What do you mean you’ve never seen ________?
What’s the biggest movie you’ve never seen?
Mine is Finding Nemo. That’s right.
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I’m too embarrassed to say, but its a big one. Maybe I’ll get it this week.
Probably Top Gun.
Top Gun! Nice one Brian.
Casablanca.
The Sound of Music.
uh… aha, Transformers 2!
That was tough.
E.T.
I mean every other kid saw it when it came out, but my parents wouldn’t take me until the entire garden was weeded, and well it was a big garden.
Casablanca
Schindler’s List
Saving Private Ryan
Pulp Fiction
High Fidelity (actually I think I saw most of it on tv, but found the story annoying)
What’s that other movie everyone says is so great, about the journalist following some band on tour or something? Almost Famous?
godfather
Almost Famous was good Susan, but not on par with a GOT TO SEE IT movie.
TStevens beat me to it.
also, Taxi Driver
ah, Last Temptation of Christ
Wizard of Oz
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Last Temptation of Christ, Ghandi and Lawrence of Arabia. I’ve been using Flickchart for a while now and one of the side things it keeps track of are the most popular movies you haven’t seen. So I’ve slowly been going though that list and I hope to have seen these three by the end of the year.
Wizard of Oz gabby? That’s amazing.
Any of the Terminator movies. Sure, I’ve seen the Sarah Connor Chronicles, but not the movies they’re loosely based on. Sad.
Also, any Stephen King novel-made-into-a-movie: Carrie, The Shining, The Green Mile…you get the idea. The closest I’ve come to those is Simpson’s episodes and pop culture references.
Yeah, by the time I realized it was weird, it became a weird badge of honor!
Bambi.
Haven’t seen Sound of Music.Never seen Godfather. Never Saw Titanic. Never saw Phantom of the Opera. I’ve never seen the first Rocky.
Oh, and I never saw 6th sense. Someone told me Bruce was dead before I got to go see it, so I didn’t
From the list of movies others have named above, movies I’ve never seen include:
Casablanca
Last Temptation of Christ
The Sound of Music
Transformers 2
Taxi Driver
Almost Famous
Ghandi*
The Godfather
Pulp Fiction
Saving Private Ryan
Lawrence of Arabia
*I was in a room where it was playing from start to finish, but I was reading a book for a paper that was due later in the day. Does that count?
Until very recently mine was Transformers 2, and I wish it were still Transformers 2.
Twilight.
Wait a minute…
Finding Nemo? How is that possible? Taxi Driver I can understand, but FINDING NEMO?
It would be easier for me to count the big movies I *have* seen since 2002.
But the real classics that I haven’t seen but want to:
King Kong
Citizen Kane
2001
Dr. Strangelove
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Lawrence of Arabia
The Maltese Falcon
Seven Samurai
Vertigo
The Dark Knight
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Amadeus
Harvey
West Side Story
Serenity
The Searchers
Gabbi wins. Ben, move Dr. Strangelove to the top of that list.
My big one is Rocky.
Titanic – I tried a couple of times, but I just couldn’t sit through it.
I’ve seen every other movie mentioned except Transformers 2, BTW.
Some of you should be ashamed.
I don’t see a lot of disaster movies, so I haven’t seen Armageddon or The Day After Tomorrow or War of the Worlds or any of those “The World is Ending Tomorrow” type of movies and I haven’t seen any of the Die Hard, Harder or Hardest movies. I haven’t seen any of the Rocky or Rambo movies after the third ones. I don’t see many horror movies either so I haven’t seen any of the Friday the Thirteenth or Nightmare on Elm Street movies. I haven’t seen any of the Predator movies. I haven’t seen any of the Alien movies after the second one.
On the other hand, I’ve seen everything that’s been mentioned previously on this thread, so I must be doing ok.
Buckaroo Banzai
Also, I own, but have never seen The Usual Suspects. Never seen Fight Club either.
Oh, and I haven’t seen all of Cars.
I own, but have never completely watched, Walk the Line and Brokeback Mountain.
I’ve never seen:
Citizen Kane
West Side Story
Taxi Driver
BTW – not seeing Transformers 2 isn’t something to be ashamed of. It’s sort of like a near death experience. “I nearly died, but fortunately I was sick the opening weekend of Transformers 2″
I just want to take a moment and point out that Supergenius once ragged on me for saying that Finding Nemo was the best Pixar (this was after Wall-E, before Up). Supes, you clearly didn’t know what you were talking about.
