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Favorite classic films

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Someone had suggested doing a Friday 5 type thing on classic films.  I've not done the Friday 5 thing before so can't tell if I'm doing it correctly or not, but regardless, I'm going to put up a chance for others to tell me what their favorite classic films are.  You can list 5, or 10, or 1 or 3, I don't really care what number you want to list.  The only real requirement I would place on things is that if you are going to label something a classic it needs to be more than 20 years old.  Newer films may eventually be worthy of being called classics, but for now I'm more interested in older classics, from earlier eras (like, for example, the Black & White era).

So, list some favorite classics films and perhaps comment on other people's choices.

I've already listed one of my own favorites (12 Angry Men) in a previous article.  I'll list a few other choices later, and will try not to take other people's choices (though for those that have good taste in classic films, that may be inevitable).

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Reply #51 from WinCustomize Forums Top

1. Meet Joe Black.

2. Spy Game.

3. Cleopatra (Burton, Taylor).

4. Dr. Zhivago.

5. The Spy Who Came in From The Cold.

Reply #52 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Westerns...

1. Rio Bravo.... John Wayne, Dean Martin, Walter Brennan.

2. The Good The Bad and the Ugly.... Clint Eastwood, Lee van Cleef.

3. The Searchers... John Wayne, Jeffrey Hunter, Natalie Wood

4. The Fastest Gun Alive... Glen Ford, Broderick Crawford, Jeanne Crain.

5 Pale Rider... Clint Eastwood, Michael Moriarty, Carrie Snodgrass.

6. The Scalphunters... Burt Lancaster, Telly Savalas, Shelly Winters

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Reply #53 from Elemental Forums Top

Going to list some of "my" classic comedies:

 

The Great Race   "Push the button Max!"

Young Frankenstein/Blazing Saddles (1974, the year of Mel Brooks)  "My, what knockers!"

Airplane/Naked Gun/Top Secret  "Is this some kind of bust?  "It's very impressive, yes."

Kingpin  (Munson: "How's life."  Neighbor (smoking with oxygen on): "Takin' forever.")

Reply #54 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting Groovyash, reply 53
Airplane/Naked Gun/Top Secret "Is this some kind of bust? "It's very impressive, yes."
End of Groovyash's quote

Outside of the US 'Airplane' was titled 'Flying High'.

Seems the drug connotation was too much for the US censors....;p

Reply #55 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting Jafo, reply 54
Outside of the US 'Airplane' was titled 'Flying High'.

Seems the drug connotation was too much for the US censors.
End of Jafo's quote

US censors.... strange animals to say the least... not to mention those peculiar minded people who keep them in a job.

Yup, I find it so strange [hypocritical, even] that US movies can show wholesale tits and bum from beginning to end, yet love scenes on US TV [stuff intended for adults] are sanitised to the point they're not even credible.... eg, people who have just done the horizontal dance together are not concerned about covering up their rude bits with sheets, etc.

Also dumbfounding was the fuss over Janet Jackson's Superbowl nipple slip. It was over before most even noticed it, yet the public outcry went on for months afterwards.  Thing is, if the news and current affairs programmes hadn't made a big song and dance about it, it's likely the majority of Americans would never have noticed/known anything about it, yet that 2 seconds goes down as a blight in US history.

Equally as puzzling is the eff word being censored/bleeped out when it has become every day language for many US citizens, yet if one expletive gets though on TV there's a public outrage and letters of complaint to station management. 

Like, WTF? :S

Okay, confused mode off now and b.o.t. [back on topic]

My fave horror [slash comedy] is 'The Evil Dead' series with Bruce Davidson... and of those 'The Evil Dead 2' tops the list.

My fave war movie is 'Where Eagles Dare' with Clint Eastwood and Richard Burton [though I ordinarily don't like this genre at all]

My fave sci-fi is 'The Hidden' with Kyle McLachlan

My fave drama is 'The Verdict' with Paul Newman.

My fave thriller is 'The Green Mile' with Tom Hanks

Reply #56 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting starkers, reply 55
US censors.... strange animals to say the least... not to mention those peculiar minded people who keep them in a job.
End of starkers's quote

I'll not have you maligning animals, starkers!  :annoyed: ;)

Like your taste in films, btw.

 

Reply #57 from WinCustomize Forums Top


Yup, I find it so strange [hypocritical, even] that US movies can show wholesale tits and bum from beginning to end, yet love scenes on US TV [stuff intended for adults] are sanitised to the point they're not even credible.... eg, people who have just done the horizontal dance together are not concerned about covering up their rude bits with sheets, etc.

Also dumbfounding was the fuss over Janet Jackson's Superbowl nipple slip. It was over before most even noticed it, yet the public outcry went on for months afterwards.  Thing is, if the news and current affairs programmes hadn't made a big song and dance about it, it's likely the majority of Americans would never have noticed/known anything about it, yet that 2 seconds goes down as a blight in US history.

Equally as puzzling is the eff word being censored/bleeped out when it has become every day language for many US citizens, yet if one expletive gets though on TV there's a public outrage and letters of complaint to station management. [/quote]

 

:annoyed:

 

Great western pics starkers! :thumbsup:

Reply #58 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting starkers, reply 55
My fave war movie is 'Where Eagles Dare' with Clint Eastwood and Richard Burton [though I ordinarily don't like this genre at all]
End of starkers's quote

Guns of Navarone ....if we're talking 'old' War films....;)

Full Metal Jacket....for 'new' ones....;)

Reply #59 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting DrJBHL, reply 56
I'll not have you maligning animals, starkers!
End of DrJBHL's quote

Okay, animal lovers, animal rights activists, etc, please accept this as a public apology to all animals and associated friends....

