Iconic movies - school me!

[Spearman]

Big Trouble in Little China.

You're welcome.

Beat me to it.

I would add
Kentucky Fried Movie
Animal House
Caddyshack
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Repo Man
Slap Shot
Casablanca
American Graffiti
MASH
Dr. Strangelove
Lonesome Dove (mini-series category)
In the Epic category: any of the 60's war movies with thousands of extras marching around (Battle of Britain, Lawrence of Arabia, Waterloo, War & Peace)
There is overlap with rediscovering Oscar winners and realizing how effin good they were: (LoA, Guns of Navarone, Gone with the Wind, Casablanca,
I've seen every movie listed here so far. Hard to give an Iconic rating. I tend to add extra weighting for quotable lines.

 

[MrsEddieBetts]

Iconic in the colloquial sense. Like, "girl wtf do you mean you haven't watched (insert movie here)?!"

 

[raskolnikov]

Bonus points if you reco movies from the 80s cos I've barely seen any and I'll get major wife points

The Goonies
Witness
Dead Poets Society
Runaway Train
Full Metal Jacket
Rain Man
When Harry Met Sally
Sophie's Choice
The Elephant Man
E.T

 

[Unique Name]

I would say American Beauty falls into the iconic category.

 

[Unique Name]

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) ⭐ 8.3 | Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi

1h 48m | R

www.imdb.com

If you haven't watched Eternal Sunshine you really should add it to your list. One of Jim Carrey and Kate Winslet's best.

 

[kickazz]

The Big Lebowski

If you watch it for the narrative you might not like it much, especially the first time. Not that the story is bad, it's just that it is not about that so much.

But the quotable lines, the music, the vibe of it, very iconic.

 

[kickazz]

I would say American Beauty falls into the iconic category.

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Some people get this move, some don't.

The tagline "Look Closer" helps.

 

[Seeds]

Iconic just means popular right. It doesnt mean its good.

 

[Beerfish]

Oh great..

 

[MrsEddieBetts]

The Big Lebowski

If you watch it for the narrative you might not like it much, especially the first time. Not that the story is bad, it's just that it is not about that so much.

But the quotable lines, the music, the vibe of it, very iconic.

It's already one of our faves!

 

[MrsEddieBetts]

The Goonies
Witness
Dead Poets Society
Runaway Train
Full Metal Jacket
Rain Man
When Harry Met Sally
Sophie's Choice
The Elephant Man
E.T

Ooh thank you! I haven't seen most of these.

 

[Punchy Bassett]

LA Confidential is a must watch

 

[GROTTO]

I've read the options out to the husbando and the ones we've added to our list so far:

The Shawshank Redemption
The Silence of the Lambs
Seven
Gladiator
Heat
Braveheart
Casino
The Green Mile
Goodfellas
Saving Private Ryan
The Silence of the Lambs
Seven
Fatal Attraction
Scarface
Rain Man
Breakfast club

Love your list to begin with. Great selection.

I genuinely believe most if not all of those are iconic movies that you should watch, as opposed to some listed on here that while great/good movies are not iconic.

Very envious, I would love to be watching them for the first time. Just a heads up, some of those are very long movies, Im talking 2.5hrs, some go close to 3hrs.

 

[MrsEddieBetts]

Love your list to begin with. Great selection.

I genuinely believe most if not all of those are iconic movies that you should watch, as opposed to some listed on here that while great/good movies are not iconic.

Very envious, I would love to be watching them for the first time. Just a heads up, some of those are very long movies, Im talking 2.5hrs, some go close to 3hrs.

Goddamn I'm gonna have to start 'em at 5pm so I can go to bed on time lol

Which ones would you say are NOT iconic?

 

[GROTTO]

Goddamn I'm gonna have to start 'em at 5pm so I can go to bed on time lol

Which ones would you say are NOT iconic?

That list of yours that I quoted in my last post, I think all of those are not only iconic but would be liked by the majority in here.

It would be a great start.

 

[Billy ray]

memento?

 

[Beerfish]

memento?

And Ravenous.

 

[Ed_Gein]

If you're ever in the mood for some black and white classics...

Double Indemnity (1949)
Godzilla (1954)
12 Angry Men (1957)
High and Low (1963)

 

[Ed_Gein]

memento?

Great film. Could be a good idea to see how the format of the film is laid out before watching. I got lost trying to follow it when I started watching it, so I looked it up, then went back to it where it made way more sense.

 

[Roobs321]

There were a couple reverse chron films like Memento in the early 00s. e.g. Peppermint Candy, Irreversible, 5x2.

 

[MrsEddieBetts]

memento?

Had to watch that one for year 12 psych

 

[Spearman]

Iconic I think also denotes a bit of 'classic' or memorable in its meaning. It's an icon of its genre or era.

Blazing Saddles (how did I forget this one)
Better Off Dead
High Fidelity
Airheads
The Longest Yard (original Burt Reynolds)
any or all Clint Eastwood westerns
all or any Dirty Harry movies
Blade Runner (original)
Highlander
Life of Brian and Holy Grail

 

[Billy ray]

Cannonball run

 

[MrsEddieBetts]

Crossing one off the list - we watched The Birdcage tonight. SO MUCH FUN. Nathan Lane had me in stitches.

 

[raskolnikov]

Crossing one off the list - we watched The Birdcage tonight. SO MUCH FUN. Nathan Lane had me in stitches.

Arnand: Al, you old son of a bitch! How ya doin'? How do you feel about that call today? I mean the Dolphins! Fourth-and-three play on their 30 yard line with only 34 seconds to go!

Albert: How do you think I feel? Betrayed, bewildered... wrong response?

Actually that's exactly how I feel about Essendon right now.