I’ve seen 52 movies on the new AFI list. Of the ones I haven’t, there are a dozen or so I really want to see, and a bunch I wouldn’t exactly seek out, but wouldn’t refuse to watch. And then there are these:
- The Godfather
- Raging Bull
- Schindler's List
- The Godfather Part II
- The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
- Rocky
- Saving Private Ryan
- Titanic
- Platoon
which are in the “Life’s too short for me to bother with that” category.
I love EWS, and the idea that it was in a rough state is utterly ludicrous,
Me too! Yay. And I think I remember that we both hated Raising Arizona. We're kindred spirits!
Harvey was 20 years before Cheyenne Social Club.
I've seen all of those except for Schindlers List (in its entirety) and the only one that makes me feel really sad for your loss is Fellowship of the Ring.
I have never made it all the way through Schindler's List. I don't do movies where people are awful to each other. I've seen the first tape. Won't do the second.
I loved
Godfather,
even going into it braced against yet another classic, and the feeling some people had after
Citizen Kane
like when you have a really good spinach lasagne and you think maybe spinach is actually kinda tasty? Yeah, that. Then you go see
Godfather II
and you realise it's all about the preparation, and spinach can taste like crap after all.
I had a point. Spinach ate it.
I don't like the Godfather movies. I don't relate to anyone in them. Don't care at all.
I find Harvey very post-WWII, so I'm ... well, but Stewart is cool, so maybe not.
Well, my brother forced me to watch The Two Towers, so I feel pretty confident that I'd be just as irritated by the other two movies.
...Fucking elves.
Oh, but The Two Towers is an awful movie--or book--unless you've done Fellowship. (Or, as I typed first, Fellowhip). TTT is dirty, gritty, all about ugly orcs and horrible gollums and dark, dank, icky places. At least Fellowship is set in green and gentle lands, lets you discover in wonder before the dark invades. I'm not surprised you didn't like it.
The Two Towers
is definitely the weakest of the three, and I say that having seen the first one. I cannot imagine it being a happy fun time on its own.
Not that I'm trying to talk you into it...I'm a rabid Ringer myself with much pervy elf love. But I think you'd be less irritated by either of the other two.
Perhaps not enough, but less.
Harvey just made me really upset. I can't watch it.
