Classics

[MgoBlue-LightSpecial]

What are some so-called "classics" you haven't seen, but would like to? I'm a bit younger than most of you dudes so I'm a little late to the game on some of these films. Just watched "Network" last night. Very solid flick. I didn't know the "I'm mad as hell" line came from this movie.

[MgoBlue-LightSpecial]

it's funny to me.

[Dinsdale]

I've never seen Old Yeller

Sappy

Shane

Been forever, but I recall it's good.

True Grit

Slow and hokey, but good.

To Kill a Mockingbird

A little hard to buy into, but good.

Gone With the Wind

Slowwwwwwwwww... but really good if you like those early-days epics.

...god, a million movies that people assume everyone's seen.

Not sure about Netflix availability, but as per MGO's request, in no order, and without much forethought...

Barbarella (classic campy shit)
All the Connery Bonds, plus the first couple with Moore
Videodrome
From Dusk Til Dawn
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
It's A Mad Mad Mad Mad World
Silent Running
Anything by Hitchcock
Anything by Mel Brooks



I'll think of more.

[Goober McTuber]

it's funny to me.

I think you'd enjoy Kazaam.

If you can find it anywhere, watch Terror of Tiny Town. The world's only musical Western with an all-midget cast.

[MgoBlue-LightSpecial]

I think you're confusing me with Moorese. Although I did kinda do a midget PET one time.

[mvscal]

What are some so-called "classics" you haven't seen, but would like to? I'm a bit younger than most of you dudes so I'm a little late to the game on some of these films.

I believe Citizen Kane is the one classic I would like to see but haven't yet. If you're asking for a list a few of my favs are:

Casablanca
Maltese Falcon
Caine Mutiny
Key Largo
Rear Window
North by Northwest
Vertigo
Man Who Knew Too Much
Rashomon
Seven Samurai
Yojimbo

[mvscal]

Not much else to do with the downpour going on around here at present.

Key Largo is good flick to watch in a downpour with a bottle of scotch and a bag 'o weed.

[Goober McTuber]

Speaking of classics...

Don't you wish you were sharing a drink with Peter Falk right now?

[Goober McTuber]

No.

[Kansas City Kid]

Agree with the "Rear Window" recommendation and defintely "North By Northwest"....Grant and Mason are excellent in that one..."Games?....Must We?"

Also would recommend "Mr. Smith Goes To Washington" and "It Happened One Night"

EDIT: Also, "The Apartment" with Jack Lemmon and Shirley McLaine....won the Oscar in 1960. With all the MAD MEN hoopla this is a good one to revisit. Also a good one for over Christmas as some of the story takes place then...good holiday flick.

[PSUFAN]

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[Go Coogs']

Rear Window is one of the best flicks ever.

Mister Roberts is my favorite old skool flick. Jack Lemon and James Cagney at their best.

Great Escape and the Dirty Dozen are both good.

Sorcerer was good with Roy Scheider

Marathon Man
Midnight Express
Papillon
Bullitt
Love with the Proper Stranger
The Hustler
Hud

[King Crimson]

recently rewatched a couple Huston classics:

asphalt jungle and treasure of sierra madre.

...great. asphalt jungle is pretty much the original "heist" flick. everything else is a footnote. two really strong French versions of the heist flick from the 50's are Bob Le Flambeur and Rififi. really great....with this post-war malaise that even being a gangster is a world of anomie reality.

big fan of white heat, on the by and by. classics-wise.

mike hammer kiss me deadly, too. but that's kind of noir-ish more than "classics". this is the film Tarentino sort of cops to stealing the glowing suitcase as a "mysterious object" from...

louis malle's elevator to the gallows with the miles davis soundtrack.

[Felix]

classic films I haven't seen but would like to

Sunset Blvd.
All About Eve
It Happened One Night

classics I've seen but thought were over hyped
Citizen Kane
Best Years of Our Lives

Classics everyone should see
Lawrence of Arabia
Doctor Zhivago
Grapes of Wrath
The Searchers

"classics" you probably never heard of but definitely worth a watch
Battleship Potemkin
The Bicycle Thief

Yojimbo

watched that about 2 weeks ago on the recommendation of one of my coworkers.....surprisingly good...maybe one of Kurosawa's most underrated films

[L45B]

A few of my go-to's:

Gone With the Wind
Ben-Hur
North by Northwest
Lawrence of Arabia
Ten Commandments
Casablanca
Double Indemnity
The Alamo

[Jay in Phoenix]

Rear Window is one of the best flicks ever.

Great Escape and the Dirty Dozen are both good.

Sorcerer was good with Roy Scheider

Marathon Man
Midnight Express
Papillon
Bullitt
Love with the Proper Stranger
The Hustler
Hud

Wow, can't believe somebody made a reference to "Sorcerer".


One of my favorite movies from that time period. Of course it doesn't quite match up to the original version "Wages of Fear", (WELL worth checking out as far as "classics" goes) however it is still riveting and tense, especially that damn bridge sequence during the storm. Add Tangerine Dreams' creepy score and it is a very nice little scotch 'n' refer movie.

Big ups for "Dirty Dozen" as well. That paired with "Kelley's Hero's" for a nice WWII double bill.

Love "Papillon" and "Midnight Express" too.

Classics I still want to see but haven't...

Metropolis
Casablanca
Grapes of Wrath
Treasure of the Sierra Madre
The Third Man
Night of the Hunter

[Goober McTuber]

The uncut version of Caligula is not to be missed.

[Carson]

Are you turned on by the fisting scene?

[Mikey]

Just watched Chinatown last night on Netflix.

A great 70s take on the noir genre. Everybody involved in this flick is at the top of their game. Nicholson, Dunaway, Polanski, John Huston as Noah Cross. The score, the photography, the LA settings and the way the story is intertwined with actual SoCal history are all remarkable.

Along those same lines, LA Confidential is another good one.

[Goober McTuber]

I thought you were gonzo, you fat, drunken pedophile.

[Shlomart Ben Yisrael]

Go on and limp back into Cul de Smack, todd.

It's not like anyone noticed you were gone anyway.