Hollywood is out of ideas!
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IdRatherBeSkiing
Sherbet is NOT and NEVER WILL BE ice cream.
For the sake of the argument.
But if you are truthful, have you seen one of them but not both or have you seen neither?
I, too, have never seen Home Alone. Or Star Wars. Or Casablanca. Or Avatar. Or Titanic. Or Gone With The Wind. Or The Wizard Of Oz. Or any superhero movies. But hey, ask me about Disney, Laurel & Hardy or Marx Brothers movies!
I’ve never seen “Avatar”, but I’ve seen the others, including all Marx Bros and most Laurel and Hardy.
IdRatherBeSkiing
Sherbet is NOT and NEVER WILL BE ice cream.
I did finally watch Casablanca in the 1990s. I found it to be too full of one liners and cliches to be enjoyable (the fact that the one liners and cliches came from Casablanca was irrelevant). I don't think I have seen Gone With the Wind from start to finish. I have seen pieces of it (my wife is a big fan of this movie). I have not seen any Marx Brothers movie or any Avatar movie.
I have generally avoided the Disney remakes over the last several years. I did watch Disney movies in the 19XXs.
The 19XXs. Ah, you're using Roman numerals. So you got to see Steamboat Willie, Plane Crazy, The Karnival Kid and all the Alice comedies in theaters in the 1920s. I'm impressed!
IdRatherBeSkiing
Sherbet is NOT and NEVER WILL BE ice cream.
Home Alone is one of those movies that has fallen into the general venacular. I was genuinly surprised you had not seen it. I figured you were just yanking our chain.
IdRatherBeSkiing
Sherbet is NOT and NEVER WILL BE ice cream.
In 2000, the American Film Institute put put a list of the 100 greatest films of the 20th century. I had seen only ten of them: A few Disney films, a few Marx Brothers films, Singin' In The Rain and It's A Wonderful Life. I am not a fan of action films, dramas, superhero movies, science fiction or R-rated films. A few years ago I finally watched Psycho on television so I've now seen 11 of the top 100 films. At this rate, by the year 2600 I will have seen all of them.
From the 19th century, here is the classic short film Fred Ott's Sneeze:
From the 19th century, here is the classic short film Fred Ott's Sneeze:
Here is my boss, bitchin', groovy idea: We each list our favorite movies, ranked from #1 to #10. Somebody – I guess I'm volunteering – can combine all the lists by giving 10 points to each #1 movie, nine points to each #2 movie and so on. Ties would be broken by box-office performance. We would have our very own DRC Greatest Films list to rival the AFI list. Wooh!
"What do you call that hairstyle?" "Arthur." I think the Beatles' A Hard Day's Night should have been on that list.
I think I've only seen 56. There are a few others that I may have seen sooo long ago that I'm not going to count.
That might be interesting, or it might not. Some members will have lists that will have no overlap with anyone else's list. Also, I'm not good at picking favorites. I don't like deciding if some comedy is "better" than a drama. Plus, there are many good movies I've seen, that I wouldn't remember, unless somebody else mentions it.