Films everyone assumes everyone else has watched but haven't

[Crankley]

Sitting like a beached whale in front of a fan resembling the front of a 747 engine, I flickied through the TV guide and saw Film 4 were broadcasting "White Christmas earlier". Someone obviously has a sense of humour.

It got me thinking about films which one would assume everyone had seen but haven't. I have several, the first being White Christmas. I've also never watched:

Titanic
Saving Private Ryan
ET
Silence of the Lambs
and a few more besides.

Are there are films you've never watched which would surprise people you know?

I have never watched
Star Wars

DP made me watch The Wicker Man at the weekend because he couldn't believe I'd never seen it. Can't see what all the fuss was about tbh. Next on his list is Blade Runner then The Matrix.

I've never seen White Christmas or Saving Private Ryan either.

I've never watched:
Star Wars
Alien
Die Hard
Star Trek
Any superhero movies like Spiderman or Batman etc.

Saving Private Ryan
The Godfather
Schindlers List
Braveheart
Goodwill Hunting
Snatch

I could go on......

I've never watched Pulp Fiction.

I think about my failure as a human at least weekly.

Star wars

lord of the rings

havent watched either

I've never watched Dirty Dancing.

There's loads of films I haven't seen that seems to shock people when I tell them

Star Wars
Godfather
Any Marvel film
Pulp Fiction
Reservoir Dogs
Indiana Jones and associated films
Star Trek
Die Hard

Harry Potter
Dirty Dancing
Ghost

Harry Potter I’ve never read the books either and I never will

I tried to explain the plot to DH and found myself having to keep saying the word, ‘abortion’. It rather put me off watching it again!

Rocky
Predator
Green Mile
Stand By Me
Saving Private Ryan

Never seen:

Casablanca
Titanic
Alien
Dirty Dancing (well I started to but thought it was a load of tripe)

I was once gobsmacked when someone told me they had never seen Sound of Music

ET, Titanic, Bridget Jones franchise, Notting Hill, Love Actually. Off the top of my head with those.

But there are probably many more films I've watched and wish I hadn't

So many people think I’m weird because I haven’t watched home alone…I don’t get it!

Blade Runner
Mad Max
Notting Hill
Love Actually
Saving Private Ryan
Green Mile

For example:

well, there’s this posh girl called Baby, and she finds a professional dancer in a freezer who’s crying because she needs an abortion, but she doesn’t have any money, so Baby asks her father for the money to pay for the abortion, but the professional dancer still can’t get the abortion because she has a gig on the same day as the abortion, so Baby has to learn the dance moves so the professional dancer can get an abortion, and that’s basically what the film is about…(stops to breathe). BUT the abortion doesn’t go very well and Baby has to ask her father, who is a doctor, to sort out the professional dancer.

DH: at what point does anyone say, ‘Nobody puts baby in a corner’

Me: That’s nothing to do with the abortion. That’s Baby.. She’s the one who has to stand in for the girl so that she can get an abortion 🤦‍♀️

Anyway, he won’t watch it now that I have told him the plot, even though it is BRILLIANT (… and I am not sure that I blame him).

😂

I have never watched Avatar.

Dirty dancing plot can be condensed very easily to posh girl carries some watermelons, helps other girl get abortion, irritates daddy by falling in love with bad boy dancer, daddy realises bad boy dancer isn't bad all ends well

The Exorcist
Four Weddings and a Funeral
When Harry Met Sally
Forrest Gump
The Matrix

I've never watched

Dirty Dancing
Pretty Woman
Any Die Hard film
Any Mad Max film
Any Star Wars film
Top Gun
Mamma Mia
Any Musical
Any Home Alone film
The Green Mile
Any Disney films
Any animated films ..Toy Story, Shrek etc

Brillaint!!!!!

KyaClark
I've never watched Pulp Fiction.
I think about my failure as a human at least weekly.

Not that you're being dramatic or anything?

I'm so glad I'm not alone and lots you've listed should be added to my list too.

Anyone who hasn't watched the first Die Hard, if you're an Alan Rickman groupie like me - it's really worth a watch; haven't seen any of the rest of them.

Never seen:
Any Marvel film
Any Quentin Tarantino film
Any Matrix
Shawshank Redemption
The Green Mile

The Greatest Showman
Lord of the rings films

The Lion King
Jaws
Back to the Future
Indiana Jones
Any James Bond