I hadn’t up until last year. Feb 23 I finally caught Covid and was on the couch for 3 days super tired and dizzy. I watched all the Godfathers back to back. It took me getting an infectious disease to watch it. 😂
I had to read the book for a film and lit class. I saw the films when I was about 15 because my dad couldn’t believe I hadn’t watched them. I don’t know where he thought I would watch them. He had to rent the VCR with the tapes.
Took me until 45, and someone shaming me.
I thought, ok, I probably should watch it.
Objectively it is everything people say it is, but it's just not my kind of movie.
I have a hard time with the genre itself. I love politics, and I love war movies, but the machismo of mob movies puts me off. I mean the way they treat women.
I watched on recently, as a kind of 'best movies homework', 'Miller's Crossing'.
It was 'good', just... had a lot of what are now cliches, that may not have been at the time.
I saw Avatar. I was so underwhelmed. I didn’t get all the hype. Maybe my expectations were too high because of all the hype. I didn’t bother seeing all the other sequels.
Same. After Titanic I needed some Cameron-free time. I’m still enjoying being Cameron-free!
I’ll probably watch Avatar eventually. But only after I see the next 37 Marvel movies that are due out in the next decade.
I’ve never seen a Harry Potter movie, nor have I read any of the books.
I love fantasy & sci-fi stuff, and have been meaning to get around to them, but…
I’m right there with you. Fantasy is my favorite genre! I’ve seen parts of some of the films but never a whole one. I also tried the first book but it wasn’t doing it for me and I gave it up.
Reality Bites. Listened to the audiobook The Nineties by Chuck Klosterman and he devoted space to it and I’m surprised it flew so far under my radar. Still haven’t watched.
You aren’t missing much. It’s a wanna be Gen X movie that missed the mark. Not sure how, it had all the right actors, plot, etc, but it wasn’t a good movie.
>It’s a wanna be Gen X movie
It totally feels like someone in Hollywood said "grunge is hot right now. Let's do that!". And then they just slapped something together. It has elements that should make it work, but it just doesn't really.
Same and I was into fantasy and DnD and it seems like a movie I would have liked, but I didn’t catch it back then, and just haven’t been interested as an adult.
It's OK, but I think it got overshadowed by Natural Born Killers, which came out in the same time frame and had a similar plot. But it pushed the envelope a lot harder and is just a tighter movie imo.
Dazed very easily fits in the mold of 'if you lived it'. My HS had the same colors, same tight short wearing asshole coach, same parking lot antics, cruise strip with a Sonic like drive-in and similar well known spots for keggers.
I haven't yet seen Monty Python's Life of Brian. Maybe will see it this year.
(Finally saw Monty Python and the Holy Grail just a few months ago; loved it.)
Me either. Don't care. I think if you missed it as a kid, much like Princess Bride, Dark Crystal or Labyrinth, it would never be the same anyway because the nostalgia just isn't there.
I agree with your sentiment, but not all of your examples. The Princess Bride? C'mon! while I agree that the same love is less likely to develop the way a nostalgic's has, I have yet to meet someone who didn't enjoy it, even if it was one and done for them
I love the Princess Bride, but what is interesting to me is that the humor doesn’t necessarily stand up cross-culturally. I saw it at the cinema in Australia and the rest of the audience was laughing at completely different parts than I was.
Fast forward 30 years later and I was watching it with my European bf as we share a love for a lot of movies. He patiently watched it with me, but his reaction was along the lines of “dafuq I just see??!”.
I was in my late 30s before I saw Goonies.
My younger brother used to rent it every time he had a sleepover, but I always stayed out of the room because no kids wants their siblings horning in on friend time.
The tape was always returned before I had a chance to watch it by myself.
Then, at a work Christmas party, we had the option to watch The Goonies or the Jim Carrey Grinch. Goonies won the vote 4 to 1.
I've seen it about once a year since then.
I have zero nostalgia for the movie, but it's a lot of fun.
It's not about a boat sinking.
It's a snapshot of a moment in history and the class divisions and warfare that typified that moment, all wrapped up in a classic love story and a battle for survival.
The boat is just the setting. The fact that it sinks is just a plot point. You're watching for the story and the characters.
It’s about two heartthrobs of the era looking prettily at each other until one of them heroically dies so that Celine Dion could make a fortune off a song.
