MOVIES You've Never Seen

[Potzer! 37]

Hey Schmoes, let's get a thread going about those critically acclaimed and loved movies you've never seen. I'll start.

The Dark Knight

Trainspotting

Cape Fear (re-make and original)

The Lion The Witch and the Wardrobe

what haven't you seen?

[hard_candy20]

Hmm, let's see...

The Departed
The Lord Of The Rings trilogy
Star Wars (All of them)
Gladiator
The Silence Of The Lambs
Rocky
Casablanca

[Rawlin67]

Godfather Part II is the biggest one i can think of. which is odd too, because the first one is in my top 20.

[Potzer! 37]

Do you own "The Godfather" on dvd?

[Rawlin67]

Yes, Godfather Widescreen, i bought it for like 5 bucks.

[Potzer! 37]

Just curious...I mean Godfather II is still a bit beyond me (seen it a few times, but it's a dense and full film) and part III I've seen once but the big collection is a prize in my dvds....great extras and stuff.

[Major Mojo]

Sorry, this was just a duplicate post..and i don't know how to delete them.
Man i hate being a noobie.

[Major Mojo]

Schindler's List
Saving Private Ryan...

my friends know i'm a sook and have all told me i shouldn't see these films.

[Potzer! 37]

Excuse me for living but what is a sook?

[Cronos]

Apparently an Australian slang term for someone who gets easily upset.

M

[tbone]

casablanca
lawrence of arabia
true romance

[athf1980]

Gone with the Wind
The Godfather part 2
Cititzen Kane

[spacemonkey]

Sunset Boulevard
Casablanca
Awakenings
Lawrence of Arabia
The English Patient
The Boxer
Far and Away

[bigred760]

2001: A Spacy Odyssey
Raging Bull

[KCJ506]

Oh boy here we go

The Back To The Future trilogy
The Godfather trilogy
The 40 Year Old Virgin
Scarface
Goodfellas
Any Bond movie with Connery or Moore
Blade Runner
Pulp Fiction
Casino
Lord Of The Rings trilogy
300
Titantic
Any Denzel Washington movie

I just know I'm gonna hear it for this.

[spacemonkey]

Oh boy here we go
Blade Runner
Pulp Fiction


You should probably start with these two!

[DarthWade]

Oh boy here we go

The Back To The Future trilogy
The Godfather trilogy
The 40 Year Old Virgin
Scarface
Goodfellas
Any Bond movie with Connery or Moore
Blade Runner
Pulp Fiction
Casino
Lord Of The Rings trilogy
300
Titantic
Any Denzel Washington movie

I just know I'm gonna hear it for this.

I'm not going to knock you for this...but how the hell did you ever manage to miss these? Some I can understand (you never get around to it, etc...) but others like the Bond movies (Connery/Moore) usually play on tv a heck of a lot or at least they did. It's amazing that you've missed them.

It also reveals that you just landed on our planet recently. All hail our new leaders. ;)

[Rawlin67]

how the hell do you miss every Denzel Washington movie? the only way you do is if you're trying.

[KCJ506]

how the hell do you miss every Denzel Washington movie? the only way you do is if you're trying.

I just never got around to them.

I know someone who hasn't seen The Spider-man and X-men movies.

[spacemonkey]

how the hell do you miss every Denzel Washington movie? the only way you do is if you're trying.

Hey, we were all young schmoes once. The younger you are, the less movies you are likely to have seen. So yeah, welcome to the world of movie freaks!

[Potzer! 37]

Sunset Boulevard
Casablanca
Awakenings
Lawrence of Arabia
The English Patient
The Boxer
Far and Away
Is Far and Away really considered great? I always thought it had a reputation for being pretty "meh".

[Potzer! 37]

Is Far and Away really considered great? I always thought it had a reputation for being pretty "meh".
A friend of mine just saw Evil Dead II and Adaptation for the first time last month...and he's a huge movie freak. Loves Charlie Caufman and Sam Raimi, just never got around to watching them...that blows my mind cause Evil Dead II (the whole trilogy really) were some of my favorites even before I was a HUGE movie freak back when I just liked movies.

More for me:
Philidephia Story-I dunno why, I love romantic comedies (and the classics are usually great like His Girl Friday) and I love Cary Grant and Jimmy Stewart.
Wedding Crashers/Talledega Nights/Step Brothers/ect-I just didn't think the traliers looks funny.
The Omen-no intrest in this...dunno why

[Beard_of_Meat]

Dead Poet's Society
Million Dollar Baby
Letter's from Iwo Jima
The Deer Hunter
Twin Peaks
Gone With the Wind
Casablanca
The Godfather part III
Jackie Brown
That's it for now...

[rockybalboa782]

Fight Club

I wanted to see it but of course everyone spoiled the twist for me so i'm not too into seeing it anymore.

[outsyder]

If the only good thing about that movie was the twist, then people wouldn't talk about it as much as they do.

See it.

