What are the biggest movies you've NEVER seen?

[yoda313]

So what are the biggest name movies (or biggest cult movies - a sub category to be sure) you've never seen?

Last week at a garage sale I bought Casablanca on dvd for a $1. I figured I might as well see it. I'm not into romance movies or anything but this isn't exactly your typical "chic flick" and its a period piece so I decided to give it a go.

Man this one was full of quotes - I new the main ones but lots of little ones popped up too. Plus I paid attention and they never did say "PLAY IT AGAIN SAM". They really did just say "Play it sam".

I have also not seen AVATAR yet and I doubt I ever will. I've only seen bits and piecs of Titanic when nothing else was on tv - damn I wish I had those minutes back now

There are bunch of other ones like that. I've never seen CITIZEN KANE. I have seen It's a Wonderful Life but probably only once in its entirety and that was quite a long time ago.

Same goes for Sound of Music. I know I've seen it all the way through once at least but if you pressed me on certain scenes I'm sure I couldn't come up with details.

How about you with classics like these? What haven't you seen yet that you either have been meaning to watch or plan to boycott for the rest of your life?

[Supreme2k]

I haven't seen Chinatown nor African Queen, both of which I own. I just have to see them sometime soon.

I saw Avatar, and regret it. What a crappy movie.

[Tearren]

Some of these i want to see, some I don't really care to...

Blow
Casino
A Clockwork Orange
The Shining
To Kill a Mockingbird
A Streetcar Named Desire
The Maltese Falcon
Metropolis
Heat
Cool Hand Luke
American Graffiti
Fargo
The Exorcist

I did like Citizen Kane (even though a much older person told me it was stupid and not to watch it) and Casablanca. They aren't movies that I would want to watch more than 1 time though.

[lordsmurf]

Godfather movies
Avatar
the 007 movies
Titanic
.... and I don't really care if I never see them, to be honest. Don't look interesting to me.

Citizen Kane, but I do sort of want to see it someday.

[Tearren]

Godfather movies
Avatar
the 007 movies
Titanic
.... and I don't really care if I never see them, to be honest. Don't look interesting to me.

Citizen Kane, but I do sort of want to see it someday.

I can understand most of these, but the Godfather...what about it doesn't interest you (just curious)? The 1st and 2nd i would highly recommend, I can understand passing on the 3rd. They are kinda long and a little drawn out though.

[yoda313]

What?!?!?! People who haven't seen or care to see 007 movies??? Ah man you don't know what you're missing.

You have to at least see one Connery 007 if you don't like them in general. I have to admit he probably is the best Bond but I like most of the others. Even Craig has grown on me a little. I used to despise him but I own both of his on Bluray now and he's decent enough. I guess I'm more dissapointed in the lack of gadgets as much as anything. THOUGH I will admit some of them got a little extreme on the gadget front - MOONRAKER anyone? Though I never have seen MOONRAKER in its entirety - a few minutes here and there when its on tv.

[guns1inger]

Goldfinger or From Russia With Love should be seen, simply as good spy/action films, and Craig's Casino Royale shows just how that genre and film-making in general have changed in 40 years.

I haven't seen Street Car Named Desire, and I have a pile of Kurosawa films that I have sitting there waiting for me to get through. A couple of months ago I went through a pile of Humphry Bogart films, many of which I had not seen. Some of them were very good, some were simply so-so.

There are a lot of films I have seen and did not like - First Knight, Avatar, Public Enemy, Heat, Thief (actually, I think Michael Mann is grossly over-rated on the whole), the Back to the Future movies etc. - but I love film and cinema, and these things build on each other. Seeing these films helps fill in the gaps on how cinema got to where it is, and where it is going. It is also important if you are a Simpsons fan, as that show is chock full'o cultural references based on cinema - bad and good.

That isn't to say that a lot of these films aren't over-rated. Ben Hur is an awful film. It is badly directed, from a poor story and script. It's reputation comes from the number of Oscars it won (and we all know that Oscar is no indication of quality) and the chariot race. Take out the race, and you have a very long, dull, poorly directed film. There are important silent films, like those of Griffiths or Eisenstein, that are major leaps forward in film-making and the influence they had on those that came after them, that most people today simply could not sit through. The impact of these films are still evident (see the homage to Eisentein's Potemkin in De Palma's The Untouchables, for example), but for the most part only uber film geeks and film students will watch them.

If what you get out of a movie is to escape for two hours with your brain in neutral ( or if home alone didn't make you want to lie under a train) then there are great swathes of cinema that are completely unimportant to you, and that is fine. I work with a guy who won't watch anything in black and white, or that has subtitles. So 80% of the films made to date, including many of the most important, he will never see. I know what he is missing out on, but he doesn't, so what does it matter ?

[Tearren]

A couple of months ago I went through a pile of Humphry Bogart films, many of which I had not seen. Some of them were very good, some were simply so-so.

What are some of the Bogart films you would recommend? I would like to check them out.

I have seen Casablanca, but that's the only Bogart film.

[guns1inger]

Maltese Falcon is excellent
Treasure of the Sierra Madre is very good
The Have and Have Not is very similar to Casablanca - worth watching as it is Bacall's first film, but not essential viewing
The Big Sleep is a Howard Hawks classic
The Caine Mutiny - probably his last great role

[Guest]

E.T.

[bigsam]

The Godfather and Titanic

[madwh]

Star Wars, just seems so uninteresting to me, Lord of the Rings, boring I also absolutely don't understand farmville and guitar hero.