That’s first on my list, too, followed by Raging Bull. I don’t do boxing movies.
I saw “Seven” in the theater. Imho, my strong opinion, it was as far from a masterpiece as you can get. I don’t know what everyone sees in that picture. It’s a vulgar display of film making; over the top in every bad way a film can be.
And, btw, I thought “Silence of the Lambs” was excellent.
Actually, I felt like that about “Seven” as well. At the end, everyone I knew was like, “OMGthatwasamazing!!” while my reaction was, “Sooooo… what?”,
I thought it was gratuitous, pointless crap.
The Maltese Falcon - it was cited here, months back, as a movie that one HAS to watch to be considered at all culturally literate.
I have zero interest in noir/hard-boiled detective/etc stuff, unless it’s being combined with a genre I do - comedy, SF, superhero. Especially not one that’s been referenced, parodied, and ripped off as much as MF.
Any of the Universal monster movies I haven’t seen yet - I love horror and monster movies, but I’ve seen 3 Universal movies - Dracula, Frankenstein, and the Mummy. The only one of them I liked at all was the Mummy.
I liked that one a lot, to be sure, but the record so far doesn’t make me particularly inclined to think any of the others will be any less plodding and boring than D and F. (I didn’t like the novel of Frankenstein, either, actually, although I did enjoy Dracula.)
I understand not wanting to see it, it is a horribly depressing movie. Until you think about how Oskar Schindler saved over 1,000 people, and those survivors and their descendents now number around 15,000 people that wouldn’t be here if he hadn’t intervened. It’s a little easier to see when you think about that. But still pretty hard to watch.
As for me, I doubt I’ll ever see The Godfather, I’m not into mob movies. And Citizen Kane, I already know about Rosebud but I don’t quite understand what that has to do with anything…
[Simpsons] If you don’t watch the violence, how will you become desensitized to it? [/Simpsons]
I’m a frustrated movie-addict and normally I’ll watch anything once. A movie-addict whose choices are severely restricted atm due to very young children. Lack of time and opportunity, and impressionable young minds mean I don’t think I can handle any more Disney animation for a while… I respect that there are some things that people just don’t wanna watch.
I disagree with your reasoning on this one, though. “The Godfather” is a mob movie in the same way “Watchmen” is a comic book or “Hamlet” is a story about a whiny brat. True, but very, very misleading. “The Godfather” is about loyalty and evil and love and family and friendship and grief I suggest people watch it if for no other reason than there are a billion jokes that you’ll get now that you never got before.
It’s true. There are so many more “Simpson” episodes that I can laugh about now that I’ve seen it–well, one at least. Still need to see two and three. That was also the way I felt about “The Sopranos” before I broke down and became a fan.
I don’t have any desire to see “Titanic,” though…
Citizen Kane - I started a thread here a few months ago about what was so great about it and whether I should watch it. I listened to the first part of it at work on a listentoamovie site at work and couldn’t take it. My reasoning is astoundingly stupid. They kept saying the word Xanadu over and over and I couldn’t stand the sound of the word. The most favorable association I was making was something to do with Scientology. I can’t ever listen to the word Xanadu again plus I don’t care anything about media moguls.
Olives, I’ve seen Seven. Yes, it’s a well-constructed, well-made movie. And yes, you are absolutely right in skipping it. It’s not good mind food.
Won’t ever watch any with horror scenes, like the Steven King ones. Or Cuckoo’s Nest.
starts to recite “Kublai Khan”
I’d just like to pitch in here and say that I agree with Marlitharn’s sentiments about Hollywood’s treatment of movies like Titanic and Pearl Harbor, I have to say that the former was a pretty awesome movie to see in the theaters for the sheer spectacle of the film. Not just the crash, but the overall grandiose recreation of the ship was pretty great to see up on the big screen, but I can totally agree that take away that experience, and there isn’t much left to recommend the film (aside from a naked Kate Winslett, yowza! 
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As for me, basically any drunken-frat-f@$# movies, like Animal House, or a certain kind of Highschool movie like Fast Times at Ridgemont High*. Porky’s either. Or the more modern take on this like Old School. Maybe it’s just me but these movies just don’t interest me.
Additionally, many of the 80’s comedy movies like Meatballs, Caddyshack, etc. I love movies like the National Lampoon’s _______ Vacation series, or Three Amigos**, or even Spies Like Us, but it’s always been my impression that that era of films seemed to fall into one of two subtly different styles, and I get really particular about it. This may very well just be my own personal hang-up though.
Totally irrational, I guess, but while I loved Shrek, I havew absolutely no interest in ever seeing any of the sequels. I can’t really say why.
I will never, ever watch movies like Saw or any other gratuitosely gruesome flicks. I don’t really even like movies like House of a Thousand Corpses.
Lastly, the bulk of the “Frat Pack” comedies made today (movies with Ben Stiller, the Wilson brothers, Will Ferrell, etc). I actually like quite a few works from each of those actors, but the glut of movies they’ve been in lately mostly look like pure garbage, IMHO.
…Wow, I kind of sound like a snob, don’t I? :eek:
Oh well, back to reading anime fanfiction (a truly tasteful medium 
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*In retrospect I realize Fast Times doesn’t really fit in with that group, but it’s another flick that the more I hear about it, the less I want to see it.
**Not to be confused with the (also excellent) Three Caballeros Disney cartoon.
I’m not interested in seeing Lawrence of Arabia.
ambushed: I hated GWTW and you’re not missing a thing. So much melodrama, so many people that I wished would die, die, die.
Dmark: If you don’t mind sitting through the occasional boxing bout, or perhaps fast forwarding it, you might try Cinderella Man. It will not leave you feeling like crap the way MDB would.
My Aunt has a way of describing these kinds of movies in ways that make me never want to see them. She has described ‘‘Seven’’ as a film that struck her with shock and bewilderment that people actually think about those things and apparently think they’d make good movie plots. She’s gone through every morbid painstaking detail of Saw and described the sickening sound of someone’s skull getting crushed in Casino. Considering the descriptions themselves made me nearly throw up, I don’t figure I ought to push my luck.
(My ‘‘physical/psychological torture’’ threshold is incredibly low. I had to briefly leave the theater for both The Cell and Pan’s Labyrinth, and I walked out in Beyond Borders though I keep trying, repeatedly, to get all of the way through it.)
So while we’re at it, let me add the no doubt FABULOUS film, Reservoir Dogs, which is one of the only ones I really have any true desire to see, though sadly I never will.
I will never see lots of excellent movies, for the simple reason that they will cause me to lose sleep every night for the rest of my life.
Exactly. 
Citizen Kane
Birth of a Nation (although I have seen a small section of this)
The Passion of The Christ
Gone with the wind
Brokeback Mountain*
*This is the only one I’m actively avoiding though.
Just to clarify-it’s not because of the subject.
This is the movie that immediately popped into my mind when I read the OP.
I only remember two suicidal lesbians (and a suicidal gay man).
I’m avoiding **Titanic **just because I don’t want to hear that song again. But Kate Winslet is hot, so I may eventually give in.
IMO, every American should see Casablanca.
Them’s my sentiments.
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