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operalover21 Community Regular

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THANK YOU, BC.

I've never seen this movie. Maybe I need to check it out........

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I'm stunned. One of the greatest films of all time. You haven't seen it? Wow.

I once dated a guy who had never seen Casablanca. I almost ended it right there. But I thought I'd show it to him. I did. His reaction?

"What's with all the Nazis and stuff?"

 

Game over.

 

It's hard to be interested in anyone -- no matter how hot -- who don't share common cultural interests.

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I have to roll my eyes when a cultural check-lister gets all stunned and superior upon discovering someone else hasn't seen a certain movie or read a certain book or attended a certain type of cultural event or like a certain musical artist or genre.

 

I've seen "Network," and I liked it a lot. I thought it was brilliant and ahead of its time. I've seen "Citizen Kane" and thought it overrated. I fell asleep watching it, and that's something I rarely do. I've never seen "The Godfather" trilogy and don't intend to. Everybody has their own likes and desires.

 

But major PHUCK OFF to anyone who thinks I'd have to realign my movie likes and dislikes to his particular likes and dislikes if we were going to get involved. Who needs that ridiculous rubbish in their lives?

 

Good Lord -- My favorite movie is "Willie Wonka and Chocolate Factory." I'd consider myself lucky to find a great BF and would somehow get over the Willie Wonka hurdle if he had never seen it or didn't like it. It's a rather bizarre movie and I can see why it wouldn't be to everyone's taste or even on everyone's radar as something to see.

 

I love sci-fi movies. My best friend -- a straight guy -- doesn't. He's actually proud that he's never seen "Star Wars." Yeah, I'll toss out a 20-year friendship over that ... or we'll just find the movies we like in common such as film noir and go from there.

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Wow that's a great scene. Like Tyro I have not seen it. I've heard of the movie, and probably heard references to this scene. Is that where the "Mad as hell and not going to take it anymore" catchphrase came from? This goes on the Netflix queue for sure. Thank you BC!

 

For many years I had a friend who had a weekly movie night for those of us "uninitiated" in the classics. He was an older gay man and I think saw this event as a cross between mentorship and just wanting to hang out with friends. About half a dozen of us would show up each time to watch something. We saw all kinds of movies that were before my time but I'm glad to have had the chance to see... a number of Julie Garland films, "Jesus Christ Superstar" (I almost sat that one out but am really glad I ended up going), "Manchurian Candidate," "Bridge Over River Kwai," "Funny Girl," and even "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" (ugh). Plus too many more to list. There was never any judgement - he'd just say "You haven't seen _________________? Well, we'll have to put that on the list." He's since passed away but I really appreciated the opportunity to get filled in on things that I wouldn't have necessarily sought out on my own.

 

But I can also see there is something to having at least a basic cultural affinity in common with someone. When I started dating my partner he mentioned that he and his best friend had a John Waters "litmus test." If someone didn't enjoy John Waters's humor, they probably would not have the same sense of humor. Fortunately I love John Waters movies but at that time had only seen the more recent ones. But at least it got me to the second date!

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Nate, you make a good point -- you have to have some common touchstone. For me, it would be: "Do you like to watch movies?" If no, what do you like to do? If all he wants to do is hunt and carve gnomes and have sex, let's say, yeah it's not going to work except for a roll in the hay.

 

I had a group of friends with whom I did movie nights, too. It was a lot of fun. We did a mix of classics, recently released flicks we missed at the theaters and cult classics.

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I've never seen this movie. Maybe I need to check it out........

 

Opera person's snobbery aside, it really is a good movie, especially because it prophetically predicted the sad state of what TV news has become today (entertainment and propaganda). If you were only 2 years old then, you probably don't realize that the news was actually serious back then, with real investigative journalists being actual government adversaries (which the press is supposed to be, but is no longer). It's also just really well acted, and the star won the Oscar that year posthumously.

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Well, there was some talk about that, but I guess Daddy figured my balls were big enough to get the same title as y'all. ;)

 

FreshFluff is a Lord too. I'm pretty sure she achieved that status after "coming out" as a woman, so I figured I'd earn Lordship as well.

