Just realized how many “must see” movies, I have yet to see.

Examples:
The original Star wars trilogy (dad was a star trek fan, so for most of my child/teenhood star wars was banned from the household.)

The Indiana Jones trilogy (I heard the fourth one stunk so I’m not counting it)

Tron

Highlander

Die Harder

Seven Samurai

And many more….I am so behind, it’s not even funny.

You haven’t seen the original Star Wars trilogy? What is wrong with you? Having a trekkie dad is no excuse.

Oh god

Don’t tell me you saw the prequel trilogy first.

No, don’t worry, I’ve made it a habit to not watching prequels until I’ve seen the originals.

Or just leave them out entirely.

Well, I did hear they were pretty bad…maybe I should add them for my ‘bad movie night’? Yes? No? Maybe so?

I have also not seen the original Episode 4-6 Star Wars movies all the way through. Bits and pieces, and I know the story, but I haven’t sat down and just watched the movies from start to finish.

Awesome, so I’m not the only one on the internet who hasn’t seen them…If it’s any consolation, I’ve seen the dark knight like twenty times…

Well, it’s a toughie. 1-3 aren’t bad movies on their own, they are just bad Star Wars movies. However, 1 has a podrace that takes up almost the entire movie, and 2-3 have the abomination that is Haden Christensen as Anakin.

Gotcha, instead of watching Episode One, watch Pixar’s Cars…and add some footage of Bruce lee fighting randomly in it with windows movie maker, and with episode 2 and 3, just mentally replace Haden Christensen with Morgan Freeman.

Woah woah woah. Star Wars can’t carry Bruce Lee. Although the lightsaber scenes are flashy, they aren’t all that great. Seriously, for every fight, it is nothing more than spinning, flipping, and aiming for the other person’s lightsaber blocking.

And I haven’t seen Cars. I like Pixar, but it looked waaay too Disney. I know they aren’t entirely separate, but Wall-E and Incredibles are not something Disney would make.

Okay, maybe not Bruce Lee…that’s a “little” too much awesomeness. So, Jackie Chan? Jet Li? Or maybe these guys?

Also, in all honesty, Cars wasn’t that great, that and Finding Nemo, or maybe a Bug’s Life, are like my two least favorite Pixar films so far. Wall-E being my number one favorite of theirs, and The incredibles being numero dos.

I liked A Bug’s Life, or at least I did at the time. I haven’t seen it in a long time. I raged against Nemo, since it was waaaaay to kiddy for my taste. I’m glad that Pixar has been doing more mature (not in a violent/vulgar sort a way) movies. They managed to make the first 20 minutes of Up be the most heartbreaking thing in any movie I have seen. In 20 minutes! Jesus christ, it takes other filmmaker’s whole movies to deliver that.

Also, Toy Story rawks.

I liked a Bug’s Life when I was younger too, but I also remember thinking that the Super Mario Bros. movie was actually good…so I’m not too fond of trust my taste in movies when I was younger. Although I do enjoy some “kiddy” things, like Adventure time w/finn and jake, I completely understand what you mean by Finding Nemo, and IMO, Cars is even worse….so, I wouldn’t touch it if I were you. I love when children movies/t.v. shows/books/whatever are able to do what UP did. To a much lesser extent How to Train Your Dragon, which was predictable for the most part, did something like what Up did near the end of the film…now, it’s nowhere near as poignant as Up, but it did show that there ARE consequences for every action, I just wish they took it a step further, and made the character ‘depressed’ about the outcome of his actions, even if just for five/ten minutes of the film.

Also, Toy Story does indeed ‘rawk’, and the third film looks like it’s going to be amazing, not as good as the original, but still really, really good.

Also, also, long post is long.

Of course 3 won’t be as good. The first one was a masterpiece in a sense that it was so simple yet so mind blowing in how it as done (at the time). Of course, I was a kid, so I didn’t realize how graphically impressive it was, just that talking toys were awesome. Which led to a minor paranoia/curiosity that maybe, maybe my toys were hiding their lives behind my back.

I am not interested in How To Train Your Dragon for several reasons, the main one being that it is Dreamworks, which is laughably bad. I hear the movie is good and all, but to me, at least from the commercials, it looks cliche’d as any other DW movie. At least they tried making a movie not based of a far more successful Pixar film.

Incredibles was the first Pixar movie where I gained respect for Pixar as an adult (well, teen at the time, but still). At some point watching it either the first or second time I realized, holy crap, people are dying in this movie. And not it an overly dramatic Disney way either.

For the most part, How to train your dragon is very cliche, it’s just that the ending is less cliche than I was expecting, and it was a decent suprise.

I’d have to agree w/you on the whole ‘The Incredibles’ thing, especially the scene at the beginnning where SPOILERS the guy was falling from the building, but was saved Mr incredible. But then you find out that he was trying to commit suicide, didn’t want to be saved, and then proceeded to sue Mr. Incredible.SPOILER END...that was the first time I went, “Woah, wait, what?” during a pixar film, and from that scene on, I fell in love with that movie.