Popular/anticipated films...you haven't seen yet...

[Temis the Vorta]

This isn't sf/f, but I only just got around to seeing Witness for the Prosecution - very good movie!

I liked Tyrone Power Jr's performance a lot, although he was too old for the role, and certainly not convincing as British (they should have just changed the character to be American, that doesn't really matter in the story). From his first scenes, he has just a bit too-edgy mannerisms that made me wonder, am I seeing an innocent man who is a bit freaked out by the situation, or a guilty man who isn't doing a perfect acting job?

Too bad about Power, he was finally getting solid roles like this one beyond the swashbuckling handsome young romantic type, but he died just a year after this movie came out.

And Marlene Dietrich's performance is great, although how great is something you won't appreciate till the end of the movie.

Spoiler: don't read unless you've seen this movie!

I honestly thought the woman in the bar that Deitrich was playing was actually a guy in drag! Sorry about that, Marlene. Looked a lot like Andy Sirkis, I thought.

 

[Kegg]

It's kind of hard for me to think of popular movies I haven't seen yet I'd intend to. It's a lot easier to come up with a list of cult films or critically well regarded pictures.

I mean either one of the first two films Mad Max series is one I regularly see show up in top ten sci-fi film lists, but that's never really made me feel I should watch either one.

Let's say, I don't know, Heat. That was popular, right?

As far as films I haven't seen, I've never sat through all of Gone with the Wind or The Birth of a Nation. I'll probably see the former before I see the latter, but for similar reasons, I have little interest in either.

I get the feeling it'd be pretty controversial to say so, but I find Birth of a Nation more watchable than Gone With The Wind. The latter film is just kind of turgidly paced and while I have sat through the whole thing it bores me out of my mind... while, on the other hand, Birth of Nation may offend me and be completely, utterly outrageous and twisted in its racial caricatures - but it's never boring. Griffith knows how to string along a good melodrama.

Either film though, ultimately, bleh. Orphans of the Storm is D.W. Griffith's best film, a good old hoary melodrama about revolutionary France with a keen eye for cinematic suspense. Birth of a Nation may be more famous and influential but, even ignoring the racism of Birth of a Nation, Orphans of the Storm is just a more fun movie...

 

[jefferiestubes8]

'Gravity' (2012) dir. by Alfonso Cuarón 3D sci-fi space thriller
The Darkest Hour" (2012) scifi alien invasion thriller 3-D movie
"Contagion" 3-D virus thriller dir. by Steven Soderbergh
'All You Need Is Kill' sci-fi war thriller in dev.with Doug Liman
"Dante 01" French sci fi thriller space prison film
True Grit (2010)
'Repeaters' scifi thriller ala 'Groundhog Day' concept
‘AMP’ Sci-Fi Thriller in development by Alex Proyas
In Time [originally titled 'I'm.Mortal'] by dir. Andrew Niccol - October 2012 release

I think Gravity being the one i most anticipate since it's actually set in space. Feature films are few and far between actually set in space so I look forward to them. Moon I think was the last and that was set on the Moon not actually in space.
I missed seeing Skyline and Battle:Los Angeles and still plan on seeing Battle:LA.
Source Code - somehow i haven't seen it yet. Maybe on DVD...

 

[Mistral]

The number one thing I've seen listed here that you MUST see imho is Network. In 1976 it may have been satire -- in 2011 it's a frakking documentary.

Can't argue with the evaluation.

 

[Sindatur]

Skyline, picked up a copy of it cheap, and waiting for room in my schedule to watch it.

 

[Technobuilder]

Man, most of the films mentioned since I last posted I haven't seen either.

It's kind of odd. In High School, I was often referred to as someone who was into movies and films, television shows, and whatnot.

I still watch a lot of movies and TV shows, but I don't think I've had anywhere close to the same level of interest since I started college almost a decade ago.

Too much crap continues to be made.

 

[Temis the Vorta]

I haven't seen Bride of Frankenstein yet. That one goes on the list...

 

[Warped9]

Last night I finally saw a film I've known of since it was first released in the mid '60s, but only seen bits and pieces of on television over the years: Dr. Zhivago.

Some impressions: quite a loong film, but a good one, very picturesque, and I doubt many would have the patience to make a film like this today let alone the patience to sit though it. Today they'd cut it down about an hour in length and speed up the plot.

Some of those listed upthread these I haven't yet seen:
Toy Story 3
Inception
Thor
Raging Bull
Lawrence Of Arabia
The Exodus
A Clockwork Orange
Frost-Nixon
The Social Network
Slumdog Millionaire
The Assassination of Jesse James
Birth Of A Nation
Skyline
True Grit (original)

Some of those listed that I have seen:
District 9 - I quite liked this and own the dvd.
E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial - Saw it long time ago when it was released. I liked it then, but who knows now.
Network - Awesome film.
Bridge Over The River Kwai - Good film.
Dr. Zhivago - Good, but loong.
Good Fellas - It's okay, but not as great as others make it out to be.
Titanic - I quite liked this, but it's not as AMAZING as so many made it to be.
Avatar - Visually good, but the story and concepts are old hat.
Star Trek (2009) - Shallow and stupid. I hated every fucking frame of this.
Iron Man - Surprisingly good.
Iron Man 2 - Okay, but not so good followup.
Three Days Of The Condor - Fantastic film!
The Godfather Trilogy - I like the first two films, but the third is a letdown.
The King's Speech - Good.
True Grit (2010) - Good.
Dr. Stranglove - Good and appropriately quite funny.
The Prestige - Okay. I liked The Illusionist much better.
Quantum Of Solace - Okay, but not as good as Casino Royale.
No Country For Old Men - Good, but kinda odd.
There Will Be Blood - Quite good.
Gone With The Wind - Good and quite entertaining.
Bride Of Frankenstein - Okay, but I liked the preceding original film better.

 

[Kegg]

Dr. Stranglove - Good and appropriately quite funny.
The Prestige - Okay. I liked The Illusionist much better.

The Prestige had a more memorable plot (in the sense I still actually remember the film's plot), but The Illusionist had a Philip Glass soundtrack.

Ergo, got to give the win to the Illusionist here.