Classics You Never Got Around to See?

[Sarge 2.0]

Buy it on dvd and watch it on a nice television set. You're cheating yourself by watching a film as great as Taxi Driver on youtube.

 

[gwynplaine]

True. Very true. I hate myself it's taken this late to see it. I think it's good I've seen other Kubrick films prior to Lyndon. I'll know what I expect more. I know it's a slow film so I just gotta hope I like it.

I hope you like it too. It is a magnificent film, like I said before, like paintings come to life (to tell you the truth, I don't think we'll ever see a movie like Barry Lyndon again). Also good point about the benefit of having seen other Kubrick films before this one.

I also have to see Taxi Driver.

I actually may watch it now. I found it on yt.

Taxi Driver is awesome. Schrader's best I think, and Scorcese's 2nd best imo (Goodfellas takes the cake for me.)

 

[Bunker]

Srsly. David Lynch said it best.

"It's such a sadness that you've think you've seen a film...on your ****ing telephone. Get real."

 

[-Arya-]

SO many.

-Citizen Kane
-Lawrence of Arabia
-Bonnie and Clyde
-8 1/2
-Chinatown
-M
-Metropolis

and countless others

Mostly they're all from the 20's to roughly the mid 1960's.

 

[Watson]

I still haven't seen 2001: A space Odyssey, and I love Kubrick films...

Me neither

Taxi Driver
Metropolis
Das Boot
Dog Day Afternoon
Sophie's Choice
On the Waterfront
Rebel Without a Cause
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Easy Rider
Natural Born Killers
Boys n' the Hood
Do the Right thing

We need a Hype Film Club to get us to watch all these.

 

[dude stannis]

Godfather II
M
The Towering Inferno
The Poseidon Adventure
The Magnificent Seven
Wild Bunch
12 Angry Men
The Great Escape

 

[Fresh Prince]

I hope you like it too. It is a magnificent film, like I said before, like paintings come to life (to tell you the truth, I don't think we'll ever see a movie like Barry Lyndon again). Also good point about the benefit of having seen other Kubrick films before this one.


Taxi Driver is awesome. Schrader's best I think, and Scorcese's 2nd best imo (Goodfellas takes the cake for me.)

Yeah Robert De'Nero was a great actor. Loved the ending when he killed them pimps at the apartment building.

 

[Fresh Prince]

I hope you like it too. It is a magnificent film, like I said before, like paintings come to life (to tell you the truth, I don't think we'll ever see a movie like Barry Lyndon again). Also good point about the benefit of having seen other Kubrick films before this one.


Taxi Driver is awesome. Schrader's best I think, and Scorcese's 2nd best imo (Goodfellas takes the cake for me.)

Yeah Robert De'Nero was a great actor. Loved the ending when he killed them pimps at the apartment building.

 

[Sarge 2.0]

Me neither

Taxi Driver
Metropolis
Das Boot
Dog Day Afternoon
Sophie's Choice
On the Waterfront
Rebel Without a Cause
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Easy Rider
Natural Born Killers
Boys n' the Hood
Do the Right thing

We need a Hype Film Club to get us to watch all these.

That's a splendid idea.

 

[Bunker]

Spoiler tags, FP, spoiler tags.

 

[Watson]

That's a splendid idea.

Yea we could aim to do a film a week...maybe I'll make a thread later tonight

 

[Sarge 2.0]

Yeah Robert De'Nero was a great actor. Loved the ending when he killed them pimps at the apartment building.

...

Really?

Seriously?

With all the people here who said that they haven't seen Taxi Driver, you're going to spoil the ending? The amazingly iconic and perfect ending? Are you for real?

 

[Sarge 2.0]

Yea we could aim to do a film a week...maybe I'll make a thread later tonight

Dooooo itttttt.

 

[Sawyer]

I have yet to see Gone With the Wind. Honestly, that fact doesnt bother me too much.

But I do want to see Rebel Without a Cause, Taxi Driver, Chinatown, A Clockwork Orange, Casablanca, etc. Probably dozens upon dozens more.

 

[Jolly Rolly]

Every movie from the 40's, 50's, 60's, I have seen the 1966 Batman movie if that counts.

I know of Orson Wells because of Transformers but I'm not in a rush to see Citizen Kane.

A few years back I rented the Godfather movies for the first time since I don't plan on watching them in AMC's eight hour block.

 

[Sarge 2.0]

No rush to see one of the greatest movies ever made, from Orson Welles one of the greatest actor/directors who has ever lived?

And uh, you should probably get around to seeing the Godfather. Because, y'know...it's the Godfather.

 

[Episode29]

I have yet to see Gone With the Wind. Honestly, that fact doesnt bother me too much.

