What films have you seen but never watched?

[WarFilmBuff]

I knew that title would get your attention!



My question does make sense, please let me explain. There are certain films that are always on TV, seemingly every week and at varying times of day. You know the sort I mean, they are ones that we can answer questions about in quizzes. We know the actors the director etc and we pretty much know the complete story. Yet we have never actually watched the entire film in one sitting.



What prompted this is that I have just watched To Kill a Mockingbird that I recorded from ITV in HD a week or so ago. I know for a fact this is the first time I have bothered to specifically take the time to view it. However as I sat on my sofa, I realised that I have actually seen nearly all of it before, probably while I was flicking channels, and because i've walked in on other people watching it.



This got me thinking and without looking into my film reference books I reckon that all of these films are ones I have not WATCHED yet have seen, albeit one piece at a time - just like the Johnny Cash song:



Ben Hur

Hans Christian Anderson

The Love Bug / Herbie Films

Educating Rita

My Fair Lady

The Railway Children (yes sorry)

[GoggleboxUK]

I've never seen The Godfather trilogy. No point now, Ifeel like there'd be no surprises.

[James Fox]

The Sound of Music

The Sweet Smell of Success

8-1/2

[ican]

name='GoggleboxUK']I've never seen The Godfather trilogy. No point now, Ifeel like there'd be no surprises.

Give it a go...you may be surprised.

[Rowdon]

name='James Fox']The Sound of Music

The Sweet Smell of Success

8-1/2

Hmm ... 8-1/2 I'm not sure about. I can't remember if I saw the whole thing , but The Sweet Smell of Success is worth 90 minutes of anybody's total concentration - just about the slickest, blackest, whitest, snappiest, cynicalest (Hey! Why's that getting a spellcheck warning?), jazziest cine-fest you'll ever do. Definitely not one to glance at.



I started watching The Sound of Music when I was 11, and I don't think it's finished yet.





What's that film with the mighty mighty Sigourney Weaver ... Copycat, is it? About a serial killer - she works in TV? I think I've seen that about six times in various bits and pieces.

[Brief Encounter]

I seem to have seen bits of My Fair Lady on TV lots. I still want to watch the whole thing though!

[jaycad]

name='GoggleboxUK']I've never seen The Godfather trilogy. No point now, Ifeel like there'd be no surprises.

sacrelege!!!! I and II get better with each viewing!!

bridget jones diary

about a boy

notting hill

love actually



i know the entire plots for these films by happening to have had them on in the background without knowing it whilst reading-there's a common denominator!

[Torquemada]

The Sound of Music. As you go through life and certain aims you've set yourself fall by the way side, it's important to retain at least one and that one for me is to never watch The sound of Music.

[jaycad]

name='Torquemada']The Sound of Music. As you go through life and certain aims you've set yourself fall by the way side, it's important to retain at least one and that one for me is to never watch The sound of Music.

i have a similar aim never to watch 'titanic' or 'the bodyguard'!

[Dave Rattigan]

Basically anything that's traditionally shown on a bank holiday would fall into that category for most Brits, I reckon.



Not sure which they would be for me. I know for years Chitty Chitty Bang Bang was one, but I finally watched it about a year ago - and thoroughly enjoyed it, too!

[luthien]

The Sound of Music

My Fair Lady

(Once took then girlfriend to see it at cinema and walked out about twenty minutes in when the cast were poncing about

with 'The Rain In Spain')

Titanic (James Cameron version)

The Bodyguard

(With that god awful song by Whitney DooDah!)

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang





And if this thread were films you WISH you had never seen

well just for starters,either version of Roald Dahl's

'Chocolate Factory' arse,and many many more!!!!!

[Captain Casper]

The Sound of Music. Drives me fuggin nuts when it comes on because Mrs C insists on watching it and exhorting me to "give it a go, it's a great film".



Its not. Really.

[TomDaws]

Those who have replied My Fair Lady are missing a treat. For myself, it's The Shining.

[Moor Larkin]

Surely everyone has seen every Steven Seagall and Jean Claude Van Damme movie, but never watched one. I feel that way about most Bond movies to be honest. I can recall many scenes almost cinematically, but almost no Bond movie as a single coherent narrative. Just haven't got the attention span I guess....

[Steve Crook]

name='Moor Larkin']Surely everyone has seen every Steven Seagall and Jean Claude Van Damme movie, but never watched one. I feel that way about most Bond movies to be honest. I can recall many scenes almost cinematically, but almost no Bond movie as a single coherent narrative. Just haven't got the attention span I guess....

No, anything where the "hero" is just wearing a vest (singlet to our American readers) and I avoid it completely.



They're my primary example of what's wrong with many Hollywood films. The only characters they really have is the hero, the hero's girlfriend and the villain. Everyone else is only there to get shot or blown up.



There's no real story. They put in loads of special effects and explosions so that most people won't notice that there's no story. It might work for enough people so that they make a profit, but I notice that there's no story and no real characters



Steve

[DaveK]

''As you go through life and certain aims you've set yourself fall by the way side, it's important to retain at least one and that one for me is to never watch 'The sound of Music'''.



I agree with the thought entirely - only for me it's any film by Tanantino.

[charliekane]

I seem to see parts of the last two James Bond films on Sky all the time without actually sitting down to them - think I've pretty much seen them all now. And I've never seen The Sound of Music.

[thatllbetheday]

The "Never seen Sound of Music" members could form a society. I wonder how many people would turn up.

[Steve Crook]

name='thatllbetheday']The "Never seen Sound of Music" members could form a society. I wonder how many people would turn up.

Sixteen Going on Seventeen?



Steve

[will.15]

For years I didn't watch The Sound of Music except for the often shown opening number with Julie Andrews running up and down those hills singing. It had such a bad reputation among a certain group of film critics and buffs. But it became a regular scheduling item on television around Christmas and I've watched it many times since. It's an extremely well crafted musical that's probably superior to the stage version.