Classic movies you have never seen and never will

Op you are a Mary.

Slapshot-with Paul Neuman

Rollerball-is that with James Caan?

You're taste is shit OP.

I love all the oldies but I have never seen one Star Wars film...scifi/fantasy was never my thing

R3, I love the Bergman, Renoir, the French New Wave, the Italian Neo-Realists and Continental cinema of the 70s in general; Japanese films, especially Kurosawa but also ghost stories and folk tale movies; Film Noir and classic thrillers and whodunits; surrealist cinema; obscure horror films (the more bizarre the better) and the whole gamut of American classics from All About Eve to Blue Velvet, so don't cry for me, Argentina.

Hate gangsters (pointless); westerns (cowboys suck); Vietnam (I get it, it was a bloodbath); and films that exist to make the audience feel like strangling the screenwriter.

I forgot- Brian Song-James Caan& Gayle Sayers?

Butterfield 8-I have been told I am a whore; I never saw the movie!!!

I LOVE Star Wars-Loathe Star Trek!!

You couldn’t pay me to watch that Godfather shit.

So much bravery on this thread. Bold stands being taken. One is awestruck.

The Godfather and The Godfather Part II are masterpieces.

Forrest Gump.

Apocalypse Now is a masterpiece and I dont even like war movies, though technically AN isnt even that, really.

R9, good call, although it's such a piece of festering shit I would never think of it as a classic.

[quote]Apocalypse Now is a masterpiece and I dont even like war movies, though technically AN isnt even that, really.

Joseph Conrad did it better.

R10, my hatred of Coppola is only surpassed by my hatred of Spielberg (whose shitty movies I have, alas, actually seen, until I was old enough to not have them inflicted on me by my parents).

Which reminds me:

I have never seen The Color Purple or any Spielberg film made after it.

r11 I think over the last few years, it started losing "classic" status. But for a long time it considered one of the top modern classic films.

Schindler'sh Lishp

I love your comments, you make me HARD, OP. The Godfather trilogy is genius, again!

Godfather #3 has its problems, however the Atlantic City scene, the festival Zaza scene and the last 20 minutes of of the opera scene was High drama. Andy Garcia-Talia Shire was sheer perfection, the Sicilian ending was wonderful

Love u OP

R12m, thank you - I think that gets to why I will never watch the movie - the novel is such a stunning accomplishment that to see it dragged through the American post-Vietnam guilt trip is obscene.

It's like setting The Great Gatsby in Australia (which that cunt Baz Lurhman evidently more or less did).

Ben Hur and all the epic God movies around that time.

The Magnificent Ambersons

Nosferatu

Easy Rider

Planet of the Apes

R12 he directed a movie? Who knew.

Viva Las Vegas!

From Here to Eternity

Greed (Von Stroheim)

The Seven Samurai

The Magnificant Ambersons is a true masterpiece. More impressive than Citizen Kane in certain scenes.

Does it count that I've watched the Sofia Coppola death scene so often that it probably surpasses the actual run time of the entire trilogy?

R22, it is flawed but completely fascinating and brilliantly shot and acted.

I'd also put in a word for The Seven Samurai, which I thought would be a ponderous bore and is both touching and screamingly funny at times. It turned me on to the rest of Japanese cinema.

I just ignore Godfather 3 save for those last 2 or so minutes. I mentally tack those on to the end of TGP2 and leave it at that.

Forrest Gump

Ferris Bueller's Day Off

r16, glad to know somebody else besides me saw some merit in the hated Godfather III. Vincent Corleone was still alive at the end. Seriously, I'm not ruling out a GF IV, maybe as a streaming series.

Annie Hall

After viewing Citizen Kane, I avoid all Orson Welles movies.

I saw Annie Hall a few years back with my mom and was so dissapointed (she was too). It had some cute moments but I didnt think it was deserving of so many accolades, and I love Woody Allen.

What bothers me most about The Godfather 3 is how different Michael is...affable, warm, friendly....a far cry from the deadly intense stoic as a rock gangster from the 1st 2 films. It was like Pacino was playing a dumbed down version of him.

I have to back up a bit and say that there are two films connected with Spielberg that I think are excellent...

The Raiders of the Lost Ark is a wonderful bit of not-quite nostalgia that packs a very dark and pessimistic punch.

The Goonies is pure horseradish from beginning to end. But I dare anyone to find an American film that so accurately portrays the way kids talk, think and act with one another. It's like The Little Rascals directed by Robert Altman. Wonderful score too.

Totally had the same reaction, r29.

Rocky and its endless sequels.

+ 1 with r32.

+2 with R32.

You sound like a jerk, OP.

I am a jerk, R35.

What of it?

OP, what possible purpose could there be for your post and this entire thread? Are you proud of your cultural ignorance, and do you expect the same from other people?

