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Mine:

M (1931)   
The Ox-Bow Incident (1942)
Out of the Past (1947)
The Third Man (1949)
High Noon (1952)
Rio Bravo (1959)
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)
Sleuth (1972)
Fitzcarraldo (1982)
The Thing (1982)

Incendies (2010)
12 Years a Slave (2013)
Memories of Murder (2003)
Dances with Wolves (1990)
The Sound of Music (1965)
The African Queen (1951)
True Grit (1969)
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)
A Star Is Born (1937)

CODA (2021)
The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)
Knives Out (2019)
The Fifth Element (1997)
Blade Runner 2049 (2017)
Parasite (2019)
The Godfather: Part II (1974)
Tombstone (1993)
Goodfellas (1990)
No Country for Old Men (2007)

I am very surprised by your list.  OUT OF THE PAST should top your list because it is the ultimate ROBERT MITCHUM movie.  The only one on your list I haven't seen is : Fitzcarraldo (1982) though, I have seen parts of it but not in the mood for steamy jungle tortured genius movie... that said, the only one on your list I really dislike is HIGH NOON.  I mean, really, TWO bad actors as leads?  Looks only go so far, and I generally dismiss any "acting" either of them had done.  You haven't seen it?  Good for you.  

My list:  

SALO OR, THE 120 DAYS OF SODOM (1975)
SWEPT AWAY (1975)
THE NIGHT PORTER (1974)
LAST TANGO IN PARIS (1972)

I'll have to come back, I know there's others I must see...

I've seen all those films.  I enjoyed all except HIGH NOON, and RIO BRAVO.

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.
American History X.
Midnight Cowboy.
Gone With The Wind.
What Ever Happened To Baby Jane.
Rosemary's Baby.
Citizen Kane.
2001 (I might have seen all of this, but have never sat down and watched it start to end).
Yojimbo.
Blue Velvet.
The Great Dictator.
The Seventh Seal.
Battleship Potemkin.


Oops, just realised I'd went over 10, so I'll stop there.

Welcome To Arrow Beach
Top Gun Maverick
Avengers: Infinity War*
Avengers: Endgame*
CODA*
Nor The Moon By Night (1958 SA made film with Patrick McGoohan)
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* Only partly seen.

However many you've got, you've got a nice list to look forward to.  Of your list I urge you to start with either one of these 2, they both have laughs and cringes and are ALWAYS entertaining just great movies:  

What Ever Happened To Baby Jane
The Great Dictator  

 :thumbup:  A must not see; KEVIN COSTNER's bare arse on the prairie.   :bouncegiggle:  Calif Caucasian wannabe natives. 

I've seen all of these films. GONE WITH THE WIND is overlong soap opera nonsense.
CITIZEN KANE put me to sleep 3 times. 3!
I agree with Hallow's about WHATEVER HAPPENED TO BABY JANE?
It's got Bette Davis and Joan Crawford. In a horror movie!

http://youtu.be/mtJIf9JymXU (http://youtu.be/mtJIf9JymXU)

Knives Out (2019) - Over-rated, frankly what is the point of all that? 
The Fifth Element (1997) - forgettable
Blade Runner 2049 (2017) - looks good and who cares
Parasite (2019) - HAVE NOT SEEN IT
The Godfather: Part II (1974) - If you like the first one, somehow this "sequel" is just as good. 
Tombstone (1993) - yawn
Goodfellas (1990) - shrug; kinda essential how could you miss it (unless intentional)?  I see it all the time on TV... with commercials. 
No Country for Old Men (2007) - What the...?  Unusual in numerous ways.  If you see any, see NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN . 

Yeelen (1987)

Mother India (1957)

Xala (1975)

Spirit of the Beehive (1973)

Dekalog (1988)

Jules et Jim (1962)

Heimat (1985)

A Prophet (2009)

10 (2002)

Manila by Night (1980)

I rarely pick movies because of an actor's involvement. Mitchum is a plus, but I'm more interested in it because it's a noir directed by Jacques Tourneur with an excellent reputation.

I honestly think anyone could do without SALO. It's a curiosity, but I'm pretty sure you will hate it.

I think the people who are putting CODA on their lists can scratch it off, unless you have a particular interest in deaf culture. Very predictable pandering-to-the-audience stuff you've seen a hundred times before.

