Ideas for Movie Night

[Damor 1,236]

I wish I remembered who started it, but back at Kevin's Folly there was a post asking for recommendations for movie night for older kids/teenagers.  It generated some good ideas (as well as some horribad ones, of course) and sounded like a cool thing to do as mine get older, so I put some of them on a list to keep around. 

The point was primarily to entertain them as a group, and to mix in some classic and essential films that they might not seek out on their own.  And also to warp their minds and scar them emotionally.

Anyway,  I thought it was worth resurrecting and adding on to, so here's what I had:

Classics
Giant
Casablanca
Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Inherit the Wind
Grapes of Wrath
To Kill a Mockingbird
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf
Catch 22
Citizen Kane
Gone with the Wind

Comedy
Groundhog Day
Caddyshack
Can't Buy Me Love
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Young Frankenstein
Dr. Strangelove
Airplane!
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Raising Arizona
Pink Panther
Three Amigos
Stripes
Weird Science
Better Off Dead
Napoleon Dynamite
Planes, Trains, and Automobiles
Beetlejuice
O Brother Where Art Thou
Rushmore
Bottle Rocket
Life Aquatic
Wayne's World
Peewee's Big Adventure
Top Secret
Real Genius
Spies Like Us
Teen Wolf
Big

Drama
Stand by Me
Breakfast Club
Amadeus
Shawshank Redemption
Forrest Gump
Dead Poets Society
The Right Stuff
Apocalypse Now
Wargames
Edward Scissorhands
Spirited Away
Akira
Big Fish
Say Anything
Wings of Desire

Action
Raiders/Indy
Top Gun
Red Dawn
Karate Kid
Braveheart
Terminator
Predator
Crouching TIger Hidden Dragon
Drunken Master
Robocop

Mystery/Crime
Miller's Crossing
The Untouchables
North by Northwest
The Sting
Cloak and Dagger
The Usual Suspects
Hot Fuzz

Western
The Searchers
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Lonesome Dove
Cool Hand Luke
Good, Bad, and Ugly
Outlaw Josie Wales
Shane
Unforgiven
Dances with Wolves

Sports
Field of Dreams
The Natural
Rocky
Hoosiers
A League of their Own
Brian's Song
Bull Durham

SciFi/Fantasy
Alien(s)
2001: Space Odyssey
Matrix
Metropolis
Total Recall
Blade Runner
Dune
Flash Gordon
Conan the Barbarian

Horror
The Birds
Poltergeist
Evil Dead
Psycho
The Shining
It
Jaws
The Exorcist
Shaun of the Dead

Documentary
King of Kong
Jiro Dreams of Sushi
God Grew Tired of Us
Restrepo
Darkon

[bernorange 8,361]

Comedy:

Caveman

The Gods Must Be crazy

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... and essential films that they might not seek out on their own

I wouldn't call it essential, but it fascinated me as a teen.  Different style of movie from anything I'd ever seen before:

Koyaanisqatsi- Life out of Balance

Edited April 2, 2018 by bernorange

[plvhorn 25]

So many options and opinions on this but here's a few that I want to share with my kids someday that aren't on your current list: 

Saving Private Ryan

Ghostbusters (1984)

Godfather 1 and 2

Fast times at Ridgemont High

Supertroopers 

Man on Wire (documentary)

[Damor 1,236]

Yeah, there were a lot of good movies on the OG thread I didn't save since my boys had seen them.  Didn't plan on Kevin.

Mine really liked Man on Wire, which kind of surprised me.  They also loved Jiro Dreams of Sushi.