FilmsWeveAllSeen

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While working on the CISRA puzzles, someone idly wondered how many films there are that the whole team had seen, and someone said probably only 10 or 20. I reckon more than that, and what better way to find out than a wiki page?

So I've listed some films which I've seen and which I think are well-known enough that the others might have all seen them too.

If you haven't seen a film in the list, move it to the Disqualified list. (I was going to say delete it, but this way stops people inadvertently re-adding deleted films.) If you've seen a film which isn't listed and think everyone else might have seen it too, add it to the Candidates list. (Not necessarily just CISRA people - everyone feel free to edit this if you want.) And I'll probably think of some more and add them. --Rachael

Clarification: Are others meant to be free to disqualify films, or are you only wanting the team to do that? --Admiral

: I meant the "everyone feel free" to apply to both bits. --Rachael

Candidates

Aladdin
Incredibles, The
Jungle Book, The
Lord of the Rings: the Fellowship of the Ring
Mary Poppins
Matrix, The
Men in Black
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Princess Bride, The
Shrek 1
Toy Story
Wallace and Gromit x4 (which 4? PT has seen 5)

Presumably only "The Curse of the Were-Rabbit" is allowable anyway due to the others being shorts? --qqzm

: And that one's not allowable due to me not having seen it --Edwin

Disqualified (by)

101 Dalmatians (Disney cartoon or live-action? Either - SK)
Addams Family, The (SK, PT)
Amelie (V, PT)
Ace Ventura, Pet Detective (V, PT, SK)
Airplane (V, SK, PT)
Babe (AC)
Back to the Future x3 (PT, ET)
Beauty And The Beast (V)
Beethoven (SK)
Bill and Ted x2 (PT, ETx1)
Billy Elliot (V, AC, SK)
Blade Runner (CH, PT, RC, AC, ET, SK)
Brassed Off (V, RC, PT hasn't heard of it, AC, SK)
Bug's Life, A (V, qqzm, ET, SK)
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (qqzm, RC, ET)
ET (qqzm, V, PT, ET ironically)
Fantasia (ET)
Finding Nemo (V)
Four Weddings and a Funeral (V, PT, SK)
Full Monty, The (V, PT, AC)
Forrest Gump (CH, PT)
Galaxy Quest (Admiral)
Ghostbusters (CH, PT, SK)
Gladiator (V, AC)
Grease (PT, ET)
Great Escape, The (RC, AC, PT, ET, SK)
Groundhog Day (SK, PT, ET, SK)
Harry Potter: all of them (all bar 1 disqualified by SF, V some of them, PT refuses to see any of them, Admiral likewise)

PT and Admiral: can I be nosy and ask why? Is it a theological objection to the theme, or an opinion that they're just not very good (and does that apply to the books too?), or something else? --Rachael

: I liked the books too much to take the risk. --PT
: Cow-orkers forced the first book on me. I wasn't impressed. One fewer thing to waste my CopiousFreeTime on. --Admiral

Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy (film) (Admiral, PT)
Home Alone (Admiral - amusingly I have seen Home Alone 2)
Honey I Shrunk The Kids (PT)
Independence Day (SK)
Indiana Jones x3 (some by AC, some by PT, some by ET)
Italian Job, The (2003) (CH, PT, RC, AC, ET, SK)
Italian Job, The (1969) (PT, RC, AC, SK)
James Bond x15 or so (actually probably only Goldfinger, From Russia With Love, You Only Live Twice) (RC hasn't seen most of them, SK also)
Jurassic Park (CH)
Labyrinth (Admiral)
Life of Brian, The (Admiral)
Lion King, The (T)
Little Mermaid, The (PT)
LOTR 2 (V)
Mamma Mia (ET, V, RC, SK)
Mask, The (PT)
Memento (ET, V)
Mighty Ducks, The (V. WTF?, PT ditto, AC, SK)
Mission Impossible 1 (AC)
Mission Impossible 2 (qqzm, PT, RC, AC)
Monsters Inc (SK, ET)
Mrs Doubtfire (AC, SK)
Neverending Story, The (CH, qqzm)
Notting Hill (SK)
Pirates of the Caribbean x2 (SF, CH, V, PT has only seen the first)
Reservoir Dogs (CH, V, PT, ET, SK)
Romeo and Juliet (Baz Lehrman) (PT)
Serenity (PT)
Short Circuit (ET, PT hasn't even heard of it)
Shrek 2 (V)
Shrek 3 (qqzm, PT)
Sixth Sense, The (AC, V, SK, PT)
Slumdog Millionaire (ET, V, RC, PT, AC, SK)
Snow White (Admiral)
Some Like It Hot (V, CH, RC, PT, AC, ET)
Sound of Music (PT)
Star Wars: The Phantom Menace (qqzm, PT)
Star Wars: Attack of the Clones (qqzm, AC)
Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith (qqzm, CH, V, PT)
Star Wars: A New Hope (PT)
Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back (PT)
Star Wars: Return of the Jedi (PT)
Titanic (qqzm)
Top Gun (RC, PT)
Toy Story 2 (ET)
Tron (CH, PT, RC, qqzm, ET, SK)
Truman Show, The (CH)

Discussion

It's interesting deciding what films are worth putting. For example, I've seen all the Disney/Pixar? films, but there's probably not much point me listing them all; it doesn't convey as much information, and is less efficient, than if someone who doesn't generally watch them were to list the one or two they have seen. (Although I did put Toy Story anyway because I reckoned it was the most widely-seen.) And, conversely, I don't tend to watch Tarantino films, but they're generally popular, so I've made a point of listing the one I have seen.
It's also non-obvious where to get more suggestions from; lists of highest-grossing films will be useful, but also films which get repeated every Christmas (hence Mary Poppins), kids' films which came out in the 80s, films which were hyped at the time and since forgotten but which everyone probably saw at the time (hence Independence Day), films which are relatively obscure but have a cult geek following... --Rachael

I added the Bond series on the "always on television" grounds and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang because if you've seen Mary Poppins you've probably seen that. I decided 2001 was probably not quite universal enough. Hmm. Top Gun? Am I in the wrong circle here for that to be universal? Probably. --SF

I'd have thought it likely, I've seen it. And there are people who've not seen 2001? Heretics. --Vitenka

I've read the book. Why should I be disappointed by the film? --PT

The film is pretty. --Vitenka

But that's about all it is. --Admiral

: Which puts it one-up on the book :) --Vitenka

Possibly 'films shown on plans' and 'films released when young that your parents would have approved of' (eg Bambi) might be sources to mine.--DR

I was surprised how many here have not seen Blade Runner. Is there a reason?--DR

: Very few people here are old enough to have seen it when it first came out. That may have something to do with it. --Edwin

Hmm. We're going to have to define "seen" here I think. Does it mean "know you have watched this beginning to end?", or does it mean "have seen and can vaguely remember bits of it?" --SF