The Movie Nerd Bible: Part I

[runnernda]

I feel like a terrible nerd. I've only seen two of these. Night of the Living Dead was my first zombie movie, and now I've seen every one ever made. And Jaws was one of the movies I was raised on. I think my family might just quote it daily. "We're gonna need a bigger boat" is a popular one. "I see you've got your rubbers!" is also a good one. My favorite is "But what, what kinda shark?" "Tiger shark!" "A whaaaat?"

Anyway, to Netlfix! Tally ho!

 

[Les Awesome]

what no wizard of oz?

Am I the only person who that that movie was just plain......boring?

probably I mean the movie was colorful
the music was whimsical and the story was endearing and simple
whats not to like?

 

[timus666]

What more reason is there to watch Logans Run then Jenny Agutter!

 

[monstersquad]

I count myself well-versed? I guess? for having seen 95% of these movies. I also must give kudos for including Jaws in there. It's one of my 5 favorite movies of all time. When I was about 13 I watched that movie every day for most of the summer. My favorite quote is this "Here's to swimmin' bith bow-legged women." Ah, Robert Shaw, he really did make that movie.

 

[ImpostorZim]

Wow, so I'm gonna get on this right away. Thanks Bob. I've definitely gotta see Night of the Living Dead and 2001.

 

[TheZapper]

I was pleasantly suprised to see how many of these films I'd actually seen.

A pretty comprehensive list, although I don't think that all the correct Hammer Horror films were mentioned.

 

[Mutie]

Hel yeah, MovieBob. You just earned yourself a big slab of respect.

 

[Dascylus]

I think it is horrendous that people haven't seen Blade Runner... Reason #3 shouldn't apply.

I know people who tell me they are into Sci-fi and now I wonder if maybe I should start taking such pivotal classics to movie nights.

 

[Giest4life]

what no wizard of oz?

Am I the only person who that that movie was just plain......boring?

probably I mean the movie was colorful
the music was whimsical and the story was endearing and simple
whats not to like?

Exactly that.

 

[wulfy42]

Um, I know people who still have not seen STAR WARS!!!

Not seeing blade runner really isn't that uncommon honestly.

As a kid I was able to read Robert Heinlien, Jack Chalker, Isac Asimov etc and so I naturally watched science fiction movies as they started coming out. I'd say it was fairly rare for people to watch them early on, and many of the old ones are skipped by new generations. Blade runner is shown on TV fairly often so it's certainly not hard to catch if you try (even without netflix) but I don't see Logan's Run on that often anymore for instance.

Many of the movies on the list so far are still shown on TV fairly often though so almost everyone can watch them if they want. I think TNT still does planet of the apes marathons for instance (I used to watch em every year).

It's easy if your in your late 30's or early 40's to say "How can people not have watched these shows?" but there are a ton of old shows like "Gone with the Wind" and "Casablanca" etc that I have never seen (and probably never will). I should say that they are on my list for movies I'd like to watch some year, but they are way down.

I'm not sure what qualifies you as a Movie nerd, but I probably don't qualify due to mainly watching movies for entertainment. I find Movie Bob's comments very enlightening and amazingly agree with him 90% of the time or more (which sure helps with deciding if I'll watch something when it comes out....thanks Movie Bob). I think he is far more into movies, the directing behind the movies and just the joy of watching movies not for entertainment but for information or uniqueness then I am.

When I watch a movie I want to be entertained, made to think or preferably both. I don't know what Movie Bob's take was on "Lost in Translation" but me and my wife hated that movie. It was lost in Translation I guess. I think from some of his comments he would probably appreciate the filming part of the movie perhaps but I just wanted to blow my head off halfway through it for the long slow camera pans etc.

I guess I'm a casual movie watcher with a large list of movies I have seen over the years and nothing more

 

[shogunblade]

I added most of these already (I own Night of the Living Dead, scariest damn Zombie Movie EVER made, seriously) and 2001: A Space Odyssey, which was probably one of the finest movies I have ever seen (but then again, I haven't seen even half of your list, so it's time to get to work).

My Netflix queue, suprisingly, has almost all of these movies already, so I just need to watch them.

 

[malestrithe]

Yeah, I've seen everything on the list.

 

[Rhino of Steel]

Topics like this make me glad we're finally getting Netflix in Canada this fall. I've only seen a handful of these and bits and pieces of 2001. I look forward to seeing cavewomen in bikinis fighting dinosaurs.

I still find it weird that people didn't get the Blade Runner reference though. I haven't seen it yet (I know, I know) but that scene is so iconic and well known that I got it right away.

 

[Jfswift]

what no wizard of oz?

hmm, that's a good point, that's a very original movie and I can't think of anything else it would have been based on.

 

[Nomanslander]

Well the thing about today's generation is, even with the internet, they have to go looking for this stuff to see it, and that's if they even know what they're looking for.

Now let's talk about TV.

I'm pretty much the same age as MovieBob, I was born in 81' and like him for the longest time I had no internet and television was my main source of entertainment.

Now television in the 80s was a lot different than television in the 90s. In the 80s they showed a lot more reruns, and you'd find it a lot more on prime time television. I didn't even have cable for a while there but I still grew up watching shows that had come out in the 50s, 60s, 70s, and 80s. I'd watch a episode of Transformers right after watching Popeye, but by the 90s you'd see less and less of that.

By the 90s the only place you could find that stuff was on cable channels at late ours of the night. I even grew up watching shows like I Love Lucy, The Honymooners or The Dick Van Dyke Show (what a name...0o), but around the 90s they were all on Nick at Night so if I'd never seen those shows before there's a good chance even then I would have totally missed out.

Today if I want to catch a show of I Love Lucy or the Twilight Zone I'm not even sure where to look on television since I barely watch it anymore, I have to go searching on the internet.

80s TV was truly something awesome, you were exposed to so much even without cable, TV today is nothing but reality shows, no music on MTV, and back to back showings of 90s reruns and nothing that came out prior (seeing Friends run back to back can be enough to drive a man insane, fuck Friends, give me Taxi or Welcome back Carter which were a thousand times better).

Hell I can't even watch Looney Toons properly because today's parents find those cartoons either too violent or racist....0o

As for the Internet, it's just so vast most people don't know where to start.

 

[JayDig]

Good list of pre-eighties geekdom.
I'm only 25 but my mom worked at a video store when I was younger. Seen most of those. Minus Forbidden Planet, Logan's Run and Solaris. I have watched Tarkovsky's Stalker though, so I can imagine the tone.

I don't think young modern audiences are very accepting of black n white and old school practical effects. They need higher production value and modern visual style to suspend their disbelief. Personally I'd take Roger Corman over Rob Zombie anyday.

Unfortunately, the era of mom and pop video stores, packed with decades of obscure VHS tapes, has given way to corporate franchises that only have DVD and Bluray from the last 9 months, with a better variety of potato crisps than classic flicks.

 

[Wedlock49]

Soylent Green is... pe---

 

[Vitor Goncalves]

I dont consider myself a nerd, but I saw 2 thirds of that list.