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Post by DSR on Jan 17, 2024 14:47:49 GMT -5
What do we define as classic? I would say The Crow, but it almost seems like it's of mythical status now, so it wouldn't likely live up to the hype I've heard about it since my childhood. You never know, sometimes they do. In my experience, it's worth it to see. Citizen Kane I saw last year, it was ok, I could appreciate it but it was just alright. King Kong I loved and gained a new appreciation for beyond it's mythical status. The Crow is also on my watchlist, need to find time for it one day. I watched CASABLANCA for the first time last year and loved it!
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Post by Futureraven: Beelzebruv on Jan 17, 2024 15:19:06 GMT -5
You never know, sometimes they do. In my experience, it's worth it to see. Citizen Kane I saw last year, it was ok, I could appreciate it but it was just alright. King Kong I loved and gained a new appreciation for beyond it's mythical status. The Crow is also on my watchlist, need to find time for it one day. I watched CASABLANCA for the first time last year and loved it! Me too, that was a blast.
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Post by Allie Kitsune on Jan 17, 2024 15:21:24 GMT -5
I haven't seen MOST classic movies, but the one I have made a conscious decision to never see no matter what is Shawshank.
Have to be able to make a decision and stick with it, after all.
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Post by KingPooper on Jan 17, 2024 16:13:15 GMT -5
Godfather and 2001 are the biggest ones for me.
I’ll probably wait till my local art house shows 2001 on the big screen.
I think gangsters are boring and lame. (I was probably killed by the mob in a past life.) I don’t know if I’ll ever get to those.
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Post by Milkman Norm on Jan 17, 2024 16:26:46 GMT -5
I have seen woefully few classic international films, I also have a pretty large gap in terms of American Western movies.
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Post by Clash, Never a Meter Maid on Jan 17, 2024 17:33:36 GMT -5
Still need to watch China Syndrome, Alfie, Howard’s End, Kiss Of The Spider Woman, original Straw Dogs, Color Of Money, Perfect Blue and St. Elmo’s Fire.
Godfather is a very good movie and one of my favorites, but I don’t consider it the de facto greatest mob movie ever and its rep is partly on how groundbreaking it was. Casino, New Jack City and King Of New York are arguably just as good IMO.
Annie Hall is… Annie Hall and Hannah and Her Sisters piss me the f*** off because objectively, I think they’re great, but Woody the person is just completely ick. Just know even if one found a way to see them without giving the guy money, the dude basically plays the same “nervous romantic who loves psychoanalysis” character in like all fifty of his films.
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Post by Venti on Jan 17, 2024 17:38:02 GMT -5
Never seen any of the Godfather movies. Which is strange, I absolutely love crime movies like Casino and Goodfellas. Godfather would probably be right up my alley I imagine.
Never seen Jaws. Nor Jurrasic Park.
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Post by Clash, Never a Meter Maid on Jan 17, 2024 17:52:40 GMT -5
I have like a list of 200+ of my favorite films (DM me if you want to see it), but there’s a *very* limited number of what I’d call highbrow “classics”. There’s a few maybe, but my list ain’t Ebert’s Great Movies. You got dumb comedies, video game movies, animated kids movies, Marvel stuff, basically me being a big kid and all the stuff I know I’ll rewatch.
I’ve seen Schindler’s List and I feel it’s a powerful and important work of art, but it’s not on my favorite movie list because I just don’t think it’s *fun*, it’s a bit too bleak for me. Same with a lot of Oscar Baity stuff like 12 Years A Slave, etc.
I do like some dark stories though, which is why something like Bob Fosse’s “Star 80” *did* make my favorite list because as horrible as the Dorothy Stratten incident was, that film plays out more like a potboiler.
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Post by Urn Anderson on Jan 18, 2024 9:47:54 GMT -5
I've never seen any of the Godfather movies and just can't work up the interest.
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Post by The Thread Barbi on Jan 18, 2024 11:00:25 GMT -5
About once a decade I try to watch The Godfather, and never get past the first 10 minutes.
Just doesn't appeal to me
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Post by tafkaga on Jan 18, 2024 13:20:39 GMT -5
I've seen Godfather 1 & 2 dozens of times, but people are always surprised that I haven't seen Pacino's other big mob/crime movies, Serpico or Scarface. Someday I'll remedy that.
Also, it was just last month that I got around to watching Pulp Fiction for the first time.
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Post by Hassan bin Sober on Jan 19, 2024 18:53:12 GMT -5
Little Shop of Horrors, Big Trouble in Little China, Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, Scarface, Citizen Kane come to mind.
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Post by bob on Jan 19, 2024 19:28:24 GMT -5
off the top of m head: Titanic, True Grit, Gremlins, Gremlins 2, Empire of the Sun, Munich, The Color of Money, Bull Durham, A Star is Born, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Memories of Murder, Bringing Up Baby, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Moonstruck, Jabberwocky, Grand Illusion, Tess, Lost in America, A Room with a View, EL Notre, The Before Trilogy, Easy Rider, Tootsie I did damage to this list
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Post by Sephiroth on Jan 19, 2024 20:48:07 GMT -5
Never sat and watched Casablanca all the way through.
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