...on TCM 12am est TONIGHT! 

The Humanoid
Starcrash
Battle Beyond the Stars
Metalstorm: The Destruction of Jared-Syn
The Shape of Things to Come
The Watcher in the Woods
The Ten Commandments (Either version; seen part of the 50’s version, but not all the way through.)
The Man Who Too Much (30’s version)
Super Monster Gamera (Sern part, but not all.)

Oh no... I’ve run out of room. :(

Saw this at least twice at the Drive-in.  Smokin, eatin, drinkin.  Terrible movie;  you're in for a treat.  It has Bull from Night Court...

Watched Baby Jane and enjoyed it. I think Yojimbo will be the next one on my list. I need to be in the right mood these days for silent movies. No idea why that is as I used to love watching them.

I have not seen any of those. Even heard of them.
Except SPIRIT OF THE BEEHIVE. Not seen it. Heard of it. Oh yeah- JULES ET JIM (1962). Never felt the need to watch it.
Never cared for artsy films unless they appealed to my sensibilities. I like Kirby much more than Piccasso.

Interesting thing about Picasso vs. art of the past.

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TL:DR: They likely used mirrors, lenses, and other devices to create great works of art. Modern artists knew this and rebelled.

THE GREAT DICTATOR is not a silent movie.  1940.  It's a spoof of hitler.

Top Gun (I won't see Maverick until I've seen the original)
What Have You Done To Solange (1972)
The Man Who Fell To Earth (original)
Liquid Sky (1982)
Tokyo Olympiad (1964)
Inseminoid (1981)

There are a lot more, but those are off the top of my head.

this thread reminded me of this thread I made a long time ago

https://www.badmovies.org/forum/index.php/topic,144154.msg537404.html#msg537404 (https://www.badmovies.org/forum/index.php/topic,144154.msg537404.html#msg537404)

Priority in my stack:

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)
Heat (1995)
Rosemary's Baby (1968)
Thriller: A Cruel Picture (1973)
Videodrome (1983)
Falling Down (1993)
Brazil (1985)
Double Indemnity (1944)
Coonskin (1974)
Police Story (1985)

CLERKS (1994)
Everyone seems to love this movie. I don't know anything about it except comic book nerd Kevin Smith is in it.
I like old comic books!

The original Top Gun was on TV this Sunday, so I made sure to watch it. So that's one crossed off the list. I was very pleasantly surprised, as I had little idea of the plot apart from the presence of Tom Cruise and Kelly McGillis. What also surprised me was how many lines and turns of phrase from the movie had made it into popular culture, like Val Kilmer scoffing 'bulls33t' into his hand, talking about writing cheques his body can't cash, etc. Seeing a movie of such pupularity from the 80s for the first time was like a wonderful kind of time machine, and I thoroughly enjoyed it. So on to Maverick!

I managed to find the original director's cut of Tokyo Olympiad on the official Olympic website, at over two hours and forty minutes long. The documentary was reportedly cut by the distributor to about 2 hours on first release because it had a more artistic style than the distributors were looking for.

There's plenty I haven't seen, but ones that I've not and people tell me I must:

Casablanca
2001: A Space Odyssey
Gone With the Wind
Dirty Harry
Cleopatra
Casino

There's others I'm sure, but these come to mind right now.

 ^ DIRTY HARRY is the best rouge cop movie ever made.

http://youtu.be/8Xjr2hnOHiM (http://youtu.be/8Xjr2hnOHiM)

I hear it's very good. I've seen parts of it, but not in full. I actually saw one of the sequels not knowing it was a sequel. Dead Pool. Came out in like 86 or something.

 ^ There are a number of sequels! Including-
.MAGNUM FORCE (1973)
. the ENFORCER (1976)
.SUDDEN IMPACT (1981)- "Go ahead. Make my day."
 

CASABLANCA is one of the best Hollywood films of that era: implausible, great setups, great character actors, kind of silly, humorous and speedy.  If you are okay with black and white, it's highly recommended. 

2001 is a great movie that many recommend, forgetting their initial reaction to it: boring.  I love it.  Highly recommended. 

