It’s rated 5 stars in every newspaper. Siskel and Ebert gave it two thumbs up. The previews looked alright, theres no one in the cast you hate. The story sounds interesting enough. And everyone you know recoils in horror when they find out that you still just haven’t seen _________.
For me its Atonement.
The Godfather.
I know, I’m a sinner. I haven’t seen The Sixth Sense or Forrest Gump, either!
Casablanca, Gone With the Wind and Citizen Kane.
For critically acclaimed movies I’ve never seen:
Dances with Wolves
Citizen Kane
Scarface
Million Dollar Baby
Shawshank Redemption
and I’ve never seen a single Woody Allen film.
*The Maltese Falcon
Network*
most of the great silent films
The only Hepburn/Tracy (together) films I’ve seen have been Desk Set and Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner?
I’ve possibly seen all of Casablanca but never in one sitting
The many supposedly brilliant foreign films that I’ve never seen include
400 Blows or anything by Ingmar Bergman, Truffault or Fellini.
Anything by Polanski; I’m not watching until he dies.
I have a DVD set of every Bergman film that I haven’t watched yet. I’ll get to that soon. I haven’t seen The Last Picture Show, The 400 Blows, or Nashville yet, though I have all the DVDs.
There are a lot of films out there that other people think are great but I’ll probably never watch because they look like shite to me. The most recent one that comes to mind is Juno. I want to remove my brain and scrub it with Comet whenever I see a preview for that or hear someone talking about it.
Out of the http://www.time.com/time/2005/100movies/the_complete_list.html I have seen, in one sitting, all the way through, 17 movies.
That lraves a lot of really good movies I have never seen.
What the hell? I swear I just posted and saw my post and now it’s gone.
Anyway, I said Chinatown. Pretty sure I know the entire plot and twists so I don’t feel the need to see it.
Haven’t seen any of this years nominees. Don’t get to go to the movies much since marriage and the kids. I’ll try to see them on DVD.
the Godfather.
I consider myself pretty “well-watched” and I’ve only seen 31 of those. Thirty-five if I count the Godfather and LotR trilogies separately, which they didn’t. Ouch. One of the stranger lists I’ve seen, though. The Jeff Goldblum Fly? Really?
I’ve seen 29 of those. But damn, that list is just about the most random thing ever.
Anyway, the best movie I’ve never seen would be King Kong, I suspect. Either that, or Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler.
Casablanca.
{I can’t believe I haven’t seen it…I mean to, but just haven’t}
A lot of recent scorsese; The Aviator, The Departed… Just cant be bothered. My tolerance for 2hrs+ movies has waned in recent times, for me, these days, any movie over 85mins doesnt get looked at. Time constraints, see? Needless to say, not a lot of 85min movies are 5star masterworks.
I’ve been wanting to see Salome’s Last Dance , starring Glenda Jackson.
:dubious: a very odd list. I’ve seen 39 of them.
I’ve only seen one or two more than that. What a bizarre list. (Purple Rose of Cairo over any other Woody Allen movie?) And the 1986 The Singing Detective wasn’t a “movie” at all; it was a TV miniseries.
The Bicycle Thief
I have never seen Shoah. I just don’t think I could bear it.
Casablanca
To Kill a Mockingbird
Taxi Driver
Casablanca
Taxi Driver
The Dear Hunter
Raging Bull
Or anything by Spike Lee.
::hangs head in shame::