Movies you're shocked your SO has never seen.

I was just mentioning to ElzaHub that I always crack up when I see the poster here named Stillwell Angel, and got a blank stare back. I said “You’ve never seen A League of Their Own? It’s not great filmmaking, but it’s a fun movie.”, and he said “No, I’ve never seen it.”.

I was shocked. I thought it was one of those movies that everyone has seen. He hasn’t seen a few other movies that I adore, but they’re a little more understandable - Cinema Paradiso or Empire of the Sun - we’re working on remedying that. But A League of Their Own seems like one of those flicks that everyone has seen, especially when you’re movie nuts like we are.

Are there movies that you’ve seen that you can’t believe your SO hasn’t seen?

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I had to show him The Blues Brothers, and he still hasn’t seen Fiddler on the roof*.

He coudn’t believe I hadn’t seen Buckaroo Bonzai* or Red dawn or a host of others.

My boyfriend is a huge geek, but I had to introduce him to Army of Darkness and Evil Dead 2! It’s great to see it with someone who’s never seen it before but will appreciate it, though.

He’d also never seen any of the Connery Bond movies, maybe not any of the Moore ones either. I knew his sense of humor would be tickled by the rampant sexual themes and cartoonishly dated manliness, so that was fun, too.

My husband was a part-time pseudo-Goth in college, yet has never seen Nightmare Before Christmas! His black eyeliner priveleges were retroactively revoked…

:smack: Wow, that’s got to be the worst-coded post I’ve ever made. And I misspelled it, too.

It’s usually the other way around in my marriage: hubby is shocked at all the movies I’ve never seen. Many people are, probably because I know and understand where many references and catch phrases came from, even who uttered them, but have never seen the movie they originated from.

I watch movies, even own a hefty DVD collection.

However, I have only seen two of the movies mentioned in this thread (I barely remember Nightmare Before Christmas, but I actually own Army of Darkness).
For example, I just watched Deliverence for the first time ever a couple weeks ago. I’ve never seen Titanic, A League of Their Own, most of those 80s classics (a friend of mine was shocked, shocked, that I’ve never seen Footloose or Pretty In Pink), most of the big blockbuster movies from the 90s+… never seen 'em.

The g/f had never seen Casablanca until this past year. When I found out she hadn’t seen it I insisted that we rent it that evening.

My husband’s never seen *The Godfather * (or any of the sequels). He also doesn’t watch anything scary, so he hasn’t seen any horror movies or even suspense films that have really tense moments. I had to go see *The Blair Witch Project * by myself.

Other way around in our marriage. My wife has forced me to watch several film classics that everyone but me had apparently seen, including, but not limited to:

  1. Dr. Strangelove
  2. A League of Their Own
  3. High Anxiety
  4. Groundhog’s Day
  5. Animal House
  6. Highlander
  7. Caddyshack (just last week, believe it or not)

There are others that aren’t coming to me. She still desperately wants me to see Maverick and Field of Dreams, among others. All in good time.

I’m not sure I’ve ever introduced her to anything worthwhile, sadly.

Moving thread from IMHO to Cafe Society.

There’s a lot of movies my wife has never seen. Most of the big-budget Hollywood films have passed her by. Anything sci-fi, horror, violent, police-action–chances are she’s never seen. Unless it was in the past few years (after we married) and I’ve convinced her to watch a DVD with me.

Foe example, she’s never seen **Star Wars ** or any of the sequels. If I mentioned the names “Darth Vader” or “Luke Skywalker” to her, she would look at me with a blank stare.

This really isn’t in line with the OP because this is really no surprise to me. She likes what she likes. Also, she is from Korea and while Hollywood and other aspects of Western culture are pretty big over there for the younger generation, it’s easier to skip over the movies and not be “in the loop” as it were, if it’s just not your thing

My husband (53) has never seen “The Wizard of Oz” :eek: And refuses to watch it now :frowning: , so whenever the sinkids and I start to humm the bike riding tune or talk about the flying monkies he’s totally clueless.

Clue.

It’s the only one I can think of, oh, and Memento

And he refuses to watch either one

Jerky Jerk from Jerksville

I’ve seen the movie but wouldn’t have gotten the reference - it’s been too long and it’s not a movie I’d necessarily watch again. FWIW, I wouldn’t classify as a movie everyone has seen.

