'Classic' films that you have yet to see

thedarklord _thedarklord _ Posts: 565
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Are there any films that people rave about and are considered classics that you have yet to see?

I still haven't seen:

Citizen Kane
Metropolis
ET
Indiana Jones films
The Good, The Bad & The Ugly
Oldboy
Apocalypse Now
Last Tango In Paris
Schindler's List
Unforgiven
Erasherhead
Hitchcock films (except Psycho and Vertigo)

Those are the main ones off the top of my head but I'm sure there are more.

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  • [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 40
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    Never seen the god father 1,2 or 3
    Good fella's
    The good the bad the ugly
    Synderlers list
    The shawshank redemption
  • Fowl FaxFowl Fax Posts: 3,968
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    12 Angry Men
    One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
    Seven Samurai
    Casablanca
  • big brother 9big brother 9 Posts: 18,152
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    Are there any films that people rave about and are considered classics that you have yet to see?

    I still haven't seen:

    Citizen Kane
    Metropolis
    ET
    Indiana Jones films
    The Good, The Bad & The Ugly
    Oldboy
    Apocalypse Now
    Last Tango In Paris
    Schindler's List
    Unforgiven
    Erasherhead
    Hitchcock films (except Psycho and Vertigo)

    Those are the main ones off the top of my head but I'm sure there are more.
    ..only film ive seen on that list is and et
  • LathamiteLathamite Posts: 638
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    Apocalypse Now
    Gone With The Wind
    Seven Samurai
    Fowl Fax wrote: »
    12 Angry Men

    I urge you to watch this. So easy to watch, so brilliant.
  • fmradiotuner1fmradiotuner1 Posts: 20,476
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    I have them but yet to see

    Ben-Hur
    Lawrence of Arabia

    People keep going on about them they look good might have to watch these one weekend.
  • stripedcatstripedcat Posts: 6,689
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    Tokyo Story
    Gone With the Wind(Got it on DVD though - I just need to set aside 3 hours to watch it!)
    The Best Years of Our Lives
    The Birth of a Nation
    Modern Times
    Safety Last
    Angels With Dirty Faces
    Bambi
    Snow White and the Seven Dwarves
    The Lady and the Tramp(Got it on my PVR)
    The Bicycle Thieves(Got it on DVD though)
    Breathless(Goddard version)
    Duck Soup
    Les Enfants du Paradis
    Frankenstein(James Whale's version)
    The General
    The Gold Rush
    La Grande Illusion
    Gregory's Girl(Got it on DVD though)
    High Noon(Got it on DVD though)
    The Searchers
    Shane
    Whiskey Galore(Got it on DVD though)
    Napoleon
    The Great Dictator
    Hamlet(Olivier version or even the Kenneth Branagh 70 mm one)
    Richard III(Olivier one)
    Macbeth(Olivier one)
    Chimes at Midnight
    Throne of Blood
    The Idiot(Kuroswawa version)
    Ikiru
    The Bad Sleep Well
    The Pillow Book
    Prospero's Books
    Top Hat
    High Hopes
    Duel
    Carrie
    Satyricon
    The Black Stallion
    The Apu Trilogy
  • swordofomensswordofomens Posts: 267
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    I have still never watched The Sound of Music in full.
  • 3iff3iff Posts: 213
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    Bridge on the River Kwai
    Grease
    Gone with the Wind
    Godfather 1,2,3
    The Rocky films (but perhaps these don't qualify as classics!)

    plus others that don't come to mind at the moment.
  • JCRJCR Posts: 24,029
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    stripedcat wrote: »
    Tokyo Story
    Gone With the Wind(Got it on DVD though - I just need to set aside 3 hours to watch it!)
    The Bicycle Thieves(Got it on DVD though)

    I've tried and failed to watch The Bicycle Thieves 3 or 4 times, I always turn it off, it's so depressing.

    You need more than 3 hours for Gone With the Wind, it is about 3 hours 50 minutes long. The first half is really really good, the second less so, but it's still worth seeing.
  • thedarklord _thedarklord _ Posts: 565
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    I have them but yet to see

    Ben-Hur
    Lawrence of Arabia

    People keep going on about them they look good might have to watch these one weekend.

    I watched Lawrence of Arabia for the first time back in January and it's absolutely brilliant. A true epic.
  • NostalgicNostalgic Posts: 7,157
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    Jurassic Park
    The Godfather trilogy
    Apocalypse Now
    Deliverance
    The French Connection
    Goodfellas
    The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
    Unforgiven
    Return of the Jedi
    Aliens
    Forest Gump
    Dirty Harry
    Taxi Driver
    Gone With the Wind
    Citizen Kane
    The Sound of Music
    Vertigo
    Rear Window
    Breakfast at Tiffany's
    One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
    Lady and the Tramp
    Beauty and the Beast
    Pulp Fiction
    Schindler's List
    The Shawshank Redemption
    Silence of the Lambs
    Singin' in the Rain
    Lawrence of Arabia
    Ben-Hur
    King Kong
    Airplane!
    Saving Private Ryan
    Mad Max
  • Finny SkeletaFinny Skeleta Posts: 2,638
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    stripedcat wrote: »
    The Birth of a Nation

    As a piece of film history Birth of a Nation is absolutely vital.

    However, as a piece of entertainment it is absolutely vile. Even accounting for the times it is terrible. It makes Triumph of the Will look restrained.
  • stripedcatstripedcat Posts: 6,689
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    As a piece of film history Birth of a Nation is absolutely vital.

    However, as a piece of entertainment it is absolutely vile. Even accounting for the times it is terrible. It makes Triumph of the Will look restrained.

    I do accept that because of the subject matter of that film it's very controversial.
  • stripedcatstripedcat Posts: 6,689
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    JCR wrote: »
    I've tried and failed to watch The Bicycle Thieves 3 or 4 times, I always turn it off, it's so depressing.

    You need more than 3 hours for Gone With the Wind, it is about 3 hours 50 minutes long. The first half is really really good, the second less so, but it's still worth seeing.


    Okay. Looks like I need to see aside more time for it then.
  • CAMERA OBSCURACAMERA OBSCURA Posts: 8,002
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    Fowl Fax wrote: »
    12 Angry Men
    One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
    Seven Samurai
    Casablanca

    Treat yourself to all four Fowl Fax, a wonderful weekends worth of viewing. You wont regret it.:)
  • mysty211mysty211 Posts: 4,935
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    The Hunchback of Notredame
    Hercules
    Peter Pan (Disney version)
    Back to The Future
    The Goonies
    The Godfather 1-3
    Lord of The Rings
    The Sound Of Music
    Les Miserables
  • bluefbbluefb Posts: 15,461
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    Biggest directors I've seen nothing from are probably Sternberg and Gance. Also seen no Harold Lloyd, Laurel & Hardy or Marx Bros.

    Chronologically:

    Intolerance
    Sunrise
    Dracula
    Scarface
    Angels with Dirty Faces
    Bambi
    Fantasia
    It's a Wonderful Life
    Tokyo Story
    12 Angry Men
    To Kill a Mockingbird
    The Great Escape
    The Sound of Music
    Grease
    Top Gun
    Braveheart
    Up

    Only a few there I'm really eager to see.
  • [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 14,920
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    Taxi Driver
    Raging Bull
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