R37, I am wondering if some people dislike certain genres to the point of skipping over them entirely (cowboys) or have had such vile experiences with the output of famous directors (Coppola, Tarentino) that their subsequent work is meaningless.

Does that clear things up for you?

All of them.

Movies and TV feel like homework to me.

I would rather read or listen to music.

All the old black and white movies. Sorry just cant get into that hyper drama or the recluses who watch them all day long.

I’m on the Gump bandwagon.

Also:

Rebel without a Cause

Dead Poets Society

The Dark Knight

You’ve Got Mail

When Harry Met Sally

12 Angry Men

Good Will Hunting

Coming to America

Inception

Many others. Nope!

Dune, Dune 2 and any sequels thereafter.

OP = PROUD TROGLODYTE!

I missed the “classic” part. Let me remedy that.

Sophie’s Choice

They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf

Love Story

Terms of Endearment

So basically if it ain’t a John Waters film you better not invite OP to go to the movies.

R13 Watch The Color Purple. It is his most unique film in terms of HIS filmography.

OP, you really are a Mary! No Westerns! So I guess no John Ford? No Johnny Guitar?

No gangster films! So no film noir?

No musicals? OK, maybe you're not a Mary, after all. But damn, what a picky eater!

R43, read the thread.

And there is nothing wrong with John Waters.

Yeah, R47. No John Ford. Although now that you've mentioned it, I did suffer in silence through The Grapes of Wrath. I don't give a shit.

If you think Film Noir has anything to do with gangsters per se you know nothing about either.

Top Gun

Footloose

Wait. This OP cunt with aspie baby tastes is schooling others about film?

R51, "I love Bergman, Renoir, the French New Wave, the Italian Neo-Realists and Continental cinema of the 70s in general; Japanese films, especially Kurosawa but also ghost stories and folk tale movies; Film Noir and classic thrillers and whodunits; surrealist cinema; obscure horror films (the more bizarre the better) and the whole gamut of American classics from All About Eve to Blue Velvet."

Tell me about my aspie baby tastes.

I am not schooling anyone in anything. I am asking a question.

I am sorry that rattles your received-taste middle-class dung-heap intellect.

Look at teacakerises’ authentically black responses. The Color Purple — recommended! Teacakerises is certainly not a cosplay.

Projection? Your list of loves at r52 is the "received-taste" humdrum canon of a petit bourgeois middle-brow cinephile of the late 20th century. The bare minimum.

R54, please do tell me what is acceptable to you in terms of film-going taste.

I going to guess you won't.

I've never seen an animated Disney movie.

Why bother. You're a hopeless cause with your proud asinine listing of banned yet unseen directors and genres. Poor you.

R57, then fuck off, trash.

If you're that injured over a fucking list of movies, you're not worth thinking about.

A listing of no-go movies that you've never seen, including entire genres. Negative Nancy, pathetic.

Mary Poppins. I never saw it on tv while growing up in New York. And I wasn't going to seek it out.

Toy Story. Finding Nemo.

And yet another pathetic cunt at R59 who completely misunderstands what the thread is about.

ARE THERE THEMES OR DIRECTORS YOU WILL NOT WATCH REGARDLESS OF STATUS?

Does that fucking clarify things?

You seem sweet, R62, OP.

The Lion King. At least old-timey fairy tales came with gore and true evil.

I guess the question should be:

"Any classic movies you have no desire to watch?"

For me, it's The Godfather, any Elvis movie, and Breakfast At Tiffany's.

Narnia movies. CS Lewis was a hack whose mindless Xtian propaganda bullshit is repellent and ugly.

r59 r62 This is the DL equivalent of a meet-cute. You guys should fuck. Also, if Love, Actually is considered a classic, then Love, Actually. It just looks like torture.

So does your father's asshole, R63.

I'm sorry, is this Datalounge or Timmy Trigger's Quivering Labial Flap-Fest?

I had no idea you were all made of scented toilet paper.

R65, thanks - I admit that would probably have been the better way to phrase this...

[quote] You're taste is shit OP.

Your grammar is too.

But, but, but.... "Continental cinema of the 70s in general" 🤡

R53 And I was like

I won’t watch a western either. Garbage movies. Zero interest.

You’re missing a lot of good stuff. Personally my list is nearly every movie ever made since 2000.

"It is his most unique film...."

Oh, Dear!

In the words of the late William Shawn: "There are no degrees of uniqueness."

I am probably the only person of my generation to have never seen E.T.

I DID however see Grease 2 four times

R75 haha, I love an intelligent oh dear. Thanks for schoolin me.

R76 I bet you were the Mariest Mary to ever Mary at your middle school. I loves it tho.

