Very Important Movie Poll

Citizen Cane?

Cripes, I suck, but I thought of more movies I've yet to see..

Saving Private Ryan

The Dark Knight

Vertigo

I've actually been doing a pretty good job, lately, of nailing down alot of the 'classics' that i hadn't seen... "Gone with the Wind", "The Godfather Trilogy", "Citizen Kane" are all flicks that i've been able to knock off recently. 

I still have not seen enough Hitchcock.  I need to watch more.

I also lately have had an innate desire to watch "Network". So much so that i actually submitted an email to TV Ontario here in Canada begging them to make it one of their selections on "Saturday Night at the Movies" (good god, i must be an old man :P)  They actually responded, too, telling me it wasn't on tap for this current season, but that it's definitely a movie they will consider for the future.

But really.. My vow is "watch more Hitchcock".

The cockpit.. what is it?

Casablanca

Robocop

The Terminator

Ghostbusters

Gone with the wind

Its a wonderful life

Close encounters of the third kind

The exorcist

Rocky IV

True Grit

Hellraiser (not high profile but a cult-classic)

Saw (I mention this in honor of Saw V's release)

Cool Hand Luke

Conan the Barbarian (although I did see when I was a young'un - and can hardly remember today - Conan the Destroyer)

And I have never a single film with Jackie Chan, not ever (not sure why; I have nothing against the guy)

Escape from New York and Escape from LA

HS

OH "Escape From New York" is a classic.  Carpenter at his best (which was pretty much the entire 80's).

I also liked "Escape from LA" but.....alot of people don't. It does get a little silly. I embraced that aspect.  Others may not.''

"Snake Plissken? I thought you were dead!"

The cockpit.. what is it?

Titanic

Jerry McGuire

Adam Sandler movies past Happy Gilmore (EXCEPT Punch Drunk Love- he was okay in this because he wasn't being his usual self)

Rambo

Platoon

Steel Magnolias

Clockwork Orange

Saw (is that high profile)

O' Brother Where Art Thou (must seeeee)

Jaws

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2001

Alien

Notorious, and a lot more Hitchcock

No movies by Bergman

Unforgiven, or any other Clint westerns, the Clint i now is a director of weird thrillers. and Oscar bait movies.

Raging Bull

Bringing up baby

Life of Brian, and i have the dvd, but it doesn't have subtitles and the british dialog is hard to understand for me.

Here are some movies I haven't got around to seeing:

MEMENTO

JURASSIC PARK

LOVE STORY

MEN IN BLACK

EL TOPO

HOME ALONE

BASIC INSTINCT (life's too short)

SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT

INDEPENDENCE DAY

NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD

FIGHT CLUB

ETERNAL DESTINY OF THE SPOTLESS MIND

HAROLD AND MAUDE

PASSION OF THE CHRIST (I'll stick with Pasolini's version, thanx)

THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW

AMELIE

Anything with Julia Roberts in a starring role (not that I dislike her, but her movies never seem to interest me, though I may see ERIN BROCKOVICH someday)

Any in the following series:  Pirates of the Caribbean, Bourne, X-Men, Halloween, Mission:  Impossible, Friday the 13th

Quite a few animated movies:  THE LION KING, TOY STORY, MADAGASCAR, RATATOUILLE, HAPPY FEET, ICE AGE, CHICKEN RUN, A BUG'S TALE, OVER THE HEDGE, MONSTERS INC.

The following Best Picture Oscar winners: CIMARRON, THE GREAT ZIEGFELD, GENTLEMEN'S AGREEMENT, Olivier's HAMLET, THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH (THE LIFE OF EMILE ZOLA I only saw the first part of because Letterman was coming on; MRS. MINIVER and GOING MY WAY don't count because I tried to watch them, though I couldn't)

Signed, 

The artist formerly known as Zorro.

I see some relating material here.

-Rambo, First Blood -- This is different from all the other Rambo movies in that it isn't Rambo running around shooting terrorists while bullets bounce of his body.  It's a weird film, and it does some good to show what happened to vietnam vets after the war.  Stallone does a great acting job towards the end when he has a breakdown in front of the general.  It takes the film a while to get going, it isn't all bullets and explosions from the get-go, which is what separates it from the others.

Hitchcock - There is a documentary out called The Pervert's Guide to Cinema, where some austrian psychoanalist named Slavoj Zizek breaks down popular films in a fruedian way.  I must say, although I don't completely agree with his theories the guy gives a very interesting POV for some of the films.  Here's his bit on Birds, I'd fast forward to 1:45 if I were you:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sFqfbrsZbw

is that for as violent as the later Rambo films became, he didn't kill a single person in First Blood.  Sure, he shot at the chopper and as a result, the chopper's sniper fell to his death, but that was not an intentional killing, so by my ruling it doesn't count.

HS

Movies from the list that I haven't seen but want to see

-2001 A Space Odyssey

-Citizen Cane

Movies not from the list that I won't see

-Spiderman 4-Infinity (fuck it, I'm through)

-Almost every Disney film ever made

-Any of those spoof movies that end in the word "Movie" (gawd those movies look so bad, the trailers make me sick. When I see a trailer for one of those movies at the movie theatre, I start to question the caliber of movie that I'm about to watch.)

...what...what were talking about again?

As for what I haven't yet seen, I don't feel like spending an hour trying to remember all the oddball cult flicks I've heard of but haven't yet seen, so I'll thrown in a few that I can easily find the names of:

IMDB Top 250 flicks - Paths of Glory, The Lives of Others, The Great Dictator, The Big Sleep, For a Few Dollars More, Wages of Fear, Wild Strawberries, Kind Hearts and Coronets, The General, Diaobolique, a few others.

Hits - Alvin and the Chipmunks, Runaway Bride, the High School Musical films, Dirty Dancing a few others (there aren't really many films I avoid on principle, just films I never quite get around to watching)