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Groucho
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Classic Films You've Never Seen
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 ...
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Sun Oct 02, 2011 2:49 pm |
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Rev
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Re: Classic Films You've Never Seen
Jaws is a must see!!!!!!!!!!
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trixster
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Re: Classic Films You've Never Seen
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.
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tina_als_girl
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Re: Classic Films You've Never Seen
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
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Bradley Witherberry
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Re: Classic Films You've Never Seen
Rev wrote: Jaws is a must see!!!!!!!!!! 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.) Groucho wrote: And, of course, there are also "classics" I have no desire to see at all, such as Gone With The Wind, Out of Africa... That is just plain wrong to group those two films together.
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Shack
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Re: Classic Films You've Never Seen
WTF Groucho!!!
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Shack
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Re: Classic Films You've Never Seen
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
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snack
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Re: Classic Films You've Never Seen
The Hangover
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Groucho
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Re: Classic Films You've Never Seen
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.
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Groucho
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Re: Classic Films You've Never Seen
trixster wrote: How have you not seen Jaws? And Gone With the Wind is a must-see, like it or not. 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
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trixster
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Re: Classic Films You've Never Seen
GWTW isn't blatantly racist or horrifically boring, though.
And Jaws is one of the GREAT films. Taxi Driver, too.
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Mister Ecks
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Re: Classic Films You've Never Seen
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.
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El Maskado
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Re: Classic Films You've Never Seen
The Godfather movies
MASH is boring and only made for old people like all Robert Altman fims
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Groucho
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Re: Classic Films You've Never Seen
El Murato wrote: 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.
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Re: Classic Films You've Never Seen
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:
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Mister Ecks
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Re: Classic Films You've Never Seen
Citizen Kane too.
I'm planning a Casablanca/Citizen Kane twofer for the weekend.
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Groucho
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Re: Classic Films You've Never Seen
Magnus wrote: Groucho wrote: 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. admittedly, this is a pretty unwarranted douchebag post. As opposed to the original post claiming that only "old people" like Altman films? Riiiiiiiiight.
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Groucho
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Re: Classic Films You've Never Seen
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.
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MovieDude
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Re: Classic Films You've Never Seen
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.
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trixster
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Re: Classic Films You've Never Seen
Magnus is just being a hypocrite.
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Groucho
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Re: Classic Films You've Never Seen
Magnus wrote: He called the film boring, not the people who enjoy it. He called them old. And frankly dude, you are old.
Though I'm not, so if anything, I should be offended. 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.
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Groucho
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Re: Classic Films You've Never Seen
And yeah, admittedly, I can be sarcastic and snarky. There's a reason I chose "Groucho".
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El Maskado
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Re: Classic Films You've Never Seen
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
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Jmart
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Re: Classic Films You've Never Seen
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
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Thegun
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Re: Classic Films You've Never Seen
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/topThere 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.
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