If that's what you meant, R38, then that's what you should have written,

OP, I do think the gangster films and Film Noir can be comparable in the Post War years because films don't always fit neatly into genre categorization. It primarily depends on point of view. The depiction of the criminal is quite varied on screen and the evolution of the portrayal of the criminal or gangster character goes through an interesting evolution from the 1930's into the present. I would have to look at style when evaluating any film about crime/gangsters in order to categorize it as Noir or non-Noir. So maybe our points of view differ when it comes to Gangster vs Noir films since I think that often the lines between genre definition in films blur.

......in answer to [ R 47 ]

Movies I haven’t seen:

Jaws

Grease*

Rocky*

Dr. Strangelove

Blazing Saddles

Young Frankenstein

Close Encounters

Indiana Jones*

Jurassic Park*

Star Wars after the first three movies

* Haven't seen any sequels or other derivatives.

[quote]You're taste is shit OP.

You judge people's taste based on what they seek out and like, not based on what they choose to avoid for whatever reason.

[quote]You judge people's taste based on what they seek out and like, not based on what they choose to avoid for whatever reason.

I guess that's true, but to me, making a point of avoiding certain genres of film or particular films -- especially ones that are generally considered classics -- indicates closed-mindedness. If I had that attitude, I would never have seen CASABLANCA, because it seemed to me from what I had read that chances were I wouldn't like it because of the genre, subject matter, etc. But as it turned out, I think it's a masterpiece.

I’ve never seen the original Star Wars. I know 😮

R84, I would never have seen Star Wars but for the fact that my next-door neighbor were sick at the same time one week in the 1990s, and that week we watched all three original Star Wars movies.

You missed nothing, save the cultural references with which everyone else seems to be familiar.

Making a point of doing this is very close minded. It’s like saying I’ll never eat Indian food without first trying it. Very unadventurous and someone not to be friends with ( at least for me.)

..closed

R85, it's very nervy to say "you missed nothing" of three films that millions and millions of people have loved. Of course, you're entitled not to like those films, but to tell someone else who hasn't seen them "you missed nothing" is a dumb way to phrase it.

Harry Potter

People like whatever they like, so no criticism there. Some people love westerns while others like musicals.

However, it's utterly laughable and tedious when people take great pride to the point it's their identity to be perverse, contrarian, or different and edgy.

We get it that you don't have tastes like other people and the sheeple, so are special.

It doesn't make you interesting or unique. It makes you a pick-me girl.

I haven’t seen a lot of the marvel flicks. I’ve never seen the first two Thors, plenty of the others as well.

Schindler's List. i know it is supposed to be an amazing film, but i just do not want to watch such a downer of a movie.

OP, are you actually proud of your ignorance as it pertains to great films?

I will never again see any movie with Liza Minnelli or Judy Garland. Other than The Wizard of Oz and Cabaret, I've seen numerous clips from their various movies, but will never sit through anything with these needy, screechy performers.

Beat that bitches!

Dances with Wolves

Killers of the Flower Moon

I haven't seen any of the godfather or marvel movies.

R95 Killers of the Flower Moon just came out you dumb cunt.

(Some of these are much more popular than they are classic, but popular enough that they creep into many cultural references)

Pretty Women

E.T.

Star Wars (any)

Blazing Saddles

Victor Victoria (despise Julie Andrews and any film about men impersonating women or vice versa)

Mrs. Doubtfire (managed to escape all but a couple of Robin Williams' treacly turns)

Airplane

The Sound of Music (hate musical + Julie Andrews)

Rocky

Grease

Showgirls

Basic Instinct

Disney (anyfuckingthing)

Animated children's films

Pirates of the Caribbean (+ any Johnny Depp)

Tim Burton films

Anything with Leo diCaprio from this century (not that he was good before)

Superheroes films (but for a couple)

That said, OP has shit taste.

Very well put, R90. That's exactly what's so off-putting about the OP.

Anyone here never see a Barbra Streisand movie? Me neither.

I want to see any movie that’s considered a classic. Even if I hate it, I end up with an opinion on it. Shit, it just takes a couple of hours.

[quote] Some people love westerns while others like musicals.

Some people love both!

The Good, The Bad and the Ugly - and other spaghetti westerns

Anything John Wayne

Old War Movies like Bridge on the River Quai, Barry Lyndon, Braveheart, old epic films like Spartacus, Ben Hur and the 10 Commandments.

Most 80s/90s action films like True Lies or the Predator series. Things like Earthquake or Airplane.

Just not interested in these types of films.

[quote]I want to see any movie that’s considered a classic. Even if I hate it, I end up with an opinion on it. Shit, it just takes a couple of hours.

Of course. I hope the proudly ignorant OP reads your post.

Full Metal Jacket and Killer Joe.

