Movies you've never seen
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Man, I'll never quite get this, especially around Citizen Kane, which is what people usually bring this up about. I think that movie is so accessible, funny, great dialogue, awesome performances...I absolutely love it. I can understand it not being someone's favorite movie, but I just don't find it so incredibly dated to be unwatchable, like say "Birth of a Nation" or "Intolerance" or something like that.
I think some movies age better than others, and some you just might not like regardless of age...David Lean movies a slow and pretty boring in any event. And I don't LOVE every old classic I see...but there are so many great ones.
Agree that Gone With the Wind is not in the same class as the other two. I've seen it, there is some very good stuff in it, but it's a bit of a slog...don't often feel the need to revisit it. I think the old movies that age the worst are the ones most notable for their "epic achievement". There are exceptions, I'll love Ben-Hur until I die, but for the most part they hold up much worse to the modern eye to me. But the smaller movies...the stories and themes are pretty universal, even if the guys are wearing hats and they don't have cell phones.
Never seen
Avatar
Citizen Kane
The Right Stuff
American Gigolo
Kramer vs. Kramer
Any Rambo movies after the first one
Men over the age of 21 who have not seen the Godfather I and II should be forced to watch them.
Avatar
Citizen Kane
The Right Stuff
American Gigolo
Kramer vs. Kramer
Any Rambo movies after the first one
Men over the age of 21 who have not seen the Godfather I and II should be forced to watch them.
These are the 27 on the list I haven't seen yet. About half of them I have at least some interest in seeing, and about half I really don't feel like seeing.
16 All About Eve (1950)
21 The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
35 It Happened One Night (1934)
37 The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
39 Doctor Zhivago (1965)
45 A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
52 From Here to Eternity (1953)
54 All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
56 M*A*S*H (1970)
59 Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
63 Stagecoach (1939)
69 Shane (1953)
74 The Gold Rush (1925)
76 City Lights (1931)
80 The Wild Bunch (1969)
81 Modern Times (1936)
82 Giant (1956)
86 Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
87 Frankenstein (1931)
88 Easy Rider (1969)
89 Patton (1970)
90 The Jazz Singer (1927)
92 A Place in the Sun (1951)
93 The Apartment (1960)
99 Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)
100 Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
By the way...I really like a couple of the ones you haven't seen on your list. Double Indemnity is really cheesy, but really fun for it. It's really quick and easy to follow, and it sort of set the template for so much that came after. Seeing the sexual heat and innuendo in such an old movie is really something too. As much as I like old movies, I recognize some of them can be a real chore, but Double Indemnity is not one. It's easy junk food and well worth seeing.
Network is really worth seeing too. It's too long for it's own good like a lot of 70s movies, and it can be slightly boring, but it's the A+ best definition of "satire" (not parody) in movies that I've ever seen. And it's frighteningly prescient in a lot of what it said about media...what was satire then is real today.
I like Philadelphia Story a lot, and Annie Hall somewhat, but those two are the ones that I think are worth the effort to check out.
Nice to see The Breakfast Club and Ferris Bueller's day off is not on here. Also My cousin Vinny seems to be on TV an awful lot, so would have to think you have to try very hard to not have seen that probably a few times
I'd highly recommend watching the Director's Cut of Blade Runner; it has a few extra scenes, no voice over, and a different ending. I think it's far superior to the original one.
All that you need to know about how "good" the voiceover is, is that Harrison absolutely hated the idea and purposefully recorded it in such a way he thought it would be unusable....but they used it anyways.
At this point, you are better off not bothering. Personally it was great for its time, but besides nostalgia, I just don't know that it aged very well.
I agree with this. Another one of my personal favorites. It does have a slow pace for the first hour (as a poster previously stated) but it is just a stunning movie to watch. Not sure how I feel about the sequel due out later this year.
The cult following movies I have never seen are
Top Gun
Princess Bride
Dirty Dancing
I have also never seen any of the Star Wars, Star Trek or Super Hero movies.
No interest to watch any of the above. I don't watch many movies anymore and don't really miss it.
Top Gun
Princess Bride
Dirty Dancing
I have also never seen any of the Star Wars, Star Trek or Super Hero movies.
No interest to watch any of the above. I don't watch many movies anymore and don't really miss it.
Only one I say you are missing out on is Princess Bride. My wife hasn't seen it and it kills me. So many good parts to the movie. Easily seen it a dozen times (usually in sections, not always beginning to end).
Very true. Princess Bride is a classic that holds up well due to interesting performances and well crafted lines. It's not my favorite movie but is certainly in my top 25 if not top 10.
