Are you movie literate? (1 Viewer)

[KarmaPolice]

I heard about this list listening to a podcast tonight. Thought it was an interesting concept - are there certain movies that you would need to see to be considered to know what the hell you are talking about with movies. I know it is one critic's opinion, but it was an interesting list. Here is the 102 movies that he thinks you need to see to be movie literate:

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How many have you seen, and what do you think of the list? Any glaring omissions that you would think every movie fan needs to watch? Any on the list that just don't make sense?

 

[Flying V]

69, but there's probably ten movies on that list I've never even heard of.

 

[MaxThreshold]

62

Of the ones I had not seen, i have heard of them so they weren't unknown to me.

 

[Insein]

I saw 31.

 

[DaVinci]

42 that I'm sure of. There are only a couple of movies I haven't seen that I would have any interest in.

 

[chauncey]

9

I don't feel bad though because those movies are all old as ####.

 

[AcerFC]

24

 

[Fennis]

55, and a bunch of my missing I have zero interest in seeing

 

[sports_fan]

26

 

[KarmaPolice]

9

I don't feel bad though because those movies are all old as ####.

Hey, there are a few from the 90s

Just like all music lists like this you see - very much focused on the past, so a lot from 50s and 60s here.

 

[sports_fan]

Missing a lot of really good movies. The Shawshank Redemption, The Good, The Bad and the Ugly,12 Angry Men, etc

 

[Dickies]

20

 

[Cliff Clavin]

Pretty sure the title should be "Are you a movie snob".

 

[timschochet]

63 but some of them only because I took a film class (8 1/2, Persona, Blow Up).

I would add a few:

Boogie Nights

Network

Judgment at Nuremberg

Europa Europa

Hoop Dreams

The Last Emperor

Tootsie

Psycho

Marathon Man

Cabaret

Capote

 

[cstu]

I counted 59, but 95% of everything post 1960.

 

[cstu]

Missing a lot of really good movies. The Shawshank Redemption, The Good, The Bad and the Ugly,12 Angry Men, etc

Seriously...all those older movie and that's not on there.

 

[KarmaPolice]

Pretty sure the title should be "Are you a movie snob".

This doesn't mean these are the only movies or types of movies people need to watch.

 

[rockaction]

41. Interesting selection of movies.

 

[Courtjester]

42--there are a bunch I haven't heard of.

 

[AcerFC]

63 but some of them only because I took a film class (8 1/2, Persona, Blow Up).

I would add a few:

Boogie Nights

Network

Judgment at Nuremberg

Europa Europa

Hoop Dreams

The Last Emperor

Tootsie

Psycho

Marathon Man

Cabaret

Capote

psycho was on there

 

[jamny]

44

 

[Ilov80s]

Biggest omissions for me were The Apartment, Raging Bull, Silence of the Lambs and Amadeus. Lots of good ideas there for movies to see though, good post.

Scored 51.

 

[Binky The Doormat]

65 - haven't seen most all of the old ones.

 

[Fennis]

Missing a lot of really good movies. The Shawshank Redemption, The Good, The Bad and the Ugly,12 Angry Men, etc

12 angry men should definitely be on the list.

 

[cstu]

Any on the list that just don't make sense?

A Hard Day's Night.

Great band, enjoyable movie, but doesn't belong on this list.

 

[Eephus]

84 but I'm old.

It's a pretty standard list of film school classics with a few curve balls thrown in to keep it from being too generic. The one howler for me is the 70s Streisand version of A Star is Born. I didn't stick around for the finish (so it's not on my list of 84) but what I did see was a lot worse than both the 1930s and 1950s versions of the same story.

 

[krista4]

I've seen 82, but there were 3-4 I hadn't heard of. The befuddling one to me is A Star is Born.

 

[krista4]

84 but I'm old.

It's a pretty standard list of film school classics with a few curve balls thrown in to keep it from being too generic. The one howler for me is the 70s Streisand version of A Star is Born. I didn't stick around for the finish (so it's not on my list of 84) but what I did see was a lot worse than both the 1930s and 1950s versions of the same story.

I was counting my list while you typed this, I guess. I saw you were the other person with 81-90 and I thought it's because we're old.

 

[GregR]

37. Probably another 10 I've seen a lot of, turning it on partway through. But never watched from the beginning.

 

[Eephus]

84 but I'm old.

It's a pretty standard list of film school classics with a few curve balls thrown in to keep it from being too generic. The one howler for me is the 70s Streisand version of A Star is Born. I didn't stick around for the finish (so it's not on my list of 84) but what I did see was a lot worse than both the 1930s and 1950s versions of the same story.

I was counting my list while you typed this, I guess. I saw you were the other person with 81-90 and I thought it's because we're old.

It this had been somebody's list of the 102 top movies made since 2000, I would probably have one of the lowest scores on this board.

 

[KarmaPolice]

84 but I'm old.

It's a pretty standard list of film school classics with a few curve balls thrown in to keep it from being too generic. The one howler for me is the 70s Streisand version of A Star is Born. I didn't stick around for the finish (so it's not on my list of 84) but what I did see was a lot worse than both the 1930s and 1950s versions of the same story.

I was counting my list while you typed this, I guess. I saw you were the other person with 81-90 and I thought it's because we're old.

It this had been somebody's list of the 102 top movies made since 2000, I would probably have one of the lowest scores on this board.

HERE

is The AV Club's list of the best 100 movies of the decade so far.

 

[sports_fan]

84 but I'm old.