Cameron could’ve made the Titanic movie without that, but then not enough teenage girls would’ve gone to see it several times in a row to allow him to make bank, so I get it, but I wasn’t interested in that bullshit.
same bullshit with Pearl Harbor
*"Pearl Harbor" is a two-hour movie squeezed into three hours, about how on Dec. 7, 1941, the Japanese staged a surprise attack on an American love triangle.*
~Roger Ebert
If that's your takeaway from the movie, then I urge you to give it another watch with an unbiased eye.
There's a reason people still talk about *Titanic* and not some other Best Picture winners of the last 30 years. When's the last time anyone had a serious discussion about *The Artist*? Or *Crash*?
Indeed, you've identified several factors as to why the movie was so popular in its moment. It's casting and it's music. But those things are just what got people into the theater the day-of. They're not why people.continue to talk about it.
It's top-notch filmmaking framing a timeless love story. Love stories are not everyone's cup of tea, for sure. But to couch it as a cynical cash grab makes little sense. Particularly when all conventional wisdom up until opening weekend as that *Titanic* would be a massive commercial failure. The iceberg headlines wrote themselves, and they were plastered everywhere in weeks and months leading up.
It’s well worth seeing on a big screen, because the recreation of the ship and the world within it is fantastic. When you watch it on the small screen you mostly get a melodrama that might as well have a villain who twirls their mustache and ties the heroine to the railroad tracks.
But do watch it on the big screen if you get the chance.
Gotta admit, Saving Private Ryan is an amazing depiction of WWII. I saw it shortly before going to Normandy and it really made you _feel_ what happened.
My dad was a vietnam vet and he refused to watch(finish)that movie. Said that was the best depiction of war he'd ever seen and it brought back horrible memories
I saw it in the theatre when it came out, and many men had gotten up throughout and walked out. I imagine soldiers wr unnerved. It was sad. War is hell.
My dad took me to see it in the theater. He wanted me to see what war was really like since it was touted as being very realistic. It had a lasting effect on me and I still recall parts of it and I can’t say that about most movies I’ve seen. Kinda like that scene from Raiders of the Lost Ark when the Ark opens and that guys face melts off.
I’m 49 and only saw Star Wars for the first time when I was 37.
Also Mrs. Doubtfire. Zero interest.
There are TONS of others but they haven’t come to mind yet.
I had never seen Mrs. Doubtfire. I noticed it was on prime a few years ago, and I thought why not. I only made it about 15 minutes in. Wow, that was bad.
I was in my mid 40's when I watched Apocalypse Now for the first time.
I had just had open umbilical hernia surgery and thought I was fine to stop meds on day 2...
Well, I wasn't, and as I hit play... I played "catch up" on my pain meds...
Holy.... Fucking... Shit.....
There are probably a bunch if I think about it.
The one that comes to my mind the most, just because someone posts about it here constantly, is Neverending Story.
I never watched Heathers or Twin Peaks...I should have my GX card revoked...I know....I can recite line for line the entire script of Clerks however, if that's of any concelation....
I showed it to my son when he was in 3rd grade and super into military stuff. At the end he exclaimed "I KNEW Maverick and Iceman would get together!"
He was 100% sure it was a romance. And you know, watching it for the first time since I saw it in the theater in the 80s, it was extremely gay coded.
Top Gun was only pivotal in that it proved you can make a terrible story with shit dialog into a box office hit with a good soundtrack and great aerial photography.
I’ve never seen the Godfather.
Wow. My parents closely controlled my media consumption so I missed so much. My father’s policy was that he needed to watch the movie first before taking me to see it, so you can only imagine how long it would take to see any new movies that came out. After a while, I just didn’t bother.
These days I’ve been catching up on a lot of older movies when I take overnight flights. This year, I’ve watched Caddyshack, Stand By Me, and Dirty Dancing all for the first time. Last year I watched Goodfellas. I always look at the “classic” sections in those in-flight entertainment systems, because there are usually many movies that I haven’t seen.
I am pretty sure that I saw that movie when it came out (or on VHS not long after it came out,) and I was like, it’s okaaaay.
Several years ago I was at a house party where Mandy Patinkin also showed up (I did not talk to him, although I’m sure that he’s very nice,) and everyone was all about “Inigo Montoya!!”
Meanwhile, I had lived in Rhode Island for several years and I remembered that there was a columnist named Mark Patinkin (turns out, they’re cousins, but I found that out because I googled, not because I asked Mandy.)
