Shit you've never seen that might surprise people

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Sopranos
Lost
24
Schindler's List
Apocalypse Now
A Clockwork Orange
Any Star Trek OG movies

I'm always surprised when people say they haven't seen The Wire or The Godfather... add on.

[drobizhek]

Game of thrones.

[siLLy KiD]

never finished the wire.... somewhere in season 3, although at this point ill probably just start season 3 over again

also:

the running man

forgetting sarah marshall (although i finally started it but fell asleep after like 45 min)

casablanca

i think that's pretty much the main one's that would even remotely surprise anyone.

[Philaflava]

Lost
24
Big Bang Theory, Modern Family or hit comedy on basic cable in over a decade.

[Larry2times]

The Football Factory/any Nick Love n' Dyer joint. jokes is jokes but thats commitment
12 Years A Slave
Hunger -no excuse here tbh
The Color Purple
the Craig James Bonds that arent Casino Royale
Guess Whos Coming To Dinner
Maid In Manhattan
A lot of tupac films
A lot of John Singleton films
Woodstock - been in proximity though dont eat the brown acid got it im grand

Ive seen bits of some but

I actually just started Lost recently. All the silly shit that pissed me off and made me quit originally just gets shrugs now now, its pretty solid often great mystery nonsense. lol they just threw in time travel though and the exposition/meta commentary shit to compensate is hilariously brazen I bet they think theyre being funny on purpose but we see you s/o Leslie Arzt. hall of fame bad accents/YOU SEE WE ENGLAND CHECK OUT MY RED BUS CHECK OUT MY RED PHONE etc though

[Larry2times]

true story - one time when I was around 17-18 at a dude I kinda knew's (pleasant man, wed know the same people but wouldnt hang out) house and the Simpsons came up
"that one? I wouldnt be into that at all. Never watched it."
"......what? you mean The Simpsons?"
"You for real?"
"yeah. eh, its shite lads."
"No way. What? Its class. Its The Simpsons! Howve you not seen it?"

this goes on for a bit and we ask him what he does like

he lights up - "wait a minute"







he throwns on a dvd of On The Buses.

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Breaking Bad
The Wire
Mad Max movies
Hitchcock classics
24

[drizzle]

Big Bang Theory, Modern Family or hit comedy on basic cable in over a decade.

x2

I think Community is the one that surprises people the most. Everybody just assumes I'm all about it. Don't have anything against it, just never really had any interest in it.

for movies, Titanic as far long term, 12 Years A Slave in short term.

[Comedy Quaddafi]

http://boxofficemojo.com/alltime/world/

All Time Box Office - WORLDWIDE GROSSES #1-100

I have seen 14 of them LOL.

[LilLeftBrain]

watched Rocky like three weeks ago, always figured that was something i had seen as a yung'un and caught enough bits of here and there that could reasonably say i've seen it, but most of that was newnew to me. ronn bangton often says 'and i'm going to have to say a bad word here' prior to saying whore and did not know that was from rocky prior towatching. i'm sure theres tons of shit like that, 85% of jedi would likely be new to me, prob empire too, but did watch the new hope ~ the time the i guess third one came out so know that one enough, psycho, the birds, jaws, etc as well. going to watch the rest of them rockys now btw, s/o lez artz
12 yrs, avatar, big comic jawns, strr treks, etc etc if those would be worth mentioning

[Spartan]

Film:
About 80% of Sight & Sound's Top 100 films of all time list.
If there's no fighting, shooting, killing, or fucking in it, I'm usually avoiding it like the plague.

TV:
Take your pick of US TV shows that are topics from the first three pages of CYE and I've seen maybe none of them.

Add all those Scandinavian dramas that are all the rage too.

A shit load of UK crap like Downton Abbey and Sherlock, that seems to be popular both here and in the US too. Could not give a monkey's about them, no matter how much people praise them.

I just can't watch episodic content week after week and would rather put on a DVD, a Blu-Ray or hope there is something decent on Film4.

[LilLeftBrain]

casablanca -=- an affair to remember -=- doctor zhivago -=- love story -=- an officer and a gentleman -=- the notebook

[drizzle]

^ casablanca is the only one of those that's a real omission

you guys have some strange ideas of what constitutes pop culture canon/must sees. who gives a fuck about sarah marshall or maid in manhattan

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Jurassic Park
Harry Potter
Most kids movies
Men In Black

[ThaJim2]

Curb Your Enthusiasm
Seinfeld
Friends
Reign
Heart of Dixie
Gossip Girls

[LilLeftBrain]

twas just an ew list i was reading regarding fault in our stars
guessing you were ~12 when jursassic park dropped? think i was tenish, can't fathom anyone in that age bracket not hitting up the theatre for that and talking incessantly afterwards
reign
not really any more outlandish than saying mo family or big bang tho

[Blockhead]

Lost
24
Big Bang Theory, Modern Family or hit comedy on basic cable in over a decade.

Ditto
I'll add on-
most pixar movies
Godfather 2

[drizzle]

Godfather 2

dude

something things are whatever but this is not one of them

[Jayou Ayen]

Breaking Bad
The Wire
Mad Max movies
Hitchcock classics
24

What the fuck is wrong with you?
Specifically regarding the first three listed.



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[LilLeftBrain]

was forced to rattattooey and very much hope i never have to pixar again
have seen every hart of dixie tho, which don't think i ever even got around to admitting in the designated thread for it

[LilLeftBrain]

blook did you just watch the first goodfather home of the good father and just stop?

[Cash Rulz]

I've seen most everything on tv at least once but most things just don't hold my attention.

Same with movies. I've probably seen all the major American joints.

[Blockhead]

Godfather 2

dude

something things are whatever but this is not one of them

I know I know. To be honest, mafia movies never grabbed me (even though I've seen most of the other famous ones at this point) so I just kinda let this one slip by me. I plan on seeing it...just haven't gotten around to it.

[Dan]

The Wire
South Park
Mad Men
24
The Deer Hunter
Anything made by Pixar
Jurassic Park movies
Anime

[Philaflava]

People that have never seen even one episode of The Sorpanos scare me.

[Random Sample]

guessing you were ~12 when jursassic park dropped? think i was tenish, can't fathom anyone in that age bracket not hitting up the theatre for that and talking incessantly afterwards

I was 15 when Jurassic Park came out. I don't give a fuck about dinosaurs.

What the fuck is wrong with you?
Specifically regarding the first three listed.

I don't know. I always found something else to watch. They are on my list to watch though. Now that I have HBO, I am going to start watching The Wire.
As far as Mad Max goes, I can't handle listening to the Australian accent for more than 20 seconds. It is like fingernails on a chalk board.

[ThaJim2]

was forced to rattattooey and very much hope i never have to pixar again
have seen every hart of dixie tho, which don't think i ever even got around to admitting in the designated thread for it

How is the heart of Dixie? Big fan of the Summer so might try to catch up on this along with Reign this summer.

[Rabbi Jihadovich]

twin peaks

[LilLeftBrain]

dixies got fits and spurts of legit entertainment, it's really fucking goofy tho, like a shade shittier gilmore girls. that right type of which i always have been and shall continue to be a sucker for. & yeah summer's pretty great as always

[mike eagle]

any godfathers

any mad max

gattaca

six feet under

californication

any pirates of the carribean

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