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The Bar => The Lounge => Topic started by: bijou on May 12, 2011, 08:30:34 AM
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British movie rental company Lovefilm recently released the results of a reader poll that asked which films people lied about having seen. They found that four out of five people had lied about what movies they’d seen to impress people. The Godfather topped their list of most lied about, with almost a third of people reporting that they’d pretended to have seen it. Here’s the full list:
1. The Godfather (30 per cent)
2. Casablanca (13 per cent)
3. Taxi Driver (11 per cent)
4. 2001: A Space Odyssey (9 per cent)
5. Reservoir Dogs (8 per cent)
6. This Is Spinal Tap (7 per cent)
7. Apocalypse Now (6 per cent)
8. Goodfellas (5 per cent)
=8. Blade Runner (5 per cent)
10. The Great Escape (4 per cent) [PressAssociation via SlashFilm] ...
http://filmdrunk.uproxx.com/2011/04/the-top-10-movies-people-lie-about-having-seen
I have seen 1,5 and 6. Honest! :-) But I can't imagine any of my friends being impressed about me seeing the others.
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Seen all but #3.
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Ten minutes into #6, I fell asleep. The little I saw of it was BORING. :yawn:
I've seen Goodfellas and The Great Escape all the way through. The others? Only snippets here and there.
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I haven't seen #1 or #10. I think I tried to watch #9 but never finished.
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I've only seen #4 & #7. I own #4.
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# 1 #2 #4 #7 & #10
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I have not seen 2 and 3. For the record, I have also not seen "It's a Wonderful Life." I used to own 5 and 6, on video tape.
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I have not seen 2 and 3. For the record, I have also not seen "It's a Wonderful Life." I used to own 5 and 6, on video tape.
I haven't seen that either.
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Which "The Great Escape"? I saw the one with Steve McQueen.
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Ten minutes into 2001 Space, I fell asleep. Was it 10 minutes of the Blue Danube Waltz? zzzzzzzzzzzzzz
I can't imagine lying about have seen a movie. Wouldn't you fall into an embarrassing trap easily?
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I don't think I've ever sat down and watched Taxi Driver from start to finish, and I've never seen Spinal Tap.
The rest I've seen.
Why would anyone lie about seeing a movie? :confused:
I saw on the internet recently that Reservoir Dogs is being remade. I remember seeing it the first time and it was considered to be very bloody and intense at that time. With all of today's special effects....not sure I could sit through it again.
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Why would anyone lie about seeing a movie? :confused:
To seem cool, I guess. I happily acknowledge that I haven't seen certain films.
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Seen all but 2, 4, and 5.
Oh, and Euph? Spinal Tap was AWESOME!!!!! :rocker2:
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Seen all but 2, 4, and 5.
Oh, and Euph? Spinal Tap was AWESOME!!!!! :rocker2:
This thread goes to 11!!!
(http://collider.com/uploads/imageGallery/Spinal_Tap/spinal_tap_but_it_goes_to_eleven.jpg)
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Out of the ones listed, I've only seen Blade Runner.
I've never seen It's a wonderful life, nor have I seen Citizen Kane.
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I have seen them all except for these:
3. Taxi Driver (11 per cent)
4. 2001: A Space Odyssey (9 per cent)
5. Reservoir Dogs (8 per cent)
I have seen parts of them but never start to finish.
Ten minutes into 2001 Space, I fell asleep. Was it 10 minutes of the Blue Danube Waltz? zzzzzzzzzzzzzz
I feel the same way. Sci-Fi should not be boring.
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Taxi Driver was very... odd. The pacing in 2001 was slow, but it is a good movie as far as old science fiction films go.
I tried to watch Reservior Dogs, but it was boring.
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I've seen them all. (Bogie didn't say "Play it again, Sam.") I love movies from the 30's & 40's. Didn't like Taxi Driver, 2001 or Blade Runner.
