Someone mentioned A Clockwork Orange in another thread. It made me think, there are so many classic movies that I have not watched.

So while I'm not looking for an opinion on a movie, I'm curious as to what classics you have not seen yet. List up to 5, just so we don't have a laundry list of stuff here. I'll list 5 'big ones' to start.

PS why have you never watched them yet? Just not thought about it, forgot, never got around to it, or what?

1. A Clockwork Orange
2. Annie Hall
3. Any Godfather film
4. Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (the sit-comAlice, which I loved, is loosely based on this)
5. Doctor Zhivago

GO

1. A Clockwork Orange - I don't know why I never watched it. I think I watched "2001: A Space Odessy" and since it didn't have any real monsters in it like I thought it would, I skipped "Orange". But it was a long time ago so I don't really recall

2. Citizen Kane - No monsters, no comedy and it's in black-and-white. Those were my reasons lo those many years ago; I'd watch it now except I know what "Rosebud" is. Stupid internet

3. Godfather 2 - I watched "Godfather" only a few years ago and honestly wasn't all that impressed.

4. All Harry Potter/Lord of the Rings movies - No interest

5. Avatar - OK, I've kind of gone from "classics" to "box office smashes". But if it's the biggest movie of all time, it's got to be a classic, right? Well, no. Talentless hacks like Kanye West, Eminem and Rihanna have outsold Prince but they will never be classics. So I guess I consider "Avatar" the Kanye West of movies. I could be wrong

1. The Godfathers movies

2. Casablanca

3. Citizen Kane

4. The Manchurian Candidate

5. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance kid

[Edited 8/3/18 14:39pm]

picking movies not passed the 70's

6. Bullit

7. Vertigo

8. Rebel without a cause

9. Ben Hurr

10. King Kong (1933)

TrivialPursuit said:

I'm curious as to what classics you have not seen yet.

I believe these are all considered "classics":

1. Jaws

2. Alien

3. The Shawshank Redemption

4. Schindler's List

5. Animal House

The fact that these were all released in the '70s or later and have huge mass appeal makes me less motivated to see them.

sexton said:

TrivialPursuit said:

I'm curious as to what classics you have not seen yet.

I believe these are all considered "classics":

1. Jaws

2. Alien

3. The Shawshank Redemption

4. Schindler's List

5. Animal House

The fact that these were all released in the '70s or later and have huge mass appeal makes me less motivated to see them.

When I saw you had posted on this thread, I zipped right here to remind you that you haven't watched "Animal House" but you were one step ahead of me!


But - and this is simply incredible to me - I have seen ALL the movies on your list. First and only time that will probably ever happen!

sexton said:

TrivialPursuit said:

I'm curious as to what classics you have not seen yet.

I believe these are all considered "classics":

1. Jaws

2. Alien

3. The Shawshank Redemption

4. Schindler's List

5. Animal House

The fact that these were all released in the '70s or later and have huge mass appeal makes me less motivated to see them.

They are all good movies worth seeing. For sequels all the Jaws movies sucked. For Alien, only watch part 1 & 2.

Hudson said:

I didn't read that this was supposed to be classics. 5 that I will never watch: 1. The Fly 2. Naked Lunch 3. The Birth of a Nation 4. Greed (truncation) 5. The Thing

ok, so what 5 classic movies would you want to watch?

RodeoSchro said:

Hudson said:

98% of the movies on this list. http://1001films.wikia.co...i/The_List

I love my scary movies but Nosferatu really looks creepy

kpowers said:

Hudson said:

Classic movies? I'm sure there are quite a few, but of the ones I've actually heard of...



North by Northwest
The Philadelphia Story (1940)
The Big Sleep
From Russia with Love

TrivialPursuit said:

1. Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (the sit-comAlice, which I loved, is loosely based on this)

Remedying this tonight - right now, in fact.

sexton said:

1. Jaws

2. Alien

3. The Shawshank Redemption

4. Schindler's List

5. Animal House

I've seen these, but only chunks of Jaws.

Shawshank is truly incredible. I'm not always one for prison movies, but anything with Morgan Freeman is pretty great. I would actually recommend reading Stephen King's novella Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption, one of four novellas in Different Seasons. The movie follows very closely to the book's narrative. The Red character (Freeman) is a big redheaded Irish guy. In the movie, Freeman is asked why his nickname is Red. He jokes, "I guess it's because I'm Irish".

As a note: Other novellas in the same book are The Body made into Stand By Me, and Apt Pupil with a movie of the same name.

It's worth the watch. It's considered to be one of the best movies of the last fifty years. Schindler's List is too, but it is a very tough watch. But I do believe it is required viewing.

RodeoSchro said:

1. A Clockwork Orange - I don't know why I never watched it. I think I watched "2001: A Space Odessy" and since it didn't have any real monsters in it like I thought it would, I skipped "Orange". But it was a long time ago so I don't really recall

2. Citizen Kane - No monsters, no comedy and it's in black-and-white. Those were my reasons lo those many years ago; I'd watch it now except I know what "Rosebud" is. Stupid internet

3. Godfather 2 - I watched "Godfather" only a few years ago and honestly wasn't all that impressed.

4. All Harry Potter/Lord of the Rings movies - No interest

5. Avatar - OK, I've kind of gone from "classics" to "box office smashes". But if it's the biggest movie of all time, it's got to be a classic, right? Well, no. Talentless hacks like Kanye West, Eminem and Rihanna have outsold Prince but they will never be classics. So I guess I consider "Avatar" the Kanye West of movies. I could be wrong

On a side note, I think a lot of peeps don't realize that "The Godfather" and even "Star Wars" back in the 70's were more extreme hipster retro than something like "Stranger Things" is today.

sexton said:

TrivialPursuit said:

I'm curious as to what classics you have not seen yet.

