100 Movies I’m Embarrassed To Admit I Haven’t Seen Yet
November 10, 2008Now, I’ve been highly judgmental about movies I think everyone should see. But sadly, there are a lot of bonafide classics (Oscar winners, AFI’s Top 100, IMDB Top 250) that I haven’t seen at all.
This list would have been much longer if it wasn’t for Netflix.
- 12 Angry Men
- 25th Hour
- 2001: A Space Odyssey
- 4 Little Girls
- The Accidental Tourist
- An Affair to Remember
- The Age of Innocence
- Alien
- All The President’s Men
- American Graffiti
- Angels in America
- The Apartment
- Apocalypse Now*
- Babe
- Back To The Future III
- The Battle of Algiers
- A Beautiful Mind
- Ben-Hur
- The Big Chill
- Blazing Saddles
- Bonnie and Clyde
- Born on the Fourth of July
- Brazil
- Citizen Kane
- A Clockwork Orange
- Close Encounters of the Third Kind
- The Crying Game
- Dances with Wolves
- The Deer Hunter
- Doctor Zhivago
- Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
- Ed Wood
- Fargo
- Field of Dreams
- A Fistful of Dollars
- The Five Heartbeats
- Fletch
- Four Weddings and a Funeral
- The French Connection
- Funny Girl
- Gone With The Wind
- The Good, The Bad and the Ugly
- The Grapes of Wrath
- The Green Mile**
- Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner
- Hamlet (1948)
- Hannah and Her Sisters
- Harold and Maude
- It’s A Wonderful Life
- JFK
- The King of Comedy
- King of New York
- L.A. Story
- The Last of the Mohicans
- Lawrence of Arabia
- Life Is Beautiful
- The Maltese Falcon
- The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
- Manhattan
- Marathon Man
- MASH
- Midnight Cowboy
- Mississippi Burning
- Moonstruck
- Moulin Rouge!*
- Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
- Muholland Dr.
- My Left Foot
- Network
- The Neverending Story
- The Nightmare Before Christmas
- North by Northwest
- Once Upon A Time In The West
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
- Ordinary People
- Rashomon
- A Raisin in the Sun (1961)
- Rear Window
- Rebel Without a Cause
- Road to Perdition
- Saving Private Ryan**
- Scent of a Woman
- Schindler’s List
- Sense and Sensibility
- The Seven Samurai
- Sid & Nancy
- Singin’ in the Rain
- Slacker
- Some Like It Hot
- The Sound of Music
- The Sting
- A Streetcar Named Desire
- Taxi Driver
- Terms of Endearment
- The Thin Red Line
- Tootsie
- Waking Life***
- The Way We Were**
- West Side Story
- Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Woolf?
Feel free to judge me
aw, now that’s just tragic.
there are some gems on there, hon.
get with the following immediately:
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
CLockwork Orange
Terms of Endearment
12 Angry Men
THE NEVERENDING STORY (OMG, you’re a mess)
Fargo
The Deer Hunter
4 Little Girls (be forewarned at the graphic “surprise” imagery in this one though. some shit you just can’t unsee…)
i saw schindler’s list in the theater. i have no idea why. and the sound of music might be my most favorite musical. they play it every year on network tv how have u not seen this?
I can’t believe there are actually movies I have seen that Sean has not! This is the highlight of my day.
You can do what I do with Godfather III – pretend it never happened. Unlike me, you’ve been spared Sophia Coppola’s acting. But Neverending Story??????? Are you serious???
An Inconvinient Truth should be on a different list: 100 Movies I’m Embaraased To Admit I Have Seen
I own it’s a wonderful life and I haven’t watched it—and did I mention I’ve owned it for 6 years?!?
Great list, some of those would make MY list too. I find it ironic that you keep falling asleep to “Waking Life”. I bought “The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly” (extended version) about 3 years ago and just finished it last month. Yikes.
To save time I’d say you can skip “Back to the Future III”, “Born on the Fourth of July”, “Godfather III”, and “An Inconvenient Truth”.
But you HAVE to see “Blazing Saddles”. It’s as good a satire regarding racism as you’ll ever see. I don’t think anyone will make (or be allowed to make) a comedy like that again.
