Movie Recommendations
If you are staring blankly at a move title with tears welling in your eyes thinking: “should I watch this?” Then this post is for you!
Below are a list of the movies I have watched (and remembered). To save you the hassle of hunting down movies on rotten tomatoes to figure out if you’d want to watch it, I will put each movie into one of 5 categories. Hopefully, this will help you to decide whether a movie is worthy of watching.
Easy mate: a one-stop-shop. If you watch the movie and don’t agree with my rating, you can slag me off in the comments.
I’m not going to rate them on whether they are mindless comedies or intense dramas – I figure that if you’ve come this far in the movie selection process, you know enough about the movie to decide for yourself what type of movie you’d like to watch.
Keep in mind, I’ve done this as an “all things considered, would I consider this movie worth sitting down and watching for a second time if I had all of these movies at my choosing” not as a “that movie was cinematic dynamite” type thing. These aren’t necessarily rated on their quality, but more on how willing I am to watch them again – arguably a more telling review of a film.
Here we go:
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You have to make time to see these movies
12 Angry Men
300
Aliens
Anchorman
Back to the Future: At least 1 and 3
Blood Diamond
Cars
Crash
District 9
Forest Gump
Gladiator
Good Will Hunting
His Girl Friday
Indiana Jones: Raiders of the Lost Arc/The Last Crusade
Interview with a Vampire
Jurassic Park
L.A. Confidential
Love Actually
Notebook
Platoon
Romeo and Juliet
Saving Private Ryan
Schindler’s List
Shaun of the Dead
Shawshank Redemption
Stand By Me
Star Wars: The Original Trilogy
Terminator: All
The Cider House Rules
The King’s Speech
The Prestige
To Kill a Mockingbird
Toy Story: Trilogy
Up
Zoolander
I’d pay to watch these movies again
21 Jump Street
28 Days Later
40 Year Old Virgin
8 Men Out
8 Mile
A Few Good Men
A League of Their Own (if you turn it off with 5 minutes to go)
A Time to Kill
Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
American History X
American Psycho
Any Given Sunday
Apocalypse Now
Apollo 13
Baseketball
Basketball Diaries
Batmand Begins
Be Kind Rewind
Blues Brothers
Bonds: Namely Goldeneye and Casino Royale
Boondock Saints
Bridesmaids
Brokedown Palace
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Cheats
Clerks
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
Clueless
Contact
Dead Poet’s Society
Die Hard and Die Hard with a Vengeance
Dodgeball
Dracula
Eat, Pray, Love
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Fern Gully
Fight Club
Finding Nemo
From Hell
Fugitive
Ghost
Ghostbusters
Goodellas
Green Street Hooligans
Groundhog Day
Happy Gilmore
Hocus Pocus
How to Make an American Quilt
Into the Wild
Invictus
Iron Man
Life As A House
Life is Beautiful
Madagascar: 1 and 2
Mallrats
Moneyball
Napoleon Dynamite
North by Northwest
Office Space
Once Upon A Time in Mexico
Out of Africa
Outbreak
Paris Je T’aime
Planes, Trains and Automobiles
Pleasantville
Predator
Pulp Fiction
Raging Bull
Remember the Titans
Resident Evil
Rock’n’Rolla
Se7en
Shop Around the Corner
Silence of the Lambs
Slumdog Millionaire
Speed
Sphere
Star Wars: The New Trilogy
Transformers
The Beach
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
The Day After Tomorrow
The English Patient
The Hangover
The Hunger Games
The Illusionist
The Joy Luck Club
The Mask
The Motorcycle Diaries
The Negotiator
The Ninth Gate
The Planet of the Apes (Original)
The Quiet American
The Ref
The Rise of the Planet of the Apes
The Terminal
The Truman Show
The Usual Suspects
The Wedding Singer
The Whole 9 Yards
The X Files Movie: Fight the Future
Troy
Tombstone
Tree of Life
Tropic Thunder
Twister
Wayne’s World
What Dreams May Come
Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
Without Limits
X-Men: First Class
If it was on, I’d watch it
10 Things I Hate About You
101 Dalmations
2012
40 Days 40 Nights
50/50
61*
A Bug’s Life
A Fish Called Wanda
A Room With A View
Alive
Analyse This
Air Force One
Almost Famous
American Pie
Andre
Armageddon
As Good As It Gets
Avatar
Bad Santa
Balls of Fury
Beaches
Bedazzled
Big
Billy Maddison
Bend it like Beckham
Beverly Hills Ninja
Blade
Blast from the Past
Bodyguard
Braveheart
Bring it On
Brokeback Mountain
Broken Arrow
Cape Fear
Cast Away
Children of Men
Chocolat
Cliffhanger
Corrina, Corrina
Clue
Confessions of a Shopaholic
Conspiracy Theory
Cool Runnings
Couples Retreat
Cruel Intentions
Cube
Daddy Day Care
Death at a Funeral
Die Hard 2/4
Dracula Dead and Loving It
Drop Dead Gorgeous
Dumb and Dumber
Easy A
Edward Scissorhands
Ed Wood
Emma
Empire of the Sun
Empire Records
Enchanted
Erin Brocovich
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Eurotrip
Father of the Bride
Field of Dreams
Final Destination
Finding Neverland
From Dusk Til Dawn
Ghost Writer
Goal!
