Movies I want to die never having seen

You're missing a good one in The King's Speech, it's excellent

Titanic

'The King's Speech' was directed by an extremely competent director.

One was swept away by the use of Beethoven and the director's good taste, so much so that one was able to ignore Helena Bonham Carter (who frequently gets on one's nerves).

50 Shades of Gray Twilight Sophie's Choice

I came to say Titanic. But also any and all Star Wars movies besides the first one.

Star Wars , all of them

[quote] 'The King's Speech' was directed by an extremely competent director.

[quote] One was swept away by the use of Beethoven and the director's good taste

Let me guess-- you were also swept away by The Crown.

The Greatest Showman

Anything with Nicholas Cage, Jean Claude Van Damme, Steven Segal, Chuck Norris or any of the lesser Baldwin's. Also Star Wars and Marvel movies.

Human Centipede

The Lion King

I've yet to see a single film based on a Nicholas Sparks novel and I'm fine living out the rest of my days that way.

But, yes, The King's Speech was lovely.

Forrest Gump.

Seeing Poltergeist when I was 10. Take that - and the recurring nightmares - back, as if I’d never seen it.

Titanic and any of the superhero movies that have come out in the last 40 years

R14: be glad you never watched the second one. That was my childhood nightmare film. Just the thought of the scene where the old guy walks up to the house still gives me chills 30 years on. The fact it was in the daytime made it even scarier somehow too.

Please learn English, OP

The Harry Potter films

Manhunter based on the book Red Dragon, and the sequel The Silence of the Lambs. I read Red Dragon almost forty years ago and it still creeps me out.

The Godfather, l ll and lll

Star Wars and its sequels (and ‘prequels’).

Titanic.

The Boondock Saints (because some stupid bro once said to me, “You’ve *never* seen that? Dude, it’s a classic!” By all accounts, it’s a ✩✩ affair, not remotely ‘classic’).

Scarface (because it appeals to the same type of people who like The Boondock Saints and Fight Club, and stupid Puerto Ricans).

St. Elmo’s Fire. The Big Chill. Less Than Zero. Metropolitan. Barf.

The Gods Must Be Crazy, Caddyshack, Meatballs, Animal House. Shown on HBO in the mid/late 80s incessantly, fawned over by knuckleheads.

Face/Off + any other dumb Nicolas Cage action or sci-fi movies.

The Godfather or any of its sequels. Why movies that glorify the fucking mafia are so popular with American film audiences is beyond me. Who cares about those amoral assholes and their stupid drama?

Harold & Kumar.

All comic book hero movies. All Disney movies from the late 80s onward.

Any movie starring Vin Diesel

How does Metropolitan fit in with all that dreck, R21? Do you mean the Whit Stillman movie? That's brutal. At least swap that out for Damsels in Distress...

Yes, R23, just going by the synopsis.

It's a cute little movie.

The Social Network. Anything with Melissa McCarthy. The updates of Ghostbusters and Wonder Woman.

R26 = misogynist

Forrest Gump

ET: The Extra-Terrestrial

The Breakfast Club

St. Elmo's Fire

Fried Green Tomatoes

Pretty Woman

Grease

All of the those Pirates of the Caribbean movies

All of the Twilight moves

All the the Harry Potter movies

The Help

A Star is Born (Barbra Streisand version)

Just about every sequel or remake

R3's "ones" add up to three.

One recognizes overdo when one is slapped with it.

I haven’t seen a single Marvel universe film and plan to keep it that way

Cannibal Holocaust

Precious Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire

Inception

Patch Adams

La La Land

Boyhood

Marriage Story

Mamma Mia!

Call Me by Your Name

Midsommar

Annie Hall

The Godfather

[quote] Precious Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire

LOL

"Precious" works great as an unintentional comedy.

R28, who pissed on your Cheerios? A lot of those 80’s movies were fun, and are nostalgic to those of us who were kids at the time.

Ferris Buhler’s Day Off, Dead Poets Society, Rocky,

TITANIC

Baz Luhrmann's ROMEO & JULIET

PULP FICTION

RESERVOIR DOGS

SCARFACE

The Richard Curtis penned films NOTTING HILL, BRIDGET JONES' DIARY, FOUR WEDDINGS AND A FUNERAL and LOVE ACTUALLY.

" A lot of those 80’s movies were fun, and are nostalgic to those of us who were kids at the time."

A lot of those 80's movies were crap. I guess you liked crap.

Wow, you guys. There's a lot of hate here for The Godfather. Considering that most critics considered Mario Puzo's best-seller a tough nut to crack as a film, I thought Coppola did an outstanding job turning a riveting story on the page into a stellar movie saga for the ages. If you dismiss it as nothing more than an unnecessary glorification of Mafia culture, then you missed the point. For one thing, most contemporary crime stories made for the big screen since then owe their existence to Coppola's vision.

And having read these lists, I gather many of you would rather while away your free time with videogames.

