Films that everyone should see

Titanic: Ultimate love-story. Absolute classic. Based on true story....Pretty famous...

Moulin Rouge: Actually incredibly sad and had me in absolute tears. Very emotional love story with many twists...

Scream Trilogy: Great horror movies of their times. Like today you get the really psycological thrillers but this one should keep you on edge - had me.

Pretty Woman: Again a classic, is a great girls night in movie.

Love Actually: Follows lives of many different people, really sweet and funny christmas movie.
 
Exactly. Just listing films that you like without giving a reason is pointless...

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind to make you treasure the relationships that go sour
Star Wars to show you that your imagination can create new worlRAB
Finding Nemo to show you about letting go but never stopping to care
Schindler's List to remind of evil and to give hope for good
Sleepless in Seattle to help you believe in love
The Big Lebowski to give you comfort that The Dude abides
 
Got a few issues with some of your films... I liked Titanic and Moulin Rouge, and (ignoring the airbrushed view of prostitution) Pretty Woman but wouldn't necessarily say they're essential viewing. I think that some of Meg Ryan's romantic films - When Harry Met Sally, Sleepless in Seattle - are more powerful and moving.

The Scream trilogy? Pretty unnecessarily nasty and brutish at times IMO. If I had to pick a horror film/psychological thriller, there's lots I'd pick before that (Jaws, Alien, The Fog, The Shining, Psycho, The Howling, The Thing, Rosemary's Baby, Omen, Omen II: Damien, Halloween etc)

Love Actually...? Very patchy, with a number of very weak stories within its patchwork (e.g. the brit kid going to America, Martin Freeman's bit, even Hugh Grant's seemed underwritten). Were Four Weddings and Notting Hill not better Richard Curtis films?

Each to their own I guess...
 
Laurel & Hardy/Buster Keaton collection
Gone With The Wind
Citizen Kane
Marlon Brando's early movies
Rebel Without A Cause
The Hustler
Wild Bunch
The Dollars Trilogy
Easy Rider
The Godfather
Dirty Harry
Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Jaws
Superman
Halloween
Empire Strikes Back
Blue Velvet (Actually all of Lynch's work)
Terminator II
Jurassic Park
Toy Story
 
Because the point of the thread was to list films that "EVERYONE SHOULD SEE", which implied they may serve some kind of purpose other than you generally just liking them.

Something like the previous poster has suggested re. war movies, for example. :)
 
Any chance of reasons? Why watch those westerns? Why, say, The Godfather and not Goodfellas? And would you really recommend the piece of self-indulgent arse that was Lynch's Inland Empire?
 
Brando's work because of the level and style of acting which changed movie acting.

Goodfellas is incredible but I decided to pick one Gangster movie and that to me is the perfect gangster epic (only my opinion though).

Easy Rider because in epitomizes the feel of change between cultures in mid America,ithe sixties and the hippy life.

Texas Chainsaw Massacre is a great example of low budget,indie horror film making and how to do it well.

Citizen Kane-probably the best movie ever.

Dirty Harry to me is the quintessential maverick cop movie-cynical,violent,cool.

Superman is the ultimate superhero movie.

RWAC is the perfect example of teen rebellion even if it has aged in many ways.
 
Forest Gump (apparently a sequel is in the works too!)
Blues Brothers
Alien
Aliens
Star Trek - The Wrath of Khan
Toy Story
Scent of a Woman
 
But why pick on my choice and no others?
So your grandparents should see Taxi Driver then? What kind of purpose does your grandparents watching Taxi Driver serve?
Hardly anyone has given any reasons in support of their suggestions. Why should everyone see Amelie, other than that it's a nice film? Why should everyone see The Godfather? In fact, the only person to have given a reason for watching a film is 5th Horseman.
I think Team America is good for exposing the ridiculous side of the "war on terror" and Islamophobia, which is something that's affecting everyone.

My next suggestion is The Delicate Art of Parking. Maybe it's not a valid choice because it might only affect motorists - it might help them to understand and even love traffic wardens! But I think it might also help everyone to tolerate and appreciate other people and the work they do, and give them a laugh as well.
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PS. What's your suggestion, anyway?

PPS. :)
 
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