Movies you admit you've never seen.......

To begin: Grease, Schindler's List, Avatar, Wall-E, Finding Nemo, Thelma and Louise, Rocky Horror Picture Show, Fight Club, Saving Private Ryan, Ghostbusters, Groundhog Day, Braveheart, Forrest Gump, Lord of the Rings and American Graffiti.

 

Oh yeah, I left out Rocky Horror and Fight Club. Never seen those either.

 

I think TNT shows it about once a year as a special occasion sort of thing. Kind of like when NBC bought the rights to "It's a Wonderful Life" and now it's only on TV one night a year instead of every night during the Christmas season.

 

First time I saw Eraserhead I was probably 12 or 13 years old. My dad took me to a revival house theater to see Tod Browning's Freaks, and it was on a double bill with Eraserhead. We had no idea what Eraserhead was going in. Strange night. (I've seen Eraserhead probably 5 or 6 times and I still don't know what it is.)

It's saying something when you see Freaks and it's not even close to being the strangest film of the night.

 

Another two I haven't seen.

 

Don't talk about one of them.

 

Titanic would have been better if some of the people who boarded had been drug mules and/or Irish independence radicals. There also should have been some explosives on board and maybe a vial of smallpox or two.

 

I was going to see Fight Club back when it came out, but someone told me just to read Jekyll and Hyde instead.

 

I'm pretty sure "It's a Wonderful Life" is in the public domain. Any station can show it at any time, I believe.

 

Per Wiki, it was at one time but doesn't seem to be now.

A fun bit of similar trivia on another classic film, however, is that the original "Night of the Living Dead" IS in the public domain. When they released the final version of the original film, they somehow edited out the copyright information. So if you, your grandmother, your nephew's roommate, whoever, want to show the film or use it in anything you can do it without paying royalties. Part of the reason why it shows up in the background of so many other horror movies.

 

Smallpox would have raised the stakes in It's A Wonderful Life, too.

That reminds me. They need to CGI Jimmy Stewart and put together It's A Wonderful Life 2: Back to the Shack.

 

Your father took a 12-year-old boy to see a double bill of 'Eraserhead' and 'Freaks'?
He sounds like the coolest dad of all time.