You should watch it. It's an absolutely amazing film which is nowhere near the soppy romantic melodrama it's often mistaken to be. It's actually a very dark, melancholy character study. Really riveting stuff, and the four hours flies by. I promise.

Plus, Vivien Leigh is smoooooooookin' hot!

 

[Episode29]

About 2 years ago I wrote up a 100+ title list and worked my way through it. I'm now on my second one, so I feel pretty good about there not being TOO many major gaps in my classic film movie-watching past.

However, here's a few notable ones off my current list:
Eraserhead (Sorry Sarge!)
The Great Dictator
The General (My library doesn't have it! May have to find a cheap copy somewhere.)
Hidden Fortress
Intolerance
Barry Lyndon
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
Sullivan's Travels
Tom Jones
Rosemary's Baby
Night Of The Hunter
Mr. Deeds Goes To Town
Manchurian Candidate
Cabaret
Grapes Of Wrath
Inherit The Wind

I also need to work on my French New Wave and Italian Neo-Realism films. I've watching a few, but not enough to consider myself knowledgable about the periods.

Also, a few I have on my shelf which will be ticked off as soon as I have some time:
Barton Fink
Rocky Horror Picture Show
All About Eve
Out Of Africa
White Heat
Public Enemy
Dr. Zhivago
An Affair To Remember
All Quiet On The Western Front
Cleopatra
M*A*S*H*

 

[Sawyer]

About 2 years ago I wrote up a 100+ title list and worked my way through it. I'm now on my second one, so I feel pretty good about there not being TOO many major gaps in my classic film movie-watching past.

However, here's a few notable ones off my current list:
Eraserhead (Sorry Sarge!)
The Great Dictator
The General (My library doesn't have it! May have to find a cheap copy somewhere.)
Hidden Fortress
Intolerance
Barry Lyndon
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
Sullivan's Travels
Tom Jones
Rosemary's Baby
Night Of The Hunter
Mr. Deeds Goes To Town
Manchurian Candidate
Cabaret
Grapes Of Wrath
Inherit The Wind

I also need to work on my French New Wave and Italian Neo-Realism films. I've watching a few, but not enough to consider myself knowledgable about the periods.

Also, a few I have on my shelf which will be ticked off as soon as I have some time:
Barton Fink
Rocky Horror Picture Show
All About Eve
Out Of Africa
White Heat
Public Enemy
Dr. Zhivago
An Affair To Remember
All Quiet On The Western Front
Cleopatra
M*A*S*H*

I love M*A*S*H*

 

[Thundarr]

I've never seen Casablanca

I also never seen most of John Wayne's movies.

I've never seen Erol Flyn's Robin Hood.

 

[SonikDeath]

Casablanca, Godfather (any of them), Taxi Driver, 2001: A space odyssey.

There are heaps more i havent seen, i should really watch them..........later.

 

[nite-owl]

My God, I've actually seen two films that Sarge hasn't. t:

Vertigo is good. Not as great as I wanted it to be. But nonetheless it's masterfly directed.

And The Sting is excellent. I liked it better than Butch Cassidy.

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Frankly I'm surprised of the films some people haven't seen here. No Hitchcock films at all Parker Wayne?? You'll hit yourself when you finally get around to do it.

For me:

Casablanca
Lawrence of Arabia
Ben Hur (I will watch it this weekend)
The Ten Commandments
Citizen Kane (it's on my DVR waiting for me)
Gone With The Wind
The Searchers
The Elephant Man
Barry Lyndon (this is my top priority to watch right now)

For the love of God man you have to watch The Searchers it's cinematic perfection.

 

[Carmine Falcone]

I wouldn't buy it if you were going to see it for the first time unless you're that sure it's going to be amazing. You may or not like it. I loved it. It feels slow as hell but it's beautiful. And it's worth the slow pace. You really have to absorb every second the film is on screen.

I can only see it when I buy it. I never, ever download and I can't find a rental version anywhere. But it's okay, I mostly blind-buy anyway.

 

[Evil Twin]

I've got L'Avventura from Netflix as I type this.

Ones I need to get to:

Intolerance
Birth of a Nation
Greed
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Safety Last
The Testament of Dr. Mabuse
Suspicion
Detour
White Heat
Kiss Me Deadly
Rebel Without a Cause
La Dolce Vita
Kagemusha
Red Beard
Senso
Umberto D.
Amarchord
Persona
Fanny and Alexander
Wild Strawberries
Band of Outsiders
A Man for All Seasons
Aquirre
The Killing of a Chinese Bookie
Don't Look Now
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Barry Lyndon
Full Metal Jacket
Dead Ringers