# Famous movies you HAVEN'T seen **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 20, 2013, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-movies-you-havent-seen/647798 "2013-01-20T13:31:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/f04885/32.png) [@Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qin_Shi_Huangdi)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2013, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-movies-you-havent-seen/647798/41 "2013-01-21T00:33:25Z")
Saving Private Ryan Schindler’s List Gone With the Wind Wizard of Oz Indiana Jones and the Lost Ark (saw the rest of the series) Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi (saw the rest of the series) Godfather series ---
**Author:** ![Askance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/askance/32/8281_2.png) [@Askance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askance)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2013, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-movies-you-havent-seen/647798/42 "2013-01-21T01:15:18Z")
From the first 100 of that top 250, I’ve not seen: The Dark Knight Fight Club City of God Once Upon a Time in the West Se7en Leon: The Professional Sunset Boulevard American History X Django Unchained (#34 already? seriously?) City Lights The Dark Knight Rises Spirited Away Modern Times The Shining M Toy Story 3 Intouchables (on the 'flix list) The Great Dictator The Prestige (on the 'flix list) Reservoir Dogs Requiem for a Dream The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (on the 'flix list) Once Upon a Time in America Oldboy Princess Mononoke Raging Bull Discounting the ones I will see soon that’s 23/100, not too bad. Mostly they are 1/ very old, 2/ horror/violent, or 3/ asian fantasy/magic realism . Interesting. ---
**Author:** ![melondeca](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5a626/32.png) [@melondeca](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/melondeca)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2013, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-movies-you-havent-seen/647798/43 "2013-01-21T01:56:13Z")
> [@RikWriter](#): > > I’ve seen 7 of the bottom 100…if watching them on MST3K counts. That makes them count twice. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2013, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-movies-you-havent-seen/647798/44 "2013-01-21T02:12:34Z")
The Princess Bride ---
**Author:** ![crypto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b3f665/32.png) [@crypto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crypto)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2013, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-movies-you-havent-seen/647798/45 "2013-01-21T02:26:53Z")
I have never seen A LOTR movie A Harry Potter movie And have no plans on ever seeing them. My life is just fine, thank you. I am somewhat of a movie buff, and try to see all the popular or acclaimed movies when they are out. But those types of movies will never see me in the audience. I will even sit through an awful movie if it has won an award, like Citizen Kane, but if I don’t find the premise interesting, I usually won’t bother. ---
**Author:** ![Hbns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/8edcca/32.png) [@Hbns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hbns)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2013, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-movies-you-havent-seen/647798/46 "2013-01-21T03:12:06Z")
I haven’t seen any of the talkies. ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2013, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-movies-you-havent-seen/647798/47 "2013-01-21T04:18:14Z")
46 maybe? ETA: Is the number of movies from the list which I have seen. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2013, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-movies-you-havent-seen/647798/48 "2013-01-21T05:02:56Z")
Of the IMDB-250 list linked above I’ve seen 188 of them. ---
**Author:** ![Dave\_Hartwick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7feea3/32.png) [@Dave\_Hartwick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dave_Hartwick)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2013, 6:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-movies-you-havent-seen/647798/49 "2013-01-21T06:55:58Z")
_Rashomon_. I checked it out from the library, started watching it, quit. I thought I was a Kurosawa fan but really I’m only a fan of _The Seven Samurai_. _The Treasure of the Sierra Madre_. I saw it on Askance’s list and it’s a movie I think I’d really like. Just never went far enough out of my way to see it. Same with Chaplin movies like _Modern Times_ and _The Great Dictator_, although I think _The Gold Rush_ is the one I most wanted to see. Surely they’re public domain by now? …And after a quick look at YouTube, looks like the Chaplin movies are, _Sierra Madre_ isn’t. Huh, guess I don’t have an excuse for that one anymore. I don’t watch nearly as many movies as I used to, so there’s a less than 50% chance that I saw any recent famous movies that don’t involve superheroes. Then there’s a bunch of movies I’d only see if I was in a relationship. I must’ve been in a dry spell when _Titanic_ was popular, for instance. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2013, 8:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-movies-you-havent-seen/647798/50 "2013-01-21T08:32:29Z")
_Top Gun_, _Fight Club_ and Oldboy I’ve definitely not seen. I _may_ have seen a late-night TV showing of _Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?_, as I have a vague memory of that. And Chaplain’s _The Gold Rush_ I’ve not seen in its entirety, just clips. All the rest mentioned in this thread I’ve seen including _The Lion King_ just a few months ago. ---
**Author:** ![Seanette](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/seanette/32/9139_2.png) [@Seanette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seanette)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2013, 8:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-movies-you-havent-seen/647798/51 "2013-01-21T08:59:08Z")
> [@Crafter\_Man](#): > > Deliverance > Fight Club > Gone with the Wind > King Kong I’ve seen Gone with the Wind, but haven’t seen the other three. Also haven’t mustered an interest in Fight Club, Pirates of the Caribbean, Ocean’s [number], or anything by Quentin Tarantino. I’ve skipped several, such as A Beautiful Mind, due to hype aversion (too many people yell at me about how I _have_ to see a particular movie and I rebel). Still debating whether I can overcome the hype aversion problem to watch Hunger Games, which is currently sitting on the TV stand courtesy of Netflix. My husband thinks I’d probably like it, but again, it’s overhyped IMO to the point of being more about following popular trends than the movie actually being that interesting. Of course, I lasted ten minutes maximum trying to watch Citizen Kane before I gave up out of utter boredom, so I’m quite sure I’ll be dubbed a low-brow Philistine. I don’t really care. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2013, 11:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-movies-you-havent-seen/647798/52 "2013-01-21T11:38:17Z")
> [@Stink Fish Pot](#): > > I have never seen > A LOTR movie > A Harry Potter movie > … This. Plus I don’t think I’ve seen almost any kid movie since I was a kid. No Toy Story, no Car movies, no Pixar anythings. That list of 250 is a very shaky one, IMO. But I’ve still seen almost 200 of them, and most of the ones I haven’t seen are ones released after 2000 (including quite a few I’ve never even heard of, let alone seen.) ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2013, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-movies-you-havent-seen/647798/53 "2013-01-21T13:16:48Z")
> [@Sevencl](#): > > Tons. > > A few I’ve made an effort to watch but got bored by and tuned out - > > Citizen Kane (people think this is good? Whoever wrote that opening monologue REALLY needed to be taught show don’t tell) If you can’t watch a movie in context with when it was made you shouldn’t try to watch anything more than 10 years old. If there is one movie that can truly be called revolutionary it is Citizen Kane. No movie was done anyway close to that before and all movies changed after. That is why it is thought of as the greatest movie ever. If it came out now it would be seen as slow and stilted. But it came out in 1941 and it was genius. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2013, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-movies-you-havent-seen/647798/54 "2013-01-21T13:56:45Z")
When I have more time I’ll look over the list more but at a glance I have seen quite a few. A lot of the ones I haven’t seen are movies I have heard so much about I really have no desire to see them. For instance Shindlers List. I have seen many parts of it. I know the entire plot. I can’t get motivated to see a movie that already know. Some of the others I have seen so many pieces of them that I can’t remember if I ever sat down and watched from beginning to end. ETA 62 out of the top 100 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-movies-you-havent-seen/647798.md?page=2)