Thread: Good old movies

Frankly, I hate the current state of film and cinema. Most of the stuff I see coming out is the same shit that's been sold to us year after year, there's rarely any good storytelling, and very few films cater outside of the lowest-common denominator who can't hold a coherent polysyllabic thought longer than a commercial break. It's action, sex, CGI, and repetition.

Discuss your favorite older movies, and the odd newer one that gets the gears rolling!

I liked the 1945(?) film Sahara, with Humphery Bogart in it as a tank commander in North Africa in WWII. Another more movie I caught the last half of recently was the 1991 film Mindwalk, which was everything that New-Age cult promotion film What the Bleep Do We Know? wasn't, and more.

I'd also like to see Fritz Lang's Metropolis, I've seen an anime retelling of it, and I liked it a lot.

Some of you might say some of these movies aren't old but i'm only 20 so they're old for me. Basically anything before 1990 I consider old. Some of my favorite older movies would have to be:

A Clockwork Orange
The Warriors
To Kill A Mockingbird
The Outsiders
The Lost Boys
The Monster Squad

there's alot more of them that i can't think of at the moment. This always happens when i try to list off stuff, they'll come to me in like a week.

Some like it hot
Breakfast at Tiffanys
Italian job
escape to victory
the goonies

I agree, modern films dont even come close to the standard of some of the older ones.

Originally Posted by marlie

Some like it hot

Isn't that a porn?

Try Casablanca, also Bogart and a great movie. Another good older movie is Ocean's 11.

I didn't know thoughts had syllables.

Cool Hand Luke
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
The Hustler

Yeah, Paul Newman is the shit.

ahhh... and zulu! god nostalgias settin in me now

Originally Posted by Mark75

I didn't know thoughts had syllables.

When you think verbally they do.

Whenever I manage to catch Casablanca it's always almost ending.

Nosferatu... Now there's another film I've got to see.

I have a thing for German Expressionism, as you can see.

Originally Posted by MrDoom

When you think verbally they do.

No they don't. The words you think of have syllables. The thoughts themselves don't.