# The most famous movies you've never seen. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 24, 2015, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-famous-movies-youve-never-seen/713481 "2015-02-24T02:19:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Haldurson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/51bf81/32.png) [@Haldurson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Haldurson)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2015, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-famous-movies-youve-never-seen/713481/61 "2015-02-25T18:38:11Z")
“It’s a Wonderful Life” – people keep telling me to see it, but every time I have a chance to watch it, I just say no. Many classic animated movies – I’ve tried, I’ve brought my nephew to the theater to see some of them. I nearly always fall asleep 5 minutes in. The only one in recent memory that I was able to stay awake through was “Up” Any of the Harry Potter movies: Again, I’ve TRIED to watch a couple of them, mostly with my niece and nephew, but again, I end up falling asleep EVERY SINGLE TIME. I have a good friend who tried to get me to read the books because he thinks they are so great. I bought the whole collection on his recommendation, opened up the first book… and I could not get through even the first book. I kept reading it thinking that there would be a punch line. Because to me, it read like British humor but with all of the humor stripped out. I could not take it. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2015, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-famous-movies-youve-never-seen/713481/62 "2015-02-25T18:45:13Z")
I never got around to seeing any of the MAD MAX flicks before I lost all desire to watch any Mel Gibson movies; I’d guess they count – oh, and THE BOUNTY, too. ---
**Author:** ![koeeoaddi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/koeeoaddi/32/408_2.png) [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2015, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-famous-movies-youve-never-seen/713481/63 "2015-02-25T18:57:52Z")
Raging Bull Fight Club Field of Dreams ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2015, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-famous-movies-youve-never-seen/713481/64 "2015-02-25T19:08:00Z")
Birth of a Nation Casino and Goodfellas I’ve seen parts of both but never sat down and watched them. Don’t have that much interest in them. ---
**Author:** ![Penfeather](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penfeather/32/384_2.png) [@Penfeather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Penfeather)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2015, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-famous-movies-youve-never-seen/713481/65 "2015-02-25T19:50:11Z")
I don’t even have a movie theatre. ---
**Author:** ![Namkcalb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c89c15/32.png) [@Namkcalb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Namkcalb)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2015, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-famous-movies-youve-never-seen/713481/66 "2015-02-25T20:30:31Z")
I haven’t seen any of the recent Oscar winners, they didn’t really appeal to me. As for films that should appeal to but I haven’t got around to seeing. The Hobbit 3: I broke up with my little person girlfriend just before it came out, and didn’t want to watch anything that would trigger sad feelings. Brazil: I’ve loved Gilliam’s work, and the synopsis intrigues me but I just haven’t got around to watching it. > [@Loach](#): > > Million Dollar Baby. No interest. Already know the ending. You are missing out, the “ending” is actually closer to the beginning and most of the film is about going beyond it. It’s easily Eastwood’s best work. > [@Penfeather](#): > > I don’t even have a movie theatre. Fucking pleb 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![DrForrester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8edcca/32.png) [@DrForrester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrForrester)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2015, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-famous-movies-youve-never-seen/713481/67 "2015-02-25T21:48:57Z")
For myself… Horror movies. I just don’t watch them. “The world is bad enough as it is without inventing any more of it.” - Douglas Adams (I think) Give me a decent Twilight Zone or a sci-fi with a twist (like Moon, for example) & I am set for the evening. But, absolutely no - Jason movies Freddy movies Saw movies Halloween movies (Although, I did watch Dark Star, if that counts) ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2015, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-famous-movies-youve-never-seen/713481/68 "2015-02-25T23:42:05Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > Birth of a Nation, but I’m largely okay with not having seen it. I’ll be seeing this this coming Saturday, at a silent film festival. It’s the 100th anniversary of the movie. ---
**Author:** ![Filbert](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/filbert/32/3433_2.png) [@Filbert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Filbert)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2015, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-famous-movies-youve-never-seen/713481/69 "2015-02-25T23:50:35Z")
II’ve never seen _Brief Encounter_, which is kinda funny, because it was partly filmed at the train station I used to travel to school from, and that is literally the _only_ interesting thing about the place, and the reason they refused to replace the station clock with one that, you know, _worked_. There’s a little visitor centre there about the film and everything. I’ve also not seen _Godfather_, more than a few clips of _The Sound of Music_, _Back to the Future_, _Casablanca_, or most other ‘Classic’ films. ---
**Author:** ![racepug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f1d935/32.png) [@racepug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racepug)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2015, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-famous-movies-youve-never-seen/713481/70 "2015-02-26T00:50:55Z")
Off the top of my head: _The Silence of the Lambs_. I just don’t have an appetite for that sort of thing these days (not that I ever really did). Not sure how famous it really is, but: _Juno_ Absolutely zero interest in that movie for me. None whatsoever. ---