You really need to broaden your horizons, OP. Don’t be a boring, provincial ass.

Try these:

Godfather ll - especially for the lovingly crafted scenes depicting the immigrant experience in early 20th century Little Italy, NYC. Also, Goodfellas. Innovative and seminal, it deserved Best Picture. Scorsese was robbed blind.

Platoon - if for no other reason than both Tom Berenger and Willem Dafoe are smoking hot in this movie. A poignant, anti-war masterpiece featuring maybe the saddest music known to man

Peggy Sue Got Married - stellar performance by DL fav Kathleen Turner. Definitely not your daddy’s Francis Ford Coppola.

Two Mules for Sister Sara - the Western for people who say they hate Westerns. Maybe my favorite Clint Eastwood, Shirley MacLaine steals the show.

The Exorcist - and Rosemary's Baby and The Omen (1976) too

Victor/Victoria - c’mon, OP. Are you even gay?

Breaking the Waves - more than any other on this list, an absolute must. You can’t even talk about movies if you haven’t seen this film

Once Upon a Time in Hollywood - if the Manson Family murders had a happy ending. Hilarious eye candy, Tarantino’s love letter to Tinseltown brilliantly conveys the zeitgeist of L.A. in 1969

Life is short, R106.

Time waits for no man.

I've yet to finish reading Zola's amazing cycle of novels.

I shall do that instead.

[quote]Breaking the Waves - more than any other on this list, an absolute must. You can’t even talk about movies if you haven’t seen this film.

Possibly the most preposterous statement made on DL this month. And what a depressing picture. If OP wants to start a "Movies You Wish You Hadn't Seen" thread, I'll put Breaking the Waves at the top of my list.

So you are a deliberate imbecile!

Never saw any of the Godfather movies. I have zero interest.

Same with Scarface, Rocky films, Horror films.

I do like war films and in my opinion, Full Metal Jacket is a superior film to Platoon on how it depicts the experiences of the war.

You couldn't pay me to watch anything like Airplane.

I loathe Tarantino. The only films I've seen of his were Pulp Fiction and the Nazi one and both of those were shitty.

But OP has seen The Little Mermaid 179 times.

Over the years I have seen almost all the so-called classic films at least once. Those I didn't care for I never bothered to see again.

R111, I have never seen any Disney animated film after Alice in Wonderland (which I think is absolutely charming, if obviously not the original book).

Why are there so many control freaks here telling other posters which movies they should be obsessed with?

They’re probably the same control freaks who tell others what kind of food they should like.

Any of the “Star Wars” or “Harry Potter” films.

R114 What are your favorite movies?

OP I love your list and agree with most everything, particularly Quentin Tarantino— what a hack!

My observation is that people go through a Western phase around age 60-70, before, during, or after their Bob Dylan phase. I’m not there yet, so I don’t want to dismiss them just yet.

[ R 106 ] I agree that Lars Von Trier's "Breaking The Waves" is a must but one should be forewarned that it is painfully disturbing. His "Melancholia" is a wonderful film as well. Sad and gorgeous.

In the end though, people should see what interests them. There are too many film critics and pundits out there now as well as wannabe film critics and pundits. It's enough to make your head spin. Luckily, though, we have so many choices. Follow your own tastes and interests and enjoy. Life is hard enough without having to pass the good taste litmus test.

Indeed, R118.

But we’re just shooting the shit, you know.

My top ten:

Last Year at Marienbad

The Earrings of Madame de...

All About Eve

The Bicycle Thief

Weekend

The Wizard of Oz

The Shining

The Conformist

Lost Highways

Gosford Park

Runners-up (all for very different reasons): Citizen Kane (of course), Alien, His Girl Friday, Blue Velvet, Babes in Toyland (The March of the Wooden Soldiers), Suspiria, Creepshow, The African Queen, The Misfits, Dangerous Liaisons, To Have and Have Not, Day of the Locust, Vanishing Point, Two Lane Blacktop, The Fog, Harikiri, Diabolique, The Magnificent Ambersons, Sunset Boulevard, The Empire Strikes Back, Female Trouble, Umberto D., Solaris (Russian version), Night of the Living Dead, Less Than Zero, The Big Sleep, The Manchurian Candidate, Some Like it Hot.

[quote] … featuring maybe the saddest music known to man

Someone hasn’t seen the 2022 “All Quiet on the Western Front.”

R107 Are you OP?

R108 Not your cup of tea, eh?

Watching it is almost a traumatic experience. It’s an epic fable of sacrifice and redemption.

R110 “Outstanding, Private Pyle.”

Didn’t want to recommend Full Metal Jacket to someone unfamiliar with war movies.

Tarantino is a sadistic, exploitative fuck. But Once Upon a Time in Hollywood is almost…kind. Surprisingly thoughtful and mature.

