Poll - You missed WHAT?!?!?!

[Blademaster]

OK, let's face it - there are movies that just about everyone has seen or should see at some point throughout their life - Jaws, The Wizard of Oz (Yuck. XP), the original Godzilla, Titanic, Psycho, the original King Kong, The Shining, etc. - movies that are basically so famous that you'd have to be a total idiot not to recognize them or any of the done-to-death cliches that initially originated in them...

But, as ashamed as some people may be to admit it, there are such movies that people haven't seen yet, for one reason or another.

1. What insanely-famous movie(s) have you never seen?
2. Why not?
3. Do you think you'll ever see it (them)?
4. If no, why not?
!!. Do you think Little_Pikachu will kill me for stealing borrowing her red text? :eek:


1. I have never seen The Matrix or The Godfather, or any of the sequels (Though I heard most of them sucked, anyway.).
2. Lack of interest or focus, not to mention one is like thirty years old and I can't find it anywhere.
3. If I can find them and focus on them, then yeah, probably.
4. I said yes, stupid. :grumble:
!!. I hope not... :ninja:


OK... So, who's next?

~Blade

[Zak]

1. Jurassic Park, Mission Impossible, Titanic... and if it counts, I haven't seen Return of the Jedi.
2. Just never got around to it, but occasionally I rent some of those insanely famous movies that I haven't seen, just to see what all the hype is about.
3. Sure, why not.
4. A couple of them I'm just not interested, my only reason to see them would be so I can say I've seen them. Then again, I have seen movies like that solely for that reason and ended up actually liking them, so...
!!. I don't know, but I think she would kill you for asking such a stupid question.

[mr_pikachu]

Hmm, good poll.



1. What insanely-famous movie(s) have you never seen?

To answer this question, I'm going to cite the top 250 movies of all time from the IMDB site. Then I'll delete the ones that I have seen, plus foreign stuff that nobody cares about. This will leave the major films that I've missed.

