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Originally Posted by atari 2600
The Battleship Potemkin (1925)
Metropolis (1927)
L'Étoile de mer (1928)/La Coquille et le Clergyman (1928)
King Kong (1933)
Mad Love (1935)
The Petrified Forest (1936)
Modern Times (1936)
Citizen Kane (1941)
Princess Iron Fan (1941)
Bambi (1942)
Rope (1948)
The Bicycle Thief (1948)
The Seven Samurai (1954)
On The Waterfront (1954)
Rear Window (1954)
Night of the Hunter (1955)
Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
Wild Strawberries (1957)
The Seventh Seal (1957)
Touch of Evil (1958)
Vertigo (1958)
Psycho (1960)
Cape Fear (1962)
The Birds (1963)
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
What's Up, Tiger Lily? (1966)
The Incident (1967)
Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
Night of the Living Dead (1968)
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Targets (1968)
Take The Money And Run (1969)
Woodstock (1970)
Trash (1970)
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
The Getaway (1972)
Mean Streets (1973)
The Conversation (1974)
Eraserhead (1977)
Annie Hall (1977)
Star Wars (1977)
The Deer Hunter (1978)
Apocalypse Now (1979)
Alien (1979)
Blade Runner (1982)
Videodrome (1983)
Brazil (1985)
Raising Arizona (1987)
Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (1988)
Akira (1988)
Roger & Me (1989)
Terminator 2: Judgement Day (1991)
Waking Life (2001)
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I considered The Wizard of Oz, Jaws, Tron, E.T./Gremlins, and Jurassic Park and the like for special effects, but decided against them. I also considered a bunch of others...too many to go into right now. Well, maybe just a few. For some reason, I considered an onslaught of Pacino vehicles like The Godfather, GF part II, Dog Day Afternoon and Scarface for various reasons, and of course also decided against those. Oh and Rocky too, but nope. Obsessione? Fantasia? Koyaanisqatsi? My Dinner With Andre? Nah. Ditto to Barry Lyndon, Lolita, The Shining, Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, Midnight Cowboy and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest; am I being unreasonable? Also Rocky Horror and Grease; again, nope.
Take Dr. Strangelove for instance. It's obviously perfect for its time, for holding a mirror up to the atomic age, but without Kubrick making it would anyone have made anything quite like it? I think not...even up to the present day. But hey, Peter Sellers' acting genius helps just a bit, haha, right?
Anyway, any suggestions? (thanks for the ones I took to already) or criticisms? (and I already realize I'm exercising questionable taste quoting myself)