I only recently saw Forrest Gump all the way through, which I have been told by practically everyone I needed to see. There have been several classic/well known movies I haven't seen, like Pulp Fiction. Does this surprise anyone? I mean I'm only 17, not like I've had a lot of time. Are there any classic movies that anybody else hasn't seen? I know somebody who went on about me for not seeing Forrest Gump but he hadn't even seen the Godfather (part 1) yet.
There are many classic movies that I have not seen yet. Gone with the Wind, The Godfather, Forrest Gump... there are a bunch of them. I'll probably see them eventually. Thanks to a pair of film classes, I've seen a bunch more films that I might never have seen otherwise, like Citizen Kane, Yojimbo, Ghost Dog.
I haven't seen Citizen Kane myself, but I'm fairly well accomplished in the classic movies department. *shakes fist at culturally demanding relatives* For all of my whining though, I'm glad I watched them, a lot of the classics deserve their status. I heartily recommend for everyone Casablanca, On the Waterfront, 12 Angry Men, Red Alert, and Doctor Strangelove. All black and white, but all brilliant.
There is absolutely nothing wrong with black and white movies, unless they end up on Mystery Science Theater.
For some stupid reason, I decided to watch both Seven Days in May and The Manchurian Candidate last night. They were as good as when I saw them last.
I can also recommend All the President's Men and M.
I've heard good things about Our Man in Havana, though I've never seen it.
Be sure to see The Twilight Zone and The Outer Limits. Both are TV shows, but excellent.
There is actually a Twilight Zone movie that I felt lived up to the original series.
I haven't seen most classic movies for the simple fact that I'm extremely picky with movies .-. Most modern movies bore me. So, chances are, Forrest Gump will, too (which, I've never seen...nor do I want to ): )
Quote from: Elieana on November 10, 2008, 01:00:58 AMI haven't seen most classic movies for the simple fact that I'm extremely picky with movies .-. Most modern movies bore me. So, chances are, Forrest Gump will, too (which, I've never seen...nor do I want to ): )
This may provide a challenge! What films have you liked?
Well... to tell the truth for me to like a movie it cannot have a few things...
1. It cannot be gory. I absolutely HATE seeing people killed in horrible ways. Death in a movie is fine, but it seriously can't be an over-the-top death... If I want to watch a horror movie I'll watch a documentary on WWII.
2. I need to be able to understand what they're saying. No, they don't have to be speaking fluent English in an African country... but if it IS in English, I cannot stand listening to people talk in slang. Slang = lazy talk = not real words = gibberish (that is my definition anyway..). So this pretty much cancels out "gangsta" movies all together.
3. Not too fast, too furious. Explosions, car chases, and things crashing doesn't impress me. In fact, in movies, it rather bores me. If it's a small part of the movie, it's fine. However, movies like "The Fast and the Furious", "Gone in 60 Seconds", ect. ect. are a real snooze for me, so I'd rather not watch them.
4. There has to be an actually meaningful storyline. If things are happening in the movie that don't make sense, or the main plot is just completed stupid (e.i. "Dude, Where's My Car?"), then I won't watch/finish watching a movie.
So yeah... <_< This really narrows it down but can you guess my favorite genre now that I've given my main guildlines for movies I like? If you guess it, then you give a cookie :3
Quote from: Elieana on November 10, 2008, 05:57:42 AMSo yeah... <_< This really narrows it down but can you guess my favorite genre now that I've given my main guildlines for movies I like? If you guess it, then you give a cookie :3
Based on that, I'd suggest political thrillers, but you don't want boring, either, so... humm, romance?
How are you on Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Yeaaaaaah romance :3 That's about the only thing that I'm stereotyped to as far as gender goes ^^ Romance is my favorite...everything o:
And I'm not really sure. I've heard of it, I've heard good things, but as far as personal opinions I can't tell you, for I have not seen it, sadly.
Quote from: Elieana on November 10, 2008, 06:09:40 AMAnd I'm not really sure. I've heard of it, I've heard good things, but as far as personal opinions I can't tell you, for I have not seen it, sadly.
