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09-17-2017, 06:29 PM
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I Married a Duck!
 
Join Date: Jan 2013
Location: The bowels of Hell, Texas(otherwise known as Decatur)
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Hmm, so good flicks on that list! Out of those, I've seen:
Casablanca (mentioned earlier) Grapes of Wrath (was for high school English) Maltese Falcon (already mentioned) Arsenic and Old Lace Peter Pan Singin' In the Rain (one of my faves!) It's A Wonderful Life (and really, who HASN'T seen this? It's played almost to death every year at Christmas, LOL!) To Kill A Mockingbird Spartacus King Kong vs Godzilla (hubby and I both love the old Kong and Godzilla movies!) A Hard Day's Night Batman: The Movie Bullitt Ghost and Mr. Chicken Support Your Local Sheriff And I'll add a few more of my own: The Ten Commandments Dracula (Lugosi original) Nosferatu (the silent/first vampire film) King Kong (original) Frankenstein/Bride of Frankenstein/Frankenstein Meets the Wolfman(we are big fans of the old Universal Monster movies!) Phantom of the Opera (the silent film) The Invisible Man Creature From the Black Lagoon Abbot and Costello Meet Frankenstein(hilarious stuff!) 1,000,000 BC Caveman (the Ringo Starr stinker lol!) The Blob Yellow Submarine (Beatles animated movie- trippy!) Godzilla vs Mechagodzilla Godzilla Against Mothra- Battle for Earth Godzilla, Mothra, and King Ghidorah Giant Monsters All-out Attack Godzilla vs Rodan Lol obviously there are a lot of old sci-fi/monster/horror movies in there. We are fond of watching Svenghoulie on Saturday nights to enjoy some fun classic horror and sci-fi flicks.
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09-17-2017, 08:19 PM
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Foot Elite
Join Date: Sep 2015
Location: WA
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Thanks to my aunt I've seen quite a few classic movies, most musicals. When I was very young I would visit her. With nothing to do at her house I would be stuck watching these old movies on VHS.
State Fair 1945 The Sound of Music 1956 Carousel 1956 The King and I 1956 Oklahoma 1955 Mary Poppins 1964 South Pacific 1958 The Music Man 1962 The Wizard of Oz 1939 Seven Brides for Seven Brothers 1954 Giant 1956 Paint Your Wagon 1969 South Pacific is probably the worse and Seven Brides for Seven Brothers the best as far as the musicals go. I've also seen a lot of Elvis movies thanks to my moms collection. Around my teenage years I went through a James Bond phase and have watched most of the films from 1960's-70's. |
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09-17-2017, 11:18 PM
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Yukipedia
Join Date: Nov 2016
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Not really a fan of older movies (I usually stick to stuff from the 70's to the present) but I do have a couple that I enjoy:
*The Godzilla movies (very entertaining movies that can provide a good laugh and that have good plot and effects for their time) *The Wizard of Oz (a timeless classic) *Marry Poppins (another classic) *A Trip To The Moon (I've always really liked this one for some reason. Ever since I was little I liked the image of the Man in the Moon and being older now I can really appreciate the film as a whole) |
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09-17-2017, 11:30 PM
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Foot Elite
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: AZ
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Have not seen very many movies from the 60s/50s/40s. The majority are Lucille Ball movies because I love I Love Lucy and wanted to see what they were like. A few I really enjoyed were the first Annabel, Next Time I Marry, Two Smart People and The Long Long Trailer. Others ranged from ok to dumb imo.
Others from then Ive seen are The Haunting, 13 Ghosts, Old Dark House (the 60s remake), Send Me No Flowers (Rock Hudson comedy), The Ghost and Mr. Chicken (a Don Knotts comedy), a zombie movie I can't remember the name of and some Godzilla movies. To be honest though I'm not that into these kinds of movies. I have nothing against them and I'll watch any I find interesting but from what I've seen you kinda had to be there to appreciate them because some things don't seem to have the affect they intended now. I'll probably get criticized for this but the lack of even moderately convincing effects in action sequences really takes you out of the movie imo. I'm sure some could have done more, even for the time, but I guess budgets were a factor. I'm more into old tv like Lucy, Munsters, Brady Bunch, Kotter, Sanford and Son, cartoons and game shows.
