So what are the "new classic" movies?

[Modem Butterfly]

When people talk about classic movies, they often mean older movies, like The Maltese Falcon or Casablanca, which are two great pictures, BTW. But I think there's been a number of really good movies to come out since 1990 that will go down as the new classics. Here are some of my choices:

The Shawshak Redemption

Thelma and Louise

American Beauty

Shrek

The Blair Witch Project (if for no other reason than the hype)

Sister Act

[Feathered Fish]

1. My picks:

Goodfellas
Pulp Fiction (not by my choice)
Eyes Wide Shut (wait and see)
Trainspotting
and a cult classic for good measure
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

I might add more

[Modem Butterfly]

4. Good choices!

After I hit the post button, I thought of so many more, like GoodFellas, Casino, Mystic River, Philadelphia, Malcom X...I could go on and on!

[Smallberries]

35. I'm sure they've been mentioned

Fight Club
Sixth Sense
The Matrix
The Usual Suspects
Eternal Sunshine of thw Spotless Mind

[ikojo]

2. Mine....

Breakfast Club
Star Wars Ep IV A New Hope


I could come up with more but must get ready to go to the eye doctor....ewww, I will see whether I need BI FOCALS!!!!

[Feathered Fish]

3. I think it's post 1990

Good luck at the eye-doctor.

[Mr. Blonde]

5. These

The Big Lebowski
Fight Club
Old School
LA Confidential
Gladiator
The Matrix (shitty sequels not withstanding.)

[lpbk2713]

6. Unforgiven (1992)

Saving Private Ryan (1998)

[Joe Power]

7. Blue Velvet...

American Beauty
Fight Club
Wild at Heart
Pulp Fiction
Reservoir Dogs
Being John Malcovich
Blood Simple
Say Anything
Bubba Ho Tep
Dr. Strangelove
Raising Arizona
True Romance
The Professional
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
A Clockwork Orange
The Godfather I and II
Leaving Las Vegas
Raging Bull
Chicago
Clerks
Natural Born Killers
Do The Right Thing
Apocalypse Now
Taxi Driver
American History X
Something Wild
Hairspray
Repulsion
Slapshot
F 9/11

[peekaloo]

8. Fargo

a few of mine have already been mentioned.

[Coventina]

9. you guys are RETARDED! GOSH!

Napoleon Dynamite of course!!!!!

:-)

[Feathered Fish]

11. Is that wording really necessary?

[Coventina]

15. It's a quote from the movie, sorry, didn't mean to offend

[Feathered Fish]

16. It's ok

I didn't realize that it was a quote. I didn't alert on it or anything - it seemed like one of those things one types really fast and regrets later. Anyhoo - I haven't seen the movie, is it really that funny?
edit: typo

[Coventina]

17. I really enjoyed it, but many don't.

It seems to be one of those "love it or hate it" things.
:shrug:

[cruadin]

10. A few of my choices (some may have already been mentioned)...

Edward Scissorhands
Saving Private Ryan
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Reservoir Dogs
The Big Lebowski
Fight Club
Independence Day
Alien
The Usual Suspects
Cinema Paradiso
The Princess Bride
Roxanne
Groundhog Day

[CBGLuthier]

12. No PT Anderson fans?

Boogie Nights and Magnolia.

And many of the other fine films already mentioned.

[peekaloo]

13. I like his movies. 'Hard Eight' is an overlooked gem, too.

:thumbsup:

[WindRavenX]

39. he's a genius

"Hard Eight" was brilliant.
I'm also a fan of the other Anderson- Wes Anderson. "The Royal Tenenbaums" is a classic, IMHO.

[Catshrink]

14. Babe!

and in this case, the sequel. I'm an animation junkie so of course I mention this.

Babe
Babe: Pig in the City
Toy Story
Toy Story II
Shrek
Shrek II
Finding Nemo (except for that root canal line!)


Spaceballs
Goonies
Grumpy Old Men (the Walter Matthau character HAD to be based on my dad)
Grumpier Old Men

[gmoney]

18. The Jerk...

The Jerk
Raising Arizona
Office Space
The Blues Brothers
Animal House
Fight Club
Big Lebowski
Dazed and Confused
Groundhog Day
Tapeheads

[loudestchick]

19. my list..short version

Shawshank Redemption
Philadelphia
Heathers
The Princess Bride
Open Range
Good Fellas
The Matrix
Dogma

[MrModerate]

20. Lord of the Rings . . .

the "Gone With The Wind" of the 21st Cent.