GONE WITH THE WIND is great but long, dated, and a bit corny, these days, not for everyone. 

CLEOPATRA (assume you mean the 1963 LIZ TAYLOR) is high camp, fun to look at, ridiculous. 

CASINO is great.  Violent.  Highly recommended. 

RC has DIRTY HARRY spot on.  Highly recommended. 

Yes. The Liz Taylor one. I've seen clips over the years and recall it being shown on tv a lot as a kid in the 80s/90s but never watched.

If there is a movie that defines ELIZABETH TAYLOR as a bad actor, it's CLEOPATRA.  Silly script.  Great production values, amidst gargantuan waste.  It sux... wonderfully.  Definitely bad.   :thumbup:

I've never seen "E.T.," which I guess is kinda odd for a child of the 80s.

A few others, off the top of my head:

Avatar
Karate Kid (or any of its sequels)
Casablanca
Citizen Kane
Any of the "Bourne" movies
Any "Star Trek" after "II"
Star Wars episodes "II" and "III"
Any "Mission Impossible"  after the first one

AVATAR - you're not missing much, worth a watch in theaters for the spectacle, less so at home
KARATE KID - Enjoyable but not essential
CASABLANCA - already discussed, I would say the best movie on this list by a wide margin
CITIZEN KANE - you'll probably hate it, most people do  :smile: It's a movie of tremendous historical importance for the development of film as an art form.
"Bourne" movies - I've never seen these either
"Episodes II & III - They're an improvement over "I" for sure! If you haven't seen them yet you're obviously not a STAR WARS completist
MISSION IMPOSSIBLE sequels - these are surprisingly good. If you like modern James Bond you will surely like these.

Mission Impossible: Fall Out is IMO the best - there's a stunt in it where Tom Cruise was jumping from one building to another and ended up breaking his ankle. They actually kept the shot in the film!  :buggedout:

My mom might have the DVD. She's got a bunch of older flicks laying around.

Our visitor loves horror films, but has seen hardly any of them. Last night we watched Lost Boys and Beetlejuice, but next I am going to show her The Thing and The Fog. I'll need to come up with an essential watch list for her.

Show her the TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE.  :buggedout:

So far I have The Thing, The Fog, Jaws, Alien and Evil Dead. TCM might be a bit much for her.

I have a story about 2001 which I've told before, but it has been many years, so I'll tell it again.

For most of my life, I had heard of 2001 but never seen it. 2001 was so influential that references and homages even turned up in the later seasons of Inspector Gadget, with a soft spoken ship's computer, and it featured heavily in one of my favourite books, 'Sci Fi Now', that detailed science fiction throughout the 70s. This movie was spoken of with such reverence and fervour that sooner or later, it had to be seen.

One day in the 90s, 2001 was scheduled to screen on TV, which became the perfect opportunity to watch it. Excitedly, I even handwrote an invitation to my brother to a televisual event to take place in the TV room, and I drew a space station and stars in coordination with the mood. We had bowls of chips, and settled in as the movie began to roll.

We didn't get it at all.

It was so slow, nothing really seemed to happen, or if it did it was as a glacial pace. The ending was bizarre and left more question than answers. We looked at each other as if to say, 'WTH did we just watch?'. In fact, we said it aloud, too.

In later years, my brother watched it again and deeply appreciated it. I watched it as well, not quite with the same appreciation, but a lot more than before. So if you plan to eventually see 2001, bear in mind that it is a slow, cerebral movie that will make you think.

I'll just say: a lot of Ingmar Bergman movies . . . plus A Serbian Film.

Start with the second one  :wink:

Ahhh...

1. BLACK DEVIL DOLL FROM HELL (1984)
2. the DEMONS (1973)- Killer nun movie! By Fulci!
3. MEAN STREETS (1973)

http://youtu.be/Y06ZTbPW4uM (http://youtu.be/Y06ZTbPW4uM)

Well, yeah . . . obviously. Siskel and Ebert would have been appalled.

Mean Streets is one of my all-time favorites. Just a bunch of New York street guys hanging around and getting into various predicaments. Most of it takes place in a very cool, dimly lit, 1970s style bar. Keitel and DeNiro are great and there are other familiar faces like David and Robert Carradine lurking around. Plus, the soundtrack is excellent.