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  • Ginger Yellow
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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.
    A lot of my favourite films are very long. The Godfather 1 and 2, Seven Samurai, The Good, The Bad & The Ugly, Lawrence of Arabia. For that matter, Shoah. But yeah, a lot of films could do with shaving off half an hour or more.

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  • Hot Pepsi
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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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  • San Bernardhinault
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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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  • Hot Pepsi
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    Originally posted by San Bernardhinault View Post
    Avatar
    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.
    How do you know its nonsense if you've never seen them?

    (Much of it is, of course)

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  • Amor de Cosmos
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    Originally posted by adams house cat View Post
    Gone With The Wind. That film, that book, have a lot to answer for.
    Maybe not quite as much as Birth of a Nation but I know what you mean.

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  • adams house cat
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    Gone With The Wind. That film, that book, have a lot to answer for.

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  • Capybara
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    Surprised to find that I've seen one on the all-time list. Other than that, I haven't seen any other film mentioned so far.

    edit: Oh hang on. The one in the list was a remake of the one I've seen. So none of them.
    Last edited by Capybara; 05-12-2018, 16:35.

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  • diggedy derek
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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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  • diggedy derek
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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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  • San Bernardhinault
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    Avatar
    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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  • Amor de Cosmos
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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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  • Ginger Yellow
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    Realistically, one of the recent Marvel movies.

    Classically: Gone With The Wind

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  • Del Usory
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    Sophie's Choice

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  • Stumpy Pepys
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    Films I feel I should have seen:

    Lawrence of Arabia
    Seven Samurai
    Rashomon
    The Seventh Seal
    Frozen
    The Red Shoes

    Bicycle Thieves
    La Dolce Vita

    Films I didn't finish:

    Citizen Kane
    Metropolis

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  • Walt Flanagans Dog
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    Originally posted by dogbeak View Post
    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.
    I don't do much better on that list - it's very heavy on franchise films and/or kids' films and it's been a good few years since I've taken the kids to the cinema regularly. I've tended to avoid Marvel movies, Harry Potter, modern James Bond, Fast and the Furious, the newer Star Wars, the Hobbit (though did see all LOTR films at the cinema), and between them the account for a lot of that list.

    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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  • jwdd27
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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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  • Hot Pepsi
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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.
    I've seen almost all of those except I don't think I saw all of Doctor Zhivago. It was on AMC a while back but I didn't catch it all. I should try to see that. I've also seen most on that list of biggest grossing films of each year back to about 1950. Before that, my rate gets a lot spottier largely because those haven't been on cable much and I'm not sure many are available on streaming services.

    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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  • beak
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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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  • Gangster Octopus
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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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  • Aitch
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    I have never seen Star Wars, as the saying goes.

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  • adams house cat
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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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  • Hot Pepsi
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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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  • diggedy derek
    started a topic The most famous film you've never seen

    The most famous film you've never seen

    I'm sure we've done it before, but...

    Jurassic Park and Titanic for me. The former just looked too silly, and the latter I just had no emotional interest in the storyline.
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