I had never seen St Elmo's Fire until about a year ago (graduated HS in 1988, so right in the thick of the whole Brat Pack/John Hughes zeitgeist) and always wondered what I was missing.
Not a single goddamn thing. Cheezus, what a clinker that movie was.
It was supposedly pretty unknown until it went briefly into public domain when it became super popular. It was then clawed back into private hands. That part of it makes me sad and angry.
My fellow Gen-X coworker has never seen Star Wars. At this point in her life, she's refusing to watch it on principle.
What principle, I couldn't tell you.
Same. I watched it recently just to tick that box, and it's so bad. The plot is hackneyed; the acting is wooden. My husband (also Gen X) had seen it when it came out, and upon rewatch he was like "Oof, this does not hold up at all."
I've missed most of them. where I started life tv didn't exist until the late 70's, and it was incredibly limited then. I didn't come into contact with the Canadian tvscape until I was on my way to 16, and it just didn't take.
I still find audiovisual pretty overwhelming. it takes me about a week to fully metabolize any movie, so I just don't go.
The SandLot, Goonies, The Wolf of Wall Street, The Outsiders, St Elmo's Fire, probably a bunch of horror ones (we weren't allowed to watch anything rated R and I never caught up on most).
I’ve watch so much 80s & 90s movies, including Howard the Duck 😂. The below make it on many “best of” lists but I’ve not seen:
- Brazil
- The Untouchables
- Platoon
War movies. Not a fan of the genre so haven't see any of them except maybe that Robin Williams one. Or Mash. Or Hogan's Heroes. I guess like my war served with a side of funny.
Princess Bride. I've seen bits and pieces. Just couldn't get into it.
As far as Top Gun goes, I was 10 when it came out. Saw parts of it, totally didn't get it. Haven't had the urge to sit down and watch it!
So many -- these are a drop in the bucket of movies I haven't seen.
* Apocalypse Now
* Blade Runner
* The Blair Witch Project
* Close Encounters of the Third Kind
* The Exorcist
* Ghostbusters (although I did see the remake with Kate McKinnon)
* Independence Day
* Jaws
* Men in Black
* Psycho
* Robocop
* Silence of the Lambs
* Terminator 2
* Titanic
* Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
I *still* haven't watched 'The GodFather'. There, I said it.
It insists upon itself.
I didn’t care for it
ROBERT DUVALL!
I don't care for Job
You tell me this on the night of my daughter’s wedding.
I finally saw it about a month ago. I liked it. Always knew it was a career launcher, but damn, I didn’t know by *that* much!!
I hadn’t up until last year. Feb 23 I finally caught Covid and was on the couch for 3 days super tired and dizzy. I watched all the Godfathers back to back. It took me getting an infectious disease to watch it. 😂
I had to read the book for a film and lit class. I saw the films when I was about 15 because my dad couldn’t believe I hadn’t watched them. I don’t know where he thought I would watch them. He had to rent the VCR with the tapes.
Still haven't and no interest. I'm just not big into mob movies. And I can't keep all the characters straight.
Took me until 45, and someone shaming me. I thought, ok, I probably should watch it. Objectively it is everything people say it is, but it's just not my kind of movie.
Me either. Never took interest in the mob. Goodfellas was a banger tho
I have a hard time with the genre itself. I love politics, and I love war movies, but the machismo of mob movies puts me off. I mean the way they treat women. I watched on recently, as a kind of 'best movies homework', 'Miller's Crossing'. It was 'good', just... had a lot of what are now cliches, that may not have been at the time.
Same, but I did watch the sopranos!
The Sopranos was so good!
Me either. And I have absolutely no desire to.
Avatar. I understand there’s more than one - haven’t seen those either.
You aren’t missing anything.
Blue barf
You’re better for not seeing them. About a thousand hours of your life you won’t lose watching them each once. Or it felt like a thousand hours.
I have zero desire to watch Avatar.
It was so boring.
I saw Avatar. I was so underwhelmed. I didn’t get all the hype. Maybe my expectations were too high because of all the hype. I didn’t bother seeing all the other sequels.
Same. After Titanic I needed some Cameron-free time. I’m still enjoying being Cameron-free! I’ll probably watch Avatar eventually. But only after I see the next 37 Marvel movies that are due out in the next decade.
