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Greatest movies you've NEVER seen?

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Warrington Minge

20:09 / 07.12.01

Even though in my small circle of friends I am considered something of a film junkie many of my friends are more amazed at the films I haven't seen as opposed to the films I have. For example it was only in the last couple of months that i finally got around to watching RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK even though I saw TEMPLE OF DOOM and LAST CRUSADE at the cinema when they came out.

I shocked someone else recently by saying that I've never seen THE GODFATHER trilogy either. Does anyone else have any major ommissions from their film catalogue?

CameronStewart

20:45 / 07.12.01

I've never seen the Godfather movies either, but I feel like I have. I know every scene without ever having had to sit down and watch them.

Near-blasphemy for such a monumental film nerd as myself, but it's almost a point of pride now - I'lll never see them. and you can't make me! Nyer-nyer!

Actually I think I'll rent them soon.

Captain Zoom

20:58 / 07.12.01

Godfather movies here too.

Zoom.

The Sinister Haiku Bureau

22:27 / 07.12.01

ditto the godfather. also the producers and Dr Strangelove, although I plan to see, or even buy these soonish...

Jack Fear

23:17 / 07.12.01

I keep a list of films I need to see but haven't. It's a long, long list...

Probab;ly the most glaring omissions are The Wicker Man, A Clockwork Orange, Videodrome, Raging Bull, Nashville, and Blood Simple.

Also on the Walk of Shame:

Rashomon
Yojimbo
The Magnificent Ambersons
Touch of Evil
North by Northwest
Dial M for Murder
any George Romero movie
any Dario Argento movie
The Deer Hunter
Full Metal Jacket
Mean Streets
The King of Comedy
Shane
East of Eden
The Wild One
Blow-Up
Repulsion
The Battleship Potemkin
any Bergman beyond The Seventh Seal
any Michelangelo Antonioni
any Federico Fellini
any Bruce Lee movie
and, uh, the Godfather movies. (I'm seeing a trend here.)

And the proverbial Many, Many More.

I've just destroyed all my credibility, haven't I? Bugger.

[ 08-12-2001: Message edited by: Jack Fear ]

[N.O.B.O.D.Y.]

02:06 / 08.12.01

Pink Flamingos and Female Trouble...The only John Waters released on VHS or DVD down here are Serial Mom and Cecil B. Demented...and I saw Polyester once but in cable TV.

Not Here Still

16:38 / 08.12.01

Yeah, yeay - I haven't seen the Godfather trilogy either.

Or the Great Escape

Also most of Jack's list above, give or take a Clockwork Orange here and a North by Northwest there.

But The King of Comedy is probably the worst example here, as I own it but haven't got round to watching it.

And I have yet to watch Apocalypse Now without falling asleep at some point...

Hush

17:24 / 08.12.01

WATCH....THE KING OF COMEDY.....NOW!!

A great movie.. with THE CLASH....

I always think I ought to watch Citizen Kane but someone told me thst the sleigh dunnit and destroyed the suspense.

Tom Coates

17:34 / 08.12.01

Oh God - where to start...

Haven't seen Godfather one or two, Seven Samurai, Rear Window, North by Northwest, Laurence of Arabia, 12 Angry Men, Vertigo, Taxi Driver, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Third Man, Paths of Glory, Chinatown, Some LIke it Hot... etc .etc .etc .etc

CameronStewart

17:49 / 08.12.01

Hang on, are we even certain these alleged Godfather films even exist? Seems like everyone's heard of them but no one's seen them...

Spatula Clarke

17:52 / 08.12.01

I have. Lick me.

Tom, you've missed out with The Third Man and Chinatown - two of my all-time favourites.

The Return Of Rothkoid

09:26 / 09.12.01

Tom: you obviously never checked out my video collection when over here. Grr!

As for me? Lots of Kurosawa. And The Producers, The Man Who Knew Too Much, Raging Bull, and a stack of arthouse ones.

And E. Randy is right; Chinatown and The Third Man rock. Hard and often.

"I like my nose..."

Bear

09:26 / 09.12.01

wow thats crazy the amount of people that havn't seen the Godfather

although to be honest I didn't see them until a couple of years ago.. well well worth it though..

saw north by northwest last month i think it was at the cinema but i fell asleep ...

just watched the great escape a few months ago too, but thats the thing everyone knows so much about some movies you somtimes feel like you don't need to watch them

just about to watch hard boiled which i always saw in the video shop but neve rented so let see

Tempus

09:26 / 09.12.01

Never seen Dr. Strangelove, or really anything else by Kubrick except Spartacus and little pieces of 2001 on TV. Never seen Apocalypse Now[/i}. I have seen the first [i]Godfather, but I found it terribly, terribly boring. Of course, I was sixteen at the time and extremely attention-deficient, but it may also be that pretty much anything with the Mafia in it bores the Hell out of me.

To everyone who hasn't seen any Kursosawa: do so as soon as possible. You'll be glad you did. Really. Trust me.

And Chinatown is the greatest movie of the last half of the 20th century, with Aguirre: The Wrath of God coming in a close second.

(Citizen Kane is the best of the first half, perfectly watchable if you know the ending, with Seven Samurai nipping at its heels.)

Sorry, when I start to talk movies, I GO.

Mazarine

09:26 / 09.12.01

Enough to deserve to be axed from the moderator position, that's for sure. Only seen bits of the Godfather Trilogy, I don't think I've ever seen a complete Kurosawa film. I never saw Schindler's List, and sooo many more that I can name.

Rev. Wright

09:26 / 09.12.01

The Sound of Music is never gettig a viewing. I don't think its great, its just a personal mission of mine to never get familiar with the Von Trapp family.

