Poll: have you seen the movies?

Only 13 for me. For a few of them it’s been a number of years since I’ve seen them. One of them, however, I just saw recently - a couple of months ago TCM was showing “Gone With The Wind”, I had never seen it before, and my wife and I stayed up until 1am watching it.

I was surprised by this, too, since I think the truly iconic scene from Modern Times isn’t the food tray or the Nonsense Song, but rather the moment when Chaplin is sucked into the gears of the machinery at the plant (40 seconds in).

  1. I remember seeing the trailers for Fast Times when it came out, but before now never knew of a good reason to actually watch it. Now I do. I need to look up Downfall - that is the only movie on the list I’m not at least familiar with.

Only 21. Sort of disappointed with my own total.

26 movies and it is largely Charlie Chaplin that is killing me. I seem to be the one movie buff that does not like him and his movies. Harold Lloyd is the only really entertaining silent film actor for me. Even Buster Keaton does little for me from his silent days.

I only saw *Downfall *via a small online movie club on another board. I did not particularly like it.
I actually probably saw 27, I think I saw A Streetcar Named Desire but I for forget if I saw the entire movie. Chariots of Fire & *Freaks *I turns off part way through.

18 for me (at best recollection - I may have seen a couple more that sounded familiar). I think I might use this list for movies to see in the future.

11 for me. :frowning:

I saw Taxi Driver recently on AMC. I don’t get what all the hype was about. (My guess is that it was realistic, gritty, and violent for it’s time. Is that right?)

  1. And I am surprised that so few people have seen Shane. The ones who haven’t have a treat in store.

Well, if you saw it on AMC, then it wasn’t in widescreen and it was severely edited, so that may have something to do with it.

All righty, I’ll bite. Do you feel the theatrical release is good, then?

DeNiro made an iconic scene (“you talking to me?”), but other than that, I kept waiting for something to happen. Spent an hour and a half watching an angsty guy drift (well… drive) about. :wink: Is that supposed to be a ticking-time-bomb suspense thing?

Damn, I didn’t see 7 of them.

I spend way too much time watching old movies.

And I own
A Trip to the Moon (Bullet in the moon’s eye)
All About Eve ("Fasten your seatbelts . . . ")
Battleship Potemkin (Odessa steps & baby carriage)
Braveheart (Mel Gibson rouses the troops)
Casablanca (several)
Freaks (“We accept you. One of us.”)
Gone With the Wind ("Frankly, my dear . . . . ")
It Happened One Night (Claudette Colbert teaches hitchhiking)
Metropolis (the city or the robot or the worker trudging to their jobs)
Modern Times (automatic food tray and the nonsense song)
Network (“I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take it any more.”)
On the Waterfront (“I could have been a contender.”)
Patton (George C. Scott in front of the flag)
Risky Business (Tom Cruise in his underwear)
Royal Wedding (Fred Astaire dancing on the ceiling & with a hat rack)
Taxi Driver (“You talking to me.”)
The Gold Rush (Chaplin’s dance of the rolls)
The Great Dictator (Chaplin’s “ballet” with the globe/balloon)
The Public Enemy (Cagney smashes grapefruit in woman’s face)
The Seven Year Itch (Marilyn Monroe on the subway grates)
The Seventh Seal (chess with death)
The Shining (“Honey, I’m home…”)
The Treasure of Sierra Madre (“Badges?”)
Potempkin is part of a soviet ring cycle we watch once and a while, it includes Alexander Nevski, Ivan the Terrible 1 and 2 and Battleship Potempkin.

We do an occasional Nazi Ring cycle as well - Das Boot, Die Bruche, Die Wannseekonferenz.

The French Fantasy cycle is great, La Belle et la Bete, Orphee, and Le Process.
We sort of like odd movies as popcorn flicks. Some make you sit and contemplate =)

15 for me, with a number of movies on the list that I have absolutely no interest in seeing.

All except 2 :* Downfall *and Freaks

Metropolis: Sort of. I’ve watched it a few times, but that was a few years ago, when large chunks of it were missing. I haven’t seen the nearly intact version that was discovered a couple of years ago. Does that count?

I’ve only seen three, but I read the original book for a few more.