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Dec 2018
4:44pm, 19 Dec 2018
24,936 posts
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DingDongMerrilyDaisy
It would be quicker for me to say what I *have* seen  but in today's Times there's a list of the most popular Christmas films.
Of the top 17 (?) I've never seen 12 - Elf; Home Alone; Die Hard; National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation; The Polar Express; Scrooge; Miracle on 34th St; Santa Claus :The Movie; The Holiday; Home Alone 2; The Grinch.
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Dec 2018
6:23pm, 19 Dec 2018
2,774 posts
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Surrey Phil
It's incredible that the list contains A Christmas Carol, Scrooge and Scrooged.
I haven't seen The Polar Express, The Holiday, The Muppet Christmas Carol, Miracle on 34th Street or Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone.
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Dec 2018
10:07pm, 19 Dec 2018
767 posts
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Tazsedai
From that Christmas list I've never seen:
It's a wonderful life; Scrooge or Scrooged; A Christmas Carol
and could quite cheerfully never see the Holiday again...
I've also never seen:
Citizen Kane; A Clockwork Orange; Groundhog Day; The Blues Brothers; BTtF 2&3
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Dec 2018
11:01pm, 19 Dec 2018
7,838 posts
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Valyrian Partridge
I have DVDs of White Christmas, Santa Clause: The Movie and National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation all lined up for viewing in the next few days. I also haven't seen the original Miracle on 34th Street, though I almost went to a screening of it on Saturday.
Oh, and I actually have seen an Almodovar film after all. The Skin I Live In, and I recently picked up a second-hand copy of Bad Education (definitely NOT to be confused with the Jack Whitehall show).
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Dec 2018
1:21pm, 20 Dec 2018
29,927 posts
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Merry Christmas and Happy NewG(rrr)
Lizzie, 30 years ago you had B&W TV and no video player (so did / didn't we, respectively), but in last 10 years you've had no access to video playing devices or services? That's a good reminder that the SkyTV generation that seem to think 100 channel broadcasting is a human right are not necessarily the whole population.
I don't watch huge amount of TV, but I've always liked films. I've probably owned and watched more videos and DVDs than TV. I used to hypothesize, about 20 years ago, about what is now reality - the ability to turn on a screen and *choose* what to watch, not have it pumped at you. And I would say we are pretty much there.
* almost all of the cinema's back catalogue
* a huge array of TV content archives - comedy, documentary, drama
* a huge array of public service archives
* content only ever produced for demand or niche services (TED talks, YouTube etc.)
The only thing I still tend to watch "live" is news and the occasional sport. Even that you can get on demand from 30 mins ago. So "near real time". G
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Dec 2018
1:31pm, 20 Dec 2018
33,138 posts
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Diogenes
Now we have access to all these services I can pass hours searching through all the available options and finding nothing I want to watch.
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Dec 2018
1:53pm, 20 Dec 2018
19,293 posts
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Lizzie W
Happy, no, when we left home and got married, we chose to spend money on the mortgage rather than on TV etc, broadband was expensive enough. We didn't have time to watch, anyway, Mr was doing schoolwork or cycling if he was awake. We only got a TV last year as it was a bargain from a mate, we don't have an aerial, it's used for streamed stuff, looking at photos, any gaming etc. I'd prefer a smaller screen, it dominates the room too much.
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Dec 2018
2:07pm, 20 Dec 2018
19,295 posts
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Lizzie W
Sorry. *shuffles off*
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Dec 2018
2:08pm, 20 Dec 2018
109,848 posts
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GregP
ET
The Shining
The Green Mile
Shawshank Redemption
Citizen Kane
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Dec 2018
2:13pm, 20 Dec 2018
4,843 posts
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Northern Exile
I haven't seen the Green Mile either. Somehow or other I can't face it, yet I'm told it's heartwarming and life-affirming. Watched Shawshank several times though, one of my all-time faves
Here's one I haven't watched, yet I've had the DVD for years: The Cider House Rules. Have read the book a couple of times and loved it, yet the nature of the story makes me reluctant to actually watch a dramatisation of it.
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