There are some films that are so goddamn long it's no surprise several of us have never made it through.
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If you didn't like Black Panther or The Dark Knight then you're not going to like any of the others. Not because they're "shit," but because somehow your brain just doesn't work that way, likely due to differences in acculturation. There's nothing wrong with that.
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I've not seen none of them. I've seen a small handful. An early Batman, an Iron Man, Wonder Woman, Black Panther, maybe a couple of others. I keep trying with the ones people rave about and they keep being shit.
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Originally posted by San Bernardhinault View PostAvatar
Titanic
Gone With The Wind (all of)
Gladiator
Schindlers List
Saving Private Ryan
Almost all the Marvel and DC nonsense
4 Weddings and a Funeral
Myriad others.
(Much of it is, of course)
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Originally posted by adams house cat View PostGone With The Wind. That film, that book, have a lot to answer for.
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Gone With The Wind. That film, that book, have a lot to answer for.
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SB, I also have seen none of those in your list. I suppose I watched about 45 minutes of Gladiator, it was laughably bad.
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There are some films that are so goddamn long it's no surprise several of us have never made it through. Gone With The Wind, Dr Zhivago, Lawrence Of Arabia, etc. You should see Lawrence Of Arabia if you haven't though, it's a blast.
HP, good observation with CGI; Avatar was mindboggling successful, but I don't know if it's even repeated frequently, as it feels little more than a fad.
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Titanic
Gone With The Wind (all of)
Gladiator
Schindlers List
Saving Private Ryan
Almost all the Marvel and DC nonsense
4 Weddings and a Funeral
Myriad others.
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Yeah Gone With the Wind for me too. Or at least the last hour or so of it.
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Realistically, one of the recent Marvel movies.
Classically: Gone With The Wind
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Films I feel I should have seen:
Lawrence of Arabia
Seven Samurai
Rashomon
The Seventh Seal
Frozen
The Red Shoes
8½
Bicycle Thieves
La Dolce Vita
Films I didn't finish:
Citizen Kane
Metropolis
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Originally posted by dogbeak View PostOh tons. Not having a good metric for famous to hand, I decided to have a look at Wikipedia's list(s) of the highest-grossing films of all time. Of the top 50 I've seen one. Of the top 10 adjusted for inflation, I've seen two. Of the highest-grossing films per year since 1915, I do a bit better with a whopping total of twelve.
However at a Christmas quiz night earlier this week our team did get 17 out of 19 on the festive movie photo round, missing only Carol and Meet Me in St Louis, neither of which I'd seen.
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The Empire Strikes Back
The Princess Bride
Ghostbusters
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
The Goonies
Any superhero/Marvel/DC rubbish from the last 20 years.
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Jurassic Park and Titanic were both milestones in the application of CGI and that was a big part of their appeal at the time. As far as that goes, they don't seem very impressive now - not so much because the CGI in them looks especially bad, but there are way fewer CGI shots in them than in a typical blockbuster film in 2018.
Titanic is silly and yet very watchable and rewatchable somehow. As I've said before, for those of us in our 20s in the 90s - when everyone seemed to be trying so hard to be ironic and yet there was nothing less cool than trying hard - there was something really refreshing about anything that was so shamelessly sentimental and guileless.
Oh tons. Not having a good metric for famous to hand, I decided to have a look at Wikipedia's list(s) of the highest-grossing films of all time. Of the top 50 I've seen one. Of the top 10 adjusted for inflation, I've seen two. Of the highest-grossing films per year since 1915, I do a bit better with a whopping total of twelve.
On the unadjusted list, I've seen all but Furious 7 (I tried to watch one of those films and just couldn't get past the bad dialogue) and not the most recent Jurassic Park. I just can't be bothered after not being super impressed with the previous one. I can't remember which Transformers films I've seen, but it's more than enough for one lifetime so I don't need to try to see them all.
My big blind spot is anything not in English. So all of those b&w Italian and French films that one is supposed to see on the Criterion Collection are largely unknown to me. I've seen a few Kurosawa films, but not all of them.
I have made an effort to see a lot of highly influential films even if they don't hold-up particularly well, just so I know what critics are talking about. But some are just a "tough sit" and some, like all the horror films, just repel me.Last edited by Hot Pepsi; 05-12-2018, 16:13.
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Oh tons. Not having a good metric for famous to hand, I decided to have a look at Wikipedia's list(s) of the highest-grossing films of all time. Of the top 50 I've seen one. Of the top 10 adjusted for inflation, I've seen two. Of the highest-grossing films per year since 1915, I do a bit better with a whopping total of twelve.
It's an occasional matter of personal and professional embarrassment for me, considering I went to school with a load of film studies nerds and now work as a film archivist. Pretty much once a week I have to confess that I've either never seen a film I know is an all-time classic, or that I've never heard of something apparently incredibly famous amongst cinephiles.
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Anything that's come out in the last quarter of a century. Except for Curse Of The Were Rabbit...
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Forrest Gump. Somehow never got around to it.
Titanic. By all accounts went on longer than the voyage would have done and any way I knew the ending.
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The Shining along with just about every other Stephen King film
Any of the Halloween or Nightmare on Elm Street or any other slasher horror classics
Moonlight
Terms of Endearment
12 Years a Slave
Slumdog Millionaire
Psycho. I have heard too much about it to be surprised or interested
Get Out. I stopped watching when the deer got killed.
Full Metal Jacket
I've never got past the first hour of The Deer Hunter
Same with Clockwork Orange
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The most famous film you've never seen
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Jurassic Park and Titanic for me. The former just looked too silly, and the latter I just had no emotional interest in the storyline.Tags: None
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