I’ve never seen any of the Rocky movies or the Godfather movies. No particular reason that I can think of…
what's your one "movie from the last 30 years that everyone in the world has seen", but you haven't?
Define seen. Does 15 minutes on a television count? Cause there are a LOT of movies I lose interest in before the first break.
If “only seen tiny bits and snippets count,” the Lion King, Aladdin, any Star Wars movie, a whole lot of other Disney movies. Never seen most Harry Potter movies. Never saw Avatar, Pulp Fiction, or ET.
Avatar
Any of the Harry Potter movies after the first one (and I fell asleep during that one)
Any and all comic book movies
Don’t bother, Burp, its really not all that.
I saw that one – only because I was just then, in a situation where it was unavoidable. I thought the film “OK, but not that much of a much”.
Have a personal “thing” about what I regard as weird / crazy / over-the-top / self-indulgently contrived names and titles for – whatever. Hate 'em. Left to self, would never have watched The Shawshank Redemption, for that reason. Would have been thinking – what the f*** is a shawshank? How do you redeem it? Who bloody cares?"; and eschewed the film, for that reason. (OK, one learns that Shawshank, Maine, is the place where the prison is located; fair enough, but on the other hand, so what? Could as well, and with as much or as little significance – have been at Possum Trot, Arkansas, or Humptulips, Washington.)
Interesting movies like Scream and Lost in Translation aren’t as popular as I thought.
From the top 50:
American Sniper
Furious 7
The Passion of Christ
Does anybody but me think it’s ironic that most of the top 50 looks like a nerd’s wet dream.
There are so many. I don’t like to watch movies with a lot of beatings or torture or extreme suffering. (This is one of the things that makes me feel like an alien because obviously I am the one out of step on this). So something like Braveheatt or The Passion of the Christ is right out.
Very sugary. Well except from the murder, suicide and prison rape.
The original story was “Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption.” It’s supposed to be foreshadowing without giving away the ending. Perfectly fine title for a short story/novella. They shortened it for the movie.
Based on that list the biggest grossing picture of the last 30 years that I haven’t seen is Black Panther. I pretty much got bored with the Marvel movies after the first Avengers came out and stopped seeing those.
Borat, Team America.
And people quoting both all these years made sure I never will.
I have never seen Forrest Gump, Avatar, or Schindler’s List. Those are the most “important” movies that I haven’t seen rather than necessarily the top box office hits.
No particular reason I haven’t seen them.
Regards,
Shodan
I just selected a few off your list to mention the “last 30 years” criteria of the OP.
This is also why I picked non-adjusted gross. I wanted to list of “big” movies that would be mostly dominated by recent ones. For the adjusted list, only 1 of the top ten in less than 30 years old.
(OTOH, Angelina Jolie has a yen to do a Cleopatra remake. So, someday …)
You did it right.
I was going to say avatar as well, but it seems like NObody has seen it, so I can’t see how it counts for this thread.
Of Shodan’s list above, the only one I have seen is Schindler’s List.
I just never got around to watching Avatar, but have no interest in watching Forrest Gump.
That’s what I thought the first time I saw the movie. My college roommate was so into the Coens and could not stop raving about. I saw it, thought, what the hell’s the fuss?
Then a year or two later, I saw it again. One of the funniest and best written goddamned movies I have ever seen. Seen it several times since them. As far as I’m concerned Joel and Ethan Coen could do little wrong.
I have no idea why I had such diametric experiences, but every time I’ve seen it since (and it’s rare for me to rewatch a movie; I’ve seen it probably five or six times total). it’s been every bit as funny and wonderfully written and acted. That’s the only time I ever remember flipping my opinion on a movie or any artwork, really, so much.
Die Hard, which, I was surprised to see, just barely makes it into the 30-year scope of the OP.
Ignorant I, would probably still have thought, “Who’s this dame, and what’s with this barmy, wittery title?” – which I’d feel re films / short stories / novellas / many-hundreds-pages novels (you and I differ here, fair enough) – and would eschew the offering: print, film, whatever. My loss, no doubt – I just tend to run up against a mental brick wall in this matter.
People did see it and almost instantly forgot about it. It is one of the highest grossing movies of all time even though the story itself sucks. Avatar just happened to ride the 3D, CGI wave that was in vogue at the time. It is a movie that people only watched once but it was a theater novelty.
Movie popularity, awards and longevity are interesting because they are barely related. I have never seen Gandhi, Citizen Kane, Breakfast at Tiffany’s and lots of other famous movies that people talk about but nobody owns or can remember much about even though they were a sensation at the time. OTOH, movies like The Wizard of Oz and Airplane! have some serious legs many decades later. Gone with the Wind still has theater showing and it is 4 hours long and made in 1939. People love to make fun of Titanic but it is also one of the most successful movies of all time and has such a cult following that it has its own museum exhibits and a replica cruise ship that will be launched soon. Several Disney movies are so iconic that they created their own empire larger than many countries.