# Poll: have you seen the movies? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 26, 2011, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-have-you-seen-the-movies/579837 "2011-04-26T23:35:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2011, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-have-you-seen-the-movies/579837/1 "2011-04-26T23:35:48Z")
[In an earlier thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=606015), people created a list of movies that were known for famous scenes but few people have actually seen in their entirety. Lets see which ones people on the Dope have seen. Check any films that you’ve seen from start to finish, and not just for the famous scene (in parentheses). ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2011, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-have-you-seen-the-movies/579837/2 "2011-04-26T23:43:51Z")
IBTList! ---
**Author:** ![woodstockbirdybird](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/woodstockbirdybird/32/7905_2.png) [@woodstockbirdybird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/woodstockbirdybird)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2011, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-have-you-seen-the-movies/579837/3 "2011-04-26T23:48:19Z")
Sure thing. Where’s the poll? ETA: Oops. Just showed up. ---
**Author:** ![woodstockbirdybird](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/woodstockbirdybird/32/7905_2.png) [@woodstockbirdybird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/woodstockbirdybird)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2011, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-have-you-seen-the-movies/579837/4 "2011-04-26T23:50:40Z")
1. Not great. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2011, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-have-you-seen-the-movies/579837/5 "2011-04-26T23:53:20Z")
32 I’m sure someone here has seen them all. Most of the not seen ones for me are the older foreign ones. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2011, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-have-you-seen-the-movies/579837/6 "2011-04-27T00:18:00Z")
The Shining? Really? Huhn, I watched Triumph of the Will in university, along with Olympia - doing a film course, which included a section on propaganda. Riefenstahl was a hell of a film maker…it’s really too bad she directed it toward making propaganda for a vile regime. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2011, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-have-you-seen-the-movies/579837/7 "2011-04-27T00:43:15Z")
1. Of course, a couple of these were in film classes in college. I’ll be willing to bet nobody has watched _The Brown Bunny_ all the way through. Not even the director. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2011, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-have-you-seen-the-movies/579837/8 "2011-04-27T00:52:40Z")
1. Blackjack! ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2011, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-have-you-seen-the-movies/579837/9 "2011-04-27T01:15:37Z")
I’m up to 27. ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2011, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-have-you-seen-the-movies/579837/10 "2011-04-27T01:20:44Z")
1. I really need to see some more of these. ---
**Author:** ![Terminus\_Est](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terminus_est/32/3087_2.png) [@Terminus\_Est](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terminus_Est)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2011, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-have-you-seen-the-movies/579837/11 "2011-04-27T03:01:40Z")
Ah crap, I missed a couple and there’s no way to go back and re-vote. I only got 12 anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Invisible\_Chimp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/f05b48/32.png) [@Invisible\_Chimp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Invisible_Chimp)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2011, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-have-you-seen-the-movies/579837/12 "2011-04-27T03:14:32Z")
I thought people were still adding movies/scenes to the earlier thread linked in the OP. I thought it was still going. That being said, I counted 25 of the movies in the poll that I’ve seen all the way through. ---
**Author:** ![Anticounterrevolutionary](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f04885/32.png) [@Anticounterrevolutionary](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anticounterrevolutionary)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2011, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-have-you-seen-the-movies/579837/13 "2011-04-27T03:17:00Z")
1. I love the synopses. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2011, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-have-you-seen-the-movies/579837/14 "2011-04-27T03:22:42Z")
By my count I’ve seen 18 of these: Trip to the Moon, Citizen Kane, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Gone with the Wind, It Happened One Night, Metropolis, Network, On the Waterfront, Some Like It Hot, Taxi Driver, The Gold Rush, The Great Dictator, The Seventh Seal, The Shining, Un Chien Andalou, and When Harry Met Sally. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2011, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-have-you-seen-the-movies/579837/15 "2011-04-27T03:23:53Z")
22 for me. I’ve worked my way though most the movies on the IFC top 100 lists so I caught a lot of them that way, that and I looove classic movies. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2011, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-have-you-seen-the-movies/579837/16 "2011-04-27T03:26:05Z")
I’ve seen them all except for _And Justice for All, Battleship Potemkin, Downfall, It Happened One Night_, and _Brown Bunny_. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2011, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-have-you-seen-the-movies/579837/17 "2011-04-27T03:27:05Z")
1. And I haven’t even heard of some of the others. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2011, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-have-you-seen-the-movies/579837/18 "2011-04-27T03:34:31Z")
Only 12. ---
**Author:** ![Spectralist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Spectralist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectralist)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2011, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-have-you-seen-the-movies/579837/19 "2011-04-27T03:41:29Z")
I’ve only seen 7 of them. Of those 7 I’ve only liked 2, Citizen Kane and Network. Patton and And Justice for All were mediocre but decent. The Shining and Taxi Driver were long, pointless, and without any interesting character motivations or development. As was The Deer Hunter which Taxi Driver always reminds me of and also seems like it could have been on the list for the Russian roulette scenes. Some Like it Hot remains the only Jack Lemmon movie I’ve seen that I didn’t like. And When Harry Met Sally was so dull that despite that I’m fairly certain I’ve seen it twice the referenced scene is the only thing I remember about it. And that likely only because I’ve seen it parodied so often. Quite a few more I’ve tried to watch but got so bored so quickly I gave up. A Streetcar Named Desire, Braveheart, Casablanca, Freaks, Gone With the Wind, On the Water Front, and The Treasure of the Sierra Madre. The only reason I’ve even seen that many is about a year ago I made a list of as many movies I could think of that I hadn’t seen but had seen referenced, parodied, or talked about a lot and tried to watch though them. Most of the rest of the movies on this poll that I haven’t seen or tried to watch I’m not even familiar with the famous scene and or have never even heard of. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2011, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-have-you-seen-the-movies/579837/20 "2011-04-27T04:26:52Z")
I’ve seen 29. In college I saw a lot of the classics, and try to wathc old Chaplin and Lloyd films when possible. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-have-you-seen-the-movies/579837.md?page=2)