Well, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf is pretty much the anti-romance, but they do enunciate quite well, there's no gore, there's no furious action and the storyline is magnetic.
I can't think of any romances to recommend. There's Some Like It Hot, and The Graduate, but they're not remembered for the sort of things that romances are remembered for.
I'm shocked no one has mentioned The Goonies or The Sandlot.
There are very few movies I remember loving as a child and were still pretty awesome watching as an adult.
And A Christmas Story. I've also seen Rashomon 50 billion times, and never by choice.
Other than that, there's a lot of classic movies I haven't seen. Listing them all would be ridiculous, so I'll spare you. But I don't think I've seen a single film with Audrey Hepburn in it.
Also, I didn't see Alien until recently. Why it took me so long to see that movie, I have no idea. It was pretty cool. Same with Dr. Strangelove. Just saw it this summer, actually. And I saw The Exorcist sometime this year, and I must admit, it didn't do much for me. Maybe I'm just not scared of the devil, idk.
Also, I haven't seen a single Bond film. Not one.
Quote from: Zina on November 10, 2008, 06:49:00 AMI'm shocked no one has mentioned The Goonies or The Sandlot.
I wouldn't call that from the classic era. It's obvious that Rakala means more recent movies, too, but I guess that I'm just not inclined to think of those more recent ones. Nonetheless, I second your recommendation.
And as to more recent films:
Ghostbusters
Animal House
Airplane!
Kentucky Fried Movie
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Army of Darkness
Big Lebowski (too recent?)
I don't know, it depends on what you consider to be a "classic". I'd consider Titanic to be a classic, and that was made in 1997. Same with Forrest Gump or Jurassic Park. So really, I guess it depends.
Arsenic and Old Lace.
Personally, I don't think Alien has anything on Aliens, particularly the Directors Cut edition.
But they do appeal to slightly different markets, I spose.
Quote from: llearch n'n'daCorna on November 10, 2008, 07:17:34 AM
Personally, I don't think Alien has anything on Aliens, particularly the Directors Cut edition.
But they do appeal to slightly different markets, I spose.
Aliens was that rare case of the sequel been just as good, or better than the original.
Oh, oh, Bladerunner. And Company of Wolves.
I'm shocked, I tell you, shocked that noone mentioned anything by Akira Kurosawa.
The Seven Samurai, Yojimbo, Sanjuro, The Hidden Fortress, and Ran are all movies I highly reccomend.
They are in japanese, so get ready to read some subtitles. Most are also in black and white, but in this case, that just doesn't matter. The movies are so good that you can enjoy them without that newfangled 'colour' thingy.
Quote from: Zina on November 10, 2008, 06:49:00 AM
I've also seen Rashomon 50 billion times, and never by choice.
What now.
Also, checking wikipedia, Aliens was the movie I saw, not Alien. Show's what I know.
Quote from: Tapewolf on November 10, 2008, 07:30:57 AM
Oh, oh, Bladerunner. And Company of Wolves.
Mystery Men?
I absolutely loved Godfather 1... but for some reason I cant get myself to finish part 2...
I also hate scary stuff, but there is no denying that 'Silence of the Lambs' is a classic in every sense of the word.
I recently watched Full Metal Jacket. Ironic, consdering it was Rememberance Weeken.
Classic movies are a mixed bundle for me. Just like any group of films I suppose.
I actually make an active effort to watch classic movies, they generally fall into two categories. In one instance, I wonder how the heck it became a classic, often it's boring, it doesn't do anything terribly interesting and/or there are glaring problems with it that I'm surprised that no one seems to mind. The reasons I come up with are that other movies at the time must have been boring, that tastes have moved on, that the timing of the movie was just right, that the general audience was just so naive and uncultured that they felt that this movie was "revolutionary" or that I just have my own tastes.
On the other side, I find gems of movies that really had their own thing going for it, that have twists, styles, sense of identity, interpretations, moods ways of going about things, a sense of art, even original thoughts and ideas etc. that shames many movies and media that comes out today. In sort, they're fantastic and even movies that take inspiration from these movies fail to truely capture what made them brilliant even in the many years since their release and all the technological progress since then.