I believe these are all considered "classics":

1. Jaws

2. Alien

3. The Shawshank Redemption

4. Schindler's List

5. Animal House

The fact that these were all released in the '70s or later and have huge mass appeal makes me less motivated to see them.

Shawshank is the most generically mainstream on that list.

Alien might surprise you with how non-Hollywood it is.

Jaws is remarkable because under the gun of a film production that was not working as planned, they had to wring their souls and rack their brains as filmmakers to invent lyrical and interesting things to film into a coherent narrative. It came out like poetry.

Schindler's List is an odyssey of cinematic vocabulary, and it might be the most poignant use of breaking the fourth wall ever in my opinion.

Animal House is as deeply detailed and stylized in flippant Americana as a classic Warners Bug Bunny cartoon. I think it's great. It was also retro and set in a time period 16 years before the actual time of release.

ufoclub said:

Shawshank is the most generically mainstream on that list.

Alien might surprise you with how non-Hollywood it is.

Jaws is remarkable because under the gun of a film production that was not working as planned, they had to wring their souls and rack their brains as filmmakers to invent lyrical and interesting things to film into a coherent narrative. It came out like poetry.

Schindler's List is an odyssey of cinematic vocabulary, and it might be the most poignant use of breaking the fourth wall ever in my opinion.

Animal House is as deeply detailed and stylized in flippant Americana as a classic Warners Bug Bunny cartoon. I think it's great. It was also retro and set in a time period 16 years before the actual time of release.

The bolded = perfect.

I still haven't seen Antman And the Wasp (2018), Oceans 8 (2018) or Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018)

ufoclub said:

sexton said:

I believe these are all considered "classics":

1. Jaws

2. Alien

3. The Shawshank Redemption

4. Schindler's List

5. Animal House

The fact that these were all released in the '70s or later and have huge mass appeal makes me less motivated to see them.

Alien might surprise you with how non-Hollywood it is.

In what way?

kpowers said:

ufoclub said:

Alien might surprise you with how non-Hollywood it is.

In what way?

It is not constructed in Hollywood entertainment fashion. It has that radical 70's documentary feel that was carried over to fantasy and scifi back then. The actors and characterization are straight out of Robert Altman.

Alien presents many scenes almost quiely and lyrically. The score is normally quite understated and experimental (there are moments towards the end where is goes full Hollywood bombastic melodrama). The editing style and the way characters are framed is natural, not like the suspense building candystore vocabulary and cues of the sequel...

It's very easy to see the difference between ALIEN and the immediate sequel ALIENS which is completely Hollywood (American pop cinema) in the way it presents the narrative, is edited, is characterized, scored, and structured. ALIENS even had a fakeout dream sequence which goes completely against the naturalistic rules of the first one. The idea of a dream sequence is a narrative contrivance that spotlights audience manipulation and storytelling as opposed to an observational experience of a less audience sweetened film.

Let me post the title sequences which also illustrate what I mean:

Also let me post the difference in style of each films featured chesburster scene:

Feel the difference? Alien is not user friendly Hollywood spoonfed narrative. Aliens is.

ufoclub said:

kpowers said:

In what way?

It is not constructed in Hollywood entertainment fashion. It has that radical 70's documentary feel that was carried over to fantasy and scifi back then. The actors and characterization are straight out of Robert Altman.

Alien presents many scenes almost quiely and lyrically. The score is normally quite understated and experimental (there are moments towards the end where is goes full Hollywood bombastic melodrama). The editing style and the way characters are framed is natural, not like the suspense building candystore vocabulary and cues of the sequel...

It's very easy to see the difference between ALIEN and the immediate sequel ALIENS which is completely Hollywood (American pop cinema) in the way it presents the narrative, is edited, is characterized, scored, and structured. ALIENS even had a fakeout dream sequence which goes completely against the naturalistic rules of the first one. The idea of a dream sequence is a narrative contrivance that spotlights audience manipulation and storytelling as opposed to an observational experience of a less audience sweetened film.

Let me post the title sequences which also illustrate what I mean:

Also let me post the difference in style of each films featured chesburster scene:

Feel the difference? Alien is not user friendly Hollywood spoonfed narrative. Aliens is.

I let a co-worker of mine borrow my Alien DVD. He's 26 and never saw the movie (though he saw Prometheus). He was real impressed how good a 1979 still looks good today.

1. Rocky Horror Picture Show (I intend to watch it soon though as I like Tim Curry)
2. Cleopatra (A super Eurocentric take of a story about Africans. No thanks)
3. Lawrence of Arabia (Again, romanticizing a figure that is not the noble individual Hollyweird are making him to be in real life is the furthest thing from my interests)
4. All That Jazz (Simply because I never heard of it till recently, its on my to-watch list though)
5. Harry Potter (Just indifferent to the entire premise of the book/movie series Just like Games of Thrones, Star Wars & Twin Peaks, Harry Potter has a massive and loyal fanbase from all over the spectrum, if I'm missing something hopefully I'll acquire it soon. I dated somebody who tried to get me to watch the movie series, I honestly couldn't keep my eyes open after the 1st half hour )