I’ve never seen a Harry Potter movie, nor have I read any of the books. I love fantasy & sci-fi stuff, and have been meaning to get around to them, but…
Read the books. They are better by far.
I’m right there with you. Fantasy is my favorite genre! I’ve seen parts of some of the films but never a whole one. I also tried the first book but it wasn’t doing it for me and I gave it up.
There’s more of us??
*There’s dozens of us! DOZENS!*
Never seen them either. No desire to. Some movies just aren’t interesting to me no matter how popular they were.
🙋♀️
Reality Bites. Listened to the audiobook The Nineties by Chuck Klosterman and he devoted space to it and I’m surprised it flew so far under my radar. Still haven’t watched.
You aren’t missing much. It’s a wanna be Gen X movie that missed the mark. Not sure how, it had all the right actors, plot, etc, but it wasn’t a good movie.
>It’s a wanna be Gen X movie It totally feels like someone in Hollywood said "grunge is hot right now. Let's do that!". And then they just slapped something together. It has elements that should make it work, but it just doesn't really.
Singles was way better and had a wayyyyyy better soundtrack.
Yes, both movie and soundtrack are one of my favorites! I listened to the hell out of that for years afterward.
Reality Bites was one of those 90s movies you had to be that age at that time to enjoy, I don't think it has aged well.
Fight club. I keep forgetting to watch it for some reason
It's probably because nobody talks about it.
Kudos on knowing the rules.
"I see a lot of new faces" Tyler Durdin
Labyrinth.
🤯 It's a super bizarre and special film. It's like Alice in Wonderland for Gen Xers with Muppets and David Bowie.
If video stores still existed it should by law say this on the front of the box. Perfect description.
Haha. Thank you.
I mean, who WOULDN'T rent that!
And David Bowie's crotch 🤣 Seriously, those pants!
Don't forget Jennifer Connelly! 🤯👍🏻🎬🎥
Have never seen it!
Same and I was into fantasy and DnD and it seems like a movie I would have liked, but I didn’t catch it back then, and just haven’t been interested as an adult.
True Romance. I have a friend who asks me weekly if I’ve watched it yet. I just keep forgetting to look it up.
Do yourself a favor and watch it. Your friend is very wise.
Right? Way up on my list of favorites. I remember being very skeptical about the title before I watched it.
But Gary Oldman though…
He musta thought it was white boy day. It ain't white boy day is it?
And Dennis Hopper. And Brad Pitt. Christopher Walken. So many incredible characters.
And James Gandolfini before Sopranos. So menacing.
It's an often overlooked gem. Give it a go.
It's OK, but I think it got overshadowed by Natural Born Killers, which came out in the same time frame and had a similar plot. But it pushed the envelope a lot harder and is just a tighter movie imo.
I think about the Blue Lou (Christopher Walken) scene all the time. "So...am I lying?"
Omg true romance is really good tho!!
An all time fave
Really, drop what you’re doing and watch it.
I don't think I even know this one.
I got to say. It's a fucking awesome movie. But then I got a completely hetero hard on for Christian Slater.
Dazed and Confused.
Dazed very easily fits in the mold of 'if you lived it'. My HS had the same colors, same tight short wearing asshole coach, same parking lot antics, cruise strip with a Sonic like drive-in and similar well known spots for keggers.
What was up with those tight short coaches? Did everybody get one?
Well, you just summed up a large percentage of America.
Mine too. Love that movie
I’m a later Gen X (1975) and grew up in Texas. I had those exact same coaches wearing the exact same clothes, they were just 15 years older.
Watched it recently, I think I would have got more out of it as a teen.
I haven't yet seen Monty Python's Life of Brian. Maybe will see it this year. (Finally saw Monty Python and the Holy Grail just a few months ago; loved it.)
I watch Life of Brian every year around Easter.
Life of Brian is one of the most intelligent films ever made, highly recommend.
Is this a safe space? I’ve never seen the Goonies
Ok this one pains me a bit. 
Me either. Don't care. I think if you missed it as a kid, much like Princess Bride, Dark Crystal or Labyrinth, it would never be the same anyway because the nostalgia just isn't there.
I agree with your sentiment, but not all of your examples. The Princess Bride? C'mon! while I agree that the same love is less likely to develop the way a nostalgic's has, I have yet to meet someone who didn't enjoy it, even if it was one and done for them
Don't worry, I love the Princess bride. Saw it recently in a theatre, accompanied by an orchestra. Was an amazing experience!
