“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.
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.
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.
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.
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)
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.
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
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.
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
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).
(Which is actually a mis-quote.)