what are some good movies to watch for weekly movie nights?

Question

I'm a senior in high school and me and about 10 friends get togethr once a week and watch a movie or two. we always have to come up with a random movie to watch. so i was wondering what some good ones would be for us. pretty much anything goes.

Answer 1

May I suggest selecting a year and then looking up all the the Oscar Nominated Best Pictures for that year. This would give you the best movies ! Here's a link to the Oscar database.http://awardsdatabase.oscars.org/ampas_awards/BasicSearchInput.jsp

Here's few of my personal fav .. the first is quite thought provoking...the others cause I am huge Molly Ringwald fan and these are 80's teen movies !

In the company of men - Two thirty something white collar business partners--both of whom have been rejected by women--conspire to find a vulnerable woman, simultaneously date her, and then break up with her just to assuage their damaged egos. Both men, however, become attracted to the woman and then become engaged in a cat-and-mouse game of one-upmanship that eventually escalates into full-scale psychological warfare.

Sixteen Candles- A lonely girl turns sweet sixteen but no one in her entire family remembers the momentous occasion

The Breakfast club --A diverse group of high schoolers forced to spend detention on a Saturday in the library. Forced to make the best of their circumstances, they learn to understand each other and discover that in spite of their initial differences, they actually share many common feelings and problems.

Answer 2

I run a movie group, with older people. But we have the same problem.

The big choices are categories and eras.
Categories are divisions such as musicals, comedies, detective, western, sci-fi, adventure, drama, foreign and romance. They can be helpful in varying the offerings.

Old movies are shorter, better acted, and interesting just because they're different--things like King Solomon's Mines, Tripoli and Earth versus the Flying Saucers.

The newer movies are longer, not very well acted and their scripts tend to die after 20 minutes. But the good ones have a straightforward story. Such as My Big Fat Greek Wedding, Star trek VI and American President--these come to mind.

Good luck!

Answer 3

- "The Kentucky Fried Movie" (only on "weird" nights)
- "Monty Python's Quest for the Holy Grail" (only on a weird night, and may take watching it twice to get that strange English humor; but it's well worth it after that.)
- "Back to the Future"
- for a very coarse movie..."Street Fight" circa 1980?, '79?
- "Red Dawn"
- "Porky's" (1,2,&3)
- "Big Trouble in Little China"
- "The Princess Bride"
- (trust me - I almost passed on it too.)
- "Dr. Strangelove or : How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb" (1964) (an old making-fun-of-the-high-ranking-military-dudes movie - good actor, good director.)(Appears on both AFI's list of best films and funniest films.)

I know these pix are a little old, but you can shock your parents when you quote them or when you can spot something they say and come at them with a line from one of them. (Could mean an extra hour out on a weekend for ya!)(maybe)

Answer 4

you should watch Beerfest and Clerks 2, both of them are hilarious.