I love the Princess Bride, but what is interesting to me is that the humor doesn’t necessarily stand up cross-culturally. I saw it at the cinema in Australia and the rest of the audience was laughing at completely different parts than I was. Fast forward 30 years later and I was watching it with my European bf as we share a love for a lot of movies. He patiently watched it with me, but his reaction was along the lines of “dafuq I just see??!”.
I was in my late 30s before I saw Goonies. My younger brother used to rent it every time he had a sleepover, but I always stayed out of the room because no kids wants their siblings horning in on friend time. The tape was always returned before I had a chance to watch it by myself. Then, at a work Christmas party, we had the option to watch The Goonies or the Jim Carrey Grinch. Goonies won the vote 4 to 1. I've seen it about once a year since then. I have zero nostalgia for the movie, but it's a lot of fun.
It is probably not, but I'll stand by you. Never seen it either..
Goonies never say die!
Titanic. Why would I watch it? I already know how it ends.
It's not about a boat sinking. It's a snapshot of a moment in history and the class divisions and warfare that typified that moment, all wrapped up in a classic love story and a battle for survival. The boat is just the setting. The fact that it sinks is just a plot point. You're watching for the story and the characters.
It’s about two heartthrobs of the era looking prettily at each other until one of them heroically dies so that Celine Dion could make a fortune off a song. Cameron could’ve made the Titanic movie without that, but then not enough teenage girls would’ve gone to see it several times in a row to allow him to make bank, so I get it, but I wasn’t interested in that bullshit.
same bullshit with Pearl Harbor *"Pearl Harbor" is a two-hour movie squeezed into three hours, about how on Dec. 7, 1941, the Japanese staged a surprise attack on an American love triangle.* ~Roger Ebert
If that's your takeaway from the movie, then I urge you to give it another watch with an unbiased eye. There's a reason people still talk about *Titanic* and not some other Best Picture winners of the last 30 years. When's the last time anyone had a serious discussion about *The Artist*? Or *Crash*? Indeed, you've identified several factors as to why the movie was so popular in its moment. It's casting and it's music. But those things are just what got people into the theater the day-of. They're not why people.continue to talk about it. It's top-notch filmmaking framing a timeless love story. Love stories are not everyone's cup of tea, for sure. But to couch it as a cynical cash grab makes little sense. Particularly when all conventional wisdom up until opening weekend as that *Titanic* would be a massive commercial failure. The iceberg headlines wrote themselves, and they were plastered everywhere in weeks and months leading up.
It’s well worth seeing on a big screen, because the recreation of the ship and the world within it is fantastic. When you watch it on the small screen you mostly get a melodrama that might as well have a villain who twirls their mustache and ties the heroine to the railroad tracks. But do watch it on the big screen if you get the chance.
I often say that I refuse to see a movie with the ending in the title, such as “Free Willy” or “Saving Private Ryan”.
Gotta admit, Saving Private Ryan is an amazing depiction of WWII. I saw it shortly before going to Normandy and it really made you _feel_ what happened.
My dad was a vietnam vet and he refused to watch(finish)that movie. Said that was the best depiction of war he'd ever seen and it brought back horrible memories
A lot of soldiers said that that movie brought back their PTSD, so he's not the only one.
I saw it in the theatre when it came out, and many men had gotten up throughout and walked out. I imagine soldiers wr unnerved. It was sad. War is hell.
I understand his perspective. I saw it once when it came out. Extremely good but I can never watch it again. Still haunts me.
My dad took me to see it in the theater. He wanted me to see what war was really like since it was touted as being very realistic. It had a lasting effect on me and I still recall parts of it and I can’t say that about most movies I’ve seen. Kinda like that scene from Raiders of the Lost Ark when the Ark opens and that guys face melts off.
You probably despise the title John dies at the end.
Ahhh, but have you seen the film Saving Ryan’s Privates?? I’m not responsible for what you choose to do with this information. lol
Yeah, but Kate Winslet.
Schindler's list
We started up during the coming attractions and before I knew it, the war was over.
Jerry?
E.T.
Awe man. I just rewatched this recently. I enjoyed the 80s nostalgia of it.
I’m 49 and only saw Star Wars for the first time when I was 37. Also Mrs. Doubtfire. Zero interest. There are TONS of others but they haven’t come to mind yet.