I can't remember seeing the whole of the Godfather trilogy either. Its an Italian American Gangster thing. Me I was too into Bad European Sci fi/sword and sorcery/post apocalyptic flicks at the time.

The New Barbarians is one of my faves.

rizla mission

21:19 / 09.12.01

I haven't seen any Scorcese(?) films except Taxi Driver and Goodfellas.

I wouldn't mind seeing Mean Streets, but apart from that they all look so fucking boring.. the 'gangster epic' just doesn't work for me.

And I've never seen ANY of those classic European films people are always talking about - y'know Goddard, Fellini, Bergman - those cats. I'd like to though.

And I haven't seen any Kurasawa(?) either..

And I'm not even doing too well on the Film Noir front, despite my great liking for it - I've missed out on -
Mildred Pierce, A Touch of Evil, The Postman Always Rings Twice..

And on the 80s comedy front I haven't even seen Animal house, Weekend at Bernies or Weird Science, which EVERYONE IN THE ENTIRE WORLD has seen..

(ASIDE: I thought this would be a thread about those really cool sounding films that NO ONE has ever seen - like 'El Topo' for instance..)

Fra Dolcino

21:25 / 09.12.01

I've never seen Vertigo, the one Alfred Hitchcock film that always gets on the '100 top film' lists.

I'd never seen American Beauty until yesterday, either.

Worst of all, I never saw the Empire Strikes Back until I was 15, or something. Even though I'd already watched the other two.

[ 10-12-2001: Message edited by: Fra Dolcino ]

The Return Of Rothkoid

10:01 / 10.12.01

No Vertigo? My god... you haven't lived...

Jimmy Turncoat

10:36 / 10.12.01

quote: (ASIDE: I thought this would be a thread about those really cool sounding films that NO ONE has ever seen - like 'El Topo' for instance..)

I've seen 'El Topo'. I think you can actually buy it on video now. Definitely worth seeing.

Perfect Tommy

10:37 / 10.12.01

People keep freaking out when I tell them I haven't seen Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.

Bear

10:41 / 10.12.01

but thats because its so fukin cool

The Natural Way

12:31 / 10.12.01

Fellini?

Don't worry about him, young Rizla....

grant

13:53 / 10.12.01

I've never seen a couple of the ones on Jack's List - Ambersons, the second Godfather movie, The Wild One - but I'd much rather see The Misfits (Marilyn Monroe & Robert Mitchum) and Suspiria (which I think is a Dargento).

As for the rest - Jack, go RENT THEM!
They're all really Gooooood.

Fra Dolcino

10:09 / 11.12.01

quote:Originally posted by The Return Of Rothkoid:
No Vertigo? My god... you haven't lived...

I've always rated Rear Window and Rope as my favourite Hitchcock films. Is it any better?

rizla mission

10:42 / 11.12.01

ha ha ho. Is it any better, he says..

Sensual Cobra

10:44 / 11.12.01

Chalk me up as never having seen these "Godfather" movies either. No idea why; I haven't been consciously avoiding them, and everyone I know has seen them. Then again, it might be like that saying, "No one ever reads a classic, they're always re-reading."

Never seen Rashomon, though I like Kirosawa, whichever way he spells his name. Nor The Deer Hunter, Schindler's List, The Third Man, etc. Lots, and I am asham-ed.

Bought Vertigo only to discover it was the non-canonical "remaster", despised by all. Waiting to find the real one.

Fra Dolcino

13:05 / 11.12.01

quote:Originally posted by Rizla Year Zero:
ha ha ho. Is it any better, he says..

Oh how they mock the uninitiated <<sniff>. Well I'll tell you! Its the weekend soon, and I might just get it out (vertigo I meant, so you can all stop sniggering)from Blockbusters and watch it. So there!

[Turns back on everyone in sulky strop of epic proportions]

grant

16:39 / 11.12.01

quote:Originally posted by Fra Dolcino:

I've always rated Rear Window and Rope as my favourite Hitchcock films. Is it any better?

It's got psychedelic cartoons in the middle. Really.

Ethan Hawke

16:59 / 11.12.01

Hah, I've never seen the Godfather movies either. Nor the Untouchables. The mob genre leaves me cold. Except Miller's Crossing. That ruled.

Warrington Minge

09:28 / 12.12.01

Oh how they mock the uninitiated <<sniff>. Well I'll tell you! Its the weekend soon, and I might just get it out (vertigo I meant, so you can all stop sniggering)from Blockbusters and watch it. So there!

It took me ages to get around to watching Vertigo until my local arthouse cinema showed the reissue. I loved it. Suddenly Lynch seemed so unoriginal. Everything about it is wrong which some how makes it so right.

Sensual Cobra

09:28 / 12.12.01

Anyone awake at 2:30 in the states (and maybe elsewhere, I can't be certain), AMC is showing Vertigo right now. Repeats Saturday the 22nd, I believe, check your Tvguide. AMC isn't too bad for movies - about one commercial an hour. So I'll be checking this out instead of studying.

Fra Dolcino

21:21 / 07.01.02

Whoo-Hoo!

It was on over Christmas and I saw it, so there

.

It was good.

That is all.

Bear

21:27 / 07.01.02

Yeah I watched it too, I really really enjoyed it. I went to see noth by northwest at the cinema and fell asleep - but Vertigo was magic.. also watched birds again over Christmas after being scared sh*tless when I was young but it wasn't quite as bad as I remembered -

I still havnn't seen The Wicker Man but I do have it taped....

The Return Of Rothkoid

21:51 / 07.01.02

*contented glow of increased Vertigo viewer hordes...*

See - something good can come out of Christmas!

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