R118 It’s the kind of movie that gets stuck in your mind. One I’ll always come back to.

I liked Melancholia as well. Kept worrying that Kirsten Dunst’s wedding dress would get ruined!

If you’re into movies about women in existential peril, Mother! is another fine choice.

“Star Wars”

R122, yes, I am OP at R107.

R124 For you, OP.

R125, to this day, possibly the most harrowing scene of domestic abuse ever filmed.

Twelve Angry Men.

Like I want to see a bunch of white guys locked in a room, arguing for two hours!

R126 Kubrick was treading a fine line. He made Shelley Duvall’s “Wendy” a simpering, submissive fool. Almost as if he wanted the audience to identify with Jack’s rage and violent intentions.

R102 Best musical ever!

I don’t know why everyone thinks THE SHINING is so great.

Stephen King is kind of Everyman shallow.

R128, I disagree. Duvall plays the character as an abuse victim who finally, under crisis, breaks with her abuser.

Is she "annoying"? She might be. She's also 90 pounds soaking wet and dressed in a bizarre outfit in her first scene that would cover up any bruising.

She also gets the better of Jack and saves her child.

the whole "Duvall's version of the character is weak" seems to miss the point of what she accomplishes.

R131 For sure, Wendy becomes the one the audience roots for. When she gets the better of Jack and locks him up in the dry pantry? So satisfying.

Still, I think Kubrick wanted the audience to relate to Jack on some level. I think he actually admired human beings for their baser instincts.

R121 This is not sad. It will make you like opera.

R12 His command of English is astonishing. And it wasn’t even his first language!

R18 Damn straight!

R95 Fuck you, asshole.

What about There Will Be Blood?

Men seem to like it.

Is it better than Apocalypse Now?

[quote]Schindler's List. i know it is supposed to be an amazing film, but i just do not want to watch such a downer of a movie.

This for me too R92. It is apparently a masterpiece, and a very moving film, but I would just find too distressing. One of the best films I will never see

Not a fan of all those superhero movies either, they leave me cold

You guys should watch the video of Russians torturing murder suspects.

Kids. Never, ever treat a human being like that. Or an animal either.

R135 Pretty darn close. There will be blood is the greatest film of the 21st century.

I've never seen Gone With the Wind. Although I keep telling myself that someday I will force myself to watch it.

OP started a thread just to sound jejune.

R108, I agree with you. I thought Breaking the Waves was ridiculous. I would never watch it ever again. Dogville is much better.

[quote]I've never seen Gone With the Wind. Although I keep telling myself that someday I will force myself to watch it.

Although the film is hugely problematic because of its glossing over of black slavery, it's well worth watching as a historical artifact for the wonderful performances of almost everyone except Leslie Howard, the gorgeous color photography, and many other reasons.

Oppenheimer

2001: A Space Odyssey

The Dark Knight or any other superhero film

Lord of the Rings

Anything Merchant-Ivory or similar, unless I desperately needed to fall asleep.

Pretty much any Oscar-bait type film, especially biopics, period dramas, war movies, etc.

R106, there's only ONE of those movies that's a must see - Godfather II, and it needs a good 30 min cut.

In your opinion, R145. Obviously, others' mileage may vary.

[quote]Although the film is hugely problematic because of its glossing over of black slavery

Gone With the Wind is FICTION and a best selling novel about its heroine. The movie conforms to the book, and in 1939 there was no "problem" with glossing over slavery. The movie is not about slavery. It's only now that some younins apply today's sensibilities to a 85 year old movie.

R147, even back in the day, some people recognized the huge, indefensible flaw in the book and movie of GONE WITH THE WIND is that slavery is glossed over. I agree it's true that this was not a "problem" for most people back then, but that's no excuse.

No one loves GWTW more than I do for the performances of Vivien Leigh et al, the photography, the score, etc., etc. BUT for heaven's sake, the slaves are depicted as if they were paid servants, with no indication that they are ever mistreated. There is no actual mention of the words "slave" or "slavery" in the film, and the black characters are actually identified as "house servants" in the opening credits. Nor is there any acknowledgment that the "servants," including the beloved Mammy, would be beaten to a pulp or lynched if they ever tried to escape the white people who "own" them.

I know GWTW is "fiction," but it's the equivalent of someone writing a book or making a movie that focused on the struggles of a nice German family during WWII while downplaying the Holocaust.

^ Very very very eldergay

[quote]Very very very eldergay

No, moron at R149. Believe it or not, some people are aware of historically significant things that happened well before they were born.

OP, you are a proud ignoramus. Have fun and go back to your Marvel movies.

