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[Eater of Clowns]

I watched Gone with the Wind and Citizen Kane last year as part of an effort to see AFI 100 Greatest Movies (I still have 5 or 6 left that aren't on Netflix).

Citizen Kane is really, really good.  It would have been better, I think, if fucking piece of shit Family Guy didn't have one of their super awesome jokes where Peter told the entire theater the ending.  So there was no mystery for me.

Gone with the Wind is impressive, and not as terrible and difficult to get through as I thought it would be.  It's not the longest movie ever - that still goes to Dances With Wolves, which is about 4 hours with the director's cut (I measure time sometimes by how many Dances With Wolves it is, just got off of 2 Dances With Wolves worth of sleep).  The personal story that Gone with the Wind focuses on I don't really care about, but the larger theme of the vanishing Old South is interesting.

I could have gone my whole life without seeing The Sound of Music, though.

[hooplala]

I don't think its realistic to expect spoilers to be kept secret for 70 years.

[Pariah]

Everytime someone writes a list I go into a small seizure because there's always a movie that I love on there more anything.

I currently have one item on my list
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[BadBeast]

I watched Gone with the Wind and Citizen Kane last year as part of an effort to see AFI 100 Greatest Movies (I still have 5 or 6 left that aren't on Netflix).

Citizen Kane is really, really good.  It would have been better, I think, if fucking piece of shit Family Guy didn't have one of their super awesome jokes where Peter told the entire theater the ending.  So there was no mystery for me.

Gone with the Wind is impressive, and not as terrible and difficult to get through as I thought it would be.  It's not the longest movie ever - that still goes to Dances With Wolves, which is about 4 hours with the director's cut (I measure time sometimes by how many Dances With Wolves it is, just got off of 2 Dances With Wolves worth of sleep).  The personal story that Gone with the Wind focuses on I don't really care about, but the larger theme of the vanishing Old South is interesting.

I could have gone my whole life without seeing The Sound of Music, though.

I grudgingly sat through "Citizen Kane" about ten years ago, (grudgingly, because I was sick of being told how it was the best film ever)
because the girl who was waxing lyrical about how good it was , was hot, and I had every intention of bedding the wench.
I was really glad I made the effort, it was a riveting and engaging experience, from start to finish, and I'm not easily impressed by movies.
I can't say exactly that "It's the best Film ever made", but I can see how other people would say so. As an example of how to make a  Film, it is perfect. When I saw how long it was, I originally thought "That's too long for a film" but it isn't. There is no part of the film that isn't integral, no wasted points, all the ingredients necessary, in all the right amounts. It's other films that are too short.

It also made me think, how many other really good films are out there, that I would enjoy if I allowed myself to be persuaded into watching them?

However many it is, I'm pretty certain that "The Sound of Music" is not one of them.

(And yes, I did get the the girl, so it was a double bonus!)

[Eater of Clowns]

I don't think its realistic to expect spoilers to be kept secret for 70 years.

Screw that!

[Fredfredly ⊂(◉‿◉)つ]

i never want to see the Godfather or the second one
i never wanted to see scarface either but then i accidentally the whole movie
and it sucked

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I don't think its realistic to expect spoilers to be kept secret for 70 years.

Yeah, this.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

i never want to see the Godfather or the second one
i never wanted to see scarface either but then i accidentally the whole movie
and it sucked

I hate Mafia movies, they make me sleep.

[Thurnez Isa]

I kinda like sound of music


There's not many movies I wont give a chance to, hell though I haven't seen the twilight sequel Im sure I will eventually, and Im sure it will be "hilarious".
I guess the only movies I sometimes wont give a chance to is remakes. I generally hate most remakes. If I hear that a remake is doing something different then the original and is generally good I probably will give it a change, or if it's staring someone I'm just interested in seeing the role, even if I know the movie will be terrible - like Angela Bettis playing Carrie.
Though even remakes that are generally pretty good I have a hard time getting into if I have seen the original before hand (which in the schlocky horror genre, exploitation genre, or giant monster genre me not seeing the original is next to impossible)

There are lots of movies I would never watch again except in a form of torture - Frankenstein's Great Aunt Tillie, Malibu Beach Vampires, Death Nurse, The Crater Lake Monster, ect. ect.

I think the worse experience I've had in a movie theater is Titanic. Not because its a terrible movie, but because it's long, it's not my taste, and it just got me in trouble with my date at the time.

[Triple Zero]

Lost in Translation.  No shit.  Goddammit.

OOh yeah, good pick.

Also, Titanic, Schindler's List [seen it when I was young, no desire to watch again], Passion of the Christ, Requiem of a Dream.

I watched Audition when we decided to sort of randomly go see a weird-ass japanese movie. Bad idea. Don't need to watch again.

Agree with Freeky on the Saw movies, too. I only seen the first scene of one, where two people wake up in what seems to be a grimy public bathroom, chained to something or other and then they find a SAW of some kind and then I was like, yeah ... I can kinda figure where this is going now.


Also, the Sound of Music falls firmly within the "kinda bad but good" and "yeah catchy tunes" categories. THE HIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIILLS ARE ALIVEEEE WITH THE SOUND OF MUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUSIC

[BadBeast]

Lost in Translation.  No shit.  Goddammit.

Agree with Freeky on the Saw movies, too. I only seen the first scene of one, where two people wake up in what seems to be a grimy public bathroom, chained to something or other and then they find a SAW of some kind and then I was like, yeah ... I can kinda figure where this is going now.

I watched Saw, but the first time I saw it, I missed the first 10 or 15 minutes, and for the rest of the film, I thought I was missing some major part of the plot. Then I watched it again, about a week later, and realised that I wasn't.

A bit like, "Snakes on a Plane? What's that about then?"

[Triple Zero]

ITS ABOUT PEOPLE FAILING TO REALIZE THEY OUGHT TO TURN DOWN THE AIRCO SO THE SNAKES GO TO HIBERNATE SLEEP

AND THEN ITS AWESOME

[Thurnez Isa]

I watched Audition when we decided to sort of randomly go see a weird-ass japanese movie. Bad idea. Don't need to watch again.

Audition is awesome, especially when you figure out what is going on, or what's not going on (wont spoil cause it takes about three viewings to figure it out).
Though marketed really poorly, marketing it as a horror movie is a bad idea. Though I got what I expected from a Takashi Miike film.

[Triple Zero]

I dunno if I figured it out, then. I thought I had a pretty good idea. And I agree it's not really horror because the first half is really just like a sort of mellow romantic drama soap, a littlebit dreamy like you'd expect in a non-US movie. AND THEN SUDDENLY kidi-kidi-kidi-kidi-kidi-kidi-kidi-kidi-kidi-kidi-kidi-kidi

We all agreed we needed a strong drink afterwards.

[Triple Zero]

And yeah, if I'm being completely honest, it was indeed a pretty good movie, IF you can stand that sort of thing. I do, however, never need to watch it again before I die :-P