It's a pretty standard list of film school classics with a few curve balls thrown in to keep it from being too generic. The one howler for me is the 70s Streisand version of A Star is Born. I didn't stick around for the finish (so it's not on my list of 84) but what I did see was a lot worse than both the 1930s and 1950s versions of the same story.

I was counting my list while you typed this, I guess. I saw you were the other person with 81-90 and I thought it's because we're old.

It this had been somebody's list of the 102 top movies made since 2000, I would probably have one of the lowest scores on this board.

HERE

is The AV Club's list of the best 100 movies of the decade so far.

21

I don't watch as many movies as I thought. I haven't heard around half of that list.

 

[Snoopy]

9

I don't feel bad though because those movies are all old as ####.

8

 

[Ilov80s]

84 but I'm old.

It's a pretty standard list of film school classics with a few curve balls thrown in to keep it from being too generic. The one howler for me is the 70s Streisand version of A Star is Born. I didn't stick around for the finish (so it's not on my list of 84) but what I did see was a lot worse than both the 1930s and 1950s versions of the same story.

I was counting my list while you typed this, I guess. I saw you were the other person with 81-90 and I thought it's because we're old.

It this had been somebody's list of the 102 top movies made since 2000, I would probably have one of the lowest scores on this board.

HERE

is The AV Club's list of the best 100 movies of the decade so far.

21I don't watch as many movies as I thought. I haven't heard around half of that list.

8...tough to score lower than that, lol. I just don't watch many movies anymore, much more into reading, music, TV.

 

[rockaction]

84 but I'm old.

It's a pretty standard list of film school classics with a few curve balls thrown in to keep it from being too generic. The one howler for me is the 70s Streisand version of A Star is Born. I didn't stick around for the finish (so it's not on my list of 84) but what I did see was a lot worse than both the 1930s and 1950s versions of the same story.

I was counting my list while you typed this, I guess. I saw you were the other person with 81-90 and I thought it's because we're old.

It this had been somebody's list of the 102 top movies made since 2000, I would probably have one of the lowest scores on this board.

HERE

is The AV Club's list of the best 100 movies of the decade so far.

21I don't watch as many movies as I thought. I haven't heard around half of that list.

8...tough to score lower than that, lol. I just don't watch many movies anymore, much more into reading, music, TV.

Jeez. 15. We need to do an eighties/nineties list. Those strike me as very AV Club-centric. Nobody but the AV Club really loved the Color Wheel. Believe me, I saw it. Tough movie to love.

I do desperately want to see Frances Ha, but it's a ##### to get digital access to.

 

[Insomniac]

79

 

[Mister CIA]

25 I've watch completely. If you count movie I fell asleep while watching that number increases to about 50.

I'll always be deficient with the 80s catalog. Did not care for movies all that much back then, and now I won't watch them because they've aged so terribly.

 

[krista4]

84 but I'm old.

It's a pretty standard list of film school classics with a few curve balls thrown in to keep it from being too generic. The one howler for me is the 70s Streisand version of A Star is Born. I didn't stick around for the finish (so it's not on my list of 84) but what I did see was a lot worse than both the 1930s and 1950s versions of the same story.

I was counting my list while you typed this, I guess. I saw you were the other person with 81-90 and I thought it's because we're old.

It this had been somebody's list of the 102 top movies made since 2000, I would probably have one of the lowest scores on this board.

HERE

is The AV Club's list of the best 100 movies of the decade so far.

21

I don't watch as many movies as I thought. I haven't heard around half of that list.

21

 

[KarmaPolice]

84 but I'm old.

It's a pretty standard list of film school classics with a few curve balls thrown in to keep it from being too generic. The one howler for me is the 70s Streisand version of A Star is Born. I didn't stick around for the finish (so it's not on my list of 84) but what I did see was a lot worse than both the 1930s and 1950s versions of the same story.

I was counting my list while you typed this, I guess. I saw you were the other person with 81-90 and I thought it's because we're old.

It this had been somebody's list of the 102 top movies made since 2000, I would probably have one of the lowest scores on this board.

HERE

is The AV Club's list of the best 100 movies of the decade so far.

21I don't watch as many movies as I thought. I haven't heard around half of that list.

8...tough to score lower than that, lol. I just don't watch many movies anymore, much more into reading, music, TV.

Jeez. 15. We need to do an eighties/nineties list. Those strike me as very AV Club-centric. Nobody but the AV Club really loved the Color Wheel. Believe me, I saw it. Tough movie to love.

I do desperately want to see Frances Ha, but it's a ##### to get digital access to.

Very sadly, I got the same score for both - 54. They were digging deep with the AV Club list, and there were a dozen+ I had never of.

 

[Ilov80s]

I think some on the AV were just foreign. Oddly, I had seen Holy Motors and it a French film...extremely bizarre as well.

 

[KarmaPolice]

Off topic with the different lists, but

HERE

is AV Club's best of the 90s.

 

[sports_fan]

Top 100 K-Dramas

 

[rockaction]

Off topic with the different lists, but

HERE

is AV Club's best of the 90s.

36/50. Not too bad. Thanks for all these links, by the way. Neat stuff.

 

[Eephus]

Now I'm totally confused but I'm old

 

[KarmaPolice]

Top 100 K-Dramas

Rooftop Prince looks amazing.

 

[chauncey]

First list: 9

Top 100 this decade: 10

Top 50 of the 90's: 20

 

[Apple Jack]

42

 

[chauncey]

Top 75 Most Popular Films 1980-1995: 59

Apparently I watch movies, just not "quality" movies.

 

[eoMMan]

Pretty sure the title should be "Are you a movie snob".

 

[BobbyLayne]

73