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Movies you haven't seen
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Definitive movies you haven't seen.
Me= Godfather... whoops. but I have it now and will watch it this weekend.
Me= Godfather... whoops. but I have it now and will watch it this weekend.
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LOTR.
Godfather.
Matrix trilogy.
Citizen Kane
It's a Wonderful Life
White Christmas
Casablanca
Gone With The Wind (all the way through at least)
Titanic (all the way through at least)
Tokyo Story
8 1/2
Anything by Ingmar Bergman
Any of those recent superhero films like Spiderman and X-Men
Dirty Dancing
Topgun
Rosemary's Baby (seen half of it)
Highlander
Lawrence Of Arabia
Dr. Strangelove
Mad Max
The Usual Suspects
Clerks
American Beauty
Rocky Horror Picture Show
Singing In The Rain
The Killer
Shaun Of The Dead
Yeah, I think about this a lot.
Oh and I'm proud of getting a degree in film without having seen Citizen Kane or The Godfather.
Pulp Fiction
Reservoir Dogs
Lock, Stock...
Snatch
The large majority of Bond films.
and until about a month ago Trainspotting was on that list.
I found Citizen Kane such a crap film, can't see why it's been rated one of the greatest films of all time.
I've never seen the Godfather, never thought to tbh.
You shouldn't be.
Since when are the X-Men movies 'definitive'? They're OK...
I guess one of the most surprising that people often haven't seen, other than Citizen Kane, is Psycho.
X-Men
Dirty Dancing
Happy Potter (well, I've seen parts of it)
LOTR
Godfather
Titanic
Any Bond films
The Da Vinci Code
Matrix
I could go on & go but won't!
There's loooads of stuff I haven't seen - Star Wars, Gladiator, Godfather, Rocky.
Like Nikki I was about 16 before I watched Dirty Dancing, and even Grease I didn't see until about then!
If you watch the Jazz Singer as well you might get a better idea. The coming of sound, and the massive technical requirements of sound cameras essentially killed motion and movement in cinema - suddenly everyone was simply talking at a camera.
One of the things Welles did so well was to take the devices developed over the decades in silent cinema and re-introduce them in sound cinema (the takes moving into the bar, the highlighting close-ups, the general editing style). Like everything in Welles' life he had a talent for presenting himself as a genius, whilst actually taking a lot from other people's work. In the case of Kane he at least took something valuable and reinvented it, making a significant difference in how people approached film as the ideas slowly seeped into Hollywood.
Without him, its unlikely that the film industry would have developed, in artistic terms, as quickly as it did over the next decade or so.
And that doesn't even include what he took from the contemporary novel, with the plot structure in Kane pushing the boundaries of what a flashback story, or a story about one man's life, could really be. It is in essence a reflective novel, yet presented in a way that works on film.
Of course, that's why it is important - that doesn't mean it is still has the impact it did - in fact if it did still have an impact on an audience it wouldn't really have affected anything. The fact that so much of Kane seems obvious or old hat now is the final proof of the influence that it had.
But then the point of studying film is like studying any art - you aren't doing a course just to be shown good movies (if that's what you wanted you could just go on the dole and get a good bittorrent client) - it's about understanding the aesthetic and cultural archeology of the industry and art form you're studying - which is why Kane gets chosen as the best film of all time by many critics even today, but they'd probably never actually recommend it as a film for people to watch for fun. Pretty much in the same way you'd never want a reproduction of Duchamp's Fountain on your wall - it doesn't stop either being important though.
Dirty Dancing is about the only film that comes to mind, and I've still not watched Tsotsi or Crash (the recent one, not Cronenburg)
Ooo, that reminds me - still not seen Spider yet (talking of Cronenburg) or now I'm thinking of Fiennes I've not seen The English Patient. Dammit, thinking of patients I've still never seen the end of Shock Corridor either.
Christ, the more you watch, the more you haven't.
At least you've watched it
Well obviously you do girlies, me! :rolleyes:
Don't watch Rocky though KHSS, you'll live to wonder why you did it! (I say that because I had to watch it by force, it's not THAT bad. I managed to enjoy the new one