"i should have seen this film years ago!" (1 Viewer)

[Joe Karlosi]

Yeah, I waited too long to see GOODFELLAS, but I still have to see CASINO!

 

[Jeremy Stockwell]

Funny, I just watched the first half of Goodfellas last night. I should be able to finish it tonight. I know I've seen most of Casino, but I'm not certain that I've seen it entirely.

Raging Bull and Taxi Driver are still on my "Must See" list.

I'm trying to finish up the AFI, "100 Movies" list, but occasionally get sidetracked on a particular director (like Scorsese), genre (like film-noir), etc. To me, that's part of the fun!

JKS

 

[AlexCremers]

I've seen it all years ago.

 

[Jack Briggs]

Um, Alex, what do you mean?

As for the rest of you, welcome to cinema at its finest! It's never too late to see and appreciate a great film of any era.

 

[David Wilkins]

Here's a suggestion about a film that went without notice from me until about five years ago.

1982's "The Verdict" Check out the stats:

Directed by: Sidney Lumet
Screenplay by: the one and only David Mamet
Staring: Paul Newman (one of his best performances IMHO), Jack Warden, Charlotte Rampling, and a fine latter-career performance by James Mason.

This film just feels like a classic, of the classic era, what with the cast and crew. For my money, one of the best courtroom dramas ever.

 

[Jack Briggs]

Agreed with you on The Verdict. And, frankly, I cannot think of any Paul Newman performance that bests it. Superb, superb film.

 

[Christ Reynolds]

cmon jack, what about slap shot

i'll be watching double indemnity this week. i've seen two billy wilder films (the apartment, sunset blvd.) and loved them both. i expect this will be very good as well. it's a shame that so many people will refuse to watch a movie if it's in b&w.

CJ

 

[Seth Paxton]

I've had many of these, but its a little tough for me to keep track of which are which, or how to define "why not sooner".

I mean if the film came out before my time then how soon was I supposed to see it, especially if its geared more toward adults?

The best I can figure is to go by similar films and eras.

Once Upon the Time in the West came long after seeing all the other Leone greats.

Malick's classics Badlands and Days of Heaven are within the last year.

Sunrise is one of my all-time faves and I didn't see it till a few years ago, although to be fair it didn't hit DVD till a few years after I first saw it so it wasn't like it was just sitting out there waiting on me.

 

[willyTass]

my fair lady

 

[BrettB]

True Lies - Not sure why but I only got around to it recently and loved it.

 

[Paul McElligott]

A Christmas Story and Ferris Bueller's Day Off. Can't believe I hadn't seen these before.

 

[Vickie_M]

That's too bad. I love the classics too but I hope I never stop being interested in current cinema. If something's going to become a classic I want to have seen it in the theater, to know right away it's going to become a classic. Why wait 10-15-20 years? Only someone who doesn't pay attention to current cinema can say that "they don't make them like they used to" because they do. They do.

Anyway, while most of the movies mentioned in this thread were way before my time, I saw, in the theater on first release:

2001: A space Odyssey
A Christmas Story
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
The Conversation
The Shawshank Redemption
Barry Lyndon
Once Upon A Time in the West
The Seven-Per-Cent Solution
The Nightmare Before Christmas
Heat
Goodfellas
Taxi Driver
The Verdict
Badlands
Days of Heaven

In the realm of movies before my time, it's my philosophy that we discover things when we're ready for them. I had tried to watch Citizen Kane several times in my life, but for various reasons could hardly make it through the whole thing. Seeing it in the theater during its 50-year anniversary is what finally made me realize OH YEAH! Now I get why it's often considered the greatest film of all time. We discover things as we discover them, so the only way to get to as much as possible is to watch as many movies as possible.