Seeing as we have a TV Show recommendation thread I thought I'd start one for movies.

List past epics, must sees, current recommendations etc

My list, or collection, includes:

Austin Powers Trilogy, goldfinger kinda sucked though.
Chopper. Best Australia movie ever.
Con Air.
The new Batman movies, Batman Begins and Dark Knight.
Gone In Sixty Seconds. I like N.Cage, deal with it.
Inglorious Basterds.
Pulp Fiction. Director is a genius.
Iron Man. Number 2 is a little meh though.
James Bond. I like every one from Brosman. I grew up with him as Bond so it kinda works. New ones are good although the latest was a bit meh compared to CR.
Star Wars.
Terminator movies.
Boondock Saints movies. Cult hits.
The Bourne Movies.
The Fifth Element.
Lord Of The Rings
True Lies. I love pointless lulzy action movies.
Oceans 11 and 13. I don't like 12, Julia Roberts shouldn't have been in any of the movies.
Serenity.
X-Men.

That's just a few I have in my DVD collection. I know there are massive amount of movies missing that I love that I want to start getting a hold of whilst they are still around.

Share your collections, recommendations, favorites, classics, guilty pleasures.

 

My all time favorite: the Cat City

Also: Airplane,Dracula Dead and loving it and other timeless Leslie Nielsen classics.

 

Old favorites and recent purchases:

The Alien Quadrilogy (Alien, Aliens, Alien 3, Alien: Resurrection)
The Predator films (Predator, Predator 2, Predators - although, the last two are more guilty pleasures than anything)
Star Wars (Because no movie recommendation list is complete without it)
Gladiator
Robin Hood (directed by the guy who did Gladiator, also starring Russel Crowe)
Kingdom of Heaven
Inception (and Nolan's Batman movies as well)
How To Train Your Dragon (I admit it. I'm a sucker for this film.)
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
Dawn of the Dead (both the 70's and 00's ones- the sequels are shite and NEVER HAPPENED.)
Spaceballs
The Rush Hour Trilogy (Jackie Chan 8D)
Shanghai Noon (JACKIE CHAN! 8D)
Rumble in the Bronx (JACKIE CHAN! 8D)
Black Swan
Pirates of the Caribbean Trilogy (although the last two were a bit meh)
Reign of Fire (more dragons! 8D)
Mission Impossible I, II, and III (super guilty pleasures)
Little Nicky (Adam Sandler 8D)
Red
The Jurassic Park Trilogy
Rambo
Indiana Jones Trilogy (and that last one too, I guess...)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
The Sting
The Great Escape
The Sound of Music
Mary Poppins


That's it for now. LotR and the like are already mentioned.

 

Well Murton and Lutris covered most of mine, but I'll extremely second Pulp Fiction, Inglorious Basterds, Serenity and Nolan's Batman movies. Oh, and Inception. Can't beat Inception.

My biggest rec would be Guy Ritchie's Snatch, with Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and RocknRolla following close behind. Reservoir Dogs and the Kill Bills by Tarantino as well. The Social Network, Sunshine, Hot Fuzz, Shaun of the Dead, and a few guilty pleasures like Land of the Dead, Scott Pilgrim Vs The World and Push.

But seriously, Snatch. Fuck yeah Snatch.

EDIT: Oh, I totally forgot Lucky Number Slevin. Killer film. While I'm at it - Unusual Suspects.

EDIT EDIT: I cannot believe I forgot Moon and Fight Club. Seriously, remembering is hard and stuff.

 

Proof that I'm a five year old at heart.

A Muppet Christmas Carol
Anastasia
The Blind Side
Cheaper By the Dozen
Dr. Dolittle (the first one with Eddie Murphy, and the one before that without him)
Ghostbusters (can barely stand to watch the second one)
I, Robot
Ice Age
Independence Day
Jurassic Park
Kung Fu Panda
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
Looney Tunes: Back in Action (terribad, but fun to watch)
The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh
Men and Black I & II
Miracle on 34th Street (both films)
The Mummy (the first two of the reboot, and the ancient black and white film)
Muppet Treasure Island
National Treasure (haven't seen the second one)
Robots
Secondhand Lions
The Secret of Nimh
Shrek
Speed
Stargate (1994)
Twister
The Wizard of Oz
You've Got Mail
Zorro


-and an assortment of Disney, Disney Pixar, other animated stuff I don't remember, Star Wars, Star Trek, Lord of the Rings, X-Men, Spiderman, Superman, Batman, and Pirates of the Caribbean collections.

