You Haven't Seen WHAT?!
 

You're sitting at a dinner table with friends and the subject of movies comes up. Then suddenly someone mentions that they haven't seen a film that you consider to be a must-see flick. You're stunned that you call this person a friend. :D

Which films have you not seen that you know you should see?

ie. A lady at work confided in me that she's never seen the first 'Star Wars' trilogy. And she said she had no interest in seeing the 'Lord of the Rings' trilogy either. I was stunned.

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I'll start.


I have never seen:

'Breakfast at Tiffany's'
'Sullivan's Travels'
'Spartacus'
'Dolores Claiborne'
'The Great Escape'
'Cool Hand Luke'

Anything with Liz Taylor.

Weird, I know.

My list is enormous and includes:

Most Monty Python
Most Jim Carrey movies
Most Mel Brooks
Most Comedies
There's Something About Mary
Billy Jack

Actually, if I based friendships on what films my frineds haven't seen, I wouldn't have any friends. But, I do love those moments when I find someone was obscure taste is films and can actually talk about our obscurities. That's always instant bonding.

Eraserhead
The Birth of a Nation
Rushmore

I've tried and just can't get into Gone With The Wind, so I've never seen the whole thing, athough I adore the Carol Burnett parody. I'm sure the right someone could talk me into it.

Here are a couple of classics I actually own and have yet to see:

Bridge on the River Kwai
Lawrence of Arabia

They're just waiting for me, but I keep telling myself I need to wait until I have a better home theater environment to do them justice.

Yeah, I know I started this thread but just reading the last couple of posts... I think I just pooped myself.
:D

I'm all: "But...wha? I can't, you what? But that's just not... How... Wha...?"

So, can you name any comedies that you do like? (Billy Jack is one of the funniest movies on your list, by the way.) Some Like It Hot, perhaps? Doctor Strangelove? Dude, Where's My Car?

I'm more of a Woody Allen commedy type. I like wit over comedy. Philadelphia Story is a great example. The Thin Man, Presten Sturges films, Whit Stillman films - those are usually good. I like Brazil. The Love Bug is pleasing, but that's more of a nostalgia thing.

Dr. Strangelove wa good in parts but I didn't like it overall. Some Like It Hot is a great film, but I don't LOVE Marilyn.

The more "slapstick" a film gets, the less I like it. And, I hate dumb. (I'm gonna get reamed for that one.)

Alas, I haven't seen a good portion of the classics.

It's easy to miss the older classics, as there are so many of them, and until the age of home video, they were inaccessible except at revival houses and late show TV airings. I'm never that shocked if someone tells me they haven't seen an older classic. Unless it is he Wizard of Oz. I've only met a small handful of people who have never seen that, and it is always surprising.

It's also surprising, though increasingly common, for me to run into folks who haven't seen many, or any, of the golden age Disney classics.

Anyone here managed to miss OZ or one of the Disney biggies?