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Old March 8th, 2011, 3:54 pm
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My favourite old classic movies are mention below:

1. Star Wars
2. Citizen Kane
3. The Godfather
4. Rear Window
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Old March 8th, 2011, 6:36 pm
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Re: Classic Movies
My all-time favorite is Gone With The Wind, but I also enjoy these other classics:

The Wizard of Oz
Rear Window
Psycho
Rebecca (Hitchcock much? )
Random Harvest
A Streetcar Named Desire
The Star Wars Trilogy


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Just watching Dial M for murder classic hitchcock


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Just how old does a movie have to be to be called "a classic"?? I am just wondering if LotR can be called a classic...


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Favorite Classics:

Singin' in the Rain
The Graduate
Casablanca
An American in Paris
An Affair to Remember
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Just how old does a movie have to be to be called "a classic"?? I am just wondering if LotR can be called a classic...
Well, it has been over a decade since they filmed them, so...

I think old films are like old computer games. You remember them being better than what they actually are. Psycho, for example, is slow, boring and about as scary as a gun fight with Stephen Hawking.


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Well, it has been over a decade since they filmed them, so...

I think old films are like old computer games. You remember them being better than what they actually are. Psycho, for example, is slow, boring and about as scary as a gun fight with Stephen Hawking.
Well in that case:

LotR
Labyrinth
Sisi (all of them, perfect Christmas films)
Mary Poppins
the Sound of Music
Star Wars (it has taken me a while to like these)
My Fair Lady


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Psycho, for example, is slow, boring and about as scary as a gun fight with Stephen Hawking.
Blasphemy! It's one of the best psychological thrillers ever made and the Godfather of slasher films.


So I see it's been quite a while since I last posted in this thread. Hmm, let's see...what classic movies have I seen in the past year?

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Singin' in the Rain
The Killing (Kubrick)
You Can't Take it With You (Capra)
Sergeant York (Hawks)
Charade
Adam's Rib
Ball of Fire (Hawks)
The Lady Eve
Les Diaboliques
The Godfather: Part II
Touch of Evil
Platoon
Sleuth

*** 1/2

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
The Awful Truth
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
To Be Or Not To Be
The Innocents
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
Barry Lyndon (Kubrick)
Kind Hearts and Coronets
Scarface (1932- Hawks)
Meet John Doe (Capra)
Wild Strawberries
Gone with the Wind
Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Frenzy (Hitchcock)
Witness for the Prosecution (Capra)
From Here To Eternity

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The African Queen
Days of Heaven
Breakfast at Tiffany's
The Thin Man
The Godfather
The Man Who Knew Too Much (Hitchcock)
Full Metal Jacket (Kubrick)
Holiday
Roman Holiday
Sullivan's Travels
Badlands
The Shop Around the Corner
The Birds (Hitchcock)
Night of the Hunter

**1/2

The Wrong Man (Hitchcock)
I Confess (Hitchcock)
Stage Freight (Hitchcock)
The Third Man
2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick)
Saboteur (Hitchcock)
The French Connection
Marnie (Hitchcock)
Bell, Book, and Candle
The Postman Always Rings Twice

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The Seventh Seal


I unfortunately haven't discovered many more Hitchcock greats, but I have found out how great 1941 was, to an even greater extent.

Just take a look at this list of classics released that year-

Suspicion (Hitchcock)
Maltese Falcon (Huston)
The Lady Eve (Sturges)
Ball of Fire (Hawks)
Sullivan's Travel's
How Green Was My Valley (Ford)
Meet John Doe (Capra)
Citizen Kane (Welles) - not a favorite, but its achievements cannot be brushed aside
Sergeant York (Hawks)


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Old April 17th, 2011, 8:16 pm
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1. Gone with the Wind
2. It's a Wonderful Life
3. The Silent Man
4. Star Wars Trilogy
5. Harry Potter Series
6. Casablanca
7. Wizard of Oz


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Breakfast at Tiffany's is a classic!

Um,
-Star Wars
-Wizard of Oz.
-Breakfast Club, Pretty in Pink, Sixteen Candles
-Heathers
-Gone with the Wind
-Somewhere in Time


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How old is old? Someone mentioned some that were made in the 80s - the John Hughes teen films are classics, but I'm not sure if they're old!

12 Angry Men
Annie Hall
Sleeper
All The President's Men
Dr Strangelove
Easy Rider
Hannah and her Sisters
The Graduate
Brief Encounter


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Blasphemy! It's one of the best psychological thrillers ever made and the Godfather of slasher films.
What passes for horror these days caters to those whose imagination needs to be spoon-fed lashings of gore. What makes Psycho so scary is what Hitchcock doesn't show and the imagination fills in.