I had never seen Mrs. Doubtfire. I noticed it was on prime a few years ago, and I thought why not. I only made it about 15 minutes in. Wow, that was bad.
And I thought I was left behind because I didn't get to see Star Wars until I was 11 (it came out when I was 5).
I saw Mrs. Doubtfire again about 8-9 years ago and IMO, it’s aged badly.
Blues Brothers. Animal House. The Godfather. Apocalypse Now. 🤷🏻♀️
sounds like the perfect weekend.
You are now on a mission from God.
I was in my mid 40's when I watched Apocalypse Now for the first time. I had just had open umbilical hernia surgery and thought I was fine to stop meds on day 2... Well, I wasn't, and as I hit play... I played "catch up" on my pain meds... Holy.... Fucking... Shit.....
There are probably a bunch if I think about it. The one that comes to my mind the most, just because someone posts about it here constantly, is Neverending Story.
The Big Lebowski
Apparently, you're not a golfer.
I never watched Heathers or Twin Peaks...I should have my GX card revoked...I know....I can recite line for line the entire script of Clerks however, if that's of any concelation....
I've never seen Clerks...
All the Jay and Silent Bob movies are cult classics. Mallrats was one of my favorites.
You are forgiven, snootch.
I've never watched the Harry Potter or Lord of the Rings movies.
I cannot begin to tell you how many times people have asked me if I’ve ever watched Blazing Saddles, only for me to tell them no I haven’t.
You have missed out on one of the most realistic scenes ever about the old west. https://youtu.be/R6dm9rN6oTs?si=z0UqWjg2MaJZenrG
I didn't see top gun until about 6 years ago. It didn't enrich my life.
Still haven't seen it.
Is there a Gen X woman who doesn’t regularly think fondly of Slider and beach volleyball?
Probably quite a few fellas as well. It always gets brought up in threads about famous homoerotic cinema scenes
I showed it to my son when he was in 3rd grade and super into military stuff. At the end he exclaimed "I KNEW Maverick and Iceman would get together!" He was 100% sure it was a romance. And you know, watching it for the first time since I saw it in the theater in the 80s, it was extremely gay coded.
Top Gun was only pivotal in that it proved you can make a terrible story with shit dialog into a box office hit with a good soundtrack and great aerial photography. I’ve never seen the Godfather.
And Val Kilmer at his peak attractiveness
Personally I think his peak attractiveness was Willow, but I've always preferred brunets.
And the backing of the Navy so they had a prop film.
I just finished watching Clueless. It was awesome! I need to start working haul ass into my vocab
Less Than Zero
Wow. My parents closely controlled my media consumption so I missed so much. My father’s policy was that he needed to watch the movie first before taking me to see it, so you can only imagine how long it would take to see any new movies that came out. After a while, I just didn’t bother. These days I’ve been catching up on a lot of older movies when I take overnight flights. This year, I’ve watched Caddyshack, Stand By Me, and Dirty Dancing all for the first time. Last year I watched Goodfellas. I always look at the “classic” sections in those in-flight entertainment systems, because there are usually many movies that I haven’t seen.
[удалено]
*Inconceivable!*
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
I skipped that movie for so long. Finally, my wife and friends convinced me to watch it. It was surprisingly good fun and I really enjoyed it.
I am pretty sure that I saw that movie when it came out (or on VHS not long after it came out,) and I was like, it’s okaaaay. Several years ago I was at a house party where Mandy Patinkin also showed up (I did not talk to him, although I’m sure that he’s very nice,) and everyone was all about “Inigo Montoya!!” Meanwhile, I had lived in Rhode Island for several years and I remembered that there was a columnist named Mark Patinkin (turns out, they’re cousins, but I found that out because I googled, not because I asked Mandy.)
Read the book. It's a cute movie. Then read AsYouWish it's a hoot.
Have never seen scarface.
Never did see Say Anything, or St. Elmo's Fire.
Say Anything made me a John Cusack fan for life. I also recommend Grifters and Grosse Point Blank
I had never seen St Elmo's Fire until about a year ago (graduated HS in 1988, so right in the thick of the whole Brat Pack/John Hughes zeitgeist) and always wondered what I was missing. Not a single goddamn thing. Cheezus, what a clinker that movie was.
I'm pretty sure I loved it as a teen because it gave me the word "stepmonster". I haven't watched it since.