In both types of movies, you'll also generally find the situations, quotations, character types and settings that have been ripped off by other movies and TV series constantly since their release. That actually turns out to be one of my main reasons for watching these classic movies, so I can actually get all these references to these movies and understand them from their original setting.
Oh, it also makes you realise how bereft so many writers are of ideas/characters etc. that they keep ripping off the same set of concepts from the same set of movies.
Wait, wait.. I'm a movie person. A few years of my life have been spent on my hands and knees makin' em and new rest of my years spent writing them and teaching them. Now, I'm no pretentious asshole, if anything I'm a philistine, but when I click on a thread marked "Classic Movies" and the movie in question is Forrest Gump, I just have to utter a big ol' "WTF!?" to myself.
Well, anybody I asked it seemed to be a classic to them. After seeing the movie I disagree a little. It was a good movie that I think everybody should see, but hardly a classic. I just assumed everybody here thought similarly to everybody else I've spoken to.
What about Wizard of Oz? I'm surprised no one has mentioned it yet. also never seen Forrest Gump, I'm more into Fantasy and Comedies than whatever genre that movie is in.
Uh... kind of a comedy for the most part. Anyways, I feel that comedies are amusing, but far from the greatest genre. All the movies I consider my favorites are serious on some level.
Sooo glad that DirecTV has Turner Classic Movies, Fox Movie Channel, and MGM HD. You've got the best of the best all right there.
They also carry AMC and Universal HD, but they have commercials, and AMC censors the movies, so they don't count.
Classic movie? Meaningful storyline? Not gory?
Well then. I give you several from different eras and genres.
Being There
Network
Fail-Safe
A Face in the Crowd
Quote from: DarkAudit on November 10, 2008, 11:34:17 PMFail-Safe
Is that good? Having seen Dr. Strangelove, which has a similar plot, I've always wondered if that one were any good.
I know I've mentioned this one before, but When the Wind Blows was a great film.
Monty Python Movies, all of them especially "Holy Grail"
Quote from: superluser on November 10, 2008, 11:42:04 PM
Quote from: DarkAudit on November 10, 2008, 11:34:17 PMFail-Safe
Is that good? Having seen Dr. Strangelove, which has a similar plot, I've always wondered if that one were any good.
I know I've mentioned this one before, but When the Wind Blows was a great film.
Both Doctor Strangelove and Fail-Safe are adaptations of a book "Red Alert" (Forgetting the names at the moment, but the guy who wrote Red Alert sued both Kubrick and the guy who wrote Fail safe, settling out of court for considerable sums of money). Whereas Doctor Strangelove is a nasty comedy, Fail-safe is more of a suspense/thriller type movie, focusing much more on the distrust the Soviets have for the Americans, and the bickering between department leaders. And yes, it's very, very good.
Quote from: Zorro on November 11, 2008, 03:29:44 AM
Monty Python Movies, all of them especially "Holy Grail"
Holy Grail, maybe, but that seems to be all anybody knows of Monty Python. Less than a quarter of the people I know knew about Monty Python's Flying Circus before I met them. The Meaning of Life and The Life of Brian are even less known.
Which is a pity, because Life of Brian could kick Holy Grail's wet ass all over the tarmac.
I felt the Meaning of Life was better than Life of Brian.
Although both are better than Holy Grail, I'll admit.
Yeah, Holy Grail would probably be funnier if everybody hadn't seen it and quoted it to death. I swear I can perform the whole movie on my own with the voices and everything. The only part I might get wrong is The Castle Anthrax.
Quote from: llearch n'n'daCorna on November 11, 2008, 11:23:34 AM
I felt the Meaning of Life was better than Life of Brian.
Although both are better than Holy Grail, I'll admit.
Heh heh, the gigantic fat guy barfing all over the place and then bursting from the after-dinner mint was sick and twisted and funny.
A Mario Game from Nintendo a while back had a similar idea to it: guy eats a whole lot while narrator describes all the extra stuff in the game. Then he eats one more little bite, "How about a little bonus level?" Then he explodes.
