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Elki
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This is a thread for older movies. Well, not just older movies, but any movie that have been out of its theatre run for a 1+ years. This is not a general theatre releases megathread, and it's not a recent DVD releases thread, so don't use it as such.
Spoilers: Tag your spoilers. All of them. There are a lot of things that I (and other people, I suppose) haven't seen, so don't ruin them for us. This is already in the rules thread, but I'm repeating it here so I don't hear any whining later about how you think everyone should have seen THX 1138 by now. I don't want to hear it.
OK? OK!
Spoilers: Tag your spoilers. All of them. There are a lot of things that I (and other people, I suppose) haven't seen, so don't ruin them for us. This is already in the rules thread, but I'm repeating it here so I don't hear any whining later about how you think everyone should have seen THX 1138 by now. I don't want to hear it.
OK? OK!
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I've got that as a Russian Classics DVD, but it's only in German (...not Russian, I have no idea why). I haven't gotten around to watching it, but hopefully I will at some point. I've heard the remake with Clooney isn't as good, but I haven't seen that either.
If we're going with old movies, I'm going to go really far back here and recommend some Marx Brothers. I don't care much for the musical interludes that are bound to happen in nearly every movie (some of them work comedy in, like the piano playing in Animal Crackers). There are quite a few classic moments in movie history from them, and some decent one-liners as well.
Unfortunately the black and white film, occasional usage of 30s cultural references and the less professional aura of the films might put some people off (the actors apparently love to look into the camera...Margaret Dumont does it all the time, but Groucho Marx does it for comedic effect through soliloquy or talking to the audience). I'll recommend Duck Soup, The Big Store and Animal Crackers, but everyone tends to have their assorted favorites. A Night at the Opera has a relatively famous contract scene between Groucho and Chico. Duck Soup has the relatively famous mirror scene. Captain Spaulding's adventures in Africa from Animal Crackers is always good too (including " One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas - how he got in my pajamas I dunno.").
It takes a lot to make me laugh out loud at a film if I'm the only one watching it, but he manages every time.
Rock Band DLC | GW:OttW - arrcd | WLD - Thortar
Is the teacher using Shawshank to replace a current religion? Because if not she's doing it wrong.
What a great, great movie. Now I'm going to start quoting lines from it to random people at work today.
Since we're taking the retro track, I'm a big fan of Audrey Hepburn movies. It's surprisingly hard to articulate just why I like them so much, but whenever, say, Sabrina pops up on the telly, I must watch and watch and be bewilderingly lost in her beautiful, starry, incandescent eyes, mesmerized by her grace and charm and.....
.........what?
Apparently, it's her favourite movie because it's filled with hope... So far I've only seen the lead being brutally raped, but I'm sure theres hope later on.
I saw this at the theatre about two or three years back, the tension live acting can bring improved an already great premise
Keep on watching. It's a wonderful movie and the book is great too. Stephen King needs to write more prison books.
Back to old movies, I've recently picked up the original Rollerball, having only seen the remake. Man, is it so much better.
If you like Chaplin I suggest checking out Buster Keaton. He does alot of the same type of gags of Chaplin but also manages to get a good amount of emotional weight to his movies too.
Modern Times = pure excellence. I even teared up a little bit at the end. It's definitely one of those movies that has aged well.
Unlike Duck Soup, which we also watched in Film Studies. I like the Marx brother that can't talk the best.
edit: No worries, Platypus. I second your opinion.
I also watched Breathless for the first time around the same time. It was good, but felt kind of...slight. I think The 400 Blows is better as far as French new wave goes.
Gone with the Wind
Wizard of Oz (still awesome, and fucked up, just because of all the folklore)
Casablanca
The Maltese Falcon
To Kill a Mockingbird
It's a Wonderful Life (fuck you if you don't like it)
Beyond that, it's pretty much 1970 or bust. I really didn't like a lot of old movies, but once you hit the 70's and up you get slasher horror, Clint Eastwood westerns, the Magnificent Seven, Star Wars, Jaws, Close Encounters, ET, etc.
Ugggghh I HATE Breathless. I cannot stand Goddard; he is so obsessed with being hip. You are right, Truffaut is where it's at. However, I don't like The 400 Blows as much as I do Shoot the Piano Player and [/i]Jules e Jim[/i]. Those are two of my favorite movies of all time.
Next to, of course, 8 1/2.
It's often too dramatic for my taste.
OH GOD I LOVED M
best fucking movie ever
Awesome Noire and had an amazing theme song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=te9fqm6rUPY
Had a great Orson Welles cameo and over all was a fun movie with good pacing.
And also had this great quote:
In Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love - they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.
Are we thinking of the same Terminator 2?
"I AM PROFESSOR FATE!"
Let 'em eat fucking pineapples!
Seriously, the reason T2 was so long getting released was because of the rendering time necessary for the T-1000 CGI.
Aliens on the other hand, I will agree with whole heartedly, and Predator.
The version of T2 I saw back in 1991 was using claymation for the T1000 effects.
I really want to know what fucked up version of the movie this was.
I would hardly call Orson Welles' role in The Third Man a "cameo". The scene where he finally makes his entrance
And now for something completely different I must agree with Nexus, Buster Keaton was also awesome. Sherlock Jr. is so such a joy to watch.
They may not mean to, but they do.
They fill you with the faults they had
And add some extra, just for you.
O_o
Hope, rape, I can see how you cold confuse the two.
It's not just prison books, really. I've found that many of Stephen King's best works are his non-horror stuff. Of the movie adaptations, I can really only recommend Shawshank or Stand By Me off the top of my head, Shawshank being one of my favorites of all time (though I recommend giving the book/novella a shot as well, it's short and well worth a read).
Oh God, I just had a vision of how awesomely horrible this movie would have been if it had bee released in the late 70's/early 80's.
This. London I think you're having a stroke.
The original Ocean's 11 with the Rat Pack. Still love that movie.
The French Connection.
(Not quite so old) Shawshanke Redemption.