Popular movies you've never watched...

[xultar]

Basic Instinct
Empire Strikes Back
Desprately Seeking Susan
St Elmo's Fire
Braveheart
The Passion
Saturday Night Fever
A Christmas Carol
A Wonderful Life
ET
Mission Impossible
Gone with The Wind

[BrainRants]

1. The Passion

Too much hype from people I don't like.

[ExclamationPoint]

61. Yeah and a tad bit too anti-semitist for me..

not to mention downright gory. It kills me that more people watched that than Lord of the Rings.

[wysi]

2. !

ET
Titanic

[HeeBGBz]

3. The Princess Bride

The Passion

[Catch22Dem]

4. The Gods Must be Crazy

Couldn't sit through 30 seconds of that steaming turd.

[nevergiveup]

5. I am embarrassed but I have never seen

"Gone With the Wind"

[Catch22Dem]

6. Nor have I

My wife ALWAYS gives me a hard time over that.

[xultar]

9. Ditto! n/t

[kranich]

7. "Popular movies you've never watched..."

Titanic and Passion of Christ

On the small screen, I have never seen (not even in syndication) ER, NYPD Blue, Friends or the Sopranos.

[tuvor]

8. The Titanic. And you can't make me. n/t

[jobycom]

14. One of the best damn movies ever

Despite how popular it is to trash it because of its popularity.

Not THE best. Just on up near the top.

[tuvor]

18. Would've been better without Celine Dion, I'll bet.

Canadians need to have a sorryeveryone.com page just for her.

Let me be among the first to apologize.

[jobycom]

19. That I can agree with.

If you really want to hear the difference betwen her and a good singer, find a copy of the Jim Steinman song "All Coming Back to Me." She does it, and some woman with Pandora's Box does it. Listen to the difference, and you'll have even more trouble liking Dion after that.

[soothsayer]

22. barf! you have got to be kidding. what a suck job that was

imho

[jobycom]

27. Yeah, that's why it sold less than Gigli, huh?

Because it sucked so badly?

Great film. I can see someone not liking it, but I honestly can't see how anyone would say it was a bad film--especially not the worst ever. C'mon, it was worse that Gigli? Worse than Yor, the Hunter of the Future? Worse than Kelsey Grammar's Christmas Carol?

I mean, I hated Lord of the Rings, but I can see why others didn't, at least. I still wish I could recover those ten hours of my life...

[StrongbadTehAwesome]

40. ten? why would you watch all of something you hate?

especially when that something is as long as the LOTR movies? Just curious.

[Piperay]

49. I liked Titanic too

'different strokes for different folks' I guess. I've always been interested in the Titanic long long before it became popular. I read all the books and saw all the old movies and found them all worthwhile for different reasons.

[puddycat]

47. I think it would have been better without the stupid love story

there were enough true stories on that ship without resorting to an unrealistic rich girl-poor boy love story.

[lenidog]

10. Seen all of them and hated at least half of them

[Longhorn]

11. American Dreams

Pulp Fiction
Silence of the Lambs

[xultar]

12. I just watched Silence of the Lambs about a week ago...what was the big

deal with that?

[jobycom]

16. I think it worked better at the time

A lot of what it did has become so cliche it pops up on tv shows, but at the time the tension it created was unbearable. The scene with the pen clip drove people insane with the anticipation of what he would do with it.

After that, every one imitated the slow tension and the downplayed realism of the film, so there is less shock value now.

I still can't look at a bottle of Chianta or a plate of Fava beans the same.

[AP]

46. It's use of voice is really interesting.

If you listen to the directors comments on the DVD it sort of reveals a lot of interesting stuff.

[Longhorn]

23. Oops! I meant American Beauty.

I'll bet if I had seen it, I would remember the name! ;)

[Steely_Dan]

54. You Must...

...see this movie. It's worth it.

-P

[Mad_Dem_X]

56. Excellent movie

:thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

[pretzel4gore]

13. never saw raiders of lost arc, star wars, rambobo

i've see 'christmas carol' and 'its a wonderful life' but that's it.....btw one poster says never saw 'sopranos'.....last spring i watched episode and since watch every one i can ... i think it maybe the best drama thing on tv....next to 'i claudius' of course :)

[jobycom]

15. Gone with the Wind, Rocky, Last Tango in Paris. I finally saw Casablanca

I was surprised I liked Casablanca so much. Cool script. Needed a long sex scene and a few car chases with cars plunging off cliffs to explode in multiple angles on the rocks five feet below, but other than that it was pretty good.

