Movies everybody saw, but you
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Zulithe
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Here are mine, from the Box Office Mojo link listed above (but I've excluded the ones still in theaters since those shouldn't count)
Mission: Impossible 2 (liked the first one; should get around to seeing this someday)
Tarzan (the disney animated one)
Men in Black II (first one was only so-so and when I saw how they were pimping the return of that stupid talking dog in the trailer, I decided this wasn't for me)
Terminator 3 (only seen a few minutes of it on cable. I knew it couldn't top the second one so I've been ignoring it)
Die Another Day (not a real Bond fan)
Gone With The Wind (give me a reason why I would even want to see this)
Godzilla (the new one. Could care less, but the music single "We Can Be Heroes" by the Wallflowers was cool)
What Women Want
My Big Fat Greek Wedding
Notting Hill
Shark Tale
Ocean's Twelve
The World is not Enough
To those of you that haven't seen Fight Club, Kill Bill vol 1 & 2 (or other Tarantino movies), Spider-Man 2 (it really IS much better than the first, we swear!)... well, I hope you rectify these lapses of coolness immediately.
Mission: Impossible 2 (liked the first one; should get around to seeing this someday)
Tarzan (the disney animated one)
Men in Black II (first one was only so-so and when I saw how they were pimping the return of that stupid talking dog in the trailer, I decided this wasn't for me)
Terminator 3 (only seen a few minutes of it on cable. I knew it couldn't top the second one so I've been ignoring it)
Die Another Day (not a real Bond fan)
Gone With The Wind (give me a reason why I would even want to see this)
Godzilla (the new one. Could care less, but the music single "We Can Be Heroes" by the Wallflowers was cool)
What Women Want
My Big Fat Greek Wedding
Notting Hill
Shark Tale
Ocean's Twelve
The World is not Enough
To those of you that haven't seen Fight Club, Kill Bill vol 1 & 2 (or other Tarantino movies), Spider-Man 2 (it really IS much better than the first, we swear!)... well, I hope you rectify these lapses of coolness immediately.
Man in the Funny Hat
Hero
From the link at:
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/alltime/world/
I've seen 95 of them (though plenty of them I wish I hadn't). The ones I haven't seen:
17. The Lion King
35. Meet the Fockers
79. Beauty & the Beast
81. What Women Want
88. Shark Tale
I'd almost add Tarzan to that, but although I've only seen it in pieces at a time I HAVE seen the whole thing.
Of the ones already mentioned in the thread and a few others I'll add:
Kill Bill 1/2 - which I would have seen at least Part I but the friends who rented it couldn't stand it after only seeing about 10 min. so they yanked it.
English Patient - No interest
Raging Bull - Boxing-related movies just bore the hell out of me, possibly because I so strongly despise boxing as a "sport".
Fight Club - No interest.
All but the first Friday 13th. Well, MAYBE seen one of the others (was there one in 3D?)
Halloween H20 - Halloween 3 put an end to that series for me.
NONE of the Nightmare on Elm St.
Hellraiser
Passion of the Christ - would have seen it but wanted to see it on the big screen but couldn't bring myself at the time to see such a downbeat movie.
Oceans 12 - Enjoyed the first (the remake - never seen the original). Bad reviews largely kept me away from the sequel.
The trends I notice by listing movies like this are that I miss a fair amount of the Disney (ish) animation features and the low-grade franchise slasher flicks.
Another useful link would be:
http://www.imdb.com/chart/top
Not including ones already listed above, I have not seen:
5. Schichinin no Samurai
11. Buono, il Brutto, il Cavitto, II
13. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
15. Rear Window
18. Cidade de Deus
23. C'era una volta il West
25. Le Fabuleo destin d'Amelie Poulain
31. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
38. The Pianist
39. Paths of Glory
41. Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi
43. The Third Man
Well, that's enough of that one. The IMDB list goes much deeper into foreign and classic American films. I don't see many foreign movies since they require SEEKING them to get to see them naturally. And the thing about classic movies is that unless watching movies is your business (film critic, gainfully unemployed) you're only going to see so many of them. Even if you were to go into Film School right out of high school you couldn't possibly see all the foreign films, art films, and classic films that film snobs tend to insist that you MUST see (which obviously is just so much crap).
Just for grins I'll hit one more list, the American Film Institutes heavily debated top 100:
http://www.afi.com/tvevents/100years/movies.aspx
Again, not including ones already listed above:
12. Sunset Boulevard
16. All About Eve
44. The Birth of a Nation
82. Giant
92. A Place in the Sun
96. The Searchers
97. Bringing Up Baby
If I have interest in movies as they are released I almost always DO see them in the theater. If I have a lesser interest I may wait and catch them on cable (or very rarely see them when friends rent them and invite me over). And classic movies are almost entirely what simply happens to drift across my path which is less and less frequent a phenomenon (I've either seen them before or just NOT interested).
