All you do is piss & moan aboot what other people like on this site.

Haha! Occasionally poke fun at maybe...

Silent movies can be a hard watch, so I pick and choose highly rated ones or ones with historical significance.

"Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" from 1920 staring John Barrymore is one of the best ones I have taken in so far. Quite a performance there.

Please allow me to recommend Faust by F. W. Murnau. He's the same director that made Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens. Or for that matter, just about any of the German Expressionist filmmakers. Wiene's The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari comes to mind as well.

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I have no idea what you are talking about there.

It's another movie you've never seen!

More likely than not o-din was pushing buttons with "Birth of a Nation," but agree that it's standard viewing in "Intro to Film" classes. It's not a good movie or an enjoyable watch, and is of course racist as hell. But it's certainly an important part of both film history and US history -- as I was taught, it played a significant role in normalizing Klan membership in early 20th century America.

Oh, I thought of one. I’ve never seen Spinal Tap. My introduction to Spinal Tap was The Simpsons.

If you say so.

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Is the Garfield you or me?

No offense intended if Birth of a Nation is actually on your viewing list, but you've been known to lob a grenade into a thread or two to spice things up. But if you're serious, I'd say it's long and boring enough that you'd be better off reading the Wikipedia entry and watching a Youtube clip and spend those hours watching another of the fine films referenced here. Like Titanic.

Forget about her family, what about that poor treasure hunter? She accepts a free ride to the crash site to help him hunt for a necklace that she is wearing the entire time, and then chucks it over the side and lets him carry on with the search! Absolutely brutal.

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No, the entire piont is the story of Titanic isn't aboot treasure but the people.
"Three years I've thought of nothing except Titanic, but I never got it, I never let it in.".

Godammit has anyone actually seen this fucking movie?!

It shows up on TCM once in a while.

I saw it more about a ship breaking in half and then going splat, but of course people like this guy.
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Titanic somehow both rules and royally blows, all at the same time. The depiction of the ship itself and the unfolding of its sinking, and ultimately the final plunge scene, is just awesome. Everything else that requires enduring Billy Zane and sappy romance is a shitty romance novel. But there are boobs, so…

What he said.

I have never watched the Wizard of Oz.
When I was in grade school I was compelled to participate in their production of Wizard of Oz against my will. It may have been 50 years ago, but the 12th & Marion Elementary School of Reading, Pennsylvania can take the Wizard of Oz and cram it up their collective ass (not that I'm bitter about it).

Let me guess, you were cast in the Lollipop Guild? Flying Monkeys would never talk shit about Oz.

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I have never liked WOZ. It always felt creepy and crappy. Even as a kid I thought that movie was vastly overrated.

Same thing for Willy Wonka. That movie is creepy as fuck and makes me feel icky. No thanks.

Yes. He's a psychopath that invites children into his factory to watch them all be sent to their demise in grotesque and violent ways. Drowning in chocolate milk, eviscerated in fan blades, obscene allergic reactions, falling to death into an incinerator, evaporation....

The whole contest is a ruse to lure in kids to brutalize. He's a serial killer in plain sight.

I’ve never seen an episode of The Nanny. Fran was great in Hollywood Knights! I’d say that’s an underrated classic!

Oh, it’s ABSOLUTELY a horror movie “for kids.” When I saw WW as a kid at a friend’s house, the part where the girl turned into a blueberry was so grotesque to my child brain, I threw up and ran home. I didn’t eat blueberries for a decade after that.

You say that like it's a bad thing

Imagine if you could get rid of all the retards who don't meet your standards.

It might be your nirvana.

As obnoxious as the ending of Titanic was, it was a marked improvement over the original ending, where he sees her with the diamond and begs her not to drop it in the water, but she does anyway. (Then again ... in that ending, he had proof positive it existed. Maybe he could get more funding to continue looking for it?)

One thing in that movie that bugged the heck out of me, even when I saw it as a kid, is this: Rose is the one telling the story, so how does she tell all this stuff she didn't see and wasn't told about?

As for movies I haven't seen, the one that catches me the most flak is The Godfather.

I never saw Star Wars, ET, Jurasic Park

Not ever watched "The sound of Music" or any other "musical" crap! The idea of everybody falling into 5 part harmony on a city street is beyond, beyond!!

I never saw the deerhunter until like a year ago, i wish i still never saw it. That movie is brutal.

I had never seen One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (afterall, I was only 7 yrs old when it was released in 1975), but I watched it last weekend. I thought the acting was great, but overall I found the movie to be rather disturbing on multiple levels. Even so, it was certainly worth the watch and interesting to see some young actors in addition to Jack Nicholson who became rather famous (e.g. Christopher Lloyd & Danny DeVito). After watching, I learned that it was filmed in a real mental hospital in Oregon and the "actor" who played the lead doctor was actually the hospital's director in real life.

On another note, I had never seen any of the Godfather films until a year or two ago when I made it a point to watch them. I get why it they were popular, but the constant scene cutting and time jumping was rather annoying to me. Good movies? Sure. However, I found them to be overrated based on all the hype I've heard over the years.

At least you now know where Christopher Walken got that watch.

I kid, but the 70s were a very unfiltered time when it came to movies.

Yup, that's the point. All timer that sticks the landing

Saw The French Connection a few years back, deeply unimpressed .

You're sticking with sailor-man Popeye, then?

That was the boring cop movie that many since then strived to be. Then they had to make a second one.

Perhaps something like this would be more representative of what the 70s had to offer.
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Those aren't classics though.

I thought this was classics you haven't seen. I haven't seen that one and never care to.

You do know he started the Pinside Bitch Thread, right?

Just skip to the boob seen and turn it off after. That's all it has going for it.

So you just missed it in the theaters on release and had to be in the play. That sucks.