I never sat down to watch Titanic though we had a copy at some point.

Twillight sounds overrated as hell, never want to see them.

People seemed excited about Black Swan and though I can kind of see why, I had a feeling it was going to be more hype than substance

NDRU said:

imago said:

Although I've snippets on youtube and such, I have never seen:

1. Any of the Godfather movies

2. Scarface

3. Any of the Mutant supehero movies (I don't even remember their names )

4. 7

5. Any of the Twighlight movies

6. Showgirls

7. any of the SAW movies

8. Precious

9. Citizen Kane

10. Passion of the Christ

7. Hangover...I think I laughed at one scene...I don't get this 'Asians are funny' thing.

None of us think asians are funny, Dan

I have not seen any of that top ten either, except Godfather, Citizen Kane, and Scarface.

I also have not seen all of Forest Gump. I actually walked out of the theater on that one when the fillm broke and didn't feel like waiting for them to fix it.

I'm hilarious and you love me.

This thread makes me almost as sad.

-Movies I've never seen because everyone else has and/or based on their reaction (specially):

The Hangover

West Side Story

95% of the Frank Capra films (ugh)

Out of Africa (and many other Meryl Streep movies)

Gandhi

Love Story

Twilight series

Narnia

Saw series

Harry Potter series ()

Black Swan

The Artist

The King's Speech

Chicago

Flashdance

Fame

Four Weddings and a Funeral (I've seen some Hugh Grant movies, but not this one...)

Shakespeare In Love

Revolutionary Road (I hate the novel to begin with, I watched some youtube snippets and I puked a little...)

M:I 4 (good reviews? my ass)

Top Gun (just the final combat, youtube snippet)

ANY Jude Law film which got good reviews, lol

Hunger Games (I saw the trailer, and I said "NO", and the hype is just annoying)

Unglorious Bastards

-Movies that I saw years later (internet/video, whatever), just don't getting what the fuss was about, or just thinking that it's a dull movie/script

Titanic

Seven

Forrest Gump (the film was entertaining, but the character of Gump was basically a pastiche, hard to connect with, because it's so f unreal...)

Crash (worst Best Picture movie EVER)

E.T.

Kill Bill 1/2

Grease (I liked Saturday Night Fever)

Close Encounters

The Hurt Locker

The Departed

The Deer Hunter

Ordinary People

[Edited 4/21/12 12:24pm]

Any of the Harry Potters

Titanic and anything with Dicaprio

Shakespeare in Love

Passion Of The Christ. I'd rather not spend 2 hours watching a guy who might not have existed get tortured. Oh Avatar. The blue things creep me out

I regret seeing the Titanic (1997)... what a piece of shit.

After that crap I've for all intents and purposes have stopped going to the movies. So, I've missed all of the blockbusters and most of award winning movies. If it comes on cable I may watch part of something but I don't watch to many of the newer movies. Damn I'm outta of the loop.

Yes, Revolutionary Road... someone should've given that couple a hand full of pills at the begining so the book could end on page 3.

Cerebus said:

This thread makes me almost as sad.

This thread makes you almost as sad as what Cerebus?

Shit, Cerebus. I don't know.

Well Cerebus, didn't you write that mess?

Yes, Cerebus, I did....

Dumb ass.

imago said:

Although I've snippets on youtube and such, I have never seen:

1. Any of the Godfather movies

2. Scarface

3. Any of the Mutant supehero movies (I don't even remember their names )

4. 7

5. Any of the Twighlight movies

6. Showgirls

7. any of the SAW movies

8. Precious

9. Citizen Kane

10. Passion of the Christ

I have only seen 7 and Citizen Kane from this list. I would recomend Citizen Kane.

