Casablanca

Star Wars

The Godfather

Also Slumdog Millionaire

I haven't seen most movies that have been nominated for Best Picture by AMPAS. I've never seen Titanic, Gone with the Wind or Avatar. I'm not much of a movie goer as you can tell and I generally like simpler feel-good movies or big action-packed films.

After the Seinfeld episode on The English Patient, I have avoided that movie completely. And we rented Slumdog Millionaire from Netflix but turned it off after 5 minutes.

Most of the newer Disney Princess movies (Aladdin, Little Mermaid, etc). I did like Tangled a lot, though.

Alien

Most of the famous war movies

Lord of the Rings

Star Wars except for episode IV

I haven't seen anything from the following series: Star Wars, Twilight, The Hunger Games, Harry Potter, The Lord of the Rings, Die Hard.

Avatar

Jurassic Park

Independence Day

I've never seen Lord of the Rings either. Also, Harry Potter.

At the risk of overselling it, you must must see Groundhog Day Annie. It is funny, but in its way, deep and thought provoking. My whole family adores that movie.

I've never seen any Starwars movies.

Rocky, Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, Titanic, Harry Potter, etc.

As I wrote on the other thread (should have put it here, I guess)

Star Wars,

Mad Max,

Lord of the Rings,

Harry Potter (although I did like the book - I've only read the first).

Alien.

Rocky

Silence of the Lambs

American Beauty

Pulp Fiction

Top Gun

Braveheart

Rambo

Avatar

I see a pattern here!

I'd like to be able to say that I never saw The Terminator because it embodies so much that I detest, but I had to sit through it as a trade off for my son sitting through Thelma and Louise.

Way too many to mention and except for Star Wars, Die Hard and Independence Day I haven't seen anything mentioned.

I have the attention span of a gnat when it comes to movies.

Sorry, but this thread is mentioning many of my favorite movies. Just because something is popular, classic, or even iconic is Not a reason to avoid it! Maybe it seems cool to buck mainstream, but you are missing out if you like movies.

Well, not sure what ones you mean, but I didn't miss any on my list for any of your reasons, just that I could tell what KIND of movies they were and wasn't interested. Not interested in seeing them, or supporting an industry that's making them.

I'm not sure I've ever seen any movie with Arnold S. in it. I don't think I have.

I also cannot bear to watch boxing so I've not seen Raging Bull or Million Dollar Baby. I've only seen the first Rocky.

WOW these lists say I have seen more movies than I would have thought. I see MAYBE one a year in the theater. Netflix lists don't seem to entice me either. Not much for "action"i.e. killing/violence/ movies. Don't have the concentration for the "classics" series i.e. The Hobbit. The Rocky series/Disney/Gone with the Wind are old enough I saw them when young and had the time and they were CHEAP. A quarter got us into Saturday matinees when I was young so that is where we all went....

Arcy, you must be much older than I think if you spent Saturday at the movies for a quarter!

I agree with Bumblebee that if we are avoiding something just because it's popular, then we could be missing out on some great movies (or books). To take a phrase from another thread, there's a risk of becoming culturally disengaged if we avoid all trending topics. But there is a difference between avoiding just because it's trendy and avoiding because the genre doesn't interest you. If it's not your thing, it's not your thing.

That said, I haven't seen any of the Star Wars stuff and now it seems too late to try and catch up. Or LOTR. Or anything based on a comic book/graphic novel.

Many of the big, special effect movies don't interest me but I loved the special effects in Wizard of Oz (from 1939!) and Amélie.

I have never rented or downloaded or netflixed a movie. I don't watch many on regular tv because of formatting and commercials. Exceptions include Planes, Trains, & Automobiles every Thanksgiving and Natl Lampoon Xmas Vacation every December. If I don't get to a theater when a movie is released, I probably won't see it. I miss a lot of movies and I'm okay with that.

I didn't interpret the question as anyone avoiding movies just because they were popular. ? My list would be huge because I am just not a big movie person. I was glad to see someone say they have the "attention span of a gnat" because that is me too. I have trouble sitting through a movie. BUT, there are movies I've loved.

In answer to the question, a few I haven't seen are Star Wars (other than the first), Harry Potter, LOTR, Avatar and most Disney movies since my childhood (or my babysitting years LOL).

Gone With The Wind. Dare I say that I don't care for Clark Gable?

There are many famous movies I haven't seen, especially ones produced
in the last few decades--Avatar and Slumdog Millionaire from your list.
Well, except for movies for kids--I've seen all the Disney movies (and
just about any movie for kids from that time) over and over and over.
The last time I went to a movie theater would have been to see a kid's
movie, and my youngest is 26.

I watch movies on YouTube, where I can start them again to see the parts I missed when I fell asleep. ;)

I'm not a movie person so haven't seen most of them! But a few my friends always gasp in horror over my lack of attention include:

It's a Wonderful Life

The Sound of Music

All Harry Potter

All Lord of the Rings

Titanic

All Rocky

Forrest Gump

Donna

I am a huge movie buff, so there aren't many I haven't seen. However, until last weekend I had never seen Annie Hall.

Not a movie-goer but we sometimes catch them on pay-per-view or sometimes later. I most likely would have a long list, most of which include sci-fi type movies.

Lord of the Rings

Avatar (I tried, really tried, to watch it)

Slumdog Millionaire

All the in-between Star Wars movies (I did see the first couple and the last one)

All Rocky movies

The Revenant (may still see that)

Moulin Rouge

Brokeback Mountain

Black Swan

Django

I could go on....

Slumdog Millionaire

Fifty Shades of Gray (ugh!)

Twilight

Pulp Fiction

Mad Max

any zombie movie

any of the Hunger Game series

Agreed on the Twilight series and Fifty Shades of Gray. I just tried Wild, and turned it off after 5 minutes. I don't like most of the new "horror" movies. I try to avoid anything with Julia Roberts or John Wayne (so, I haven't seen the original True Grit), and any of the later Woody Allen. Avatar bored me, and that type of movie is usually my wheel house.

I usually love Tarantino, but haven't seen Django Unchained.

Don't waste your time watching Black Swan. It was atrocious. JMO.

Psycho

2001: A Space Odyssey

Saving Private Ryan

I used to love going to movies, but it seems there's not much substance to them in the last 10 years or so. Movies that were first written as books have become increasingly popular. Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, The Twilight Series, and 50 Shades of Gray, to name a few.....i've not seen one. Any, horror or zombie flick, forget it. This goes for anything I might have heard is very gory, like gangster or war movies. Give me a good Meryl Streep Movie.

I don't like Meryl Streep movies (I knew I was forgetting someone). :-)

I have never seen The Quiet Man.