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dlazarus6660 05-18-2020 08:18 PM

Classic Movies
 
Classic Movies

Right now I'm watching " The Birds".

There are other movies which starred Rod Taylor that I liked watching.

I won't say what they are, but Classic Movies are my favorite but what are yours?

Earl 05-18-2020 09:22 PM

One of my most favorite classic comedy movies is “It’s A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World”. Just chock full of classic Hollywood stars and some great comedy bits and performances. I can recite Smiler Grogan’s (Jimmy Durante) ‘death’ statement at the front of the movie practically by heart. And when Johnathan Winters chases Phil Silvers with the pick ax at Santa Rosita State Park (which results in Winters discovering first just what the Big W was) and does a swinging dive at Silvers, practically trying to plant it in the top of Silver’s head, makes me chuckle every time.

Edie Adams was a doll back then and has a nice look all through the movie, even in her paint-spattered dress. And Ethel Merman as everyone’s nightmare mother-in-law and Dick Shawn as her beach bum beatnik son are priceless. The whole cast did a great job.

A great comedy movie from a different place in time. Trivia note: the title of the movie would, sadly, take on a much too true ring: about two weeks after it’s release in November, 1963 certain events on a Friday afternoon in Dallas, Texas would soon make many believe it truly was a mad, mad, mad, mad world.

Earl

Vanel 05-18-2020 10:38 PM

I’m very cliche’...

Favorite classic Sci-Fi:

When Worlds Collide
Forbidden Planet
The Day the Earth Stood Still
Creature from the Black Lagoon

Favorite classics:

Casablanca
Land of the Pharoahs (very young Joan Collins)
The Ten Commandments (Anne Baxter was my first childhood crush)
Ben Hur
Captain Blood
The Adventures of Robin Hood (big Olivia de Haviland fan)
Yankee Doodle Dandy
The Bells of St. Mary’s
The Longest Day
Dr. Strangelove
Sink the Bismarck
The Court Jester
The Kid from Brooklyn (Virginia Mayo!)
The Magnificent Seven
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Rio Bravo

Favorite classic musicals:

The Music Man
Oklahoma
Carousel
Kiss Me Kate
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
Show Boat

And many others. Weekends are for watching the good old oldies!

ghrocketman 05-18-2020 10:41 PM

I like Westerns from the 60's forward. My 2nd favorite Movie is Open Range with Costner/Duvall.
Just about anything with John Wayne, Jimmy Stewart, Clint Eastwood, or Charles Bronson.
I also like many 80's comedy films.
My favorite movie of all time is Animal House.

A Fish Named Wallyum 05-19-2020 05:11 AM

I have a list of movies that I will almost always stop to watch. Just off the top of my head: Stalag 17, The Great Escape, No Time For Sergeants, Kelly's Heroes, The Longest Day, Breaking Away, My Favorite Year, Silver Streak, Smokey and the Bandit, Animal House, The Blues Brothers, The Buddy Holly Story, Good Will Hunting, As Good As It Gets.

mycrofte 05-19-2020 06:06 AM

I grew up going to the Saturday matinee, so Godzilla movies are up there.

Then the old "Movie for a Sunday Afternoon" showing Robinhood, Sinbad, and pirate movies. Which they have just brought back.

The old Charlton Heston stuff, Omega Man, Soylent Green, Planet of the Apes.
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LeeR 05-19-2020 12:21 PM

Like a lot of rocketry enthusiasts, I could rattle off a long list of science fiction movies. I’m also a fan of crime/action/drama movies —Jason Bourne series, Mission Impossibles, Lethal Weapons, Jack Ryan movies, Die Hard series.

And a good war movie. Patton is maybe the greatest for me.

snaquin 05-19-2020 05:41 PM

Caddyshack. "Oh, this is the worst-looking hat I ever saw. What, when you buy a hat like this I bet you get a free bowl of soup, huh? Oh, it looks good on you though".

Fattbank64 05-19-2020 06:10 PM

In no particular order,

Casablanca
The Maltese Falcon
Spartacus
Ben-Hur
Platoon
Forbidden Planet

dlazarus6660 05-19-2020 06:40 PM

Nobody posted the classic "War of the Worlds" A favorite!
Any Indiana Jones movies.
Star Wars.
Star Trek movies.
I love John Wayne movies, watch one last night.
Jerry Lewis comedies.
1970's Steve Martin routines.
"Mind if I smoke?"
"Mind if I fart?"

