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I thought I would turn the "best/worst movie" threads on their heads here. This thread is to talk about the best movies people have never seen, hopefully obvious by the title.
As for me, I've never seen the Departed. I've also never seen Annie Hall, which I highly regret. There are probably thousands more that I have never seen, but I'll be thinking about them...
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I don't really know how you would call a film one of the best if you've never seen it, unless you mean films that simply haven't been made but you wish could be...
I'd say, in this vein, The Dark Tower. This movie would be more difficult to make than LotR, but if done well, it would surely be a best movie.
I guess that if I were to pick a film that exists, but I've not seen, but understand from others to be very good, it would be Cool Hand Luke. Without looking it up I couldn't even tell you what it's about, but I hear it referenced quite often.
Two others would be CSA and Brokeback Mountain, both of which, I'm ashamed to admit even on an internet messageboard, I've never rented because I don't want anyone to know I'm even interested. :-(
A fourth film would be Disney's Song of the South--OK, I have seen this one, but I was four years old and barely remember it. Apparently, it's racist, so Disney, embarrassed by the whole thing, has mothballed it with no intentions of ever rereleasing it. [snide remark]I guess if it had been written by Toni Morrison and starring Oprah and Danny Glover it would be OK...[/snide remark]
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I have never seen the Godfather or the Godfather part II. Which is odd, because I generally love mob movies.
I saw part of one of the GF movies on TV. I don't know which one it was. There was a wedding in it. It had James Caan. I think a lot of it took place in Italy or Sicily.
I taped Citizen Kane probably 15 years ago but never have gotten around to watching it.
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This seems appropriate for this thread: here is a list of the awesome movies that I'm actually ashamed to admit that I havn't watched yet, despite most of them being such staples of geek culture.
- Ghostbusters (I watched them when I was a kid, but I don't remember anything.)
- Highlander (the first one for the awesomeness, the rest out of morbid curiosity)
- Godfather (any of them)
- The seven Samurai
- The original transformers (I've seen it all, but in bits and pieces, never sat through the whole thing)
- Evil Dead (1 and 2, though I have seen Army of Darkness)
- Groundhog Day
- Raiders of the Lost Ark
- Aliens (any of them)
- Predator (any of them)
- Any of the Star Trek movies
All of these are on my to-do list at some point, but things keep cropping up that use up my time. like newer or obscure older movies. I'll get to them at some point.
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I have yet to see Rashomon.
I'm such a snob when it comes to Kurosawa that I refuse to watch them on anything but Criterion DVD releases (I had a bad experience with Kagemusha on VHS about 10 years ago). And that means $80 and finding a store that sells it. I've been waiting for some time, and it is finally available so it is going on my Christmas list.
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I have yet to see Rashomon.
I'm such a snob when it comes to Kurosawa that I refuse to watch them on anything but Criterion DVD releases (I had a bad experience with Kagemusha on VHS about 10 years ago). And that means $80 and finding a store that sells it. I've been waiting for some time, and it is finally available so it is going on my Christmas list.
Hehe, the local music/movie store near the University of Utah has nearly all of the Kurosawa Criterions in stock regularly. Unexpected, huh?
Adding to my list of shame:
There Will Be Blood
My Left Foot
Schindler's List
American Beauty
American History X
Juno
Nosferatu (both versions)
Grizzly Man
Cobra Verde
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Doctor Zhivago
(I've heard the soundtrack, but I've never seen the movie.)
Pride and Prejudice
(Any version...except for Clueless)
Night of the Living Dead
(I have the DVD, I've just not gotten around to watching it yet)
The Searchers
Shane
(I feel almost unAmerican for having not seen it)
Blade Runner
(I REALLY want to see this, because I want to visit the restored Bradbury building in downtown LA, which is really close to me, but I've told myself I won't do it until I've seen BR. Note, I've seen clips from BR, but not the whole thing and not in order)
On The Waterfront... Sound of Music... When Harry Met Sally... Top Gun...
My favorite is movies that you haven't seen but feel like you have because everyone quotes them all the time - by the time I finally got around to watching Full Metal Jacket I suddenly found myself realizing that I was familiar with nearly every line of dialogue.
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::A Bunch of Ridiculously AWESOME Movies::
I hope that you have been busy since October?
If not... *ahem*
Just sayin'
To add to the discussion...
I have not seen Babel and (I hate to admit) The Dark Knight.
YET.
I would have to say Solaris is the best movie I've never seen. The Original Russian version, not the George Cloony remake.
Look for it under the name Solyaris.
I enjoyed the remake as well. I like lonely and quiet yet philosophical space movies like Silent Running, 2001, Solaris and Sunshine. Mood is everything. Imagine just how emotionally cold space travel would really be.
There are no best movies I haven't seen. I've seen everything. I'm sad that way.
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To add to the discussion...
I have not seen Babel and (I hate to admit) The Dark Knight.
YET.
I'd say that Babel was good, but I wouldn't be ashamed of not having seen it. You should see Amores perros also, if you haven't seen that one.
Add The Searchers to my list. I've never been a huge fan of Westerns, but I'm trying to fill in my gaps in that genre.
Split Second (with Rutger Hauer). Good fun stuffs. :D
Perhaps it just wasn't to my taste, but I thought Solaris (with George Clooney) was an awful, boring movie.
Films that show people intimately haunted by the past call to me, and seem to miss most. I have a strong sense of regret. I don't bog down in it, but it's there, waited to be recalled during quiet moments.
Citizen Kane, Doctor Zhivago. Want to see them both.
Titanic I really have little interest in seeing -- what good is it if you alerady know how it ends?
Apocaplypto I wanted to see, but the wife vetoed it: "no anti-semite films allowed," she said.
On The Waterfront is on my Netflix queue; I almost saw it on break, but family time took priority.
I've slept through Top Gun three times, but never stayed awake through it.
Babel I won't see, because I can't stand Brad Pitt.
Play Misty for Me. Need to see it; I love Clint Eastwood.
Citizen Kane, Doctor Zhivago. Want to see them both.
Titanic I really have little interest in seeing -- what good is it if you alerady know how it ends?
Apocaplypto I wanted to see, but the wife vetoed it: "no anti-semite films allowed," she said.
On The Waterfront is on my Netflix queue; I almost saw it on break, but family time took priority.
I've slept through Top Gun three times, but never stayed awake through it.
Babel I won't see, because I can't stand Brad Pitt.
Play Misty for Me. Need to see it; I love Clint Eastwood.
You couldn't watch Apocalypto because you're wife wouldn't allow it? C'mon Kirth, man up! :)
There were Semites in Apocalypto?
There were Semites in Apocalypto?
No. Mel Gibson, who directed Apocalypto, made a few anti-Semitic statements during a drunken tirade a few years ago.
I'm just being a pot-stirrer. My guess, based on everything that was splashed across the news between the Passion and Apocalypto, is that Gibson is a troubled man, obviously an alcoholic, fighting his own inner demons more than any systemic anti-Semite like his nutty dad. I won't even go into the notorious question of to what extent we should judge the art in terms of the artist as a person or not.