So every now and then someone is going to ask you if you've seen insert film name here, to which you respond "No" and they react by contorting their face in such a way it's like you just laid a log right there in front of them. You know those times, right?
Well I've had a few of those- and perhaps you won't believe I've not watched them either.
5) The Godfather (Or Pulp Fiction, or Scarface, or the Italian Job, or basically any sort of gangster-type flick)
That's like four right there, and it's true- I've never seen any of those films.
I've usually been asked if I've seen The Godfather or Scarface by blokes, since it's a challenge on your masculinity if you haven't seen them apparently.
I'll be with my guy mates playing video games, having a drink down the pub or hunting for grizzly bears with our bare hands when we start talking about these films and I ignorantly state that I've never seen them, and right then and there I am chastised and told to grow a moustache, remove my skirt and cancel my pedicure.
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| Even he's seen The Godfather apparently. |
Why haven't I seen it?
I'm not really sure why I haven't. In school a lot of my friends had, even though they weren't old enough (and yet I'd watched Predator with my old man's consent by the time I was like six or seven), and I guess I never really got what the fuss was about. I actually own Scarface on DVD- but it's not even been removed from it's shrink wrap yet. I know, I know- but it's a long film!
4) Avatar
I guess people would have expected me to seen this, since I seem to be a fan of James Cameron's films, and this is supposed to be his latest sci-fi blockbuster which everyone must see- perhaps like Alien or Terminator. Not me, however.
Why haven't I seen it?
I'm not really sure why this is, but I got put off by all of the hype, and I guess being seemingly overexposed to Avatar before it came out killed any sense of anticipation I might have had. I've actually borrowed this on Blu-Ray from my girlfriend's dad, so when I've got a spare two and a half hours I'll hopefully pop it in and watch it.
I'm also a bit picky with films, and don't go to the cinema all that often. I tend to go to see things I'm already interested in- which probably makes me a bit of a shallow film fan, but hey, different strokes for different folks.
3) Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
One of my best friend's favourite films as a kid, I think he believes I was brought up as a child in a cave, because he can never believe I've not seen this. To him it's as proposterous as me not knowing how many fingers I have.
Why haven't I seen it?
Even as a child I was very picky about what I watched, and knew precisely what I did and didn't like. For one thing, I hated musicals- which makes no sense because I loved Mary Poppins- but all that mucking about singing and dancing was simply a distraction and a waste of time which could have been spent far better on more seven foot humanoid mice shooting stuff up while tearing around on sweet-looking motorcycles.
Now that's how you do childrens' entertainment.
For another thing, I wasn't really much into cars (see: humanoid mice riding bikes), so if the main plot line of a film involved an antique racing car which could fly, I was totally not interested.
Biker Mice From Mars should have had a movie, darn it.
2) Toy Story 2
Never seen this- which may surprise those who know that I've watched Toy Story and Toy Story 3 and loved both. Toy Story was and still is to this day one of my favourite films ever, and I love to re-watch it every now and then and bask in all of it's child-like innocent glory.
Why have I not seen it?
Me not seeing this also stems from my childhood snobbery. As I've expressed before, I'm very dubious about sequels to good films, and even as I kid, I thought, "there is no way there will ever be another Toy Story". Boy how wrong I was.
When I saw trailers for Toy Story 2 back then, I was disgusted- not only were they, in my eyes, attempting to recreate the un-recreatable (is that even a word?) magic of one of my favourite films, but that new cowgirl character Jessie annoyed the heck out of me, even in the brief time I saw her. I couldn't understand it- what was the point?
My mum got me Toy Story 3 by accident last Christmas, thinking I'd seen the other two- and yet I ended up watching it on Boxing Day and loving every second of it. I'm sure I'd love number two, too.
1) Back to the Future
I love a good pop culture reference as much as any internet-savvy young adult- and this film and all of it's sequels spawned quite a few, none of which I understand even to this day. Why? Because I've never seen any of the Back to the Future films!
I guess some of my friends and family think I'm a bit geeky, and most of them are surprised I've never seen this, as it's right up my alley, apparently. It's an iconic eighties sci-fi-meets-the-real-world movie, so they'd be right- I love that kind of stuff. So...
Why haven't I seen it?
This one is perhaps the strangest of them all- I really don't know why I've not seen it, other than sheer lack of interest. However as I get older it seems I notice more and more that I probably need to see this film now to understand a ton of humour and references that I'm missing out on. My friends will talk about it, the podcasts I listen to reference it, it's all over the internet and other mainstream media- heck, hasn't there been hype concerning Nike potentially releasing Marty McFly's "self-lacing" shoes recently?
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| Is that even real? |
Luckily for me, a couple of friends bought me the box set with all three films in for my birthday last month, so now all I need is some more free time to watch even more films I should've watched already.
Just for those of you keeping score at home, that's Scarface, Avatar and Back to the Future...
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