seen parts of Titanic. Pretty god awful. I never understood how it got so much attention.
I wish I could unsee avatar.

 

Never watched Titanic either, and have no intention of doing so (Twighlight and its sequels are others). I am sure there are more, but I can't just think of many off the top of my head. In a handful of instances I plan to see them, but just haven't yet (Saving Private Ryan & One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is another).

 

Haven't seen any of the Harry Potter, LOTR, or Narnia films.

Haven't seen Scent of a Woman, Citizen Kane, TKAMB, or Raging Bull.

Never seen St. Elmo's Fire, American Beauty, Jacob's Ladder, or American Psycho for that matter.

 

Oh I've never seen the first couple of harry potter, catch a far and all that, and twilight.

 

The nude drawing scene, amirite? :yes:

 

"Wow, this movie sucks. This old lady won't shut the hel–"

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*unzips

 

Same here. No particular reason, as although it's not my favourite genre I'd still probably like them, I've just never got round to watching them.

There's a load of other popular films that I've never watched, but as I've got no intention of ever wasting any hours of my life on the likes of Twilight or the Narnia films, then I don't count them. The ones like Godfather are more unusual for me as there's no real reason I've not watched them.

 

See Jacob's Ladder. It's a real mind****er and a pretty scary movie that holds up to this day. I hear some rumors that they were remaking it but that it wouldn't be a scene for scene remaking but a "reimagining" whatever the hell that means.

 

Titanic', I've seen bits and pieces. Okay, one bit, and Kate Winslet's titties were in it. Started watching Avatar', ****ing hated it. I won't see any glittery vampire flicks; I take my vampires seriously, don't **** widdit.

But how can you not have seen the 'Godfathers'? Forget subject; they are masterpieces of cinematography, of storytelling, of acting. They are Shakespearean, operatic, and Greek tragedy.

Seriously; don't purposely bisect yourself from great art.

 

Any of the Godfather movies.

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The placement of this post is thick with irony, amirite Nabo? :lol:

 

Is it wrong I want to punch some of you for not having watched the Godfather movies? No, no it's not.

 

Not only should you watch them, you should man up and watch all 3 in one sitting. (Yes all 3, and yes even the third one.)

 

surprising considering the girls you date.

 

No. In fact, anyone who's intentionally passed on this trilogy should take this moment to punch themselves in the face right now. They should have two choices, either grab a few six packs and settle into a 9 hour marathon or start posting sissy pics of themselves in the Lady's Lounge amIright.

 

Girls? More like elderly.

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you've seen cocoon like 20 times amirite?

 

Dream a Little Dream is his emotional fave though..... but the ending always tortures him.

 

What's with you people and Godfather? :pity:
Utter timeless classic like One Flew Over. If it were released today for the very first time in its original form, it would still be a blockbuster.

 

Why watch the whole movie. Just google it. 1:40 in.

[video=youtube;YuOBzWF0Aws]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuOBzWF0Aws[/video]

 

Round two.

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The Godfather series is a bit old and dated now, but even if you're not into the mafia genre, watch the freaking movies for the cast of upper echelon actors, the era, the ambiance, the scenery, the musical score, the to see the influences it has had since.

Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan, and Robert Duvall. I mean, damn. Watch em. James Caan was actually my favorite character.

I would demand people turn in their man card's - BUT you ALL have watched Goodfellas... (you all have watched Goodfellas, right?)

 

The most elegant way to ensure that a film will never become "dated" is to make it a period piece, set in the past. It's date-proof.

Todd brought up an interesting point; if One were released this Summer, how would it do?

The answer is: it would break every record and establish benchmarks that would not be exceeded until...well, until Two was released.

When we hear the word "groundbreaking" today it's used to describe some technological horse**** like 'Avatar.' But when 'The Godfather was being made, in 1968 when FF Coppola was selling blood and bleeding out his anus, doing screentest after screentest on his own dime—the actors paying their own way from NY to California each time, sometimes hitchhiking—to get studio execs to accept unknown actors Al Pacino, Robert Duvall, James Caan and Diane Keaton as the leads in the most ambitious project since DeMille's 'Ten Commandments'...THAT was the beginning of the redefinition of the word "groundbreaking" to describe a film.

You have a Director, just having come away with an Oscar for screenwriting for 'Patton', who would go on to win another Oscar for screenwriting for this film and who would go on to win 42 of the 49 major awards for which he's been nominated, directing an ensemble cast which included FIVE actors who would go on to win Oscars, in a film using—BAR NONE—the most memorable and enduring musical score (by Nino Rota and Carmine Coppola) in over a hundred years of filmmaking, shot by the greatest cinematographer of all time (Gordon Willis, whose name should forever be synonymous with the word "groundbreaking")

Yeah. I think it might make a buck or two today.

 

In light of the Godfather discussion and your post, why dont you start a timeless classics thread. ?

Great point BTW about how "groundbreaking" has become synonymous with technological crap.

 

Perfectly acceptable response. While I enjoy dark and violent movies and dark humor, they are not for everyone. To each their own.

 

I initially stalled for years to watch Godfather b/c I thought it'd be slow and would require effort on my part to get through 3 hours. Plus the whole gangster/mafia genre has never excited me. But you know what, it was quite easy to watch, and I don't recall thinking I'd wish they'd speed it up to get to the end. I relished the 3 hour trip into its world.

This analogy might help: the trilogy felt no different than binge-watching the first season of a great TV show that you can't put down....... and like many great shows, even during instances of slowness, there's still enough pre-established tension and drama built up to move you along in search of each resolution as well as the overall end one. I was never bored. IMO the trilogy is like compressing The Soprano's down to nine hours and then improving it by 500 percent. That's how I'd treat it, like 9 one-hour episodes of a masterfully done miniseries. Watch it one hour at a time if you want, but more than likely you'll blast through One and immediately jump into Two.

 

I have never seen Titanic. I refuse to see Titanic. I have zero interest in seeing Titanic.

I haven't seen the Godfather, but mostly because I just haven't seen it.

 

Godfather movies (I am 27, wonder if there is a trend here?)

Schindler's list

 

whut??? A bucket of popcorn and white people who can't swim? How could you pass that up?

 

yes, young people are getting gayer and gayer.

 

Shut up old man. I love Pacino. Seen "Scent of a women", Scarface, heat, etc etc.....I just have never gotten around to it. I think its been built up so much, I am worried I won't like it. Or it won't match up....so not watching it keeps "The best movie ever" in my options to have my eyes opened to one day.

 

Takes 2 hours of boring before that happens

 

I founds Schindler's List to be a very inspiring movie. I have learned to not tell people that without further explaining because they just assume that I want to kill a lot of Jews. I think that says more about them than it does me, since that is the first place they go.