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pidgin
Joined: 31 Jul 2005
Location: Seoul
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| I 2nd the Godfather. |
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Corporal
Joined: 25 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Sat Oct 07, 2006 6:20 am Post subject: |
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| The Godfather, I, II, III, or whichever it was I had to sit through, was some boring shit. So boring that all I remember was the horse head in the bed part. |
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HapKi
Joined: 10 Dec 2004
Location: TALL BUILDING-SEOUL
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| Posted: Sat Oct 07, 2006 6:43 am Post subject: |
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| The Omen. |
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JongnoGuru
Joined: 25 May 2004
Location: peeing on your doorstep
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| Posted: Sat Oct 07, 2006 6:43 am Post subject: |
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| The Chewbacca Defense wrote: |
| I've never seen E.T |
Me either. That's the only film posters have mentioned so far that I haven't seen. By genre, I'd say most classics I haven't seen are sci-fi. Just a personal preference.
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| I've seen more classic movies than most people I know, especially B&W films. |
You don't know me. Clearly.  Because I _own_ more classic movies than... well, just a whole lot of them. Not every one a classic, but plenty are.
I wish it were possible to somehow not know that a film was regarded as A Classic™ (or a turkey) before you watched it. I've often found myself going along with the crowd opinion on a particular film or actor for awhile, and then stopped and reconsidered... they weren't that great. And I think there are also a lot of people who are oppositely influenced by the stature and reputation of so-called classics -- the professional iconoclasts and pathetic little attention-seekers who'll only trash a film because everyone else likes it. |
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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: Established in 1994
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| Posted: Sat Oct 07, 2006 2:56 pm Post subject: |
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| You don't know me. |
Or me either. |
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SuperHero
Joined: 10 Dec 2003
Location: Superhero Hideout
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| Posted: Sat Oct 07, 2006 7:17 pm Post subject: |
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gone with the wind
sound of music
I bought citizen Kane at Kyobo and enjoyed it a lot. It was the only film I missed in film studies class. Well worth the 7,000 won it cost. |
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kimchi_pizza
Joined: 24 Jul 2006
Location: "Get back on the bus! Here it comes!"
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| Posted: Sat Oct 07, 2006 7:24 pm Post subject: |
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Citizen Kane and Jackass The Movie 1 & 2. Never have and never will (with the exception of C.K.)
Oops, you did say classic. At least I don't have to worry about JTM ever becoming one! |
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i_teach_esl
Joined: 07 Sep 2006
Location: baebang, asan/cheonan
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| Posted: Sat Oct 07, 2006 7:45 pm Post subject: |
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| seen every movie you all have listed. but ive never been to disneyland. |
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i_teach_esl
Joined: 07 Sep 2006
Location: baebang, asan/cheonan
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| Posted: Sat Oct 07, 2006 7:45 pm Post subject: |
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Honestly, this is the dumbest godd*mn thread topic I can think of. how many weird ass permutations of "so what's your favorite song" are we going to have to through? We've got "movies you've never seen" and "good songs on bad albums." How about we do "song titles that you don't quite remember" and we can write "you give love a bad something something" and "when a man loves a something something"
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i think HE needs to go to disneyland. |
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Hollywoodaction
Joined: 02 Jul 2004
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| Posted: Sat Oct 07, 2006 8:29 pm Post subject: |
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| I've seen more classic movies than most people I know, especially B&W films. And yet I have never seen a particular classic, The Godfather, because it's a gangster, killing macho film ain't it? and those types of movies don't interest me (at least not post-1950, the early gangster films were absurdly comical, thus interesting, not taking themselves so seriously). I decided at some point that indeed I should see it, along with its sequels, from all I've heard from others, though waiting for the right time, on a nice home theatre system or special public showing, to capture it as a cinematic experience for maximum benefit, because if I see it on t.v. I might be likely to shut it off midway and never get to see it in its entirety. |
You'd be surprised. I'm the Wilt Chamberlain of movies. Must have seen 20 000 of them, many of which are French, American, British, German, Italian, Spanish, Swedish, and Canadian classics.
BTW...The Godfather I, II, or III aren't classics. The classic Hollywood era of movies is considered to have begun in 1915 or so and to have ended in the 1960's.
A classic movie I've never seen, despite the fact that many critics consider the first movie of the Hollywood classic era, is Birth of a Nation. Movie critics seem to think it's of historical and technical significance, but I'd feel uneasy watching it knowing that it was meant to justify racial segregation.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Birth_of_a_Nation
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JongnoGuru
Joined: 25 May 2004
Location: peeing on your doorstep
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| Posted: Sat Oct 07, 2006 8:43 pm Post subject: |
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| i_teach_esl wrote: |
| seen every movie you all have listed. but ive never been to disneyland. |
I went to Disneyland once, but I was drunk the whole time. So does that count? I want to call it "Dizzyland", because it was and so was I. But don't think I was in the worst shape. I saw two completely sober (and fat) adults COLLAPSE ON THE GROUND while waiting in those mile-long queues for the popular rides. Direct sun, no shade. ("Daddy!! Is mommy dead!!??")
