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Ian's Remedial Movie-Watching List
IAN'S REMEDIAL MOVIE-WATCHING LIST
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12 Monkeys
Amélie
American Beauty
American History X
American Psycho
Babel
Beverly Hills Cop (first one)
Blood Diamond
Bourne Identity (ignore sequels)
Brick
Casino
Catch Me If You Can
Children of Men
Crash
Cube (1997)
Donnie Darko
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Event Horizon
Fight Club
Forgetting Sarah Marshall
Gattaca
Glengarry Glen Ross (conversation movie, known for Alec Baldwin scene)
Goodfellas
Heat
I, Robot
Idiocracy
Little Miss Sunshine
Magnolia
Memento
No Country For Old Men
Old Boy
Pitch Black
Primer (gets confusing, but that's on purpose -- time travel is confusing)
Punch Drunk Love
Rock'n'rolla
Ronin (known for best car chase scene of all time)
Seven
Shaun of the Dead
Shawshank Redemption
Snatch
Stranger Than Fiction
Super Toopers
Terminator 2
The Bank Job
The Book of Eli
The Departed
The Edge
The Fighter
The Girl Next Door
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (both American and Swedish versions are good)
The Godfather (Parts I and II, not III)
The Grey (knowing ahead of time that it's philosophy, not action)
The Hot Chick (srsly, it's got Anna Feris)
The Hunt for the Red October
The Illusionist
The Island
The Italian Job
The Man from Earth (same caveat as The Grey)
The Matrix (original, not sequels)
The Score
There Will Be Blood
Vanilla Sky
Watchmen (only if you've read the graphic novel, which I can loan you)
Zoolander
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I don't know if you're looking for comments, but I would add (if you haven't seen them, of course):

Nobody's Fool (Paul Newman)
The Prestige
Cinema Paradiso
Amelie
I Love You, Man

:-)

@jemiahlee
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(and "I Love You, Man" is a movie, not a sentiment I'm expressing)

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statico commented May 21, 2013

@jemiahlee — Never saw your comments until just now. Thanks! Amélie definitely belongs, I'll check out the rest.

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