# 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:** 2
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2011, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-have-you-seen-the-movies/579837/21 "2011-04-27T04:44:52Z")
> [@NoClueBoy](#): > > I’m sure someone here has seen them all. I came close. I’ve seen every one except _The Brown Bunny_ (which also has the lowest vote count) ---
**Author:** ![irritant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@irritant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/irritant)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2011, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-have-you-seen-the-movies/579837/22 "2011-04-27T04:45:50Z")
1. Never seen And Justice for All, Braveheart, Downfall, Fast Times, Risky Busines, Royal Wedding, The Brown Bunny, Triumph of the Will, or When Harry Met Sally. I went through a Riefenstahl phase once and saw quite a few of her films as actress and as director, but Triumph escaped me. Edit: Just put a hold on Triumph at the library, so it’ll be 32 by next week. ---
**Author:** ![Trepa\_Mayfield](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/edb3f5/32.png) [@Trepa\_Mayfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trepa_Mayfield)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2011, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-have-you-seen-the-movies/579837/23 "2011-04-27T05:32:27Z")
There was no option for “none”, BTW! Although I’m probably the only one who would pick that, anyway. I am not a movie watcher. ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2011, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-have-you-seen-the-movies/579837/24 "2011-04-27T05:38:29Z")
27 for me. I would have guessed more. Gotta see me some Harold Lloyd. mmm ---
**Author:** ![Tarwater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/9de0a6/32.png) [@Tarwater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tarwater)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2011, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-have-you-seen-the-movies/579837/25 "2011-04-27T06:05:35Z")
An [interesting article](http://www.avclub.com/articles/a-lot-of-people-who-say-theyve-seen-the-godfather,55055/) about the top films people lie about seeing. Not that I’m accusing anybody here of doing that. It’s just interesting to see the numbers on that type of phenomenon. One in three people who say they’ve seen the Godfather are lying? That’s quite a bit more than I would have expected. Oh, and I’ve seen 24 of these films. For the few I haven’t seen, I’m also not familiar with the relevant scene, coincidentally. ---
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2011, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-have-you-seen-the-movies/579837/26 "2011-04-27T06:13:54Z")
Five. ---
**Author:** ![Grumman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/43a26b/32.png) [@Grumman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grumman)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2011, 6:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-have-you-seen-the-movies/579837/27 "2011-04-27T06:18:25Z")
> [@pedescribe](#): > > There was no option for “none”, BTW! Although I’m probably the only one who would pick that, anyway. I am not a movie watcher. I also tried to vote without selecting any, but it didn’t allow it. I do watch movies, but mostly new ones or ones that get shown on TV. ---
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2011, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-have-you-seen-the-movies/579837/28 "2011-04-27T06:27:34Z")
1. Do I win anything? ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2011, 6:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-have-you-seen-the-movies/579837/29 "2011-04-27T06:36:02Z")
Only 7. That’s pretty pathetic, but most of those films are the kind that would play a lot on US TV, but not so much outside of the US. We got a lot of movies on Saturday afternoons etc, but not many of them were the classics. ---
**Author:** ![EvilTOJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee59a6/32.png) [@EvilTOJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EvilTOJ)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2011, 8:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-have-you-seen-the-movies/579837/30 "2011-04-27T08:26:42Z")
3 for me. I saw The Brown Bunny, it was shit. SHIT I TELL YOU! A bunch of shots of the director/main character drive around for half the movie. Then he has sex with his real-life ex-girlfriend on camera. Scintillating. ---
**Author:** ![Double\_Foolscap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/85e7bf/32.png) [@Double\_Foolscap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Double_Foolscap)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2011, 8:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-have-you-seen-the-movies/579837/31 "2011-04-27T08:47:16Z")
I thought I’d only seen one (_Casablanca_), but after I voted I remembered that we watched _On the Waterfront_ in English class. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2011, 8:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-have-you-seen-the-movies/579837/32 "2011-04-27T08:58:50Z")
The only one I voted for is _Citizen Kane_, and I actually saw that on AMC without knowing what it was, and thought it was pretty good. I later saw it again on an AMC special, or I would have never known I’d watched it, since I missed the beginning (and was so confused by the end that I forgot about the word by the time I first heard of the meme). I’ve also seen _Risky Business_, but I missed it when voting. My sister had a thing for Tom Cruise movies. I take it most people have seen _A Few Good Men_, despite the memetically altered line: “You want the truth? You can’t handle the truth!” ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2011, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-have-you-seen-the-movies/579837/33 "2011-04-27T16:38:59Z")
I’ve only seen these: Braveheart (Mel Gibson rouses the troops) Casablanca (several) Citizen Kane (“Rosebud”) Gone With the Wind ("Frankly, my dear . . . . ") The Shining (“Honey, I’m home…”) The Brown Bunny (Chloë Sevigny’s sex scene) And some of the rest, you couldn’t pay me to watch. I wouldn’t watch Un Chien Andalou for anything. Brown Bunny was indeed awful. A man drives cross-country. In real time. Then, SEX! ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2011, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-have-you-seen-the-movies/579837/34 "2011-04-27T17:09:48Z")
I’ve seen about a third of the movies on the list in their entirety. I only saw _The Godfather_ from start to finish last year at a local undergraduate screening, having seen a zillion snippets from it here and there since it came out. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2011, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-have-you-seen-the-movies/579837/35 "2011-04-27T17:13:47Z")
Why is everyone talking about the Godfather? It’s not on the list, or am I just blind? FTR, I have seen it start to finish and enjoyed it. ---
**Author:** ![Bosstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2011, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-have-you-seen-the-movies/579837/36 "2011-04-27T17:18:55Z")
Wow. I haven’t seen a single one of these movies from start to finish, although I’ve read enough analyses on The Shining that it almost counts. Good call on this poll, by the way. I was thinking about setting one up just for Citizen Kane, but this is much more thorough. ---
**Author:** ![Suburban\_Plankton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suburban_plankton/32/219_2.png) [@Suburban\_Plankton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suburban_Plankton)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2011, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-have-you-seen-the-movies/579837/37 "2011-04-27T17:21:27Z")
Only 13 for me, but quite a few of the rest are on my ‘must watch’ list. As soon as I finish catching up on \*Buffy \*and _Dexter_ on Netflix 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![panamajack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/47e85d/32.png) [@panamajack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panamajack)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2011, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-have-you-seen-the-movies/579837/38 "2011-04-27T17:30:46Z")
> [@Anaamika](#): > > Why is everyone talking about the Godfather? It’s not on the list, or am I just blind? > > FTR, I have seen it start to finish and enjoyed it. **Tarwater** brought it up as a movie people frequently lie about seeing. I’ve seen 23, missing just about all the pre-1930 films listed. I don’t know if the poll system allows it, but I’d be interested in a side-by-side poll of which _scenes_ people have seen or are familiar with. For instance, I have no clue what the grapefruit in the face is, or Chaplin’s food tray. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2011, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-have-you-seen-the-movies/579837/39 "2011-04-27T17:48:31Z")
13 for me, but a lot of those are no brainers. I’ve seen **Braveheart** a million times, because it’s on broadcast TV all the time. **And Justice for All** is one of my all time favorites. And I own **Citizen Kane**. Some more obscure ones, like **Potemkin** , I sought out for study. ---
**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:** [April 27, 2011, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-have-you-seen-the-movies/579837/40 "2011-04-27T17:52:46Z")
Wow, only 14. I’m surprised at myself. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-have-you-seen-the-movies/579837.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-have-you-seen-the-movies/579837.md?page=3)