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/alltime/world/
I've seen 95 of them (though plenty of them I wish I hadn't). The ones I haven't seen:
17. The Lion King
35. Meet the Fockers
79. Beauty & the Beast
81. What Women Want
88. Shark Tale
I'd almost add Tarzan to that, but although I've only seen it in pieces at a time I HAVE seen the whole thing.
Of the ones already mentioned in the thread and a few others I'll add:
Kill Bill 1/2 - which I would have seen at least Part I but the friends who rented it couldn't stand it after only seeing about 10 min. so they yanked it.
English Patient - No interest
Raging Bull - Boxing-related movies just bore the hell out of me, possibly because I so strongly despise boxing as a "sport".
Fight Club - No interest.
All but the first Friday 13th. Well, MAYBE seen one of the others (was there one in 3D?)
Halloween H20 - Halloween 3 put an end to that series for me.
NONE of the Nightmare on Elm St.
Hellraiser
Passion of the Christ - would have seen it but wanted to see it on the big screen but couldn't bring myself at the time to see such a downbeat movie.
Oceans 12 - Enjoyed the first (the remake - never seen the original). Bad reviews largely kept me away from the sequel.
The trends I notice by listing movies like this are that I miss a fair amount of the Disney (ish) animation features and the low-grade franchise slasher flicks.
Another useful link would be:
http://www.imdb.com/chart/top
Not including ones already listed above, I have not seen:
5. Schichinin no Samurai
11. Buono, il Brutto, il Cavitto, II
13. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
15. Rear Window
18. Cidade de Deus
23. C'era una volta il West
25. Le Fabuleo destin d'Amelie Poulain
31. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
38. The Pianist
39. Paths of Glory
41. Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi
43. The Third Man
Well, that's enough of that one. The IMDB list goes much deeper into foreign and classic American films. I don't see many foreign movies since they require SEEKING them to get to see them naturally. And the thing about classic movies is that unless watching movies is your business (film critic, gainfully unemployed) you're only going to see so many of them. Even if you were to go into Film School right out of high school you couldn't possibly see all the foreign films, art films, and classic films that film snobs tend to insist that you MUST see (which obviously is just so much crap).
Just for grins I'll hit one more list, the American Film Institutes heavily debated top 100:
http://www.afi.com/tvevents/100years/movies.aspx
Again, not including ones already listed above:
12. Sunset Boulevard
16. All About Eve
44. The Birth of a Nation
82. Giant
92. A Place in the Sun
96. The Searchers
97. Bringing Up Baby
If I have interest in movies as they are released I almost always DO see them in the theater. If I have a lesser interest I may wait and catch them on cable (or very rarely see them when friends rent them and invite me over). And classic movies are almost entirely what simply happens to drift across my path which is less and less frequent a phenomenon (I've either seen them before or just NOT interested).
Viking Bastard
Adventurer
If you liked the first one, you really shouldn't.Zulithe said:
ToddSchumacher
I like to draw!
Klaus said:
The third one is much better, Do yourself a favor and rent it!
johnsemlak
First Post
RichCsigs said:
Impossible!
You're clearly under a spell of delusion cast by the wicked witch of the West.
Dakkareth
First Post
These are the only 'big names' that popped into my head. Obviously there are many hundreds of popular movies I haven't seen or even heard of.
Titanic - and I never intend to.
Passion - ditto. I mean, wtf?
Blade Runner - watched about 3/4, then got bored.
Godfather - *shrug* never did come up on TV, don't feel the urge to get it.
Edit: Of the 100 most successful movies in the above link I have seen 40.
Titanic - and I never intend to.
Passion - ditto. I mean, wtf?
Blade Runner - watched about 3/4, then got bored.
Godfather - *shrug* never did come up on TV, don't feel the urge to get it.
Edit: Of the 100 most successful movies in the above link I have seen 40.
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Angel Tarragon
Dawn Dragon
Have seen Titanic in the theater. Multiple times. I saw at the original AZ Cine Capri, man was that the xperience. I absolutely loved it. The only movies that I haven't seen yet that I want to are: Cursed, Sin City and Sahara.
Barendd Nobeard
Explorer
Klaus said:
Well, the first two movies are bad. The third one is much better. I think they finally got a real director (Alfonso Cuarón, who also did A Little Princess and Y Tu Mamá También Give HP3 a whirl; you might like it. If you don't, well, uh, ... I'll buy another one of your products!
Angel Tarragon
Dawn Dragon
Shiza, almost forgot about Elektra and Catwoman, gotta see 'em.
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