I’ve never seen Finding Nemo either. Nor have I seen Jurassic Park.
I haven’t seen Finding Nemo either. I always figured I’d see it when I had a kid old enough to want to see it…so I guess I’ll be seeing it within the next year or so. Nor have I seen Casablanca or Gone With The Wind. Or Grease.
Rusty,
Yeah, don’t watch any of the Pixar films more than once if you have children on the way. You will inevitably watch them. I think I’ve almost memorized the screenplay of Finding Nemo.
I have a lot of them. There are some movies I just never get around to watching.
Here’s an incomplete list:
*Titanic
*Any Lethal Weapon movie
*Any Die Hard movie
*Silence of the Lambs
*The Exorcist
*Taxi Driver/Raging Bull/Mean Streets
*Reservoir Dogs
*There Will Be Blood
*No Country for Old Men
*Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
Don’t get me wrong, I’ve seen like 50% of Cars and 80% of Nemo. Just never a full viewing.
Greg, You have some seriously good movies on the list.
My sister has never seen Princess Bride…to which I say – Inconceivable!
I know someone who has never seen any of the Star Wars movies or any of the Lord of the Rings movies.
I hope you don’t actually associate in public with them, danithew.
John C,
Finding Nemo is great but saying that it is better than Wall-E is just nuts.
All along I thought the commenters here at Kulturblog had some credibility…now, I’m afraid I’m not so sure.
Casablanca? Wizard of Oz? The Godfather?
Do yourselves a favor and see these movies, pronto.
Wow.
Tracy: I get Almost Famous suggested to me a lot (and High Fidelity) because I’m such a music geek.
For me:
Citizen Kane.
2001.
Dr. Strangelove.
Nashville.
MASH.
The Elephant Man.
On the Waterfront.
And I’ve never seen a Fellini film, or a Bergman film.
Ohh. I have to add The Elephant Man. I know people freak since I’m a big Lynch fan. I’ve also never seen Eraserhead. I’ve never seen (and have no desire to see) Almost Famous.
BTW – I agree Nemo is one of the lesser Pixar films. But, like Cars, one of the more popular with kids.
With apologies to Say Anything and Singles, Almost Famous is easily Cameron Crowe’s best film.
I’ve seen The Last Temptation of Christ and The Passion of the Christ, but have not seen The Greatest Story Ever Told. In general, Jesus + Movie = Bad Idea. Unless Monty Python or Mel Brooks is involved.
I’ve seen my share of “epics”… Lawrence of Arabia, Gone With The Wind, Ben Hur, The Ten Commandments, The Bridge on the River Kwai, Dr. Zhivago, The Sand Pebbles, The Longest Day, The Great Escape… but I have _not_ seen Patton or Spartacus.
As for “neo-epics” (which I’m defining as epic movies since 1980), I’ve never seen Reds or Out of Africa.
How about a 10 Best Epics list at kulturblog?
I really liked both Almost Famous and High Fidelity. You should see both Susan. Why don’t you want to see Almost Famous Clark? Not a Crowe fan?
Nemo is not one of the lesser Pixar films.
Nemo is a darn fine film and holds up better to repeated viewing that Wall-E (which is also a very good film but just gets silly once you get to the spaceship). I think Supes was making a claim for the Incredibles as the best at that time, but I don’t remember.
Golly, there’s lots that I haven’t seen at this point. I did do a 70′s cinema thing for a coupla weeks and I just finished a Kurosawa marathon. I’m getting to it!
Yeah, I will not be hurrying to remedy not seeing Wizard of Oz. Just…don’t feel the need.
And Titantic is a must watch? Ew.
Haven’t seen The Passion of Christ and have absolutely no desire to see that torture porn.
John, which Kurosawa did you see? I love, love, love Ikiru.
However Nemo just drags in the middle. I agree Wall-E is weaker after they interact with the humans. But Nemo is in the bottom of the bunch compared to The Incredibles, Up, Toy Story, etc.
