What are the biggest movies you haven't watched yet?
 

It's impossible to watch every big movie ever, just like it's impossible to play every good video game or watch every good TV show/cartoon/anime in existence. So you're always gonna miss some stuff.

I didn't really watch a lot of movies in the past 10 years or so, so I've missed out on a ton of big blockbusters and fairly well-known/big movies from the past 10 years. Basically like 95% of them lol

And, ofc, there's also the classics. A lot of them I still have left to watch, Tbh, I tend to hesitate publicly admitting that I haven't watched certain stuff because I don't want to feel pressured by people to "justify" the reason why I haven't watched it. But oh well, I'm just gonna list some classics that I'm yet to watch and really want to watch someday. Not gonna list movies I've missed out on but am not particularly interested in watching.

The Godafther II: I got to watch the first one finally a few years ago. I'll definitely get on to this one eventually.

Scarface: I keep forgetting about this movie.´

American History X: Somehow, I've never watched this one. Surprised I haven't caught it on TV ever when I was younger.

A Clockwork Orange: Ok, this movie rarely airs on TV where I live. It was banned in a lot of countries back in the day. It's never been banned in Portugal, but it's not like it aired often here. A lot of movies seem to rerun here all the damn time like Jackie Chan's movies and The Scorpion King, but A Clockwork Orange must have aired like twice on TV here in my lifetime. The first time I was too young to watch it, and the second time I just missed it. Fortunately, you no longer need to rely on TV channels to watch movies. Anyway, I really need ti watch this one someday.

Alien and Aliens: Don't seem like my type of movies, but well, I'm just curious.

Rocky II, III, IV, V and Maivia: I've only seen the first ever Rocky movie so far. Might as well watch the rest.

Pulp Fiction: Yes, I KNOW. Don't punch me, please.

Jaws: No reason in particular other than it being a classic. just wanna see what all the fuss is about and there's only one way to find out, right?

There's others, of course, but these are the main ones that sprung to my mind.

And then there's other movies that it's been YEARS since I saw them and have foggy memories of like The Terminator 2 And Fight Club. Both could use a rewatch each.

What about you? What are the biggest movies you haven't watched yet and sorta feel embarrassed to admit so? And what's your movie backlog looking like?

If you asked me this prior to 2014 I would have said a lot. But in late 2014 I discovered the 1.5x times speed option for movies and TV shows and never looked back. Over the last almost 5 years I’ve watched about 700 movies on 1.5x times speed and got through them all at a brisk pace. I watch everything online so I don’t Have to worry about buying blu rays or waiting if something is available I just watch what I want.

I also watched about 100+ anime and cartoons this way too and caught up on nearly everything that’s action or sci-fi oriented, I don’t care about comedy stuff mostly.

The 1.5x speed option is a godsend and it cuts watching movies almost in half. A 2 hour movie becomes a 1 hour and 20 minute movie. So I watch on average 3 movies a night unless I’m marathoning a show in which I watch 10+ episodes a night. If I knew this existed when I was a teen and if online streaming was a thing back then I would have done this a decade ago. What a time to be alive.

Classic CyberCubed :lol::lol::lol:

I hate the times we are living, people watching sped up movies en masse without even stopping and thinking about what they are watching. We are crazy people in crazy times.

A lot. Im not against seeing them. I want too but just haven’t.

Star Wars, Karate Kid, ET, Indiana Jones, Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, MCU. Godfathers, Scarface and Jaws for me too.

Obviously I’ve seen clips. I know enough about them to understand references and parodies but I still hate that I have not seen some of the biggest franchises.

I’m not going to speed up movies though. Just silly.

I haven't seen any of the Star Wars and Star Trek movies. Not that big of a sci-fi fan.

Haven't seen any Transformers movie either. I think CGI effects should be used sparingly and find Bay's comedy to be really childish and stupid so they have no appeal to me whatsoever.

A lot of films from the time between the 1890's and late 1960's. I guess most of us haven't watched much of that.

I've seen several 007 movies, but can't remember all of them. I've definitely seen Doctor No, Goldeneye and Goldfinger. And then a few others that I don't remember. Haven't seen any of Craig's movies. I mostly saw Sean Connery, Roger Moore and Pierce Brosnan movies.

I've always viewed Pierce Brosnan as the modern Bond, since he was the first Bond of my lifetime and the movie and N64 game Goldeneye left quite an impact on me. And then I saw Sean Connery as the classic Bond. Roger Moore certainly did well as Bond, though.