Many people hate It’s A Wonderful Life because it used to be played thousands of times during the Christmas season. They says it cheesy and sappy and whatnot. It’s just plain good. Please watch it. Thanks!
The only film I’ll judge you about is Field of Dreams. But we can still be friends.
As for your list, I’ve seen 23 of those. I fell asleep during Moulin Rouge too, so I think that’s actually 22.
About half of those 22 I saw in high school. I don’t know what North by Northwest had to with AP US History, but we watched it.
Ive never seen Rocky, or Jaws.
Why do you even review movies if you have not seen some of the best? What do you watch? TV.
I have never seen ANY of the Godfather movies, Casablana, Gone With the Wind or Citizen Kane.
I’ve only seen 18 of those on the list myself. The Apartment sat in my DVR for weeks but I had to delete it without watching. Maybe some day…
Neverending Story? Seriously? Shame on you!
“Sebastian, say my name!”
The Movies I want to see on that list are:
The Thin Red Line
Taxi Driver
Slacker
The Seven Samurai
Rashomon
Once Upon a Time in the West
The Nightmare Before Christmas
Network
Marathon Man
Godfather:Part III
The French Connection
Dr.Strangelove
The Deer Hunter
A Clockwork Orange
and Bonnie and Clyde.
forget GFIII or BTFIII, Age of Innocence, Fletch!
Having seen 97% of the movies above,(I am old)
Please select the following as must sees first to whet your appetite you will then get on with the rest, btw excellent choices!
Babe
Citizen Kane
Clockwork Orange
Dr ZHivago
Fargo
GWTW
It’s a Wonderful Life
Marathon Man
MIdnite Cowboy
Rear Window
Singing In the Rain
Some LIke It Hot
Taxi Driver
You anger me with this list.
No more massages for you.
You’re not missing much
Waking Life*** (pretty dull, don’t bother with “Slacker” either. Same movie.)
Alien (also dull)
All The President’s Men (suprised this got made, really inside baseball)
Back To The Future III (goofy, none of the angst of the first or second)
Ben-Hur (pretty standard and very earnest biblical sword and sandal epic apart from the chariot race)
Once Upon A Time In The West (almost glacial pace)
Lawrence of Arabia (Not much here. I don’t think it works on a TV screen.)
The Godfather Part III (If you’ve already seen the first two, this is a let down for some fans.)
An Inconvenient Truth (I’m glad I watched it. Helps me make fun of people who prattle on about global warming.)
Move them up in the queue!
Brazil (Beautiful piece of art)
Citizen Kane (Backs up the hype)
A Clockwork Orange (Worth it just for the visuals.)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Worth it just for the soundtrack)
The Thin Red Line (Some of the best war footage ever)
Tootsie (Hilarious and timely)
The Apartment (Amazing acting, real characters)
Apocalypse Now* (spectacle)
Babe (Charming and warm)
Blazing Saddles (un-PC and bawdy)
Bonnie and Clyde (visually stunning)
The Sting (crackerjack movie, tight script, well-acted)
Taxi Driver (worth it for the last half hour)
Schindler’s List (again, it backs up the hype. And another great Williams soundtrack. Haunting.)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (only two movies have swept the major Oscar categories. You’ve seen Silence, so you’re halfway home.)
My Left Foot (Daniel Day powerhouse)
Network (Dunaway underrated in this movie. Really fragile character.)
The Neverending Story (Look in the princesses eyes is priceless.)
MASH (one of the best scripts of all time and Altman’s style meshes perfectly)
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (No flaws)
Fargo (Again, pitch perfect filmmaking. There is more to life than a little bit of money.)
Fletch (Chase is great, more actual drama than people give the movie credit for)
Harold and Maude (Cat Stevens!)
The Last of the Mohicans (Mann at his best)
I am the last person that can make any comments about classic movies that people haven’t seen. Everyone knows how insane my “never seen” list is. I think you’ve inspired me to do my list via Facebook note. Stay tuned for that. But as far as Back to the Future III, there’s really no reason whatsoever to see it. And u know how much I love the first two.
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