R148, I've come around on GWTW. European visitors to the antebellum South reported that house slaves often had strategies for manipulating their owners, and there are scenes in GWTW suggest this dynamic. Mammy, in raising Scarlett, has made Scarlett depend on her approval. And is there just a touch of malice in the way she points out that Scarlett's figure was affected by her pregnancy? It does undermine Scarlett's relationship with Rhett, after all.

[quote]R152 Mammy, in raising Scarlett, has made Scarlett depend on her approval.

Does Scarlett depend on Mammy’s advice, or ignore it?

What a tiny and hermetically sealed little world you live in, OP.

OP/R13, have you ever seen [italic]Duel,[/italic] or [italic]The Sugarland Express?[/italic]

They are absolutely stellar Spielberg films, and the only ones I have ever watched and loved. Everything after that is emotionally manipulative dreck. Because of that animus I will never watch his WW2 combat film (or was it Vietnam?) or his WW2 Holocaust film.

I'm in the minority of all my current and former friends, but I HATE HATE HATE David Lynch and all his works that I've ever seen, so anything of his I have never seen, I never will.

Yes, Ma’am, Granny at R150!

OP I also dislike war and mafia movies but Coppolla's Dracula is a masterpiece. I think you should see it. Also Peggy Sue Got Married.

Speilberg's 1941

GWTW’s screenplay also betrays the central tragedy that Margaret Mitchell creates between Scarlett and Rhett-they are unable to say to each other what may have saved their relationship-that they loved the other.

In the movie, Rhett tells Scarlett he loves her right away, totally undercutting the novel.

You couldn't pay me to watch Forest Gump or Schindler's List, for different but similar reasons. False, contrived and mawkish.

^ Good call. Forrest Gump is excruciating

R149 is your phone your life?

OP, you sound like such a well-rounded individual. What books are you into?

What's a book?

Nobody reads books anymore, R163

[quote]You couldn't pay me to watch Forest Gump or Schindler's List, for different but similar reasons. False, contrived and mawkish.

Perhaps you're not aware that SCHINDLER'S LIST is a true story, And how the hell do you know the movie is "false, contrived and mawkish" if you haven't seen it, you moron?

It's not a documentary, R166.

Why not The Exorcist, OP? Are you chicken shit?

The overwhelming majority of Schindler's List is factual. They have added some characters or embellished some parts of the story narrative flow.

False, contrived and mawkish is almost guaranteed with Spielberg's movies. "Saving Private Ryan", anyone?

To R168, THE EXORIST is sooo boring, it's not scary anymore

Try Requiem for a Dream

Forest GUMP

[quote] Why not The Exorcist, OP?

I heard OP's mother sucks cocks in hell

R171 The Exorcist isn't scary "anymore"? WTH does that even mean? How can something that WAS scary no longer be scary?

Anyway The Exorcist is FAR more compelling than just "scary".......dimwits nowadays watch this expecting constant jump scares and melodrama and all the predictable bs that comes with horror movies nowadays but instead are left confused by the multidimensional characters, compelling messages about faith and science and sacrifice and the slow burn building into climax. In other words, they're expecting their food chewed up for them.

I’ve never seen any of the big westerns, like The Searchers or Unforgiven. It’s just a boring genre to me.

I did see the one with Hillary Swank, poor thing. And now that I think of it, I did like Lonesome Dove. But usually they’re just so dusty and full of fake grandstanding.

[quote]I’ve never seen any of the big westerns, like The Searchers or Unforgiven. It’s just a boring genre to me.

But whether or not that's true depends on many variables. For example, I really don't like THE SEARCHERS but I think STAGECOACH is a great film, both directed by John Ford. What's the main difference? The quality of the script, IMHO.

[quote]Usually they’re just so dusty and full of fake grandstanding..

Even if that's true, usually is not always. It's your great loss if you insist on missing classic films because you don't like -- or THINK you don't like -- a particular genre. But I realize its difficult to talk sense into people with your mindset.

Titanic

Top Gun

Lord of Rings

Westerns are very hard for me to watch. But I did like The Wild Bunch and Once Upon a Time in the West.

I've never gotten into westerns...ever. I want to try watching The good, the bad and the ugly because the score is so fantastic and it's essentially considered a masterpiece and a seminal work not just for westerns but films in general, and because I love Eli Wallach, but idk, I'm scared to be dissapointed yet again.

R163, primarily 19th and early to mid-20th century American, Russian, French and English literature.

Somewhere around John Cheever, fiction takes a turn I do not care to follow, although Raymond Carver was amazing.

Nowadays I have a game where I walk into a bookstore and try to read the first three paragraphs of a bestseller without wanting to throw the book across the room.

"Ted sat down at his computer whitely and began to work on his novel. It was about a novelist named Det."

"Agnes was a lesbian except for this one sex scene right here."

