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Great movies you've never seen.
Just watching Film 2016 and they had a piece on Taxi Driver. Hate to admit that I've never seen it. What "great" films have you never seen.
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Don't know if they are considered great but there are always gasps of shock when I say I haven't seen them...
Ghost Dirty dancing Fight club Rain man Castaway Stand by me Sleepless in seattle And the one that gets the most gasps - the godfather |
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Don't know if they are considered great but there are always gasps of shock when I say I haven't seen them...
Ghost Dirty dancing Fight club Rain man Castaway Stand by me Sleepless in seattle And the one that gets the most gasps - the godfather |
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Gone With The Wind. I've got it on DVD - but never gotten around to watching it.
Birth of the Nation. I understand that it's a bit controversial - what with the subject matter. Whiskey Galore. Got it on DVD, but haven't gotten around to viewing it. Leon The Professional. I love Gary Oldman, but have never seen this. It never seems to be on TV. Snow White and the Seven Dwarves. Got it on DVD, but haven't gotten around to viewing it. Bambi. Same again. Duck Soup. Missed out on its limited cinema re-release this year. |
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The godfather films
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The recentish animated one with a princes, and there's a snowman I think, and a song.
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The Sixth Sense
The Others Blade Runner |
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Trainspotting
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thousands of films
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If greatness can be defined by general consensus. |
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I have never seen any of the Godfather films. I bought the Blu-ray boxset a year ago and will watch it....someday!
I haven't seen Taxi Driver either... I've only ever seen bits of Blade Runner and not the whole way through. |
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Forrest Gump
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Forrest Gump is a load of overly sentimental, right wing fantasy, hogwash.
![]() Duck Soup is certainly worth seeing. Taxi Driver maybe a bit marmite actually, it's undoubtably brilliant, but it's very bleak and the ending is a complete "what the ****" moment. |
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Using IMDB's top 250 list (from 1-100 only) I have not seen the following:
http://www.imdb.com/chart/top The Good, The Bad and the Ugly (not in one sitting at least) City of God Life is Beautiful Leon (seen parts) Once Upon a Time in the West American History X Interstella City lights Untouchable Modern Times Whiplash Memento The Prestige Sunset Boulevard The Great Dictator The Lives of Others Cinema Paradiso Paths of Glory American Beauty Once Upon a Time in America Witness for the Prosecution North by Northwest Vertigo M Amelie Requiem for a Dream Like Stars on Earth My Father and my Son Double Indemnity Lawrence of Arabia Amadeus (only parts) The Sting Bicycle Thieves Singing in the Rain The Kid Andaz Apna Apna L.A Confidential |
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Using IMDB's top 250 list (from 1-100 only) I have not seen the following:
http://www.imdb.com/chart/top http://www.bfi.org.uk/news/50-greatest-films-all-timeETA: Have to say, I disagree with the verdict that Vertigo is the best film of all time! I don't even think it was Hitchcock's best film. Then again, I was never much enamoured of Citizen Kane, which was at the top spot for many years. |
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I've never been able to sit through Gone With The Wind, as I find it tedious. Same with Lawrence of Arabia.
I've never seen The Great Dictator, although I've been thinking of watching it recently. I was never a Chaplin fan although this is a different kettle of fish. I've never seen Seven Samurai, Touch of Evil all the way through, Battleship Potemkin, I avoid any Bogart film, Dr. Strangelove. |
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Amazing how the top rated films on IMDB (obviously rated by viewers) and the Top 50 films rated by the British Film Institute are so very different
http://www.bfi.org.uk/news/50-greatest-films-all-timeETA: Have to say, I disagree with the verdict that Vertigo is the best film of all time! I don't even think it was Hitchcock's best film. Then again, I was never much enamoured of Citizen Kane, which was at the top spot for many years. The Great Dictator is a bit of a strange beast, on one hand you could argue it's the most brave film ever made and has the best monologue in cinema history, but on the other you could argue Chaplin's broad slapstick sits awkwardly with scenes of Jews being beaten up & as such the film doesn't work. |
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Ran and the Seven Samurai. No idea why as used to have both on DVD but it never happened.
The Battleship Potemkin. All Quiet on the Western Front |
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Don't know if they are considered great but there are always gasps of shock when I say I haven't seen them...
Ghost Dirty dancing Fight club Rain man Castaway Stand by me Sleepless in seattle And the one that gets the most gasps - the godfather |
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Amazing how the top rated films on IMDB (obviously rated by viewers) and the Top 50 films rated by the British Film Institute are so very different
http://www.bfi.org.uk/news/50-greatest-films-all-timeETA: Have to say, I disagree with the verdict that Vertigo is the best film of all time! I don't even think it was Hitchcock's best film. Then again, I was never much enamoured of Citizen Kane, which was at the top spot for many years.
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Well, it's no surprise that the public vote differs from highbrow critics lists! There's some gems in both lists, but generally the populist votes depress me with their obviousness whilst the critics list depresses me with the same obvious choices. Both run in a pack. Better to pluck choices from BOTH lists! Hey I LOVE me some Tarkovsky, but, sometimes I feel the need to watch trash thats SO BAD its good - yes Verhoeven i'm looking at you - Showgirls !!!!
![]() In all fairness, the IMDB top 250 is nowhere near the write-off you fear. It's actually pretty good and very useful as a barometer for populism. And while an obvious academics delight, vast swathes of the BFI top 250 are far more accessible than some might think. Sure, your Aunt Nelly might be baffled by all 15 mins of Meshes of the Afternoon, but other newcomers might see where David Lynch was coming from. Quote:
You're doing fine. The only ones worth investing your precious life on are The Godfather & perhaps Stand By Me. Trust! The rest in this list are mindless hollywood drivel.
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Using IMDB's top 250 list (from 1-100 only) I have not seen the following:
http://www.imdb.com/chart/top The Good, The Bad and the Ugly (not in one sitting at least) City of God Life is Beautiful Leon (seen parts) Once Upon a Time in the West American History X Interstella City lights Untouchable Modern Times Whiplash Memento The Prestige Sunset Boulevard The Great Dictator The Lives of Others Cinema Paradiso Paths of Glory American Beauty Once Upon a Time in America Witness for the Prosecution North by Northwest Vertigo M Amelie Requiem for a Dream Like Stars on Earth My Father and my Son Double Indemnity Lawrence of Arabia Amadeus (only parts) The Sting Bicycle Thieves Singing in the Rain The Kid Andaz Apna Apna L.A Confidential Only others i've seen are The Prestige, Memento and American History X which are good films well worth watching too all very good films. Id put them in the company of movies like Inception, Gangs of New York, Oldboy, The Machinist, Fight Club. |
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Out of them i'd highly recommend City of God, absolutley brilliant film one of the best of all time for sure. 10/10 nothing they could have changed to make it better, acting, setting, filming, story all brilliant.
Only others i've seen are The Prestige, Memento and American History X which are good films well worth watching too all very good films. Id put them in the company of movies like Inception, Gangs of New York, Oldboy, The Machinist, Fight Club.
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most of the imdb 250 films only seen about 25 on its list.
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