My parents love to talk about seeing Barry Lyndon in theatres when it first came out, because they were practically the only ones saying "Wow, that was fucking brilliant" in a sea of "Oh. My. GOD that was boring."
It's not a film for everyone, but I love absolutely everything about it. All the elements work so perfectly together.
Eyes Wide Shut is the only Kubrick movie I've seen. And I wish I hadn't.
I love
Days of Heaven.
Everybody ought to have seen
Dr. Strangelove
because it is funny.
On the other hand, I rewatched
This Is Spinal Tap
over the weekend because it was a Komedy Klassic. It still doesn't make me laugh. Perhaps it's because I don't watch the genre (rock documentary) it parodies.
Confession: I bought a VHS tape of Dr. Strangelove about 5 years ago at a yard sale. I still have not watched it. Sometimes, I pretend I have seen it, because for some reason, this embarrasses me.
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Hee! I love confession time! Here's mine: I don't really like
The Maltese Falcon
. My GF has much love of it and I know I should, too, but I just don't. It sorta bores me.
I saw Dr. Strangelove in high school, and I didn't get it. Maybe I would like it better now.
Spinal Tap is one of my top-10 favorite movies. I never thought of the humor in it as depending on knowing about rock music cliches, but maybe it does.
On the other hand, I rewatched This Is Spinal Tap over the weekend because it was a Komedy Klassic. It still doesn't make me laugh. Perhaps it's because I don't watch the genre (rock documentary) it parodies.
I don't watch a lot of rock documentaries either, and as such, maybe I didn't appreciate it as much, but it's still damn funny. "You can't dust...vomit."
I haven't seen
The Maltese Falcon.
Also, this is the time where I bring up the fact that I still haven't seen the
Godfather
movies, huh?
P-C, I've only seen the first. On basic cable, so it was probably edited.