[Conz]

i basically havent seen any "classic" made before like 1975, and honestly i have no interest in watching dated crap. im not a film student, so please dont tell me how much im missing out and much better story telling was back then, blah blahblah, etc. etc. etc.

[FilmJunkie1114]

i basically havent seen any "classic" made before like 1975, and honestly i have no interest in watching dated crap. im not a film student, so please dont tell me how much im missing out and much better story telling was back then, blah blahblah, etc. etc. etc.

You're cheating yourself sir; the wealth of awesome movies prior to 75 is pretty large.

[Conz]

i just cant sit and watch em, give me an option between an old "classic" and a movie that was crap but made in 06, and my ADD will force me to take the newer one

[Screams]

The Lost Boys 2 (I Wanted to see it when it came out, but haven't. I was told it was not good. But I still might just for the heck of it)

The Dark Knight
Wanted
Fright Night (My bad! Being a liker of Horror movies I know its been around for awhile, but I haven't seen it yet lol)
Back To The Future 3 (Maybe I just seen to much of 1 and 2 could be why but someday I will make time to see it)
The Mummy Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (I liked 1 and 2)

[pablo_super1!]

:D Lost Boys 2, Wanted, and Mummy and the Tomb of the Dragon Emperor are critically acclaimed and loved. :rolleyes:

There are a lot I really need to see. Don't hurt me.
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Citizen Kane
Annie Hall
Casablanca
The Fly

Dollars Trilogy
A Fist Full of Dollars
For a Few Dollars More
The Good the Bad and the Ugly

Once Upon a Time in the West
Lawrence of Arabia
Life of Brian
The English Patient
Also Any Bond Movie with Connery or Moore
Back 2 the Futures 2 and 3
Poltergeist
Letter's from Iwo Jima
The Graduate
The Great Escape
Blade Runner
Dead Poet's Society
Seven Samurai
Sunset Blvd.
Trainspotting
Unforgiven
The Deer Hunter
Apocalypse Now
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
The Bridge on the River Kwai
Patton
Spartacus
Nort By Northwest
Gone with the Wind (seen half, need to finish)

[outsyder]

:D Lost Boys 2, Wanted, and Mummy and the Tomb of the Dragon Emperor are critically acclaimed and loved. :rolleyes:

There are a lot I really need to see. Don't hurt me.
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Citizen Kane
Annie Hall
Casablanca
The Fly

Dollars Trilogy
A Fist Full of Dollars
For a Few Dollars More
The Good the Bad and the Ugly

Once Upon a Time in the West
Lawrence of Arabia
Life of Brian
The English Patient
Also Any Bond Movie with Connery or Moore
Back 2 the Futures 2 and 3
Poltergeist
Letter's from Iwo Jima
The Graduate
The Great Escape
Blade Runner
Dead Poet's Society
Seven Samurai
Sunset Blvd.
Trainspotting
Unforgiven
The Deer Hunter
Apocalypse Now
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
The Bridge on the River Kwai
Patton
Spartacus
Nort By Northwest
Gone with the Wind (seen half, need to finish)

I'm tempted to lock you up in a vault with a tv and a bunch of DVDs.

If you find the time, I'd work on that list if I were you.

[Cronos]

Gone with the Wind (seen half, need to finish)
Reminds me I still haven't seen all of Das Boot, started watching it 6-7 years ago, got a third of the way through and for some reason never finished it.

[pablo_super1!]

There are 3 other I also really need to see

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
The Left Hand of God
American Psycho

[pablo_super1!]

I'm tempted to lock you up in a vault with a tv and a bunch of DVDs.

If you find the time, I'd work on that list if I were you.

Oh I need too. I've been dying to see Apocalypse Now and The Deer Hunter for a while (2 films on the list). Hopefully during Christmas Vacation I'll get a lot of these films off the list. Hell until only recently (about a week and a half ago) I saw The Shawshank Redemption, which is a fantastic film.

[Dr Manhattan]

Star Wars films. All six of them. I've tried, but I just can't sit through them for more than a few mins.

Godfather II. I watched the first one and didn't like it very much, so never really wanted to watch part 2.

Schindlers List. I've got it but I haven't seen it. I need to.

The Deer Hunter, Vertigo, Psycho, 2001: A Space Odessy, It's A Wonderful Life.

[Powerslave]

Lots, with varying degrees of importance

Patton
The Great Escape
The French Connection
The Ten Commandments
The English Patient
Doctor Zhivago
Munich
Diabolique
Grand Illusion
The Lady Vanishes
The 39 Steps
Das Boot
The Big Sleep
Rio Bravo
Shane
McCabe and Mrs. Miller
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (any of them)
Forbidden Planet
Don't Look Now
Chariots of Fire
Ordinary People
Hamlet (1948)
Judgement at Nuremberg
Once Upon a Time in America
The Last Tempation of Christ
The Last Emperor
The Conformist
The Killer
The Verdict
All That Heaven Allows
Blow-Up
Children of Paradise
Band of Outsiders
Terms of Endearment
The Killing
Killer's Kiss
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia
I Vitelloni
Anything by Robert Bresson and Andrei Tarkovsky, and most Bunuel and Jarmusch

A bunch more. Also, there's generally alot of golden age hollywood movies, film noir and westerns I still haven't gotten around to. And a bunch of foreign classics as well.

