What "big" movies have you avoided seeing?

[Takeshi666]

Another post in a different thread with someone mentioning they've never seen the Chris Reeve Superman movies and the subsequent realization on my behalf that I've never seen a single Alfred Hitchcock movie myself inspired me to make this thread.

What movie/s have you just flat-out avoided seeing for some reason all your life, despite having no reason to do so? Bonus points if you actually own it on DVD or blu-ray and still haven't managed to get around to watching the bloody thing.

[dallywhitty]

I still haven't seen:

Bicycle Thieves
The Bridge on the River Kwai
Citizen Kane
Dr. Strangelove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
The Ladykillers
Lawrence of Arabia
Once Upon a Time in America
Some Like it Hot
Tokyo Story

I own a couple of these, so I don't even have an excuse! It was only a couple of months ago that I finally saw the likes of Brazil, Breakfast at Tiffany's and The Deer Hunter.

[Kaiju]

Uh... Lethal Weapon?

[Jasonic]

LOL, you mentioned mine right there. It would be Superman for me. I do own it on Blu Ray and I have honestly not fully seen it. My copy is still in the shrink wrap and I've had it for nearly 5 years. I just have no interest to watch it. I don't like Superman, and never had as a child. I admit I want to see Man of Steel and most likely will see it in theaters. But I'm also more partial to whats new. I know the first two movies are classics and its a completely different reason why I have decided to avoid this year's Battleship, despite the fact that I'll pretty much see anything and everything.
Maybe I'll get around to it someday, but I just don't want to spare the time for it when I can think of so many others things I would rather watch at any given time that I decide to watch a movie. Though I did watch a couple of stinkers last night that I'm sure would have been better used time had I watched Superman.

[msb1428]

I have never seen ANY of the godfather films..they look

I usually don't avoid a movie for any particular reason, But I can't stand when a movie becomes WAY overhyped. Like over the summer the craze for the avengers got on my nerves, Don't get me wrong its a great movie, but people tend to exaggerate HOW good it was and to me thats just a turn off from the start!!!

[RedSkyReborn]

I've never seen Gone With The Wind in full, so I think that's going to be my choice.

[kdo]

Well, pretty much anything that has come out in the past 12 years, as movies, by and large, have been crap since the late 1990's (with a few scattered exceptions here and there).

I have never seen any of "The Godfather" films...I read the book, and while it was well written, I didn't care at all for the subject matter, so I didn't bother with the movies...

[EricJ]

Originally Posted by msb1428

I have never seen ANY of the godfather films..they look

They look good (it helps to be an Al Pacino fan, more than a Brando fan)--
Just that I have the same complaint I had for years with Gone With the Wind, ie., that every scene is so quoted and absorbed in pop-culture, I feel like I've already SEEN the film in collective bits and pieces.
(But then, that's the fun part, to try and put them in order, and discover any "new" scenes most people don't remember.)

So I had to give myself an incentive:
I'd gotten the Mad Magazine CD-Rom for Christmas, and promised myself that if I could sit through an "Everybody knows it" movie from the 60's/70's Golden Age that I hadn't actually seen, like Patton, Godfather I, or The Graduate, all the way through on Instant Netflix, I'd read the satire immediately afterwards to clear the palate.
A spoonful of sugar helps the pop-cultural-quotient medicine go down.

[Chris435]

I'll list some recent blockbuster-esque ones:

Oldboy
Chronicle
Looper
Captain America: The First Avenger
Prometheus
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
V for Vendetta
Kick-Ass
Sherlock Holmes
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
Mission Impossible Ghost Protocol

Here's some classics or possible classics I haven't seen:

Yojimbo
The Searchers
Once Upon a Time in America
There Will Be Blood
No Country for Old Men
Taxi Driver


I've avoided Taxi Driver like the plague because it looks frightening, dark, dreadful, very realistic, disturbing, etc.

I've put Yojimbo off for quite some time after seeing Seven Samurai. I thought Seven Samurai was awesome.. so I'm giving myself a bit of time to watch other movies not as highly regarded before I get to Yojimbo, Sanjuro etc. It just gives me something to look forward to instead of watching every movie considered great in succession. I'll see other movies in Akira's filmography before I get to those.

Sometimes I find some of those movies considered mediocre better than the critically acclaimed ones, so it keeps the process of watching all these movies interesting..

I've watched a few Westerns, mostly Leone's (Dollars trilogy, Once Upon a Time in the West) and Eastwood's Westerns with some other Westerns like 3:10 to Yuma, Quigley Down Under, or Magnificent Seven thrown in there. I haven't gotten to the older Westerns yet like John Wayne's. I've been putting off The Searchers since that seems to be the title of his everyone raves about (so I'll watch some of his lower profile titles first).