1. 9.1 The Godfather (1972)
2. 9.1 The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
3. 8.9 The Godfather: Part II (1974)
5. 8.8 Casablanca (1942)
7. 8.8 Schindler's List (1993)
8. 8.8 Shichinin no samurai (1954) [Note: I've heard some things about this from various people. It stays.]
9. 8.7 Pulp Fiction (1994)
12. 8.7 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
14. 8.7 The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
17. 8.6 The Usual Suspects (1995)
19. 8.6 Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
20. 8.6 The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
21. 8.6 Citizen Kane (1941)
22. 8.6 Goodfellas (1990)
23. 8.6 Psycho (1960) [Note: I think I've seen this, but it's been so long that I don't remember for certain.]
26. 8.6 Memento (2000)
27. 8.5 The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
28. 8.5 Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
30. 8.5 Sunset Blvd. (1950)
33. 8.5 American Beauty (1999)
36. 8.4 Taxi Driver (1976)
37. 8.4 Apocalypse Now (1979)
38. 8.4 Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
39. 8.4 Paths of Glory (1957)
42. 8.4 To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
43. 8.4 Léon (1994) [Note: Is this foreign? I'm not certain.]
44. 8.4 Chinatown (1974)
45. 8.4 American History X (1998)
46. 8.4 The Third Man (1949)
49. 8.4 Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
50. 8.4 The Departed (2006)
51. 8.3 The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
52. 8.3 Boot, Das (1981)
53. 8.3 The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
54. 8.3 M (1931)
55. 8.3 Hotel Rwanda (2004)
56. 8.3 L.A. Confidential (1997) [Note: Couldn't fight my way through this piece of tripe.]
57. 8.3 The Maltese Falcon (1941)
58. 8.3 Requiem for a Dream (2000)
59. 8.3 Alien (1979)
60. 8.3 A Clockwork Orange (1971)
61. 8.3 Metropolis (1927)
62. 8.3 Double Indemnity (1944)
63. 8.3 Reservoir Dogs (1992)
66. 8.3 Rashômon (1950) [Note: Foreign, but I've heard a lot of things from a lot of people nonetheless.]
67. 8.3 Sin City (2005)
68. 8.3 Singin' in the Rain (1952)
69. 8.3 Modern Times (1936)
71. 8.3 Raging Bull (1980)
72. 8.3 Aliens (1986)
73. 8.3 Rebecca (1940)
74. 8.3 Some Like It Hot (1959)
76. 8.3 All About Eve (1950)
77. 8.2 Million Dollar Baby (2004)
78. 8.2 Touch of Evil (1958)
80. 8.2 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
81. 8.2 Vita è bella, La (1997)
82. 8.2 Amadeus (1984)
83. 8.2 The Sting (1973)
85. 8.2 Strangers on a Train (1951)
86. 8.2 Batman Begins (2005)
88. 8.2 On the Waterfront (1954)
90. 8.2 Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
93. 8.2 Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003)
95. 8.2 The Apartment (1960)
97. 8.2 Blade Runner (1982)
98. 8.2 The Elephant Man (1980)
99. 8.2 Full Metal Jacket (1987)
100. 8.2 City Lights (1931)
101. 8.2 High Noon (1952)
102. 8.2 Notorious (1946)
103. 8.2 Donnie Darko (2001)
104. 8.2 The Big Sleep (1946)
105. 8.2 Ran (1985)
106. 8.2 Fargo (1996)
107. 8.2 Crash (2004/I)
108. 8.1 Finding Nemo (2003)
109. 8.1 The Great Dictator (1940)
110. 8.1 Once Upon a Time in America (1984)
111. 8.1 Salaire de la peur, Le (1953)
113. 8.1 Cool Hand Luke (1967)
114. 8.1 Mononoke-hime (1997)
116. 8.1 Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004)
117. 8.1 Annie Hall (1977)
118. 8.1 Unforgiven (1992)
120. 8.1 Oldboy (2003)
121. 8.1 Ben-Hur (1959)
123. 8.1 V for Vendetta (2005)
124. 8.1 Yojimbo (1961)
125. 8.1 Wo hu cang long (2000)
127. 8.1 The Killing (1956)
128. 8.1 Life of Brian (1979)
131. 8.0 The Deer Hunter (1978)
132. 8.0 It Happened One Night (1934)
133. 8.0 Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)
134. 8.0 Battaglia di Algeri, La (1966)
136. 8.0 Platoon (1986)
137. 8.0 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
140. 8.0 Brief Encounter (1945)
143. 8.0 The African Queen (1951)
145. 8.0 The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
148. 8.0 Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
149. 8.0 Gandhi (1982)
151. 8.0 The General (1927)
152. 8.0 The Night of the Hunter (1955)
153. 8.0 Duck Soup (1933)
154. 8.0 8½ (1963)
155. 8.0 The Conversation (1974)
157. 8.0 Harvey (1950)
158. 8.0 Stand by Me (1986)
161. 8.0 Patton (1970)
162. 8.0 Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
163. 8.0 Glory (1989)
165. 8.0 The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
167. 7.9 Spartacus (1960)
168. 7.9 Gone with the Wind (1939)
169. 7.9 Cinderella Man (2005)
170. 7.9 Finding Neverland (2004)
171. 7.9 The Philadelphia Story (1940)
172. 7.9 The Gold Rush (1925)
173. 7.9 Wallace & Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005)
174. 7.9 A Christmas Story (1983)
175. 7.9 The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
178. 7.9 Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
179. 7.9 Trainspotting (1996)
180. 7.9 Out of the Past (1947)
182. 7.9 Magnolia (1999)
184. 7.9 Mystic River (2003)
186. 7.9 Before Sunset (2004)
187. 7.9 The Exorcist (1973)
189. 7.9 The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
190. 7.9 The Lady Vanishes (1938)
191. 7.9 Walk the Line (2005)
192. 7.9 Big Fish (2003)
193. 7.9 King Kong (1933)
194. 7.9 The Big Lebowski (1998)
195. 7.9 The Hustler (1961)
196. 7.9 The Wild Bunch (1969)
197. 7.9 Twelve Monkeys (1995)
199. 7.9 Heat (1995)
201. 7.9 Ed Wood (1994)
202. 7.9 Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
203. 7.9 Sleuth (1972)
204. 7.9 Little Miss Sunshine (2006)
206. 7.9 In the Heat of the Night (1967)
208. 7.9 Stalag 17 (1953)
210. 7.9 Snatch. (2000)
211. 7.9 Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
212. 7.9 Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
214. 7.9 The Straight Story (1999)
215. 7.9 Manhattan (1979)
217. 7.9 Umberto D. (1952)
218. 7.9 Sling Blade (1996)
219. 7.9 The Lost Weekend (1945)
220. 7.9 Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
221. 7.9 Sherlock Jr. (1924)
222. 7.9 The Thing (1982)
223. 7.9 Haine, La (1995)
224. 7.9 Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
225. 7.9 Sweet Smell of Success (1957)
226. 7.9 Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998)
227. 7.9 Monsters, Inc. (2001)
228. 7.9 All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
229. 7.9 Rosemary's Baby (1968)
230. 7.9 Frankenstein (1931)
231. 7.9 Roman Holiday (1953)
232. 7.9 Inherit the Wind (1960)
233. 7.9 Scarface (1983)
234. 7.9 The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
235. 7.9 Bringing Up Baby (1938)
236. 7.9 Central do Brasil (1998)
237. 7.9 Ikiru (1952) [Note: Maybe it's foreign, maybe it's not.]
238. 7.9 No Man's Land (2001)
239. 7.9 The Searchers (1956)
240. 7.9 Brazil (1985)
241. 7.9 A Man for All Seasons (1966)
242. 7.9 Doctor Zhivago (1965)
243. 7.9 Harold and Maude (1971)
245. 7.8 Festen (1998) [Note: Ditto previous note.]
246. 7.8 The Prestige (2006)
248. 7.8 A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)

