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Kansas City Bomber I saw EVERY time it was on TV, but really just for her, and her part in the Three Musketeers was simply a goof.
However, on topic- I'm actually ashamed to say I've never seen Citizen Kane. Another thing I need to remedy.
- The Godfather Part II & III
- Fight Club (in its entirety)
- The Graduate
- Memento
- Raging Bull
- Rear Window
- The Fugitive
- The Shawshank Redemption (in its entirety)
- The Usual Suspects
- Total Recall (1990)
I know, I know, I'm working on it!
;)
Has Citizen Kane ever been spoiled for you, @chrisisall? I would be shocked to hear if it hadn't.
I figured, as that is quite common-especially for that film- unfortunately. I had it spoiled for me when I was little (around eight, probably), because I saw a poster for it and asked my uncle what the film was. He said
Plenty of the films on my watch-list are ones that have been spoiled for me and I simply then lost interest in seeing them. Others, like the Lord of the Rings films just have never interested me and are more of a chore than a joy to try and watch. But, I will try my best in the future to tackle all the films I listed and more, in good time.
Saving Private Ryan
The Graduate
I'm doomed.
The guys mental.
You are so discerning, Mr Ice. Plus, you forgot your apostrophe there. Go and sit in the naughty corner. :)
You bastard. I blame IPhone.
But you are absolutely correct Draggers. By the lofty standards the Wizard demands I have indeed let myself down.
Humble apologies to all for this faux pas - although it is somewhat ironic that in a post about Balje it's me not him that is pulled up on grammar!
Only joking of course, friend. I use a PC, but then I'm old-fashioned and archaic in my ways!
Lawrence of Arabia
Ben-Hur
True Grit (with John Wayne)
The Good Shepherd
The Thomas Crown Affair 1968...
...and some of the newer Harry Potter films.
Same here. Never seen them but I have no interest and I'm not embarrassed.
Ive seen almost the entire IMDB top250, but ive never seen Kill Bill and the Matrix Trilogy.
Nothing to be embarassed about as the matrix trilogy contains one decent movie and two WTF are they, and Kill Bill is QT's hommage to eastern cinema and they do it much better themselves. O:-)
Don't be, they are just not as good as the hype would make you believe. The first one did "borrow" alot including camerashots from a little known movie as "the Shadow", the 2nd one would never have been that well received were it for the way too early departure of the actor playing The Joker (honestly he was the best part of the movie). ANd the third was kind of crap, if you like Bruce Wayne living happely ever after and physical impossible healing (outside from a character called Wolverine) and over OTT actionscenes that make no sense whatsoever.
But let it be your own choice.
Have you seen Batman returns? Then you have seen the best Batman movie to date.
O:-)
Agreed
O:-)
If you haven't seen the Nolan Bat films I would check themselves out for yourself rather than taking SaintMark's opinion, he's clearly more a fan of the campy Burton Batman, if that is your bag fine but these films have not aged well.
I personally feel these films especially TDK is some of the highest standard of blockbuster film making we've seen in the last 20 years but TDKR was a complete disappointment and nowhere the standard of the TDK or as good as BB.
No they aren't without plot holes and yes Ledger's death did allot for TDK success not that takes anything away from one of the greatest onscreen villain performances of all time. I'll take this over Hopkins Lecter and Mads Mikklesen has stolen that role away from him now anyway.
Both BB & TDK have some of the best acting seen in a mainstream blockbuster ever and leave the acting in the Burton films looking 1 dimensional, if you like this kind of thing maybe the depth and darkness will turn you off as obviously turns off our friend above.
I don't mind Returns but Joker as it should be called as he's the far more dominant character is just a disjointed mess which doesn't flow and has totally overrated hammy turn from Nicholson that overwhelms the film, Ledger is the definitive Joker by far.
As for me when it comes to films I'm embarrassed not to have seen, I guess being what I would call a serious film fan I haven't seen Henri-Georges Clouzot's Wages of Fear but I intend to rectify that soon as I bought it on Blu ray in the recent Criterion sale on Amazon.
