# What haven't you seen that everyone else has? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 9, 2006, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-havent-you-seen-that-everyone-else-has/363705 "2006-07-09T05:05:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2006, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-havent-you-seen-that-everyone-else-has/363705/21 "2006-07-09T19:01:43Z")
I only recently started going to the movies, preferring reading to watching so I could go on and on. Casablanca Gone With the Wind Sound of Music Any of the Godfather films Scarface The Wizard of Oz Star Wars (I did finally see the original at the theater on the 20 year re-release.) Citizen Kane The Sound Of Music The Rocky Horror Picture Show Blade Runner Goonies. Scarface Any of the GodFather movies Titanic Fame Jaws The Excorsist The Passion of the Christ Jurassic Park Finding Nemo Twister Narnia Platoon Saving Private Ryan Bambi (most Disney animation) As I said, I could go on and on, but I have recently made an effort to start seeing many of the classics on DVD and have also been going to a movie at least once a month. ---
**Author:** ![Dunderman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecb155/32.png) [@Dunderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dunderman)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2006, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-havent-you-seen-that-everyone-else-has/363705/22 "2006-07-09T19:05:33Z")
And here was little me in the naive belief that not having seen _The Godfather_ would make me special. Talk about running head first into the brick wall of reality. ---
**Author:** ![banjo\_picking\_fool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/d2c977/32.png) [@banjo\_picking\_fool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/banjo_picking_fool)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2006, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-havent-you-seen-that-everyone-else-has/363705/23 "2006-07-10T04:28:49Z")
Not a movie, but I have never seen a complete episode of L.A. Law. ---
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2006, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-havent-you-seen-that-everyone-else-has/363705/24 "2006-07-10T04:33:46Z")
[QUOTE=Amp] I haven’t seen any of the LOTR movies. People always look at me like I have three heads when they find that out. [/QUOTE] I haven’t seen any of them either and I get exactly the same reaction. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2006, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-havent-you-seen-that-everyone-else-has/363705/25 "2006-07-10T05:26:29Z")
Titanic It’s a Wonderful Life and I intend to keep it that way. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2006, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-havent-you-seen-that-everyone-else-has/363705/26 "2006-07-10T05:37:56Z")
_South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut_. I don’t like South Park, and watching 90 minutes of it would be torture for me. I haven’t seen a lot of the movies mentioned in this thread, but since I’m probably in the ideal SP demographic (age 24), it makes me a little unusual. ---
**Author:** ![singular1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ba9def/32.png) [@singular1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/singular1)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2006, 11:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-havent-you-seen-that-everyone-else-has/363705/27 "2006-07-10T11:57:01Z")
_Schindler’s List_ I know it’s probably really good. I know I should. I just can’t get myself psyched up to intentionally be miserable for 2 hours… ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2006, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-havent-you-seen-that-everyone-else-has/363705/28 "2006-07-10T12:28:28Z")
[QUOTE=Amp] I haven’t seen any of the LOTR movies. People always look at me like I have three heads when they find that out. [/QUOTE] Me, I’d look at you as if you were very wise. Admittedly, you’ve missed the beauty of the first and the wonder of the second, but that’s allowed you to escape the crapfest that is the third. Like the OP, I’ve never seen any of the Godfathers all the way through, nor the Usual Suspects. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2006, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-havent-you-seen-that-everyone-else-has/363705/29 "2006-07-10T13:01:24Z")
Any LOTR Titanic Most movies aimed at people over the age of 9 released since about 1990. For the people who haven’t seen The Wizard of Oz, how did you manage that? Are you actively avoiding it? I just can’t seem to wrap my head around that one, since it was a big deal when I was a kid. It was on TV once a year, and we looked forward to it like we looked forward to Christmas. ---
**Author:** ![Scupper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Scupper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scupper)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2006, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-havent-you-seen-that-everyone-else-has/363705/30 "2006-07-10T16:40:45Z")
I’ve never been able to sit through **Scarface** - it bored me, because I hated everyone who came on screen. I’ve only seen bits and pieces of any **Godfather** movie, **Frankenstein** , or **Bride of Frankenstein**. I have never seen more than about a minute of **Goonies**. I’ve never managed to get more than 20 minutes into **The Sound of Music** or **Bridge on the River Kwai**. I’ve never seen all of **American Graffitti** , **Stargate** , **Tommy** , or any movie with Jet Li in it. I am soemwhat Hitchcock-deficient, having never seen **Rope** , **Vertigo** , **Strangers on a Train** , or **Rear Window**. I’ve haven’t seen even a minute of **A Hard Day’s Night** , **THX1138** , **High Noon** , **What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?** , **Mommie Dearest** , **The Green Berets** , **Ordinary People** , **Reds** , **Sophie’s Choice** , **Broadcast News** , **Network** , **Lethal Weapons 3** or **4** , **Lawrence of Arabia** , **Labyrinth** , **Old Yeller** , **Ishtar** , **The Man Who Would be King** , **Murder by Death** , **And Then There Were None** , **Breaker Morant** , **Chariots of Fire** , **The Postman** , **The Postman Always Rings Twice** , **Midnight Cowboy** , or **Body Heat**. I’ll shut up now and go watch some movies. ---