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| BTW...The Godfather I, II, or III aren't classics. The classic era of movies is considered to have begun in 1915 or so and to have ended in the 1960's. |
I was wondering if someone would bring this up. A separate category or distinction should be made for "modern-day classics". ET doesn't belong on the same list with Citizen Kane. It's like calling Cats and Aida "great operas". |
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VanIslander
Joined: 18 Aug 2003
Location: Geoje, Hadong, Tongyeong,... now in a small coastal island town outside Gyeongsangnamdo!
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| Posted: Sat Oct 07, 2006 8:47 pm Post subject: |
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Ya-ta Boy, if you've been a consistent film buff throughout your life you've got us beat from the mere fact that you began watching films in the fifties! So it'd be unlikely that I've seen more B&W films than you. But then again, I never said I've seen more than everybody I know, just most.  I'm the guy who travels for a weekend getaway at the NFB (National Film Board of Canada) archives in a sort of self-designed festival.
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| BTW...The Godfather I, II, or III aren't classics. The classic era of movies is considered to have begun in 1915 or so and to have ended in the 1960's. |
First of all, I never said a Godfather sequel was a classic, though some say one of them is.
Secondly, there is a difference between "It's a classic" and "It is one of the classics", "It is from the classic era".
"The Godfather is a classic film." That sentence has a clear sense and moreover it is true, or so says many a critic, cinephile and joe blow. Call it "a modern-day classic" or "timeless" if you wanna narrow your usage of "classic". |
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Hollywoodaction
Joined: 02 Jul 2004
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| Posted: Sat Oct 07, 2006 8:53 pm Post subject: |
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| VanIslander wrote: |
Ya-ta Boy, if you've been a consistent film buff throughout your life you've got us beat from the mere fact that you began watching films in the fifties! So it'd be unlikely that I've seen more B&W films than you. But then again, I never said I've seen more than everybody I know, just most. I'm the guy who travels for a weekend getaway at the NFB (National Film Board of Canada) archives in a sort of self-designed festival.
| Hollywoodaction wrote: |
| BTW...The Godfather I, II, or III aren't classics. The classic era of movies is considered to have begun in 1915 or so and to have ended in the 1960's. |
First of all, I never said a Godfather sequel was a classic, though some say one of them is.
Secondly, there is a difference between "It's a classic" and "It is one of the classics", "It is from the classic era".
"The Godfather is a classic film." That sentence has a clear sense and moreover it is true, or so says many a critic, cinephile and joe blow. Call it "a modern-day classic" or "timeless" if you wanna narrow your usage of "classic". |
A pretty liberal use of the word in this context, if you ask me. How about asking instead, "What old movies have you never seen"? |
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VanIslander
Joined: 18 Aug 2003
Location: Geoje, Hadong, Tongyeong,... now in a small coastal island town outside Gyeongsangnamdo!
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| Hollywoodaction wrote: |
| A pretty liberal use of the word in this context, if you ask me. How about asking instead, "What old movies have you never seen"? |
Geez. Who didn't you take equal issue with the posters before mine: "E.T" and "Clockwork Orange"?
I'm sure Tiberious has NO issue with The Godfather being considered a classic consistent with his intentions in creating this thread.
But thanks Hollywoodaction for telling us something we know. Now tell us about a classic film you haven't seen. Or, based on your one usage, are you saying you've seen every film "of the classic era"? C'mon. There must be one that has alluded you or you it. |
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Hollywoodaction
Joined: 02 Jul 2004
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| Posted: Sat Oct 07, 2006 9:37 pm Post subject: |
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| VanIslander wrote: |
| Hollywoodaction wrote: |
| A pretty liberal use of the word in this context, if you ask me. How about asking instead, "What old movies have you never seen"? |
Geez. Who didn't you take equal issue with the posters before mine: "E.T" and "Clockwork Orange"?
I'm sure Tiberious has NO issue with The Godfather being considered a classic consistent with his intentions in creating this thread.
But thanks Hollywoodaction for telling us something we know. Now tell us about a classic film you haven't seen. Or, based on your one usage, are you saying you've seen every film "of the classic era"? C'mon. There must be one that has alluded you or you it. |
Had I read those comments, I would have also mentioned those movies. By your definition, Police Academy is a classic movie. I'm sure Steve Guttenberg would be happy to hear that.
Reread the posts in the thread and you'll see that most people recognize classic movies as being movies from the classic era. |
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