Famous Movies You've Never Seen

[Timon/Pumbaa fan]

Titanic

[Mason_Ireton]

Oklahoma

West Side Story

Fiddler on the Roof

Cat On A Hot Tin Roof

[Dottie]

Cat on a hit tin roof is soooo good. The perfect drama and Elizabeth Taylor looked never more beautiful than in this movie.

I've never seen "Oklahoma" and "Fiddler on the roof" either, although I really want to but they're never shown here in Germany and renting DVDs is not common in Germany either.

[Escapay]

Casablanca (only saw the ending)

Then the preceding hour and forty minutes is pretty much ruined...

...that's about it. I've never seen any of the original "Superman" movies as I have no desire to since "Superman Returns" was so God-awful

At least watch Supergirl.

Titanic

If it were any other actor besides Leo, and if it wasn't as shockingly successful as it was, would you consider giving it a chance?

Elizabeth Taylor looked never more beautiful than in this movie.

I liked her better in BUtterfield 8.

Actually, scratch that. My favorite movie with Liz is A Place in the Sun.

Albert

[PeterPanfan]

I've also never seen Titanic or Gone With the Wind. =[

[Siren]

Aliens
Godfather movies
Casablanca
Gone With The Wind
Traffic
Pulp Fiction
Indiana Jones movies
Psycho
West Side Story
Schindler's List
Citizen Kane
The Shining
Halloween movies
Friday the 13th movies (except Jason vs Freddy)
Predator movies
Fight Club
Terminator 1
Sin City
Full Metal Jacket
Die Hard movies
City of Angels
The Shawshank Redemption
The Unusual Suspects
Apocalypse Now
Clockwork Orange
and many more....

I finally saw American Beauty and Braveheart this year for the first time.

[daydreamer22010]

The Godfathers
Brokeback Mountain
The Sound of Music
West Side Story
Star Wars
Lord of the Rings
Psycho
The Birds
Matrix movies
The Exorcist
Poltergeist

[PrincePhillipFan]

I haven't seen much movie musicals either. I have seen My Fair Lady, thought it's been a very long time. The music is lovely, but I wish Mary Poppins beat it at the Academy Awards. I'm such a biased shit.

It's okay, I'm pretty biased too. I wish The Music Man would have won best picture of 1963 (my second favorite movie musical after My Fair Lady), but there were so many other great pictures too that year like To Kill A Mockingbird. I think that deserved to win rather than Lawrence Of Arabia, but then again, I'm biased and never cared much for Lawrence.

[PeterPanfan]

Well, this summer I plan on watching tons of movies I've never seen. My three friends and I plan on watching 3-7 movies every Saturday in the summer.

List of movies (PLEASE ADD SOME that you want me to see, )


Pleasentville
Clue
Sister Act
Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit
Bend it Like Beckham
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
My Fair Lady
The Music Man(original)
South Pacific
Anything Goes
The Happiest Millionaire
The Mummy
You've Got Mail
That Thing You Do!
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
Sixteen Candles
The Princess Bride
Grease 2
Batman
Batman Returns
Batman Forever
Batman and Robin
Batman Begins
All Dogs Go to Heaven
Gepetto!
The Wedding Singer
Sleepy Hollow
Edward Scissorhands
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
Singin' in the Rain
Romeo + Juliet
Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Rings
Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
Lord of the Rings: Return of the King
Evita
Van Helsing
The Iron Giant
Love, Actually
Romy and Michele's High School Reunion
Anchorman: The Legend of Run Burgandy
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Corpse Bride
King Arthur
Big Fish
Little Black Book
Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
Indiana Jones and the last Crusade
X-Men
X2-X-Men United
X-Men 3- The Last Stand
Star Wars
Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
Star Wars: A New Hope
Star Wars: Return of the Jedi
Star Wars: Attack of the Clones
Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith
Star Wars: The Phantom Menace
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Mrs. Doubtfire
A Walk to Remember
Ever After
Practical Magic
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Singin' in the Rain
Big
The Producers
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Dirty Dancing
Airplane!
Newsies
Nanny McPhee
Footloose
Happy Feet
Flushed Away
The Illusionist
The Prestige
Hello, Dolly!
The Importance of Being Earnest
Dinosaur
Ghostbusters
9 to 5
E.T.
Adventures in Babysitting
Scorched
Young Frankenstein
The Stepford Wives
Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium
Don't Tell Mom the Babysitters Dead
Teen Witch
Gigi
The Band Wagon
Over Her Dead Body
27 Dresses
Snow Buddies
Oliver!
Victor/Victoria
Penelope
College Road Trip
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Bringing Down the House
PS, I Love You
Titanic
Casablanca
Gone With the Wind
West Side Story

[AwallaceUNC]

PPf, if you haven't yet seen it, you should add The Color Purple to your list.

