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
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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
1.American Beauty
2.Unforgiven
3.The Producers (Original non-Musical)
4.Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
5.Gone With The Wind
6.The Naked Gun
7.The Searchers
8.Million Dollar Baby
9.A Few Good Men
10.Gettysburg
11.The Godfather
12.Taxi Driver
13.L.A. Without a Map
14.Blazing Saddles
Darn it!! I forgot 2 of my favorites!
They would be within the top 19
Ordinary People
Kramer vs Kramer
1. Clue
2. Sleepy Hollow
3. Breathless
4. In Bruges
5. Psycho
6. Some Like It Hot
7. The Departed
8. Four Weddings and a Funeral
9. The Royal Tenenbaums
10. Moulin Rouge!
11. The Sound of Music
12. Ferris Bueller’s Day off
13. Titanic
14. Lord of the Rings Trilogy (I’m counting this as one.)
I only put one movie, because it’s the only film that matters (at least to me).
1. The Dark Knight
2. Pulp Fiction
3. Wall-E
4. Training Day
5. Independence Day
6. Dirty Harry
7. Toy Story
8. Die Hard
9. Die Hard With a Vengeance
10. The Prestige
11. Half Baked
12. Office Space
13. The Wrestler
and last but not least…
14. The original 1980’s cartoon Transformers movie
1. Dodsworth
2. The Lady Eve
3. The Apartment
4. Best Years of Our Lives
5. Random Harvest
6. The Third Man
7. North by Northwest
8. A Letter to Three Wives
9. Seven Samurai
10. Virdiana
11. 400 Blows
12. Pat and Mike
13. The Philadelphia Story
14. Shadow of a Doubt
1) Gone With the Wind
X2
2) Some Like it Hot
3) A League of Their Own
4) Beauty and the Beast
5) The American President
6) The Orphanage
7) Anchorman
9) Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
10) Godfather
11) A Few Good Men
12) Moulin Rouge
13) Forrest Gump
14) Shawshank Redemption
1. Pulp Fiction
2. Hoop Dreams
3. Shawshank Redemption
4. The Usual Suspects
5. Top Gun
6. The Sandlot
7. American History X
8. Spellbound
9. October Sky
10. Field of Dreams
11. Star Wars
12. Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
13. ET
14. Good Will Hunting
1. The Empire Strikes Back
2. Goodfellas
3. Up
4. 40 Year Old Virgin
5. Best in Show
6. Anchorman
7. Dark Knight
8. Spiderman II
9. Boogie Nights
10. Step Brothers
11. The Godfather II
12. Pulp Fiction
13. Saving Private Ryan
14. The Wild Bunch
1. Memento
2. The Usual Suspects
3. Fight Club
4. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
5. The Goonies
6. The Lost Boys
7. The Fountain
8. Menace II Society
9. The Last Unicorn
10. Back to the Future
11. A.I.
12. Dogma
13. The Wedding Singer
14. Pocahontas
1. Holiday (1938)
2. Lord of the Rings trilogy
3. Wizard of Oz
4. Singin’ in the Rain
5. Gone w/ the Wind
6. Rear Window
7. The Awful Truth
8. Die Hard
9. Wall-E
10. It’s a Wonderful Life
11. State Fair
12. Gaslight
13. Day the Earth Stood Still
14. Notorious/To Catch a Thief (can’t decide)
(Just because these are in numerical order, doesn’t mean I put them in an order from top to bottom–they all should be seen)
1) The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King
Schindler’s List
2) The Shawshank Redemption
3) It’s a Wonderful Life
4) The Wizard of Oz
5) Star Wars
6) Amadeus
7) Amelie
9) The Elephant Man
10) Glory
11) Ben-Hur
12) The Sound of Music
13) Raiders of the Lost Ark
14) Sense and Sensibility
I don’t care if some of these movies are mega-hits, they’re still on my list!
Wow, it hurts me that I omitted Shawshank. Replace Lawrence of Arabia (Sorry, Peter)with that one.
In no particular order …
1. Sunshine (directed by Danny Boyle)
2. Dances with Wolves
3. Boondock Saints
4. Titanic
5. V for Vendetta
6. The Dark Knight
7. The Painted Veil
8. Magnolia
9. Cars
10. Gone with the Wind
11. Last of the Mohicans
12. Life as a House
13. Schindler’s List
14. The Lord of the Rings (Trilogy)
1. Magnolia
2. Memento
3. Up
4. Mysterious Skin
5. Shortbus
6. Hedwig and the angry inch
7. Stranger than fiction
8. Choke
9. Gran Torino
10. The Wrestler
11. Arthur
12. The Brown Bunny
13. Midnight Run
14. The Devil’s rejects
15. One Flew Over the Cukoos nest