NFT: Great movies you never watched

In comment 13563374 Eric from BBI said:

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In comment 13563366 larryflower37 said: Quote: and I have no desire to. My wife and kids love Harry Potter... books and movies. I don't get it. I saw parts of one of the movies and I was like ehh.

I have 3 daughters and they can not pass by Titanic without stopping to watch.

and I have no desire to.

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As a former teenage movie store employee with a continuous three free rentals on my account, I shouldn't have much to add to this thread, but I certainly do. I often times just can't commit to the time it takes to watch a movie or a movie series. Instead, I'll watch half-hour programs that endure the same amount of time, but it just feels different I suppose. I enjoy movies, I simply don't watch them as often as I would like to or 'should'. I haven't seen

- Any Star Wars movie
- Any Star Trek movie
- Any Iron Man/Superman movie
- Any Godfather movie
- Any Avengers/Fantastic 4 movie
- Any Lord of the Rings/Harry Potter movie
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and essentially any 'Best Picture' nominee from the past ten years.

I remember seeing that with a friend of mine and on the escalator out of the theater I said to her it was one of the worst movies I've ever seen. She thought I was nuts and a band of teenage girls nearly clawed my eyes out for saying it.

any of the Hobbit movies.

it's just that recent movies are frenetic.

In comment 13563284 Eric from BBI said:

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I'm going to get crucified for this, but I've never seen Godfather and Godfather II.

Ditto!
None of the Godfathers

also,
Gone with the Wind
No Freddie Krugers
No Friday the 13ths

The Grapes Of Wrath
Key Largo
To Have And Have Not
Schindler's List
Sunset Blvd.

In comment 13563374 Eric from BBI said:

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My wife and kids love Harry Potter... books and movies. I don't get it. I saw parts of one of the movies and I was like ehh.

The movies (mostly) do a good job of bringing the books to life. If you're haven't read and aren't a fan of the books, most adults probably won't enjoy them much.

Some of the later movies have more adult appeal, but without the context of the earlier ones would be hard to watch on their own.

In comment 13563396 Matt M. said:

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any of the Hobbit movies.

The topic was great movies.

-Lawrence of Arabia
-It's A Wonderful Life
-Sound of Music

if not because they're great films but because they're on cable all the damn time.

I think I've seen Godfather at least 5 times in recent years only because I was flipping channels and came across the movie already in progress.

I watched the first 2. Didn't even bother with the 3rd.

I never saw LA Confidential or Chinatown. Kind of know the ending of Chinatown so why bother.

Just recently watched Mulholland drive for the first time. It annoyed me.

In comment 13563418 Jim in Fairfax said:

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In comment 13563396 Matt M. said: Quote: any of the Hobbit movies. The topic was great movies.

I don't know if they were great or not. I thought they were very popular.

even if you know the ending. Bares up well to multiple viewings. Nicholson, Dunaway and Huston all great.

is another I haven't seen - any one of them.

count me as another to never see more than 3 minutes of any Lord of the Rings film. Just not interested.

Weird this thread popped up. I think it was 2010 or so when I didn’t have a job, I just spent my “free time” (24/7) watching movies I never watched before. Rain Man was always that one movie Ive never seen before. Holy hell, that movie was annoying as hell.

In comment 13563389 Matt M. said:

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and I have no desire to.

I thought I was the only one except I havent seen any of it.

In comment 13563420 AnthonyM said:

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-Lawrence of Arabia -It's A Wonderful Life -Sound of Music

Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, he was an English guy, came to fight the Turkish.

that's about all I know about that movie and it was made up and came from another movie (Hollywood Knights - an underrated 80's movie).

I watched every best picture winner from 1931 on. Some of those movies were painful! For the Hitchcock lovers, Rebecca was the only movie of his that won and I really enjoyed it. As per the thread title itself, I've never since Citizen Kane.

It sounds like an excellent movie and a good historical treatment of the fugitive slave law. But every time I consider watching it, I wind up watching Django again. Its not historically accurate but is sure is satisfying.

In comment 13563284 Eric from BBI said:

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I'm going to get crucified for this, but I've never seen Godfather and Godfather II.

