I haven't seen:
Pretty Woman
Sleepless in Seattle
When Harry Met Sally
Love Actually
Notting Hill
Muriel’s Wedding
My Best Friend's Wedding
My Big Fat Greek Wedding
Anything to do with Bridget Jones
All of which begs the question why I'd be watching something about Romcoms, but there you go.
This led me to thinking about famous films I haven't seen. I also haven't seen Ghost or Dirty Dancing, for instance, which apparently makes me weird.
What famous films haven't you seen, AWIMB?
Most of them. Fillums are over-rated imo. They usually either bore me in 10 minutes or just look crap. :shrug:Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
I can't watch Ghost, it makes me cry myself unconscious. Dirty Dancing was excellent, but perhaps a little... of its time?Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
Blimey, there are loads of classic movies I've never seen.
Blade Runner
Any of the Godfathers
2001 A Space Odyssey
Escape From New York
Friday 13th
Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Last Tango In Paris
The Railway Children
I have watched not a one of thon super-hero movies
Well,not since Christopher Reeve
Iron Man :nono:
Ant man :nono:
Batman :nono:
Oh yes, I forgot those. Are they the Marvel ones you hear about?Quote:
Originally Posted by TheCurly
They sound like utter *******s to me.
I'm actually in shock that you haven't seen the first two Godfathers. :yikes:Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
The others are all fair enough - Blade Runner is silly and 2001 gets shít after it stops being about the apes - but not to have seen The Godfather 1 and 2 seems a MASSIVE gap in your filmic history. :-(
Yeah. They all end up with people who basically can't be hurt smashing each other into buildings, streets and cars for about half an hour.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
:shrug: You haven't seen Love Actually or Bridget Jones's Diary but I don't call you a bad person because of it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
I'm not calling you a bad person, I'm just honestly amazed. Those films are so much a part of the fabric of modern culture and are so widely referenced, parodied and pastiched that I find it impossible to believe anyone can not have seen them.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
That's why one doesn't really need to have seen them. Offer he can't refuse, horse's head, yadda yadda.Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
But they're so much more than that. There's Jame's Caan's Sonny strutting around like a gamecock, there's Al Pacino undertaking one of the only subtle, slow-burning roles of his life as he gradually corrupts from stand-up college boy to evil mobster, there's Luca Brazzi galumphing around, there's Diane Keaton being a pain in the ass, there's Clemenza and finally there's Brando Brandoing.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
I've seen those films dozens of times. I still love them.
That!s all well and good, but you've never seen Martine McCutcheon steal Hugh Grant's heart at 10 Downing St, so you know nothing of film.Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
OK, well if I watch Love Actually, will you promise at least to watch The Godfather?Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
I went to see Suicide Squad yesterday.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
Mildly hungover. Box of popcorn, coke zero.
Big mac meal, 6 nuggets, fillet of fish. Boom.
Certainly. I have no objection to it, I've just never got round to it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
You ate those things actually in the auditorium? :yikes:Quote:
Originally Posted by SWv2
Do you know nothing of the code?
I expect he removed his shoes and checked his phone, as well :-(Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
Then it's a deal. I shall steel myself to watching some mawkish ****e by Richard Curtis and you get to watch a true masterpiece of cinema.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
I can't help but feel you're getting the better of this deal.
You're going to need a box of tissues. Not for ****ing.Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
I'm really not, you know. We have established that I have no soul, a piece of carbon where my heart should be and tearducts as dry as a nun's nasty.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
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Originally Posted by Burney
No, my apologies.
Just the cinema snacks in the cinema and then the proper food in the food court.
Tallaght Cinema allows you to take McDonalds in, but then it’s in the Square which is not a place you really go to unless there is no alternatives.
Fair enough, then. I'll let you off.Quote:
Originally Posted by SWv2
I watched an Irish film the other day. Sing Street it was called. Quite fun, actually. Lots of shots of Dalkey, which brought back childhood memories.
Star Wars any of them.Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
Godfather
The Shawshank Redemption
E.T
silence of the lambs
Lord of the rings any of them
Harry Potter any of them
Gladiator
Saving Private Ryan
Braveheart
Any of those old movies like Casablanca or singing in the rain I consider all that ****e extremely boring.
So anything in black and white is out, basically? Blimey, f, that's pretty philistine.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pat Vegas
Nah anything with transatlantic accents, men slapping women and people standing around talking or standing next to telephones bores me to death.Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
The sound track is supposed to be excellent, which some will read as The Jam are on it. Which is both accurate and fair enough.Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
Very well received over here as you may expect.
The songs are actually far too good for a school band. I was in a band at school. Absolutely everything we sang was shīte. We had one song that was actually alright, but then the bloke who'd written it told us it was about wànking and we went right off it.Quote:
Originally Posted by SWv2
Saw thon.I enjoyed it but it's no CommitmentsQuote:
Originally Posted by Burney
No. Although it had the bird from The Commitments in it as his ma.Quote:
Originally Posted by TheCurly
I first thought "she hasn't aged well" then I remembered it was 25 years ago :-(Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
Was it the nice won? Imelda, was it?Quote:
Originally Posted by TheCurly
No, it was the dark-haired one that doesn't look like she's been hit in the face with a shovel.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C