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I love the Back To The Future trilogy, it's in...

2010-07-11T15:27:40.926+10:00

I love the Back To The Future trilogy, it's in my DVD cupboard. The original is the best though. I haven't seen any of the shows/movies in your list except Toy Story (indirectly while my kids watched it), Dexter and The Godfather parts 1 and 2. I only recently watched The Godfather movies and can I say Al Pacino was gorgeous as Michael Corleone, mafia don or not. It was nice to discover that it was this film that introduced the phrases "sleeping with the fishes" and "I'll make him an offer he can't refuse" I also recently watched The Princess Bride for the first time and while enjoyable I still do not understand how it came to reach cult status. Must be me.

I recently watched Saturday Night Fever for the fi...

2010-07-09T09:26:47.053+10:00

I recently watched Saturday Night Fever for the first time. Afterwards, I wished truly from the bottom of my heart that I had not. It was possibly the worst movie I have ever seen. Dreadful! And this is from someone who has watched Attack of the Killer Tomatoes, and Lobster Man From Mars. (Repeatedly).

But having watched the Shawshank Redemption at least a dozen times, I can only say, you're missing out. Watch it, GC. Soon.

I've never seen Gone With The Wind, does that ...

2010-07-08T17:45:56.093+10:00

I've never seen Gone With The Wind, does that count?

Of that list, I've only seen the Godfather and...

2010-07-07T23:19:27.028+10:00

Of that list, I've only seen the Godfather and the Toy Story trilogies. I only saw Back to the Future about a month ago after years of urgings from the friends. A lot of them are on my one rainy day list.

1.21 Gigawats! ah hem... I think you might enjoy ...

2010-07-07T22:09:34.911+10:00

1.21 Gigawats!

ah hem... I think you might enjoy 'Pushing Daisies'
The romantic comedy series about a pie maker who can bring people back to life with a touch but a second touch kills and for anyone brought back to life for more then one min requires someone else to die.
He is in love with his childhood sweetheart, who he brought back to life so now they can never touch... oh and he was responsible for her fathers death when he brought his mother back to life, before accidently touching and killing her anyway.
In the mean time he solves murders with his private detective friend by bringing the victim back to life for less then 60 seconds and asking who killed them.

Its fantastic, and filmed in hypercolour.

Nat, you have to give Arrested Development a go. I...

2010-07-07T21:33:12.258+10:00

Nat, you have to give Arrested Development a go. It's very fast and clever, so every time you go back and rewatch you find all sorts of jokes you didn't get the first time because you were still laughing at the previous joke.
I also love Curb Your Enthusiasm, but it can get a bit...oh for God's sake get over it. Larry David is a very acquired taste!

No television show, however meritorius, is worth e...

2010-07-07T19:38:32.421+10:00

No television show, however meritorius, is worth excommunicating friends over. Unless, of course, you happen to be a total fuckwit.

So funny, the hubby and I just got out "The S...

2010-07-07T17:41:11.326+10:00

So funny, the hubby and I just got out "The Shawshank Redemption" to watch it again last night.

Wow, Nat - I too am pretty shocked. On the one hand (notably with the TV series) I think 'oh gosh, therein lies some of the most incredible writing ever'; on the other I think 'well, she's got hours of her life remaining that I long since parted with'. I've had to impose a tv series ban on myself for a while, such was their grip on me (I'm thinking in particular, Buffy, Six Feet Under, Lost and Arrested Development).

And Back to the Future rocks! All three of them.

And I'm proud to say I didn't fall for it either; I was geeky enough to know the scripts by heart during my teen years so 2015 was echoing through my head...

:)

i witnessed someone, just recently being told off,...

2010-07-07T15:40:39.596+10:00

i witnessed someone, just recently being told off, having friends turn their back on them, for never having seen the princess bride. i remember the same happening to friends at uni who had never seen rocky horror.

i feel that it comes across as very borg like. in order to be part of the collective, you must share the knowledge/experience that "we" all partake in, and if you don't, then you can't be "one of us, one of us! we accept her! one of us! gooble gobble, gooble gobble!."

i don't play that game, any more. if someone i know has not seen something that people consider "required viewing" if they wish to remain friends with them, i have a different response.

i tell them that they might enjoy it and that i hope they do enjoy it, if they see it. but no one should be told that "ohmaigawd! you totally have to see this movie."

the fiend
especially with people born after it came out on video...

