Acclaimed movies you're intimidated to watch

Sátántangó is a brilliant movie. I’ve seen it twice.

Shoah is fascinating.

One of my favorite movies. Seen it a few times.

Fanny & Alexander (both versions) is a beautiful movie.

All 3 movies are classics. You’re missing out big time.

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I know. I own two of these on DVD (and occasionally listen to the soundtrack of the third). I'm always on the verge of watching them, and they get short-circuited by some other classic.

I'm actually on a pact with someone to watch Deliverance when she'll dare watching The Exorcist. We both find each other silly.

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i remember when avengers end game came out i had to not to buy a drink before the movie starts cause i knew it would be 3 hours long and didnt want to miss a scene even tho other few people had to go to the toilet lol

For some reason, I've always felt this obligation as a movie geek to watch Casablanca and Apacolypse Now but have never gotten around to either one.

Deliverance has one pretty unpleasant scene (I'm sure you can guess which one), but the rest of the movie isn't quite so harrowing. Boorman's direction keeps it from feeling like an endurance test.

I found Salo agonizingly boring. It was truly shocking just how dull that film was.

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Sadly, I was one of those people. Missed the fight between Black Widow and Hawkeye in the soul realm but thankfully caught the end result.

I have never watched Citizen Kane nor Casablanca. I am intimidated by neither. I am enticed by neither. I am, however, a little intimidated against admitting that I am not enticed by either. -- Play it again, Rosebud.

I can understand Citizen Kane since it's a bit "artsy" in its filmmaking (and as great as it is I won't agree with its #1 status). But Casablanca is gloriously entertaining. So many memorable moments and lines, with Bogart and Bergman's chemistry absolutely popping off the screen. I became a huge fan of Humphrey Bogart in particular after this movie. He has such a great commanding presence that you can't take your eyes off him.

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I was exactly the same and when I finally did, I actively disliked both. Don’t blame you. Am sure both are great films, but really didn’t do it for me.

I would endorse Apocalypse Now here.

Salo wouldn't be for everyone, but I think it's very good. As for the nature of its violence, while the movie is definitely disturbing, its violence doesn't manifest like you might imagine it does. Unlike what we have come to think of as 'torture porn', which peddles in the struggle and screaming and pain of those who are having violence inflicted on them, Salo doesn't approach brutality this way. Instead it shocks us with how passively the violence and humilation is accepted by its victims. There is a lot of despair to wade through here, and I wouldn't recommend watching it with your grandmother, but it's famously offensive moments are generally extremely muted. I can even understand why some might think it is 'boring', as none of the films horrors seem to cause as much as a ripple of emotion. It's a weirdly emotionally empty movie (and this is exactly the reason that it is so haunting)

My problem with it had more to do with the incessant talking. I don't want to be actually told a story when I watch a movie.

I am, as they say, an emotionally sensitive person, but when I finally got around to Deliverance a few years back it wasn't as rough as I'd expected.

I don't think that intimidated is the right word, but I definitely get saturation fatigue with some films where I've heard/read so much about them or seen them parodied/referenced so often that I just don't want to deal with the actual film. Titanic is in this category for me.

Also, this is kind of off topic, but I think my biggest cinematic blindspots right now are:

The Birth of a Nation (not looking forward to it, but it's still an important piece of film history, so it's probably worth watching for that reason)
The Manchurian Candidate
Ran

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The dialogue isn't always the best. And it is particularly bad if you watch the dubbed version. But when it comes to them telling these stories, them gathering together and swapping these lurid anecdotes is very much a part of who these people are. Everything is a performance to them. And these captives are the audience whose enjoyment is irrelevant. But yes, it's a very talky movie.



Still though, regardless of this fact, it's still also a deeply cinematic work. There are loads of details to pull from its images and mood and pace. You could still absorb a lot if you turned the sound off an just lived in this space Pasolini creates. And the climax is phenomenal (no talking there!)

This thread topic reminds me a little of the Seinfeld episode where Jerry is (not intimidated but...) pressured by his parents to go see Schindler's List (1993).

There was a ring of truth to it that many Jews around the world almost felt obligated to see the film (and I do think it's one worth seeing for anyone interested in WWII & the Holocaust).

Of course the comedy of the situation became that Jerry was caught "making out" with his (also Jewish) girlfriend while at the theater to see Schindler's List by Newman - who ratted Jerry out to is parents. At the end, the girlfriend's father forbids Jerry from seeing his daughter again!

This thread also remind me a little of this thread...
https://www.movieforums.com/communit...ad.php?t=42657

I think Citizen Kane's stature does it a disservice. It's a much more stylistically freewheeling movie than "greatest film of all time" might suggest. Damned entertaining too. I'm actually glad I waited to watch it because I likely wouldn't have appreciated its formal qualities had I seen it too early.

Yes, "Jerry Seinfeld". We're on to you, Captain.

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