I finally saw Caddyshack a few years ago after my wife bought it for cheap. After we watched it I asked her how much she paid for it. I think her response was “One dollar.” To which I replied: “I think you paid at least double what you should have.”
To Bridge on the River Kwai I give the same thing I give Citizen Kane - a giant “Meh.” I’ve read that The Searchers is supposed to be pretty good but I’m just not all that “big” into older (meaning, for me: pre-1960s) movies.
Anything by Quentin Tarantino
Anything by Alfred Hitchcock (excluding Psycho and The Birds)
Most of Stanley Kubrick’s body of work
Any Best Picture-winning war movie
I’ve seen it. I wasn’t particularly impressed. I put it this way: nothing about it sticks out in my memory. I guess I just don’t like older movies all that much (although there are a few exceptions for me, such as Twelve Angry Men [meaning the original one, of course, starring Henry Fonda]).
I dont really think your missing anything with animal house, its a movie thats best watched when you were both young, and in the time period it came out.
Declan
Good choice. A few years ago when I was unemployed I noticed that “The Oxbow Incident” was on T.V. and I decided to watch it. Not bad, as I recall. And relatively short, too!
That’s the reason I mentioned it. Like Shane, The Ox Bow Incident was a film based on a highly regarded novel.
Avatar, All except the first modern Batman film, Fight Club,Pretty Woman, Titanic, Any Fast and Furious, American Sniper, Snakes on a Plane, Jerry McGuire, any Twilight movie, Any MockingJay film, Anything after the first Saw - I wouldn’t have seen that if I hadn’t been stuck in a hospital bed next to someone who had a tv and was watching it.
If it has a huge hammer a nail into the brain advertising campaign, after about the 10th HOUR of commercials I refuse to see something. I don’t think I have seen more than the accumulated commercials for most movies that actually end up released in the past decade. All the damned ads basically annoy me so damned much I figure that if they feel they need to drive it into our brain, it must not really be that good.
It’s a wonderful life
Gone with the Wind
Sound of Music
Avatar
Home Alone (any of them)
I only recently watched Breakfast at Tiffany’s, which is about as old as I am (available on Amazon Prime streaming). It put me on a bit of an Audrey Hepburn kick and I watched a couple others of hers: How to Steal a Million, Paris When it Sizzles. I had seen Wait Until Dark long ago, however.
I have never been a big movie fan. Here are some I haven’t seen:
Forrest Gump (It’s so often quoted that I feel like I’ve seen it. That’s good enough.)
ET (Never got around to it.)
Any Matrix movie (I like linear plotlines.)
Metropolis (but I have it ready in Netflix)
Citizen Kane (I want to see it.)
Birth Of A Nation (Too much baggage.)
Casablanca (There is something irritating about Bogart. He’s an anachronism.)
Any Lord of the Rings (Just not interested. I read the books in school.)
Harry Potter (except the first one, at my daughter’s urging)
Schindler’s List (I know it’s an “important” movie. But I know history already.)
50 Shades (I refuse)
There are many others.
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There are many reasons people give for not liking the Matrix movies*, but not this one. The movies all have linear plotlines. If this is all that’s keeping you from watching them, go see them.
Watchmen, or Memento (which, like Matrix films, features Carrie-Ann Moss and Joe Pantaliano) are non-linear plotlines.
*Not me. I love the first one and the second, aside from the filler stuff at Zion. I even like much of the third.
Is Birth of a Nation really all that famous outside of serious movie buffs? It’s a silent movie from 1915 for Christ sake. I bet almost no one has seen it.
Nutty Professor (original)
Mrs Doubtfire
I guess the fact that I watch too much TV combined with my age means that I’ve seen 99.9% of the movies mentioned in this thread. Lots of them first run in the theater as well. What do all you snobs do with your time instead?
Personally I just change the channel when Mrs Doubtfire comes on. I decided in advance to hate that movie.
I knew about ity before I became a movie buff – it was in my encyclopedia in the section on the history of cinema. I’ve seen it more than once. Heck, I own in on DVD. And I bought it in an ordinary video store.
Do you think a lot of non movie buff people read the history of cinema section of their handy encyclopedia?
No. Nowadays they’d read the history section of Wikipedia
I notice that, although it mentions D.W. Griffith multiple times, doesn’t even mention Birth of a Nation, let alone have a still from it.
Although the Wikipedia entry on D.W. Griffith, of course, does. And has a shot of the title card.
I didn’t know, since I haven’t seen it. I heard people say that. Maybe I’ll give it a try.
I saw Memento. Irreversible was also a backward plot. The former was pretty good. The latter was so realistic it was almost unwatchable.
For me, it’s anything with mutants.