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Ever know a lot about a movie, but never actually saw it? For instance, I know a lot about Cassablanca, but never saw it. I know about Rick, and Ingrid Bergman and their lines. I know that he never really says "play it again Sam" in the movie. I've seen clips of the famous scenes like "Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship" and Rick and Ilsa's goodbye. But I've NEVER sat down and actually watched the movie from beginning to end.

 

Anyone else have a movie like that? Where you can talk about it and catch the cultural references to it, but never really saw it?

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Godfather

Pulp Fiction

Reservoir Dogs

Napoleon Dynamite

Patriot Games / Clear & Present Danger

Scarface

 

 

 

 

Add these to my list:

 

Reservoir Dogs

Napoleon Dynamite

Patriot Games / Clear & Present Danger

Scarface

 

I can't date a woman who likes going to movies, and insists that I go along. So very un-good. I go to sleep as a way of dealing with getting fidgety.

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Star Wars. I never saw even one of them. yet i do a killer yoda impression and know everything about all the movies...

 

up untill about a month ago this was also true for the lord of the rings movies.. i knew all about them but never saw them... but my bf made me watch them. all of them. extended collectors editions. 12 hours of LOTR. oh man.

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Weird thread. Mostly because I talk about this a lot, haha. I have a part time job at Movie Trading Company here in Dallas. I do know a lot about movies I've seen, but I also know a ton about the ones I haven't. One night a guy walked in and asked one of the other guys "what's that movie with Wesley Snipes in prison" and I said "Undisputed" before he could finish the sentence. He said "the Boxing one, right?" and I said "yeah." And he smiled real big and said "Ain't that a good one?!?" and I said "never seen it." I absorb trivia.

 

For instance, in Casablanca, when he said "This looks like the beginning of a beautiful friendship", that line wasn't in the script. It was recorded when they were doing the overdubs after the movie had been made. They came up with it on the fly. When, in reality, they're walking away quietly with their backs to the camera.

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Star Wars. I never saw even one of them. yet i do a killer yoda impression and know everything about all the movies...


up untill about a month ago this was also true for the lord of the rings movies.. i knew all about them but never saw them... but my bf made me watch them. all of them. extended collectors editions. 12 hours of LOTR. oh man.

 

Funny, you are the second woman I've heard say this kind of thing.

 

I wonder are the Star Wars and LOTR movies/novels really that testosterone driven, that you gals can't get into it?

 

By way of comparison, my wife thought I would get into Chicago, and I think I would have rather hit myself in the head with a ball peen (sic) hammer for a couple of hours instead. :lol:

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Ever know a lot about a movie, but never actually saw it? For instance, I know a lot about Cassablanca, but never saw it. ........

It's probably one of my favorite all-time classics. Get the colorized version, if the B&W is a hindrance for you. It's a great show and well worth the time to watch it. Good story line and it's also very romantic in a classic sense, so you can score some brownie points with Mrs. Goofball if you watch it together.

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Get the colorized version, if the B&W is a hindrance for you.

 

 

no no no no no no

 

get the B&W version and watch it the way it was made. the lighting and the shadowing and the effects were all made for a B&W medium.

 

 

'gambling...i'm shocked.'

 

it's reputation is well deserved.

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