And in antispin, some of the picks listed above that will (thankfully in my opinion) sink without a trace or tear:

American Beauty (underwhelming and overhyped)
Eyes Wide Shut (boooring!)
Natural Born Killers (unwatchable)
Do The Right Thing (Spike Lee -- a name writ in ether)
American History X (cloddish)
Boogie Nights (silly and overlong)
Spaceballs (unfunny and incompetent)
Anything by David Lynch (gives the auteur concept a bad name)

And a bunch of the others I've never seen, and probably won't.

One Man's Opinion (TM)

[CBGLuthier]

23. Do the RIght Thing

Now I am not going to argue about some of these others. Boogie Nights is one of my favorites but I can understand if it didn;t wor for you.

But I am curious what you find lacking in Do the Right Thing?

Also, I can agree about a lot of Lynch's work but I do think Mulholland Drive is a very, very good film.

[MrModerate]

25. Basically, I don't think Lee is a very good filmmaker

For me, all his work "lacks pace, point, focus, interest, drama" (to paraphrase Tom Stoppard). He has pedestrian storylines that never click for me, and his pacing especially seems to work against the process of engaging the audience. He's positively Brechtian, without (I think) trying to be.

As opposed to Lynch who is a BAAAAAAD filmmaker, but at least vivid. But since I dislike Lynch's work so much, I don't think I could bear to watch any more of it, even Mulholland (which others have recommended to me as the Lynch work that will change my mind).

[Lautremont]

32. I'm often astonished at how good a filmmaker Lynch actually is

in terms of mise-en-scene and so forth. I, like so many, watched Blue Velvet and got off on the simple weirdness, but rewatching it many years later made me appreciate that he knows more about such prosaic things like where to put the camera than Peter Jackson (whom I think is very talented, make no McSteak) probably ever will.

[MrModerate]

38. We'll probably never agree about David Lynch, Mr. "Weirdness

for its own sake."

[Modem Butterfly]

30. I didn't like the LOTR movies

I thought they were over-hyped and over-blown.

[petronius]

31. "a name writ in ether"

I don't entirely agree with you, but this is a brilliant put-down. You clearly have the right stuff for a career as a critic...

[Lautremont]

21. Naked Lunch

The Royal Tenebaums
The Thin Red Line
Eyes Wide Shut
Being John Malkovich
Ed Wood
Magnolia
Goodfellas
Naked
Three Colours: Red
Tetsuo
Charisma

Oh, there are probably a few more. But that's a start.

[Modem Butterfly]

29. Ooooh! Good list!

Going beyond the multiplex, I like. Good choices!

I would also add:

Orlando
Dreams
Edward II
Clerks
The Virgin Suicides
Once Were Soldiers
The Magdalene Sisters

[RandomKoolzip]

22. I vote for "Rushmore."

Although I know people who can't stand it.

[drumwolf]

24. To throw in a little variety, how about soon-to-be-classic FOREIGN flicks?

Anyone suggest non-English-language films made in the past 15 years that will become classics?

Possible suggestions (not all of which I've seen):

Wings of Desire
Run Lola Run
Das Experiment
anything by Pedro Almodovar
Y Tu Mama Tambien
Amores Perros
L'Auberge Espagnole
Abre Los Ojos (remade as "Open Your Eyes" with Tom Cruise)
The Idiots (made by Lars von Trier, in Danish)
Murderous Maids
Tampopo
Hana-bi (with Beat Takeshi)
Hard-Boiled
Happy Together

[Sgent]

26. Haven't seen these mentioned

Schlinder's List
Rocky Horror Picture Show

[drumwolf]

33. Huh?

I was talking about FOREIGN flicks. Those aren't foreign flicks.

Or were you meaning to respond to the original thread only to accidentally to respond to my post?

[Sgent]

36. Yep

I meant to respond to the other tread... Sorry

[yellowdogintexas]

27. Just since 1990? OK

The Lord of the Rings Trilogy
Spirited Away
Shrek I & II
Chicago


come to mind on on an immediate basis.

I know there are others,

[Steve Nash is god 13]

28. shrek

that was funny :dem::beer:

[DrWeird]

34. Kill Bill 1 & 2

A couple of the most important movie(s) ever committed to celluloid.

[BillZBubb]

37. Lot of greats already mentioned, I'll add

This is Spinal Tap,
Alien,
McCabe and Mrs Miller,
and F 9/11

I know some of these are oldies, but they aren't that old.

[Hardrada]

40. Some More Possibilities

Line of Fire
The Russian Ark
Apollo 13
Four Weddings and A Funeral