Still makes me laugh! :chuckle:

ratchetman 05-19-2020 07:12 PM

I'm a huge movie aficionado. My all time favorite movie is "Cool Hand Luke"

Earl 05-19-2020 07:16 PM

Quote:
Originally Posted by ratchetman
I'm a huge movie aficionado. My all time favorite movie is "Cool Hand Luke"


Oh, yeah that IS a good one. Matter of fact, it has been a while since I have watched that one. I have it in one of my DVD stacks.

Earl

jeffyjeep 05-19-2020 07:20 PM

Great thread!!

My favorites:
War: Das Boot (naturally)
Drama: The Good Earth (also my favorite book)
Comedy: The Kentucky Fried Movie
Biography: Patton
Musical: The Sound of Music (yes, really)
Disney: Pinnochio
Animated: Heavy Metal
Sci-Fi: Enemy Mine (yes, really)
Action: Rob Roy
James Bond 007: Thunderball
Stop-motion animation: Jason and the Argonauts
Monster movie: King Kong (the original)
Foreign language film: Black and White in Color
Silent: Metropolis
Monty Python: The Life of Brian
Mel Brooks: High Anxiety
Coen Brothers: Oh Brother, Where art Thou?
John Wayne: The Searchers
Christmas: Christmas Vacation
Biblical Epic: Ben Hur
Tear Jerker: Beaches
Crime drama: The French Connection
Adults only: The Last Tango in Paris (pass the butter, please)

dlazarus6660 05-19-2020 07:34 PM

Musicals?

"Wizard of Oz" :D

"Grease"

dlazarus6660 05-19-2020 07:40 PM

Forest Gump!

dlazarus6660 05-19-2020 08:15 PM

Quote:
Originally Posted by jeffyjeep
Great thread!!

My favorites:
War: Das Boot (naturally)
Drama: The Good Earth (also my favorite book)
Comedy: The Kentucky Fried Movie
Biography: Patton
Musical: The Sound of Music (yes, really)
Disney: Pinnochio
Animated: Heavy Metal
Sci-Fi: Enemy Mine (yes, really)
Action: Rob Roy
James Bond 007: Thunderball
Stop-motion animation: Jason and the Argonauts
Monster movie: King Kong (the original)
Foreign language film: Black and White in Color
Silent: Metropolis
Monty Python: The Life of Brian
Mel Brooks: High Anxiety
Coen Brothers: Oh Brother, Where art Thou?
John Wayne: The Searchers
Christmas: Christmas Vacation
Biblical Epic: Ben Hur
Tear Jerker: Beaches
Crime drama: The French Connection
Adults only: The Last Tango in Paris (pass the butter, please)

Dumber
JJ,

I agree with some of your choices.

War: Twelve O'clock High
Dama: To Kill a Mocking Bird
Comedy: Dumb and Dumber
Biography: I'll go with your choice for now.
Musical: Grease
Disney: Flight of the Navigator
Sci-Fi:I like your choice but I have too many to choose from!
Action: Good movie but too many to choose from. Braveheart comes to mind.
James Bond 007: All with Sean Conery
Stop-motion animation: None, don't like it!
Monster movie: King Kong vs. Godzilla (orginal 60's)
I skipped a few categories because I have no knowledge of them?
John Wayne: All
Christmas: Almost all of them, but "It's a Wonderful Life" leads the bunch
Biblical: The Ten Commandments!
Tear Jerker: Always.
Crime drama: I'll get back to you on that one?
Adults only: Ditto.
Dumber?

Daniel

dlazarus6660 05-19-2020 08:27 PM

Quote:
Originally Posted by Vanel
I’m very cliche’...

Favorite classic Sci-Fi:

When Worlds Collide
Forbidden Planet
The Day the Earth Stood Still
Creature from the Black Lagoon

Favorite classics:

Casablanca
Land of the Pharoahs (very young Joan Collins)
The Ten Commandments (Anne Baxter was my first childhood crush)
Ben Hur
Captain Blood
The Adventures of Robin Hood (big Olivia de Haviland fan)
Yankee Doodle Dandy
The Bells of St. Mary’s
The Longest Day
Dr. Strangelove
Sink the Bismarck
The Court Jester
The Kid from Brooklyn (Virginia Mayo!)
The Magnificent Seven
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Rio Bravo

Favorite classic musicals:

The Music Man
Oklahoma
Carousel
Kiss Me Kate
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
Show Boat S"

And many others. Weekends are for watching the good old oldies!


I love your taste in movies and saw "TDTESS on your reply.
I missed that somehow.
Sorry.

