Famous movies you've never seen

Is there a famous movie that you see everyone discussing online but you've never seen before? If so, what's your impression of it?

For example, I've never seen an Indiana Jones movie. Not one. My impression is that it's about an archaeologist who fights Nazis and looks for treasure, kind of as a throwback to adventure movies from the 1950s, I guess. Sean Connery's his dad. That's the gist, isn't it?

Oh, and people disliked the latest movie in the Indiana Jones series because it had Shia LaBeouf in it. And aliens and hiding in a fridge to survive a nuclear blast. But mainly Shia LaBeouf.

So has anyone else missed out on movies with significant followings? Star Wars, James Bond, Alien, etc.

I've never seen It's A Wonderful Life or The Sound of Music.

Have yet to see anything by Quentin Tarantino except Inglorious Basterds. And anything by Joss Whedon except The Avengers. Seems I'm missing out on half the wiki.

I've not seen any of the Star Trek movies, or the shows for that matter. I'm planning on rectifying that, though.

Get on that shit.

This would be really long list, if only because there's at least thousands of movies produced every year. Let's try anyway:

Paranormal Activity series

Blair Witch Project

Twilight series

Kill Bill Vol. 2

Transformers series after the first one

300

I could go on forever with this.

And by the way, people "hated" Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, 'cos it was bland and too cozy. There's not much to get excited about it.

edited 23rd Apr '13 3:12:50 AM by harkko

Avatar (either of them), Titanic, any of the Saw, Hostel or Cube franchises, Inception, most of the Marvel films of the newer variety, Life is Beautiful, The Hurt Locker and Zero Dark Thirty spring to mind.

I've never seen Citizen Kane. All I know is that it has innovative camera angles and a sled called Rosebud.

I have seen Citizen Kane, but I'm too much of a cinematic dullard to understand what was innovative about it. All I know is that Orson Welles is a great actor.

I've never seen Pulp Fiction. I've also never seen any of the famous horror movies (aside from Alien and The Ring) because I scare way too easily and don't like gore.

There's a lot more that I hadn't seen until the last couple years. I hadn't seen Casablanca until last year when it happened to be on TV, I only watched Alien in preparation for seeing Prometheus, I just watched Aliens a few weeks ago, only saw Star Trek IV (The One With The Whales) about a month and a half ago, and I hadn't seen any Connery James Bond films until two years ago (now I've seen most of them). My local movie theatre (which is awesome and about 70 years old) shows a lot of older classics, which is why I've been catching up on so much movie-viewing recently.

edited 23rd Apr '13 4:42:37 PM by WarriorEowyn

I've never seen a Die Hard film before. Bruce Willis is one of the few eighties action stars who completely passed me by.

I can sympathise about the gore.

I only saw the first Star Wars movies and one of the prequels. I've never seen an entire Indiana Jones movie. I have seen Citizen Kane, but only in my Video Production class. I actually liked it.

How is Citizen Kane groundbreaking? Take a look at pretty much any scene and you'll see why. Nobody had ever shot a movie like that before. Certainly not in so many different ways.

Pretty much any famous horror movie.

I usually look for films that have had more of an impact on a film as an art form. I've never seen a die hard movie either. I guess I should watch it for the action and the non-scholary approach to movies that film school and study has forced upon me. Also Alan Rickman.

Insert every famous movie here. I'm lazy...

I've never seen: Any of the Star Wars films, Titanic, Casablanca, It's A Wonderful Life, The Sound Of Music, any but the first Indiana Jones films and any Tarantino film except Inglorious Basterds.

edited 5th May '13 3:27:24 PM by Xeroop

I felt ashamed watching Paw's review of Mary Poppins, because I've never seen it.

Godfather, Die Hard, but that's not my kind if movie anyways, Citizen Kane, Looper, James Bond, 300, Does Jaws count?

Yes, Jaws counts. That was the first horror film I had ever seen.

Jaws? No, that's some really crappy indie flick made by that Jewish guy with the funny glasses. What was his name? Steinburger or something? Eh, he'll never amount to anything anyway if that's the kind of movie he makes.

Never seen Citizen Kane, Saving Private Ryan, The Bridge on the River Kwai, Lawrence of Arabia... I guess I have some catching up to do.

If I were you I would go straight for The Bridge on the River Kwai and Lawrence of Arabia, but do yourself a favour and pick the remastered editions of both.

Saving Private Ryan and Citizen Kane are really good films but David Lean outmatches both Oscar Wilde and Steven Spielberg as a film director imho and his cinematographers (Jack Hilyard and Freddie Young) are just gods with a camera lense.

He wasn't a nice guy by all reports -

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Lean

has some of the bare details - but that takes nothing away from his mastery of how film should work.

I skipped The Shining, as every scene has been spoiled. That's about it; I've seen most of the classics.

I've never seen The Cabin In The Woods. I need to get on that, I suppose.

I don't know much about Oscar Wilde's directing skill but his writing does tickle me at times.