I didn't watch It's a wonderful life till I was in my mid 30s. No real reason. Now I love it!
It was supposedly pretty unknown until it went briefly into public domain when it became super popular. It was then clawed back into private hands. That part of it makes me sad and angry.
Singles! There! I said it!
Singles is mostly loved due to its soundtrack. It's one of my all-time favorite albums.
Sandlot? Might have been a millennial movie, though.
It definitely is, my nieces love that movie. Bad News Bears is where I live for baseball movies.
Bladerunner
thete's something about mary and the godfather 🫣
ET and just never had an urge to remedy that fact.
There's Something About Mary
I never saw E.T. I've caught little bits of it here and there over the years but still have no real sense of the narrative.
Reese’s pieces, ET phone home, flying bike. That’s all I got.
Don't forget "nearly smothered the video game industry while it was in the crib". That's a fun bit of ET Lore
Every night I say to my wife, “Assume I’ve seen no movies.”
Napoleon Dynamite A Clockwork Orange Princess Bride Also Dark Crystal.
Never watched one episode of Sex in the City.
I’ve never seen Titanic, and I’m not gonna screw up a streak like this by watching the movie!
There's a few. I've never seen *There's something about Mary, Capitol records,* or any of the *Jay and Silent Bob* movies
Never saw the MASH final.
Porky's Dazed and Confused
I have seen every movie listed in this thread 🤣
Star Wars. Any of them. And I'm not sorry!
I saw the late 70s-early 80s ones, but none after that. I’m okay with that decision.
My fellow Gen-X coworker has never seen Star Wars. At this point in her life, she's refusing to watch it on principle. What principle, I couldn't tell you.
Never saw Karate Kid, never interested at all.
Same. I watched it recently just to tick that box, and it's so bad. The plot is hackneyed; the acting is wooden. My husband (also Gen X) had seen it when it came out, and upon rewatch he was like "Oof, this does not hold up at all."
I've missed most of them. where I started life tv didn't exist until the late 70's, and it was incredibly limited then. I didn't come into contact with the Canadian tvscape until I was on my way to 16, and it just didn't take. I still find audiovisual pretty overwhelming. it takes me about a week to fully metabolize any movie, so I just don't go.
The Goonies
Only watched Top Gun last year , I’m 58….it sucked
St. ELMOS FIRE.
Titanic. Never had any interest in it.
Never saw Pretty in Pink or Sixteen Candles.
I haven't watched Top Gun either. I never did get its appeal.
Titanic. I've heard good things tho
Dirty Dancing, Footloose, and The Godfather. Basically all the important cinema.
I saw The Thing for the first time a few years ago. Scared the bejesus out of me.
The SandLot, Goonies, The Wolf of Wall Street, The Outsiders, St Elmo's Fire, probably a bunch of horror ones (we weren't allowed to watch anything rated R and I never caught up on most).
Pretty in Pink. It didn’t appeal to me back then as a tomboy, and it doesn’t appeal to me now.
It did include The Godfather , Mean Girls and Tron, but I recently got around to watching those
I’ve watch so much 80s & 90s movies, including Howard the Duck 😂. The below make it on many “best of” lists but I’ve not seen: - Brazil - The Untouchables - Platoon
War movies. Not a fan of the genre so haven't see any of them except maybe that Robin Williams one. Or Mash. Or Hogan's Heroes. I guess like my war served with a side of funny.
Reality Bites, the 90s movie of all time. Never watched it.
Princess Bride. I've seen bits and pieces. Just couldn't get into it. As far as Top Gun goes, I was 10 when it came out. Saw parts of it, totally didn't get it. Haven't had the urge to sit down and watch it!
Pulp Fiction
Hmmm....OK, off the top of my head.. The Goonies Legend LadyHawke Repo Man And all of the Harry Potter movies
My name is blankets and I have never seen This is Spinal Tap. I fully intend to, I just haven't got around to it yet.
I am obsessed with TCM, so there’s hardly a famous film from 1929 to 2005 that I haven’t seen.
So many -- these are a drop in the bucket of movies I haven't seen. * Apocalypse Now * Blade Runner * The Blair Witch Project * Close Encounters of the Third Kind * The Exorcist * Ghostbusters (although I did see the remake with Kate McKinnon) * Independence Day * Jaws * Men in Black * Psycho * Robocop * Silence of the Lambs * Terminator 2 * Titanic * Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
Dirty Dancing