I am an incandescent shade of Puce right now.

2010-07-07T14:43:30.687+10:00

I am an incandescent shade of Puce right now.

The west wing? Really, how did you miss that one....

2010-07-07T13:51:59.381+10:00

The west wing?

Really, how did you miss that one.

I honestly can't think of a popular geeky movie or series I haven't seen.

You have so much to look forward to when you do get around to seeing these shows. I am a little envious as I have watched them and so never have the chance to dicover them again. To you list I would aslo add Deadwood.

But don't stop watching the Schama, have to love the Schama.

OMG WTF?!??! I'm not quite that emphatic so I...

2010-07-07T13:13:42.225+10:00

OMG WTF?!??!

I'm not quite that emphatic so I removed one exclamation point and one question mark.

I'm most astonished by the whole Godfather thing.

R.

I don't get all the fuss about Dexter or The W...

2010-07-07T13:07:21.827+10:00

I don't get all the fuss about Dexter or The Wire, The Wire because the fricken cop was using a typewriter to write reports in the 2000's. Yeah right, realism that ain't.
But as a comedy director, not having seen Arrested Development is criminal, hugely so, i think you'd get more hints as a writer from that show than any other comedy written.

Don't feel too bad.. I hadn't seen Star Wa...

2010-07-07T13:03:54.338+10:00

Don't feel too bad.. I hadn't seen Star Wars until the cinemas ran it again to celebrate 25 years since release.

I can't join in any conversation that involves
references to anything remotely horror orientated; The exorcist, the shining and psycho have all eluded me. I can recite the West Wing almost verbatim though!

Pfft. Judging people based on their pop-cultural a...

2010-07-07T12:43:39.074+10:00

Pfft. Judging people based on their pop-cultural awareness is so 1999.

I tend to start to watch shows, but then get distr...

2010-07-07T12:38:11.097+10:00

I tend to start to watch shows, but then get distracted by something shiny after a few episodes. From your list, that's the case with Breaking Bad, Lost, Mad Men, West Wing and The Sopranos.

Apart from Lost - which I despised - I've made several attempts to get into each of them, but I never seem to make it past 2 or 3 episodes.

But Back To The Future? Really? OMG WTF??!?

Hey Jasper - yeah, I haven't seen Resevoir Dog...

2010-07-07T12:28:40.237+10:00

Hey Jasper - yeah, I haven't seen Resevoir Dogs either, or Stand By Me.

I haven't seen Footrot Flats either, which is surprising, because it sounds like the kind of movie I WOULD have seen.

And I watch "Not Another Teen Movie" at least once a year, often more. Love that movie, it's awesome. (And people, it's NOT by the same people who did those shitty Epic Movie and Date Movie films - those ones ARE actually crap).

Actually Dan, not recently. Last time I watched i...

2010-07-07T12:24:54.589+10:00

Actually Dan, not recently.

Last time I watched it would be some years ago. In my peak of GWTW fandom, I would probably watch it once every couple of months. Skipping through some of the bits, naturally (that scene with Ashley in the shed for example).

Robin Hood I watched over and over and over as a kid/teen.

My real habit now are those history docs - just love the soothing sounds of Simon Schama...

I will ease your suffering, and join you on that r...

2010-07-07T12:22:57.851+10:00

I will ease your suffering, and join you on that rickety limb for some confessions:

I haven't seen any of the Godfathers. Or Taxi Driver. Or Stand By Me. Or The Goonies. Or Reservoir Dogs. I hate Curb Your Enthusiasm with a passion, and thus refuse to watch any more than I have already seen. I haven't seen an episode of Arrested Development in its entirety yet (although I do want to). And I only saw The Silence of the Lambs for the first time last year.

I have, however, watched Footrot Flats: A Dog's Tale at least once a year since 1988. So I feel I am still winning at life.

So how many times have you watched "Gone with...

2010-07-07T12:19:10.494+10:00

So how many times have you watched "Gone with the Wind"?

OMG WTF??!!!1!! I haven't gotten aroun...

2010-07-07T12:18:16.618+10:00

OMG WTF??!!!1!!

I haven't gotten around to/been bothered with 95% of that list either. Very short attention span and better things to spend my limited time on than watching entire series of American TV shows on DVD on the spare days I don't have. I'm sure they're all fab-o, but I'm equally sure the world will cope minus one more frothing fanboi recruited to the cause.