What iconic movies should our High school & college kids be sure to see?

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<p>I took this question to mean iconic movies related to high school or college life. And top of the list has to be “Animal House”: “Mister Blutarsky…zero point zero” (camera cuts to Belushi with pencils up his nostrils) “Mister Dorfman…zero point two. Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life, son” Lived that life my freshman year in the 80’s, then buckled down later. </p>

<p>For a more serious education-related movie: “Dead Poets Society” – I wish a teacher had told me to ‘seize the day’ back then!</p>

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<p>^ ^ ^ ^</p>

<p>Or seize the Administration Building.</p>

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<p>Im no action movie fan, but I can’t believe no one mentioned The Terminator! specifically The terminator 2.</p>

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<p>Did anyone mention The Sting?</p>

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<p>I’ve seen around 60 of those, and I think you guys are getting away from the point by mentioning things like Toy Story as if we haven’t seen that already.</p>

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<p>Shaun of the Dead.</p>

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This unabashed sci-fi junkie saw that back in the day. Loved it.</p>

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<p>After I read the book One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest, I watched the movie, and despite it being fairly old, it left a mark on me… that Nurse was one cruel woman and there’s just a message in that movie you can’t really get from much else.</p>

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<p>The movies I’d recommend depend on personality, interest, and age. A list of movies across many genres is below.</p>

<p>Airplane!
Back to The Future (the 2015 future in II is interesting to look back on today)
Blade Runner
Bullitt
A Christmas Story
The Dark Knight Trilogy
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
The Godfather
Ghostbusters
Gone in 60 Seconds (1974 version… horrible acting and weak plot… the majority of the film time is a great car chase without CGI and with real reactions from persons not aware a movie was being filmed)
The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
Gran Torino
Groundhog Day
Ip Man
It’s a Wonderful Life
Jaws
Jurassic Park
Lord of The Rings Trilogy
The Matrix
Memento
Psycho
Pulp Fiction
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Rocky
Seven Samurai
Silence of the Lambs
Star Wars
The Terminator</p>

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<p>A few I haven’t seen on here:
The Time Machine (1960) – a classic based on the H.G. Wells model
12 Monkeys – underrated sci fi movie
The French Connection – Gene Hackman plays a cop uncovering a drug conspiracy originating on foreign shores – thought of as having the greatest car chase scene of all-time
Saturday Night Fever – what other movie embodies the feel of the 70’s better?</p>

<p>I’m still unclear on what the OP meant by iconic movies?</p>

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<p>I would like to add:</p>

<p>Philadelphia (with Tom Hanks and Denzel Washington)
Malcolm X (Denzel Washington)</p>

<p>My son hasn’t seen either of them, but since he just got home, maybe he can watch them online during the Christmas break.</p>

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<p>Does it matter what the OP meant by iconic movies? To me it means the classics of each genre, the ones that all contemporary film makers are thinking about when they create their own movies, but I think the list of coming of age movies was great. Whatever the OP meant by iconic we’ve collected a great list of movies many of which I haven’t seen, but the ones I have are just about uniformly great.</p>

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<p>Ohhh, did I forget Airplane!? If I did, I shouldn’t have.
Haven’t seen it in a while, but I watch Police Squad all the time when I need a quick laugh.</p>

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<p>In the spirit of recent suggestions…Bring It On. It’s my guilty pleasure. Always a spirit-lifter. It’s not classically iconic, but did inspire a number of sequels (not worth watching).</p>

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<p>Beverly Hills Cop</p>

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I believe that what was intended were movies which so pervade the public consciousness that they’re quoted/referred to almost matter-of-factly by folks
in casual conversation, possibly generations later.</p>

<p>Examples which come to mind (many / most already mentioned in this thread):
The truth? You can’t handle the truth.
You’re gonna need a bigger boat.
We don’t need no steenkin’ <whatever>. (Not sure where this is from.)
I’m going to make him an offer he can’t refuse.
I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe. (Mostly for the sci-fi junkies.)
Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn.
Use the Force, Luke. / The Force is strong with this one.
I’m gonna get medieval on your ass.
Ever seen a grown man naked, Billy?
and, of course
Bueller? … Bueller?</whatever></p>

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<p>^“Go ahead, make my day.”
“Do you feel lucky?”
“Tomorrow is another day” and “Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn.”(but then you’d have to sit through Gone with the Wind which is epic but today seems shockingly racist and patronizing.)</p>

<p>And you should be familiar with the foreboding music theme from Jaws and the screechy violins of Psycho. :)</p>

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<p>Breakfast Club.</p>

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<p>Is Gone with the Wind a racist movie, or was it depicting a racist period in our history? I think the latter.</p>

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And Ennio Morricone’s leitmotif from The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.</p>

<p>And I’ll bet most parents on this board would recognize the Mission Impossible theme music, (and, since it was given new life by Clayton & Muller in the movies, some of the college-bound as well).</p>