"Gosh, it was hard being a one-legged part Korean genderqueer snow-plow operator or might have been had Jeremy been any of those things."

"Let me tell you all about my miserable childhood for 800 fucking pages."

"Tulla sipped her lemonade, admired the sunset and remembered the rape."

"My name is James Frey and I'm going to prove to you that there is no God by simply not being shot in the head by now."

Etc.

R171, The Exorcist was NEVER scary

R181, Standing in line outside in the freezing cold was.

There are many classics I haven't seen, many mentioned on this list. I have pretty quirky/arty taste in film. I'm also not a big fan of violent genres - never watched the Godfather movies, etc.

One classic I'm somewhat ashamed of never seeing is It's A Wonderful Life. Somehow it just never happened - am usually visiting someone or doing something when it's shown on TV. Will try to rectify that.

I have no interest in any of the later John Wayne westerns, like "McLintock" and "The Cowboys" and "Rooster Cogburn", etc. Don't think I'll ever get around to watching any of those.

I will watch Spaghetti Westerns and Chorizo Westerns. Though only a handful are great films, the rest are usually much easier or more diverting to watch than American westerns. The few American Westerns I like (e.g., Treasure if the Sierra Madre; The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford) are unusual of their type, or questionably Westerns.

Forrest Gump

Titanic/WE Gilbert Grape

Good Will Hunting

The Lion King

Harry Potter/Lord of The Rings

Star Trek (never saw the shows either)

Pretty Woman/Erin B/Steel Mags/Mystic Pizza

Shakespeare In Love

Matrix Movies

Slumdog Millionaire

Anything Spielberg after 93 when I finally realized I loathe him bc he has so much contempt for his audience that he puts children at risk as his main plot device. I’ve had a million arguments about this but every movie plot he touched can be traced back to someone’s child - even if the child is an adult - in peril. Dreadful.

The Exorcist is about so much more than jump scares. It deals with heavy, elemental themes and is beuatifully acted and shot. It's also a technically brilliant film whose effects and cinematography (even the musical scoring etc) still stand up today. The film is so important to film history it's been preserved by the Library of Congress.

I highly recommend the new 4K re-release than came out last year with Warner Bros 100 year anniversary.

R187, thank you!

R184 I finally saw The Cowboys. Damn it was good.

No Godfathers. Love Goodfellas.

R148 Scarlett says to Prissy "I'll sell you South, I will. I swear I will." This speaks for itself that Prissy is a slave. Ashley says to Scarlett he was going to free their slaves "after Father died" - though I think he says "darkies" the intent is the same. GWTW was previewed at 4.5 hours and over 45 minutes of it was cut after that. Some things were cut before they were ever filmed.

[quote] Remarkably, much of the excised material in my Rainbow Script was a harsh portrayal of the mistreatment of the enslaved workers on Scarlett's plantation, including references to beatings, threats to throw “Mammy” out of the plantation for not working hard enough, and other depictions of physical and emotional violence.

OP is an engagement/rage farmer. Posts a preposterous claim, wanting everyone to argue with him.

[quote]R186 / Erin B / Shakespeare In Love / Matrix

These three are good films. Each is professionally crafted on all levels, very well cast, and have interesting premises. I don’t know what else one could want from movies. Each is kind of perfect, within its genre.

"It's a Wonderful Life" - I don't know why but it doesn't interest me in the least. Maybe it's been too hyped as a MUST SEE movie. I finally watched Citizen Kane and I can honestly say, I don't feel the need to see it again.

I've seen the Godfather movie that puts all 3 into chronological order so I can say I have never seen the individual movies.

Breaking Wind 2

I never really say I will *never* see a particular film. About the only films I have no desire to see are gory, violent (excessively so) movies. Basically, that stuff makes me sick. Sometimes literally nauseated. So I'm not usually going to see those.

I avoid westerns because they’re usually about some inflated, quasi noble theme, with crappy roles for women. Just a bunch of dusty, sunburnt men scowling at each other.

So I avoided LONESOME DOVE for decades. When I finally watched it I shocked myself by crying during the river scene… and went on to love it!

^^ i still avoid westerns as a rule, tho

I've never seen MASH but don't want to say I'll never see it. Same for Apocalypse Now.

I like artsier movies but there are very few Ingmar Bergman movies I have managed to sit through. Persona being one of the few. Something about his style doesn't really do anything for me.

Barbie

Anything sports-related (Field Of Dreams, etc.). What a freakin bore.

Great thread for this steaming hot weekend when I just want to crank the AC and watch movies.

Any “Star Wars,” “Batman” or “Harry Potter” ones.

I haven’t seen any Marvel movies except for Black Panther and The Joker.

