Major Motion Pictures You've Never Seen

[EricJ]

Originally Posted by kdo

Have never seen any of "the Godfather" films...I read the Puzo novel, and have to admit that, while well written, the story didn't captivate me enough to bother seeing any of the movies.

While sadly shaking my head at most of the lists here (look, WHAT IS IT with not seeing the Harry Potter films?--And don't say it's because you hate the fans, that's got nothing to do with it), have to confess I've yet to see the Godfathers myself.
Not because I haven't heard of them, but quite the opposite: Like Gone With the Wind (which I hadn't seen until last month), I felt as if I'd seen the entire movie in having every single line and isolated scene quoted, parodied, and integrated into pop culture over the last three decades, but had never sat down and seen the actual movie from A to Z.

(And by the time I found all three on Instant Netflix, they were just about to expire, and were crappy old StarzPlays anyway, so figure I'd better just rent the nice clean Blu disks, and there they got stuck on the end of my rental queue.)

[kdo]

Originally Posted by EricJ

have to confess I've yet to see the Godfathers myself.
Not because I haven't heard of them, but quite the opposite: Like Gone With the Wind (which I hadn't seen until last month), I felt as if I'd seen the entire movie in having every single line and isolated scene quoted, parodied, and integrated into pop culture over the last three decades, but had never sat down and seen the actual movie from A to Z.

(And by the time I found all three on Instant Netflix, they were just about to expire, and were crappy old StarzPlays anyway, so figure I'd better just rent the nice clean Blu disks, and there they got stuck on the end of my rental queue.)

I hear where you're coming from, definitely understandable. Yeah, I've had many people tell me that I have to see them (the "Godfather" films, or at least the first two), that I missed a couple of the best movies ever... but then I tell them that I'd read the book, and I know the story, so what did I really miss? Then they usually back off. It's not that it's a bad story, it's just not my 'cup of tea' so to speak, and when I do have time to watch a full movie (which is not that often nowadays), I'd rather spend it watching something I love, or chancing something I'll probably like, rather than spend it watching something I know I won't care for (regardless of how well it was made)...

[octagon]

Originally Posted by EricJ

While sadly shaking my head at most of the lists here (look, WHAT IS IT with not seeing the Harry Potter films?--And don't say it's because you hate the fans, that's got nothing to do with it), have to confess I've yet to see the Godfathers myself.

That doesn't really seem that hard to understand. They're pretty genre specific and while the books are obviously extremely popular they haven't seeped into the popular culture (at least not yet, anyway) even when compared to something like Lord of the Rings.

And the films themselves while certainly well-made didn't strike me as particularly exceptional. I've seen several but to be honest, can't even remember which ones let alone what each was about or anything all that notable about any of them.

Again, I'm not knocking them...I'm just offering the perspective of somebody who's reacted to them fairly mildly.

[EricJ]

Originally Posted by kdo

I hear where you're coming from, definitely understandable. Yeah, I've had many people tell me that I have to see them (the "Godfather" films, or at least the first two), that I missed a couple of the best movies ever... but then I tell them that I'd read the book, and I know the story, so what did I really miss? Then they usually back off. It's not that it's a bad story, it's just not my 'cup of tea' so to speak, and when I do have time to watch a full movie (which is not that often nowadays), I'd rather spend it watching something I love, or chancing something I'll probably like, rather than spend it watching something I know I won't care for (regardless of how well it was made)...

Not being a Sopranos fan, I'm not overwhelmingly interested in the Corleones outside of completist AFI 100 duty--
But I've been on a kick for early/mid-70's movies, as I find myself flashing back on all those vintage Mad Magazine parodies I'd read as a kid, and was too young to have seen the movies they were scene-specifically joking about.

[Show spoiler]("We were going to leave the horse's head in your bed, but since you're a movie producer, we felt THIS was more appropriate...")

[kdo]

Originally Posted by EricJ

Not being a Sopranos fan, I'm not overwhelmingly interested in the Corleones outside of completist AFI 100 duty--

I'm with ya there...

Originally Posted by EricJ

But I've been on a kick for early/mid-70's movies, as I find myself flashing back on all those vintage Mad Magazine parodies I'd read as a kid, and was too young to have seen the movies they were scene-specifically joking about.

That's understandable...

Originally Posted by EricJ

[Show spoiler]("We were going to leave the horse's head in your bed, but since you're a movie producer, we felt THIS was more appropriate...")

yep, I see what you're saying...

[Michael1989]

Harry Potter films
Shrek films
Star Wars films
infact every animated film of the last ten years except Ponyo and Toy Story 3
Indiana Films except the last one
Old classic films, Psycho, Casablanca, Gone With The Wind etc
Westerns

[HelloMoto]

Godfather 1, 2 and 3 - I usually love films like these that were made in the 70's/80's but every time I sit down and try to watch any of them, I never finish em.
Halloween, Friday the 13th, Nightmare on Elm Street(I've seen none of these)
Although I'm catching up on my Westerns and loving every second of it, I still haven't seen the Man without a Name trilogy with the exception of The Good, The Bad and The Ugly.
Inception
Apocalypse Now
Alien movies
Back to the Future (I've seen parts of all the movies, but haven't seen them in their entirety)
The Exorcist
Rocky films
Toy Story 3
The Deer Hunter

[Grand Bob]

Originally Posted by EricJ

While sadly shaking my head at most of the lists here (look, WHAT IS IT with not seeing the Harry Potter films?--And don't say it's because you hate the fans, that's got nothing to do with it)

Ditto, I don't understand the hate, they are good flicks.

[Grand Bob]

Originally Posted by Bigblue622

Star Wars (I have seen Episode 1 and that's it)
Gone With the Wind
Casablanca
Indiana Jones
Titanic
Godfather III
Citizen Kane
Harry Potter (None)

Actually, there is a woman that I work, a self-proclaimed movie-fan (goes to the theater at least three times a month), who hasn't seen any Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, or Indiana Jones movies.

[Malik True]

Originally Posted by mnrider

Godfather 3
Transformers (all)
Harry Potter (all)
Twilight (all)
Shrek (all)
The last LOTR
Schindler's List
and many others that are not worth mentioning.

Also, why would someone wait for the price to go down before blind buying a movie they have never seen? When you can just rent it.

To me the most notable and a "MUST SEE" waaaaay before the others is Schindler's List...