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Ive been \"borrowing\" a lot of of movies whilst off on the sick and have noticed i've been leaning towards the older \"classics\". For instance, today i had a Hitchcock day..\"Rear Window\" with Grace Kelly and James Stewart..
..forgive an old cliche kids, but they don't make 'em like they used to.

Spiderman 3...ROFLMAO.

not very much of a classic, but its my favorite movie.....


Flight Of the Intruder

I grew up watching a bunch of the old classics with my family.

Let me see...

Of the Hitchcock films, my favorite has to be Spellbound, but my favorite of that genre is a non-Hitchcock film, To Catch a Thief. In drama, I'm a sucker for Breakfast at Tiffany's, Casablanca, and To Kill a Mockingbird. And then in the adventure/suspense category, The Day the Earth Stood Still, Robin Hood (with Errol Flynn), or maybe The Third Man.

Don't ask me to pick a favorite out of all those.

The silent classic \" The Thief of Bagdad\", The original \"King Kong\", The original \"Time Machine\" both of which I like better than the new ones.

Metropolis, Ms. Marple, Dark Star + many more..

Off the top of my head, Ben Hur, Patton, and a few others which I forgot.

Voyage of Sinbad and those types from the late 70's.

Goldfinger. Classic Bond/Connery. And of course, Pussy Galore.

Patton and just about any John Wayne Western

ooh.. the Quiet Man.

Best fight sequence bar none. ..well maybe after Kirk and Finagen.

I think it would have to be Casablanca...just a classic in every respect. Other favs include Lawrence of Arabia, Metropolis, and Double Indemnity. In Milwaukee we have the Times Cinema, in business since 1935. They would show older films almost every week. They're more about contemporary independent fare and some special features nowadays, but they still run classics on most weekends.

Patton, True Grit, the original Psycho, Birds, Rear Window, The Guns Of Navarone, North By Northwest.... many others.

I forgot about Patton, great movie to be sure. I also caught The 39 steps..another Hitchcock, and though parts of it are quite \"hammy\"..for a 1935 production, it's excellent.

I did The Great Escape again also, but for me that's a bi-annual addiction i've no intention of stopping.

Ugh, The Great Escape was an hour too long.

Though the motorcycle chase through the countryside was awesome.

Ah, yeah. I had forgotten about North by Northwest. Definitely belongs in the list.

\"Houseboat\" with Sophia Loren and Cary Grant. You MUST see it. Damn it's a funny movie. Hollywood couldn't make that movie today, sadly. Or anything else decent for that matter.

McClintock!

\"Great party! Where's the whiskey?!\"

Mobius wrote:Hollywood couldn't make that movie today, sadly. Or anything else decent for that matter.

The entertainment industry as a whole is geared towards over-produced mass-market drivel with no substance these days, so that doesn't come as a surprise.

Without a Clue (1988)

All time favorite movie. Michael Caine as Sherlock Holmes and Ben Kingsley as Watson.

Sirius wrote:

Mobius wrote:Hollywood couldn't make that movie today, sadly. Or anything else decent for that matter.

The entertainment industry as a whole is geared towards over-produced mass-market drivel with no substance these days, so that doesn't come as a surprise.

Yes, because 300 sucked.

Krull. Made in the early 80's

you have to be kidding Tiger.. that was one of the worse movies ever....but.. to each his own.

Jon the Great wrote:Without a Clue (1988)

Wait... a movie from 1988 is now considered old?!

I thought I was still pretty young at 30 years...

Topher wrote:Yes, because 300 sucked.

Hype. Total Hype that movie. Yes it was pretty, atmospheric, "arty" and granted it was a slightly different way of telling a story. However, the acting was crap, the fight scenes were predictable to the point of repeating previous productions, and the plot (don't even begin to tell me that this really happened) was linear.

All in all. Twaddle!!!

\"The Sting\" (mid-70s I think)

FC, it was based on a number of accounts which were no doubt embellished. There probably was a battle of Thermopylae, but none of the Greek historians ever said there were only 300 men there - it was from memory several thousand when you throw in the allies and so on. They still did well despite overwhelming odds, but it's not nearly what the motion picture might have shown.

If I read this right, King Leonidas stayed behind with 300 Spartans, 400 Thebans, 700 Thespian and 900 Helots (2,300 ppl. The initial army was somewhere betw. 5,200-7,000). So much about 300..

OTOH, Xerexes' army comes to 500,000 - 2,641,610 (w/o support)..

Foil wrote:Wait... a movie from 1988 is now considered old?!

These young kids make us oldsters feel REAL old.

I picked an arbitrary cutoff point of 1950:

The Last of the Mohicans, Silent, 1920
The Mark of Zorro / Don Q: Son of Zorro, Silent, Douglas Fairbanks, 1920
Nanook of the North, 1922
The Thief of Bagdad, Douglas Fairbanks, silent, 1924
The Adventures of Prince Achmed, 1926
The Black Pirate. Douglas Fairbanks, silent, 1926
The Prince and the Pauper, Errol Flynn, 1937
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Disney, 1937
Robin Hood, Errol Flynn, 1938
Sea Hawk, Errol Flynn, 1940
The Thief of Bagdad, 1940
Fantasia, Disney, 1941
Bambi, Disney, 1942
Song of the South, Disney, 1946
Kon-Tiki, 1950

Comedy?

The Long Trailer.

Lucile Ball and Desi Arnez

Very funny!

Too many others to mention.

Lawrence of Arabia

Hows about Manchurian Candidate, the original?

Some of my favorite older movies...

Metropolis (1927)
Citizen Kane (1941)
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
Goldfinger (1964)
Bullitt (1968)
The French Connection (1971)
Star Wars (1977)
The Blues Brothers (1980)
Blade Runner (1982)
Back to the Future (1985)
Star Trek IV (1986)

Wow i forgot about Bullit...excellent.

but they don't make 'em like they used to.

They most certainly don't!

Spider-Man 3 is cool... and those \"classics\" were made back in the day when they didn't know as much as they do now about making movies. lol

Okay, okay, there were some good ones. Like Mary Poppins.... and James Bond. ^_~

Kyouryuu wrote:Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)

Of course! I completely forgot about that one.

Neo wrote:...good ones. Like Mary Poppins...

I sat through that one as a kid way too many times. It was one of my Mom's favorites, she watched it and Sound of Music over and over and over... I still have an unhealthy loathing of musicals from that era.

The thing is \"back in the day\" the film had to rely substance, not eye-candy. Don't get me wrong i love a bit of eye-candy as much as the next guy but a bit of brain-candy stays with me a hell of a lot longer.

One of the few in recent years that has combined both (and if there are others i'd love to know) is the first Matrix....sadly, i can't watch Keano Reeves for very long--his acting skills are friggin awful.

Convoy
Kellys heroes

Jon the Great wrote:Without a Clue (1988)

All time favorite movie. Michael Caine as Sherlock Holmes and Ben Kingsley as Watson.

In a similar vein,
The Strange Case of the End of Civilization as We Know It (1977)

John Cleese play Holmes.

One of my favorites is Chariots of Fire.