103 Movies You Have To See or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Poll

[ScottotD]

Heathers

[Tripe]

I did not realize that.

Oh and it also features:



"That's alright (half-)sis, you don't have to pretend to be Guinevere"  #wereIArthur.

[LucasM]

Love this movie. Watching it now.  Probably the only good live-action Arthurian movie (I quite enjoy the Sword in the Stone though too).
EDIT: Only good -serious- Arthurian movie, since there's also Python.

According to the list I keep it seems I haven't seen Excalibur.  Another film added to my NetFlix queue from this thread. 

[goflyblind]

Excalibur!

listen: strange women lying in ponds distributin' swords is no basis for a system of government!

[Starman!]

I love UHF but I don't think it's necessary for everyone to see it.

[Kete]

I don't know what to do with a 6 way tie for second place.

[Tripe]

Let the winner go through, have a two day poll for the ties and make each of the suggesters make a case for why their's should be one of the two to go through.

Or something along those lines.

[Kete]

Poll is complete.  The only winner was:
The Rocky Horror Picture Show

There was a 6 way tie for second, so we'll do a poll with just those.  You get two votes. 

Feel free to make a case!

[ScottotD]

Rocky Horror?  I just don't get musicals I guess

[Tripe]

Have you been to a screening?

[wurwolf]

Quoting a previous post to state Hedwig's case.

I like RD's idea of providing a case for a movie being in the best 100 along with the nomination. Probably a lot of you haven't seen Hedwig and the Angry Inch, but it's a fantastic film. It's about being who you are and finding people who accept you, and about letting go of the bitterness when people about whom you care won't accept you. It's about finding your place in the grand scheme of things and about realizing that you can be better than your circumstances, both good and bad. I first watched this movie at a particularly vulnerable time in my life and it, along with Secretary, spoke volumes to me. And goddammit, I defy anyone to watch "Wig In a Box" and not feel uplifted.

[goflyblind]

My two votes are for sale.

shawshank, or i will cut you.

[Tripe]

My two votes are for sale.

Go vote for Hedwig and, I don't know, I'm do a dramatic reading of something of your choosing (within reason).

[Relaxing Dragon]

My two votes are for sale.

shawshank, or i will cut you.

I like the way this person thinks.

But seriously folks, give Shawshank a go. One of the most life-affirming, well-crafted, enjoyable, and soul-grabbing movies ever made. It works so well it can take things like "looking up in the rain in victory pose" and "Morgan Freeman narration" and make them seem as fresh as ever.

[LucasM]

I'll remake my case for the film here:

Let's go wayyyyy back... and hopefully give the three already nominated for this round a run for their money. 

Charlie Chaplin's "The Kid"

This is possibly one of Chaplin's best films, and may be the first time that a dramedy was filmed (though, thankfully, the word 'dramedy' was coined many years later).  The story of a man's love for his adopted son, and the occasional [] trouble they get into, was Chaplin's first feature length film (68mins), and plunked Jackie Coogan (the 1960's Uncle Fester) into the first 'megastar child' position.

While Chaplin has to have a place somewhere on this list, it took me a bit to decide whether to submit 'The Tramp', 'The Immigrant' or this for voting... I guess it's obvious which I finally decided on.  ['Modern Times' and 'The Great Dictator' were in the running for a bit, as well.]

and here:

Since it didn't make it before, and I don't think this list really can go by without some Chaplin making the final list, I'll renominate:

Charlie Chaplin's "The Kid"

This is quite possibly the most iconic of the 'tramp' films, which were what Chaplin's film-making genius came to world-wide attention with.

I do hope anyone who hadn't seen it before saw it when it was on TCM recently (shortly after I originally nominated it it was going to be on and I drew attention to it 'about-to-be-aired' status there).

To add to those:
Chaplin did so much as an all-around filmmaker to elevate the craft of filmmaking, and the depth of emotions likely to be elicited during a film, with this film as a culmination of what he - on his own - learned about how to make films.  He went on to fine-tune these skills in later films, but this was the first lengthy film in which he managed it, and in which his iconic tramp starred.

[From a psychological standpoint, it was amazing for him to get the depth of caring he did between the tramp and his adoptive son, given his own childhood, and the depth of 'personhood' he gave the child, given the time in which it was made.]