Oh, I get it! This is where we prove how cool, mature, and totally perceptive we are on the basis of the very popular stuff we didn't fall for! ;-)

Yeah, man. It feels good to be way above the unwashed ignorant rabble out there, doesn't it? I can relate. ;-) okay, lemme think about this. Hmmm.

Okay, I never saw Jaws at the theatre. Did eventually see it on video. As for the others...ummm...I've seen all of them except "Sleepless in Seattle". I didn't deliberately plan not to see S-I-S, though, it just slipped under my radar, so I'm really not that cool after all...I just lucked out! ;-D I can pretend I'm that cool and maybe get away with it, and people won't realize...

The fact that I have seen all the others on your list definitely endangers my coolness rating, though, John. (fret! fret!)

I would like to say, however, that I WISH to GOD I'd never spent my money to see either Independence Day or Armageddon. They were both godawful stupid terribly bad movies, and I swore never again to watch any movie directed by whoever the hell made them (Roland Emmerich?).

So my coolness factor may not be as endangered as I thought. ;-)

But have you missed anything, John? Yup! You sure have.   Ahem!

Groundhog Day - Absolutely brilliant, delightful, unique film. A masterpiece, in fact.

Pirates of the Caribbean - Very good entertainment, and worth seeing just for Johnny Depp alone. He is the ultimate pirate captain.

Cars - Quite good, in my opinion.

Toy Story - Beyond "good...absolutely superb!

"Saving Private Ryan" - Pretty good war film...but it's marred by the fact that the German army are depicted as pretty lousy strategists, squandering their lives foolishly in the bitter fighting around Normandy and using dumb tactics. This does not, in my opinion, accurately depict the German army who were mostly very good at the art of war. It could accurately depict some of the green units of novices that were mixed amongst the veteran German troops...but certainly not the veterans themselves. Other than that, it's a darned good war movie.

Rocky (I) is a very good movie...but you might not be interested in a movie about an inarticulate and uneducated American-Italian boxer. If so, John, I understand.

leeneia - "Am I the only person in the world who worries about the effect on real children of watching the cruel boy Sid in that movie?"

You may well be. ;-)

Hell, I KNEW several rotten little bastards just like Syd when I was a kid. There are some like that in every school, sadistic, vicious little creeps who live to cause pain and discomfort to all around them, and who delight in destroying things. EVERY kid can see something he already knows about intimately in the character "Sid", and it couldn't possibly hurt real children. It just gives them some satisfaction in seeing the little bully get his eventual comeuppance. Very satisfying, I assure you! ;-)