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Oh, and Euph? Spinal Tap was AWESOME!!!!! :rocker2:
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You Rob Reiner aficionados keep telling me that, but I keep thinking of some lazy, jobless, live-with-in-laws chump named "Meathead." :rotf:
Mrs E couldn't quite fathom why I fell asleep. Maybe I was tired -- I dunno. The damned film wasn't AWESOME enough to keep me awake, though! :-)
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You Rob Reiner aficionados keep telling me that, but I keep thinking of some lazy, jobless, live-with-in-laws chump named "Meathead." :rotf:
Mrs E couldn't quite fathom why I fell asleep. Maybe I was tired -- I dunno. The damned film wasn't AWESOME enough to keep me awake, though! :-)
I've seen all but Reservoir Dogs, about which I know nothing and has never come up in a conversation with anyone I know. I am not absolutely positive that I've seen Spinal Tap and Goodfellas start to finish in one sitting, but they're both pretty episodic and I've seen all the pieces at one time or another.
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Thread jacking....A local TV channel has been showing every bad movie Vincent Price ever made.....but last night they showed "The Blue Max". Hadn't seen it in years.
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I've seen all but Reservoir Dogs, about which I know nothing and has never come up in a conversation with anyone I know.
There's a great scene near the beginning of the movie where the "world's smallest violin" phrase makes an appearance, as said by Steve Buscemi about waitresses and their lack of income:
I'm very sorry the government taxes their tips, that's ****ed up. That ain't my fault. It would seem to me that waitresses are one of the many groups the government ****s in the ass on a regular basis. Look, if you ask me to sign something that says the government shouldn't do that, I'll sign it, put it to a vote, I'll vote for it, but what I won't do is play ball. And as for this non-college bullshit I got two words for that: learn to ****in' type, 'cause if you're expecting me to help out with the rent you're in for a big ****in' surprise.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105236/quotes
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Thread jacking....A local TV channel has been showing every bad movie Vincent Price ever made.....but last night they showed "The Blue Max". Hadn't seen it in years.
George Peppard was a complete dismal failure in that film. He came off looking like a college preppie right out of Yale and thrown into the trenches of WWI, instead of being a normal German young man.
Hardy Kruger would've been a far, far better actor.
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Damn, I've seen them all and own several of them. Several more I need to. Off to Amazon and eBay I go. :-)
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I have yet to see a single movie on that list....Then again I've never watched many movies.
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1. The Godfather (30 per cent)- Saw part of it. Thought it was stupid and turned it off
2. Casablanca (13 per cent)- watched it on one rainy weekend day a few years ago
3. Taxi Driver (11 per cent)- saw part of it. Boring.... switched the channel
4. 2001: A Space Odyssey (9 per cent)- have fallen asleep every single time I've tried to watch it
5. Reservoir Dogs (8 per cent)- haven't seen. Probably will never watch because I don't care for Tarantino films
6. This Is Spinal Tap (7 per cent)- boring, switched the channel. Glad I never paid to go see this one
7. Apocalypse Now (6 per cent)- Seen it. Struggled through it.
8. Goodfellas (5 per cent)- Didn't waste my time
9. Blade Runner (5 per cent)- Seen it. Mediocre Sci-fi
10. The Great Escape (4 per cent) [PressAssociation via SlashFilm] - Have watched this a few times.
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I've seen 2, 4, 7, 8, 9 & 10. Hell, I SHOWED 4, 9 & 10 during my days as a projectionist! :yahoo:
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I have never seen Casablanca. I have seen the others. I liked some of them. 2001 was just about the most boring movie ever. I had to take a lot of film classes for my first college major so I sat through movies that no one should ever have to watch.
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I have never seen Casablanca. I have seen the others. I liked some of them. 2001 was just about the most boring movie ever. I had to take a lot of film classes for my first college major so I sat through movies that no one should ever have to watch.
