Ive never seen:
Saving Private Ryan
Titanic
Taxi Driver
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.
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 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.
Gigi, there’s a baby in that bathwater. It’s certainly not the greatest liberty ever taken with an adaptation.
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).
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.
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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!
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.
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Is it really a hijack to respond to a hijack?
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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.
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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.
Kallisti. 