To the earlier generations - that grew up in or close to The Great Depression and suffered through WW II & Korean War, the Boomer generation were all whiney, entitled, spoiled A-Holes. They had fought so their country could rise to the top, and these kids were wasting everything - all they do is watch TV and giggle around like that Elvis moron.
I am speaking of the middle class, who were no longer in danger of starvation like they were in the Depression. And the upper-middle class, who went to college on the G Bill and became engineers and merchants and such. There was a massive gap separating them from their kids - the parents fought and struggled so their kids would have a better life, and the little bastards are wasting it all! Surf boards and hot rods and the Beatles, and they all want to go backpacking through Europe now that we have rebuilt it. Etc.
Mom & Dad have built a great, affluent life in Pasadena - and now that little Ben has graduated from a fancy college back east, he doesn't want to do anything but "drift here" in his parent's swimming pool. Life HAD been programmed for him, just like the TV he grew up on...but now that program has ended and he doesn't know what to do.
When Ben finally does figure out something he wants (Elaine Robinson) he finds that he is breaking rules created by the previous generation.
Emblematic of that time period. Haight-Ashbury, Summer of Love, Janis, Jimi, Jim..,protesting was not an activity for beatniks anymore - between Civil Rights and Vietnam, everyone had something they could protest,
The Graduate shows us how our society became so volitile.
"Plastics"
Ha, I get it. That's a good write up. I definitely know what it's about. I'm a 60's buff.
Here's the thing...it's not just the older generations for whom the Baby Boomers were whiny, entitled, spoiled a-holes. Younger generations know that as well. I won't deny that my relatively low affinity for Boomer navel gazing probably affects my enjoyment, considering the movie isn't very funny, the characters aren't likeable, etc. I've got no way in with Benjamin, I can't relate, and I can't sympathize. I don't need to relate to every movie I like, but if I can't relate, there needs to be something else I enjoy. There are some things I like (the music, Bancroft's performance, the final sequence), just not enough for me to LOVE it.
I think it's good, but. I think it holds a higher place in the film cannon than it deserves, because it's so very boomer-centric and boomer-affirming. I think as film criticism is less influenced by that generation, it's standing will fade some. It's themes and viewpoints are just not timeless, like other classics are.
But definitely, people should see it from a historic and film history sense.
You guys are slackers! I have seen all of those movies. Maybe I should get out more. Hey DON'T JUDGE!!
All of the big Vietnam War movies like The Deer Hunter, Platoon, Full Metal Jacket, Apocalypse Now, Born on the Fourth of July, etc.
Found the subject matter too sad and depressing sounding to ever watch them.
Found the subject matter too sad and depressing sounding to ever watch them.
I agree. That is a huge faux pas.
Honestly, it's probably my second favorite SW movie after Empire.
Classics:
Citizen Kane
Raging Bull
Godfather (any of them)
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Animal House
Gone With the Wind
I've seen this 30+ times and the amount of times I've seen Top Gun is uncountable (an unhealthy). Rule in the house is I have to be alone to watch Top Gun because I unconsciously quote the whole darn thing.
I have a problem.
Wasn't a huge fan of Gladiator first time through...watched it a second time and it wound up being my favorite movie of all time; barely edging out Shawshank Redemption.
If you name a major movie from the past 30 years, chances are I haven't seen it. Titanic and Forrest Gump are a couple biggies that everyone seems to have seen but me. I probably can count on both hands the number of movies I saw in the theater between say 1995 and 2013 or so. I started going more recently as my kids are old enough to take to the movies, so I've been more in the past few years than I probably was in the 25 years prior. So I'm pretty current on kids movies. As far as "classics", I've never seen Citizen Kane, Gone With the Wind, Casablanca. I never saw Top Gun, nor had even the slightest interest. I haven't seen any movie based on a comic book character (other than Captain Underpants and Lego Batman) since the Michael Keaton Batman movie. No Avatar, no Men in Black, Armageddon, or any of those ridiculous films.
I'm not afraid to admit as a 28 year old male, titanic is in my top 5 movies of all time. And it has nothing to do with the love story plot. I just find everything about the circumstances around it to be very interesting/fascinating. The fact that you're out on this huge luxury ship, middle of the night, in the middle of the freezing North Atlantic, and the ship is sinking with no where near the amount of lifeboats needed is crazy to me. It's like you're dying this slow unavoidable death. And also the fight for survival and getting onto a life boat is interesting.
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