**Author:** ![Asimovian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asimovian/32/172_2.png) [@Asimovian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asimovian)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2006, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-havent-you-seen-that-everyone-else-has/363705/31 "2006-07-10T16:41:49Z")
[QUOTE=singular1] _Schindler’s List_ I know it’s probably really good. I know I should. I just can’t get myself psyched up to intentionally be miserable for 2 hours… [/QUOTE] I haven’t seen _Saving Private Ryan_ yet for similar reasons, despite the fact a friend loaned me the DVD at least 6 months ago. It’s still sitting on my counter. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Corrado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a88e4f/32.png) [@John\_Corrado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Corrado)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2006, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-havent-you-seen-that-everyone-else-has/363705/32 "2006-07-10T17:15:00Z")
[QUOTE=Gozu Tashoya] I’ve got you all beat. _Goonies_. (I strongly suspect I’m going to have my SDMB membership revoked for having revealed that.) [/QUOTE] I can top that. Not only have I never seen **Goonies** , I have also never seen **Serenity**. Or any episode of **Firefly** , for that matter. ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2006, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-havent-you-seen-that-everyone-else-has/363705/33 "2006-07-10T17:18:51Z")
I’ve never seen ET. ---
**Author:** ![Kizarvexius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/da6949/32.png) [@Kizarvexius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kizarvexius)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2006, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-havent-you-seen-that-everyone-else-has/363705/34 "2006-07-10T20:03:08Z")
Movies I have never seen: - Anything with Ben Stiller (nor do I want to). - Anything written by, directed by, produced by, or starring Woody Allen. - _It’s a Wonderful Life_ - _Being John Malkovich_ - _The Sixth Sense_ - _Signs_ - _Clerks_ - _Memento_ - _Walk the Line_ - _Serenity_ - _Saving Private Ryan_ - _War of the Worlds_ - _The Last Samurai_ - _Memoirs of a Geisha_ - _Dr. Strangelove_ - _The Blair Witch Project_ - _Goodfellas_ - _Sin City_ - _Taxi Driver_ - Any of the Austin Powers movies - Anything directed by Quentin Tarantino - Any of Sergio Leone’s spaghetti westerns - Any of the _Scary Movie_ movies - Any of the _Nightmare on Elm Street_, _Halloween_ or _Friday the 13th_ movies - Anything with “Living Dead” or “Fast…and…Furious” in the title - Anything with Bruce Lee, Jake Gyllenhaal, Mandy Moore, Kate Hudson, Edward Burns, Anne Hathaway, Lindsay Lohan, Jennifer Lopez, or Vin Diesel (except _The Iron Giant_, which I only saw recently). - Anything that Robin Williams, Eddie Murphy, Adam Sandler, Bruce Willis, Sandra Bullock, Nicole Kidman, Billy Crystal, Harrison Ford, or Jackie Chan has appeared in for the past three years. TV Shows I have never seen: - Survivor - CSI (any of them) - American Idol - The Apprentice - The Bachelor - The Real World - The View - American Choppers - Antiques Road Show - Queer Eye for the Straight Guy - Everybody Loves Raymond - Grace Under Fire - Curb Your Enthusiasm - Growing Up Gotti - South Park I’ll probably think of plenty more. ---
**Author:** ![cruel\_butterfly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5daacb/32.png) [@cruel\_butterfly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cruel_butterfly)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2006, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-havent-you-seen-that-everyone-else-has/363705/35 "2006-07-10T22:46:21Z")
I’ve never seen: -Flashdance -Fame -Sixteen Candles -St. Elmo’s Fire -Citizen Kane I sat through however-many excruciating minutes of **The Godfather** until I fell asleep. Same with **Scarface**. **Godfather** was slow-moving and plotless. **Scarface** was an extremely overdone celebration of debauchery and criminal violence done in a way I couldn’t stand for more than a few minutes. ---
**Author:** ![Stillwell\_Angel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/96bed5/32.png) [@Stillwell\_Angel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stillwell_Angel)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2006, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-havent-you-seen-that-everyone-else-has/363705/36 "2006-07-11T00:18:55Z")
[QUOTE=adam yax] I’ve never seen ET. [/QUOTE] Me either. And I was probably about the age of their target audience when it came out. I’ve also never seen Pretty Woman, that fact always seems to get shocked looks of disbeleif from female aquaintences. No Godfathers, Rocky’s, spy flicks, war movies or those cop-buddy type films. I have pretty mild and limited taste in movie’s. ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2006, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-havent-you-seen-that-everyone-else-has/363705/37 "2006-07-11T00:38:21Z")
[QUOTE=banjo picking fool] Not a movie, but I have never seen a complete episode of L.A. Law. [/QUOTE] I recently caught an old SNL rerun with Heather Locklear, and the first sketch was a parody of _Melrose Place_. Never having seen a single second of that show, I had no idea why people were laughing… (I’ve also never seen anything 90210 or _O.C._-ish) ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2006, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-havent-you-seen-that-everyone-else-has/363705/38 "2006-07-11T04:43:16Z")
[QUOTE=John Corrado] I can top that. …I have also never seen **Serenity**. Or any episode of **Firefly** , for that matter. [/QUOTE] You and about 99.998% of the rest of the viewing public. Don’t let the vocifierous fanboys here and elsewhere lead you to believe it is anything more than a cult favorite. ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2006, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-havent-you-seen-that-everyone-else-has/363705/39 "2006-07-11T04:50:25Z")
Any of the second Star Wars Series Full Metal Jacket Rosemary’s Baby Titanic Any of the Godfather movies Five Easy Pieces I just saw Raiders of the Lost Ark. I saw The Princess Bride within the last year. I’d much rather read, so there are huge gaps in my film experience. ---
**Author:** ![Imasquare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Imasquare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Imasquare)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2006, 6:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-havent-you-seen-that-everyone-else-has/363705/40 "2006-07-11T06:04:39Z")
[QUOTE=Gozu Tashoya] I’ve got you all beat. _Goonies_. [/QUOTE] No you haven’t - I have seriously never even heard of that one. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-havent-you-seen-that-everyone-else-has/363705.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-havent-you-seen-that-everyone-else-has/363705.md?page=3)