Classic Movies You Haven't Seen

[Cruel_Sandwich]

Posted: 10/6/05 at 10:04am

I am ashamed to say that I have not seen The Shawshank Redemption. And that's even more shameful considering that Thomas Newman did the score...

[SorryGrateful]

Posted: 10/6/05 at 10:06am

I haven't seen It's a Wonderful Life.

[katygrace84]

Posted: 10/6/05 at 10:17am

Where do I begin? There are a ton I haven't seen:
Animal House
Caddyshack
American Grafitti
The Deer Hunter
Deliverance
To Kill A Mockingbird
Any of the Bond movies

The list goes on and on....

[Magdalene]

Posted: 10/6/05 at 10:28am

I haven't seen any John Wayne movies---not a huge fan!

[smartpenguin78]

Posted: 10/6/05 at 10:40am

SG, for the longest time I had only seen the end of Its a Wonderful Life, except for the very end. Now that 20 minutes is a great dark movie.
Until the Bond and Wayne movies I had seen all of them on this thread.

I have never seen The Sound of Music, or West Side Story
considering my love of musicals I'd say I'm ashamed of that. (In my defence I saw most classics as a kid, and my parents HATED musicals.)

[SorryGrateful]

Posted: 10/6/05 at 10:48am

penguin, do you want to be BFFs?

[smartpenguin78]

Posted: 10/6/05 at 11:03am

Sounds like fun SG, we can play Sondheim on a constant loop.

[Elphaba]

Posted: 10/6/05 at 11:04am

I find very few of the ones listed so far to be "classic", except for it's a wonderful life......

sorry, caddyshack is not classic.........Gone with the Wind, Now, Voyager, The Women, Sunset Blvd, A Raisin in the Sun.....ALL classics

[smartpenguin78]

Posted: 10/6/05 at 11:11am

All the ones you listed are certainly classics Elphaba, but To Kill A Mockingbird is definitely on most people's classic list as well.

There is an arguement to be made for modern films, such as Shawshank Redemption to be considered classics. Besides we are listing movies we haven't seen, somehow other than quality they have entered our conciousness as classics.

(Not that I actually consider Animal House, Bond movies or Deliverance classics, I just think an arguement can be made.)

[SorryGrateful]

Posted: 10/6/05 at 11:15am

I think that Caddyshack is a classic in the comedy realm, as is Animal House, but not in the overall classic film realm. I think we need to define "classic" in order to answer this question more fully. Sandwich, would you care to define? We're getting bogged down in rhetoric over here.

[Magdalene]

Posted: 10/6/05 at 11:17am

I listed the John Wayne movies, because his fans are a rabid group, and usually are appalled that I haven't seen any (and I think "The Quiet Man" would fit into the classic category---IMHO, of course!)

[smartpenguin78]

Posted: 10/6/05 at 11:23am

And now the arguements have been made, Classic is subjective. I agree SG that Caddyshack and Animal House are modern comedy "classics" as with favorites, "the best ever" and any other distinction it is in the mind of the beholder.

If Dance of the Vampires was the only show I ever saw it would be the best I ever saw, even if I hated it.

Especially for those of us under 30, movies from the 70's and 80's can easily attain classic status, as they have been in our conciousness for the entire cognizant portion of our lives.

(I'm having fun bogged down in rhetoric. )

[SorryGrateful]

Posted: 10/6/05 at 11:30am

If this is true, penguin, can we count Legend as a classic? (But we'd need to forget that Tom Cruise is in it first.) I grew up with that movie. Oh! And maybe The Last Unicorn?

[smartpenguin78]

Posted: 10/6/05 at 11:33am

I must say the presence of Tom Cruise immediately and objectively eliminates any film from classic consideration.

The Last Unicorn could make it.

[Elphaba]

Posted: 10/6/05 at 11:35am

I guess for me, in the case of films....classic denotes a passage of time, where the film is considered by most to be a classic. Things like Animal House and Caddyshack just don't seem to have been around long enough to do that, in my opinion.
That doesn't mean one day they couldn't be classics........

Updated On: 10/6/05 at 11:35 AM

[smartpenguin78]

Posted: 10/6/05 at 11:39am

Here is the thing though, films from the fifties and sixties were considered classics by the eighties. Films from the 80's have now had that same amount of time to acquire "classic" status.
I'm still not saying you are wrong Elphaba, just giving a different opinion.

[SorryGrateful]

Posted: 10/6/05 at 11:40am

OK, I agree with you on that one. I think age has a lot to do with it. It's hard for me to see anthing made after '75 as a classic per se. But give movies time and see if they are still both vital and relevant in twenty years; those that are can be deemed "classics."

[yodamarie78]

Posted: 10/6/05 at 12:01pm

My name is Yoda and I have never seen Casablanca.

[shira467]

Posted: 10/6/05 at 12:02pm

Beaver, Boobs, DG...if you read this.

I assume you'll have a comment.

[redhotinnyc2]

Posted: 10/6/05 at 12:07pm

Shawshank Redemption is a must-see film. It is simply perfect from beginning to end. Ditto To Kill A Mockingbird (one of the great film scores of all time), and the performances are awesome.

Posted: 10/6/05 at 12:32pm

Godfather series
Scarface
Citizen Kane
Gone with the Wind


way too many to name

[JerseyGirl2]

Posted: 10/6/05 at 12:59pm

Never seen Casablanca

[ally_kay_on_broadway]

Posted: 10/6/05 at 1:23pm

never saw gone with the wind.... :s

[cudramacat]

Posted: 10/6/05 at 1:44pm

Man, there's a lot that I haven't seen but the one that comes to mind right now is Casablanca

[MargoChanning]

Posted: 10/6/05 at 1:47pm

You people need to get to your video stores -- and skip the New Release section and go to the classics. You'll be glad you did.