# The Best Movie You've Never Seen **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 19, 2000, 8:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-youve-never-seen/29953 "2000-08-19T08:26:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![theuglytruth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/6a8cbe/32.png) [@theuglytruth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/theuglytruth)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2000, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-youve-never-seen/29953/41 "2000-08-22T18:19:35Z")
Ive never seen: Saving Private Ryan Titanic Taxi Driver ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2000, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-youve-never-seen/29953/42 "2000-08-22T19:20:07Z")
_The Wizard of Oz_. I just can’t past the fact that her shoes are red, not silver like in the book. _Titanic_ – on principle. - Schindler’s List \* and \* Saving Private Ryan\* because I heard they weren’t that good. ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2000, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-youve-never-seen/29953/43 "2000-08-22T22:25:56Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Cervaise \* > \*\*Hey **lissener** , that’s a great list. I note you’re in Seattle as well; you and I should hoist a pair of brews and chat cinema. Maybe the next time someone more organized than I decides to put together a Puget Sound Doper get-together. > > P.S. Re Verhoeven – What do you think is his best film? _Spetters_, _Soldier of Orange_, or…? \*\* _Spetters_ was so long ago, I feel almost like it’s creeped back onto my “never seen” list, and I’ve always managed to miss _Soldier of Orange._ You remind me to go get them this weekend. My favorite would have to be _Basic Instinct_, though _Robocop_ is more fun to return to. And I’m kind of in the process of reconsidering _Showgirls_. Read [this](http://www.chireader.com/movies/archives/2000/0800/000811.html) for an interesting perspective on Verhoeven’s American movies. And I’d love to chat cinema; just moved here and don’t know too many people yet. I’ll email you through your website. > [@](#): > > _Originally posted by gigi_ > \*\*The Wizard of Oz. I just can’t past the fact that her shoes are red, not silver like in the book. \*\*/ Gigi, there’s a baby in that bathwater. It’s certainly not the greatest liberty ever taken with an adaptation. > [@](#): > > _continued_ > \*\*Titanic – on principle. \*\* Skip the first hour or so, but watch the last couple hours as a documentary on special effects. One of the worst scripts ever written by a 7th grade schoolgirl, but James (_Terminator_) Cameron manages in the second half to ratchet the medium of cinema up a notch or two: it goes to eleven. I saw it twice just for the experience of being shown again what that big silver screen is _for_ (though I agree with most critics that it would have been much, much better in a foreign language with no subtitles). > [@](#): > > _continued_ > \*\*Schindler’s List and Saving Private Ryan because I heard they weren’t that good. \*\* Of course you should skip _Schindler’s List_, a horrible, infuriating film. But I was shocked to discover that I liked _Saving Private Ryan_, until about the last 5 minutes when Spielberg undid all the good he’d done and yanked the rug right out from under the entire movie. Trust me: leave during the morph. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2000, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-youve-never-seen/29953/44 "2000-08-23T15:30:49Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by lissener \* > > > [@](#): > > > > _Originally posted by gigi_ > > The Wizard of Oz. I just can’t past the fact that her shoes are red, not silver like in the book. > > Gigi, there’s a baby in that bathwater. It’s certainly not the greatest liberty ever taken with an adaptation. I know, I know 🙂 I guess it’s just a matter of principle (stubborness?) as people are always surprised I haven’t seen that, Willy Wonka, or those “Christmas specials”. Giving in and watching “It’s a Wonderful Life” turned out so badly. But I did read all the Oz books and would hate to influence those memories. Also the reason I won’t ever watch a film of Pride and Prejudice–don’t want to replace the images my imagination has developed. Thanks for the advice on the other epics! ---
**Author:** ![DRY](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a87d85/32.png) [@DRY](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DRY)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2000, 6:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-youve-never-seen/29953/45 "2000-08-25T06:18:26Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by lissener \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > _Originally posted by gigi_ > > \*\*The Wizard of Oz. I just can’t past the fact that her shoes are red, not silver like in the book. \*\*/ > > Gigi, there’s a baby in that bathwater. It’s certainly not the greatest liberty ever taken with an adaptation. > \*\* Amen to that–in Gone with The Wind, as written by Margaret Mitchell, Scarlett O’ Hara actually has three children, Suellen takes up with a carpetbagger and there are many other things not covered or changed as well. Then there’s _cough_ Braveheart _cough_. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2000, 6:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-youve-never-seen/29953/46 "2000-08-25T06:38:44Z")
**silent\_rob…** Is it really a hijack if you started the thread? Is it really a hijack to respond to a hijack? Is it really a hijack… IO PAN! IO PAN PAN!! HAIL ERIS! ALL HAIL DISCORDIA!! Sorry, that just slipped out. _offers handshake and attempts to lock thumbnails_ ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2000, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-youve-never-seen/29953/47 "2000-08-25T18:05:19Z")
I have seen most of the films posted here with a few execptions. Mean Streets (but I’m not a big gangster film fan) I have seen a few films from the directors that don’t speak english although not the entire library of any of them. rockstar I want to see Run Lola Run but I can only find it on rental dubbed which dubbing annoys me way too much. Don’t worry it is not a dialogue intensive film. There is more words in this entire thread than in the film. (and yes it ROCKS!) I have never seen Sugarland Express. I missed Breaking the Waves and Celebration. I have never seen Birth of a Nation. I have seen Eraser Head and I was terribly unimpressed. I think I was supposed to be stoned or something. BTW I love Blue Velvet and Wild at Heart. A great Movie many people missed is The Hudsucker Proxy. ---
**Author:** ![silent\_rob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@silent\_rob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silent_rob)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2000, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-youve-never-seen/29953/48 "2000-08-26T01:13:36Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by E d’Mann \* > \*\*IO PAN! IO PAN PAN!! HAIL ERIS! ALL HAIL DISCORDIA!! > > Sorry, that just slipped out. _offers handshake and attempts to lock thumbnails_\*\* Kallisti. 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-youve-never-seen/29953.md?page=2)