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?

@JordanCatalano4Eva I'm not sure I can forgive this.... however I'll allow it just because if your user name! My So Called Life era Jared Leto is the best!

JordanCatalano4Eva
Harry Potter I’ve never read the books either and I never will

At least you have saved yourself the pain, trauma and heartache of watching Dobby the House Elf dying. I'm still traumatised.

TwoMonthsOff
@Crankley
‘beached whale’ haha 😭🐳
maybe you could watch Free Willy ?

It's how I feel in this heat. :)

I put out a couple of litres of water in a shallow tray on the patio for the birds every night and wondered how it empties so quickly. I've just watched a hedgehog demolish all the peanuts put out for the birds and it has now been drinking for the last five minutes!

Yep - it's the wedding scene!! Nothing happens. I might read half the wiki synopsis then watch the rest!

Interestingly I worked with a woman once who saw it at the cinema when it first came out, she said she and one other viewer ran out during the RR scene as it was so intense.

@ChateauxNeufDePoop
for me it is a masterpiece - the RR scene is heartbreaking, the acting is unbelievably good it’s so harrowing
but the wedding scene is way too long, it is still one of my favourite films
and it’s sad seeing John Cazale (fredo from The Godfather looking so Ill, he died shortly afterwards)

Beaveheart.

Or Braveheart even 🤷🏻‍♀️

Love Actually

Waiting for the remake of Dirty Dancing set in 2022.

It would be easier to make a list of the films I have seen! It would be a lot shorter.... Nothing post 2000 certainly with the sole exception of Hereditary,

To save time, I've seen very, very few of the films mentioned so far.

*Fight club

Watched it for the first time this weekend.
What a waste of two hours! I'm still not sure I actually understand it either*

he had schiziophrenia-split personalities didn't he? I think it went over many peoples heads.

I'm surprised at the amount of people saying the Matrix, Saving Private Ryan and Starwars, whilst they sold well at box office are are traditional classics it doesn't make them 'universal classics' in the style of the type of films you are guaranteed to see at Christmas and will have caught them once as they aren't exactly easy watching and are quite an acquired taste.
You will generally only like The Matrix and Star Wars if you are into Science Fiction. They aren't the type of films I'd have classed as assuming most people would have seen.

I'd consider the films I'd have expected vast majority of people to see under 60ish would be Home Alone, Dirty Dancing, Grease,Forrest Gump, Titanic,Ghost,Pretty Woman,4 weddings and a funeral...

I wouldn't even think Pulp Fiction be a film everybody would have seen, whilst it is regarded as Tarantino's best, it's still not on the level of the ones I mentioned.

Top gun , guess my era so surprised when someone my age had never seen it

Can’t imagine it’ll have changed much if it’s based in a state where abortion is now banned. I have to say I hate remakes, and aside from the scene with the sequence of baby practicing her moves, dirty dancing is pretty crap.

Jurassic Park!

James Bond films

The matrix
any Harry Potter film
lord of the rings

Star Wars
Braveheart
Saving private Ryan
The goonies
Die hard
Never ending story
Fight club

Lord of the Rings

Don't watch blade runner, it's shit.

Things that people are surprised I haven't watched: ET, the greatest showman, game of thrones, peaky blinders, downtown abbey

No. Sonny's is alluded to in a single clip of women joking at a wedding and no mention of the significance his mistress is given in the book. No explanation of why Luca Brasi is so scary, either - or the incredibly boring bit about the doctor in Sicily/the stuff about Apollonia beyond what happens to her in the end.

As a contrast to a PP, if it's a romcom/chickflick or themed around Christmas but doesn't have guns or explosions, I will not have seen it and never will.

Lasted about 3 minutes with Mama Mia. Regretted seeing more than the actual sinking part of Titanic and avoid all fast and furious shite or anything with the in vogue irritating comedy person of the day, whoever it is - and especially if it's described as 'quintessentially British'.

Of the films listed itt I haven't seen mama Mia, any of the Harry potter films or love actually

Braveheart (I'm Scottish)

The only films I have very little interest in are the Marvel/DC universe ones. I will give virtually any other film a go, hence I think I've seen everything on everyone's lists apart from Top Gun ( somehow missed it in the 80s, never bothered since).

Oh, and The Sound of Music, because Julie Andrews gets right on my tits.

@NeverDropYourMooncup

and especially if it's described as 'quintessentially British'.

There ought to be a thread for 'marketing phrases that put you right off books, films and tv.'

Me, I cannot fucking abide having my heart warmed.

Me neither and never intend to!