Never seen it, never will

[ArkieDukie]

I've never seen Fight Club either. I started to watch it one night last year and fell asleep when the two guys were on the bus. I have also never seen a single Rocky movie.

Ditto.

[windsor]

Austin Powers - any of them...never have, no desire at all.

[CameronBornAndBred]

Austin Powers - any of them...never have, no desire at all.

One day, when you are home sick on the couch and Austin Powers is on, you should watch it. (Whichever movie it is.) They are stupid fun.

[windsor]

Austin Powers - any of them...never have, no desire at all.

One day, when you are home sick on the couch and Austin Powers is on, you should watch it. (Whichever movie it is.) They are stupid fun.

Mnless Mel Brooks or Monty Python are involved I don't tend to find stupid funny. ...and for some reason Mike Meyers' voice in those movies is like fingernails on a chalkboard to me....

fingernails on a chalkboard...wow...there is a whole generation of children who have NO IDEA what that sounds like, since the 'chalkboard' has been replaced by the whiteboard....

[DukeUsul]

There are a ton of classics I haven't seen, but now that I've got a Netflix acct we're gonna go through and watch them. We just had Casablanca, which I've never seen. Very good. I have a new crush on Ingrid Bergman.

I really wanted Twilight to be on my list of "Never seen it, never will" but then my wife tricked me. I've seen it and it sucks.

Sex in the City movies. No way.

[Lavabe]

Sex in the City movies. No way.

Are you under peer pressure to see these movies?

[CathyCA]

Sex in the City movies. No way.

Are you under peer pressure to see these movies?

"Sex in the City" = porn

"Sex and the City" = Good entertainment

[Bostondevil]

I've never seen the opening 15 minutes of Saving Private Ryan and I never will. I can barely handle the violence at the end of the movie, my brother tells me there's no way I could deal with the Omaha Beach stuff.

I walked out of Kick Ass after about 15 minutes, maybe 20. I'll never see the rest of it.

Oh, and I've never seen Jurassic Park and probably never will. I won't actively avoid it, but I'm not seeking it out either.

If I ever finish reading Far From the Madding Crowd, start looking for the four horsemen.

[captmojo]

I've never seen the opening 15 minutes of Saving Private Ryan and I never will. I can barely handle the violence at the end of the movie, my brother tells me there's no way I could deal with the Omaha Beach stuff.

Your brother may be correct. It is quite very violent but I believe it to be very accurate to history, as compared to what I've heard from one that was among those in the invasion-liberation.
I will add this. If you watched the attack scene from Pearl Harbour, then you can probably handle Ryan. This comparison may not encourage you to watch but I do urge you to. It elevated a sense of both patriotism and stupidity of the causing (not the purpose) of war. This from both films. I never expected Pearl to be a love story, however, before watching.

[Lavabe]

Conan the Barbarian.

[bjornolf]

I've never seen the opening 15 minutes of Saving Private Ryan and I never will. I can barely handle the violence at the end of the movie, my brother tells me there's no way I could deal with the Omaha Beach stuff.

I will add this. If you watched the attack scene from Pearl Harbour, then you can probably handle Ryan.

I have to disagree there. Saving Private Ryan's first few minutes are FAR more violent and visceral than ANYTHING in Pearl Harbor, possibly than anything I've seen this side of actual war footage. Pearl Harbor feels like a well done action movie in the beginning. Saving Private Ryan, with the first person camera, feels like you're actually storming the beach as a documentary film maker. I found myself immersed in that scene in a way I have seldom been in a film.

[Miles]

There are a ton of classics I haven't seen, but now that I've got a Netflix acct we're gonna go through and watch them. We just had Casablanca, which I've never seen. Very good. I have a new crush on Ingrid Bergman.

I really wanted Twilight to be on my list of "Never seen it, never will" but then my wife tricked me. I've seen it and it sucks.

Sex in the City movies. No way.

I wish I could say "Twilight" as well, but I have also seen it. It had to be one of the worst, major-motion pictures I've ever seen. I find it appalling that the actors money and praise for putting together that pile of tripe. The books may be enjoyable, but the first movie was a joke.

I will never see "Sex and the City".
I will never see "THe Hurt Locker".
I will never see "Saw", or any of the sequels.

[captmojo]

I have to disagree there. Saving Private Ryan's first few minutes are FAR more violent and visceral than ANYTHING in Pearl Harbor, possibly than anything I've seen this side of actual war footage. Pearl Harbor feels like a well done action movie in the beginning. Saving Private Ryan, with the first person camera, feels like you're actually storming the beach as a documentary film maker. I found myself immersed in that scene in a way I have seldom been in a film.

