Movies That You Haven't Seen But Everyone Else Has

[broncofan]

Forrest Gump. Everyone says I should see it but I can't get myself to watch a movie about a slightly slow Tom Hanks who plays ping pong and analogizes chocolates to life.

Sex and The City- always hear girls rave about how witty it is. For my sister, I watched a couple of episodes. It is not witty. It is not very well written, the story lines are shallow. It must be the female equivalent of pornography; being titillated by mid-thirties New York women sleeping around and gossiping about it. Blah!!!

Kill Bill- Just no desire to see any of them.

[broncofan]

Never seen any of those Vin Diesel car chase movies.

Consider yourself lucky

[Token Williams-Black]

I've yet to see most movies based on comics. Hell, I've yet to see any of the movies that have premiered within the last NINE MONTHS...

[hippifried]

Since I refuse to stard in a line around the block, I never saw Star Wars in the theater. I've seen it all in pieces & snippets over the years, but I don't know why. The best actor was the wookie. I got hornswaggled into going out to see the first prequel. I'm totally done with that whole series.

*I've never seen 2001 a space odyssey. Not for lack of trying. It just puts me right to sleep. In the theater, when it was first reaseased, I remember the monkeys & the rest is a blank. I was young then. I've tried to watch it on the small screen, with the same result. I had the same problem with a Clockwork Orange & Eyes Wide Shut. Maybe it's just Kubrick trying to be acid artistic. I never get tired of Dr Strangelove.

Other than the Blues Brothers, I'm not impressed by anybody who ever came off of SNL. None of them are funny.

More to come if I get in another foul humor.

[Dino Velvet]

As I am mystified by the appeal of vampires I don't see any of them, apart from Herzog's Nosferatu which is very well made but one of his weakest films.

Worst backhanded compliment of the thread.

[Wendy Summers]

Walking Dead are awesome (sawsome?) though and the Walking Dead graphic novels are well worth a read.

I have no doubt walking Dead is awesome. I've been trying to watch the show since it first came out. The problem is I live alone and every night I try to watch it I get freaked the fuck out by it LOL.

One of the few times I think damn I really wish I was dating someone right now LOL

[Dino Velvet]

Wendy, come over and watch Serbian Film with me. We can watch Martyrs after then Inside. A Serb and 2 Frogs - A Triple Feature

[francisfkudrow]

I've never seen Jerry Maguire.

[Stavros]

On the polar side, nobody I know, even Italians, seems to have seen Il Conformista, which easily breaks into my top ten movies of all time.

I have seen it several times, but not since the 1980s; I don't think its on dvd in the UK but I could be wrong about that. Bertolucci's early films are his best -particularly the Spider's Stratagem, based on the Borges story Theme of the Traitor and the Hero; Before the Revolution I remember well but I suspect its dated by now. His career went downhill when the money came in -he made three films in succession: Last Tango in Paris, 1900, and La Luna which are so bad its hard to know how he stayed in the industry; or why.

[Stavros]

Worst backhanded compliment of the thread.

I just don't 'get it' as people say nowadays. As soon as some teeth head in the direction of a neck, virgin or otherwise, I lose interest. As it happens, most of the film before and after is so forgettable the whole enterprise seems pointless. At least Herzog shot much of the film in Delft, so it is interesting to look at.