Films I alone haven't seen{apparently}

Subject: RE: Films I alone haven't seen{apparently}
From: gnu
Date: 25 Jul 11 - 07:36 PM

LH...

"Well... I'm the only one here. Who the fuck do you think you're talking to?"

You Tube is a great resource innit?

Subject: RE: Films I alone haven't seen{apparently}
From: ranger1
Date: 25 Jul 11 - 06:28 PM

Well, I watch movies to be entertained, and as I am easily entertained, I've seen most of the movies on your list John. I have no coolness rating, and I'm ok with that.

Subject: RE: Films I alone haven't seen{apparently}
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 25 Jul 11 - 04:48 PM

The best "dark horse" little film I saw years ago, after avoiding it, was Trip to Bountiful. It's not about Mormons or Utah or anything beyond trying to go home again. I told my mother she should watch this film and she put it off for ages, and when she finally saw it she called to tell me how much she loved it. Horton Foote turned his teleplay into a Broadway play and then into a film script. He was the playwright on such films as To Kill A Mockingbird, Hurry Sundown, and Tender Mercies.

Subject: RE: Films I alone haven't seen{apparently}
From: Little Hawk
Date: 25 Jul 11 - 04:11 PM

What the hell ya talkin' about, gnu? Are you bein' funny? You talkin' to ME?

;-)

I really liked Bonnie and Clyde, John, but I have no interest in the basic premise of Straw Dogs. True, they both had some graphic violence onscreen...but that's about where the comparisons ended for me. Bonnie and Clyde is a really interesting depiction of 2 restless young people with no foreseeable good future in a society that is suffering financial depression...and they more or less haphazardly fall into a spiral of crime that starts out as a lark or a dare and becomes an inescapable road to self-destruction. It's like a Shakespearian tragedy set in the Depression years. It was handled very well, I think, and the secondary characters were all played brilliantly, as were the main characters.

Straw Dogs, on the other hand, is standard Sam Peckinpah fare....macho bullshit about "becoming a man" by taking violent revenge upon and killing a whole bunch of nasty people. HO HUM! Seen that before, and not impressed.

Subject: RE: Films I alone haven't seen{apparently}
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 25 Jul 11 - 04:01 PM

Oh and re walking out. I walked out of Bonnie and Clyde, and Straw Dogs.
On different days :-)

Subject: RE: Films I alone haven't seen{apparently}
From: gnu
Date: 25 Jul 11 - 03:48 PM

Ahhhh... LH... so, if we don't like what you like we are "cool, mature, and totally perceptive... way above the unwashed ignorant rabble...".

That doesn't sound like the LH I know. Quite the opposite. Are you upset by a movie you just watched? Couldn't get yer money back? Didn't like the popcorn?

Lighten up eh?

Subject: RE: Films I alone haven't seen{apparently}
From: Little Hawk
Date: 25 Jul 11 - 03:46 PM

You're clearly WAYYYY cooler than me, McGrath. But at least we agree on Groundhog Day.

Subject: RE: Films I alone haven't seen{apparently}
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 25 Jul 11 - 03:42 PM

Only one in that list John gave that I'd advise him to make an effort to see is Groundhog Day.

Subject: RE: Films I alone haven't seen{apparently}
From: Little Hawk
Date: 25 Jul 11 - 03:39 PM

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! ;-)

Subject: RE: Films I alone haven't seen{apparently}
From: gnu
Date: 25 Jul 11 - 03:28 PM

Forrest Gump... see it today.

Subject: RE: Films I alone haven't seen{apparently}
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 25 Jul 11 - 03:11 PM

I've seen some of them, but don't regret not seeing all of them. Some subjects don't interest me.

I've never seen Forrest Gump or Schindler's List, but one of these days I'll probably see those two. Not necessarily on the same day.

SRS

Subject: RE: Films I alone haven't seen{apparently}
From: fat B****rd
Date: 25 Jul 11 - 03:09 PM

I've never seen 'Star Wars''2001'or 'Saving Private Ryan' but I did walk out of 'The Misfits'

Subject: RE: Films I alone haven't seen{apparently}
From: gnu
Date: 25 Jul 11 - 02:59 PM

I have seen Groundhog Day & Sleepless in Seattle and would recommend them. However, I would not recommend Sleepless in Seattle for you John, ya crusty old bugger.

Hmmmm... "bugger"... I hope that doesn't have a translation "over there" that is derogatory. Crusty suits, I believe. >;-)

Subject: RE: Films I alone haven't seen{apparently}
From: Crowhugger
Date: 25 Jul 11 - 02:55 PM

By posting I'm not suggesting there's anything bad about them--I didn't see them so I don't have an opinion. There are lots of good and not-so-good storytellers out there in movie-land, but I rarely see their work. When I'm not on the computer a lot of my time goes into practising, rehearsing (lately mostly voice & handbell ringing but the stringed instruments still come out periodically) or I'm out with the dogs. And there's Mudcat.

Tangent: I'm thoroughly baffled by the common type of media coverage of movies, as to which one made the most millions last weekend at the box office. Is that supposed to be a meaningful measure of the stories of a culture? I wouldn't know if that is movie makers' own press releases or if it's just another example of what passes these days for journalism.

Subject: RE: Films I alone haven't seen{apparently}
From: Wesley S
Date: 25 Jul 11 - 02:43 PM

I never saw "The Rocky Horror Picture Show". From what my friends say I'm one of the few that did.

Subject: RE: Films I alone haven't seen{apparently}
From: katlaughing
Date: 25 Jul 11 - 02:32 PM

Good Morning Vietnam was brilliant and based on a real character. It's an icon of sorts, imo.

Pirates of the Caribbean is just plain fun. NOT to be taken seriously!

Subject: RE: Films I alone haven't seen{apparently}
From: David C. Carter
Date: 25 Jul 11 - 02:29 PM

You are not alone John.
Haven't seen any of those films either.

I haven't even seen Star Wars,Rocky 1-27 etc.

David

Subject: RE: Films I alone haven't seen{apparently}
From: Acorn4
Date: 25 Jul 11 - 02:23 PM

I haven't watched any of them; I think perhaps Private Ryan might be worth a watch somwhen . I think I managed about 5 minutes of Good Morning Vietnam before being irritated by Robin Williams.

The trouble is a film takes a couple of hours and its got to be really worth it to fit in a pressing schedule.

Subject: RE: Films I alone haven't seen{apparently}
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 25 Jul 11 - 01:37 PM

Me either. Why would I pay money to see bad things?

I also walked out on Shakespeare in Love and Star Ways.

I did see Toy Story. 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?

But I did see The Secret of Roan Inish three times. (It was my husband's idea.) It was funny that the newspaper critic didn't mention it was one of the best movies of the year until it was too late to go see it.

Subject: RE: Films I alone haven't seen{apparently}
From: Crowhugger
Date: 25 Jul 11 - 01:14 PM

Can I join your club even if I'm pretty sure I was in the same room with Jaws when my husband watched it on TV?

Subject: Films I alone haven't seen{apparently}
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 25 Jul 11 - 01:08 PM

Rocky, (any)
Jaws, either
Pirates of the Carribean
Cars
Superman, any
Toy Story
Saving Private Ryan
Good Morning Vietnam
Armegeddon
Independance Day
Groundhog Day
Sleepless in Seattle

etc
etc
have I missed anything?