It was a mistake to call US censors a strange kind of animal and I retract that statement and apologise completely and unreservedly.  Sadly, US censors are peculiar something or others, but clearly they are NOT animals and should not be categorised as such.  Animals are more loyal, loving and trustworthy.... and can be reasoned with.... unlike censors, politicians and bureaucrats. 

Any animals who were offended by my earlier comment, sorry and please disregard it. :sun:

Quoting DrJBHL, reply 56
Like your taste in films, btw.
End of DrJBHL's quote

I like quite a wide range of movies and genres, though I can take or leave musicals. I'm not into those slasher/slice and dice gore movies, either.  I'm mostly into sci-fi, fantasy and thrillers, with the occasional drama and comedy thrown in here and there to break the monotony. 

Quoting Quicksilver007, reply 57
Great western pics starkers!
End of Quicksilver007's quote

Yeah, I like the older style westerns.  Another I really liked was 'Thunder in the Sun' with Tab Hunter.... about a wagon train master guiding the French Basque and their grapes to California.  Also, 'The Sheepman' was another western I enjoyed, with Glenn Ford, Shirley McClaine, Slim Pickens.  For me, Glenn Ford was one of the greats of Hollywood and far too often was underrated [when compared to John Wayne, etc] as an actor.

Reply #60 from JoeUser Forums Top

Quoting starkers, reply 52
Westerns...

1. Rio Bravo.... John Wayne, Dean Martin, Walter Brennan.

2. The Good The Bad and the Ugly.... Clint Eastwood, Lee van Cleef.

3. The Searchers... John Wayne, Jeffrey Hunter, Natalie Wood

4. The Fastest Gun Alive... Glen Ford, Broderick Crawford, Jeanne Crain.

5 Pale Rider... Clint Eastwood, Michael Moriarty, Carrie Snodgrass.

6. The Scalphunters... Burt Lancaster, Telly Savalas, Shelly Winters
End of starkers's quote

You Forgot McLintock.  But not a bad bunch you came up with.

Reply #61 from JoeUser Forums Top

Quoting Jafo, reply 54
Seems the drug connotation was too much for the US censors....
End of Jafo's quote

Airplane was a parody of the Airport movies, so I would have expected it to be "airplane" as the link to the other movies was stronger.

Reply #62 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting starkers, reply 56

My fave horror [slash comedy] is 'The Evil Dead' series with Bruce Davidson... and of those 'The Evil Dead 2' tops the list.

End of starkers's quote

 

Sorry I have to be "that guy," but my handle demands that I point out that Bruce Campbell was the star of the Evil Dead series.

Reply #63 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting Groovyash, reply 62

Quoting starkers, reply 56
My fave horror [slash comedy] is 'The Evil Dead' series with Bruce Davidson... and of those 'The Evil Dead 2' tops the list.



 

Sorry I have to be "that guy," but my handle demands that I point out that Bruce Campbell was the star of the Evil Dead series.
End of Groovyash's quote

You are quite right, it was.  It's just that I know somebody named Bruce Davidson and I got my wires crossed... it happens a lot in my old age.

Reply #64 from Elemental Forums Top

Tell me about it.

 

Reply #65 from WinCustomize Forums Top

I like my Musicals...

ShowBoat  the 1936 film version - Irene Dunn, Alan Hale, Helen Morgan, Hattie McDaniel and Paul Robeson

Yankee Doodle Dandy - James Cagney, Oscar winner 1942

The Great Ziegfeld - William Powell

The King and I

Sound of Music

Funny Girl

Reply #66 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting S, reply 65
I like my Musicals...
End of S's quote

So they all moved away from him on the Group 'W' bench.....until he said '...and creatin' a disturbance'.....;)

Reply #67 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting S, reply 65
I like my Musicals...
End of S's quote

I don't... unless you include 'Little Shop of Horrors' with Rick Moranis, Ellen Green, John Candy, Steve Martin, Bill Murray.

So if that's classified as a musical, then I like that one.... "and suddenly Seymour, is right there beside you....."

Now that Ellen Greene lass really has a set of pipes..... :inlove:

Would 'The Rocky Horror Picture Show' be classified as a musical?

If so then I don't mind that one, either..... "Science fiction, double feature...."

And How about 'Calamity Jane'?

Doris Day was my dad's favourite actress/singer.... "and now I shout it from the highest hill, even told the golden daffodil...."

Then there's 'This is Spinal Tap'... which has to be a musical because all their songs go to 11.... "my baby fits me like a flesh tuxedo... I like to sink her with my pink torpedo....".

And 'Tommy' .... who's got "such a subtle wrist" while his uncle's on a 'Yellow Submarine' doing a 'Magical Mystery Tour'

Nah, I don't like musicals. :-"

Reply #68 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Another old movie that just came to mind 'Into The Night' with Jeff Goldblum and Michelle Pfeiffer... it's about an insomniac [Goldblum] getting caught up in a series of tight situations and is a mixture of comedy, thriller, drama, gangster and lunatic.

Hopefully it's not too old and still available to rent/purchase for the right price. ;)

Reply #70 from Elemental Forums Top

I must say that one of my favorite classic movies is "Fiddler on the roof" I think everyone should see that movie :).

Reply #71 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting starkers, reply 59
I'm not into those slasher/slice and dice gore movies, either.  I'm mostly into sci-fi, fantasy and thrillers, with the occasional drama and comedy thrown in here and there to break the monotony. 
End of starkers's quote

Quite agree.

Quoting gamingjoc, reply 70
"Fiddler on the roof"
End of gamingjoc's quote

Loved it.

Reply #72 from Elemental Forums Top

Yeah, not really fond of the slasher type movies either.  There are enough bad things in the world without creating bad things which are even worse than the world and promote fear. ;)

Reply #75 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Scent of spam ....[not a movie...a note to self]