{"id":26740,"date":"2011-08-27T17:16:46","date_gmt":"2011-08-28T00:16:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.the-frame.com\/?p=26740"},"modified":"2011-08-27T17:16:46","modified_gmt":"2011-08-28T00:16:46","slug":"50dmc-27-iconic-movie-i-havent-seen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.the-frame.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/50dmc-27-iconic-movie-i-havent-seen\/","title":{"rendered":"50DMC #27: Iconic Movie I Haven&#8217;t Seen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.the-frame.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/aliens.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"aliens\" width=\"550\" height=\"242\" class=\"centered size-full wp-image-26741\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.the-frame.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/aliens.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.the-frame.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/aliens-290x128.jpg 290w, https:\/\/www.the-frame.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/aliens-300x132.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.the-frame.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/aliens-454x200.jpg 454w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>The 50 Day Movie Challenge asks one question every day, to be answered by a few paragraphs and a clip, if possible. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.the-frame.com\/2011\/06\/50-day-movie-challenge\/\">Click here<\/a> for the full list of questions.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s prompt: <b>What&#8217;s an iconic movie you still haven&#8217;t seen?<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"firstletter\">T<\/span>his is basically a List of Shame question, and I&#8217;m slowly working my way through what I consider the most shameful omissions in my cinematic vocabulary; knocked two of them, <em>A Streetcar Named Desire<\/em> and <em>The Grapes of Wrath<\/em> off my list within the past couple of months. I think the one I&#8217;d consider the most iconic that I still haven&#8217;t gotten to yet, though, is <em>Aliens<\/em> &#8211; an omission that my friend <a href=\"http:\/\/nathanchase.com\/\">Nathan Chase<\/a> won&#8217;t let me forget!<\/p>\n<p>I have seen <em>Alien<\/em>, several years ago, and I didn&#8217;t care for it as much as I&#8217;d hoped &#8211; but I&#8217;m far more into hard sci-fi and horror now than I was then, and I expect a rewatch on that would improve it greatly for me. But I do blame my apathy towards the first film for not having yet moved on to the second, which most people say is better. <em>Aliens<\/em> is definitely in my watching plans for sometime in the near future.<\/p>\n<div class=\"centered\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"550\" height=\"442\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/brEzYdLrPws\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 50 Day Movie Challenge asks one question every day, to be answered by a few paragraphs and a clip, if possible. Click here for the full list of questions. Today&#8217;s prompt: What&#8217;s an iconic movie you still haven&#8217;t seen? This is basically a List of Shame question, and I&#8217;m slowly working my way through [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26741,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[2145,2213,1875],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.the-frame.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/aliens.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":23446,"url":"https:\/\/www.the-frame.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/50dmc-7-favorite-soundtrack\/","url_meta":{"origin":26740,"position":0},"title":"50DMC #7: Favorite Soundtrack","author":"Jandy","date":"July 5, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"The 50 Day Movie Challenge asks one question every day, to be answered by a few paragraphs and a clip, if possible. Click here for the full list of questions. Today's prompt: What is your favorite movie soundtrack? 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