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Just saw 'In the heat of the night' recently. Was worth the watch. Definitely a classic in my eyes.


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In need of a classic film for a movie night with some friends; something both guys and girls would enjoy...and preferably one I have not yet seen either (yes, that one's probably the most difficult parameter ) For a complete list (according to my Flickchart) of my viewings...

1930's

It Happened One Night
The Wizard of Oz
The Lady Vanishes
The 39 Steps
The Thin Man
Duck Soup
Bringing Up Baby
Mr. Smith Goes To Washington
Scarface
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Drácula
The Hound of the Baskervilles
Gone with the Wind
City Lights
Modern Times
My Man Godfrey
The Awful Truth
Mr. Deeds Goes To Town
You Can't Take It With You

1940's

The Lady Eve
Arsenic and Old Lace
Shadow of a Doubt
Foreign Correspondent
It's a Wonderful Life
The Pride of the Yankees
Spellbound
Casablanca
The Philadelphia Story
Dumbo
Laura
Rebecca
The Big Sleep
The Maltese Falcon
Notorious
Double Indemnity
Saboteur
The Third Man
His Girl Friday
Gaslight
The Bishop's Wife
Pinocchio
The Grapes of Wrath
Bambi
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Lifeboat
Citizen Kane
Rope
Key Largo
The Postman Always Rings Twice
Suspicion
Sullivan's Travels
The Shop Around the Corner
To Be or Not to Be
The Magnificent Ambersons
Gilda
Adam's Rib
The Pride of the Yankees
Ball of Fire
On the Town

1950's

Rear Window
Some Like It Hot
Strangers on a Train
Vertigo
North by Northwest
Touch of Evil
Anatomy of a Murder
To Catch a Thief
The Ten Commandments
Dial M for Murder
The Night of the Hunter
The Killing
Singin' in the Rain
Witness for the Prosecution
The Bridge on the River Kwai
12 Angry Men
The Seven Year Itch
Sunset Blvd.
From Here to Eternity
Harvey
The Man Who Knew Too Much
The African Queen
Sleeping Beauty
I Confess
Lady and the Tramp
Cinderella
Roman Holiday
Peter Pan
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Alice in Wonderland
High Noon
The Seventh Seal
White Christmas
On the Waterfront
Wild Strawberries
Stalag 17
A Streetcar Named Desire
Sabrina
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Seven Brides For Seven Brothers
The Wrong Man
Monkey Business
Pillow Talk

1960's

The Graduate
Psycho
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Apartment
West Side Story
Bonnie and Clyde
Charade
101 Dalmatians
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Doctor Zhivago
The Jungle Book
Breakfast at Tiffany's
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Lolita
Frosty the Snowman
How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
Romeo and Juliet
Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer
It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown
Goldfinger
A Charlie Brown Christmas
2001: A Space Odyssey
Rosemary's Baby

1970's

Animal House
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Jaws
Network
Chinatown
Star Wars
Halloween
Escape from Alcatraz
Sleuth
Blazing Saddles
Harold and Maude
Days of Heaven
The Godfather Part II
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
The Conversation
The Sting
Rocky
The Godfather
Tora! Tora! Tora!
Grease
The Bad News Bears
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
The Rescuers
The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh
Charlotte's Web
Taxi Driver
Barry Lyndon


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The Wizard of Oz! One of my favorite movies growing up.


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The Wizard of Oz! One of my favorite movies growing up.
Seen it multiple times and I'm pretty sure my friends have too...


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What about "Meet Me in St Louis"? It's another Judy Garland Musical and it's good fun.


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If you like swashbuckling, I'd suggest the 1934 version of the The Scarlet Pimpernel, with Leslie Howard, the 1948 of The Three Musketeers, with Gene Kelly, or The Prisoner of Zenda.


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If you like swashbuckling, I'd suggest the 1934 version of the The Scarlet Pimpernel, with Leslie Howard, the 1948 of The Three Musketeers, with Gene Kelly, or The Prisoner of Zenda.
Hmm, those could be good since 2 of my 3 friends used to do fencing. In fact they dressed up as the 3 Musketeers for a themed danced.

Thanks!

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And can anyone comment on this one? Director was Michael Curtiz so I figure it must be good...and the score seems to reflect this also-

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Hmm, those could be good since 2 of my 3 friends used to do fencing. In fact they dressed up as the 3 Musketeers for a themed danced.

Thanks!

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And can anyone comment on this one? Director was Michael Curtiz so I figure it must be good...and the score seems to reflect this also-

The Sea Hawk
The Sea Hawk is a good Errol Flynn movie. My favorite one of his is The Adventures of Robin Hood. Both of them have pretty good sword fights.


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