This is a living document.
It’s intern season again…
So we found ourselves compiling a list of must see movies!
Here’s what we came up as a first draft:
- sneakers
- spy game
- blade runner
- pulp fiction/reservoir dogs
- LOTR/hobbit trilogies
- indiana jones trilogy
- star wars (machete order: http://www.nomachetejuggling.com/2011/11/11/the-star-wars-saga-suggested-viewing-order/)
- all star trek movies
- ghostbusters
- caddyshack
- fight club, american beauty, the beach (i maintain these are all basically the same stories retold in different ways)
- pitch black/chronicles of riddick “trilogy”
- rounders
- the way of the gun
- boondock saints
- suicide kings
- usual suspects
- man on fire
- godfather 1 & 2 (skip 3)
- casino
- goodfellas
- carlito’s way
- scarface
- true romance
- good will hunting
- die hard (all)
- heat
- 12 monkies
- shawshank redemption
- inception
- goodfellas
- se7en
- casablanca
- dial m for muder
- rear window (original 1954)
- mr smith goes to washington
- soylent green
- 2001: a space odyssey
- terminator 1 & 2
- robocop
- total recall (original and remake)
- back to the future trilogy
- memento
- dr strangelove
- the shining
- crocodile dundee
- taxi driver
- to kill a mockingbird (original)
- the sting
- the hustler/color of money
- cocktail
- lock, stock, and two smoking barrells/snatch
- swingers/made
- braveheart/gladiator
- the sixth sense
- kill bill
- full metal jacket
- platoon
- the princess bride
- the bourne identity trilogy
- rocky
- toy story
- monsters, inc
- (insert all classic disney movies which i’m sure you’ve seen including charlie and the chocolate factory [original])
- groundhog day
- last of the mohicans
- red
- dangerous liasons (cruel intentions is the “modern” remake)
- hitchhiker’s guide to the galaxy (and then read all the books!)
- black hawk down
- thirteen days
- prometheus, alien, aliens
- wag the dog
- office space
- blazing saddles
- history of the world part 2
- spaceballs
- clerks/dogma
- groundhog day
- there’s something about mary
- dazed and confused
- superbad
- dumb and dumber
- austin powers
- the jerk
- old school
- national lampoons vacation
- zombieland
- american pie
- the hangover
- trading places
- boiler room
- avatar
- ted
- saving private ryan (band of brothers series on hbo is much better tho)
- oceans 11 (nothing beats the original but the remakes are pretty good too)
- blood diamond
- simpsons movie
- slumdog millionaire
- american history x
- happy gilmore/billy madison/black sheep
- edward scissorhands
- friday
- fear and loathing in las vegas
- training day
- james bond (anything with sean connery or roger moore skip the rest)
- hunt for red october
- the rock
- highlander
- time bandits
- bill & ted’s excellent adventure
- forrest gump
- wizard of oz
- it’s a wonderful life
- a christmas story
- jaws
- ET
- army of darkness
- short circuit
- breakfast club
- ferris bueller’s day off
- war games (NOT THE SEQUEL)
- top gun
- goonies
- gremlns
- poltergeist
- beetlejuice
- lost boys
- who framed roger rabbit
- big
- the shining
- coming to america
- karate kid
- predator
- dirty dancing
- roadhouse
- batman
- weird science
- when harry met sally
- boyz n the hood
- schindler’s list
- sandlot (you’re killin me smalls!)
- don’t tell mom the babysitter’s dead
- independence day
- wayne’s world
- a few good men
- days of thunder
- minority report
- parenthood
- a clockwork orange
- close encounters of the third kind
- tombstone
- real genius
- stripes/spies like us
- Joe Versus the Volcano
- dreamcatcher