You Haven't Seen WHAT?!

[Motorboat Cruiser]

Gone with the Wind.
Any of the Matrix films
Some Like it Hot
Brokeback Mountain
Any Woody Allen movie after Annie Hall (All of the ones prior, though)
Cinderella
Pirates of the Carribbean 2- Dead Man's Chest
Star Wars Episode 2

[innerSpaceman]

Originally Posted by Motorboat Cruiser

Brokeback Mountain

Um, you may face gay card revocation, buster!



Bambi was the last classic Disney film I saw, not viewing it till I was 27 - at a LACMA retrospective all ALL Disney animated films to date (in 1987). It was a revelation.


I cried.





(ok, I was on ecstacy at the time.)

[Not Afraid]

I haven't seen Brokeback Mt either.

[flippyshark]

Ah, Close Encounters, it is so confusing - so many versions, so little time.

In brief -

original release - Roy Neary (Richard Dreyfuss) tosses trees and shrubs through his window while his wife and kids get in the car and leave. He uses this stuff to build a big Devil's Tower in his living room.

The Special Edition - Spielberg got to recut the film to his own liking, with the studio-mandated provision that he add a new sequence, in which the audience, along with Roy, gets to see the inside of the Mother Ship. This version omits a couple of establishing scenes in which we see Roy at his job in a power plant. Also, this version omits the ravaging of the backyard, but we see the finished Devil's Tower in the living room and have little idea of how it got there. (not a great choice) This version also includes a fairly disturbing scene in which a frustrated Roy attacks his wife (Terry Garr) during a nervous breakdown. Other added scenes include the discovery of a lost battleship in the desert, and a brief UFO flyover shadow.

Criterion laserdisc version - This rarity included the original theatrical cut, with the added material included as supplements at the end of each disc side.
I recall there was also a Theatrical Cut only disc.

The NEW Special Edition - laserdisc and DVD - This is yet another Spielberg approved cut, perhaps his final word on the matter. (?) The shrub-throwing is back, the early work scenes are still missing (but included in the supplements) the 'inside the mothership" sequence is gone (again included elsewhere on the disc.) The unfortunate nervous meltdown scene is still there. (It's really unpleasant and makes Roy's character more difficult to relate to.)

There are other differences, but these are the major ones I can recall without being at home or able to go watch any of the above. A definitive DVD would have to include the original theatrical cut as a branching opton, at least.

Did I say 'in brief?" Yeesh.

[Andrew]

Originally Posted by flippyshark

Criterion laserdisc version - This rarity included the original theatrical cut, with the added material included as supplements at the end of each disc side.

The Criterion LD, as I recall, included an insert describing, for those with frame-addressable LD players, how to program the player to show the original release or Special Edition. I think I may even have this somewhere in the darkest reaches of the garage.

[mousepod]

Don't know if anyone will be in San Francisco this weekend, but we'll be warming up the 61" TV and watching some flicks. Some ideas:

Most Monty Python
Most Jim Carrey movies
Most Mel Brooks
Most Comedies
There's Something About Mary
Billy Jack
The Sound of Music
Tommy
Superman (any #)
Spiderman (any #)
Deep Throat

anyone?

[Not Afraid]

YOU SUCK!

[Disneyphile]

I have never seen "This is Spinal Tap".

(I just admitted to that last night, so our friends lent it to us and demanded that I watch it this weekend.)

I have also never seen "Casablanca" all the way through - I always fall asleep.

[SzczerbiakManiac]

Movies with an asterisk are films I want to see but for whatever reason haven't yet. The others I have no interest in seeing.

• Bambi*
• Pulp Fiction
• Citizen Kane*
• any Western
• Toy Story 2*
• Polyester* (I will not watch this without the scratch-n-sniff card)
• any of the Godfathers
• Eraserhead
• There's Something About Mary*
• Breakfast at Tiffany's

I regret to say I have seen Tommy. I cannot express with words how much I hated that film. I'd rather be repeatedly punched in the stomach that watch that drug-trip again. I very much enjoyed the Broadway version though. (I.e., I like the story and the music, it was Russell's version of it that makes me want to tear my eyes out.)

[Moonliner]

Originally Posted by SzczerbiakManiac

[*]any Western

I'm a gonna have to call you out on that one pilgrim. Everyone has seen at least one western. How about Blazing saddles? Nothing with John Wayne? I know you must have at least seen the most popular western of all times: The original Star Wars.