The only movie I purposely haven't watched due to it's popularity is Titanic

imago said:

Although I've snippets on youtube and such, I have never seen:

1. Any of the Godfather movies

2. Scarface

3. Any of the Mutant supehero movies (I don't even remember their names )

4. 7

5. Any of the Twighlight movies

6. Showgirls

7. any of the SAW movies

8. Precious

9. Citizen Kane

10. Passion of the Christ

Movies I did see but couldn't understand why people raved about them are:

1. Do the Right thing... bleh

2. Dances with Wolves....boring ass movie, with a terrible actor

3. Braveheart...it was....ok

4. Friday....ok

5. Darknight II (whatever it's called)...it was good, but the first was better

6. Inception....It was good...but not excellent

7. Hangover...I think I laughed at one scene...I don't get this 'Asians are funny' thing. Then they had to follow it up with Hangover II in Bangkok, and turn up the volumn on the Asians are funny bullshit.

8. Eddie Murphey's Raw...oh please (this goes for most Eddie Murphey movies I've seen)

9. There's Something about Mary (it had a few LOL moments, but not that many)

10. 7 Brides for 7 Brothers.....people who made that movie should have been imprisoned.

Give the first two Godfather movies a go. If you like movies, see them. Trust me.

Citizen Kane I've watched and it wasn't the greatest ever filmed.

'Precious' and 'Passion of the Christ' are watchable but not must see. The Frist two 'Godfather's' are.

muirdo said:

I've owned The Hurt Locker since it was released on Bluray and it's still in the celophane.

I've never seen Blade Runner.

I've never seen a Harry Potter film.

More will come to me.

"The Hurt Locker' was easily Best Picture 2009. For very solid reasons. Best war film since 'BlackHawk Down.'

'Blade Runner' is a mind bending classic.

Read the books, saw the movies. Own one movie but would only own the first and last in addition to the Half Blood Prince.

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Harlepolis said:

It was only last year when I watched "Cleopatra"(Both versions, Claudette & Liz).

Enjoyed Liz' version, despite the so many hollywood bullshit that was scattered all over the film.

Liz's version is a comedy to me. It keeps me laughing.

HohnerCatcher said:

Harry Potter anything

Lord Of The Rings anything

Twilight anything

mostly because all of the above seem aimed at kids or big kids who read the books

Avatar

Hunger Games - this is the first one that came to mind. I refuse to believe all that hype.

Star Wars (I've seen just about every episode of the 60s TV Star Trek via my parents though. )

I've read all the Potter books once, they aren't good enough to re-read.

Lord of the Rings own the movies read the four books (The Hobbitt) at least seven times.

For both, the movies are close enough to the books. Lord of the Rings I've never thought of as kid's fare.

Genesia said:

smoothcriminal12 said:

Titanic. And I don't plan to.

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Good plan. That movie is pure shit. In fact, it made me hate James Cameron so much, I've never seen anything else he's done.

Once they hit the iceberg the movie takes off for me. I love watching it sink.

NDRU said:

imago said:

Although I've snippets on youtube and such, I have never seen:

1. Any of the Godfather movies

2. Scarface

3. Any of the Mutant supehero movies (I don't even remember their names )

4. 7

5. Any of the Twighlight movies

6. Showgirls

7. any of the SAW movies

8. Precious

9. Citizen Kane

10. Passion of the Christ

7. Hangover...I think I laughed at one scene...I don't get this 'Asians are funny' thing.

None of us think asians are funny, Dan

I have not seen any of that top ten either, except Godfather, Citizen Kane, and Scarface.

I also have not seen all of Forest Gump. I actually walked out of the theater on that one when the fillm broke and didn't feel like waiting for them to fix it.

I saw that in the theater. I have never seen it again and will not if i can help it.

JoeTyler said:

-Movies I've never seen because everyone else has and/or based on their reaction (specially):

The Hangover

West Side Story

95% of the Frank Capra films (ugh)

Out of Africa (and many other Meryl Streep movies)

Gandhi

Love Story

Twilight series

Narnia

Saw series

Harry Potter series ()

Black Swan

The Artist

The King's Speech

Chicago

Flashdance

Fame

Four Weddings and a Funeral (I've seen some Hugh Grant movies, but not this one...)

Shakespeare In Love

Revolutionary Road (I hate the novel to begin with, I watched some youtube snippets and I puked a little...)