Yes, I know I'm uncultured, thank you.


2. Why not?

Frankly, I just don't watch movies much these days. In my opinion, well over 90% of the blockbuster movies nowadays are awful.


3. Do you think you'll ever see it (them)?

That depends on how much you drug me.


4. If no, why not?

I think question #2 pretty much answers this. For the others... I have a life.


!!. Do you think Little_Pikachu will kill me for stealing borrowing her red text? :eek:

That depends largely on what you've done to get on her bad side lately. Will this be the straw that breaks your back? ;)

[Magmar]

1. What insanely-famous movie(s) have you never seen?
The Lord of the Rings--any of them

2. Why not?
Because I just never cared to

3. Do you think you'll ever see it (them)?
Probably

4. If no, why not?
Ehh I don't give a crap

[darktyranitar]

I don't watch movies too often, but...

1. What insanely-famous movie(s) have you never seen?
Jaws, Lord of the Rings, King Kong... and a lot of other movies

2. Why not?
Like I said, I don't watch movies too often. Sometimes I watch the movie when the TV shows it.

3. Do you think you'll ever see it (them)?
Maybe... if the TV shows it

4. If no, why not?
See #3

!!. Do you think Little_Pikachu will kill me for stealing borrowing her red text?
Dunno... is she reading this topic? ;)

[SupremeChampion]

1. What insanely-famous movie(s) have you never seen?
2. Why not?
3. Do you think you'll ever see it (them)?
4. If no, why not?
!!. Do you think Little_Pikachu will kill me for stealing borrowing her red text? :eek:



[i]1.) really, there are a lot lol. back in the day i was terrified of scray movies, so i have never seen a lot of the original ones, but i am starting to make up for lost time lol.
2.) me being a little kid, i was scared of them lol since i had (and to some extent still do) an overactive imagination. because of this, when i saw scary movies i would always imagine them as real, and i would be terrified that the monster or whatever was coming to get me.
3.) haha yea, i have since grown up a bit and i am slowly but surely seeing all the scary movies i have passed on in my time. are they my first choice of movie to watch? no, but i'm not dead set against seeing them anymore.
4.) haha i don't think this question is applicable to me

and its always a risk to use LP's red text color... i would say it depends on her mood. if she's calm/happy, you're ok. if she's angry or stressed... well you'll never see her coming :lookout:

~The Italian Stallion

[.hacker]

1. What insanely-famous movie(s) have you never seen?
2. Why not?
3. Do you think you'll ever see it (them)?
4. If no, why not?
!!. Do you think Little_Pikachu will kill me for stealing borrowing her red text? :eek:



[color=red]

1. As much as I hate to admit it, I've never seen Casablanca, Gone with the Wind, or The Exorcist.

2. Just haven't had the opportunity to watch them.

3. I definitely want to watch Casablanca and Gone with the Wind.

4. The Exorcist is just a little too sacreligious for me.... Maybe I'll watch if I'm in the mood to see something extreme.

(5.) No, since anyone can use red text. It's not a special privilege.

Side note: Brian, (mr_pikachu), you make me sick with the movies that you haven't seen. I plan to change that this year! ;)

[Lady Vulpix]

1. Casablanca, Gone with the wind, The Godfather (all of them) and some of the Indiana Jones ones.
2. Too many other things to do, and besides everyone else had already seen them.
3. Maybe someday.
!!. It's not hers, so you can't steal it from her.

[Crazy Elf Boy]

1. The Da vinci code
2. Because it didn't look all that good
3. NO
4. See answer for question 2
!!. Do you think Little_Pikachu will kill me for stealing borrowing her red text? (POSSIBLY)