I happened to like the Harry Potter films, especially after reading the books. And while we're on the subject, I consider the sixth, or penultimate, film the best of the lot. The last book was dense with imagery and, I thought, spoiled by the swoony teenage angst of the main characters. But the thrust of the final book, apart from the showdown between Harry and Voldemort, was an epic quest.

And that's what made the sixth film IMHO unique. On the page, the search for horcruxes seemed repetitive and endless. But the movie incorporated animation and other visuals that were, to me, ground-breaking for the series.

Also, the acting in Notting Hill was outstanding, and better than in all of the other Curtis-penned films, with the exception of Emma Thompson's jilted wife in Love Actually. Her scene of heartbreak at discovering her husband's infidelity was a master class.

As far as movies I regretted seeing: anything with the Ernest character. I walked out of "Ernest Goes to Jail."

And I loathe anything involving the supremely untalented Will Ferrell or Adam Sandler.

^There's always some sour puss who can't just keep scrolling past a thread.

Almost anything by Tim Burton

Almost anything by Quentin Tarantino

Most Woody Allen movies

R42 we watched Uncut Gems a few nights ago and didn't know what the hell we were watching. I thought it was going to be a comedy. I don't even get the point. Was it just against sports betting or did it symbolize something? Then we watched something tonight (can't remember name) with Adam Sandler and David Spade (who or whom I tend not to like). Some okay ideas but a really bad movie. I guess they are putting stuff on Netflix that they were never going to release but people like me will watch almost anything now. I used to like Adam Sandler somewhat.

As for Will Ferrell, how can you not like him? Everything he does is funny. Just looking at him is funny. We watched Eurovision this week too, and that was actually much funnier than I expected.

Sorry I'm not following thread directives here.

You know what was the most boring? 2001 A Space Odyssey. I saw part of it and turned it off.

Pretty Woman

R42, I think it's wile away the hours, not while away the hours...

No, while away is correct, r48. But I like the metaphor of “wiling away” the hours ... poetic, even if not correct.

I loved “The King’s Speech”. You might enjoy it, it was surprisingly engaging and moving.

All Harry Potter and other Fantasy films.

Titanic.

Star Wars & Star Trek & all Sci Fi.

All Horrors.

All martial arts.

All Zombie and slashers.

There were a whole bunch of popular middlebrow Hollywood films from the late 1980s and 1990s that won Academy Awards for Best Picture that I know I will never see--they reputedly almost all involve sharing, and also, caring:

Terms of Endearment

Forrest Gump

Rain Man

Driving Miss Daisy

Braveheart

All of the above mentioned films except for 2001 which I have seen. I must have seen a few others but they made little impression on me.

You must see the original Scarface with Paul Muni. The ending is truly perverse in its violence and sexual innuendo.

Yeah- sleepless in Seattle or you’ve got mail. The notebook, the help, American sniper or whatever

Dear Mr Blech, R7, did I mention anything about queens or crowns in my R3? I haven't seen The Crown on TV.

For 26 years I have suffered from what what recently diagnosed as PTSD linked to seeing "Nell". I implore you not to make the same mistake I made and to add "Nell" to your list of must NOT see movies.

"Distant Voices, Still Lives." I just watched it on Mubi a few weeks ago. One of the most depressing films I've ever seen. It's not an awful film (actually, it's very well made with stellar acting). I guess I should've read up about it before seeing the film. Had I known it would be this gloomy film about a drunken Irish Catholic father who abuses his wife and kids and causing them great psychological damage as adults, I would've avoided it completely.

Avatar

The Spiderman movies

Avengers, Iron Man, Thor, etc.

The Notebook

Ha ha r52 — I also refused to see any of those except ToE which I was dragged to.

Shakespeare in Love.

A Serbian Film

[quote] The ending is truly perverse in its violence and sexual innuendo.

Hell of an endorsement, R54.

Any Whoopi Goldberg movie

Any Adam Sandler movie

Any Jim Carrey movie

Rom-coms...any of them

Every Marvel movie, Transformers, Oceans 11 and spinoffs, Twilight, 50 Shades of Grey, Whatever Star Wars movies I haven't seen, Avatar, Harry Potter.

Braveheart

Dances with Wolves

Harry Potter series

Anything starring Lily Tomlin

Anything starring Dustin Hoffman

Anything starring Halle Berry

[quote]Movies I want to die never having seen

Well, get on with it then.

R66 - you just beat me to it - Dancing with Wolves.

Let’s add Field of Dreams while we’re at it, r68.

[quote] Well, get on with it then.

Bless your heart, I can’t — you’re still drawing breath, and I’m scheduled to piss on your grave.

The Kings Speech is one of my favorite movies

Rambo

Terminator

Die Hard

The Facts of Life Goes to Australia

[Quote] any and all Star Wars movies besides the first one.

I second this.

Schindler's List. Saw the trailer once, it's basically Jew/Nazi murder porn.