Major Motion Pictures You've Never Seen

[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...

[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.

[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.