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I'm stunned. One of the greatest films of all time. You haven't seen it? Wow.

I once dated a guy who had never seen Casablanca. I almost ended it right there. But I thought I'd show it to him. I did. His reaction?

"What's with all the Nazis and stuff?"

 

Game over.

 

It's hard to be interested in anyone -- no matter how hot -- who don't share common cultural interests.

 

 

I've heard variations on this snap judgment dozens of times in my life, for movies across many genres. I could imagine having it inflicted on me for, among many others, almost all the movies on this list:

 

http://www.afi.com/100years/movies.aspx

 

I can't imagine many people who have seen them all, or who could appreciate them all. And if I ruled out guys who couldn't share my diverse interests in music I'd be incredibly lonely.

 

A sample of classic movies I've never seen:

 

Forrest Gump

Raging Bull

High Noon

Casablanca

Vertigo

Annie Hall

 

Some I wouldn't care to see (though I might be surprised), and some I haven't had the opportunity.

 

The flip side of this is the guy who dismisses classic movies as overrated. I can remember being at a dinner party where the topic of conversation came to North by Northwest. Most everyone enjoyed celebrating the movie or coming to recall great scenes or elements if they had not seen the movie in a while -- except for one younger guy who kept trying to convince us that it was trite and clichéd. He was either one of those guys who has to be above it all, or he was not able to get the sense that iconic, genre-defining movies become the source for the knock-offs and clichés.

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IA sample of classic movies I've never seen:

 

Forrest Gump

Raging Bull

High Noon

Casablanca

Vertigo

Annie Hall

 

Some I wouldn't care to see (though I might be surprised), and some I haven't had the opportunity.

 

 

 

 

I have seen all of the movies on your list above. I do not feel strongly enough about any of these movies so as to bemoan the lack of a full cinematic experience in anyone who has missed one or all of these. Now if someone had not seen the Wizard of OZ, I would think that they might have a shortchanged childhood, but again, not a deal breaker.

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It's hard to be interested in anyone -- no matter how hot -- who don't share common cultural interests.

 

Well that isn't true for me at least. I sure as hell wouldn't want to date me. I could be a bitch date. And I found it in my partner who is virtually the polar opposite in everything. I'm an extrovert, he's an introvert. I was raised in the suburbs, he was raised in a rural area. He lives in the city, I still live in the burbs. How long we've been out (he is whole adult life, me 2 years), the foods we like, the TV we watch, activities we enjoy (he loves to dance, I can't. I love to sing, he couldn't carry a tune in a dump truck), to the clothes we wear. Last night it was a disagreement about clothes to wear to PS. He has never worn a polo shirt in his life, and I live in them. Eventually we met at a happy medium (yes we met at Jeanne Dixon and Edgar Cayce, both happy mediums). He would rather have an appendectomy without anesthesia than go to an opera. There are only a few "minor" similiarities: the need for laughter and humor in the relationship and the need to be open and accepting of each other and willingly and happily commit to each other. All the rest brings new color, new excitement, new experiences to each of us. He'd never dreamed of meeting a male escort before, but there he was at the DC luncheon last month, surrounded by 15 incredible escorts. And he was impressed with them and their jobs as he would be if he were surrounded by 15 CPAs.

 

On our very first date, we reached an agreement: we would never try to change each other. We take each other as we are. And then we revel in the differences and the new experiences and thoughts from those differences.

 

I can't imagine only dating someone who was a clone of me. How dull and boring. Diversity brings so much to a relationship, be it a friend or a lover.

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I've heard variations on this snap judgment dozens of times in my life, for movies across many genres. I could imagine having it inflicted on me for, among many others, almost all the movies on this list:

 

http://www.afi.com/100years/movies.aspx

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I have seen parts of all of those movies and I have seen at least 90 of them from start to finish. But I am old and when I was a prepubescent partaker of movies, there used to be something on TV called the Million Dollar Movie, where the same movie ran 4 times a day for a week. As there were only 5 or 6 channels from which to select, I watched many a Million Dollar Movie on a Sunday morning when the other channels focused on real world matters. Some movies, such as King Kong, I would watch over and over again during the week.

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