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Wow.. this was made for me.

I still haven't seen The Hangover which according to my bf is practically illegal.

And yes, to the Shawshank redemption, I can't, I won't.

Animal House.

I have never seen Animal House. Mr. PaddyDog refuses to let me admit this in public. He sees this omission on a par with having been a pedophile earlier in life, something that, once admitted, would immediately cause society to ostracize me and by association him. So it's quite cathartic here to be able to shout out loud I HAVE NEVER SEEN ANIMAL HOUSE.

There is no way in hell that I will ever watch Precious because I don't want to implode due to the sheer force of depression that will most certainly overwhelm me.

I've never seen The Wild Bunch, except for the action-packed ending. Since I know how it ends I've never felt the need to see the rest of the movie.

I've only seen bits and pieces of Citizen Kane, and that's fine with me. And I know Rosebud is the damn sled. Whoopty-fucking-do.

Since I'm in the military, people seem to expect it to be my hobby as well, and I always feel like I should watch Band of Brothers or Black Hawk Down but now I just don't want to give in. Especially when it comes to Black Hawk Down.

Just about everything by Hitchcock (seen Rear Window) and Kurosawa (seen Seven Samurai). Not sure why.

Ditto what Pinky McLadybits said. I have a tenuous enough grasp on happiness sometimes, so I don't need a crushingly harsh movie push me over the edge. The sad bits in UP! are disturbing enough to me these days.

Haven't seen The Hangover and keep finding other things to watch instead. Haven't seen Mullholland Dr. I've not seen Glengarry Glenn Ross (the title irritates me, I think because I have no idea what it refers to plot-wise). I can't get excited about them even though I'm told they are very good.

*takes a deep breath* Here we go:

All of the Godfather movies, Gone with the Wind, Shawshank Redemption, Casablanca (tried but got distracted with nookie), Schindler's List, Goodfellas, It's a Wonderful Life, Scarface, everything Woody Allen's ever done except Annie Hall, everything Scorsese's ever done except After Hours, all of the Alien movies, all of the Rocky movies, all of the Rambo movies, everything John Wayne or James Stewart has ever done, Jaws, the Die Hards, Apocalypse Now, Saving Private Ryan, Gladiator, When Harry Met Sally.

There are more. But these are the ones that most people seemed to like.

And you know what? I HAVE seen all 5 of the Bring It On movies. Oh yes, there's 5!

Suck it.

Oh, come on! You've never seen The Dark Knight? So you missed the awesome part where they are putting everyone on boats because the Joker specifically left boats out of his threat, so of course he won't do anything to hurt the boats? And how even though the Joker never mentioned boats he still managed to put thousands of pounds of explosives in the boat holds without anyone noticing, even though a) any moron not in a movie would have inspected the boats before they left shore, b) if there was space in the hold shouldn't they have tried to put more people on the boats? and c) there was so much explosive the crew should have noticed how much lower the boats sat in the water or how slower the boats were movie with all the extra weight?

Sorry, I thought the movie was so boring I noticed the huge gaping plot holes.

Anyway, to answer the question, I have only seen about 2.3 Bond movies (2 Sean Connery and 0.3 Roger Moore), and that's all I intend to see. No Pierce Brosnan, no Timothy Dalton, no Daniel Craig (I seem to be immune to his hotness, even though I agree he is a good actor). Not sure why - I guess I'm not into spies. Private detectives stories, on the other hand, are like crack to me. The difference? I'm not sure.

DarthCorleone: I've seen about half the movies you list, and the only one I think you need to see is The Apartment. Billy Wilder is awesome and everyone should watch all his movies, at least all the American ones. I know Sunset Boulevard is on your list too, but The Apartment IMHO is much more entertaining. And if you like the Jack Lemmon/Shirley MacLaine combo, you need to watch Irma la Douce next. Not as good a movie, but just as entertaining.

I fell asleep during The Dark Knight . In the cinema. I just did not care. The Shawshank Redemption is nothing more than an above average "TV movie". Scarface is overlong and kind of shit.

I have never seen Casablanca. I have no excuse.

Sarina - re: wool socks. I have two suggestions for you. First, you clearly have never tried Smart Wool socks, because I swear to you, as someone who is also easily bothered by wool's itchiness, that they do not itch! Second, cashmere socks! Just make sure they aren't a blend with wool. You get all the warmth of wool, but with the joyful softness of cashmere.

Those are my helpful hints of the day.

