25 Movies You Really Should See

I'm putting together some things I want to accomplish in 2012. One of them is to see 3 classic movies I've never seen. I will present my full To Do list later but it got me thinking about what movies I would share with people. Here I present Uncle Bubby's List, in no particular order, of 25 Movies You Really Should See.

1. Casablanca
• I once had to defend this in a college class as the best movie ever made. I've loved it ever since.
2. Citizen Kane
• A tale of greed and self-indulgence with an undertone of loneliness and lost innocence.
3. Charade
• A fun mystery starring Audrey Hepburn and Cary Grant.
4. Office Space
• Everyone who has ever had a job should watch this movie. It encapsulates the workplace perfectly and takes you places you would really love to go but can't.
5. Fast Times at Ridgemont High
• A microcosm of the 1980s with shopping malls, part-time jobs, and awkward teenage love.
6. The Breakfast Club
• If you don't see yourself in at least one of these characters, you probably don't have a pulse.
7. 12 Angry Men
• A murder trial. A jury room. The vote is 11 to 1. A very interesting look into human nature and human behavior.
8. To Kill a Mockingbird
• Atticus Finch, a lawyer in the Depression-era South, defends a black man against an undeserved rape charge, and his kids against prejudice. I couldn't say it any better.
9. The Shawshank Redemption
• Another look at human nature and common decency.
10. Star Wars (Episode 4: A New Hope)
• The movie that made Sci-Fi fans out of so many many people. It also revolutionized movie making and special effects.
11. Fight Club
• A troubling look inside
12. The Matrix
• A mind-bending look at reality
13. Psycho
• What can happen when you love your mother a little too much
14. It's a Wonderful Life
• To be or not to be... how our lives connect to so much more than ourselves
15. Dr. Strangelove
• A bizarre take on 1950s cold war paranoia
16. North by Northwest
• A case of mistaken identity causes one man to have to unravel a mystery more tangled than a ball of last year's Christmas lights
17. A Clockwork Orange
• Sober, drunk, stoned, it doesn't matter. This movie is weird no matter how you watch it.
18. The Green Mile
• Duty and redemption
19. Forbidden Planet
• An old Sci-Fi classic with a wonderful "things are not as they appear" twist
20. Arsenic and Old Lace
• Pure screwball fun from beginning to end
21. It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World
• More screwball fun
22. Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade
• A fantastic follow-the-clues story with everything Indiana Jones, Harrison Ford and Sean Connery can bring to it
23. Snatch
• A fun tangling and untangling of some relatively shady characters
24. The Boondock Saints
• They're on a mission from God
25. Toy Story
• One: It's a cartoon. Two: It's a fantastic story. Three: It's good for adults and kids alike.