-Aaron

[Just Myself]

PPf, if you haven't seen The Departed and There Will Be Blood, you *must* put those on your list. Stick them with the classics, make them high priority. Two best films of the past 10 years.

Cheers,
JM

[PeterPanfan]

Aaron, I just added that.

JM, I'm only fourteen, so my parents only let me watch soft R's, with the exception of Sweeney Todd because I've begged enough times to the point where they got annoyed and finally said "yes."

[Timon/Pumbaa fan]

Titanic

If it were any other actor besides Leo, and if it wasn't as shockingly successful as it was, would you consider giving it a chance?

Eh....not really.

All Titanic is is a chick flick with costly sets. The fact it's over three hours long also adds to the pain.

I'm mildly interested in Titanic itself and can recommend some good documentaries on it(including Disney's Ghost of the Abyss) but I'm certainly not interested on a boring 3 hour-romance just to wait until the boat sinks and Leo die. In fact, the only reason I have any interest in it is because of it's success.

I'm just flabbergasted at this forum, another reminder as to why I've let. You guys REALLY need to brush up on your classics. You do know film didn't start in 2002 and that the first film wasn't The Little Mermaid right? I mean, I can understand not seeing Gone With The Wind or Citizen Kane, but anyone who hasn't seen any Star Wars OR Indiana Jones films yet doesn't legally deserve to be called human.

PPF- Here are some films I doubt you've seen based on your list that you should try checking out with your friends along with the ones you listed during the summer:

High Noon
The Searchers
12 Angry Men
To Kill A Mockingbird
Dr. No
Goldfinger
The Pink Panther films(the brilliant Peter Sellers franchise, not the just plain average one with Steve Martin)
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
American Graffiti
Jaws(might be R, but one of the tamest R rated films around that should be fine)
Rocky
The Naked Gun Trilogy
Back To The Future
BeetleJuice
Who Framed Roger Rabbit(it's technically Disney, PLEASE tell me you've seen this)
Groundhog Day
Jurassic Park
Ed Wood(R, but I'm sure you've heard the F word in your lifetime)
Forrest Gump
Men In Black
Shanghai Noon
Chicken Run
Catch Me If You Can
Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
Casino Royale

[PeterPanfan]

I've added/seen a lot of those films, so thanks.

And Jaws is actually PG, believe it or not. I think the final one is the only one that's PG-13.

[Timon/Pumbaa fan]

I've added/seen a lot of those films, so thanks.

I had a feeling you saw a couple of the ones I've listed, but considering some you listed, you never know.

Just curious, which ones did you add?

And Jaws is actually PG, believe it or not. I think the final one is the only one that's PG-13.

Quite right. I've always assumed it was R for some reason.

PG-13 didn't get invented until 1984, which is why Jaws is only PG. Which is all the more reason you need to see the film that inspired the rating, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom*.

*Even if it is the weakest of the trilogy.

[Escapay]

I'm mildly interested in Titanic itself and can recommend some good documentaries on it(including Disney's Ghost of the Abyss)

Ironically (in your case), Ghost of the Abyss was directed by James Cameron.

Have you seen the 1958 film A Night to Remember? It's probably the best movie version of the disaster. It was the first real exposure I had to the story of the Titanic when I was a kid, and is a lot more balanced than Cameron's Titanic. Balanced as in it's a better ensemble piece that shows different classes of people on the ship and how they survive or die (as opposed to Titanic which focuses squarely on Jack & Rose and offering fleeting glimpses and scenes at how other people on the ship lived). It's amazing to see the deleted scenes for Titanic, as about half are Jack & Rose related, while the other half have to do with minor characters who became even more minor in the final theatrical edition.

Seriously, if they pared down half of Jack & Rose's onscreen material (especially in the first half of the film which goes on far too long before getting to the iceberg and sinking) and re-instated the "other people" deleted scenes, it would be a rather good two-hour flick.