One of my classic favorite movies was one lesser known than the mega-classic, "The Day the Earth Stood Still". This one was called "When Worlds Collide", and I think it was very very well done considering the scientific knowledge of the time, even taking into account the gravitational effects of the approaching rogue red dwarf star, making its companion planet harbor only basic life (instead of plunking intelligent aliens on it as sci-fi is apt to do).
It was scientifically more plausible than the novel, but we can forgive the novel as it was written in the 1930's when even less was known.
I'm not a fan of most classic movies, but I would agree that Ferris Bueller's Day Off is a great movie. I would never have guessed it was made before I was born until my film studies class. :januscat
Quote from: Corgatha Taldorthar on November 11, 2008, 09:18:30 AMBoth Doctor Strangelove and Fail-Safe are adaptations of a book "Red Alert" (Forgetting the names at the moment, but the guy who wrote Red Alert sued both Kubrick and the guy who wrote Fail safe, settling out of court for considerable sums of money). Whereas Doctor Strangelove is a nasty comedy, Fail-safe is more of a suspense/thriller type movie, focusing much more on the distrust the Soviets have for the Americans, and the bickering between department leaders. And yes, it's very, very good.
Just a point of clarification:
Fail-Safe was its own novel, which may or may not have been based on Red Alert. It was certainly in Kubrick's interest to claim that it was. Also, I don't think Peter George (the Red Alert author) sued Kubrick.
Also
Quote from: Corgatha Taldorthar on November 11, 2008, 11:03:22 AMWhich is a pity, because Life of Brian could kick Holy Grail's wet ass all over the tarmac.
Especially with scenes like this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gb_qHP7VaZE) (couple of f-bombs).
Holy Grail is definitely one of their least funny things, however it is still hilarious and definitely a good way to introduce somebody to Monty Python. Best Monty Python skit ever: NOBODY EXPECTS THE SPANISH INQUISITION!
Quote from: Rakala on November 11, 2008, 03:15:28 PM
Holy Grail is definitely one of their least funny things, however it is still hilarious and definitely a good way to introduce somebody to Monty Python. Best Monty Python skit ever: NOBODY EXPECTS THE SPANISH INQUISITION!
Nah, it has to be Fresh Fruit Defence.
Also good. I also like when they're going through a list of "tin" words and "wood" words.
Quote from: Rakala on November 11, 2008, 04:34:31 PM
Also good. I also like when they're going through a list of "tin" words and "wood" words.
Caribou. Gorne.
"It's not a balloon! It's a zeppelin!"
Come to think of it, choosing just ONE sketch from Monty Python is damned near impossible.
the blancmanges (sp?) from outer space who want to win Wimbledon!
Quote from: Corgatha Taldorthar on November 11, 2008, 06:13:52 PM
the blancmanges (sp?) from outer space who want to win Wimbledon!
Oh, you're no fun anymore.
The blancmanges are really Australians, trying the get the rights to the peyote rule book, from the Czech publishers!
Getting back on track for a sec, I have when worlds Collide in my DVD collection, where it's sat for far too long.
Actually, that could be said about a lot of movies discussed so far. In my collection, and collecting dust. :U
I have the same problem. All the movies I own are the ones I really like and watch to death. Then later I just watch them now and then.
The closest thing to a classic movie I've seen is 12 Angry Men... which I thought was awesome.
Oh, and Monty Python and the Holy Grail. I still love that movie.
The Thing. Classic horror flick.
I can never think of many good old movies off the top of my head, but has anyone here seen Ralph Bakshi's Wizards? Definitely worth a rental if you're into vintage animation.
Quote from: Tipod on November 15, 2008, 01:57:16 PM
I can never think of many good old movies off the top of my head, but has anyone here seen Ralph Bakshi's Wizards? Definitely worth a rental if you're into vintage animation.
Seen it. Own the DVD. :eager
Quote from: DarkAudit on November 16, 2008, 04:52:35 PM
Seen it. Own the DVD. :eager
Fritz! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0W7IOzb-LaQ) Love how emotive their hands are.
Even though there isn't much to the story, it's still a good watch.
Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark
Godzilla (oldold version)
Star Wars (Original Trilogy)
Jurassic Park
Alien/Aliens
;P