Rocketflyer 05-19-2020 08:30 PM

Classical Movies
 
Disney: Fantasia
Field of Dreams
Dances with Wolves
Lonesome Dove
A League of Their Own
From Russia With Love
Tom Dooley
Cool Hand Luke
Great Escape
Westworld 1973, with Yul Brenner
Run Silent Run Deep, as well as the book
Enemy Below
Fail Safe, as well as the book
All the "Victory At Sea' series, 1952-53.
All the 'Silent Service" series 1957-58.
I watched these two series above a youngster. Now have them on DVD.

dlazarus6660 05-19-2020 08:44 PM

Quote:
Originally Posted by Rocketflyer
Disney: Fantasia
Field of Dreams
Dances with Wolves
Lonesome Dove
A League of Their Own
From Russia With Love
Tom Dooley
Cool Hand Luke
Great Escape
Westworld 1973, with Yul Brenner
Run Silent Run Deep, as well as the book
Enemy Below
Fail Safe, as well as the book
All the "Victory At Sea' series, 1952-53.
All the 'Silent Service" series 1957-58.
I watched these two series above a youngster. Now have them on DVD.


Great Choices!

OMG!

tbzep 05-19-2020 10:20 PM

Star Wars original trilogy (IV, V, VI)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Forbidden Planet
The Day the Earth Stood Still
Super 8 (if it ever becomes a "classic")

Caddyshack
Airplane!
Animal House
Christmas Vacation

I'm sure the list will grow every time I see a post with a movie I forgot about.

jeffyjeep 05-19-2020 10:25 PM

Hold on! I forgot an important category!

Suspense: Rear Window (hands down, my all-time favorite Hitchcock film)

tbzep 05-19-2020 10:28 PM

Quote:
Originally Posted by jeffyjeep
Hold on! I forgot an important category!

Suspense: Rear Window (hands down, my all-time favorite Hitchcock film)

The Jimmy Stewart movie? I liked that one too. I also liked the one where he was a pro baseball player and flew B-47's. Heck, did he ever make a bad movie? Even if the movie without him wasn't good, he made it watchable. :cool:

jeffyjeep 05-19-2020 11:21 PM

Quote:
Originally Posted by tbzep
The Jimmy Stewart movie? I liked that one too. I also liked the one where he was a pro baseball player and flew B-47's. Heck, did he ever make a bad movie? Even if the movie without him wasn't good, he made it watchable. :cool:


Yes, the. Jimmy Stewart, Raymond Burr, and Grace Kelly movie.

Oh wait! I forgot 5 more important categories!

Superhero movie: Superman II
Post nuclear holocaust movie: On the Beach
Cautionary tale: 1984 (the newer one with John Hurt and Sir Richard Burton)
Disaster movie: The Poseidon Adventure (the original Irwin Allen version)
Horror: The Shining

joltinjoecanada 05-20-2020 04:23 AM

Quote:
Originally Posted by jeffyjeep
Yes, the. Jimmy Stewart, Raymond Burr, and Grace Kelly movie.

Oh wait! I forgot 5 more important categories!

Superhero movie: Superman II
Post nuclear holocaust movie: On the Beach
Cautionary tale: 1984 (the newer one with John Hurt and Sir Richard Burton)
Disaster movie: The Poseidon Adventure (the original Irwin Allen version)
Horror: The Shining



Jeffy, what about Claymation?

ghrocketman 05-20-2020 05:27 AM

Cool Hand Luke is a great one.
I like most all Steve McQueen flicks also.
ALL James Bond films except the AWFUL Pierce Brosnan ones; I have all of them on DVD.
Sean Connery Bond films are the best, very closely followed by Daniel Craig.
Top Gun is a good one too.
Downhill Racer with Robert Redford.
For "garbage" flicks, Reform School Girls and Dr. Butcher, Medical Deviant, AKA "Zombie Holocaust".
Most Lee Van Cleef Westerns.

Rounders with Matt Damon, Edward Norton, Martin Landau, and John Malkovich as Teddy KGB.
I have no idea who the WET BLANKET/BUZZ KILL chick was in that movie, but her character SUCKED.

jeffyjeep 05-20-2020 05:51 AM

Quote:
Originally Posted by joltinjoecanada
Jeffy, what about Claymation?


Chicken Run

snaquin 05-20-2020 05:38 PM

Thought of a few more:
Rollerball [the original with James Caan, not the silly remake]
Pulp Fiction
The two Grindhouse movies Planet Terror and Deathproof [Really anything Quentin Tarantino]

Agree all the Bond movies with Sean Connery but especially Goldfinger.

joltinjoecanada 05-20-2020 06:08 PM

Quote:
Originally Posted by jeffyjeep
Chicken Run



Wallace and Grommit

Ltvscout 05-20-2020 06:47 PM

Quote:
Originally Posted by jeffyjeep
Great thread!!