 

Kill Bill
American History X
Old School (Seems to get better every time)
The Count of Monte Cristo 2002 edition (Massive guilty pleasure, Richard Harris is amazing)
Jurassic Park (The Head Gamekeeper has some amazing one liners)
Gladiator
300
Usual Suspects

Just off the top of my head

 

Movies that weren't mentioned yet:

Lucky Number Slevin
Hot Shots! 1&2
The Naked Gun 1,2&3
Napoleon Dynamite
Law Abiding Citizen
The Butterfly Effect 1,2&3
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Die Hard

And I can't agree more with Mattsilver, Push is ingeniously awesome.

Edit: Every single Lethal Weapon.

 

Neither The Matrix nor V for Vendetta have shown up here yet? DLP, I am disappoint.

That said, stop at The Matrix. Most fans are hit or miss over Reloaded, and Revolutions is some what harsher to swallow.

List additions:
Hellboy, and 2: Golden Army.
Indiana Jones(Raiders, Crusade) only.
The Matrix.
V for Vendetta.

 

Blade Runner (Fucking Amazing)
District 9
Pandorum (Not a lot of people saw this, one of the best sci-fi movies of the last decade)
Heavy Metal (Series of interconnected shorts, some great and some not. Very strange)
Dune (Great Sci-Fi movie, not as good as the book... but when are they ever?)
Brick (Modern detective noir set in a high school, the slang, the pulp, its all there)
Event Horizon (Considered by many to be man's first encounter with The Warp)
The Brothers Bloom (Same director as Brick. Fantastic Con Movie)
The Royal Tenenbaums (Wes Anderson. Fucked up and brilliant)
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (See Above)
The Darjeeling Limited (See Above)
The Fantastic Mr. Fox (Wes Anderson does Roald Dahl)
Running Scared (Dark, gritty, great twists and turns)
Lucky Number Slevin (Peculiar and brilliant)
Suicide Kings (Christopher Walken)
Kelly's Heroes (One of my favorite War Movies)
The Dollars Trilogy (Spaghetti Westerns. Great movies all.)
Unforgiven (One of Eastwood's Best)
Master and Commander: Far Side of the World (Teh Awesome)
Snatch (Guy Ritchie. Just watch it)
Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (See Above)
Trainspotting (Stunningly twisted)
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (I second Lutris on this one)
V For Vendetta (You haven't seen this yet?)
Wonderland (Story of John Holmes and the Wonderland Murders)
The Nines (An odd psychological thrillerish thing)
Total Recall (Arnold at his best)
Metropolis (1927)
Metropolis (animated)
The Ref (No trailer... wow. Denis Leary, Kevin Spacey, Fantastic)
Princess Mononoke (Miyazaki. Story, voice acting, animation, all top notch)
Akira (On a different level)
Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade (AU. Slow, brief moments of intense violence, but worth it.)
The Secret of Nimh (One of my favorite animated movies of all time)
Waking Ned Devine (Irish brilliance)
The Riddick Trilogy (Not for some people, I don't mind Vin Diesel so...)
A Scanner Darkly (Philip K. Dick)
Moon (Shocked this wasn't mentioned yet, also in my top 5 sci-fi movies of the last decade)

I know I'm missing a ton of great ones that have just slipped my mind.

I'll probably end up making a second post a little down the line.

Enjoy.

EDIT: That took a while to do, so if I put down ones previously mentioned, I'm sorry. Good job on the ones below guys, cant believe I forgot them.

The Sting (THE con movie)
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Written by Hunter S. Thompson, Directed by Terry Gilliam, acted in by Johnny Depp. How could that not be good?)
The Usual Suspects (Keyser Söze)
Sunshine (In my top 5 of sci-fi movies of the last decade)

 

And we get this far on a movie rec list without movies like:

-A History of Violence
-Scanners
-Videodrome
-Zodiac
-Good Night And Good Luck (political movie, but easily one of the best ever made)
-2001: A Space Odyssey
-Eyes Wide Shut (just... just see this. It's fucked up)
-The Game (the one with Michael Douglas)
-FIGHT CLUB

So yeah... some of those films are a little more artsy, but I'd easily argue that if you can find them, see them.

EDIT: and I'm amazed after Dr. Strange Lulz posted his massive list, I thought there'd be duplicates... and yet there's not.