Grown Ups
Half Nelson
Hannibal
Happy Feet
He Got Game
Heathers
Hercules Returns
Hitch-hikers Guide to the Galaxy
Holy Grail
Hot Fuzz
House of Sand and Fog
How to Train your Dragon
I Am Legend
I, Robot
I Capture the Castle
Ice Age
In and Out
I Know What You Did Last Summer
I Love You, Man
Inception
Indiana Jones: Temple of Doom
Jaws
Jewel of the Nile
Joe’s Apartment
Joe Versus the Volcano
Jumper
Labyrinth
LadyHawke
Lantana
Leap Year
Legally Blonde
Les Miserables
Liar, Liar
Life of Brian
Little Miss Sunshine
Lord of the Rings: Trilogy
Machinist
Mad Max 2
Man On Wire
Matilda
Mean Girls
Mean Machine
Men In Black
Mermaids
Miss Congeniality
Mission: Impossible
Mission to Mars
Monsieur Lazhar
Navy SEALS
Never Been Kissed
Ocean’s 11
Old School
Oranges and Sunshine
Over the Hedge
Overboard
Paradise Road
Paul
Pirates of the Caribbean
Pearl Harbour (if you turn it off with 5 minutes to go)
Point Break
Pride and Prejudice
Prometheus
Pump Up the Volume
Pups
Quills
Ramboes
Rango
Rat Race
Robin Hood
Rockies
Romper Stomper
Ronin
Run, Lola, Run
Rush Hour
Saved!
Scream
Shine
Shrek
Shutter Island
Snow White and the Seven Dwarves
Space Jam
Searching for Bobby Fischer
Sex and the City
Shakespeare in Love
Shallow Hal
Six Days Seven Nights
Sleepers
Snake Eyes
South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut
Species
Stargate
Starship Troopers
Surf’s Up
Swing Voter
Syriana
Take this Waltz
Tank Girl
Tenacious D: The Pick of Destiny
The Assasination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
The Air Up There
The Blair Witch Project
The Boat that Rocked
The Break-Up
The Bucket List
The Devil Wears Prada
The Emperor’s Club
The Family Stone
The Fast and the Furious
The Last Boy Scout
The Life Aquatic
The Little Shop of Horrors
The Matrix
The Mummy
The Muppets
The Nanny Diaries
The Net
The Other Boleyn Girl
The Shining
The Shipping News
The Simpsons Movie
The Sixth Sense
The Social Network
The Town
The Village
The Visitors
Things We Lost in the Fire
Three Kings
Throw Momma from the Train
Tin Cup
Titanic
Top Gun
Total Recall
Trainspotting
Trapped in Paradise
U-571
Uncle Buck
Under the Tuscan Sun
Untraceable
V For Vendetta
Vantage Point
Wall-E
Waterworld
W.E.
What About Bob?
What’s Eating Gilbert Grape?
When A Man Loves A Woman
While You Were Sleeping
Wicker Park
Wild Things
You’ve Got Mail
Young Guns
No
10,000 B.C.
Alexander
Anything with Jennifer Lopez
Big Daddy
Big Momma’s House
Boat Trip
Bridget Jones’ Diary
Cars 2
Clash of the Titans
Encino Man
Ghost Rider
Hancock
Hereafter
He’s Just Not That Into You
How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
Indiana Jones: The 4th One
Juno
Kill Bill
Midnight in Paris
Open Season
Phenomenon
Pretty Woman
Public Enemies
Sex and the City 2
The Lake House
The Men Who Stare At Goats
The Proposal
The X Files Movie: I Want to Believe
Transporter
Unbreakable
Wanderlust
What Women Want
Wild, Wild West
Not if your life depended on it
Astronaut Farmer
Battlefield Earth
Duets
Failure to Launch
Transformers 2
If I’ve forgotten any, please let me know below.
If you disagree with anything, please let me know.
If you agree with anything, please let me know.
If you’d like more information, please…ask
(Geez I’ve seen some rubbish!)
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