My favorites:

Comedy: The Kentucky Fried Movie

That's a good one. Now, how about a couple of obscure comedies in the same vein as Kentucky Fried Movie.

Who remembers these two from I believe the late 70's:

The Groove Tube
Tunnelvision

jeffyjeep 05-20-2020 08:44 PM

Quote:
Originally Posted by Ltvscout
That's a good one. Now, how about a couple of obscure comedies in the same vein as Kentucky Fried Movie.

Who remembers these two from I believe the late 70's:

The Groove Tube
Tunnelvision


.....and you can't forget PolyEsther.

I actually have The Groove Tube on DVD! Chevy Chase is so young in it that he's barely recognizable. I saw Tunnelvision only once (on the sub) and I don't think it was ever released on anything more advanced than VHS.

tbzep 05-20-2020 08:44 PM

Quote:
Originally Posted by Ltvscout
That's a good one. Now, how about a couple of obscure comedies in the same vein as Kentucky Fried Movie.

Who remembers these two from I believe the late 70's:

The Groove Tube
Tunnelvision


70's obscure comedies? I liked "Roadie".

It starred Meatloaf and had appearances by the likes of Alice Cooper, Blondie, Roy Orbison and Hank Jr. along with many of their band members at the time. For what it's worth, Alice's guitarist at the time was Davy Johnstone, who only did a short stint with him and has been in Elton John's band for the better part of 50 years.

ghrocketman 05-20-2020 09:17 PM

Up The Creek (Tim Matheson and Stephen Furst from Animal House), Revenge of the Nerds 1 and 2, Hot Dog the Movie, and the Porky's trilogy are all GREAT classic 80's comedies.
The Great Outdoors with John Candy/Dan Ackroyd, Summer Rental and Wagons East with John Candy are more GREAT classic 80's comedies as well.
National Lampoon's Vacation... you can NEVER go wrong with Christie Brinkley in Lingerie along with a Ferrari !

A Fish Named Wallyum 05-20-2020 09:36 PM

Quote:
Originally Posted by Ltvscout
That's a good one. Now, how about a couple of obscure comedies in the same vein as Kentucky Fried Movie.

Who remembers these two from I believe the late 70's:

The Groove Tube
Tunnelvision

Kentucky Fried Movie and The Groove Tube were on semi-permanent residency at the 20th Century in Oakley. Never saw Tunnelvision. I feel it's my duty to add Hollywood Knights to my list.

Vanel 05-20-2020 09:55 PM

Hollywood Knights! Truly an awesome movie!
- classic Americana!

Ltvscout 05-21-2020 06:38 AM

Quote:
Originally Posted by A Fish Named Wallyum
I feel it's my duty to add Hollywood Knights to my list.

He grabbed it with his dick!

ghrocketman 05-21-2020 11:47 AM

American Graffiti is a really good one too.
Would be better with more Drag Racing and more Retching/Peukeing.
The scene with the chain yanking the rear axle COMPLETELY OFF the cop car is great.
So is the ripping off the arcade coin boxes.

Beverly Hilis Cop 1 and 2.

luke strawwalker 05-21-2020 03:06 PM

Glad to see someone showed some love for "Silver Streak"... LOVE that movie and it's the first pairing of Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder (who went on to make a bunch of funny comedies together). Plus Patrick McGoohan as the baddie, along with Ray "My Favorite Martian" Walston, and "Jaws" from the Bond films a year before there was a "Jaws" (bet there's an interesting story behind that!) Richard Kiel as a metal-toothed baddie. Along with Ned Beatty and Len Birman as federal agents, Clifton James as a rural sheriff straight out of his performances in the Bond films "Live and Let Die" and "The Man With the Golden Gun", Scatman Crothers as the train porter, and Fred Willard as the bumbling railroad station official... It's *loosely* based on "North by Northwest" that starred Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, and James Mason. Of course Silver Streak is set primarily on the train-- lots of beautiful footage of the Canadian Rockies (it was filmed in Canada on their railways because AmTrack didn't want to cooperate because they felt it put them in a bad light) and F-units and streamliners with an observation dome car for those of you who like me love trains as well...

Most of you probably don't know, but my mom fell and gave herself a severe concussion the Monday after high school spring break, less than a week after the coronavirus lockdowns started here in Texas... she was in the hospital for three weeks, came home a week, was back in the hospital a week, and then home in hospice for about a week before she passed away May 7th. We were back and forth between our home in Fort Bend county (where my wife teaches and my daughter attends school at Travis High School, which of course has been closed since Spring Break) and the farm at Shiner where my mom lived. We went all streaming about a year ago, but Mom still had direcTV so I recorded a bunch of movies to watch on there when we were there... We spent a lot of time up there as Fort Bend county has nearly 2000 cases of the virus, whereas Lavaca county where Shiner is has only 6. We'd be here at Needville for a few days, and then back to Shiner, basically almost never left the house here at Needville, and didn't stop in between except for gas at Buccee's...