I also haven't Seven Samurai, La Dolce Vita, the list could go on but rather than watch more crap like Captain America and The Avengers I intend on remedying that soon. I've watched far too much blockbusters in my time and just find them repetitive, unimaginative and dumb. I wanted to see a Danish film A Hijacking recently but couldn't find a cinema that was showing it and that film by all accounts seems to be one of the highlights of 2013. I intend to watch more world cinema as it seems the Europeans make far more intelligent and original films than the U.S with. some exceptions
I certainly will try to curtail the watching of countless sequels, I don't mind entertainment but mindless, I know some think watching this kind of thing is enjoyable but my head just aches at it's banality. I'll leave this kind of thing to people who have no serious interest in film and just see it as a distraction, the kind of people that Hollywood is now gearing the majority of it's product to.
If you are a big Batman fan you will probably like the Nolan Batman films, @saunders. Warner Bros. finally made the right move with letting him helm the character's next set of films in the early 2000s as he is the first big screen Batman director to have actually read the comics and like the character with a passion. Watching both Burton's Batman and Batman Returns along with the garbage Schumacher pushed out shows plainly that neither ever read a single Batman comic, didn't get the character and weren't paying any attention whatsoever to what makes the characters who they are. I don't need to see Batman sadistically smiling, bordering on laugher as he straps a bomb to a henchman and pushes him down a manhole to crudely explode. That isn't how the Batman I love does things. Don't even get me started on
Sorry Shard, my ability to take you seriously just came to a middle.
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)
Schindler's List (1993)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
Goodfellas (1990)
Casablanca (1942)
Psycho (1960)
Sunset Blvd. (1950)
Apocalypse Now (1979)
Citizen Kane (1941)
L.A. Confidential (1997)
Braveheart (1995)
I was going down the list of from this website.
"TOP 100 BEST MOVIES EVER MADE"
http://www.imdb.com/list/cTYs9UiM5Ic/
I would listen to Shardlake over SaintMark Saunders as the Wages of Fear comment proves the guy knows his onions.
Refreshing to see a proper film fan here Shardlake rather than people lamenting not having seen dross (Van Helsing, Kill Bill, the Matrix trilogy). I take it you have seen Les Diaboliques though? Probably the best Hitchcock film ever made!
The Wages of Fear I actually thought was better the first time I saw it but less so when I saw it years later. For the time though it does have some unbearably tense set pieces and is another example of Clouzot's brilliance.
I heartily agree with all the rest if your comments too.
Bugger it I meant to go and see that film The Hijacking too. I remember seeing a poster on the tube. On holiday now so it will be gone by the time I get back.
I feel no embarrrasment for having missed a few movies that I will undoubtely will see sooner or later, the movies named in this thread I have seen, bar one the Rachel Welch movie.
While I enjoy the mainstream blockbusters, Cap America or the Avengers are in my view no soulless blockbusters as the men behind them are pretty good directors with love for their subject matter imho, I do visit the filmhouses as well for the less fortunate movies that do not receive a place in the big cinemas and am more often than not very surprised by the sheer quality of storytelling and visuals.
And indeed I am more in awe of Tim Burtons visuals as I am of Nolans visuals, I like the fairytalesque views from Burtons visions over the industrial visions of Nolan. And I think that the superheros are modernday fairytales hence my preference to Burtons vision. And his "Batman returns" is the one movie where he gets a balanced fairytale where in Batman he focused to much on The Joker but Batman does play a far stronger part in esablishing his character than in BB by Nolan. ANd like all of these movies they have their beauty faults and lesser moments. TDK is indeed Nolans best movie of the three, BB is inexcusable a stolen/copied movie from one of my guilty pleasure movies namely "the Shadow", this pulphero in Old Time Radio, pulpmagazines and this one great movie is somewhat of a sift spot for me.