M:I 4 (good reviews? my ass)

Top Gun (just the final combat, youtube snippet)

ANY Jude Law film which got good reviews, lol

Hunger Games (I saw the trailer, and I said "NO", and the hype is just annoying)

Unglorious Bastards

-Movies that I saw years later (internet/video, whatever), just don't getting what the fuss was about, or just thinking that it's a dull movie/script

Titanic

Seven

Forrest Gump (the film was entertaining, but the character of Gump was basically a pastiche, hard to connect with, because it's so f unreal...)

Crash (worst Best Picture movie EVER)

E.T.

Kill Bill 1/2

Grease (I liked Saturday Night Fever)

Close Encounters

The Hurt Locker

The Departed

The Deer Hunter

Ordinary People

[Edited 4/21/12 12:24pm]

WTF?!!!

Close Encounters

The Hurt Locker

The Departed

The Deer Hunter

I love all four of those, The Deer Hunter edging Close Encounter

I am stunned.

It's usually summer blockbuster stuff I avoid, not really because they're popular but more because I rarely enjoy action/comedy stuff.

sometimes I find I'm wrong though like when I finally wacthed The Hangover and ended up really enjoying it. I still refuse to watch Bridesmaids though.

SUPRMAN said:

Harlepolis said:

It was only last year when I watched "Cleopatra"(Both versions, Claudette & Liz).

Enjoyed Liz' version, despite the so many hollywood bullshit that was scattered all over the film.

Liz's version is a comedy to me. It keeps me laughing.

Thats nice.

Cerebus said:

Rayan said:

It's usually summer blockbuster stuff I avoid, not really because they're popular but more because I rarely enjoy action/comedy stuff.

sometimes I find I'm wrong though like when I finally wacthed The Hangover and ended up really enjoying it. I still refuse to watch Bridesmaids though.

I can't believe I'm taking the time to type this, but Bridesmaids is actually pretty damn good. Way, WAY better than it has any right to be. And far, FAR better than most comedies of it's ilk, including Hangover 2.

Cerebus said:

I can't believe I'm taking the time to type this, but Bridesmaids is actually pretty damn good. Way, WAY better than it has any right to be. And far, FAR better than most comedies of it's ilk, including Hangover 2.

type of comedy aside, Kristen & Melissa are a big reason why I avoided the film as I find neither of them funny.

I like Maya & Rose but I feel I got the laughs I needed from their interviews on the film.

[Edited 4/21/12 17:23pm]

Rayan said:

Cerebus said:

I can't believe I'm taking the time to type this, but Bridesmaids is actually pretty damn good. Way, WAY better than it has any right to be. And far, FAR better than most comedies of it's ilk, including Hangover 2.

type of comedy aside, Kristen & Melissa are a big reason why I avoided the film as I find neither of them funny.

I like Maya & Rose but I feel I got the laughs I needed from their interviews on the film.

I have a group of friends who have an half-assed tradition of trying to see every film that gets nominated in every Oscar category before the show airs. The best part of that is that we all agree the Academy Awards don't really matter. It's just a good excuse to watch a whole bunch of movies in a short period of time so we can discuss them with each other. Bridesmaids had nominations, so I watched it. I laughed quite a bit. More than that, I genuinely liked most of the characters and their arcs in the movie. Admittedly, it's not going to be everyone's cup o' tea and it is pretty much what it represents itself as. But with that in mind, I thought it was pretty solid.

Genesia said:

Cerebus said:

This thread makes you almost as sad as what Cerebus?

Shit, Cerebus. I don't know.

Well Cerebus, didn't you write that mess?

Yes, Cerebus, I did....

Dumb ass.

I missed you.

Thanks. I've been sick like a mofo for good long time, still not fixed. Only hanging around this weekend because it decided to be 30 degrees hotter than Thursday (you know I hate the damn heat) and I have absolutely NOTHING to do. I don't even have a book available. I'm going over to Barnes & Noble after it cools off to pick up something to read.

