Best Old Movies?
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I like a lot of the old ones, but it's hard to beat the original War of the Worlds[^] (The advert is only 15 seconds...). I didn't know it was done in Technicolor - our TV was a black & white model. :-O
Will Rogers never met me.
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The Wizard of Oz for general fun. The long Kiss Goodnight when I need lots of guns and explosions.
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The 80s isn't old. Is it? Anyway, lots of the very bestest films were made in the 80s. The Princess Bride for example is the greatest film ever.
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The Importance Of Being Ernest. The Lady-killers. Carrington Browne of the FO. The Battle Of The Bulge. Bridge Over The River Kwai. The Dam busters. The Great Escape.
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Ben-Hur[^] The African Queen[^] Goldfinger[^] (my favorite James Bond) The Ten Commandments[^] (okay, so I like Biblical epics) Alien[^] To Sir, With Love[^], Guess Who's Coming To Dinner[^], and In the Heat of the Night[^] (Sidney Poitier was on a roll in 1967) My Fair Lady[^] and Hello Dolly![^] (I like musicals too) Star Wars[^] Dune? an old movie? I'll have you know that came out the year I graduated from college you young pup!
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I like a lot of the old ones, but it's hard to beat the original War of the Worlds[^] (The advert is only 15 seconds...). I didn't know it was done in Technicolor - our TV was a black & white model. :-O
Will Rogers never met me.
I really like the original too. I ought to keep an eye out for it in the bargain DVD bins, as I've never seen an unedited version of it (you can tell it's been cut for time when it's shown on TV). Despite my better judgement, I liked the Tom Cruise 're-make' as well. They told a good story, and he played the part well. It's just too bad the aliens didn't kill him off in that one before some moron had the bright idea of having him play Jack Reacher.
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The 80s isn't old. Is it? Anyway, lots of the very bestest films were made in the 80s. The Princess Bride for example is the greatest film ever.
Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends. Shed Petition[^]
The Princess Bride[^] has always been something of a meme here at CP, but I'd never watched it until a couple of months ago. I saw it in the Wal-Mart bargain bin for $5 and bought it on a whim. It was great!
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The Wizard of Oz for general fun. The long Kiss Goodnight when I need lots of guns and explosions.
The Wizard of Oz is a class. And The Long Kiss Goodnight looks like a winner!
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Ben-Hur[^] The African Queen[^] Goldfinger[^] (my favorite James Bond) The Ten Commandments[^] (okay, so I like Biblical epics) Alien[^] To Sir, With Love[^], Guess Who's Coming To Dinner[^], and In the Heat of the Night[^] (Sidney Poitier was on a roll in 1967) My Fair Lady[^] and Hello Dolly![^] (I like musicals too) Star Wars[^] Dune? an old movie? I'll have you know that came out the year I graduated from college you young pup!
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Dune? an old movie?
If Dune were a woman, she'd be a great age to date. Does that make me a videophile? :-\
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12 Monkeys (not old, but old_er_ ;) )
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The Good, the Bad and the Ugly[^]. It's too old, but still good movie.
Wonde Tadesse
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Try any movie with Cary Grant. Or a Hitchcock or two. Or real classics, like Casablanca and The African Queen. And if you want to see real comic genius (unlike a lot of the pathetic, childish cr@p that gets made nowadays), try Harold Lloyd, Buster Keaton, Laurel & Hardy, etc. Or if you just want to see incredible stories, with beautifully written scripts, try anything written by that Shakespeare guy. Just because certain technologies hadn't been invented when they were made/written doesn't mean people were stupid, and couldn't write great scripts. Mind you, I've always said the same about ancient societies like the Beakers -- they weren't stupid people, they were just as smart as we are; it's just that someone else hadn't discovered electricity or invented computers, cars, and aeroplanes for them, like someone else did for us.
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The Importance Of Being Ernest. The Lady-killers. Carrington Browne of the FO. The Battle Of The Bulge. Bridge Over The River Kwai. The Dam busters. The Great Escape.
*pre-emptive celebratory nipple tassle jiggle* - Sean Ewington
"Mind bleach! Send me mind bleach!" - Nagy Vilmos
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Hell's bells, yes! The British cinema has produced some amazing gems. Just about anything from Ealing or Gainsborough is well worth the watch.
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The Wizard of Oz for general fun. The long Kiss Goodnight when I need lots of guns and explosions.
Jim Meadors wrote:
The long Kiss Goodnight
<sings> 'Cause I'm a bad mother______ <shuts up> Still his best performance.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I really like the original too. I ought to keep an eye out for it in the bargain DVD bins, as I've never seen an unedited version of it (you can tell it's been cut for time when it's shown on TV). Despite my better judgement, I liked the Tom Cruise 're-make' as well. They told a good story, and he played the part well. It's just too bad the aliens didn't kill him off in that one before some moron had the bright idea of having him play Jack Reacher.
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delete this;Gary R. Wheeler wrote:
It's just too bad the aliens didn't kill him off in that one before some moron had the bright idea of having him play Jack Reacher.
:laugh: :laugh: :laugh: Agreed!
Will Rogers never met me.
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*ach!* I thought that was a dreadful movie.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
Nah.It's good movie and you should try it.
Wonde Tadesse