The Joker was so weird because it’s not dramatically structured to work on its own. Like, at the end the climax is he’s transformed into his Joker persona. That’s supposed to be satisfying??

I liked the action sequences in Black Panther but I don’t remember the plot or the cast.

TLDR: I don’t watch comix movies

I don't watch superhero or comic book movies but I don't consider them "classic movies."

[quote]I don't watch superhero or comic book movies but I don't consider them "classic movies."

Oh yes, of course you’re right.

Just suffered through the first hour of 'Out of Africa' which I recorded on TCM. Have another 102 hours to go, but I won't. Snoooooooooooozefest.

Alternate name for this thread: "Tell me how closed-minded you are without telling me how closed-minded you are."

The lion king I know it’s a piece of shit

The “Star Wars,” “Jurassic Park,” “Star Trek” and “Harry Potter” original and sequel films, and I’m not a sheep and so don’t plan on seeing any of these ever just because a lot of others flocked to them in droves. But I respect those others who have gone to watch and loved them…To each just their own. 😎

Titanic. The Matrix. Avatar. Most of the Star Wars franchise, any movie based on a comic book character, Barbie. Jurassic Park.

There are so many. A combination of pickiness, ADD, and plain disinterest in today's cinematic offerings means I rarely watch movies.

I do watch a fair amount of stuff on TCM though.

Can't say I never saw them because I did see part of them--but I walked out of Pirated of the Caribbean--what a piece of shit--and I also walked out of the first Harry Potter movie because I didn't buy the premise (never read the books).

*Pirates

[quote]I walked out of Pirates of the Caribbean--what a piece of shit

I'm with you on that. And not only was it a POS, I still can't believe how gory and disgusting some of it was for a movie aimed at a family audience.

It took my about 15 years to watch Titanic and I was a teen in the middle if it's craze. I really did not miss much.

R215 What I don't understand is how many people loved it. Used to be a time when you could at least expect a movie like that, with that kind of name and premise, to be well-made, entertaining, and to draw you in with time-honored techniques. They didn't even know how to tell a story.

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.

Easy Rider.

Blow Up.

David and Lisa.

The Godfather (none of them).

A Clockwork Orange.

[quote]Alternate name for this thread: "Tell me how closed-minded you are without telling me how closed-minded you are."

Not at all. I can name many exceptional or interesting film titles I have seen for the films I have purposely not see. I know from a trailer or TV ad will be an waste of my time and of no interest; and I've seen thousands of films of all types, subjects, geographies, time periods, genres, and style. -- enough that I can absolutely say that in seeing a trailer for 'Pretty Woman' or 'Pirates of the Caribbean' or 'Patch Adams' that for me there's nothing to be gained by watching them.

R219 I don't know if you're OP, but I had to Google Patch Adams to even remember what it was, so I wouldn't call that a "classic movie." I'm not sure Pretty Woman or Pirates of the Caribbean come under the heading of classics.

But if you've never even seen the Godfather I don't see how you can dismiss it. Or Part Ii. And "every other gangster film ever." Let's start there. I actually didn't go to either The Godfather or Part II of my own volition. I saw the sequel first (at the drive-in, just on a Saturday night, with friends). Found out it was a great film. The first one, someone wanted to go, so I went, at college. Again, really enjoyed it. I mean, haven't you ever had that kind of experience?

I mean, saying "every single Vietnam War film ever," "every western ever," "every musical ever." That represents a lot of films. You're really depriving yourself of some unbelievable experiences. And no, one can't actually tell from a magazine ad or a even a trailer if a movie will appeal or not.

(On another thread, I named a number of films I've never seen. Some I probably will never see, but I've had the experience many times of liking something I didn't think I'd like.)

R220. I am not the OP. I've seen all of the Godfather films and two are brilliant and favorites; the third is nowhere near the quality but has some beautiful moments and I've watched it more than once.

You're right about my remarks at R219, my examples are what I would call popular rather than classic films (but then Titanic and many others listed in the thread are likewise more popular than quality classics.) My mistake in mixing up two similar but not quite threads on films one has never seen.

Agreed, I've watched films for which I had dim expectation and been very pleasantly surprised. And I will watch a lot of films on the thinnest sliver of promise (knowing not to expect much at all) only because I can be amused by the decisions made or not made, the settings, the lighting, a hundred little interesting details apart from it not being a great or even a good film.

If you're interested in how films come together you can usually find something of interest in many mediocre films -- if only to rewrite, recast, reshoot, and reorganize the whole enterprise in your head. For some popular and some classic films though, there's no small satisfaction even in that.

[quote]I mean, saying "every single Vietnam War film ever," "every western ever," "every musical ever." That represents a lot of films. You're really depriving yourself of some unbelievable experiences.

Exactly. Like all gross generalizations, that was a really foolish comment.