Schindler’s List
–don’t care to, either mostly out of spite. I’ve heard so many people tell me I won’t understand the Holocaust w/o watching this movie and as a history teacher, that’s even more of a slap in the face. Heard the same for Saving Private Ryan and I eventually saw that and it was ok, I guess.
Yeah, I hate that attitude people get about those movies.
Titanic I suppose.
I haven’t seen Saving Private Ryan either. Also haven’t seen The Passion of the Christ and literally have less than zero interest in it.
Clark, it was the recent Filmspotting marathon. I saw Rashomon, Throne of Blood, Ikiru (which is great), and Yojimbo. Next up is High and Low.
Re: Nemo, some of this personal preference. I prefer Nemo because it hit me in my personal spot. I identify much more with Marlin than I do with Mr. Incredible. The original Toy Story was great, but I can’t watch it anymore (canvas too confined, too much Randy Newman).
My personal list is probably:
Nemo
*Up
Toy Story 2
Wall-E
Incredibles
Toy Story
Monster’s Inc
Bug’s Life
Ratatouille
Cars (did I forget one?)
I started to watch Titanic once. But then one of the characters early on made a speech about how we only have so much time on earth and that we should LIVE! So I turned it off and did something else (blogging, probably).
The English Patient (“So, I couldn’t tell you whether I liked it, or whether it really sucked”)
Jaws
Forrest Gump
Lion King
Any Matrix movie
Schindler’s List
I think Ratatouille is my favorite Pixar movie.
Being somewhat lazy, I have based my list on what others have already put up. These are the movies I guess I would need to see:
High Fidelity
Almost Famous.
Last Temptation of Christ
The Green Mile
Dr. Strangelove
Harvey
Nashville
There Will Be Blood
Also, I probably should try to watch the Kurosawa films. I know I’ve seen some of them, but to be honest, I can’t recall which.
Just a note to BTD Greg, and maybe this marks me as a total psycho, but I think you should make a point of seeing Silence of the Lambs. That film still amazes me.
I saw Saving Private Ryan on a blind date. There was not a second date.
Ratatouille is in my top 5 Pixar films too. (Let’s be honest – there are so many great ones) I think The Incredibles will always be at the top though. But Up was much sweeter and much better than I was expecting, despite all the hype. It really was a fantastic little movie.
I’m not a Crowe hater, although I’ve been underwhelmed by several of his movies. And I tried to watch Almost Famous. It just seemed like it was trying too hard. I’m trying to think of a movie by Crowe I’ve liked. I really liked Jerry Maguire which I think is one of Tom Cruise’s best. Other than that. Meh.
I’ll always be partial to Singles, if only because it has Soundgarden and Tad cameos.
I’ve never understood the love for Ratatouille. Toy Story is probably my favorite. But that was out when my kids were small, at the stage when they’d watch the same movies on repeat for days…months…years. I never got sick of Toy Story. (Or Herbie or Mary Poppins or The Lion King.)
I saw Saving Private Ryan on a blind date. There was not a second date.
I know a guy who took a first date to see Deliverance. There was most certainly no second date with her.
But… but… that guitar playing scene surely scored…
I didn’t think I was such a film geek, but I’ve seen everything on the list except some of the recent Pixars.
The only thing I can think of that anyone was surprised by:
Dumb and Dumber
Big Lebowski
I’ve seen parts but not the whole thing yet. But I plan to soon.
BTW – Nemo is still my #1 favorite Pixar film too although I loved UP
Dude. Deliverance? I thought my date was bad…
I took a girl named Heather to see “Heathers” on our first date. That was a mistake.
And I also took my wife to see “Pulp Fiction” on our first date. That worked out okay.
CRACKING up about Heathers…
I think I’ve seen Heathers more times than any other movie, except for possibly Evil Dead or After Hours (and the movies my kids watched when they were small, which I’ve already mentioned).
You guys take girls to movies on first dates? Really? That works?!
I was under the impression that there’s not enough interaction in movie watching for 1st dates in order to get to know them better.
Wait wait! Before you say it, I will. “I guess that’s why I’m still single!”
Bret, that’s why you do the movie. If you don’t like them hey, there’s still a movie. So you do dinner and a movie.
Oh, Heathers. Never saw that either.
Those who listed “There Will Be Blood” can skip it. Only 2 memorable scenes, not a good movie.
