OK, I'm a film buff but I don't have a ton of time to watch a lot, and there are many classics that I have to admit I've never seen but want to. Here's my top ten list of films I'm embarrassed to say I've never seen all the way through:

All About Eve
Jaws
No Country For Old Men
Once Upon a Time in the West
Paths of Glory
Platoon
Taxi Driver
The Bridge on the River Kwai
The Shawshank Redemption
Trainspotting

And, of course, there are also "classics" I have no desire to see at all, such as Gone With The Wind, Out of Africa, Crash ...

Jaws is a must see!!!!!!!!!!

How have you not seen Jaws? And Gone With the Wind is a must-see, like it or not.

My list:

8½
The African Queen
Amadeus
The Birth of a Nation
The Deer Hunter
The General
The Grapes of Wrath
It Happened One Night
The Jazz Singer
L'atalante
L'avventura
La dolce vita
MASH
Modern Times
Patton
The Sound of Music
A Streetcar Named Desire
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
West Side Story

There's more, of course, but these are the most "classic", I guess.

I dunno what all is considered "classic" or not, so just borrowing everyone else's list for my own... Yeah, I've not seen a lot. I DID just see Gone With The Wind for the first time last week, at our local restored one-screen, balconied theater, and I freaking LOVED it; I can't believe I'd been so resistant to seeing it for so long.

All About Eve
Jaws
No Country For Old Men
Once Upon a Time in the West
Paths of Glory
Taxi Driver
The Bridge on the River Kwai
The Shawshank Redemption
Trainspotting
8½
The African Queen
The Birth of a Nation
The Deer Hunter
The General
The Grapes of Wrath
It Happened One Night
The Jazz Singer
L'atalante
L'avventura
La dolce vita
Modern Times
Patton
A Streetcar Named Desire
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
Casablanca
Citizen Kane
Out of Africa
Crash

I suspect that may be the principle behind this thread.


(I have a similar list - - though I consider them my "saved films" - - I'm consciously saving them for a treat in the future.)



That is just plain wrong to group those two films together.

WTF Groucho!!!

Off the top of my head I haven't seen in full

Philadelphia
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Cool Hand Luke and pretty much any prime Paul Newman movie
Dirty Dancing
Sleepless in Seattle
Superman I and II

The Hangover

Well, I have seen a lot of the films some of you have not ... I know, Jaws is like the only Spielberg film I have never gotten around to seeing. I keep saying "It will be on TV soon enough" and then I just never get around to seeing it.

"Gone With the Wind" just doesn't seem like a film I would like. It looks like a soap opera about a bunch of slave owners. Then again, from what I understand, the characters aren't meant to be sympathetic, so maybe it's OK.

I might say the same about some of your list!

As for GWTW, I probably should see it just for the historical value. I mean, I watched Birth of a Nation.

Of your list:

8½: Artistic but fun
The African Queen: Excellent, great cast
Amadeus: Don't see the extended version which slows it down tremendously
The Birth of a Nation: Important historically for what it did for filmmaking, but not that great
The Deer Hunter: Excellent individual scenes but needs much editing
The General: Not one of Keaton's bests in my opinion but worth watching
The Grapes of Wrath: Another classic
It Happened One Night: Very funny, early screwball comedy
The Jazz Singer: Hm. Another one I've never seen
L'atalante: Another one I've never seen
L'avventura: Another one I've never seen
La dolce vita: Another one I've never seen
MASH: One of my favorites; I've seen this 5 times or so
Modern Times: The first half and hour or so are absolutely wonderful, then it goes downhill
Patton: Good, but not as good as many think it is
The Sound of Music: Worth seeing, but not worth re-seeing
A Streetcar Named Desire: excellent acting
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans: Haven't seen it
West Side Story: Very good

GWTW isn't blatantly racist or horrifically boring, though.

And Jaws is one of the GREAT films. Taxi Driver, too.

Casablanca for me. And it's my grandfather's absolute favorite film. It came on TCM a few weeks ago at like 2 in the morning and he got up to watch half of it. It's one of those "rainy day" films I keep telling myself I'll watch soon, but never get around to.

Actually, this thread inspired me to seek it and a few others out this week.

The Godfather movies

MASH is boring and only made for old people like all Robert Altman fims

I first saw MASH when I was 18 or so, and rewatched it many times since then.

Now, admittedly, there are no robots or chase scenes, and hardly anything gets blown up, so I can see how someone with a limited attention span might consider it boring.

In the IMDb Top 250, I've only fully seen 159 films using this tracker - http://www.250films.net/list/ and here's a fraction of those that I haven't.


Citizen Kane
Seven Samurai
Lawrence of Arabia
Sunset Blvd.
The Great Dictator
All About Eve
The Apartment
Downfall
Unforgiven
Life is Beautiful
GWTW
8½
The African Queen
The Birth of a Nation
The Grapes of Wrath
It Happened One Night
The Jazz Singer
La dolce vita
Patton
A Streetcar Named Desire
Out of Africa
Mystic River
The Big Lebowski
Fargo

Greatest film I haven't seen in full:

Citizen Kane too.

I'm planning a Casablanca/Citizen Kane twofer for the weekend.

As opposed to the original post claiming that only "old people" like Altman films? Riiiiiiiiight.

Wait -- his opinion is that only "old people" (like me, apparently) should enjoy MASH, and if I do enjoy it, I must be "boring."

My opinion is that only people with limited attention spans or who are only interested in action films would consider it "boring"

His opinion is OK, but mine is douchey.

Not sure why that is.

I don't think anything said was worth being offended over. Worth a snarky reply, sure, but feeling genuinely hurt?

It's all subjective folks.

Oh and my big one is Schindler's List. Seen almost everything else Spielberg's ever done.

Magnus is just being a hypocrite.

Yeah, but I haven't seen this film in 20 years or so, and first saw it when I was young and liked it then, as I stated above.

Meh, whatever. I'm not going to apologize for liking a film that is well loved and highly ranked by just about everyone else.

And yeah, admittedly, I can be sarcastic and snarky. There's a reason I chose "Groucho".

Didnt even notice that my comment generated an argument by itself. Besides I dont see anything about Groucho's comment that seems douchery. Besides I do like robots but not so much chase scenes thats true enough. Still I would prefer a chase scene since Mash puts me to sleep

The Wizard of Oz
Gone with the Wind
Ben Hur
12 Angry Men
Blade Runner
Anything by Hitchcock that isn't Psycho
Anything starring or directed by Orson Welles that isn't Citizen Kane

I think I did a thread like this a while back. I always like to use IMDB Top 250 list here as a nice starting point.

http://www.imdb.com/chart/top

There are still about 17 of the Top 100 I haven't seen. Of them The ones that are actually classics that I missed:
Sunset Blvd.
All About Eve
Life Is Beautiful
Das Boot
Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Amadeus
The Apartment
Dr. Strangelove

The other 9 are foreign films I have little interest in. Of the ones above: Dr. Strangelove (I've only seen half), the Apartment, and Sunset Blvd do I have any real interest in seeing.