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

[Asbestos Bill]

It would be cool if someone took the time to dub Seven Samurai into English for Lucas to enjoy.  Maybe one of the riff groups could put it together.  They could act out the voices and everything.  I would try to do that myself, but it would probably turn out better if done by someone with experience with recording audio tracks to be synced to movies.

That's a neat idea, but I don't know if I personally could resist going off-script...

Any interest in 100 Albums You HAVE TO Listen To? I'll host the goddamn thing.

That would be an interesting one because it would be relatively easy to actually listen to all the entries, I would think. (I mean, you can torrent movies too, but you usually can't watch them while doing other things).

I'd also be down with just continuing this list up to 2-, 3-, 500; whatever. Hopefully we'll get past the obvious choices eventually. And speaking of modern horror, The Cabin in the Woods has to be on the list somewhere—though I suppose as far as horror goes, it's closer to the horror-comedy side of things.

[MontyServo]

Any interest in 100 Albums You HAVE TO Listen To? I'll host the goddamn thing.

Do it!  Do it now!  Although my choices will be pretty eclectic and probably not win any polls at least I can get their names out there.

[Tripe]

It would be cool if someone took the time to dub Seven Samurai into English for Lucas to enjoy.  Maybe one of the riff groups could put it together.  They could act out the voices and everything.  I would try to do that myself, but it would probably turn out better if done by someone with experience with recording audio tracks to be synced to movies.

I'd be up for it.

But seriously, even though I dislike Westerns

That's a shame, Kurosawa loved 'em, which is why some of his most popular films (including 7S) are influenced by them.

[LucasM]

In case anyone is interested, here's an alphabetically-sorted list of all the films submitted that did NOT win.  Though there are quite a few I've seen, I'll be looking up some of the rest from this to add to my list of 'films to see'.

  [Spoilered for length.]
...And Justice For All
101 Dalmations
28 Days Later
A Fish Called Wanda
Akira
Aladdin
All About Eve
Allegro Non Troppo
Amadeus
Annie Hall
Arsenic And Old Lace
As Good As It Gets
Barry Lyndon
Batman (1989)
Battle Royale
Ben-Hur
Better Off Dead
Billy Jack
Brainstorm
Brick
Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid
Casino
Cast Away
Cat People (1942)
Chaplin (1992)
Charade
Children Of Men
Chinatown
Chronicle
City Of God
Conan The Barbarian (1982)
Contact
Cowboy Beebop
Das Boot
Die Hard
Dog Day Afternoon
Dolphin Tale
Drive
Drop Dead Gorgeous
Dumbo
Ed Wood
Enter The Dragon
Eraserhead
Excalibur
Fahrenheit 9/11
Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas
Fish Story
Fletch
For All Mankind
Four Lions
Gattaca
Grave Of The Fireflies
Grease
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)
Hairspray (1998)
Halloween
Harold And Maude
Hearts And Minds
Heathers
Hoop Dreams
Hugo
In Bruges
It Happened One Night
Jubilee
Juno
Key Largo
Kill Bill 1&2
Kind Hearts And Coronets
Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang
Koyaanisqatsi
Kung Fu Hustle
La Guerre Des Tuques
Lost In La Mancha
Magnolia
Man Bites Dog
Man On Wire
Miller's Crossing
Moon
Mr India
My Neighbor Totoro
Nashville
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
Night Of The Hunter
Oldboy
Once
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
Out Of Sight
Phantom Of The Opera (1925)
Picnic At Hanging Rock
Primer
Princess Mononoke
Rashomon
Road House
Sabrina (1954)
Scott Pilgrim Vs The World
Scream
Scrooge (1951)
Shadow Of A Doubt
She Wore A Yellow Ribbon
Sherlock Jr.
Silent Running
Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs
Some Like It Hot
South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut
Spaceballs
Star Trek II: The Wrath Of Khan
Strangers On A Train
Straw Dogs (1971)
The 39 Steps
The Adventures Of Robin Hood
The Apartment
The Artist
The Battle Of Algiers
The Bicycle Thief
The Big Sleep
The Birds
The Burbs
The Caine Mutiny
The Deer Hunter
The Fly (1986)
The Fourth Man
The Gods Must Be Crazy
The Gold Rush
The Graduate
The Host
The Killer (1989)
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
The Mummy (1932)
The Naked Gun
The Night Of The Hunter (1955)
The Quick And The Dead
The Right Stuff
The Room
The Searchers
The Shootist
The Sound Of Music
The Sting
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)
The Thing From Another World
The Tin Drum
The Wild Bunch
Titanic
To Be Or Not To Be (1942)
To Have And Have Not
Tokyo Story
Total Recall
Trainspotting
UHF
Un Chien Andalou ['The Andelusian Dog']
Unforgiven
Victor Victoria
Waiting For Guffman
War Of The Worlds (2005)
What's Up Tiger Lily?
Withnail And I
Yojimbo

[LucasM]

It would be cool if someone took the time to dub Seven Samurai into English for Lucas to enjoy.  Maybe one of the riff groups could put it together.  They could act out the voices and everything.  I would try to do that myself, but it would probably turn out better if done by someone with experience with recording audio tracks to be synced to movies.

