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Tiberious aka Sparkles

Joined: 23 Jan 2003 Location: I'm one cool cat!
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Posted: Sat Oct 07, 2006 10:17 pm Post subject: |
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| Girls, let's not argue over semantics. Perhaps I should have titled the thread "Masterpieces of cinema which you have never seen," but I didn't think anyone would be so anal as to care. First time I've been wrong in a long while. |
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Gaber

Joined: 23 Apr 2006
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Posted: Sat Oct 07, 2006 10:59 pm Post subject: |
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Gone With The Wind.
Seen bits of it, turned on the TV, thought," I should really watch this", and then remembered Buffy was on the other channel.
It's A Wonderful Life.
No rush. Save for some future depression.
North By North West.
Really want to see that.
Thats about all that comes to mind, but that's just becaues 2 of them have already been mentioned. Sure there's still plenty. Something by Jean Renoir thats name I can't rememeber. Shrug |
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EFLtrainer

Joined: 04 May 2005
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Posted: Sun Oct 08, 2006 7:30 am Post subject: |
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| Tiberious aka Sparkles wrote: |
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| A Wonderful Life |
Me, neither. Nor have I seen the cheap, Frank Capra-directed, Jimmy Stewart-starring remake, It's a Wonderful Life.
Question: is one allowed to be a pretentious, snooty douche over a movie one has never seen? Can I get a ruling on this? |
No, you're not. That's just foolish. Besides, but for one really, melodramatic scene (the kissing scene), it's a nearly perfect movie. |
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i_teach_esl

Joined: 07 Sep 2006 Location: baebang, asan/cheonan
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Posted: Sun Oct 08, 2006 5:21 pm Post subject: |
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Had I read those comments, I would have also mentioned those movies. By your definition, Police Academy is a classic movie. I'm sure Steve Guttenberg would be happy to hear that.
Reread the posts in the thread and you'll see that most people recognize classic movies as being movies from the classic era. |
what a jerk...  |
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Beej
Joined: 05 Mar 2005 Location: Eungam Loop
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Posted: Sun Oct 08, 2006 5:33 pm Post subject: |
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Debbie Does Dallas
Deep Throat |
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SPINOZA
Joined: 10 Jun 2005 Location: $eoul
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Posted: Sun Oct 08, 2006 6:06 pm Post subject: |
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I have physically seen the Godfather movies, but didn't have the concentration/capacity for tedium to grasp them fully. Very pompous those things. When a movie about the Mafia is more difficult to follow than an essay by Hegel, you know it's needlessly difficult.
Gone with the wind. 4 hours long? I'd get arse-ache!
Ben Hur. It's about a car or something. Wow! Not interested.
Clockwork Orange. Didn't like the sound of the sadistic nature of the plot when described to me.
Deer Hunter and Raging Bull - two 'classic' De Niro movies I'd probably get bored of after 20 minutes and give up on - I've never seen either.
I f***ing hate movie buffs, to be quite honest. |
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Doogie
Joined: 19 Jan 2006 Location: Hwaseong City
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Posted: Sun Oct 08, 2006 7:59 pm Post subject: |
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| Tiberious aka Sparkles wrote: |
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| I've seen more classic movies than most people I know, especially B&W films. And yet I have never seen a particular classic, The Godfather. |
Get this man some Godfather, stat!
Seriously, VI, you will like The Godfather. Even my grandmother likes The Godfather. |
I just bought Godfathers 1,2 and 3 on DVD. And I've already seen them each 10 times!! They're killer great movies. I'm embarrassed to say that I've never seen Citizen Kane. It still tops the charts as the greatest movie ever made. |
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eamo

Joined: 08 Mar 2003 Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.
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Posted: Sun Oct 08, 2006 8:17 pm Post subject: |
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Top 100 classic movies as judged by Time magazine.
A - C
Aguirre: the Wrath of God (1972)
The Apu Trilogy (1955, 1956, 1959)
The Awful Truth (1937)
Baby Face (1933)
Bande � part (1964)
Barry Lyndon (1975)
Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980)
Blade Runner (1982)
Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
Brazil (1985)
Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
Camille (1936)
Casablanca (1942)
Charade (1963)
Children of Paradise (1945)
Chinatown (1974)
Chungking Express (1994)
Citizen Kane (1941)
City Lights (1931)
City of God (2002)
Closely Watched Trains (1966)
The Crime of Monsieur Lange (1936)
The Crowd (1928)
D - F
Day for Night (1973)
The Decalogue (1989)
Detour (1945)
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972)
Dodsworth (1936)
Double Indemnity (1944)
Dr. Strangelove: or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
Drunken Master II (1994)
E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
8 1/2 (1963)
The 400 Blows (1959)
Farewell My Concubine (1993)
Finding Nemo (2003)
The Fly (1986)
G - J
The Godfather, Parts I and II (1972, 1974)
The Good, The Bad and The Ugly (1966)
Goodfellas (1990)
A Hard Day's Night (1964)
His Girl Friday (1940)
Ikiru (1952)
In A Lonely Place (1950)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
It's A Gift (1934)
It's A Wonderful Life (1946)
K - M
Kandahar (2001)
Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)
King Kong (1933)
The Lady Eve (1941)
The Last Command (1928)
Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
L�olo (1992)
The Lord of the Rings (2001-03)
The Man With a Camera (1929)
The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)
Metropolis (1927)
Miller's Crossing (1990)
Mon oncle d'Am�rique (1980)
Mouchette (1967)
N - P
Nayakan (1987)
Ninotchka (1939)
Notorious (1946)
Olympia, Parts 1 and 2 (1938)
On the Waterfront (1954)
Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
Out of the Past (1947)
Persona (1966)
Pinocchio (1940)
Psycho (1960)
Pulp Fiction (1994)
The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985)
Pyaasa (1957)
Q - S
Raging Bull (1980)
Schindler's List (1993)
The Searchers (1956)
Sherlock, Jr. (1924)
The Shop Around the Corner (1940)
Singin' in the Rain (1952)
The Singing Detective (1986)
Smiles of a Summer Night (1955)
Some Like It Hot (1959)
Star Wars (1977)
A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
Sunrise (1927)
Sweet Smell of Success (1957)
Swing Time (1936)
T - Z
Talk to Her (2002)
Taxi Driver (1976)
Tokyo Story (1953)
A Touch of Zen (1971)
Ugetsu (1953)
Ulysses' Gaze (1995)
Umberto D (1952)
Unforgiven (1992)
White Heat (1949)
Wings of Desire (1987)
Yojimbo (1961)
I've seen around half of those.
BTW, Godfather 1 and 2 are so good they may even be underrated! [/i] |
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SuperHero

