Comments on: Gaps in My Cultural Knowledge Volume One– Iconic Movies I’ve Never Seen http://betheboy.com/2008/09/08/gaps-in-my-cultural-knowledge-volume-one%e2%80%93-iconic-movies-i%e2%80%99ve-never-seen/ Tue, 15 May 2012 04:48:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Art of the Odd » Fixing a hole… http://betheboy.com/2008/09/08/gaps-in-my-cultural-knowledge-volume-one%e2%80%93-iconic-movies-i%e2%80%99ve-never-seen/#comment-3050 Sun, 16 Nov 2008 07:54:23 +0000 http://betheboyblog.wordpress.com/?p=2207#comment-3050 [...] my friend Be the Boy posted a list awhile ago of Iconic Films He’s Never Seen (followed by lists of books he hasn’t read [...]

]]> By: hieyeglasses http://betheboy.com/2008/09/08/gaps-in-my-cultural-knowledge-volume-one%e2%80%93-iconic-movies-i%e2%80%99ve-never-seen/#comment-1829 Thu, 11 Sep 2008 12:25:45 +0000 http://betheboyblog.wordpress.com/?p=2207#comment-1829 How could you have missed Return of the Jedi?! Get a copy and watch it now!

]]> By: Will Campbell http://betheboy.com/2008/09/08/gaps-in-my-cultural-knowledge-volume-one%e2%80%93-iconic-movies-i%e2%80%99ve-never-seen/#comment-1812 Wed, 10 Sep 2008 23:02:38 +0000 http://betheboyblog.wordpress.com/?p=2207#comment-1812 A “No Star Wars” zone in the BtB/Slackmistress chambers?

That’s really too bad, especially since by not watching the bonus disc that came with the latest DVD boxset just so happened to include my badass junior high self and my buddy Luis (sporting our Star Wars shirts at the Chinese Theater when r2d2, c3p0, and Darth got their prints in the concrete there) got cameo’d in the “Making of Star Wars” show that aired on ABC waaaay back in the summer of its release.

Check it:

http://www.wildbell.com/2007/05/24/a-star-wars-moment

On some subsubsubsubbitysubsubsublevel I’m geekroyalty.

]]> By: Ken http://betheboy.com/2008/09/08/gaps-in-my-cultural-knowledge-volume-one%e2%80%93-iconic-movies-i%e2%80%99ve-never-seen/#comment-1802 Wed, 10 Sep 2008 01:33:52 +0000 http://betheboyblog.wordpress.com/?p=2207#comment-1802 ‘Gone With the Wind’ is actually a part of the acclaimed movement of ‘back to the land’ literature which was going on back in the day. The day it was written i.e. That’s a big reason it, the novel i.e., won the Pulitzer. Despite all the politics and goings on in the world, it’s the land, the Earth, that matters, it’s where we gain great strength. Quite green.

If you see ‘Return of the Jedi’, insist on the original. It was recut after the last Trilogy, and the ending was completely ruined by the replacement of the original montage and soundtrack with a devastating attempt at … something. I hear the original was re-released intact; so insist on that, or find someone who has the original. (You can have mine for a mere $10K, US.)

Ken

]]> By: Clay http://betheboy.com/2008/09/08/gaps-in-my-cultural-knowledge-volume-one%e2%80%93-iconic-movies-i%e2%80%99ve-never-seen/#comment-1799 Wed, 10 Sep 2008 00:58:59 +0000 http://betheboyblog.wordpress.com/?p=2207#comment-1799 GO SEE JEDI!

I haven’t seen Titanic or Citizen Kane. Don’t think I’m missing anything either.

Want to see “THE SHIT” – check out Black Samurai! – http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074213/
2 words – midget fight.

]]> By: heyjoe http://betheboy.com/2008/09/08/gaps-in-my-cultural-knowledge-volume-one%e2%80%93-iconic-movies-i%e2%80%99ve-never-seen/#comment-1794 Tue, 09 Sep 2008 22:18:49 +0000 http://betheboyblog.wordpress.com/?p=2207#comment-1794 I probably have so many cultural gaps that even a Dentist of Intellectual Knowledge couldn’t fill them.

]]> By: maceelaine http://betheboy.com/2008/09/08/gaps-in-my-cultural-knowledge-volume-one%e2%80%93-iconic-movies-i%e2%80%99ve-never-seen/#comment-1791 Tue, 09 Sep 2008 20:44:15 +0000 http://betheboyblog.wordpress.com/?p=2207#comment-1791 It’s not that I don’t want to see Dr. Strangelove, I’ve just never gotten around to it.

It could be worse: Trevor has never heard, read, nor seen Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Breaks my tiny grey heart.

]]> By: Laurie Ann http://betheboy.com/2008/09/08/gaps-in-my-cultural-knowledge-volume-one%e2%80%93-iconic-movies-i%e2%80%99ve-never-seen/#comment-1784 Tue, 09 Sep 2008 19:22:30 +0000 http://betheboyblog.wordpress.com/?p=2207#comment-1784 Grease is very dated.
Gone with the Wind is so long I’ve fallen asleep every time.
I have seen all three original Star Wars but I couldn’t tell you which was which. No, wait…I don’t think I saw the one with the Ewoks.
I haven’t see The Wild Bunch.
Broadcast News is great. That’s the only one I’d say you should try to see.

]]> By: the slackmistress http://betheboy.com/2008/09/08/gaps-in-my-cultural-knowledge-volume-one%e2%80%93-iconic-movies-i%e2%80%99ve-never-seen/#comment-1783 Tue, 09 Sep 2008 18:32:52 +0000 http://betheboyblog.wordpress.com/?p=2207#comment-1783 Will doesn’t allow Star Wars in the house. We may divorce over this one day.

]]> By: vmpyrdavid http://betheboy.com/2008/09/08/gaps-in-my-cultural-knowledge-volume-one%e2%80%93-iconic-movies-i%e2%80%99ve-never-seen/#comment-1781 Tue, 09 Sep 2008 17:55:20 +0000 http://betheboyblog.wordpress.com/?p=2207#comment-1781 Ok, going down AFI’s updated 2007 list of titles on DVD here are a few that I haven’t seen but probably should have:

1. Casablanca
2. Raging Bull
3. Vertigo

I’ve seen 19 of the top 25.

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