Recently, Will Ferrell and Adam McKay posted a list of 14 movies they think everyone should see before they die on Funny or Die. And they are:
1. Goodfellas
2. Election
3. The Man Who Would Be King
4. Tin Men
5. Cinema Paradiso
6. Nights of Cabiria
7. Airplane!
8. Series 7: The Contenders
9. The Exorcist
10. Mail Order Wife
11. Rear Window
12. The Sound of Music
13. Tron
14. Flirting With Disaster
McKay noted that he made a point of excluding any film that he felt would be on everyone's list, i.e. Jaws, Star Wars, Apocalypse Now,and Goodfellas (though he then felt compelled to make that No. 1 because he watches it before every film he shoots). Ferrell had a very specific purpose in mind for including Tron: "Just watch this to remind yourself that this movie was actually made and that for a brief moment in time there was a Tron ride at Disneyland." Which films make your very personal list? See mine after the jump. Below, the trailer for my Tron…Gymkata.
1. Rocky
2. Singin' in the Rain
3. South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut
4. When Harry Met Sally…
5. Waiting for Guffman
6. Die Hard
7. Bull Durham
8. Apollo 13
9. It's a Wonderful Life
10. Red River
11. The King of Kong
12. L.A. Story
13. Gymkata
14. Up
1.Easy Rider
2.40 Year Old Virgin
3.Stand by Me
4.Mean Streets
5.Bull Durham
6.Little Shop of Horrors
7.Goin South
8.Blazing Saddles
9.Boondock Saints
10.Halloween (original)
11.Naked Gun
12.Airplane
13.An American Werewolf in London
14.Toy Story
15.Dirty Harry
16.Apollo 13
17.Bachelor Party
18.Revenge of the Nerds
19.Ghostbusters
20.Beverly Hills Cop
Tombstone. See it!
Ouch — I know I’m leaving stuff out, but here goes:
1. Dr. Strangelove…
2. Ghandi
3. Cinema Paradiso
4. Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
5. 12 Angry Men
6. Best in Show
7. Bull Durham
8. Babe
9. When Harry Met Sally
10. Rear Window
11. Witness
12. Superman II
13. Lawrence of Arabia
14. The Philadelphia Story
Any relevant list has to include Animal House
1. WALL-E
2. Casablanca
3. It’s a Wonderful Life
4. Moulin Rouge!
5. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
6. Citizen Kane
7. Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring
8. Beauty and the Beast
9. Life of Brian
10. North by Northwest
11. Amelie
12. Bad Education
13. The Sound of Music
14. The Fountain
1. Citizen Kane
2. The Thing
3. Clue
4. Braveheart
5. Wages of Fear
6. Usual Suspects
7. Gremlins
8. Once
9. Dark City
10. Third Man
11. Touch of Evil
12. Superman 2
13. Batman
14. Beetlejuice
1. Citizen Kane
2. LA Confidential
3. Boogie Nights
4. Superman II
5. Clue
6. Thing (1982)
7. Shining
8. One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest
9. Batman
10. Touch of Evil
11. Wages of Fear
12. Wild Strawberries
13. On the Waterfront
14. Beetlejuice
1. Goodfellas
2. Pulp Fiction
3. Animal House
4. Die Hard
5. GodFather Part II
6. Airplane!
7. It’s a Wonderful Life
8. The Last Boy Scout
9. Lord Of The Rings-Return of the King
10. Rain Man
1. Singin’ in the Rain
2. Die Hard
3. Toy Story
4. L.A. Confidential
5. Back to the Future
6. North by Northwest
7. Raiders of the Lost Ark
8. Star Wars
9. When Harry Met Sally
10. The Room (simply has to be seen to be believed)
Crap, I needlessly limited myself to 10 instead of 14 (Read the title of the post, Ceballos.)
11. Raging Bull
12. The 40-Year-Old Virgin
13. Seven
14. Hannah and Her Sisters
1. Ordinary People
2. American Beauty
3. Fight Club
4. Ed Wood
5. Little Miss Sunshine
6. Animal House
7. Resevoiur Dogs
8. 8 1/2
9. Edward Scissorhands
10. Donnie Darko
11. Sweeney Todd
12. Drag Me to Hell
13. Rachel Getting Married
14. The Dark Knight
Honorable Mentions:
Shaun of the Dead, The Lost Boys, A Place in the Sun, Hot Rod, Royal Tennenbaums
1. eternal sunshine of the spotless mind
2. fight club
3. memento
4. the 25th hour
5. almost famous
6. into the wild
7.pans labyrinth
8. manhattan
9. when harry met sally
10. his girl friday
11. fargo
12. kramer vs. kramer
13. ferris buellers day off
14. the squid and the whale
1. It’s A Wonderful Life
2. Almost Famous
3. Moulin Rouge
4. The Shawshank Redemption
5. Wall-E
6. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
7. E.T.
8.Empire Records
9. Say Anything
10. The Sandlot
11. Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
12. Good Will Hunting
13. That Thing you Do
14. The Wedding Singer
thank you for including gymkata!
1. Shawshank Redemption
2. Cinema Paradisio
3. American History X
4. Dead Man Walking
5. What About Bob
6. Midnight Cowboy
7. (Peter Seller’s) Pink Panther
8. Young Frankenstein
9. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
10. Election
11. It’s A Wonderful Life
12. Goodfellas