I do have some younger (re: punk teenagers) who don’t know who Humphrey Bogart is. :smack:

When my wife and I first started dating, she suggested we head up to the Trapp Family Lodge in Vermont for a romantic ski getaway.

I had no clue what the place was supposed to be about, because I had no idea who the von Trapps were. Whenever The Sound of Music came on the tube, I switched the channel. Little did I know that TSoM was scripture to my future wife, and a trip to the Family Lodge a kind of pilgrimage (Mecca was, of course, in Salzburg). Anyhow, a trip to Vermont in winter sounded nice, so I said “Sure. I’d love to go to a lodge.”

After getting unpacked, we decided to go for an afternoon jaunt around the Lodge’s extensive Nordic ski center. At one point we passed a small cemetary plot, and my future wife grabbed my arm to stop me.

“There,” she said in a reverent tone “is where Maria and Georg are buried.”

“Who?”

You should have seen the look she gave me. She stood there, having caught her breath, her face a pale, horrorstruck expression.

“Who? Who???”
“Errrr, I’m sorry. Are they your relatives?”
“What!?!?”
“OK, I’m really confused now…”
“You don’t know who Maria and Georg von Trapp are??”
“Well…I guess they must have been the owners of the Lodge, right?”
“NO! Well, yes, they were the owners, but…but you don’t know who they are?”
“Should I?”
The Sound of Music???”
I stared at her blankly.
“They were the nun and the Baron in the TSoM!!”
“I’ve never seen it.”
Never seen it??”
“Umm. No. I never went for that sort of thing…musicals. Can’t stand them, really.”

My wife’s passion is musical theater.

She was flabbergasted, and I was baffled by her reaction. We must have skied in silence for an hour before she was able to recover her equilibrium enough to accuse me of lying about TSoM and having never seen it. It took a week before she would believe me when I said I knew nothing about it except that Mary Poppins was in it, and that I hated Mary Poppins, so I naturally avoided TSoM as well. Not that belief made her feel any better. Poor woman, she really had the hots for me, and this revelation about my philistine, heathen attitudes had rocked her poor world to its very foundations. Needless to say, I was on probation from that moment forward, until she’d sat me down in front of the TV and popped the tape in the VCR. No boyfriend of hers was going to remain a TSoM virgin. A couple years later she dragged me to “The Sound of Music Sing Along”* at the Coolidge Corner Theater. I think my participation and approval was a pre-requisite for marriage.

*Imagine TSoM and a midnight viewing of Rocky Horror Picture Show all wrapped up into one…while following the bouncing ball. Surreal.

We try and resolve these as they come up, and usually pretty quickly thanks to Netflix, since they’re usually old enough to not be on Blockbuster shelves. Recently I made her watch The Usual Suspects, Rain Man and, just this weekend, Good Morning Vietnam.

High on her Netflix list right now are Run Lola Run and Fight Club. A lot of these are surprising only because we both are the archetypical geek types, and every young geek is now required to see Fight Club before college graduation or have their membership revoked.

One I’m shocked neither of us have seen: Memento.

I don’t have an SO so cannot contribute in the same way as the OP has asked, but I’d just like to say I have not seen any of the movies listed in the above quote, except for Rain Man, and I didn’t really like that too much.

I tried to watch Usual Suspects once, but got bored fifteen minutes in as none of it made a lick of sense.

For the record, I am a geeky geek.

Not shocking, exactly, but Pepper Mill had never seen

Spartacus
Flight of the Phoenix
The Last of Sheila
Charade

On the other hand, I’d never even heard of Blackadder, which she introduced me to.

What really shocked me was that she’d never read The Lord of the Rings, even though she loves fantasy and was an avid Role-Playing Gamer in very Tolkienian situations. But we saw the firast two movies of the Trilogy before she finally broke down and read the books. (It was interesting to hear her RPG-inspired comments throught the film.)

Until about a month ago, my wife had never seen the original Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory ! With her being a “family movie” type of person, I was amazed, considering the fact that I’m not, and I’ve seen it at least 10 times!BTW, Cal, I’m surprised that someone of your knowledge had never heard of Blackadder! Have you seen tham all? What did you think?

Dunno how I missed them, but I did. Shortly after they learned of my shocking deficit, some mutual friends gave Pepper and I the entire Blackadder set on VHS.