Joined: 10 Dec 2003 Location: Superhero Hideout
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Posted: Sun Oct 08, 2006 11:54 pm Post subject: |
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Top 100 classic movies as judged by Time magazine.
A - C
Blade Runner (1982)
Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
Casablanca (1942)
Chinatown (1974)
Chungking Express (1994)
Citizen Kane (1941)
D - F
Dr. Strangelove: or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
Farewell My Concubine (1993)
The Fly (1986)
G - J
The Godfather, Parts I and II (1972, 1974)
Goodfellas (1990)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
It's A Wonderful Life (1946)
K - M
King Kong (1933)
Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
The Lord of the Rings (2001-03)
N - P
Psycho (1960)
Pulp Fiction (1994)
Q - S
Star Wars (1977)
T - Z
Taxi Driver (1976)
Unforgiven (1992) |
These are the ones I've seen from that list. |
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happeningthang

Joined: 26 Apr 2003
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Posted: Mon Oct 09, 2006 6:16 pm Post subject: |
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Aguirre: the Wrath of God (1972)
Bande � part (1964)
Barry Lyndon (1975)
Blade Runner (1982)
Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
Brazil (1985)
Casablanca (1942)
Charade (1963)
Chinatown (1974)
Chungking Express (1994)
Citizen Kane (1941)
City of God (2002)
D - F
Day for Night (1973)
The Decalogue (1989)
Detour (1945)
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972)
Double Indemnity (1944)
Dr. Strangelove: or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
Drunken Master II (1994)
E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
Farewell My Concubine (1993)
Finding Nemo (2003)
The Fly (1986)
G - J
The Godfather, Parts I and II (1972, 1974)
The Good, The Bad and The Ugly (1966)
Goodfellas (1990)
A Hard Day's Night (1964)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
It's A Gift (1934)
It's A Wonderful Life (1946)
K - M
King Kong (1933)
Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
The Lord of the Rings (2001-03)
The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)
Metropolis (1927)
Miller's Crossing (1990)
Mon oncle d'Am�rique (1980)
N - P
Notorious (1946)
Olympia, Parts 1 and 2 (1938)
On the Waterfront (1954)
Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
Pinocchio (1940)
Psycho (1960)
Pulp Fiction (1994)
The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985)
Q - S
Raging Bull (1980)
Schindler's List (1993)
The Searchers (1956)
Singin' in the Rain (1952)
The Singing Detective (1986)
Smiles of a Summer Night (1955)
Some Like It Hot (1959)
Star Wars (1977)
A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
T - Z
Taxi Driver (1976)
Unforgiven (1992)
White Heat (1949)
Wings of Desire (1987)
Yojimbo (1961)
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Are all those pre 1940s movies really all that great? The one I liked most, Fritz Lang's 'M', didn't even make the list.
Oh, and The Godfather triology is vastly overrated. Maybe it was great at the time as the first look into the mafia, but it's tedious and dated now. |
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cwemory

Joined: 14 Jan 2006 Location: Gunpo, Korea
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Posted: Tue Oct 10, 2006 12:12 am Post subject: |
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| The Mosquito Coast |
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happeningthang

Joined: 26 Apr 2003
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Posted: Tue Oct 10, 2006 7:22 am Post subject: |
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Here's a torrent site for to hard to find "classics" - click on 'genre filter'
http://www.secret-cinema.com/index.php
There's another one on Pirate Bay
"Freakyflicks" or something like that, just search in the PB site. |
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yodanole
Joined: 02 Mar 2003 Location: La Florida
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Posted: Tue Oct 10, 2006 7:46 am Post subject: |
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| memo to self: Do not go to movies w/ Spinoza or Beej. |
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blaseblasphemener
Joined: 01 Jun 2006 Location: There's a voice, keeps on calling me, down the road, that's where I'll always be
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Posted: Tue Oct 10, 2006 8:19 am Post subject: |
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Even Harrison Ford would laugh at Mosquito Coast being called a Classic.
Story: When Francis Ford Coppola was making the Godfather, which he basically did for the money, he was filming a scene in the cemetary. It was getting dark, and they were on a tight budget, and they had to wrap and move on to another scene. One of the actors, maybe Duvall or Pacino, remembers that Coppola was so distraught at not being able to finish the scene to his liking that he wept. That's passion. If you think the Godfather is pretentious, you don't get it. It's a great story, but it's certainly not pretentious. |
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happeningthang

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Posted: Tue Oct 10, 2006 8:43 am Post subject: |
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| I can appreciate that Coppola was very committed to making his film, then again I've heard that Russ Myers got excited over his films too. A few tears isn't going to make it a great movie, or any less tedious. |
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