I've seen Casablanca but it's been years.

Didn't like Ben-Hur much.

Haven't watched the rest of your list iirc, but can't say I'm too interested in watching Titanic, Brokeback Mountain or Friday the 13th.

A lot that are already mentioned in this thread. I’m not a big movie fan in general so that doesn’t help. Tend to lose interest in some films after half an hour or so. Sometimes, I need to see them 2 times to really click with them.:lol:

Not a big fan of movie franchises or series either. I usually only like the first film.

I've never bothered with Marvel, Fast and Furious or Pirates of the Caribbean.

I also don't watch movies often, but I'd like to cut down on my backlog in the next few years. In the last few days I've watched 3 movies.

As for losing interest in movie after half an hour, that happened more often when I was a kid and watched movies on TV, since I could easily just change the channel. Nowadays if I watch a movie is usually on DVD or Blu-Ray or something like that, so I have no excuse to call it quits 30 minutes in.

I also watch movies when I'm on the computer at the same time, so if I feel myself zoning out on a movie I just browse online for a bit like I'm doing now while the movie is still on the right side of the screen. Have two windows open. I rarely watch on TV anymore, the only thing I use my TV for is videogames nowadays. If I didn't play games I would literally have no reason to own a TV anymore, nowadays you can watch everything on the computer. You couldn't say that back in 2005.

I basically consider myself a, "media master" at this point, because I can consume movies at 1.5x speed at the same time as browsing the internet while also having free time to play videogames after (which I obviously can't do anything else at the same time), so I am able to consume everything in only 2-3 hours of free time a weekday.

I feel sorry for people with "backlogs" or always want to watch something but can never find the time. I watch everything within the genre's that interest me and I do it so fast that I just move on from movie to movie. Obviously I have to see "new" movies in theaters that just came out, but I'm talking about old movies that are out already either on streaming or blu-ray.

There's a lots of movies I haven't seen

A lot of James Bond films
All Star Wars movies - I did try watching the 4th movie but couldn't get into it.
Most Star Trek Movies - I've seen some that have Patrick Stewart in them and 1st movie of the reboot.
The Lord of the Rings prequels
Some Harry Potter movies
Planet of the Apes old and new movies.
Mad Max old and new movies
Mission Impossible movies
The Bourne Movies
Godfather 2 and 3
Back to the future movies
Gladiator
Pulp Fiction
Goodfellas
Reservoir Dogs
Trainspotting
Fight Club
American Beauty
The Shawshank Redemption
The Green Mile
Taxi Driver
Scarface
UP, Monster's Inc, Frozen, Moana
I haven't seen a lot of movies from 50s, 60s and 70s like Casablanca, Gone with the Wind, Breakfast at Tiffinay's, ect.

These are the only ones I can think right now.

Ladies and gentlemen! Introducing CyberCubed! Consumer of Mass Media Extraordinaire, and Adept of None! (Seriously, Cubed, how can you hope to fully comprehend any movie or show's more subtle or important moments if you watch so fast you don't have time to mentally process them??)

On topic, I have never watched Scarface (seen bits of it, but no interest in watching the whole thing), any Furious movies past 4 (same reason), or any of the latest four or five Star Wars movies (basically stopped after TFA), or Nu-Trek after the first, and there are a lot of others I can't even think of at the moment. Plenty of TV shows I've never seen either- Flash after season 1, Arrow, Supergirl, Legends of Tomorrow, or any of the Marvel ones save a few random eps of AoS, and (all or most of) the last season or two of Ash vs Evil Dead, Lucifer, Buffy, Angel, and Charmed save a few random eps of the last three named. Never seen Lost (I know, right?) Or much of Supernatural, Game of Thrones, or any of Breaking Bad, OitNB, or some other "big" shows.

I have never seen any Star Wars film, aside from "The Phantom Menance" in a film class lesson on how not to make a film.

go watch them all now, or at least the original trilogy. The original 3 Star Wars movies are required viewing for anyone who consumes media.

I haven't watched a Star Wars movie in years. Since Attack of the Clones, in fact. So... since 2001? 2002?

I didn't like the Phantom Menace much, and I gave up on Attack of the Clones like 40 minutes in. Just couldn't get into it at all. Since then I didn't care anymore about Star Wars except for KOTOR.

6 years later... I've watched A Clockwork Orange, Aliens, Pulp Fiction and Rocky II and III.

