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

Saying 'Forrest Gump' was bad is not contrarian at all. It has become the default sentiment.
I can understand people not liking the movie, but I don't understand the hatred some feel.
It shouldn't have won some awards, but mostly it was just a a movie that had a brief surge of popularity due to an actor at the height of his popularity giving a quirky performance, some slick-at-the-time effects and a huge Boomer-nostalgia appeal.
I deserves neither effusive praise nor loathing.

 

Well, it trivializes and patronizes many of the people who made up its target audience. And it suggests moronic ambivalence was the best way for that generation to go through life.

Most of the technical-gimmickry stuff is just mildly annoying (although groundbreaking at the time, it's pedestrian now) and a lot of the jokes and humor have aged badly, but that's not the infuriating part.

 

Oh.......I've also never seen all of Bull Durham.......and I've never seen A League Of Their Own, nor any of the Dirty Harry movies.

 

I do know Mrs. Chef has seen Grease several times before.
I wanna do nothing but 80's movies one weekend.......complete with Animal House, Vacation, Ferris Bueller, etc, etc.......

 

Animal House is 70s. For accuracy's sake.

 

I don't think it trivializes or patronizes that generation, although perhaps it does not treat that generation with the weight and importance with which that generation views itself.
It was popular when it came out. It was popular among Boomers when it came out.
Because the special effects don't hold up is no reason to revile it.
It was a popular movie that received more acclaim than it should have. That does not make it hate-worthy.

 

I've never seen 'Avatar.' I've tried, but I've never made it through.

 

I saw Forrest Gump in the theaters and really enjoyed it. Still have a soft spot for it.
That said, I don't run to the TV if I find out it's one of the cable channels or bring it up on Netflix.

 

A lot of the popular movies that I haven't seen yet have already been listed.

One that hasn't though: Groundhog Day. Not necessarily on purpose, just haven't really had the opportunity or sought it out. I hear it's real good though.

One that I haven't but really need to see: Casablanca.

 

I was indifferent to 'Gump' when it came out, and remain indifferent.
I didn't see 'Pulp Fiction' until a year or two after it was released, so I felt no outrage at the time.

I loved 'The Blair Witch Project' when it came out, and that has become largely reviled.
The same with 'The Sixth Sense.'

 

I have seen just six of the 17 Academy Award best picture winners this century, none in a theater.

• 2016 - "Moonlight"
• 2015 - "Spotlight"
• 2014 - "Birdman"
• 2013 - "12 Years a Slave"
• 2012 - "Argo"
• 2011 - "The Artist"
• 2010 - "The King's Speech"
• 2009 - "The Hurt Locker"
• 2008 - "Slumdog Millionaire"
• 2007 - "No Country for Old Men"
• 2006 - "The Departed"
• 2005 - "Crash"
• 2004 - "Million Dollar Baby"
• 2003 - "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King"
• 2002 - "Chicago"
• 2001 - "A Beautiful Mind"
• 2000 - "Gladiator"

 

Looking deeper at the winners, I'm reminded I've never seen "Platoon," "Deer Hunter" or "Full Metal Jacket."

A list of every 'Best Picture' Oscar winner ever

Not so curiously, I saw every Oscar winner in the 1980s, when I was in my 20s, and eight of the 10 in the 90s, but just six since