For me, showing 2010 was the most exciting time I had as a projectionist. I had that movie down pat, drawing and opening the curtains and increasing and decreasing the sound levels at appropriate times. (It had a 20 minute reel of music in the middle of the movie.) The BAD time was when I went to the projector just to check the carbon arc lamp, and it went "POOF" and self extinguished. I checked everything in the whole damned booth, shut down the projector, closed the curtains and turned on the lights. I finally shut it all down had the manager refund everyone's ticket price. Turned out I had blown a fuse, way back in the corner of the generator room, that no one had even remembered until the main projectionist found it after remembering his dad talking about it.
I can still see the cue marks to change projectors for movies on TV.
I used to have some fun during the Saturday kiddie shows, though! :rofl: :evil: :thumbs: :nutkick: :rotf: :-) :lmao:
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Movies on that list I've seen in their entirety, or near enough to it:
4, 6, =8, 10.
Movies on that list that I've seen most of, or at last part of:
1, 2, 5, 8.
3 and 7 I've never seen.
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ive seen em all except 5 and 6
wonder why godfather was number one???? :???:
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I've only seen #1, and that only because I was visiting relatives who thought that was interesting.
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Of the movies on that list I have only seen Blade Runner.
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I haven't seen 2, 3, and 6. But I have seen Priscilla Queen of the Desert, if you admit you watched that then more power to ya :hyper:
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I've seen all 10. Now I am questioning my reality.
I thought for sure Bergman's The Seventh Seal would top the list. It has such iconic imagery.
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Ten minutes into #6, I fell asleep. The little I saw of it was BORING. :yawn:
I've seen Goodfellas and The Great Escape all the way through. The others? Only snippets here and there.
How old where you when you watched it? I loved it when it first came out but I was a late age teenager at the time, and I think the movie's target audience. I don't think it stands up as a whole to repeated viewings but it does have a lot of scenes that are still funny.
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I haven't seen that either.
Philistines! O-)
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Out of the ones listed, I've only seen Blade Runner.
I've never seen It's a wonderful life, nor have I seen Citizen Kane.
I'm beginning to thing I am a movie whore. Maybe I need a job of some sort in the industry.
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I've seen them all. (Bogie didn't say "Play it again, Sam.") I love movies from the 30's & 40's. Didn't like Taxi Driver, 2001 or Blade Runner.
Of all those movies, I guess I like Casablanca the least.
I like the one where Bogie owns the boat and helps the French diplomat and there's an old drunken sailor guy much better.
I think the "Play it again, Sam" came from an advertising campaign in the 1970s. I don't remember what they were advertising but they had a Bogie sound-alike.
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Thread jacking....A local TV channel has been showing every bad movie Vincent Price ever made.....but last night they showed "The Blue Max". Hadn't seen it in years.
I don't think I've ever heard of that one.
Love Theater of Blood.
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I haven't seen 2, 3, and 6. But I have seen Priscilla Queen of the Desert, if you admit you watched that then more power to ya :hyper:
Well, there's one I haven't seen.
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Well, there's one I haven't seen.
It was my first delving into the gay scene, well that is after first meeting Mamacags. :naughty:
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ive seen em all except 5 and 6
wonder why godfather was number one???? :???:
This is the clean version. There is a much more explicit version on the CD. Don't know if there is a video of that. The explicit version, while NSFW, is much better.
But I believe this would answer your question if you pretend The Godfather had been directed by Martin Scorsese. Which in an alternate Red Eye bit, it was:
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQKS4_Y7QCI[/youtube]
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Of all those movies, I guess I like Casablanca the least.
I like the one where Bogie owns the boat and helps the French diplomat and there's an old drunken sailor guy much better.
I think the "Play it again, Sam" came from an advertising campaign in the 1970s. I don't remember what they were advertising but they had a Bogie sound-alike.
the African Queen ??
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This is the clean version. There is a much more explicit version on the CD. Don't know if there is a video of that. The explicit version, while NSFW, is much better.
