Staple films that you have never seen...

wannab said:

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I run into folks all the time that won't even watch a movie if it is in black and white. All I can say is boy are they missing out.

Back in the 80s when Ted Turner decided he was going to colorize just about every classic black and white movie he could get his hands on, I had countless conversations with various people about it. Not one of them had a reasonable reason for not liking black and white movies other than "But color is so much better!"

LMFAOSchwarz said:

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Maybe I've been put off largely because people have spoken so glowingly of them, that that I feel too obligated to like them!

I can understand that. I don't care how good a movie is--if you've heard nothing but rave reviews, it can't possibly live up to those expectations when you finally see it.

NormanF said:

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I used to always fall asleep near the end of "Apocalypse Now".

I've never seen Apocalypse Now all the way through in one sitting--I always fall asleep for some reason. If you add all the times together that I've tried I have seen the whole movie, just not at the same time.

Gone with the Wind
On the Waterfront
Blade Runner
Godfather
Scarface
Caddyshack
A Christmas Story
Casablanca
It's A Wonderful Life
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
The Maltese Falcon
The Graduate
All the President's Men
Bullitt
Spaceballs
Raging Bull
Northwest by Northwest
Citizen Kane
Dances with Wolves
Braveheart
Schindler's List
Patton
Magnificent 7
Unforgiven

The deer hunter, I can never get past the first hour...

wannab said:

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I run into folks all the time that won't even watch a movie if it is in black and white. All I can say is boy are they missing out.



Doug

I saw something neat several years ago. It was a Laurel and Hardy short that had been colorized. Every thing had that washed out look except for a window in one of the scenes. For some reason they did not colorize the window so they outside world was black and white. Derail over.


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redbridge1 said:

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The deer hunter, I can never get past the first hour...

Man, that and Midnight Express were so harsh and depressing! Great acting in both, but man, hard to sit through.



Doug

Movies that you don't want to see don't count.
I don't want to see Titanic, Shindler's List or Deer Hunter. Too depressing. And I am not the least interested in Twilight.

Btw, I saw The Shawshank Redemption for the first time only a few months ago...