Anyway, one of the films I recorded was "No Blade of Grass" from the early '70's, about an outbreak of a plant disease that attacked the graminae family of plants, which is of course "all grasses", including rice and wheat and corn and sorghum and all the major cereal crops, grazing crops, etc. SO it triggered a worldwide food shortage and mass starvation, which culminated in China nerve-gas bombing most of its cities to depopulate them, killing 300 million to preserve their food reserves, and of course civilization falls apart in the US and UK, where the film was centered... it follows a family as they flee London just before it's "locked down" ahead of a nerve gas strike, as they flee across the UK northwards to the main protagonist's brother's farm in Scotland. As they flee civilization completely falls apart and basically they end up in a "Planet of the Apes" type war with a group of survivors at his brother's farm, having teamed up with their own group of survivors en route... It was a very interesting film...

Also watched "Def-Con 4" from the mid-80's, which was a Canadian post-nuke film about a crew on a military space station equipped with nukes as a sort of "flying missile base" of last resort, who survives an all-out nuclear war in orbit, only to be brought down by a mysterious signal that overrides their systems and brings them down in Nova Scotia, where they ultimately fall into the hands of local survivors, one of whom is a son of a military general who was supposed to deliver a helicopter load of satellite equipment to a submarine that was to evacuate some high-level people to a "survival station" in South America, which crashed in Nova Scotia en route to the submarine. In the months after the war, he discovered the existence of the survival station and intends to get their by boat, but he needs a piece of equipment from their spacecraft to decode the location, which is why he brought them down.

Anyway, enjoying the old Bonds (have ZERO interest in seeing a black WOMAN take over as "007", so this will be the first Bond film I've skipped in the theater since I was about 11 years old with "For Your Eyes Only"-- like "New Trek" and the Star Wars sequels, this modern stuff is UTTER SH!TE IMHO!) and I did finish the final season of the "Clone Wars" series that just wrapped up after it was abruptly cancelled in the wake of the Disney buyout of SW a number of years ago... I wasn't too crazy about the goofy episodes in the middle about the "sisters" that Ahsoka Tano "teamed up" with after she left the Jedi, but the final several episodes were really good, tied up a lot of the loose ends of the Clone Wars series and weaved it into the greater SW mythology, particularly with the events of "Revenge of the Sith" and the upcoming second season of "The Mandalorian" where Ahsoka is to turn up again, and the final scene in "Solo"...

"Picard" was SO gawdawful that I just couldn't stomach it any more after the fifth episode-- I kept HOPING AGAINST HOPE that it would get better, when it just got WORSE and WORSE and when you didn't think it could get any worse, it'd prove you WRONG... basically more no-talent hacks totally just sh!tting on everything that came before, just because they can, and not even for any good reason or even in any type of entertaining story or even morality play-- just poorly done ham-fisted libtard woke BS propaganda parading itself as "Star Trek" while being everything *BUT* Star Trek, and basically doing it's best to totally crap on everything Star Trek ever was... *SO* done with that type of garbage! I'll just watch the old Trek again and enjoy it, and wait for this new crap to inevitably crash-n-burn and maybe in a few years someone who actually KNOWS how to make an ENTERTAINING story will snap it up and start producing something worth watching again... I thought "Discovery" was bad, until I saw "Picard" and realized what a flaming pile of dog crap actually looks like LOL:) (BTW Discovery still sucks sweaty donkey balls).

Later! OL J R :)

Earl 05-21-2020 03:28 PM

‘Luke’-

Sorry to hear of your mother’s passing. Condolences to you and your family. And under these current circumstances, I’m sure that had to make a difficult situation even more trying.

God’s blessings and peace to you and yours.

Earl

jeffyjeep 05-21-2020 07:22 PM

Also in the 1970's were some barley watchable movies that weren't quite X rated, but were definitely for adults only.
Such as:

-Flesh Gordon
-Souperman
-The Sex Machine
-Some Like it Cool
-Gas Pump Girls
-Andy Warhol's Frankenstein
-Fritz the Cat (animated)
-The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat (animated)
-Coonskin (animated)
-Heavy Traffic (animated)

I'm sure there were others but those are the only ones I remember.

ghrocketman 05-21-2020 07:49 PM

Fast Times At Ridgemont High was also a GREAT 80's comedy.


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