As for the topic at hand, I'm not sure that I have films that I'm supposed to see, but haven't due to "meh-ness." I mostly avoid good films that I expect are going to upset/depress the hell out of me, like Amistad or Requiem for a Dream or American History X or I could go on, but I won't.

Totally sorry about that, Pinky McLadybits! Now that I there is an actual face to those that I have harmed, it's really brought it home. I will get right on it, toot fuckin' suite!

The only Truffaut movie I've seen is Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Shut up. He was in it and that makes it a Truffaut movie. I've seen Breathless with Richard Gere but not his original, Bout de Souffle. That was mostly for a very luscious Valerie Kaprisky.

Thank you, Forbiddendonut. I take back the curse on your toes. May you never stub your toes again!

"Sarah, I think The Dark Night was a pretty great comic book movie and No Country for Old Men is a masterpiece, but you'll never appreciate either of them if you continue to approach films like bad-tasting medicine. Loosen up and get excited about a new experience (though Clue is a pretty kick-ass guilty pleasure)."

Posted by: Adam F. at March 31, 2010 6:42 PM

Hey now, I never said I had anything against seeing new and/or different movies. I just prefer to watch things I'm genuinely interested in, rather than something other people tell me is good but the premise of which I find boring. I think it's pretty clear at this point that's true of many people; it's just a question of which "good" movies they find themselves utterly unmotivated to watch.

So this is basically a really long hipster-ish "I'm too cool to watch popular movies" post?

Congrats on willfully avoiding quality films, I guess?

It is The Departed. It is getting downright weird with that movie. I went on two separate blind dates, both of whom could not be MORE different, who independently brought up the fact that I should be ashamed that I haven't seen the departed.

I also haven't seen brokeback, but that's just because I don't like my movies to make me cry.

I finally saw Eraserhead and I'm still sorry.

I've never seen: The Godfather movies, and uh . . . Super Troopers. My coworker even gave me a copy of Super Troopers and insisted I watch it, that if I don't enjoy it I'm not human but I still haven't done it.

Right, I haven't seen Moulin Rouge either. There's a lot of stuff I haven't watched, now that I think of it. Probably a lot of classic stuff.

MelBivDevoe, couldn't have said it better myself. Some haven't tickled my fancy, some I've simply not had the time to check out, I don't consider myself better or cooler than anyone because I haven't seen certain films and in fact I'm more often frustrated I haven't because at the very least I'd like to hold my own in a discussion about them rather than just shrugging 'havent seen it'

This thread wouldn't be complete without my once again hassling Dustin over his outright refusal to ever watch Lawrence Of Arabia. I don't understand his stubbornness or for that matter the stubbornness exhibited by some others here. Y'all love movies, right? These are good movies. See them! We're just all different animals, I guess.

Three-nineteen >> Thanks. I do frequent TCM quite a bit.

I've seen Men in Black II, but not I. II did not prompt me to become a Will Smith completist, I'll tell you that much.

I've seen Resident Evil III, but not I or II. III gives me no cause to rectify this.

I've seen the Search for Spock, but not the Wrath that made said search necessary--or the first film. Anyway, I get all of the Star Trek I need from the fight scene in 'Amok Time'. Mating Frenzy. Gladatorial Combat. Fun stuff. Hit me with your rhythm stick.

I saw the first half hour of Predator II, but threatened violence if not allowed to stop. Voodoo Jamaican Abatoire? How is that a thing? If you're going to start throwing random nouns at a screen, pick something fun and obscure and totally divorced from reality. Like, 'unconditional love'. Har, har! Is it fair to say that there was a first Predator? Number Two makes me wonder if the first one is too.

I was born during Pierre Trudeau's last term, but wasn't around for the preceding seventy-four. I missed the 'mania. I missed the Trudeaumania, it's sad and alarming!

I saw The Dark Knight, wanted to like it more than I did (and I waited a good long while so as not to be poisoned by the hype), but couldn't get the Cinema Boner that everyone else got. I have no plans to see the first one, because it comes down to this: I really don't give two fours about The Man Who is Also Sometimes a Bat.

Which brings me to Spiderman II. I don't know if I can truly say that I've seen it, because I fell asleep both times I attempted it. I can't claim movie snobbery, I've just got this nutty circadian disrhythmia. Although that'd be in line with Tobey Maguire's somnambulism-stained performance. I think I saw Kirsten Dunst doing Wilde and spontaneously passed out. Didn't see the first one.

I'll read the rest of your post and the comments in just a second (my apologies if this has already been touched upon). I need to comment on this immediately.

