I'm usually about 5-10 years behind with popular movies (unless they're sci-fi/fantasy/horror in which case I'm usually first in line), and I rarely watch comedies, so there's lots of recent films I haven't seen. Outside of that, I haven't seen Titanic. There's still a few Herzog and Bergman films I haven't gotten around to yet. Glancing through the IMDB top 250 I realize that a) I watch too many movies and b) I haven't seen "American History X" yet. I ought to fix that.
What is the "big/classic" movie that you've never seen?
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Haven't watched Gone with the Wind, just recently saw Rebel Without a Cause, sepaking of Dean just sawe Giant the other day too.
Recent, Transformers Tre, Shia Labeouff is great but boycotting teh disappearance of Megan Fix-she's a fox?
Recent, Transformers Tre, Shia Labeouff is great but boycotting teh disappearance of Megan Fix-she's a fox?
Requiem for a Dream
Won't watch it, 'cos all I've heard is that it's one massive downer that never gets any happier.
Not sure I could take that.
It's not a particularly good film. He reprises all the techniques that were new and cool in Pi with a story about people I didn't care two shits about whether they lived or died.
"Cool Hand Luke"
Great movie, probably seen it between 10 and 15 times.
Great movie, probably seen it between 10 and 15 times.
Haha!
Referencing a post above.
I'll add some more I have never seen:
Sunset Boulevard
The Philadelphia Story
Rebecca
The Birth of a nation
I looked at several top 100 lists, and there were only 4 or 5 on each list i had never seen.
Cramer Vs Cramer
My dinner with Andre
Cassablanca
Some like it hot
Twighlight series
Cleopatra
My dinner with Andre
Cassablanca
Some like it hot
Twighlight series
Cleopatra
Godfather 3 was good too, it just couldn't hold up to the masterpieces that 1 and 2 were.
I made it about 30 minutes into antichrist before I shut it off. If you can't make me give a f**k what happens to the characters in half an hour then I'm done. I didn't care if they lived, if they died, if they resolved their issue, I just wanted them to go away.
I think there are a lot. And I'm going to limit my list to actual classics (ie: I haven't seen inception, either but that's so new, who cares?), and also I'm going to limit it to movies I feel ashamed as a filmmaker that I haven't seen.
Lawrence of Arabia
Cleopatra
Easy Rider
2001 (pretty sure I saw it as a little kid, but I don't actually remember it that well, and certainly didn't appreciate it)
Apocalypse Now
The only John Ford film I'm sure I have seen is 'Seven Women'
Here's the big one, but remember, people who have not seen Star Wars should not throw stones (you know who you are):
Citizen Kane
Lawrence of Arabia
Cleopatra
Easy Rider
2001 (pretty sure I saw it as a little kid, but I don't actually remember it that well, and certainly didn't appreciate it)
Apocalypse Now
The only John Ford film I'm sure I have seen is 'Seven Women'
Here's the big one, but remember, people who have not seen Star Wars should not throw stones (you know who you are):
Citizen Kane
That perspective always seemed odd to me..
"Tell me your story - but tell it like this.."
I always feel it's your story. Tell it how you like.
Rejecting something is the antithesis of watching or listening.
I'm their to listen..
but uh.. if you didn't like the characters
She ends up castrating them both (or whatever the equivalent is for a woman), she sticks a drill through his leg, and he ends up bashing her head in.. (I think.. it's been a while) - so you would have had that to look forward to.. 
Doctor Zhivago comes to mind along with a handful of the ones posted here.
Watch a MM movie and you'll realize why she is what she is. Not only beyond gorgeous, but sex just oozing from every pore on her body.
That perspective always seemed odd to me..
"Tell me your story - but tell it like this.."
I always feel it's your story. Tell it how you like.
Rejecting something is the antithesis of watching or listening.
I'm their to listen..
but uh.. if you didn't like the charactersShe ends up castrating them both (or whatever the equivalent is for a woman), she sticks a drill through his leg, and he ends up bashing her head in.. (I think.. it's been a while) - so you would have had that to look forward to..
Filmmaking 101 is that you have make the audience invest in the characters. Love them, hate them, want to know what's going to happen to them. The characters in antichrist are both so vile, so off-putting, so un-interesting, it was pretty close to watching paint dry. If he's made it a short and someone had come in and blow both their heads off about 20 minutes into the film it might have actually been ok.
Von Trier is a great film theorist while somehow managing to be one of the worst filmmakers on earth.