While watching TV this evening, I saw a promo for the new Mad Max movie, and I remembered that I've never seen any of them. I suppose I just never really cared to.
There are a number of other movies that many think are part of the shared experience of life that I've never seen. Just a few:
Star Trek: Wrath of Khan
Gone With the Wind
Jaws
Casablanca
The Godfather Trilogy
Scarface
Bambi
Ol' Yeller
Of course, there's tons that I have seen. So I'm wondering what films you folks think that everyone else in the wolrld has seen except you?
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The Crying Game - the twist was spoiled for me years ago, but I still haven't seen it
Almost Famous - I actually did finally see this, but it was only about a month ago, despite it being one of the great rock music movies
Gone With The Wind - I don't think I've seen it all the way through
To Kill A Mockingbird - haven't read the book, either!
I haven't seen any of those, and in the case of To Kill a Mockingbird I haven't read the book either, either.
Everything you listed, Randy, was part of my cultural upbringing, so I did, indeed, see them. (Well, the '70's stuff was a little past that point, but close enough that I saw them, too.)
But I am completely ignorant of anything in popular-culture entertainment---music, cinema, television---for the last twenty years or so. On occasion, when I am exposed to it---for example, if one of those Entertainment Tonight-type programmes happens to be on the set, or I leaf through an issue of People while waiting at my mechanic---my response is "Who are these people?" I don't know the names; I don't know the faces; I don't recognise the names of the films or the songs.
I guess it's a generational thing. I can give you the name of the actress who played the wife of George Bailey's younger brother in It's a Wonderful Life, but I couldn't tell you who won the Best Actor or Best Actress Oscars this year or recognise them if they were here in my living room.
Regarding The Crying Game, my wife figured it out early in the movie. I didn't figure it out until it was right in front of me.
Regarding To Kill a Mockingbird, the story is timeless and the acting is superb. Do yourself a favor and see it.
More and more people, it turns out, are devoted to Dr. Who.
Years ago I saw one episode somewhere in the middle and was completely lost. Maybe some day....
It was right in my face too, before I realised what was going on! The second time I watched the movie, I couldn't believe how obvious it all was from the outset. None so blind as those who will not see!
Incidently, The Crying Game is Neil Jordan's updating of/tribute to what is widely considered to be the best Irish short story ever, by our master of the form, Frank O'Connor: Guests of the Nation
If it's any solace, nether can I.
Commander Benson said:
Never seen any of these three. Maybe it's because I'm a Northerner, but I have zero interest in GWTW. Casablanca is one of those pictures that I will probably end up watching with my cousin's husband - he loves old movies, and we will sometimes hang out wathcing stuff from the 30's and 40's.. I've avoided Ol' Yeller because I'm one of those "overly sentimental about animals" types and I fear this picture would depress me.
Also never seen or read Mockingbird.
I've seen all of the mentioned movies aside from Ol' Yeller -- and I was only half awake for The Godfather Part III, since we saw it at the end of a marathon.
My blind spots run toward certain movies everyone in my generation seems to have seen -- John Hughes films like Pretty in Pink and Sixteen Candles. But then there are older films that are always part of the conversation that I've missed, like A Clockwork Orange, and Rashomon... or tv shows like The Wire, to name a few examples that I actually have on DVD, and still haven't caught up with.
There's just so much.
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