That’s why I own The Dark Knight on DVD, but I’ve never even removed the shrink wrap. I know it’s a movie I should probably see, but I simply cannot work up the ambition. The same is true of WALL-E, No Country for Old Men and There Will Be Blood. I know they’re all supposed to be good, but I also already know their plotlines and I can’t work up enough interest to actually watch them.

Seriously. What? Seriously. I can't believe this. What? My brain is hurt more.

We're in a fight, Sarah. You've changed.

I've never gotten through Scarface or the Godfather. I want to say this is due to repulsion from one too many episodes of Cribs where there is some poster in the background, but it's more likely I'm just lazy. I like both Goodfellas and Casino though,so I'm extremely inconsistent. Also, I've never eaten marrow. I've heard great things, but marrow? Ewwww.

The Godfather resistance and/or dislike is always what confuses me the most.

WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL-EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

What does Larry King have to do with this article? Why is his picture there?

First off, that picture has nothing to do with anything. I just thought it was funny.

That is a LIE. That right there, my friends, is the only known photograph of one Ms. Sarah Larson.

Debbie Does Dallas. I know it's a classic and I know that it's the pinnacle of film but I just can't ever seem to get around to it. I've even seen the sequals but the original continues to elude me.

Well, my list of movies I *haven't* seen is longer than my list of movies I *have*, so I'll just throw a couple out: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. That's one of those ones I own on DVD but haven't gotten around to watching (though the shrink wrap is off). Also, North By Northwest. One of the several Hitchcock films I have not seen, though I love the man's work. I just haven't been "in the mood," if ya know what I mean.

The Godfather is empirically great. No amount of hype would be an injustice.

Well now I'm wondering why I haven't seen or refuse to see certain movies ...

- American Pie (or sequels, except clips / adverts). I am astonished as Shannon Elizabeth's Maxim cover comes unbidden to my mind from time to time. (Shut up. It was a slow year.)

- None of the Starship Troopers sequels. Odd because the original is cheese-tastically perfect. Johnny Rico!

- , Avatar, and any number of additional unsubtle message movies. I like my messages subtle, ambiguous and ironic, thank you very much.

- Anything French that's not at least as hot as Belle du Jour.

And I'm deliberately saving 28 Weeks Later, The Hunger, Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle and Where The Wild Things Are for when I need a lift.

I have to agree, I'm not actively avoiding any of the movies I listed (except the too-depressing-to-watch category), I just have so many more that are higher up on the priority list. I'm sure I'll see a lot of them eventually. It just hasn't happened in the previous 28 years.

And Dorothy Snarker, I'd never seen the Indy movies and got dragged to see the new one in a theater so I had to come home and watch the other ones. 1 holds up spectacularly well and 3 is solidly respectable, but 2 is A BAD MOVIE. Just so ya know.

Soooo late on this >.

Also, if it's a movie that came out this/last year, you're excused for another few months. Even Avatar. And, Bierce, Johnny Rico made $120 million clams and the sequels went direct-to-video. Saying you missed the Starship Troopers sequels is so redundant I can't come up with a clever enough metaphor for it.

Hrrrrrm my list, trying to skip the more popular ones.

Amelie. The cover scares the crap out of me, and I prefer my French cinema with Alain Delon acting like a badass. It's one of my best friends and she swears I'll love it, but I fight not to see it.

Bridge on the River Kwai

Any Classic Horror movie not starring Bruce Campbell

True Romance

(Original) Thomas Crown Affair. And yet I love McQueen.

Any single episode of Lost, Mad Men, The Sopranos, Breaking Bad. Meh!

Moulin Rouge. That movie can go fuck itself with a bowling pin for all I care. This goes doubly true for Chicago (ten minutes and I was gagging) and Across the Universe.

And until about a month ago, I had not see Finding Nemo.

Wow, the list of films you haven't seen is staggering and disheartening and I'm tempted to refuse to even answer this diversion because it's so horrible.

But I suppose I will.

Well, the big ones for me until recently were The Godfather trilogy and Shawshank. But I've seen those now. Let's see...I guess that leaves American Beauty, any John Hughes movie that isn't Ferris Bueller, Citizen Kane, Gone With The Wind, A Clockwork Orange, any Hitchcock film, Schindler's List, Jaws, Indiana Jones 1 and 3 (somehow I saw 2 and 4, which everyone assures me were the shitty ones), Se7en, It's A Wonderful Life, Scarface, Raging Bull, China Town, Taxi Driver, Lawrence of Arabia, Rocky, Saving Private Ryan, and Goodfellas. All films I desperately WANT to see, but haven't yet. I'm sure there are others, as well.