[Patiod]

36. I was going to suggest you see GWTW, but no car chases

Closest to that is the sequence where Atlanta is burning....

So you might not love it...

[jobycom]

51. I guess a good carriage chase scene would work

But the carriage has to explode in mulitple fireballs the moment it falls off a cliff.

[yellowdogintexas]

17. The Passion,

Basic Instinct
Fatal Attraction
JAWS (all of them or rather none of them)
ROCKY (all of them)
Blair Witch
Silence of the Lambs
Pulp Ficton
Titanic
American Beauty

[RevolutionaryActs]

20. Casablanca, Gone with the Wind, A Wonderful life, I'm sure there are more:

and I will never... EVER! Watch The Passion! I could go off on a rant but I'll refrain. ;)

[soothsayer]

21. gone with the wind, saving pvt ryan, casablanca

[shannelyssa]

24. harry potter prizoner of azkaban

boy i failed to watch this!

[Milo_Bloom]

25. Almost anything with Julia Roberts or Demi Moore

... If they are focus of the movie, I steer clear. (Erin Brocavich, Ghost, Runaway Bride, GI Jane, Best Friends Wedding, etc...)

[Abelman]

26. The Passion

Titanic
Most of the one's on that list.

There's a lot of movies I missed in my childhood as well, like "The Explorers" and "The Lost Boys."

I will never see Titanic or The Passion. I had planned never to see Pearl Harbor, but got tricked into it. What a terrible movie.

[Nosmo King]

28. Star Wars (1977) and the sequels

I was a Junior at college when Star Wars was released. It was marketed as a kids movie at that time, although AFI has listed it on the Top 100 American films of all time.

Hell! I had already seen The Godfather, Taxi Driver, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Midnight Cowboy and Easy Rider by the time Star Wars was released. I was in no good mood to see a movie made for little kids.

A girlfriend convinced me to see Star Wars. Well, we had gone to a campus watering hole and got pretty liquored up. I do remember being asked to kindly leave the theater after making a comment about the big golden talking dildo!

[jackelope72]

29. An incomplete list

Casablanca
Spiderman 1 & 2
A Christmas Story
Ocean's Eleven (either version)
Gone With the Wind
G.I. Jane
Saving Private Ryan
Cast Away
Rambo 1, 2, 3
Rocky 2, 3, 5
The Terminator 2 & 3
Nightmare On Elm Street (all)
Friday the 13th (all but Jason Takes Manhattan--got tricked into seeing that piece of crap)
Waiting To Exhale
Die Hard 2 & 3
Dirty Harry (all)

[CBHagman]

30. Long list.

Anything (ANYTHING) with Tom Cruise in it -- Top Gun, Mission: Impossible, Risky Business. And I never will see any of them.

Any Jurassic Park movie.

Any recent "Star Wars" film (I think the last thing I saw was Return of the Jedi)

Seven
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Saving Private Ryan
The Passion of the Christ
A Beautiful Mind
Gladiator
Any Princess Diaries movie

Most Jim Carrey movies (The Mask and The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind are exceptions)

Anything Quentin Tarantino is even remotely connected with.

Erin Brockovich
Independence Day
Chicken Run
Damces with Wolves
The Silence of the Lambs
The Sixth Sense

I've seen parts of Titanic and E.T. on TV.

[MISSDem]

31. You're depriving yourself of some good ones

IMHO. It's A wonderful Life and Gone With the Wind especially.

[MISSDem]

32. The Titanic. It is not even true to history.

[MISSDem]

33. How do you all decide to not see a film? Or does it just happen?

Do you have a favorite critic so you know what you will like?

[jackelope72]

34. Most of the time I just don't have any interest

in seeing the film. Sometimes I want to, but I don't get around to it, and the interest just kind of wanes.