I stand corrected...but not by much. I guess that having spent a lot of time at Pearl, I can vision some of the attack in my mind. I've not been to Normandy but I do understand what you're saying about that ground-level camera stuff. It's probably as realistic as it possibly could be.

[YmoBeThere]

Why not the Hurt Locker?

I've never seen Fight Club from end to end. Bits and pieces here and there. Sort of like Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. My mind wasn't able to take it all in in just a single sitting.

[captmojo]

Sort of like Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. My mind wasn't able to take it all in in just a single sitting.

Neither was Hunter Thompson's.

[lawgrad91]

I read Fear and Loathing... while I was recuperating from gall bladder surgery (the kind with the big knife, not the easy one). It made a lot more sense while I was under the influence of good painkillers. When I tried to read it later, not so much.

[Miles]

Why not the Hurt Locker?

I cannot handle war movies any more, especially after seeing my brother return from two tours in Iraq.

I feel the same way about them as I do with flicks like "Terms of Endearment". Those movies tend to affect me for longer after I've seen them. There is enough pain and tragedy in real life that I don't need to pay money to sit through a dramatization of it. I'd rather escape from reality.

[Johnboy]

Why not the Hurt Locker?

I cannot handle war movies any more, especially after seeing my brother return from two tours in Iraq.

I feel the same way about them as I do with flicks like "Terms of Endearment". Those movies tend to affect me for longer after I've seen them. There is enough pain and tragedy in real life that I don't need to pay money to sit through a dramatization of it. I'd rather escape from reality.

If this is how you feel, then whatever you do, don't see Sophie's Choice. It affected me for months.
This is the reason I can't seem to get around to going to the Holocaust Museum - I just don't want to be depressed for weeks afterward.

I still watch depressing movies, though, including Holocaust films (since seeing Sophie's Choice, I've seen Schindler's List, Life is Beautiful and The Boy in the Striped Pajamas).

[Lavabe]

Why not the Hurt Locker?

I cannot handle war movies any more, especially after seeing my brother return from two tours in Iraq.

I feel the same way about them as I do with flicks like "Terms of Endearment". Those movies tend to affect me for longer after I've seen them. There is enough pain and tragedy in real life that I don't need to pay money to sit through a dramatization of it. I'd rather escape from reality.

If this is how you feel, then whatever you do, don't see Sophie's Choice. It affected me for months.
This is the reason I can't seem to get around to going to the Holocaust Museum - I just don't want to be depressed for weeks afterward.

I still watch depressing movies, though, including Holocaust films (since seeing Sophie's Choice, I've seen Schindler's List, Life is Beautiful and The Boy in the Striped Pajamas).

I feel the same way about Holocaust films, but then I broke my vow and saw Life is Beautiful. The acting was priceless (Benigni and Nicoletta Braschi), and I break down every time I watch it. Benigni has been compared to Chaplain for his performance, and that sort of sold me on trying the movie. I feel much better and more complete having watched it.

Likewise, there are also moments that are touching in Benigni's (again with Braschi) The Tiger and the Snow. Not sure if Miles should see that one.

To me, if a movie is doing something revolutionary, or is Oscar-winning in some category that appeals to me, then I do make an effort to watch it, in most cases, vows be damned. Sometimes it just doesn't work... although A Clockwork Orange didn't win Oscar, I tried to watch the movie, and gave up on it pretty quickly.

As for the first minutes of Saving Private Ryan, gut-wrenching, but probably the best cinematography I will ever see.

[CathyCA]

Why not the Hurt Locker?

I cannot handle war movies any more, especially after seeing my brother return from two tours in Iraq.

I feel the same way about them as I do with flicks like "Terms of Endearment". Those movies tend to affect me for longer after I've seen them. There is enough pain and tragedy in real life that I don't need to pay money to sit through a dramatization of it. I'd rather escape from reality.

If this is how you feel, then whatever you do, don't see Sophie's Choice. It affected me for months.
This is the reason I can't seem to get around to going to the Holocaust Museum - I just don't want to be depressed for weeks afterward.

I still watch depressing movies, though, including Holocaust films (since seeing Sophie's Choice, I've seen Schindler's List, Life is Beautiful and The Boy in the Striped Pajamas).

I saw Sophie's Choice in May of 1983 in a theater in Jerusalem. The movie was subtitled in Hebrew, and there were Holocaust survivors in the theater with me watching the film. I went to Yad Vashem later that week. I sobbed, I journaled, I read, I studied, I talked with my professor, I raised my fist at God. Why, why, why??? And eventually, with the help of my wonderful professor, Kalman Bland, I had a breakthrough, an "aha" moment, an epiphany. It was a powerful experience. And that process, I would argue, is what a true liberal arts education is all about.