Good old movies

**MrDoom** · 05-04-2008 01:38 AM

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.

**Ickarus** · 05-04-2008 02:26 AM

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.

**marlie** · 05-04-2008 02:34 AM

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.

**ninja9578** · 05-04-2008 02:35 AM

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

**♥Mark** · 05-04-2008 02:43 AM

I didn't know thoughts had syllables.

**MrBeelzy** · 05-04-2008 03:11 AM

Cool Hand Luke
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
The Hustler

Yeah, Paul Newman is the shit.

**marlie** · 05-04-2008 03:14 AM

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

**MrDoom** · 05-04-2008 03:42 AM

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.

**♥Mark** · 05-04-2008 04:41 AM

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.

**MrDoom** · 05-04-2008 04:50 AM

Alright, I made a categorical error. So sue me.

**NeoSioType** · 05-17-2008 11:51 PM

The Shining
Red Rose
Top Gun
The Sixth Sense

All of which I enjoyed.

**kingofclutch** · 05-18-2008 12:13 AM

Airplane.

**Bearsy** · 05-18-2008 12:27 AM

1) Citizen Kane Orson Welles -1941
2) Vertigo Alfred Hitchcock - 1958
3) La Règle du jeu (The Rules of the Game) - Jean Renoir 1939
4) 2001: A Space Odyssey - Stanley Kubrick 1968
5) 8½ Federico Fellini - 1963
6) The Godfather - Francis Ford Coppola 1972
7) The Searchers - John Ford 1956
8) 七人の侍 (Seven Samurai) - Akira Kurosawa 1954
9) 東京物語 (Tokyo Story) - Yasujiro Ozu 1953
10) Sunrise - F. W. Murnau 1927

this is considered the be all end all list for great films, and minus some shuffling of numbers I'd agree.

that, and 12 Angry Men - 1957... masterpiece of filmmaking