Nadine...god, every post you write just flat-out upsets me.

Sarina, the point is that you have to keep an open mind. I thought I was going to be bored to tears with The Godfather, but I adored it. I was actually really nervous that The Dark Knight was going to suck, but I loved it. I thought there was no way I was going to get sucked in by a film about an oil baron, but There Will Be Blood impressed me to death. I'm just saying this because a lot of people seem to share the same view: Open yourself up, try something, and then, if you don't like it, you can be as much of an asshole as you want. That's how I am with Caddyshack; no one can convince me that movie's aged well AT ALL. Also, Moulin Rouge, which I maintain is a complete piece of shit because Baz Lurmann or whatever is a terrible director. But god damn, if you think The Dark Knight looks boring, what the fuck would you find EXCITING?!

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. I own it but just can't seem to bring myself to watch it. No reason other than I think it will make me sad. I will watch it someday I suppose.
I too can watch "clue" over and over though.

It's okay, CSH, you stick to the music and we'll keep the movies covered sugartits.

Also a rather wonderful point on The Dark Knight good sir.

I wonder how many of these lists are based on purely gender stereotypes? Not meant in an offensive way either, but I'm sure it comes into play quite often.

And with the Godfather, they're really not films that I find many females are even remotely interested in. It's a movie that is;

Devoid of "great" female characters.
Very chauvinistic.
Not really chock full of male sex symbols (sorry but Sonny blows it early when he bangs that pug-fugly piece of ass during the wedding).
It's ridiculously Italian. Doesn't connect with everybody, capisci?
At least 3 ladies have lost it when Michael leaves Annie Hall for an Italian woman he can't engage in the same language.
Starts with the head of a horse, which for some reason I'm quick to point out is real. And was delivered "from a dog food company".

Surely there are ladies out there who love the films (3 never happened), but, honestly and subjectively, I find that most don't for a variety of reasons.

Tarantino.

Star Wars. Any or all of them. I've seen parts, since I worked at a DVD store when the official trilogy DVD set first came out, but not the whole of any, and I don't care to.

Haven't seen Star Wars either, Gabs. From the clips I've seen, it looks like fun. The real bitch is that I've seen Revenge of the Sith and it was as horrible as it sounds. What a shitty way to start the saga.

I have never seen "The Empire Strikes Back" I have a ton of friends that tell me that I have missed "the best movie of the series", but I can't seem to get into it. I have seen the Battle of Hoth 5000000000 times but then my friends get bored or something comes up so we never finish. I'm surew I'll see it one day.... or not.

I have not seen any of the Godfather movies. I own the whole trilogy boxset. I have yet to ever put it in the DVD player.

Any Woody Allen movie. I'm never going to watch them. He aggravates me beyond belief just knowing he's out there in the world being all nerdy and high strung, I don't need to see it on screen.

Every western made before 1980
Every Kurosawa movie
Taxi Driver
The Last Temptation of Christ
Crash
Ben Hur
Spartacus
Lawrence of Arabia
A Clockwork Orange
Munich
Brokeback Mountain
Avatar (I'll watch it next month when it comes home)

I've had Munich, Clockwork Orange, Ben Hur, and Taxi Driver in my possession at different times and just couldn't muster up the energy to watch them. Nothing against most of these, I'm sure they'll get watched eventually. I just saw "Cool Hand Luke" for the first time last Christmas. I liked it ok.

I've not seen The Wizard Of Oz or The Sound Of Music. I'm sure there are lots of other movies I have not seen that I'm "supposed" to, but these two manage to piss off a lot of people.

As a side note, I think that Batman Begins is much better than The Dark Knight. The latter is just long and boring. Snooze.

I was a teenager in the 80s, and I saw (and enjoyed) all those 80s teen films....all except "Say Anything." Never wanted to see it; never cared about it; and the theme song makes my ears bleed.

I've never seen any of The Godfather movies. They are all in my Netflix queue, but I have the same problem. I feel like I've heard so much about the movies from other people telling me I need to see them that it doesn't seem worth it.

Any Woody Allen movie. I'm never going to watch them. He aggravates me beyond belief just knowing he's out there in the world being all nerdy and high strung, I don't need to see it on screen.
Posted by: Carrie (Teabelly) at April 1, 2010 5:16 AM

Your loss, since Annie Hall is a f***ing classic.

any of the star wars films. nope, not one.