[CBHagman]

35. Don't forget the time consideration.

Frankly, there are some movies I don't see either because I can't schedule the time easily or because watching them will be a huge investment of time. For example, I've read C.S. Lewis but not J.R.R. Tolkien, so I am not intimately acquainted with The Lord of the Rings. True fans of Tolkien can decide whether they will be driven mad by the adaptations or obliged to see it because they are devoted to the series. In my case, it's an investment of hours of time, and I just haven't found or made that block of time. In terms of casting and artistic achievement, the LOTR series strikes me as interesting, though, and I certainly have nothing against filmmaking in New Zealand! :-)

[Lydia Leftcoast]

37. Raiders of the Lost Ark, Ghostbusters,

Love Story, Pretty Woman, The Passion, Basic Instinct, any of the "brat pack" movies like The Breakfast Club or Pretty in Pink. There must be others.

[GrrrlRomeo]

38. The Passion - Already read the book

I even have it on DVD...my Aunt sent it to us along with a Bible....uhm, even though we already have a Bible. I don't know what the point was. You know, gay people just can't have enough Bibles and religious movies!

[skypilot]

39. I've actually never watched...

..."The Wizard of Oz" from beginning to end. I've seen parts of it here and there but my eyes usually glaze over once anyone bursts in to song. I've also never seen "Gone With the Wind".

[CBHagman]

42. As the cop said in "The Ref"...

...don't you LIVE in this country?! :-)

[VTdem]

41. The Godfather

[The Great Escape]

43. Alien, Aliens, Alien 3, Alien Resurrection....

none of them. They all have actors that I am very much a fan of...Sigourney Weaver, Tom Skerrit, Wynona Ryder, Lance Henriksen et al. I've just never really been much of a Sci Fi fan...the original just never really appealed to me so I have deliberately skipped the sequels as well.

[Raiden]

44. Ah man, Alien is my favorite sci fi film of all time!

It captures psychological horror and claustrophobia so well. It's really more horror than sci fi. Aliens is really good, but not as good as Alien as it lacks that psychological, claustrophic element of Alien. After seeing those two, Alien 3 and Alien Resurrection are pure crap!


I've never seen...

American Beauty
Sling Blade
The Color Purple
The Shawshank Redemption
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
A Clockwork Orange

[leeman67]

53. The first Alien is a classic horror film...

more than it is a sci-fi movie. You should check that one out at least. Along with Jaws and the Exorcist, it was one of the scariest movies I remember seeing as a young lad growing up in the 70's. :)

[AP]

45. The Passion of the Christ, Forrest Gump, My Big Fat Greek Wedding...

Saving Private Ryan
Rain Man
A Beautiful Mind
Good Will Hunting
The Green Mile
Sleepless in Seattle
Seabiscuit
Notting Hill
Road to Perdition
Shakespeare in Love

[chimpymustgo]

48. JUST saw The Matrix (and sequels) last month!

Never seen:

The Passion
Indiana Jones (et al)
LOTR (et al)
Braveheart
Spiderman 2
Mission Impossible
Any movie with John Wayne
Any movie with Clint Eastwood (though I will see Million Dollar Baby)

[Piperay]

50. Casablanca

was my mother's favorite movie but I just never have gotten round to seeing it. :-(

[kwassa]

58. Here's looking at you, kid ....

I just saw "Casablanca" again the other night, (Turner Classic Movies) and actually picked up a whole level of plot I missed in previous viewings. It is a great movie, though on a historical level is it pretty preposterous.

Also, "To Have or Have Not", Lauren Bacall's debut with Bogart, is also great, and was on the night before. "you know how to whistle, don't you? just put your lips together and ..... blow". Full of wonderful sarcastic lines from both Bogart and Bacall.

[Chovexani]

52. For years I refused to watch Titanic

I finally broke down and saw it for the sole purpose of being able to understand all the parodies of it. I'm glad I did because it is one of the most unintentionally funny movies I have ever seen, and I consider myself something of a connosieur when it comes to cheese cinema.

I've never seen Gone With the Wind either, which means I'll probably have my fag hag card confiscated.

[Cush]

55. Titantic, Forrest Gump

[Mad_Dem_X]

57. Wonderful Life, The Passion, The Matrix, Independence Day

I also have Schindler's List on DVD but have yet to watch it. :-(

[SoonerShankle]

59. Braveheart, The Passion,...

Citizen Kane
The Great Escape
Shane
The Magnificent Seven
among others....

[xultar]

60. OOOoooo I forgot, Miracle on 34th St. n/t

[Forkboy]

62. All 3 Lord of the Rings movies,Titanic

The Matrix sequels....

Hell,I never see any movies unless they're weird and unknown.

I did watch Gummo,for example :)