Neither have I.

too much of a Trek fan to want any part of it... yeah I said it.

In comment 13563595 Chuck Q said:

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too much of a Trek fan to want any part of it... yeah I said it.

Not a block buster by any means, but I felt that I only saw the movie Slapshot for the first time a couple of years ago. It was spectacular! I really was mad at myself after it ended that I'd waited so long.

Casablanca
Gone With the Wind
Lord of the Rings/Harry Potter
Titanic
My Left Foot

how could someone who likes movies not watch The Godfather...

Brando, Pacino, Caan, and my favorite actor Duvall just fucking slay it. It's acting at its absolute pinnacle.

(Note: don't watch if you like horses).

The 2nd one, while not as good, made Robert Deniro. He was a nobody til that film which was pre Travis Bickle.

Just very strange people. Next you'll tell us that you'll "get around" to trying blowjobs to see what all the fuss is about.

In comment 13563293 Ryan in Albany said:

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He said great films. That isn't even a good one.

In comment 13563618 Overseer said:

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how could someone who likes movies not watch The Godfather... Brando, Pacino, Caan, and my favorite actor Duvall just fucking slay it. It's acting at its absolute pinnacle. (Note: don't watch if you like horses). The 2nd one, while not as good, made Robert Deniro. He was a nobody til that film which was pre Travis Bickle.

You're the first person I've ever seen to say that Godfather II wasn't as good as the first one.

I wouldn't go so far as to say Deniro was a nobody before that. He had been in Bang the Drum Slowly and Mean Streets the year before.

In comment 13563396 Matt M. said:

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any of the Hobbit movies.

I loved the LOTR trilogy, but the Hobbit films were awful, IMO.

I love it.

But the first features basically THE iconic movie role. As well as Pacino at his best...long long before he became a caricature. To me that gives it the edge, although fully understandable to prefer the sequel.

I always considered Mean Streets a film that people appreciate in hindsight (knowing who Scorsese/DeNiro/Keitel became). Unsure if it had any hype when it was released.

In comment 13563553 Kevin999 said:

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I watched every best picture winner from 1931 on. Some of those movies were painful!

If it wins the best picture Oscar I automatically avoid it.

There are way too many popular movies that I did not see. Too many to list

In comment 13563745 Gman11 said:

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If it wins the best picture Oscar I automatically avoid it.

Holy overreaction Batman..

Violent films, Slasher/horror, war movies, musicals

I stick to comedies, historical / period films, foreign films

So I haven't seen doodley squat, unless they were pre '75

Last movie I saw in a theater was Borat

- "Rocky" (or any of the sequels), just looks boring to me
- "Schindler's List" (not sure I could handle it)
- "Gone With the Wind" (looks awful)
- "A Clockwork Orange" (looked too weird)

I've not seen:

- most Woody Allen movies (seen one, you've seen them all)
- most Mel Brooks movies (I admit "Blazing Saddles" was a classic and I have watched that more than once)
- most of the Star War movies - seen bits and pieces of a couple of them and they just seemed stupid to me

- Pretty much every single movie that wins an Academy Award for "Best Picture". I travel in different circles than those judges that find what is considered "good". I just looked up the winners and I watched "The Departed" and "No Country for Old Men" that won "Best Picture" a decade ago, but that's about it.

In comment 13563325 Beezer said:

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from this list I've also never seen (from the top 25 - won't go 100 deep): 10. Lawrence of Arabia 15. Sunset Boulevard 17. Sound of Music (as mentioned previously) Eric, Godfather I is listed as the No. 1 film all-time, Godfather II as the 13th-best. Shawshank is listed here as No. 2. FWIW, Goodfellas is listed at No. 63. The List - ( New Window )

That list is horrible. But from that list:
9. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - I don't think I have ever seen it all the way through. I've seen a lot of it, but not all of it.

18. 12 Angry Men
36. From Here to Eternity

More I haven't seen in the next 50.

Any top 100 movies list that doesn't include "Seven Samurai" is already suspect as far as I'm concerned. That movie's at least in the conversation for greatest film ever made.

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In comment 13563366 larryflower37 said:

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and I have no desire to.

