3 Notable movies you’ve never seen

Schindler's List is well worth seeing.

 

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If you've watched Godfather I and II and gotten interested in the storyline, Copolla's re-edited version of III, "The Death of Michael Corleone," is worth watching.

 

I preferred the original III ending to the new one.

 

I'm not even a movie buff, but some movies y'all haven't seen have me scratching my head.
Of course I view things as a stone cold Gen Xer, but you seriously have to be living under a rock not to have seen some of these.
Is it an age thing? Maybe that makes a difference.

 

I love movies so much. They have always been my thing. I am a little surprised by some of these responses, too. But I also know movies are not everyone's thing. Plenty of times I've sat down with someone and said how great something was and they slept through it.

That said, movie watching has changed. I watch many fewer than I once did. My wife and I before kids would physically go to a movie once a week. We surely saw some clunkers that way, but it was always fun. Now I only go with something I am dying to see and think will be better on the biggest screen with the most awesome sound.

You don't have rentals anymore where you would go and choose something you wanted to watch and then had a day to do so. And then go back and do it again. You don't have Netflix by mail anymore where you build up this awesome queue and want to get to the next one and see how many you could get in a week! Movies by mail almost single handedly got me through my wife's residency.

Through streaming and on demand and movies being available in weeks instead of months or a year, I have more movies at my fingertips than ever before. It is awesome, but I have a hard time finding that motivation to start one. I still watch plenty, maybe even one a week, but it so often is some old favorite.

So I get it some. It is definitely an interesting medium and how people consume it, that's for sure.

 

It has definitely changed. I remember waiting anxiously for the opportunity to watch Star Wars again. It was years before they had it on HBO. They made an event of the first showing. Now, it's barely a month or two before a movie is on a streaming service.

We still go to movies, but maybe once every couple of months. I see the Marvel stuff opening weekend, mostly because avoiding spoilers is annoying, but sometimes I'm tempted to just wait until most movies are streaming.

I'm occasionally reminded of why going to the theater can be great. Spider-Man: No Way Home was great to see in a packed theater for the reactions to some scenes. Avengers: Endgame was the same way. Infinity War was, too, but for a different reason. The silence at the end was really something. People can make fun of those movies all they like, but the good ones can really hit the right notes.

 

I went to the movies all the time as a kid in the 70s and 80s and regularly as a young adult in the 90s. Now, it's about once a year. The only movies I go see are new Indiana Jones, James Bond, or Star Wars flicks.
I'm far more likely to watch Smokey and the Bandit for the 100th time on my TV than I am to go to a theater to see something new. I did go see the new Top Gun earlier this year because it was Top Gun.

 

I’ve only seen four of the AFI’s top 10.

But I also have a general tendency to stay away from movies made before 1970.

There’s less than zero chance, for example, that I’ll ever sit through Singin’ in the Rain.

 

One of those movies that surprised me how funny it was. The dancing was pretty good too. I imagine there are on-line "movie clubs" where you can watch a certing group of movies over a period of time and have discussions about them. Took a class on Films of the '50s one year in college, and youi learned a lot about the subliminal stuff in movies, how some movies about X, were really about something completely different (usually the Communist threat) and the impact of the Hayes Code. (Pre G-PG-R ratings etc(.

 

The ending itself I can go either way on, but the introduction and opening sequence is much better in the new version. Less convoluted.

 

I'm guessing I'm older than you, but I think you're making a mistake by not seeing some/most older films.

I'll admit that I'm a bit of an "old movies" fan -- but that's because I've become one, by watching them.

I've found that they are often better than much of the stuff made today/more recently, despite the fact that that they were often gentler, more restrained, more tame, more straightforward, and much cleaner in terms of language, violence and sexual scenes.

All that did, seemingly, was to make it so that the movies truly had to be good otherwise, and the stories had to be better. And oftentimes, they were.

Much of the acting also was just sogood, and the performing talent soobvious that, once you watch it, you can't help but appreciate it first, and then, come to like it, too.

FYI: I've seen 83 of the AFI Top 100. So, not all, but a good portion of them (including Singin' in the Rain).