 

scarface
full metal jacket
The godfather trilogy (1 & 2 the best)
goodfellas

Not sure how these weren't mentioned yet. I guess I could try to pretend to be classy by saying citizen kane or something...

 

- Paris, J'taime

- Crash

- Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

- Death to Smoochy

- Schindler's List

- Gegen die Wand (Against the Wall)

- Scott Pilgrim vs. The Rest of the World (I know, I know: Michael Cera's a fag. But I like the movie)

- Kick-Ass

- Hot Fuzz

- Super Troopers

- Who Am I? (Fuck you for not mentioning this one, Lutris D8)

- Ong Bak

- The Transporter (guilty pleasure)

- Persepolis

- The Illusionist

- The Prestige

- Ghost in the Machine

- Castle in the Air

- Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland

- Steam Boy

- The Girl Next Door (one of the coolest coming-of-age films, and seriously underrated, imo)

- Memento

- Serendipity (borderline chick flick)

- One Fine Day (certified chick-flick. I don't even care that it works with the ladies, I can watch this movie on my own.)

- The Majestic

 

Mark Kermode=glorious movie critic, I tend to agree with his movie judgments.

 

It's amazing how many favorite movies I have, and if asked I can barely remember a couple of them. These weren't mentioned before either:

Sin City
Beverly Hills Cop 1,2&3
Bad Boys 1&2
Forrest Gump
The Green Mile
Dogma
Constantine
Monthy Python and the Holy Grail
Life of Brian
History of the World: Part I
The Truman Show
The Big Lebowski

 

This could take a week, so I'll just mention some unmentioned must-sees

Saving Private Ryan

Tombstone

The Shawshank Redemption

(1974 version) 3 and 4 Musketeers

Hunt for Red October

13th Warrior

the Beast (small flick about Russian tank crew)

Leon the Professional

la Femme Nikita

From Hell

and, I dunno, there's this bunch of movies adapted from some kids novels that's making a splash... they're pretty good. Special mention, though, for Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

(dammit- forgot a personal fave)
the Iron Giant

 

I don't think I've seen Hero on here yet. One of my faves.

 

To Kill a Mockingbird - best movie ever made. Gregory Peck is the epitome of principled grace. I fucking *love* that movie.

Second the mention of The Iron Giant and the 1927-version of Metropolis. Metropolis doesn't logic doesn't hold up to any semblance of scrutiny, but it's beautifully made and amazing for being from so early in the history of movies.

I could leave a list of about 1000 movies here, but it'd be pointless, really. I agree with many of Dr. Strange Lulz's recs though, but Lutris? You watch a lot of crap, dude. Seriously.

 

[Addendum, the mostly retro edition]

L. A. Confidential

Amadeus

Reservoir Dogs

Desperado

Count of Monte Cristo (recent version)

Das Boot

A Time to Kill

Liar Liar

Casablanca

Arsenic and Old Lace (with Cary Grant)

Mr Smith Goes to Washington

It's a Wonderful Life

A Christmas Story

the Court Jester

Robin Hood (Errol Flynn)

Captain Blood (also, Errol Flynn)

Pirates of Penzance (Angela Lansbury, Kevin Kline)

Silverado

Bull Durham

Field of Dreams

the Right Stuff

Apollo 13

Amelie

Say Anything

Heathers ("my teen angst now has a body count")

Animal House

the Blues Brothers

Rocky (just the first)

Mad Max trilogy

 

Little French movie called High Tension. You can actually watch it on Youtube. Not too shabby.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nrp0WVNdk74

 

In no particular order...

Blade Runner (I've only seen the Director's Cut, so that's the one I'll recommend)
Toy Story trilogy, Up, Ratatouille...hell, most of Pixar, if not all.
The Usual Suspects
L.A. Confidential
The Rocketeer
The Fountain
Gone Baby Gone
A Cock and Bull Story (not porn...)
The Assassination of Jesse James
Pan's Labyrinth
Hellboy 2: The Golden Army (the first is pretty good as well)
Juno
In Bruges
Heat
The Third Man
Blazing Saddles
Young Frankenstein
The Princess Bride
The Prestige
Schindler's List
The Godfather 1+2 (haven't seen 3 yet)
Star Wars (original trilogy, natch)
Amadeus
Adaptation
Back to the Future
Witness
The Last King of Scotland
Sideways
Sliding Doors
Galaxy Quest
The Pink Panther films
Stardust
Time Bandits
Brazil
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
Zombieland

I think that'll do for now. I might edit with more later.