[AmrlKJaneway]

I will watch The Godfather and Scarface. I swear it. I've just rarely liked a mob film, and these are the "best", so they'll probably be my favourites... but I can't muster up the will to watch them.

I can't stand Robert Rodriguez. I love Death Proof, and own Planet Terror, but have never watched it.

[abnerayag]

haven't seen the godfather movies either (as well as other really old-school classics), since they look boring. i'd probably try to watch it if it came on cable one of these days though.

i avoided watching superhero movies like spider-man 1, batman begins and x-men at the cinemas out of being a comic book purist lol. i only saw them in cable. also only watched all the harry potter movies on cable.

[Mandalorian]

I haven't actively avoided them, but I just haven't sat down and watched:

Citizen Kane
Gone with the Wind
Casablanca
Psycho

Of course I plan on seeing them all eventually.

[Johnny Vinyl]

Harry Potter - Have yet to see even one of them. I'll probably watch them one day, but they hold no real appeal for me.

LOTR - I have the boxset, but have only seen the first one. Don't know when I'll see the others, but likely not soon.

Aliens - Could have picked up the boxset for really cheap, but opted not to. Monster/gore flicks are not my style.

The Exorcist - Do not own it, will not own it and will never see it. I think this is one movie that I would be scared to death of seeing. No thanks!

[menaceuk]

None really.

There are a lot I haven't seen to be sure but I haven't avoided them at all but simply just haven't seen them

[menaceuk]

Originally Posted by Johnny Vinyl

Harry Potter - Have yet to see even one of them. I'll probably watch them one day, but they hold no real appeal for me.

LOTR - I have the boxset, but have only seen the first one. Don't know when I'll see the others, but likely not soon.

Aliens - Could have picked up the boxset for really cheap, but opted not to. Monster/gore flicks are not my style.

The Exorcist - Do not own it, will not own it and will never see it. I think this is one movie that I would be scared to death of seeing. No thanks!

You best go watch Alien and Aliens right now. seriously........Watch them now.

They aren't gore flicks either. to be honest there isn't really any GORE in them

[MarkJ801]

I've never seen any of the James Bond films, and don't really have any desire to. If I do ever watch any of them, I would probably watch the Daniel Craig ones, though.

[AndyD]

There's a ton of "popular" or "successful" movies I haven't seen and probably will never see.

Some of them include:

The Godfather movies
Scarface
Goodfellas
Any Hitchcock film
2001
Lawrence of Arabia
Citizen Kane
Malcolm X
The Abyss

I only recently seen Blade Runner. 2 hours of my life I'll never get back. Such a boring film. Visually stunning but boring.

I know someone who has never seen any of the Indy or Back to the Future movies yet he watches to SyFy original movies religiously
To each their own I guess

[timcat4843]

Originally Posted by abnerayag

haven't seen the godfather movies either (as well as other really old-school classics), since they look boring. i'd probably try to watch it if it came on cable one of these days though.

i avoided watching superhero movies like spider-man 1, batman begins and x-men at the cinemas out of being a comic book purist lol. i only saw them in cable. also only watched all the harry potter movies on cable.

You should never watch movies on cable.
They are edited for content and rarely run in there OAR.

[timcat4843]

Originally Posted by Johnny Vinyl

Harry Potter

The Exorcist - Do not own it, will not own it and will never see it. I think this is one movie that I would be scared to death of seeing. No thanks!

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[Al_The_Strange]

For a while, I avoided most Disney movies thinking I had outgrown them. I've grown out of that stigma, and have actually bought up a number of Disney Blu-Rays (including Bambi, of all things ). However, I've still been avoiding Cinderella, out of the fear that it might be too girly for me. Yeah, I remember seeing it as a kid, but is it really proper for a 29-year-old like myself?

I also used to have an issue with zombie films; I was so repulsed by the 2003 Dawn of the Dead and Shaun of the Dead that I thought all zombie movies were just too disgusting for me. These days, I've gotten over it, and own them both (along with a bunch of others).

At this stage, there are no movies that I'll outright avoid; I try to keep myself open to everything. However, I'm nowhere near as enthused about dramas, Oscar baits, life story type of movies, or movies that have no plot but are still religiously praised. I'm in no rush to see movies like Moonrise Kingdom, The Descendents, Midnight in Paris, Moneyball, The Help, The Pianist, most French New wave films, about half of the Criterion Collection's total catalogue, etc. Yeah, I'm sure the whole lot of them is great, but given the choice I'd rather watch something that entertains me personally, first and foremost.