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Full In the Loop

Advanced guide to getting in the loop.

Supplementary to "Civilization Essentials."

If a movie is on this list, then it has one of these:
-Pop culture reference value
-Meme value
-Example of a namedropped director/producer/actor
-Popularity + cult popularity
-Had a cultural impact regardless of quality

  • The Tree of Life
  • M*A*S*H
  • The Blind Side
  • The Room
  • The Kissing Booth
  • The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
  • Tron
  • American Pie
  • The Incredible Hulk
  • Radio Rebel
  • Sense and Sensibility
  • Ghostbusters
  • The Shape of Water
  • Sleepless in Seattle
  • Emma
  • The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift
  • Silent Hill
  • Magic Mike
  • It's a Wonderful Life
  • No Country for Old Men
  • 10 Things I Hate About You
  • This Is Spinal Tap
  • The Terminator
  • Clue
  • King Kong
  • Superman
  • Silver Linings Playbook
  • Dirty Dancing
  • Hairspray
  • Soylent Green
  • It
  • Weekend at Bernie's
  • Chicken Little
  • Flowers for Algernon
  • The Departed
  • The Big Lebowski
  • La La Land
  • Zodiac
  • Léon: The Professional
  • Night of the Living Dead
  • Rain Man
  • Boyhood
  • Predator
  • Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
  • Juno
  • The Full Monty
  • (500) Days of Summer
  • Sophie's Choice
  • My Fair Lady
  • Wall Street
  • The Suicide Squad
  • Bridget Jones's Diary
  • 300
  • X-Men
  • 27 Dresses
  • The Italian Job
  • Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
  • Friday the 13th
  • Final Destination 2
  • Suicide Squad
  • All About Eve
  • Good Will Hunting
  • Mad Max: Fury Road
  • Blade Runner
  • The Sixth Sense
  • s Ha
  • American Beauty
  • Uncut Gems
  • Fried Green Tomatoes
  • A Beautiful Mind
  • Lady Bird
  • Close Encounters of the Third Kind
  • Mamma Mia!
  • John Wick
  • The Notebook
  • The Addams Family
  • A Nightmare on Elm Street
  • Clueless
  • Good Morning, Vietnam
  • Men in Black
  • Seven Psychopaths
  • 13 Going on 30
  • Les Misérables
  • Jackass Forever
  • mother!
  • The Godfather Part III
  • The Barefoot Contessa
  • The Great Gatsby
  • Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery
  • Pacific Rim
  • X
  • Glass Onion
  • Now You See Me
  • The Ring
  • Footloose
  • Ocean's Twelve
  • Child's Play
  • I, Robot
  • Final Destination
  • Sex and the City