So I am in college taking up digital media production and one day I would like to write and be a director of various projects.
I feel like I should step up my movie buff ness a bit.
There are plenty of older movies I would like to watch. In talking cult classics I need to see.
(Can’t think of everything but) I’ve seen die hard, terminator, Friday, x men, gonnies, candy man 1992 (I’ve also seen a good amount of studio ghibli films) etc. It doesn’t matter the genre, movie’s in general I just want to see so I’m up to date on culture.
It just feels like every passing year, people younger than me even don’t know certain things about culture, people born in 2005 and up specifically.
So I would like to learn more about movie culture and which film’s to watch if I haven’t already. It’s crazy because sometimes when I’m done watching something really good like a classic movie, I yearn to find something even better.
It’s weird how my brain works now, I don’t care to watch anything new on Netflix for example. I haven’t seen squid game, or stranger things, or any of the new classics like teen wolf or game of thrones. I just didn’t grow up on that particularly either.
TL,DR
So are there any movies as a movie buff and digital media student I should definitely watch? Open to many suggestions lol
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The Professional(also called Leon), Seven, The Game, Fight Club, Pulp Fiction, True Romance, The Rock, Con Air, Face Off, Arlington Road, Kingpin, Ed Wood, The Fifth Element, Goodfellas, The Godfather, Bring Out the Dead, Heat, Last of the Mohicans, Raising Arizona, Fargo, Speed, Cape Fear, Strange Days, Quiz Show, Schindler’s List, Royal Tennebaums , People vs Larry Flint, LA Confidential, The Usual Suspects to name a few.
If you want to dig into a really broad range of good movies, I recommend looking at the American Film Institute’s [lists](https://www.afi.com/afi-lists/). The lists are focused on American films, but they go back to the beginning of American film history in the 1920s, and represent the best of the best.
These are some of my favorites. Not sure they count as essential.
Blade Runner (1982), The Princess Bride, The Blues Brothers, Monty Python & the Search for the Holy Grail, The Godfather, The Chronicles of Riddick, Solaris (2002), Ronin, O Brother Where Art Thou?, The Shining, The Evil Dead, The Mummy (starring Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz), Reservoir Dogs, Unbreakable, Raising Arizona, Koyaanisqatsi, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Fire Walk with Me, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Wild at Heart, Tampopo, Excalibur, The Sixth Sense, Big, Brazil (1985), Forrest Gump, Spinal Tap, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, Adaptation, Jean de Florette, Das Boot (1981), Eraserhead, Amélie, Event Horizon, Pandorum, A Beautiful Mind, Pale Rider, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2009), Jupiter Ascending
Edit: typos & an addition
> die hard, terminator, Friday, x men, gonnies, candy man 1992
Have you seen *any* realistic, serious movies? Or ones from before the 1980s?
I second /u/balthazar_blue and suggest you just seek out the standard classics and just start seeing them. Though I disagree with the inclusion of many movies, but I also have come to mistrust movie critics. That said, their lists do have many very good movies.
A good contrast to the movies you listed above (in that it’s realistic and serious), and universally considered a good one and I think justifiably so is *12 Angry Men*.