I'd be up for it.

Just thought: if there's people who want to do it, but who aren't close together, they could work on it individually (choosing/assigning characters via group PMs/ICQ/whatever, then recording their own lines individually, etc.) then someone proficient with audio software could combine the individual recordings to make the final soundtrack.  That way, people could potentially contribute from around the globe, and it wouldn't require so many people to all be next-door neighbors to get done.

[Tripe]

Yes, like I said, I'd be up for it.

There is a whole community of Voice Actors out there who act in shows avalible on the web and who do exactly that, the editing process just requires a certain set of technical standard to be adhered to in order for the editing process to go a little easier. Now a dub of a film is a little more difficult becasue of matching sound to picture but it's more time consuming than anything else.

[MontyServo]

I don't know that I would be interested in participating in such an endeavor but I would be interested in seeing the finished product.

[Tripe]

Oh and the need for a new fx and BG track for the resultant dubb track (wouldn't be needed if original assets were available and the fx track can be made mostly from existing effects but still it would need to be done).

I actually think it's be a really fun project. 

[Pak-Man]

Let's see how I did:

MY MUST WATCH LIST

4 - Seven Samurai
5 - Deep Throat
6 - Brazil
11 - The Godfather
12 - Raising Arizona
13 - Duck Soup
14 - Dr Strangelove
17 - Apocalypse Now
18 - 12 Angry Men
19 - Blues Brothers
21 - Once Upon A Time In The West
23 - The Third Man
24 - Blazing Saddles
28 - Fight Club
29 - The Bridge On The River Kwai
31 - Goldfinger
32 - Vertigo
34 - Goodfellas
35 - North By Northwest
37 - The Great Escape
41 - Close Encounters Of The Third Kind
43 - Rear Window
44 - The Bride Of Frankenstein
45 - Forbidden Planet
47 - A Clockwork Orange
49 - Network
53 - John Carpenter's The Thing
55 - Metropolis
56 - The Godfather Part II
61 - Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind
62 - Evil Dead II
63 - The African Queen
64 - The Maltese Falcon
65 - Singing In The Rain
73 - The Exorcist
75 - The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly
77 - Patton
78 - Stand By Me
80 - Fitzcarraldo
82 - Le Voyage Dans La Lune
85 - Jason And The Argonauts (1963)
86 - The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
89 - Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
90 - Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf?
93 - Hedwig And The Angry Inch
94 - Charlie Chaplin's The Kid
96 - The Shawshank Redemption
98 - Animal House
99 - Rocky
100 - Boogie Nights
101 - It's A Mad Mad Mad Mad World

I've seen about half of the movies I have to see. A good chunk of the movies from the list I HAVE seen were... sillier movies. I have a hard time commiting myself to movies that are dark or deep. When I spend a couple hours watching a movie, I want it to be fun. It's not that I refuse to see serious or meaningful movies. I just usually need to be talked into it.

That said, there's lots of light and legendary fare on the remaining list I really should get around to. I don't know why I haven't seen Blues Brothers or Duck Soup yet...

[Starman!]

I hate to admit when I haven't seen classic films, but here are the ones I haven't seen.

4 - Seven Samurai (I just rented it though)
5 - Deep Throat (I'm 16, I can't legally buy it yet and I can't use BitTorrent)
16 - 2001: A Space Odyssey
18 - 12 Angry Men
19 - The Blues Brothers
21 - Once Upon A Time In The West
24 - Blazing Saddles
29 - The Bridge On The River Kwai
34 - Goodfellas
41 - Close Encounters Of The Third Kind
44 - The Bride Of Frankenstein
46 - It's A Wonderful Life
59 - Fantasia
61 - Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind
63 - The African Queen
64 - The Maltese Falcon
65 - Singing In The Rain
76 - The Princess Bride
77 - Patton
80 - Fitzcarraldo
86 - The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
89 - Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
90 - Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf?
100 - Boogie Nights

[D.B. Barnes]

Okay, we're doin' albums! Get over there and get your nominations in!

100 Albums to Which You Have to Listen, or All Y'all Need to Hear This!!!

[goflyblind]

[MartyS (Gromit)]

Wrong, wrong, wrong, THIS is an album:

[MartyS (Gromit)]

Now that I'd listen to.  Of course, I don't know why it needs 5 LPs.  Unless those are 78s?

They are 78s.  That's where "albums" came from, for long works you needed a stack of records.

[lassieface]

I get all my music on wax cylinders you guys.