SUPRMAN said:

JoeTyler said:

-Movies I've never seen because everyone else has and/or based on their reaction (specially):

The Hangover

West Side Story

95% of the Frank Capra films (ugh)

Out of Africa (and many other Meryl Streep movies)

Gandhi

Love Story

Twilight series

Narnia

Saw series

Harry Potter series ()

Black Swan

The Artist

The King's Speech

Chicago

Flashdance

Fame

Four Weddings and a Funeral (I've seen some Hugh Grant movies, but not this one...)

Shakespeare In Love

Revolutionary Road (I hate the novel to begin with, I watched some youtube snippets and I puked a little...)

M:I 4 (good reviews? my ass)

Top Gun (just the final combat, youtube snippet)

ANY Jude Law film which got good reviews, lol

Hunger Games (I saw the trailer, and I said "NO", and the hype is just annoying)

Unglorious Bastards

-Movies that I saw years later (internet/video, whatever), just don't getting what the fuss was about, or just thinking that it's a dull movie/script

Titanic

Seven

Forrest Gump (the film was entertaining, but the character of Gump was basically a pastiche, hard to connect with, because it's so f unreal...)

Crash (worst Best Picture movie EVER)

E.T.

Kill Bill 1/2

Grease (I liked Saturday Night Fever)

Close Encounters

The Hurt Locker

The Departed

The Deer Hunter

Ordinary People

[Edited 4/21/12 12:24pm]

WTF?!!!

Close Encounters

The Hurt Locker

The Departed

The Deer Hunter

I love all four of those, The Deer Hunter edging Close Encounter

I am stunned.

Close Encounters: I personally think Spielberg sucks when he does "aliens from outter space" movies Leave that to Scott, Lucas or Cameron...I can't believe that this slow-paced movie with almost no action was such a mainstream hit...

The Hurt Locker: almost the whole US Army disliked the movie Hollywood wasn't (isn't) prepared to make a relevant movie about Irak; not yet...

The Departed: just another run-of-the-mill cop thriller with big names and a big bugdet/promotion attached to it, no more and no less, people thought that, since Scorsese directed, the movie had to be good...to each his own ; Nicholson, DiCaprio and Damon were all horribly miscast, in my opinion, and overall the story was hard to believe; it was a remake to begin with...(Internal Affairs)

The Deer Hunter: ugh, one hour of some russian wedding, one hour of racism and one hour of melodrama. I still think Platoon is the one and only good Vietnam movie ever (Apocalypse Now is considered a Vietnam film, yes, but it also works as an adaptation of Heart of Darkness, it's much more than just a Vietnam film...)

[Edited 4/21/12 17:49pm]

SUPRMAN said:

Harlepolis said:

It was only last year when I watched "Cleopatra"(Both versions, Claudette & Liz).

Enjoyed Liz' version, despite the so many hollywood bullshit that was scattered all over the film.

Liz's version is a comedy to me. It keeps me laughing.

In retrospect Ms. Taylor's version isn't all that bad. As Harle said, if you can get beyonde the Hollywierd b.s. Director Joseph Leo Mankiewicz allowed this picture to get away from him.

Cerebus said:

ooh.. I know I've done that -- but I can't even recall the name sof the movies I refused to go see..

Bridges of Madison County

The Notebook

The Hangover

Star Wars franchise

Lord of the Rings

Godfather series

Avatar

Notebook

...Actually I could go on and on here. Roughly 70 percent of the most popular movies - stuff considered cultural phenomenons - I just haven't seen. Not because I was trying to be different but because none of it seemed interesting to me, and still doesn't. And then when I hear so many people rave about them or try to encourage me to see them...that gets on my nerves and has the weird effect of making me go out of my way to avoid seeing them because then I feel like they're being forced on me.

I didn't see "The Exorcist" until about three years ago, and was appalled at how overrated it is. "Alice Sweet Alice" is way more disturbing. I actually had to force myself to focus and finish Exorcist, that's how underwhelming (and even dull) I found it.