We must knife fight.

- Anything Scorcese pre-Goodfellas. Really need to, but never seem to have them available or feel like watching.
- A whole lot of Hitchcock, which I really need to get around to, because I adore Rear Window, North by Northwest, and Rope.
- Schindler's List
- Citizen Kane, Casablanca, and Gone with the Wind

I've only seen Star Wars: Episode III on fast-forward; I believe it was no less comprehensible, and no less boring, while being mercifully shorter than if I'd been suckered into seeing it in the cinema, as I was with episodes I and II.

As for six unseen things of filmic/cultural note:

• Rocky (any of them)

• Grease (despite my wife's encouragement over the decades)

• Seven Samurai (or any other Kurosawa picture)

• Seventh Seal (or any other Ingmar Bergman picture)

• South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut (not a big South Park fan)

• Borat (or any other Baron Cohen picture)

Looking at the AFI and BFI's top 100, I'm a poor excuse for a film geek. That said there are plenty of films (especially on the AFI list) I've no interest in watching, so we'll agree that quality is pretty fucking subjective, thank you very much.

Six films I haven't seen, but would like to.

1. The Graduate

2. Doctor Zhivago

3. Gandhi

4. Serenity (also Firefly)

5. Brazil

6. Fantasia

I'm frequently embarrassed by most things in life, so it's safe to assume there's a degree of discomfort in the above.

On this forum, these are the six I am most embarrassed for having not seen:

Lawrence of Arabia - think I keep holding out for seeing it on the big screen
Dr. Stangelove - no reason, just hasn't happened yet.
The French Connection - see above.
Network - actually watched it about 25 years ago on TBS I think, but I can't remember much about it
Duck Soup - I've seen every other Marx Brothers film, but somehow...
The Gold Rush - or any Chaplin, really.  But this will soon be remedied as all 3 Criterion Chaplin blu-rays are on their way to me.

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - No idea why I haven't seen this one yet
The Godfather - Never got into gangster flicks so yeah
The Road - I own it on DVD yet haven't watched it
Schindler's List - Still no reason I haven't seen this
The Green Mile - Same as above
Solaris 72 - I'm pretty embarrassed that I haven't seen this, considering Tarkovskiy's Stalker is one of my favorite movies
Most David Lynch movies - I've only seen Dune, Inland Empire and Lost Highway
Unforgiven - I have no excuse
Citizen Kane - yep

Last edited by JessicaMonroe (2012-06-21 00:51:38)

I really need to grab a copy of Stalker and give it a watch, I really liked Solaris. Similarly I'd like to see Andrei Rublev at some point. Tarkovsky requires the proper mindset/environment/block-of-time though, so it's tough.

Also, to Dave - Don't watch The Graduate, unless purely for historical reasons. I'm baffled that that was a huge thing back in the 60s, because man does that one not work at all nowadays, as well as being pretty unpleasant to watch.

To each his own. My problem was that I just thought that ultimately the protagonist was horribly unlikeable, and came off like a creep and borderline-serial-killer, and the movie didn't seem to know this, and thought he was heroic. I don't buy that she would have any interest in this guy what-soever. Music's great though.