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Re: Classic films thread
« Reply #25 on: January 15, 2017, 03:43:38 PM »
"Fail-Safe" with Henry Fonda and a very young Larry Hagman
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Re: Classic films thread
« Reply #26 on: January 15, 2017, 04:41:58 PM »
High Noon
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Red River
True Grit
The Shootist
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The Longest Day
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Re: Classic films thread
« Reply #27 on: January 15, 2017, 07:50:05 PM »
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Wizards
Fritz The Cat
Easy Rider

What? They are classics...
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Re: Classic films thread
« Reply #28 on: January 15, 2017, 08:58:32 PM »
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Re: Classic films thread
« Reply #29 on: January 15, 2017, 09:54:52 PM »
Almost anything by Harold Lloyd.
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Re: Classic films thread
« Reply #30 on: January 15, 2017, 10:29:33 PM »
Fast Times at Ridgemont High


Wrong thread. Not that it's a bad movie, but it's too recent. We probably shouldn't even count movies from the 1970s, either, but there is probably no hard and fast cut-off date.
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Re: Classic films thread
« Reply #31 on: January 15, 2017, 11:20:08 PM »

Wrong thread. Not that it's a bad movie, but it's too recent. We probably shouldn't even count movies from the 1970s, either, but there is probably no hard and fast cut-off date.

I DID go to post 1, page 1 to check for a cutoff date and didn't see what defined "old" and trust me, the 70s IS old!

As to the rest, my signature covers that...

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« Reply #32 on: January 15, 2017, 11:25:49 PM »
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Somehow I think you didn't quit grasp what this thread was intended to be about ...... =D ;/
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Re: Classic films thread
« Reply #33 on: January 16, 2017, 12:47:23 AM »
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Re: Classic films thread
« Reply #34 on: January 16, 2017, 12:50:17 AM »
See? See? I'm not the only sarcastic smartass here!

We're surrounded by amateurs. =D
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Re: Classic films thread
« Reply #35 on: January 16, 2017, 12:55:48 AM »
I DID go to post 1, page 1 to check for a cutoff date and didn't see what defined "old" and trust me, the 70s IS old!


Well, I'm from the '70s, so I know just how old it is!

The movies from the '70s are just so much different from what came before. I think films from the '70s are a lot closer to 21st-century film, than they are to the movies being made the previous decade. Not so much in terms of quality or originality or production value, but in terms of the ideas being presented, and the attitudes. Not all of them, of course, but in general.
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Re: Classic films thread
« Reply #36 on: January 16, 2017, 02:14:09 AM »

Well, I'm from the '70s, so I know just how old it is!

The movies from the '70s are just so much different from what came before. I think films from the '70s are a lot closer to 21st-century film, than they are to the movies being made the previous decade. Not so much in terms of quality or originality or production value, but in terms of the ideas being presented, and the attitudes. Not all of them, of course, but in general.

I would agree.  The old Hollywood studio system was breaking down in the 1960s and fully blown by the 1970s. 

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Re: Classic films thread
« Reply #37 on: January 16, 2017, 01:59:40 PM »

Well, I'm from the '70s, so I know just how old it is!

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Re: Classic films thread
« Reply #38 on: January 16, 2017, 02:02:50 PM »
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Re: Classic films thread
« Reply #39 on: January 16, 2017, 02:04:18 PM »
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That one will always have a place in my heart as it is the last movie to truly scare me. I was checking under my bed for the blob for a year afterward.

Mind you, I was 6, but it made an impression.
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Re: Classic films thread
« Reply #40 on: January 16, 2017, 02:04:22 PM »
When was "One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest" released? That was a good film. Found it, 75.
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Re: Classic films thread
« Reply #41 on: January 17, 2017, 08:46:56 AM »

Newer movie, but interesting. There's a movie called "Brick", which is a story about a bunch of teens in high school. But the dialog is absolute perfect classic detective noir. Completely spot on. Close your eyes and you'd swear it is 1940's detective movie.
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Re: Classic films thread
« Reply #42 on: January 17, 2017, 09:32:11 AM »
High Noon
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Red River
True Grit
The Shootist
The Oxbow Incident
Quigley Down Under
Sergeant York
The Sands of Iwo Jima
The Longest Day
Psycho
Modern Times
Just about anything with Laurel and Hardy

Unless there's an older movie by that title, I have to question its inclusion in "Classic Films". It's a great movie, undoubtedly, but it was made in 1990.
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Re: Classic films thread
« Reply #43 on: January 17, 2017, 09:47:12 AM »
The Haunting (1963 version)
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Re: Classic films thread
« Reply #44 on: January 17, 2017, 11:35:06 AM »
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Unless there's an older movie by that title, I have to question its inclusion in "Classic Films". It's a great movie, undoubtedly, but it was made in 1990.


Unless, and I can't remember, if there's a scene in which our hero slaps the crazy girl. When the good guy hits a girl, it becomes an honorary classic film.
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