Titanic's popularity with teenaged girls notwithstanding, it's a really good movie. Takes a while to get going, but from the moment the iceberg hits, it's a tour de force.

Yeah, it's a big 'ol melodrama with exaggerated characters and corny dialogue. If it was great in those areas we'd be talking about whether it was the greatest movie ever made.

In comment 13563571 Ron from Ninerland said:

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It sounds like an excellent movie and a good historical treatment of the fugitive slave law. But every time I consider watching it, I wind up watching Django again. Its not historically accurate but is sure is satisfying.

12 Years a Slave is a good movie but it's not on anybody's list of movies-you-must-see-before-you-die. It's good. Worth seeing. But if you don't, well, ok.

Orange

In comment 13563754 Jim in Fairfax said:

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In comment 13563745 Gman11 said: Quote: If it wins the best picture Oscar I automatically avoid it. Holy overreaction Batman..

Sorry, I don't live up to your high standards, your highness.

In comment 13563966 Gman11 said:

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Sorry, I don't live up to your high standards, your highness.

My comment had nothing to do with standards. It was a comment on your attitude of "anything elite snobs think is good is automatically bad."

So I guess you've never watched The Godfather, Rocky, Unfirgiven, Gladiator, Braveheart, Argo, The Depatted, Rain Man or Silence of the Lambs. Good for you - that'll teach'em.

the list of guys who never saw any of the Star War movies. Unless you want to count Spaceballs.

12 Angry Men is a masterpiece and my favorite film of all time. It has aged fantastically. Rent it.

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is a nice film. Vintage Nicholson and a great performance from Louise Fletcher. It will, however, fall quite short if you read the utterly brilliant Kesey book first.

is one of two movies that disappointed me because the Director took over so much of the story line from the book's author. The Shining is the other.

In Cuckoo, the personality of the Nicholson figure was considerably different, and in my view, much better, in the book and a version I saw off-Broadway. In the Shining, Kubrick eliminated the magical talent of the young son, which I loved in the book.

Movies I didn't see: only a few. Green Mile was one. On the AFI top 100 list, the highest ranked ones I haven't seen are old ones ranked in the 70's or below: Modern Times, City Lights, A place in the Sun. Also Fargo, for no particular reason.

By the way, for people who don't know, there is a guy named Tim Dirks who has done a detailed analysis of every movie in the top 200, and many others. I have learned something in every single analysis. Linked here.
Link - ( New Window )

see or did see and did not like Titanic (DiCaprio), watch "A Night to Remember". It was the 2nd movie on the Titanic sinking. 1958.
Good Movie without the love story line.

Schindler' list. I know it's probably depressing but an important movie from an historical perspective.

But to you Old Dirty. You have to watch Shawshank. You will not be disappointed. It's one of those movies you can watch over and over and over again and it never gets old. I think it's the premise and the twists it takes and story within the story that emerges.

The ending is brilliant. I would have to say it's probably my favorite movie of all time and I have a lot of favorites.

In comment 13564232 section125 said:

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see or did see and did not like Titanic (DiCaprio), watch "A Night to Remember". It was the 2nd movie on the Titanic sinking. 1958. Good Movie without the love story line.

I'm another who never bothered to watch "Titanic", although I've seen bits and pieces of it while others watched on TV and I was curious how well they were able to use special effects for shooting the sinking.

True story: I worked at a high tech company for years before retiring. I was early to a meeting so a half dozen of us were sitting around BS'ing waiting for the VP to get there and get the meeting started. One of the guys in the conference room asked if anyone had gone to see Titanic yet, as it was on at the theaters. Our operations director spoke up and said, "I don't watch movies that I know how they end." A rather air-headed administrative assistant (cute as hell, dumb as a box of rocks) was there to take notes and looked shocked. She said dumbfoundedly, "why, does it end badly?" We tried not to laugh for her sake, but it wasn't easy.

A worse story that is also true, the LA Lakers were all invited for a pre-release chance to watch "Lincoln". Kobe was asked how he liked the film and he said, "it was pretty good, but I can't believe they killed him at the end."

The state of our education system is in ruins!