It's comforting to see an intellectual peer who has also not seen many of the established classics.
I've shared previously that I’ve viewed only a handful of the notorious BuzzFeed 100 essential movies, missing almost all of the generational cornerstone films, (e.g. the Disney movies, the Spielberg films like E.T., Indiana Jones, Star Wars, the Pixar films, the Marvel films, The Simpsons, and all the standard fandom fare).
But the sheer scale of my unseen films list makes the task feel insurmountable. I can only handle one or two movies a month at most, which is similarly why I've never gotten into television or podcasts. I can't fathom how people have the time for it all.
Just a few I haven't gotten around to from my the Buzzfeed list:
- Halloween
- Friday the 13th
- A Nightmare on Elm Street
- Robocop
- Mad Max
- Die Hard
- The Exorcist
- Jaws
- E.T.
- Schindler's List
- Close Encounters
- Saving Private Ryan
- Poltergeist
- Gone With the Wind
- Raging Bull
- The Godfather
- King Kong
- Tokyo Story
- The Third Man
- Seven Samurai
- Silence of the Lambs
- Deliverance
- Lord of the Rings
- Singin' in the Rain
- The Good the Bad and the Ugly
- The Fly
- The Birds
- To Kill a Mockingbird
- Suspiria
- When Harry Met Sally
- Texas Chainsaw Massacre
- Fargo
- Rosemary's Baby
- The Graduate
- The Cook The Thief His Wife & Her Lover
- M
- Scream
- Terminator 2
- Pan's Labyrinth
- Rocky
- Taxi Driver
- Blue Velvet
- Carrie
- Last of the Mohicans
- Reservoir Dogs
- Lost in Translation
- Night of the Living Dead
- Requiem for a Dream
- Dazed and Confused
- Buffalo 66
- Happiness
- Sideways
- Juno
- Pink Flamingos
- Passion of the Christ
- Black Swan
- Mulholland Drive
- Blue Velvet
- Eraserhead
- Dune
- the Matrix sequels
- most of the Star Wars films
- Aliens
- Risky Business
- Dirty Harry
- Once Upon a Time in the West
- The Omen
- Magnolia
- Predator
- Kill Bill
- Seven
- Casablanca
- The Usual Suspects
- Good Will Hunting
- Stand by Me
- No Country for Old Men
- The Prestige
- Ghost in the Shell
as well as...
- any Pixar film after Toy Story
- any of the Studio Ghibli films (Spirited Away
- etc)
- more than 1-2 superhero films (I saw The Crow)
- 90% of the Disney animated classics
- and with the exception of a small handful of films, anything produced after the year 2000.
I'll try to glean my culture vicariously through your journal. Thank you, TH!
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