What is the best movie you've never seen?

deefstes · 2011-03-02T08:21:35+00:00

My colleague and I just had an interesting discussion and I thought I'd put it out to you guys. What is the best movie you've NEVER seen? Amongst many other...

What is the best movie you've never seen?

deefstes

Aubs1 wrote:
deefstes wrote:
Aubs1 wrote: ............ "Shawshank Redemption" with Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman
Yeah, that's a big one. It's not too late. I suggest you make a plan tonight. Well worth your time.
Ahh Deefstes, my bad, sometimes I don't read sslllooowwww enough, I thought the heading read "EVER SEEN.." I have seen its three times..awesome movie.

Haha, only three times, I think I might beat you in that department, having seen it at least a dozen times but I've lost count. I used to live in Dublin for a couple of years and had a friend there who studied directing and producing and was friendly with Frank Darabont. He had all sorts of intimate knowledge of how certain scenes were filmed, why certain elements were inserted or omitted, how certain techniques were applied etc. It was fascinating to watch the movie with him and we did so a few times.

At any rate, as atonement, you must now mention at least one great flic that you haven't seen.

Jack-Flash-Jr

Hammeron wrote:
Aubs1 wrote: For me, and the stuff I like .............

............ "Shawshank Redemption" with Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman
Yep, the mighty Stephen King, I've seen that one,
Am dying to see Spinal Tap as well....
I'd love to see "Get him to the Greek", but my dad wont let me! :'(

Spinal Tap is required watching, Get Him To the Greek had some of the best movie moments of last year... sneak a peak ?

singemonkey

make and do wrote: Havent' seen any Fellini or Ingmar Bergman films either yet - a sin for a movie geek I know :-[

A couple of years ago an Italian film festival showed La Dolce Vita. It's so rare in South Africa to be able to see a film print of classic movies on the big screen. Anyway, my girlfriend and I went to see it and it was one of the cinema experiences of my life. Fellini is beyond a great film maker. He was a great artist. Period.

MIKA-the-better-one

Get him to the greek, was cool, not all that amazing I thought.......
@Hammeron, I still remember the days my parents would not let me watch Jurrasic park, my goodness I was an angry fellow........ Then when i did watch it I was terrified of a T Rex busting into my room at night, so perhaps its best to wait to watch Get Him to The Greek, you dont want wild dreams about Russel Brandt attacking you at night

Jack-Flash-Jr

MIKA the better one wrote: Get him to the greek, was cool, not all that amazing I thought.......
@Hammeron, I still remember the days my parents would not let me watch Jurrasic park, my goodness I was an angry fellow........ Then when i did watch it I was terrified of a T Rex busting into my room at night, so perhaps its best to wait to watch Get Him to The Greek, you dont want wild dreams about Russel Brandt attacking you at night

I do ?

aubs1

deefstes wrote: At any rate, as atonement, you must now mention at least one great flic that you haven't seen.

Hahaha....... has to be (according to all lovers of what I think may be soppy....)......"Gone with the wind" ?

arjunmenon

Aubs1 wrote:
deefstes wrote: At any rate, as atonement, you must now mention at least one great flic that you haven't seen.
Hahaha....... has to be (according to all lovers of what I think may be soppy....)......"Gone with the wind" ?

It's actually quite a good movie ?
I was loathe to watch it (mostly because it's a long movie) until the missus forced me to watch it with her.
Vivian Leigh is excellent in the movie - going from totally pissed off to slapping whoever is sharing the scene with her (mostly the black maid & Gable) to being apologetic, in a flash.
Two movies that really bored me (except for the music) were Till the clouds roll by and State Fair
Pity the missus doesn't like my taste in movies. She hasn't seen Shawshank Redemption because she says prison flicks upset her. And i tried to get her to watch Serpico, but no luck there. The only movie (that i like) she's sat through is Scarface (and even then she left before the say hello to my little friend bit) :'(

singemonkey

Arjun Menon wrote: Vivian Leigh is excellent in the movie - going from totally pissed off to slapping whoever is sharing the scene with her (mostly the black maid & Gable) to being apologetic, in a flash.

Reminds me of someone we know. A true psycho. Went out with the bummy alcoholic friend of ours years back and now follows him like a shadow. She goes from tears in her eyes expressions of horror to hysterical laughter within three minutes. The kind of woman you expect to find living under your floor.

So the other day I get an unexpected call from her. I'm thinking, wtf (also how did she get my number and should I toss my sim down a storm-drain), making chit-chat then she says, "Listen, can you give me the number of one of your band mates." So I'm thinking wha? Who? Who does she mean? Jack Flash? Not only is he married, but he's a bassist, couldn't let this happen to him. I mean. They're joke guitars, but they're still guitars.