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09-17-2017, 11:52 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2015
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One "classic" movie I recall seeing is called Father Goose, rented in the early DVD days of Netflix.
From what I recall, it was a comedy about a naval officer who goes to an island for reasons (spying reasons?) and ends up coming across a school teacher and her group of girl students. The officer and the teacher fall in love over the course of the movie. This is one scene I have some vague memory of
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09-18-2017, 05:41 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2013
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Dracula
Frankenstein Bride of Frankenstein Citizen Kane Wizard of Oz The Wolfman The Mummy The Thin Man Murder on the Orient Express Rear Window North by Northwest Forbidden Planet Casablanca The Maltese Falcon The Creature From the Black Lagoon The Big Sleep The Treasure of Sierra Madre Singin' in the Rain It's a Wonderful Life Mr Smith Goes to Washington Planet of the Apes 2001 A Space Odyssey Ben-Hur Breakfast at Tiffany's Sabrina Roman Holiday Paris When it Sizzles My Far Lady The Adventures of Robin Hood The Bridge on the River Kwai Duck Soup Gone With the Wind |
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09-18-2017, 01:49 PM
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Foot Soldier
Join Date: Aug 2013
Location: Indiana
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The Ten Commandments-9.5/10 I think I was pretty tired and slept through most of Dracula when my Dad had it on a few years back. Quote:
Loved Father Goose! One of my favorite Cary Grant movies. 9.5/10 Quote:
Wizard of Oz-8/10. Not a bad movie at all, nice fun adventure. The Thin Man-8.5/10-William Powell and Myrna Loy are great together and this wasn't a bad start. Rear Window, North By Northwest, Casablanca, and The Maltese Falcon I talked about in an earlier post. The Big Sleep(depends on which one you mean)-8/10. Probably the weakest and my least favorite of the Bogart and Bacall team-up but still quite good. Don't remember too much about the Robert Mitchum(1978 ) version. The Treasure of Sierra Madre-7.5/10 It's a Wonderful Life I mentioned earlier up. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington-10/10. Honestly, Jimmy Stewart should have gotten the Oscar for this one rather than The Philadelphia Story the following year. 1939 was some seriously tough competition though. Planet of the Apes-8.75/10 2001 A Space Odyssey-6/10. To be fair, it has been quite awhile but I remember it being very confusing to me. Ben-Hur-9.75/10. Just saw this about a few months ago. Breakfast at Tiffany's-8.5/10 Sabrina-8/10 Roman Holiday-10/10. Honestly refreshing that Hepburn and Peck didn't have a happily ever after together. Duck Soup-?/10 Been too long since I've seen this. Gone With the Wind-8.5/10. Don't get me wrong, great movie. Unfortunately Vivien Leigh's character is seriously annoying a lot of the time and probably didn't learn much by the end. Quote:
Honestly, that's perfectly fine that you don't care much for old movies. For good action ones though, even though the effects may be lacking, try out some of the movies that were made during World War 2 about World War 2. Some great drama in some of them and if you can get into the mind set of the time period, can be quite scary with the prospect that the Nazis or Japanese could still win by the point some of these movies were made. |
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09-18-2017, 02:02 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2004
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My cut-off for old movies is about 1965 or so. For some reason I can't sit through older movies than that without getting bored. Old movies are just so, "slow" where it feels like it takes forever for the plot to get moving. I have no idea why that is.
I have watched through a bunch of old 50's movies at some time or another, and I can appreciate them for what they are and what they did for the movie industry, but they're difficult to watch now. |
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