PPF- Here are some films I doubt you've seen based on your list that you should try checking out with your friends along with the ones you listed during the summer:

High Noon
The Searchers
12 Angry Men
To Kill A Mockingbird
Dr. No
Goldfinger
The Pink Panther films(the brilliant Peter Sellers franchise, not the just plain average one with Steve Martin)
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
American Graffiti
Jaws(might be R, but one of the tamest R rated films around that should be fine)
Rocky
The Naked Gun Trilogy
Back To The Future
BeetleJuice
Who Framed Roger Rabbit(it's technically Disney, PLEASE tell me you've seen this)
Groundhog Day
Jurassic Park
Ed Wood(R, but I'm sure you've heard the F word in your lifetime)
Forrest Gump
Men In Black
Shanghai Noon
Chicken Run
Catch Me If You Can
Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
Casino Royale

The only one I haven't yet seen on that list is Casino Royale, so I guess I'm good for now.

PG-13 didn't get invented until 1984, which is why Jaws is only PG. Which is all the more reason you need to see the film that inspired the rating, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom*.

*Even if it is the weakest of the trilogy.

I'm most definitely in the minority when I say this...

Temple of Doom is far from the weakest of the trilogy. Sure, it took unused concepts of Raiders and gave the franchise a darker turn, along with a female companion that's too annoying for words, and a kid who is unnecessary to the story (but is a great way for viewers to live vicariously with Indy, as we all imagine that we could be Short Round). But it's a lot more enjoyable than Last Crusade, which I feel is the weakest, it suffers from the following:

-Not Enough Action - yes, there are some memorable sequences, and no, a film like Indy Jones doesn't have to be action after action. But when compared to Raiders and Temple, Last Crusade is surprisingly lighter.

-Too Many Nazis - almost sounds like the name of a really bad musical, doesn't it? But the Nazi concept was already done in Raiders and while it *just barely* works in Last Crusade, the Nazis didn't need to be used *again*. Especially since they're empty villains here (who pretty much are the lackeys of Donovan), compared to the real threat they were in Raiders.

-It's Raiders 2.0 - back to the Nazis again. Their incentive for getting the Grail, and Indy's incentive to stop them, is essentially Raiders, but you substitute an Old Testament relic with a New Testament relic.

-Indy Doesn't Get The Girl - I know it would have been cliched if Elsa lived and turned good. But that's exactly what the story needed, because the Indy movies are based on the old serials where you expect a happy ending. The reconciliation between Indy and his dad is satisfying, but not satisfying enough because it's pretty much an action/adventure movie staple for the guy to get the girl.

-The Dumbing Down of Marcus - for a guy who appears to be very "with it" in Raiders, they've turned him into a buffoon that serves as comic relief for the few scenes he's in. Also, with the whole prologue showing that Indy and Marcus are near the same age, it is suddenly very jarring now to see Indy and Marcus when they're adults, as Marcus has always been visibly older.

-The Prologue - I love the prologue, I really do. It's a great way to showcase Indy's beginnings (especially since the TV series wasn't conceived yet), and has a great performance from River Phoenix (who played Harrison Ford's son in The Mosquito Coast - hey, that's another film to add to your list, Panfan!). But beyond establishing the tense relationship Indy had with his father, as well as where he got the hat, the whip, and the scar, it's really not necessary to The Last Crusade, at least not as one large chunk in the beginning of the film. Had they spread it out into "flashbacks" Indy has (perhaps along with additional material beyond that one brief adventure), it might work better. But it's otherwise just filler.

There's probably a few more reasons why I'm not fond of The Last Crusade but I think those cover the main stuff. And made this post longer than necessary.

Anyway, I realized I never contributed a list of Famous movies I've never seen, nor have I really recommended more to other people.

Borrowing from Dottie, I took a gander at the imdb Top 250 list (which really isn't the best source, but it'll do for now) and I won't include the foreign films I haven't seen (mainly because I'm *really* behind on forum films compared to American ones), so here's a list of films I haven't seen:

5. 8.9 Pulp Fiction (1994) 280,413
7. 8.8 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) 140,787
20. 8.7 The Usual Suspects (1995) 192,263
27. 8.6 Memento (2000) 182,733
33. 8.5 Se7en (1995) 184,954
39. 8.5 American History X (1998) 144,432
41. 8.5 Paths of Glory (1957) 29,778
52. 8.4 There Will Be Blood (2007) 61,322
61. 8.4 Requiem for a Dream (2000) 119,837
62. 8.4 No Country for Old Men (2007) 103,499
65. 8.4 Boot, Das (1981) 51,889
72. 8.4 Metropolis (1927) 26,075
79. 8.3 Hotel Rwanda (2004) 57,287
85. 8.3 Amadeus (1984) 68,382
88. 8.3 The Prestige (2006) 111,497
101. 8.3 Strangers on a Train (1951) 22,362
106. 8.2 Iron Man (2008) 30,636
113. 8.2 Fargo (1996) 118,063
115. 8.2 Unforgiven (1992) 63,900
118. 8.2 Donnie Darko (2001) 139,850
124. 8.2 Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003) 156,377
126. 8.2 Into the Wild (2007) 32,441
127. 8.2 Gladiator (2000) 190,233
130. 8.2 Die Hard (1988) 124,027
131. 8.2 The Bourne Ultimatum (2007) 83,404
135. 8.1 The Deer Hunter (1978) 59,946
137. 8.1 The General (1927) 13,132
142. 8.1 The Killing (1956) 15,788
143. 8.1 Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949) 8,151
146. 8.1 Heat (1995) 96,483
149. 8.1 The Wild Bunch (1969) 21,384
159. 8.1 The Big Lebowski (1998) 115,919
160. 8.1 Letters from Iwo Jima (2006) 30,785
164. 8.1 Shadow of a Doubt (1943) 13,218
166. 8.1 Snatch. (2000) 108,267
173. 8.0 Trainspotting (1996) 102,914
174. 8.0 The Gold Rush (1925) 13,365
177. 8.0 Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004) 120,359
178. 8.0 Scarface (1983) 95,007
179. 8.0 Duck Soup (1933) 18,460
180. 8.0 The Conversation (1974) 21,545
181. 8.0 Patton (1970) 27,674
184. 8.0 Little Miss Sunshine (2006) 92,855
192. 8.0 Umberto D. (1952) 4,944
197. 8.0 Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998) 79,198
200. 8.0 American Gangster (2007) 65,215
204. 8.0 The Ox-Bow Incident (1943) 5,483
210. 8.0 Stalker (1979) 12,428
211. 8.0 All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) 14,435
212. 8.0 Magnolia (1999) 88,930
213. 8.0 Bride of Frankenstein (1935) 10,769
219. 8.0 Casino (1995) 68,722
221. 8.0 Big Fish (2003) 89,370
228. 8.0 Rope (1948) 18,990
229. 8.0 Manhattan (1979) 25,602
230. 8.0 The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962) 15,814
236. 7.9 Grindhouse (2007) 58,388
240. 7.9 Once (2006) 16,443
241. 7.9 The Kid (1921) 6,966
244. 7.9 Hot Fuzz (2007) 83,944
249. 7.9 Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) 20,812
250. 7.9 Barry Lyndon (1975) 26,161

62 films out of 250 I have yet to see. Not too shabby. Of course, that doesn't include the foreign films (which I think number in the 40s on the list), but I took a mental note of which ones I've seen, and counted between 12-15 that I've seen.

Albert

[DaveWadding]

I've never seen The Princess Bride, despite really wanting to.

INCONCEIVABLE!

[Dottie]

PPf, is your (very long) list movies that you wanna watch during summer and have seen some of them, or have oyu never seen any of them?
Because if it is the latter (please, no offfence): Have you ever watched movies at all??

I haven't seen some on this list too as well as just not liking some of them (e.g. Back to the Future...), but not having seen Star Wars and Indy is, ... weird.

And you could add "Ghostbusters II" which actually was a very good sequel.
And Monty Python's "Life of Brian" (I think it's better then "Holy Grail"), or maybe just missed it on your list.

[PeterPanfan]

Hah, well for the most part it's the latter. I watched Singin' in the Rain as a child, along with pretty much all the musicals listed there (minus Sweeney Todd), but forgot what happened in them.

T/PF: I added:

Forrest Gump
Groundhog Day
Casino Royale
The Naked Gun Trilogy
Rocky

And I have seen Roger Rabbit, haha. I really need to buy the DVD..

[Just Myself]

I can't make a list of all the classics I haven't seen.... But here's a list of classics that I recently *have* seen:

There Will Be Blood
All the President's Men
Into the Wild (yes, this is a classic by my standards)
Pulp Fiction
the first 3 Die Hard movies
Raging Bull
Forrest Gump
The Shining
Heat
Fargo
L.A. Confidential
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Ben-Hur
The Sting

Also to PPf, only soft-R's, eh? I remember those days. The Departed was pretty much my first real hard-R movie. I doubt your parents will let you see it for a few years... But keep it in mind.

There Will Be Blood, however, is the mildest R-rated film I've seen since Air Force One. There is absolutely nothing in TWBB that is R-rated offensive, and I believe the MPAA only gave it that rating because of its very dark theme, despite saying "Some Violence" in the descriptor.

Cheers,
JM