Movies everybody saw, but you

[iwatt]

From the top 100 list:

3	Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
8	Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
10	Finding Nemo
15	Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
26	The Passion of the Christ
40	Toy Story 2
43	Saving Private Ryan
56	Madagascar
86	Hitch
90	A Bug's Life
98	American Beauty
99	Apollo 13

Haven't watched the Harry Potters since I haven't gotten around to reading the books first.

Haven't seen Finding Nemo, Toy Story 2, a Bug's life and Madagascar because I live in Chile and watching the movies in English means getting the DVDs (cartoons all get translated to Spanish)

Hitch: I missed it at the cinema. Will probably pick it up from Blockbuster anytime soon.

American Beauty: watched part of it, but it didn't do anything for me. Probably will never see it.

Apollo 13, and Saving Private Ryan: I missed them at the movies, so I'll probably catch them sometime as reruns in HBO.

So I'm 88% effective right now, and will probably be 99% in a couple of months.


About Titanic: I guess the reason that not that many people in this board have seen it is the shocking truth that a love story featuring Leonardo di Caprio probably doesn't have DnD geeks as it's target demographic...

 

[Just_Hal]

Slow day at work and we got to talking about movies. And some people mentioned a movie, and I never saw it. And I was like the only one who hadn't. So it got me thinking, what popular movies have I not seen that everybody else has.....

Spider Man 2 --Haven't seen it, rented it, never watched it

Usual Suspects

Titanic

Something about Mary

Well that the list of what I think are the popular movies I never saw.

Usual Suspects

Titanic

Something about Mary

I have 'em if ya wanna borrow them fool!

 

[AdmundfortGeographer]

I totally agree, but I think it has been included (at least in a bunch of cases in this thread, like in my post for example) because it was on that "Top 100 grossing films" link. It's what I used to define "movies that everyone has seen". It's not a great list (since it's in non-adjusted dollars), but it's pretty much all we've got as a reasonable definition of "movies that everyone has seen". That AFI list may be reasonable as well.

I would love to see an "adjusted dollars" list ever since I heard the Gone with the Wind, in adjusted dollars dwarfs everything ever made. Nope, never seen it either.

If folks are apt to see movies on a list, I'd recommend seeing the movies on the AFI's list of Top 100 film quotes. The movies there are really the ones, IMO, that are some of the most culturally significant movies. You'll probably have heard the quotes at some time in your life and wondered where they came from and in what context... or even parodied some time.

 

[Mercule]

From http://www.boxofficemojo.com/alltime/world/ (72/100):

20. Forrest Gump (probably should sometime, but, meh)
28. War of the Worlds (Cruise did a nice anti-publicity bit)
31. The Day after Tomorrow (I can't imagine liking this)
39. Twister (I live in Iowa. I've seen tornados.)
43. Saving Private Ryan (I've seen the first hour, but had to step out)
53. Ocean's Eleven (maybe if I'm bored)
54. Pearl Harbor (don't care)
55. Tarzan (I'll get around to it -- I've got kids)
56. Madagascar (I'll get to it)
71. Gone With the Wind (um... no)
82. There's Something About Mary (not into body function "humor")
84. Jurassic Park III (figured it was the third in a weak series, why bother)
85. My Big Fat Greek Wedding (meh)
87. Notting Hill (what is this?)
89. Shark Tale (didn't look good, and was told it would... annoy me)
91. Ocean's Twelve (was warned away, and didn't care, anyway)
98. American Beauty (name's vaguely familiar)
99. Apollo 13 (probably should)

Movies I have seen from http://www.afi.com/tvevents/100years/movies.aspx (14/100):
6. The Wizard of Oz
9. Schindler's List (I should really buy this one)
15. Star Wars
22. 2001: A Space Odyssey
25. E.T. The Extra Terrestrial (even as a kid, I thought it was silly)
49. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
50. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
55. The Sound of Music (the reason I refuse to see musicals -- this is on my 100 worst list)
60. Raiders of the Lost Ark
62. Tootsie
64. Close Encounters of the Third Kind
65. Silence of the Lambs
69. Shane
75. Dances With Wolves (Costner has never made a movie worth watching)
78. Rocky
95. Pulp Fiction
98. Unforgiven

Despite my vehement disagreement with some of the choices, there really are quite a few on the AFI list I'd like to see.

 

[glass]

oh, and one more...

Soylent Green.

Up until a couple of months ago I had never heard of it. Even now, I am not 100% sure it is actually a film, but I'm not sure what else it could be (a play, I suppose).

It was mentioned in passing in another film I was watching (Drop Dead Gorgeous), and since then it has been mentioned on ENworld half a dozen times. Apparently everybody but me is familiar with it.


glass.

 

[Viking Bastard]

Great movie.

Soylent Green.

Try google, man.

 

[mojo1701]

It was mentioned in passing in another film I was watching (Drop Dead Gorgeous), and since then it has been mentioned on ENworld half a dozen times. Apparently everybody but me is familiar with it.


glass.

Ah, yes, the dramatic reading of it. Though, if you listened to the last thing she says, it's been spoiled for you: SPOILER:

Spoiler

Soylent Green is people!

 

[sniffles]

Soylent Green.

Up until a couple of months ago I had never heard of it. Even now, I am not 100% sure it is actually a film, but I'm not sure what else it could be (a play, I suppose).

It was mentioned in passing in another film I was watching (Drop Dead Gorgeous), and since then it has been mentioned on ENworld half a dozen times. Apparently everybody but me is familiar with it.


glass.

Good heavens!! How did you miss it?
Yes, it's a real film, starring Charlton Heston and Edward G. Robinson (his last film). It was made in the 70s.
Best. Catch-phrase. Evar.

 

[pogre]

13 Independence Day
19 The Matrix Reloaded
24 The Incredibles
28 War of the Worlds
29 Armageddon
30 Mission: Impossible II
31 The Day After Tomorrow
38 Troy
39 Twister
41 Bruce Almighty
51 The Last Samurai
52 Mission: Impossible
53 Ocean's Eleven
56 Madagascar
62 Die Another Day
64 The Matrix Revolutions
68 The Bodyguard
69 Signs
77 Mr. and Mrs. Smith
78 Godzilla
81 What Women Want
82 There's Something About Mary
84 Jurassic Park III
86 Hitch
87 Batman Begins
88 Notting Hill
91 Ocean's Twelve
94 The World Is Not Enough
97 Minority Report

 

[orchid blossom]

I have never seen Titanic, I won't see Titanic, you'd have to pay me large amounts of money to see Titanic.

Leonardo DiCaprio bugs me. If he's in it, I probably haven't seen it.

My list of things I haven't seen would be far too long to post. My taste in movies just doesn't generally run to what's in the theaters. For example.... we were going to the movies the other night, and of all the things we could see, we were going to see March of the Penguins. (Which we never got to cause the car broke down.)