metal Jacket
The Beast (rare, Russians are stranded when their behemoth tank breaks down)
The Longest Day (Classic)
Restrepo (D)(Documentary about guys in Afghanistan. Everyone should have to watch this “movie”)
A Bridge Too Far (Classic)
Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (David Bowie great performance)
Mind-benders/Weird/Cool
Memento (One of the best movies of the last 20 years)
Being John Malkovich (trippy)
The Usual Suspects (The line up scene is the best)
Pan’s Labyrinth
Trainspotting (lots of heroin and dead baby crawling on ceiling. Most accurate film about drugs I’ve ever seen)
Burn After Reading
Donnie Darko
Fargo (Wood chipper scene. Nuff said)
Raising Arizona
12 Monkeys
The Razor’s Edge (all time favorite)
Dancing With Bashir (oh yea it’s animated)

The Adventures of Baron Manchausen (Like a children’s book for adults)

Classic Must-Sees
Casablanca (the first really great movie)
Spartacus
The Longest Day
Planet of the Apes (Original, “Get your hands off me you damned dirty ape!”)
Bridge Over the River Kwai (Classic)

Guy Movies (Unless you’ve seen at least 3 of these you’re not a guy)
The Great Escape (Classic)
The Guns of Navarone (Classic)
Spartacus (Classic)
Braveheart
Fight Club (Don’t talk about this movie. Oh yea, and go read Nietzsche)
The Unforgiven
The Dirty Dozen (Classic)

Crime
Pulp Fiction (Brilliant)
The Usual Suspects (the line up scene is the best)
Reservoir Dogs (Mr. Blonde & Mr. Pink)
City of God (F)
Snatch (Brad Pitt at his best)
Public Enemy #1
Chopper(Australian real-life Criminal Bio)
The General (Irish Criminal mastermind Bio)
Goodfellas (new classic)
Heat (DeNiro & Pacino)
Clockers (Realistic crime drama)
In Bruges (thug shoots kid and goes to Bruge instead of Hell, literary)
Sexy Beast(Ben Kingsley played Ghandi, he also played a really scary gangster)
Lock, Stock, & Two Smoking Barrels
Get Carter (original 60’s movie with Michael Caine)
Love, really?
Chasing Amy
Age of Innocence (the only love story I’ve ever believed)
Love Actually (the other only love story I’ve ever believed)
High Fidelity (good movie, even better book)
Lost In Translation

Monster/horror/Scary:
Shaun of the Dead
28 Days Later
Dawn of the Dead (Remake, it’s better than the original)
The Orphanage (F)
The Sixth Sense
The Shining
American Werewolf In London
From Hell
Let the Right One In (Original)
The Others
Night of the Living Dead (Original, ain’t no zombie like an original zombie)