[jbar1026]

godfather trilogy
any bond with connery
raging bull

[jdparker]

There are lots of classics that I haven't gotten around to seeing. I've only seen two Hitchcock flicks (Rear Window and Psycho) and I feel like I'm committing cinematic heresy

In terms of recent films I still haven't seen Million Dollar Baby or Letters from Iwo Jima. I never fully forgave Eastwood for Blood Work... but I think it's time to drop that grudge.

oh and... DAWN OF THE DEAD. Around Halloween I watched both Night of the Living Dead and the remake of Dawn of the Dead for the first time, but I still haven't seen the original classic zombie flick.

Until Recently my biggest one was Braveheart but I finally sat down and watched it. Great fucking movie I can't believe I waited so long to see it.

[echo_bravo]

Even if you know the twist to Fight Club, you should still see it because the direction by David Fincher is amazing.


Still havent seen Das Boot

[NathanRomano]

8 1/2
Robocop 3, which is weird, I love the first 2

[Potzer! 37]

I never got around to finishing Hidden Fortress and then moved away from the library that had it...the dvd is so freaking expensive...

And speaking of Kurosawa, I just got around to seeing Sanjuro the other day and I've been a fan of Yojimbo for months since I bought and watched it.


2 more I own but have yet to watch are "Dark City" (not the new director's cut, the snapper case) and "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford". I tried on Jesse James but it's a really slow and pretty film and I feel asleep just after the opening train robbery which was suprisingly boring despite the way it looked.

Never seen Blood Simple either and I'm a huge Coen fan.

[Gian-Sergio]

Jaws
Rocky
Nosferatu
Battleship Potekin
Ordinary People
Twlight(I'm glad I Havn't seen it)
The Lives Of Others
The Last King Of Scotland
Down by Law
Hearts and Mind
Barton Fink
O Brother Where Art Thou
Blood Simple
Saw V(see Twlight)
Clerks II
Zack and Miri Make A Porno
The Red Desert

[sarah1980]

Gone With The Wind
Seven Samurai
Sunset Blvd.
The Deer Hunter
Apocalypse Now

[MidnightAngel]

The Hidden Fortress
Sisters
Black Moon
The Eyes Without a Face
Survive Style 5+
Evil Dead Trap
Cannibal Ferox
Django

[psycheoutsteve]

I'll probably get lynched for admitting this but...

Goodfellas

[John Galt]

Forrest Gump(probably won't either)
Schindler's List
Sling Blade
The English Patient
Gone With The Wind
Apocalypse Now
Das Boot
2001: A Space Odyssey
Spartacus
Paths Of Glory(its on my DVR though)
Sugarland Express
Zack And Miri Make A Porno

[jdparker]

Forrest Gump(probably won't either)

Why not? It's a great film. Almost everyone I know who has seen Forrest Gump loves it. It's just a straight up great story. It manages to be deep and heartfelt without being overly sentimental. All the performances are top-notch. The attention to detail by Zemeckis is outstanding. The characters are interesting and well developed. DANG MAN. You goootttaaa see Forrest Gump!

EDIT: The Soundtrack rules too!

[Potzer! 37]

Why not? It's a great film. Almost everyone I know who has seen Forrest Gump loves it. It's just a straight up great story. It manages to be deep and heartfelt without being overly sentimental. All the performances are top-notch. The attention to detail by Zemeckis is outstanding. The characters are interesting and well developed. DANG MAN. You goootttaaa see Forrest Gump!

EDIT: The Soundtrack rules too!
I used to love Forrest Gump...but I've got no interest in seeing it again and think it's pretty over rated now...not to mention my grudge aganist it when I found out it beat out Pulp Fiction...I already thought little of it, but after that my indifference only grew...

[Sonny488]

I'll probably get lynched for admitting this but...

Goodfellas

OFF WITH HIS HEAD! Naw but seriously though you definately need to put that on your to do list.

[DodgersFan11]

It's shocking to see that some people who come to this site haven't seen one or all of the Godfather films or Goodfellas, and Raging Bull to boot. It's like an unwritten rule that you have to have seen the classic Pacino and Deniro films lol. You guys gotta get on the ball!

I've stuck to watching the classics in recent years so my list of "must see" movies has been limited to mostly current films. Which I neglect to see on purpose most of the time because a lot of the shit they put out now is just that.

still need to see...

the second half of Two Towers and all of Return on the King (not exactly rushing for those)
The Passion of the Christ
most of the recent Pixar films with the exception of Wall-E
I Am Legend
Hancock
A Beautiful Mind
I, Robot

that's all I can think of off the top of my head, the rest are pretty much movies with lot of explosions

[silentasylum]

I havent seen Akira Kurasawa's Rashomon or Seven samurai.


That segment in Dreams with Martin Scorsese as Vincent van gogh is kind of neat to watch.