The List.

I'm not an expert on film. I haven't been around long enough to know exactly which movies I should see, and I've missed a lot of great movies that came out before I was born. So, for a list of movies that really defines "awesome" I turn to another. Bob Chipman, aka MovieBob is an independent filmmaker and film reviewer for an online magazine called The Escapist. In August he wrote an article (two actually) listing the movies that every movie nerd should see. Unsurprisingly, I haven't seen most of them. However, I think that they can provide a nice baseline for any movie reviews from me that are to come. The following is just the list. To read the full article(s), and you really should,go to escapistmagazine.com and search for movie nerd bible, because I'm having a lot of trouble adding a link to this post.

Here we go in chronological order:
Nosferatu
Metropolis
King Kong
The Universal Monsters:

• Dracula
• Frankenstein
• Bride of Frankenstein
• The Mummy
• Wolfman
• Frankenstein Meets the Wolfman
• House of Frankenstein
• Creature from the Black Lagoon.

Godzilla:

• Godzilla
• Rodan
• Mothra
• Ghidorah the Three Headed Monster
• Godzilla vs. Mothra

Forbidden Planet
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
The films of Ray Harryhausen
Hammer Horror :

• Curse of Frankenstein
• The Horror of Dracula
• The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb
• Frankenstein Created Woman
• Dracula has Risen From the Grave
• Curse of the Werewolf

Psycho
Fantastic Voyage
Night of the Living Dead
2001: A Space Odyssey
Planet of the Apes Series
Solaris
Soylent Green
Jaws
Logans Run
Star Wars Trilogy
Dawn of the DeadHalloween
Superman
Alien + Aliens
Flash Gordon
An American Werewolf in London
Escape from New York
Evil Dead Trilogy
Blade Runner
Conan The Barbarian
E.T. : The Extra-Terrestrial
Indiana Jones Series
Star Trek Parts II, III, IV
Tron
Dune
Ghostbusters
 Gremlins
Back to the Future Trilogy
The Goonies
Legend
Big Trouble in Little China
Labyrinth
Batman
So it's a pretty long list. I've marked the one's that I've seen in red, and eventually my opinions on all of them will be made clear eventually. This list was cut fairly short by MovieBob, because obviously he didn't want to make it go on forever. Here are the films that I think should be added to that list as must-see movies for any self respecting film enthusiast (movie geek). I haven't put extremely recent movies (Avatar, District 9) on the list because I simply haven't had enough time to decide whether or not they belong there.
300
The Matrix
The Lord of the Rings
Christopher Nolan's Batman Movies
Terminator and Terminator 2
The Road Warrior
Spiderman Trilogy
Iron Man
Pulp Fiction
The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
Pirates of the Carribean
Every Single Pixar Movie.
Alex