But I believe this would answer your question if you pretend The Godfather had been directed by Martin Scorsese. Which in an alternate Red Eye bit, it was:
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQKS4_Y7QCI[/youtube]
ah ill stick with the original
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the African Queen ??
No, To Have and Have Not. Great flick.l
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How old where you when you watched it? I loved it when it first came out but I was a late age teenager at the time, and I think the movie's target audience. I don't think it stands up as a whole to repeated viewings but it does have a lot of scenes that are still funny.
About 50, IIRC. Mrs E laughed hysterically and thinks it's the cat's balls, but I found it boring as hell.
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I don't think I've ever heard of that one.
Love Theater of Blood.
That's a classic, I've watched it several times and it is still funny.
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All but Goodfellas.
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All but Goodfellas.
outstanding flick. and based on a true story
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That's a classic, I've watched it several times and it is still funny.
Three of my favorites: Shakespeare, Price, and Mrs Peel.
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I've never seen It's a wonderful life, nor have I seen Citizen Kane.
First one is a typical Jimmy Stewart feel-good flick. Don't waste your time with the second one (unless you have a lot of free time). I enjoy most movies I watch. I still don't know why Citizen Kane is held in such high regard.
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Which "The Great Escape"? I saw the one with Steve McQueen.
I think the list is referring to the one with Mel Gibson and the clay chickens...
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1,2,7,10.
Casablanca is one of my alltime favorites.
Godfather was just a great plot movie if you could keep your attention.
Apocalypse Now ended very poorly, but Duvall's character is hilarious with the surfing.
Great Escape is pretty good, but haven't seen it in a while and didn't leave a lasting memory.
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All but "Dogs".
I have, however, watched Eraserhead more than once.
Pink Flamingos too................ :thatsright:
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I think the list is referring to the one with Mel Gibson and the clay chickens...
that the one where he escapes the jews ???
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I've seen all of them. The one thing that all of the films have in common is the plot progression. All of them are character studies. I didn't have the patience for 2001, or Blade Runner. They are both beautifully shot films, but they weren't for me. All of them are worth watching.
It's a matter of taste, but I can't understand being bored by The Godfather. Bogart, like John Wayne, are their characters in all their movies. I can only understand disliking Casablanca, if you don't like Bogart. Taxi Driver is a bleak movie. It was still very powerful, and well done. Meh, you get the idea.
If you want to see a positive character driven movie, The Apostle, with Robert Duvall is great. It's still a little tough. It's worth it.
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Where is Star Wars in all of this. Holy sh!t I am getting old. Was no one else here alive when it came out?
That has to be where all of this started from, the whole phenomenon of "how many times have you seen it"?
There were kids walking around in my school at the time claiming huge prepubescent cred for having seen it like 536 times.
I was 11 then. Ya, I saw it (once). Big deal (not really, it was effing huge). So was Rubik's Cube.
Us lesser poorer kids took to espousing how many times we had seen The Bad News Bears or King Kong, even though they had come out before but were still playing in cheaper theaters or drive ins. We would ride our banana seat bikes to where we could sit in the cemetery with our transistor radios and still see the screen and hear it for free.
Ah, the 70's...
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Where is Star Wars in all of this. Holy sh!t I am getting old. Was no one else here alive when it came out?
That has to be where all of this started from, the whole phenomenon of "how many times have you seen it"?
There were kids walking around in my school at the time claiming huge prepubescent cred for having seen it like 536 times.
I was 11 then. Ya, I saw it (once). Big deal (not really, it was effing huge). So was Rubik's Cube.
Us lesser poorer kids took to espousing how many times we had seen The Bad News Bears or King Kong, even though they had come out before but were still playing in cheaper theaters or drive ins. We would ride our banana seat bikes to where we could sit in the cemetery with our transistor radios and still see the screen and hear it for free.
Ah, the 70's...
2001: A Space Odyssey was the break through in high tech sic fi's. then came star wars. yes i saw them all