Those who haven’t seen The Big Leboswki (and watch rated R films) are missing something special…but only men like this movie.
Big Lebowski used to be on my “what? you’ve never seen” list. So I recently watched it.
I promised a friend that I’d give it one more viewing before concluding that it doesn’t live up to expectations.
Only men like The Big Lebowski!? Dude! It’s one of my favorite movies. I don’t think I’ve seen an entire John Hughes movie. The whole 80′s coming of age thing just doesn’t appeal to me. Almost Famous? That’s a real coming of age movie.
The first time I saw it I was underwhelmed and thought it one of the weaker Coen Bro films. The a few years later I saw it again and liked it considerably more.
I caught about 10 minutes of Almost Famous on TV last night and turned it off.
I saw Lebowski last night. The 3000+ f-bombs are a bit abrasive (even though you become pretty numb to it all after 800 or so repetitions). I liked it for its quirkiness but think I think this is a case of a movie getting hyped a bit much and not being able to live up on first viewing.
I’ll record it next time it is on Spike. I bet I’ll like it better then.
The Big Lebowski is the best Coen Brothers movie and quite possibly the best comedy of all time.
Brian V: saying so doesn’t make it so. I’m happy to see that I’m in good company (Geoff J) in feeling let down by Big Lebowski.
quite possibly the best comedy of all time
I think it was too many people telling me things like this that set the poor film up for a fall. I did like it — but what film could live up to expectations that high?
I think it was too many people telling me things like this that set the poor film up for a fall. I did like it — but what film could live up to expectations that high?
I guess I can see that. The fact also that the profanity seems to be somewhat of an issue probably doesn’t help, either.
I guess if you were a prude that got hung up on language the Big Lebowski would’nt be that great. But it really is one of the best comedies of all time.
I like Lebowski, but the Coen Bros best is Miller’s Crossing.
Lebowski is probably their best comedy.
Lebowski can be disappointing on a first viewing. I saw it on the night it premiered and was disappointed because in terms of story, it adds up to absolutely nothing, which I suppose is the point.
However, it’s the characters and the dialogue, f-bombs included, that makes it memorable. That’s why it’s so beloved.
Having said that, it’s not the best Coen Bros. film, or the best comedy of all time.
It may be the most quotable film of all time, perhaps.
The Dude abides.
When viewing The Big Lebowski, it helps to have a working understand, if not a love, of Raymond Chandler. This sort of thing is fairly common in Coen Brothers stuff (Miller’s Crossing has a similar relationship with The Glass Key, as do O Brother Where Art Thou? with The Odyssey and A Serious Man with the book of Job). So, yes, there’s not much story and the mystery itself is murky and kind of incomprehensible. That’s the way the stories are in Chandler’s books as well.
Lebowski and Miller’s Crossing are my two favorite Coen movies, but if I had to pick only one, it would be Lebowski.
I shouldn’t have mentioned the f-bombs because that is not what the problem was. The problem was that quirky films like this take time to marinate. I felt the same way about Napoleon Dynamite. These kinds of films get better with more viewings.
So the real issue is the hype that now surrounds it. As I have said several times now, it is hard to live up to that much hype.
Raising Arizona, baby, Raising Arizona.
The part of The Big Lebowski where he drops the roach into his lap while driving and freaks out, pouring beer on his crotch to try and put it out, and crashes into a dumpster is literally the hardest I’ve ever laughed at anything.
That’s funny. One of the times I’ve ever laughed the hardest is the scene in Tommy Boy when they’re driving down the street and the Carpenters comes on the radio. The best part is when the hood flies up and blinds them, though. Of course the reason I laughed so hard was after we saw that scene, my husband said, “It’s funnier when you’ve actually had that happen to you.” And suddenly the reason the old 58 Chevy he drove as a teenager never had a hood on it made sense.
Brian G: correct.
Same here Susan! That Tommy Boy scene holds the honor of being the only scene that caused me to literally fall out of my chair from laughter.
Brian, You may be right, Raising Arizona is possibly better than Lebowski. It’s a close call.
Geoff, this scene once made my son and I both fall off the couch, we were laughing so hard. Best part is the old man walking by in the background, faster than the car.
Lol. That scene never gets old.
I took a girl to see Eyes Wide Shut on a first date. It did not go all that well.
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