I think everyone has those classic "how have you never seen that?!" movies that they just never got around to seeing.
New sub-topic: What's the most famous, classic, "how have you never seen that?!" film?
Mine is probably Gone With the Wind. But then I wonder, despite it being a classic and one of the most (albeit controversially, now) highly-regarded films of all time, has "everyone" actually seen this?
Absolutely not. I've never seen it and am pretty sure my wife never has. ZERO interest.
Browsing through the list of Best Movie winners at the Oscars, other very famous titles I didn't see are:
Generally speaking, if a movie wins best picture at the Oscars, I'm not going to have any interest.
The last best picture Oscar winner I saw was, I think, Argo, which I probably saw on pay-per-view in a hotel. Before that, it was Lord of the Rings: Return of the King. I saw several winners in the 90s: Dances with Wolves, Silence of the Lambs, Unforgiven, Forrest Gump, Braveheart, Titanic and Shakespeare in Love. Never seen Schindler's List. From the 80s, the only one I saw was Rain Man.
I'm not 100% sure I ever saw the first Rocky, but I probably did. Sometime back in the mid-90s, my wife and I watched Godfather, although when I mentioned it recently, she denied it. I don't remember if we also watched Godfather 2.
Looking at the AFI 100, I've for sure seen 21, and the number is probably closer to 25, but I can't remember some. The only two of the top 10 I've seen are Godfather and Wizard of Oz (although I MIGHT have seen Citizen Kane in a college history of film class).
This is a cynical take, but I don't put much stock in "Oscar Winner". At least in the last 25 years or so, it seems such a clique-y in-group kind of thing, with "buzz" and "word of mouth" that I think there are as many "statement" (political, social or community) wins as there are legit, "now THAT was a film!" wins. I have zero desire to see Shakespeare In Love, but Cuckoo's Nest is a must-see film. I loved that movie (and the book, by the way).
But WHY is Cuckoo's Nest a "must-see film"? When I was in a band, the guitar player and I felt like we needed to see Clockwork Orange. We were both left with a WTF feeling.
Having looked at the last 40 years or so, it seems like the last 15 years have been all about "edgy" "artsy" stuff. The prior 20+ years seemed to be very much about popular appeal stuff (which is why I saw a lot of 90s winners).
The one good shark film i've seen since that is literally Jason Statham's The MEG.
I was expecting it to be tongue in cheek fun - and that's exactly what it is. It's a really fun film that doesn't take itself seriously but isn't deliberately shit trying to be a cult film like ShartNado.
The Meg was ok. My biggest problem with it was that I really enjoyed the book, but the movie had virtually nothing to do with the book. The similarities were limited to: (1) the premise that megalodons survived but only at the greatest depths of the ocean; (2) one (two actually) got released into the upper ocean as a result of a submersible in the Mariana Trench; and (3) the lead character was named Jonas Taylor, and a side character was named "Mac." There might be a few other trivial things, but the plot was NOTHING like the book, which means the planned sequel will probably look even less like the "source material."