**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:** [February 26, 2015, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-famous-movies-youve-never-seen/713481/71 "2015-02-26T01:05:21Z")
> [@nearwildheaven](#): > > I’ve seen “Rocky Horror Picture Show” but not in a theater. Does that count? No. It’s the audience that counts, not the movie itself. ---
**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:** [February 26, 2015, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-famous-movies-youve-never-seen/713481/72 "2015-02-26T01:12:00Z")
I much prefer older movies to most from recent couple of decades. From the American Film Institute’s 100 Greatest American Movies of All Time: The 18 I haven’t seen: The Bridge on the River Kwai Chinatown Raging Bull Apocalypse Now The Godfather Part II Double Indemnity The Birth of a Nation All Quiet on the Western Front Stagecoach Shane The French Connection The Wild Bunch Platoon A Place in the Sun Goodfellas Pulp Fiction The Searchers Unforgiven ---
**Author:** ![What\_the](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f4b2a3/32.png) [@What\_the](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_the)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2015, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-famous-movies-youve-never-seen/713481/73 "2015-02-26T01:14:38Z")
Big baseball guy and I’ve never seen The Natural. ---
**Author:** ![Jim\_s\_Son](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19adc/32.png) [@Jim\_s\_Son](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jim_s_Son)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2015, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-famous-movies-youve-never-seen/713481/74 "2015-02-26T01:17:33Z")
Titanic Avatar Forrest Gump Schindler’s List (seen documentaries on the man) Reservoir Dogs Clerks saw first hour of Peter Jackson’s “King Kong” ---
**Author:** ![JoshuaSD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f1d935/32.png) [@JoshuaSD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JoshuaSD)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2015, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-famous-movies-youve-never-seen/713481/75 "2015-02-26T14:03:48Z")
Movie theater hater here and just not a big movie fan at all. I missed the majority of the films already mentioned and none of the older ones. I did see the Wizard of Oz on TV as a kid, saddly on a B/W TV. Last movie I saw in the theater was Titanic in 1997 or 98 (I was forced to see it with a group.) Before that it was Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade about late 80’s-ish. Since then I have not seen any other movies that were not cartoons with the only exception of Pan’s Labyrinth on DVD sometime around 2010ish. Even the cartoon movies I barely watch they are just on in the background as I’m surfing. Maybe it’s a short attention span issue but I prefer TVs 11 min format to the 1.5 to 2.5 hour format. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2015, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-famous-movies-youve-never-seen/713481/76 "2015-02-26T14:14:22Z")
Never seen Gone with the Wind or Titanic. Also never seen any Lord of the Rings or Harry Potters. ---
**Author:** ![MacLir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9e8a1a/32.png) [@MacLir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacLir)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2015, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-famous-movies-youve-never-seen/713481/77 "2015-02-26T15:18:08Z")
Ironically, I reflected just this morning (through a convoluted chain of associations) that I had never watched “The Treasure of the Sierra Madre”. As in “Badges? We don’ need no steenking badges!” 😃 (Which is actually a mis-quote.) ---
**Author:** ![Labtrash](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/labtrash/32/528_2.png) [@Labtrash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labtrash)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2015, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-famous-movies-youve-never-seen/713481/78 "2015-02-26T15:36:51Z")
Partials: Titanic (I’ve only watched from the iceberg on, just to see DeCaprio die) Never in one sitting, but have probably seen all of these in pieces: Wizard of Oz Citizen Kane Gone With the Wind Apocalypse Now It’s a Wonderful Life The Ten Commandments Ben Hur Never at All Birth of a Nation Cleopatra A whole slew of others I cant think of right now ---
**Author:** ![racepug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f1d935/32.png) [@racepug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racepug)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2015, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-famous-movies-youve-never-seen/713481/79 "2015-02-26T18:30:28Z")
> [@Dale\_Sams](#): > > For me: > > Citizen Kane (Just haven’t got around to it) > E.T. (No real desire) > Schindler’s List (Depressing) To _Citizen Kane_ I give a big, giant “Meh” I’m with you on the other two… ---
**Author:** ![racepug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f1d935/32.png) [@racepug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racepug)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2015, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-famous-movies-youve-never-seen/713481/80 "2015-02-26T18:36:59Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > Of the movies listed so far, I haven’t seen ET, Lawrence of Arabia, or Schindler’s List. > > Other movies I haven’t seen: > > Any of the Batman movies > Any of the Spiderman movies > Fight Club > **Gladiator** > Goodfellas (which is surprising because I like both Scorsese and gangster movies) > The Shawshank Redemption > The Silence of the Lambs My wife wanted to see _Gladiator_ real bad so I agreed to go with her. We ended up leaving the theater about ½-way through the film. I think I went to see the original (meaning: the one with Michael Keaton) _Batman_. It was okay. I’ve seen worse. Like you I’ve never seen any of the _Spiderman_ movies (for the most part those comic book/graphic novel adaptations just don’t do much for me). I have no interest in _Fight Club_. I don’t believe I’ve ever seen _Goodfellas_ (at least not in its entirety), either (might have something to do with the fact that I was never a big fan of Joe Pesci’s). _The Shawshank Redemption_, though, is one of my all-time faves (although Stephen King’s novel was even better, imo). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-famous-movies-youve-never-seen/713481.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-famous-movies-youve-never-seen/713481.md?page=5)