We all have them. The beloved, critically acclaimed or culturally significant movie that we just, somehow, missed.
Maybe you were a little too young when it came out. Maybe the night your parents rented it, you were pouting in your bedroom. Maybe you had a knock-down drag out with your partner on the way to theater and ended up at a diner drinking bitter coffee (to go with your bitter tears). Maybe that summer you just didn’t have any friends to go to the movies with. (What? It happens.) Maybe now that a few years (decades?) have passed, you’ve actually, sort of, decided–defiantly!–not to care. Or you’re so mortified, you never even mention it, since admitting it to friends and family means you’ll be on the receiving end of their shocked looks and undisguised joyful pity. A sort of schadenfreude of exclusion: “You’ve never seen [insert title here]?!” They’re annoying, those looks, that judgement. But now it’s time to fess up. Come on, we’re not even using our real names!
I’ll go first. Be warned: despite the fact that I went to film school and work in “the business”, there are a lot. So this is really embarrassing for me–and means you fuckos have no excuse!
Deep breath and…here I go.
Alien, Animal House, Blazing Saddles, Full Metal Jacket, Rosemary’s Baby, Rocky Horror Picture Show, Saving Private Ryan, Touch of Evil, The Third Man.
Whew. Come at me folks. But offer your shameful filmography gaps first.
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