Awesome Old Movies
Okay so I'm digging through some of childhood VHS and found some stuff I can really appreciate now. Any of you guys have some classic stuff that you find inspiring.
Here's some cool stuff I've rewatched:
Return to OZ
Little Nemo in Slumberland
The Dark Crystal
Here's some cool stuff I've rewatched:
Return to OZ
Little Nemo in Slumberland
The Dark Crystal
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20,000 leauges under the sea.
Flash Gordon the B&W movies and the 1980's version.
Godzilla.
Planet of the Apes.
I have a small library old Sci-fi movies from 1930-1965. All of them are worth watching again and again. My favorites are the old Japanese Starman movies, so full of awesome.
I'm on an oldies horror kick at the mo' .
Krull
and there's a bunch more I can't think of that I love.
Dammit, so little time.
I'll edit this after school!
the original 13 Ghosts
The Maltese Falcon
original King Kong
original The Day the Earth Stood Still
Vertigo
Metropolis
Battleship Potemkin
too many to mention
12 Angry Men
The Big Sleep
White Heat
Double Idemnity
Where the Sidewalk Ends
A Touch of Evil
Dark Crystal
The Neverending Story
Original Rambo
CaddyShack
Back to School
... guess it depends on what you consider an old flick
When I was really young, I used to watch the animated film "Flight of Dragons" over and over again. It had a huge impact on me
oh yeah ... with James Earl Jones as the main mental. And Colonel Potter from MASH as i recall
bloody hell, blast from the past or what
EDIT - [ame]http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=-1151479980233120880&ei=dDjISI3HGJOoiAK38fDaAg&q=flight+of+dragons&hl=en[/ame]
christ!
i'd forgotten about Don mclean singing the song too
The Abomidable Dr Phibes
Vampire Circus
It's Alive
Creep Show
Like.
Flint.
The Dark Crystal
Labrynth
Never Ending Story
Flight of Dragons
Legend
Willow
Return to Oz is pimp!
Troll (weird but fun)
Critters 1&2 (others were shit)
Gremlins
Lost Boys!
Goonies..:D hah
Monster Squad was fun at the time but I haven't watched it since
The last star figher
Flight of the navigator...
Really cool to see it again after all these years. The nostalgia factor was definitely there. I'm surprised how accurately I remembered most of it!
I second all those and have to add The Last Unicorn! I swear to you all it's one of the best "children's" movies ever made. If you haven't seen it yet, do it Now!
-DK >^..^<
and any other Noir from that period onwards through to the Bogart stuff.
Looking at what you have watched so far you should put the Asphalt Jungle up to the
top of your list, its clearest here where Tarantino originally got his inspirations for things
like reservoir dogs onwards.
Theres a new Gangster boxset just released by warners with more 30's era cagney noir
thats worth picking up, its the 3rd of them, they are all worth it.
Also worth checking out are every bogart film ( after he cast off the sweater wearing everyman dogooder roles he previously had!!!), the Maltese Falcon is one my faves but it's
not as good as Casablanca for instance which was the turning point for me and vintage
30's to 40's noir movies.
Hitchock boxsets are worth the heavy asking price too, really, its just AMAZING how good
his films are, you hear movie reviewers lamenting the death of suspense and subtlety once
he died, but you dont understand until you take the time to go back.
You mentioned Touch of Evil, did you get the newer version that includes Welles 34 page memo, written from his hospital bed, pleading with the studio who took the film off him and
recut it, detailing every scene they changed, why it didnt work, why his original did and why they should return it to the original version?
That version is restored as near as later director's could, to his original and that memo is
an amazing read, brilliant lines like ' he was some kind of man, but what does it matter the
things we say about people'. That scene is playing in the cinema in Get Shorty.
This is actually a really good way to track down the true classics, other 'good' movies
always allude to them. Such as in Wonder Boys, when tobey macguire is sitting smoking
a joint and watching an old film version of 'The Picture of dorian grey' as a way of
alluding to his own accidental corruption in Wonder Boys.
I followed that trail of breadcrumbs to the movie and the book.
The 3rd man is a fantastic watch if you like Welles, it was at a time where he was still on
the outs in the states thanks to having offended Randolph Hearst with Citizen Kane, so
he took jobs in Europe.
He was missing for most of the shoot of the 3rd man, off getting high, getting drunk, coming
back only periodically so that half the scenes where its meant to be him, its a stand in.
He still managed to come up with the best line of dialogue in the movie where he equates
struggly and hardship to the only true road to great creative work, while also dismissing
the entire swiss culture as thanks to years of peace only having created chocolate bars
and the fucking cuckoo clock!
Brilliant!
Watership Down
Plauge Dogs
It's a musical, and kind of rapey!
stand by me
prince of darkness
big trouble in little china
goonies
My parents went through a kick when I was like 10 or so to get me to see all really old movies... some were so good, like Some Like it Hot and Arsenic and Old Lace. Now that stuff is old! But seriously, Aresnic and Old Lace is HILARIOUS. See it if you never have!! Do it!
HA HA! I have such vague memories of that movie. All I remember is the flaming bull driving all the other unicorns into the ocean. But I know I always wanted to rent it when I went with my dad to the video store. (I'm sure I did at least 3 or 4 times)
That, and Pete's Dragon
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Both this version:
I mean, Queen does the soundtrack, how can you NOT love it?
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And even more so, the 1937 serial, with ships that shoot sparks and smoke, and monsters that are iguanas with horns taped on their heads!
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you should watch "the killing" if you haven't already. Its an incredible movie and a much easier viewing than most noir films. Oh also "riffi"
this goes for everyone else too. Badass movies.
At the very least, you'll appreciate the cinematography.
Katharine Hepburn movies. My favorite is The African Queen.
Dude I saw this like two weeks ago after having seen the Soderbergh one and aside from it not having George Clooney's naked ass (which is for me a good selling point for any film, mind you), it was a real test of endurance. Like, it's not a movie you enjoy, it's a movie you appreciate.
Damn, you stole my Youth !
I'd add :
TRON
Cocoon
Ghostbuster(s)
Back to the future
Madmax (the last one for me)
The Maltese Falcon is one I'd seen previously so I didn't list it there. Did you see Adam Savage (of Mythbusters fame) talk about creating his own Maltese Falcon (and his own dodo skeleton)? Very cool stuff.
[ame=http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1515761638951440862&hl=en]Adam Savage talks about creating his own Maltese Falcon[/ame]
Yeah, the Touch of Evil I have is the re-edited one in accordance with Welles's requests. I haven't seen the original so how much it was improved might be a bit lost on me (but it's still a damn good film).
And, yep, Hitchcock is pretty much the king. N/NW is in all probability my favourite film.
Mezz: How could I forget about Some Like it Hot and Arsenic and Old Lace? My parents also got me to watch them, great films.
I figured Ghostbusters, Tron, Back to the Future, and Star Wars were all givens
Blade Runner
To Kill a Mockingbird
Groundhog Day
Aliens