# Movies you have watched, really watched, and can't remember at all... **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 30, 2012, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-have-watched-really-watched-and-cant-remember-at-all/611204 "2012-01-30T16:59:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Sattua](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sattua/32/11906_2.png) [@Sattua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sattua)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2012, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-have-watched-really-watched-and-cant-remember-at-all/611204/1 "2012-01-30T16:59:25Z")
Starting this as the twin to the novels-forgotten thread. What movies can you not remember a damn thing about? I’ve seen _Neverending Story_ about four times. Until the most recent viewing, I couldn’t ever remember a single thing about it. I saw _La Conformiste/Il Conformisto/The Conformist_ three times before I remembered it. As in, each time I seriously saw it at the video store, thought it sounded interesting, rented it and watched it. I remember it now, though. ---
**Author:** ![Ruby\_Slippers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/94ad74/32.png) [@Ruby\_Slippers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruby_Slippers)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2012, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-have-watched-really-watched-and-cant-remember-at-all/611204/2 "2012-01-30T17:07:48Z")
This has happened to me many times – and I still don’t remember which movies! I remember the movies I really really liked, and I remember the movies I hated, but I frequently forget the “meh” movies. ---
**Author:** ![Azeotrope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/0ea827/32.png) [@Azeotrope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Azeotrope)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2012, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-have-watched-really-watched-and-cant-remember-at-all/611204/3 "2012-01-30T17:14:40Z")
_The English Patient._ I saw it with my sisters, who were both all over it, but I can’t remember a thing about it except the guy in the turban was a hottie. ---
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2012, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-have-watched-really-watched-and-cant-remember-at-all/611204/4 "2012-01-30T17:19:42Z")
I saw _Tampopo_ many years ago, and all I remember now is the egg-cracking scene. ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2012, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-have-watched-really-watched-and-cant-remember-at-all/611204/5 "2012-01-30T17:51:51Z")
> [@Ruby\_Slippers](#): > > This has happened to me many times – and I still don’t remember which movies! I remember the movies I really really liked, and I remember the movies I hated, but I frequently forget the “meh” movies. Me, too! I am trying hard to think of one, all I can come up with is “The Sting”. I actually slept through much of it, though. (I admire both Robert Redford and Paul Newman as capable and attractive actors, but I don’t find their movies very engrossing.) ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2012, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-have-watched-really-watched-and-cant-remember-at-all/611204/6 "2012-01-30T19:36:40Z")
Captain EO Seriously, we went to Dland last year when they brought it back and the whole family was excited. I was thinking how cool sonce I never saw it during its original run. 5-10 minutes into it, I was like, “Oh yeah. I have seen \ this before.” So it is pretty bad when not only can you not remember what’s in the movie, you can’t remember that you even saw the movie. ---
**Author:** ![Sister\_Vigilante](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de0a6/32.png) [@Sister\_Vigilante](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sister_Vigilante)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2012, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-have-watched-really-watched-and-cant-remember-at-all/611204/7 "2012-01-30T19:43:29Z")
> [@ugly ripe tomato](#): > > _The English Patient._ > > I saw it with my sisters, who were both all over it, but I can’t remember a thing about it except the guy in the turban was a hottie. He also later turned up on Lost as the torture specialist. I can’t remember a single thing about Sweeney Todd. Not one word of it. ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2012, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-have-watched-really-watched-and-cant-remember-at-all/611204/8 "2012-01-30T19:43:50Z")
I know I’ve seen Michael Clayton more than once, but all I can remember is Tilda Swinton psyching herself up in the bathroom mirror. ---
**Author:** ![Catfood\_Purrito](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Catfood\_Purrito](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catfood_Purrito)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2012, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-have-watched-really-watched-and-cant-remember-at-all/611204/9 "2012-01-30T19:48:49Z")
All the Star Wars movies. I’ve seen the original three at least four times in my life, once as a kid, then I went to all the rereleases in the 90’s, and my husband is a big fan, so I’ve seen them and all the prequels at least a couple times in the last few years, and for whatever reason they do not stick in my brain. I remember enough to get jokes and references, but aside from a very vague overview, I couldn’t tell you much about the plot. It’s not that I particularly dislike them or anything, I just can’t remember what happens, and I don’t have that problem with many other movies. ---
**Author:** ![GargoyleWB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gargoylewb/32/199_2.png) [@GargoyleWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GargoyleWB)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2012, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-have-watched-really-watched-and-cant-remember-at-all/611204/10 "2012-01-30T19:54:11Z")
The _Oceans xx_ movies. I’ve seen them all, Oceans 11 at least twice, but don’t remember a single scene or event from any of them. I have a hazy memory involving George Clooney and a casino. Looking at the cast lists now, I couldn’t have told you that any of the others were in the movies at all. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2012, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-have-watched-really-watched-and-cant-remember-at-all/611204/11 "2012-01-30T19:55:35Z")
Looking over my Oscar nominee spreadsheet for the past few years: _Inside Job_, which I had only a couple of hours ago look up in IMDb to convince myself I had actually seen _Day & Night_, which I’m guessing was a Pixar short feature, but of which I have no memory _Letters from Iwo Jima_, which I remember enjoying but can’t actually remember any of Lots of others, I’m sure. ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2012, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-have-watched-really-watched-and-cant-remember-at-all/611204/12 "2012-01-30T20:18:03Z")
The Pink Panther movies and some of the James Bond movies. I’ve seen them all mutiple times, but the details seem to jumble together… ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2012, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-have-watched-really-watched-and-cant-remember-at-all/611204/13 "2012-01-30T20:23:03Z")
I can’t remember anything at all about George Liucas’ \*\*\*THX-1138, \*\*\*except that I saw Robert Duvall’s butt. If I had to forget the rest of the movie, why couldn’t I have forgotten THAT too?