That everyone just assumes that everyone else has seen.
In alphabetical order.
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Bull Durham
ET
Deliverance
Die Hard
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Field of Dreams
Good, the Bad and the Ugly,The
It's a Wonderful Life
Jaws
Lethal Weapon
Matrix, The *
Rocky
Slap Shot
There will be Blood **
Titanic
Top Gun ***
Also, I have never seen anything with Bruce Lee, Only one Dirty Harry movie, and only one James Bond (During high school, my friends and I would go see whatever happened to be playing at the $!.50 theater. That is how I saw "Octopussy," which killed any interest I might have had in seeing any other of the Bond series.)
* I saw a couple of scenes when my friend was showing off his fancy newfangled DVD player. They were awful.
** I know this got great ink, but I hated Magnolia, I wa underwhelmed by Boogie Nights, and I'm just not that eager to sit through, what is it, like 3 1/2 hours to give Paul Thomas Anderson a third strike.
** * I did see part of this at a friend's house. I fell asleep. I don't think I missed much.
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Some of those are pop cultural signposts that you really need to see. Except for 'E.T.' which I will never see just because everyone has seen it. I tried to avoid 'Titanic' too.
'The Matrix'? How can you miss out on something that is SO FREAKIN' COOL!!!
I wouldn't say that you *need* to see any of those, but I do agree that most of them are occasionally useful in casual conversation.
I would say these are the three most worth seeing for the sake of seeing them:
1. There will be Blood
2. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (admittedly a crapshoot depending on your tastes)
3. Deliverance
Regarding "There will be Blood", I actually agree with you about Magnolia (contrived and self-important from the very beginning) and Boogie Nights (entertaining but little of it has remained with me), but TWBB was, well... something. Long, yes, but when it's on, it's *on*.
I have always wanted to see Good Bad & Ugly, just never got around to it. Maybe I will have to check out "will Be Blood" now.
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