"No. Your drummer, [names former drummer from older band]. Can I have his number."

The monkey pauses thinks. Thinks a moment more. The salient word here is, "drummer."

"Of course you can," says I. I'll SMS it straight away.

I await ensuing hilarity. And possibly homicide. ?

Jack-Flash-Jr

:roflmao:

Is this the lass I met?

make-and-do

singemonkey wrote:
make and do wrote: Havent' seen any Fellini or Ingmar Bergman films either yet - a sin for a movie geek I know :-[

A couple of years ago an Italian film festival showed La Dolce Vita. It's so rare in South Africa to be able to see a film print of classic movies on the big screen. Anyway, my girlfriend and I went to see it and it was one of the cinema experiences of my life. Fellini is beyond a great film maker. He was a great artist. Period.

Would love to see it on big screen. It's been referenced so many times in modern cinema and exploited in commercials.
Would definitely not be the same experience on a TV screen. Problem is people wouldn't go see these movies - not commercially viable.
The old money card. Again.

philicon

OOH OOH

Requiem for a dream
Amerros perros
Babel
Bring him to the greek (one of my fave comedies)
The shrek movies torally rock!
fuck it there is probably lots more, but ya know too many to think of...

Manfred-Klose

forest gump
lion king

EDIT: i just saw that the topic mentions the best movie you've "NEVER" seen. didn't read the other posts, so dont know if its been mentioned earlier.

but ja those are my favourites that i have seen at least 10 times.

MIKA-the-better-one

Jack Flash Jr wrote:
MIKA the better one wrote: Get him to the greek, was cool, not all that amazing I thought.......
@Hammeron, I still remember the days my parents would not let me watch Jurrasic park, my goodness I was an angry fellow........ Then when i did watch it I was terrified of a T Rex busting into my room at night, so perhaps its best to wait to watch Get Him to The Greek, you dont want wild dreams about Russel Brandt attacking you at night
I do ?

I think he is pretty good looking fellow, super tall, and super clever despite the front he puts on..... yep thats a total man crush, him and Ryan Renolds

singemonkey

Jack Flash Jr wrote: :roflmao:

Is this the lass I met?

The same.

IceCreamMan

The human centipede - a subtle warning - this is a horror movie ,if you squeemish do not click the link

i love B grade movies ..recently saw Drive angry in 3 D ...excellent

BMU

I haven't seen The Hurt Locker yet. I've been told I need to. It's not that I doubt it's good, just that it doesn't seem like much fun.

Warren

BMU wrote: I haven't seen The Hurt Locker yet. I've been told I need to. It's not that I doubt it's good, just that it doesn't seem like much fun.

Actually a great movie! I didn't know what to expect, but it's a thrilling war movie for sure.

chris77

It might sound weird, but the older movies like Gone with the wind, Casablanca and the other TCM stable, seem a bit overacted to me. I think modern directing and acting techniques tell a far more convincing tale. I also watched all the Pink Panther comedies last month (recovering post-op so a lot of idle time!), and at most I grinned a few times. Apart from Mancini's theme, I honestly don't get what made them classics.

arjunmenon

BMU wrote: I haven't seen The Hurt Locker yet. I've been told I need to. It's not that I doubt it's good, just that it doesn't seem like much fun.

A very interesting movie. And although it was low budget, some of the violent scenes are brilliantly done.
I wasn't sure if i wanted to see it either, until i happened to be on a 10 hour flight...

chris77 wrote: It might sound weird, but the older movies like Gone with the wind, Casablanca and the other TCM stable, seem a bit overacted to me. I think modern directing and acting techniques tell a far more convincing tale. I also watched all the Pink Panther comedies last month (recovering post-op so a lot of idle time!), and at most I grinned a few times. Apart from Mancini's theme, I honestly don't get what made them classics.

Peter Sellers' presence made them classics. WRT Casablanca, i think Bogart is a hugely underrated actor. Modern directing & acting have been hugely helped by advances in cinematography, however, IMO 70% of the stuff that comes out of Hollywood these days is shite.

Just saw "The Fighter" (great movie BTW) last night and i couldn't stop thinking that they should have cast Josh Brolin instead of Mark Wahlberg.

Tonedef

Arjun Menon wrote: IMO 70% of the stuff that comes out of Hollywood these days is shite.

That's because 70% of everything is shite! ?

(Or 90% if you subscribe to Sturgeon's law ?)