Home Cinema - Must haves

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I've setup my Home cinema setup & got a good bunch of films (100+)
But many classics im missing

1. What are your Must have films to have?
2. any good places to get good dvd/bluray deals?
 
Permanent place on my HDD

Godfathers
Once upon a time in America
Dirty Harry
Magnum Force
Kelly's heroes
Blade runner
Batman Begins
Dark Knight
Marvellous
Dead man's shoes
A room for romeo brass
Clockwork orange
The shining
King of kong
Jiro dreams of sushi
training day
First blood
made in britain
 
From a purely technical point of view?

My list would be:

Heat (The gun fight in this, on a decent sound system... hhhnnnnggggg)
mavity
Jaws
Saving Private Ryan
Whiplash (Again, sound)
Alien (on a giant screen - yes please)
Pan's Labyrinth
Blade Runner
Mad Max: Fury Road
Jurassic Park
Wall-E
9

Then there are SO MANY that are just all time classics. Most of them in the IMDB Top 250.
 
Ben Hur
LOTR
ID4 (20th Anniversary edition out soon)
SW EpIV/V/VI & VII (when it comes out)
Matrix
1st 2 Terminators
 
Agree with DampCat the shootout in Heat is just brilliant with a good sound system and a big screen.
Black Hawk Down - Bluray has reference quality sound and good picture
I also really liked the two recent Star Trek films. The image quality really blew me away on my projector setup.
 
josh_sheffield said:
I also really liked the two recent Star Trek films. The image quality really blew me away on my projector setup.
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Agreed they look and sound incredible.

Also I'd say Avatar, not the greatest film perhaps but the image and sound quality is probably some of the best I've ever seen and heard.

For an old classic Apocalypse Now also has some amazing sound.
 
For an old classic Apocalypse Now also has some amazing sound.
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I bet the helicopter scenes are brilliant. Thanks to your post I'm going to get in trouble with my other half. Promised her I wasn't going to buy any more Bluray this month and I've now ordered a copy of Apocalypse Now...

Another classic is Gladiator. The first battle scene with the arrows is brilliant with a well setup surround sound system. I've recently added two additional front height speakers to my 7.2 setup and the noise the arrows make as they pass through the soundstage is great.
 
Psycho Sonny said:
list is crap and full of old black and white movies and movies i've never heard of.
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Whilst in one way I see where you are coming from, in another way...that is just narrow minded, uncultured and full of crap to dismissive of movies because of the medium that it was shot and the name. Sure Shawshank might not be everyone's cup of tea and sure, if Tomb Raider is your favourite movie that's fine too, and sure, IMDB isn't be all and end all but to call the list is crap speaks more about you than everyone else in the world.

And of course, that's my opinion of course as you are entitled to yours and everyone else are entitled to theirs, which is what that list is.

My post "IMDB 100" is just as valid as anything else, I could list my personal 100 but what does that mean? It means even less than IMDB's 100.
 
wall e is rated higher than once upon a time in america.

the list is meaningless IMO. when deadpool and the new star wars is rated higher than movies which are 10 times better just because they are new.

movies from 1938, etc too. they just cannot compete with anything in the past 30 years.

it's just a list based on what people rate it at. for example i would never rate that movie from 1938 so that's why it's so highly reviewed. it's got a niche market of people who like it to review it as it came out well before IMDB did.
 
Psycho Sonny said:
wall e is rated higher than once upon a time in america.

the list is meaningless IMO. when deadpool and the new star wars is rated higher than movies which are 10 times better just because they are new.

movies from 1938, etc too. they just cannot compete with anything in the past 30 years.

it's just a list based on what people rate it at. for example i would never rate that movie from 1938 so that's why it's so highly reviewed. it's got a niche market of people who like it to review it as it came out well before IMDB did.
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Again, narrow-minded and by that attitude you don't sound like someone who loves cinema but merely the by their by product of high gloss polished effects.

Yes, movies have got better in special effects, better techniques as time moved on but to say Gone with the Wind and The Wizard of Oz is worse than Batman and Robin is an absolute joke.

The fact that movies came out before the emergence of IMDB and the creation of the Internet and World Wide Web and actually makes it on IMDB gives them more gravitas, it means people are not voting them base on hype, people caught them in their own time and they have stood the test of time.

100 years from now nobody will remember The Forest, but Psycho will always be cherished.
 
Raymond Lin said:
Again, narrow-minded and by that attitude you don't sound like someone who loves cinema but merely the by their by product of high gloss polished effects.

Yes, movies have got better in special effects, better techniques as time moved on but to say Gone with the Wind and The Wizard of Oz is worse than Batman and Robin is an absolute joke.

The fact that movies came out before the emergence of IMDB and the creation of the Internet and World Wide Web and actually makes it on IMDB gives them more gravitas, it means people are not voting them base on hype, people caught them in their own time and they have stood the test of time.

100 years from now nobody will remember The Forest, but Psycho will always be cherished.
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you might want to read my post again.

i've also slated new movies on there because they are new. that's the only reason why they are rated so highly as only fanboys have seen them.

deadpool and star wars ;)


i've also stated that once upon a time in america (an old film by todays standards) should never be below wall-e.

it has no special effects or anything fancy.
 
Psycho Sonny said:
you might want to read my post again.

i've also slated new movies on there because they are new. that's the only reason why they are rated so highly as only fanboys have seen them.

deadpool and star wars ;)


i've also stated that once upon a time in america (an old film by todays standards) should never be below wall-e.

it has no special effects or anything fancy.
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That's exactly what i mean, new release films often shoots way up there when the hype is there but over time it settles down. So for an old movie gets up there and stays there shows it's true merits.

Wall-E over Once Upon a Time in America is a subjective opinion, in a way, Wall-E is a better movie. The first half hour of that movie is pretty much a silent film, for an anime, a silent film is unthinkable yet that movie pulls it off. OUTIA is a different movie, it is a better movie in other ways, it is not in others. I already stated that Shawshank being No.1 is a little weird. Personally I think Godfather 2 is a better movie and achievement in film making over Shawshank but again, it's subjective and I certainly won't make such sweeping statement such as

Psycho Sonny said:
movies from 1938, etc too. they just cannot compete with anything in the past 30 years.
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Unless I've not understood something, I think what Sonny is saying there, is not that he has the opinion that films of 70 years ago cannot compete with more modern films; but that those older films can't compete because many people of the general public rate films primarily on things like visual quality. Many will dismiss older films because they are old and don't look all nice and shiny.

I don't think IMDB top 100 is meaningless, because it serves as a reminder of films that the person in question looking on the site, may have forgotten about. It's just based on opinions and opinion vary. Anyone who thinks that Shawshank is the best film ever because it's op on IMDB, well... they're just being a little silly to say the least. :p
 
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