What is the best movie you've NEVER seen?

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Piotyr

Piotyr

Honestly, I think the only movies I've seen from prior to 1976 would be old Christmas flicks and The Wizard of Oz. This isn't because I wouldn't want to see them, just never did. No easy access to them in college, no time to watch them since fatherhood.

EDIT: I don't want to hijack the thread, but how about this: recommend me 10 movies from prior to 1976 that I should definitely watch before I die. I'll watch them, I promise.
 
Charlie Don't Surf

Charlie Don't Surf

The Godfather (1972)
The Godfather: Part II (1974)
12 Angry Men (1957)
The Third Man (1949)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's … (1975)
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
Dr. Strangelove or: How I L… (1964)
Chinatown (1974)
Cool Hand Luke (1967)
The Good, the Bad and the U… (1966)
The Maltese Falcon (1941)
Blazing Saddles (1974)
The Exorcist (1973)
Jaws (1975)
North by Northwest (1959)
Butch Cassidy and the Sunda… (1969)
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
The Sting (1973)
Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
Monty Python and the Holy G… (1975)
The Producers (1968)
Singin' in the Rain (1952)
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
Deliverance (1972)
Dirty Harry (1971)
Night of the Living Dead (1968)
The Longest Yard (1974)
Serpico (1973)
Willy Wonka & the Choco… (1971)
The Getaway (1972)
How the Grinch Stole Christ… (1966)
A Fistful of Dollars (1964)
My Fair Lady (1964)
The Taking of Pelham One Tw… (1974)
Enter the Dragon (1973)
Lady and the Tramp (1955)
The Wizard of Oz (1939)
Psycho (1960)
The Killing (1956)
 
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Biardo

I would also like to recomend

Scarface (1932)
Rebel Without a Cause (1955)

as for movies I haven't seen and would like to see them once but I just don't get around to them

The Godfather II
Citezen Kane
Casablanca
Oktyabr
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Hailey Knight

Hailey Knight

There's good movies on that list.

Faline refuses to believe that Jaws is a great movie. She watched the beginning where Chrissie gets killed and thinks it's trash it's like a nude exploitation scene--and won't watch the rest of what I consider a near-perfect movie. I don't mean in all terms, there's little continuity errors like people's watches appearing and disappearing from different takes, but in the sense that there's really nothing you can remove from it without damaging it.
 
Hailey Knight

Hailey Knight

Charlie Dont Surf said:
It's in no way definitive, it's only the top bunch that I've seen


edit: Ugh I loooooooooooooooove Jaws so much
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Me too. And honestly, it's one of those movies that seems to hit everyone. I only know two people who actually sat through it and didn't like it. Even my family likes it and they usually watch utter crap; yet every year Jaws gets a viewing. I feel like if my fiance just gave it a chance, she would enjoy it a lot.
 
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Steven Soderburgin

Piotyr said:
recommend me 10 movies from prior to 1976 that I should definitely watch before I die. I'll watch them, I promise.
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Everything on Charlie's list, I heartily recommend as well. Here are 10 movies he didn't mention because he hasn't seen them

Casablanca
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
The Sweet Smell of Success
Paths of Glory
All About Eve
Rashomon
Rear Window
The Apartment
Duck Soup
The Seventh Seal
 
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Kitty Sinatra

Bringing Up Baby
The African Queen

Probably everything else with Katharine Hepburn.
 
Cajungal

Cajungal

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Seriously. Every time I watch Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, I have to watch her during Spencer Tracy's speech. Her tears just look so genuine (and probably were).
 
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I know it's 79, but if you haven't seen Apocalypse Now, add that one immediately. That is an incredible film. It has faults, to be sure, but it's a good example of what directing should be. Care is taken that nearly every shot, every angle, every palette means something beyond the page.
 
Fun Size

Fun Size

I...I think I want to hug Charlie right now, but in a manly way.

Seriously, with the exception of Revolutionary Road, you could name most movies in the past fifteen years, and I probably missed it.
 
North_Ranger

North_Ranger

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Already mentioned:
Citizen Kane
The Big Lebowski
Shawshank Redemption
Maltese Falcon
Pulp Fiction
Lost in Translation
any of the Rocky films
Seven Samurais

I would have also listed Ed Wood, Thelma and Louise, and Doctor Strangelove, but I've seen all of them in the last five days. It's a most peculiar pile-up, I must say.

Also, in regards to Frollo and Hellfire... that scene made me jump when I saw it, because the song contained two words you would not expect in a Disney film: helvetti and Saatana ('hell' and 'Satan' respectively in Finnish). Both of those words are pretty much taboo in children's film here, and while prolific as curse words, they're still pretty terrifying with their religious connection intact.
 
North_Ranger

North_Ranger

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Shegokigo said:
How'd you like Ed Wood Ranger?

It's probably one of my favorite Depp films.
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Eh, it wasn't as good as I hoped. Don't get me wrong, I liked it... but at points I wasn't sure if I was seeing Johnny Depp play Ed Wood or Johnny Depp play Johnny Depp, if you catch my drift. Perhaps it was the situation as well... we watched it in class, for a course on the history of excentricity in cinema.

The music was brilliant, though... and while I hear Bela Lugosi didn't curse like a one-eyed carpenter, I would think the actor playing him got pretty close to what the forgotten actor was like in his later years.
 
Shegokigo

Shegokigo

Johnny Depp really fell into a Nicholas Cage type of acting I think, where it was always him, playing himself, playing an actor. Still watch every Cage/Depp film that comes along though.
 
Bowielee

Bowielee

Shegokigo said:
Johnny Depp really fell into a Nicholas Cage type of acting I think, where it was always him, playing himself, playing an actor. Still watch every Cage/Depp film that comes along though.
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Johnny Depp's best role is still Nightmare on Elm Street.


Spoilered for possible NSFW or those of the queezy persuation.
 
Bowielee

Bowielee

Benny and Joon = oscar bait, IMO.

I loved the orchestral soundtrack though. One of the 2 of my first CD purchases ever.
 
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Philosopher B.

I have still not seen Pulp Fiction, despite resolving multiple times to rent it (or what have you) before forgetting again the next time I have a chance.

Also, while I have technically seen Citizen Kane, I saw it so long ago that I barely remember it, so I gots to get my mug all up in front of that.

Other movies I should probably have a gander at:

Ben-Hur
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
The Wild Bunch
Scarface
Raging Bull

Gruebeard said:
Bringing Up Baby
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Shit man you got to get hip to the intercostal clavicle. Also Hepburn was rad in Pat and Mike. Shit be hilarious, yo.

Also, it is a crime that people exist who have not watched Duck Soup. :( I would come over to their house with a copy if I knew where they lived and if they wouldn't react to a strange gangly young man breaking into their house by way of punching him betwixt his eyes.
 
Bubble181

Bubble181

Godfather 2 and 3.
And, apparently, Duck Soup. Never heard of it, but it sounds like I should've...
Oh, and a whole bunch of newer movies. Still haven't seen Up, District 9, Inglorious Basterds, e.a. though I'd probably like them.
 
Bowielee

Bowielee

I can't believe no one has mentioned Some Like it Hot.

Anyone who hasn't seen that movie is doing themselves a great disservice.
 
Covar

Covar

Bubble181 said:
Godfather 2 and 3.
And, apparently, Duck Soup. Never heard of it, but it sounds like I should've...
Oh, and a whole bunch of newer movies. Still haven't seen Up, District 9, Inglorious Basterds, e.a. though I'd probably like them.
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I assure you Godfather 3 is certainly not the best movie you've never seen.
 
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