I've liked all of them but I do feel Pulp Fiction is a tad overrated.

Damn, 2019 me was on to something. Since this post I've pretty much watched every "good" movie in existence. There's probably some obscure indie films I missed over the years, obviously you can't watch everything, but I've seen every critically acclaimed or top tier movie that came out since the early 1900's.

There's of course a lot of foreign films I haven't seen, if it's not in english it has to be a lot of effort for me to watch it, although of course I've watched a lot of Japanese and Chinese kung fu films like all of Jackie Chan's movies, Donnie Yen, Jet Li, etc. that weren't originally released in english.

I can't help but notice that people from countries where dubbing is commonplace struggle at reading subtitles. I've been watching stuff with subtitles since I was a little kid. When you're 6 years old they're hard to keep up with sure, but by the time I was 8-9 it was no issue.

If you could watch all of those Asian movies you mentioned with English subs back in the day then I don't see why you couldn't nowadays. My maternal grandmother dropped out of school after 4th grade and she never had trouble reading subtitles when watching TV.

I just can't be bothered. Obviously with Japanese/chinese movies or anime, you're used to watching subtitles because you have no choice there a lot of the time or the the dubs are awful and ruin the show.

But if we're speaking about stuff like French films, German films, etc...I just can't be bothered.

But why? It's the same thing. A film in a foreign language with subtitles. And the French and German languages should technically sound less foreign to your native English ears than Japanese and Chinese do.

For me and everyone else in Europe and outside the USA, American movies and tv shows are all foreign. Ever thought about that?

For me, it's either english or Asian. I just can't be bothered with all the other countries in the world. Like I sometimes forget all those other countries actually exist, like in my mind it's only the U.S. and Japan basically. The two most important countries in the world for animation, TV shows, videogames, and technology.

It's funny how without the U.S. and Japan, like 90% of the modern day entertainment would be gone. Like what are all the other 50+ countries in the world doing?

:lol: Never change :lol:

Sacré bleu

There are about two German films per decade that are worth a damn. Anatomy of a Fall was excellent but that was a German-French production.

I had to look that up because at first I wasn't sure if you were talking about Tarsem Singh's "The Fall", which was a great flick.

Das Boot is one of the greatest movies of all time, but other than that, I must say most German movies aren't very appealing to me. I did like Der Untergang and Goodbye, Lenin; though. Er ist Wieder Da... I preferred the book.

Portuguese cinema is pretty lousy too. Its golden age was at a time where movies were often still in black and white. Occasionally you'll find a gem but it's surrounded by trash.

The problem with Portuguese cinema is that first of all, production values aren't that high. We're a small country with only 10M people, so that's already a handicap. And the State does not give it enough funding. So that's another shot in the foot.

But that would be easily overlooked if the scripts and the plots of most movies were actually good. Portuguese cinema has a lot of pseudo-intellectualism in it and the actors talk like they're on a ****ing theatre play. It just sounds goofy and unnatural. It's like they plucked them right off the stage before they began rolling the cameras. And again, we're a small country, so it's like the actors and directors are usually the same faces and names and nepotism is rife and it's very hard for up and comers to break into the industry. And the insistence of directors casting a celebrity or two for minor roles is also ridiculous. I remember watching a movie where former footballer Luís Figo was on the screen for like 20 seconds where he made out with a hot chick wtf :lol:

Result: The movies end up being more appealing to the directors, their friends and other pretentious European intellectuals instead of the general audience. We have a severe lack of those classic blockbusters. There's a big lack of Portuguese action movies. It's all deppresing pseudo-intellectual **** or comedies. Or a movie whose selling point is a hot woman getting naked in it with sex scenes, but yet is not good enough to sit through 2 whole hours throughout it just to watch those partss.

It's ironic when you realize America and Japan make up like 90% of the entertainment in the world. There's like 100+ countries in the world and only 2 of them are worth a damn. The U.S. and Japan create the best TV shows, videogames, anime, and CG movies.

Two countries out of 100+ countries in the world. How is it every country on the planet is lacking except for two? All the biggest movies are from America. All the biggest shows are from America. Japan has anime and videogames. What are all the other countries doing?

Well being the 2 biggest economies in the world for most of the last 80 years does that!

China has surpassed Japan a long time ago in terms of nominal GDP, so its movie industry being rather lousy is actually rather embarrassing for a nation of 1 billion people...