Old movies (pre 1979)

[Fe 26]

I just got done watching "A guide for the Married Man" This movie was really awesome. It was to cheeting on your wife, to what steeling cars was to gone in 60 seconds. ^_^ it also womenz in 1960s style undies (the sexy undies, not that shit your grandma goes to bed in)

Who else here likes watching old movies? Any must sees?

little bit of it on amazon

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg...video&n=507846

[sleeve]

I enjoy old books.

I just read this great old book, Crime and Punishment. It was really awesome.

Who else likes reading old books?

[Melf]

You consider movies made before 1979 to be old? You must be really young.

[Fe 26]

You consider movies made before 1979 to be old? You must be really young.

=\ I was trying to be flexable with what people could talk about.

[Revoltor]

Heh, plenty.

I like to stick with actors and try seeing their "greatest hits" so to say. Most Humphrey Bogart and Jimmy Stewart movies are solid. A good portion of Hitchcock's stuff is classic (Psycho, Vertigo, Man Who Knew Too Much)

If you want to be like the cool kids, get into noir and buy this boxset:

Titles include: Asphalt Jungle, Gun-Crazy, The Set-up, Murder My Sweet and Out of the Past (considered an all-time definitive noir). All 5 showcase dark themes and incredibly fucked up situations. Only Murder My Sweet is the stereotypical detective noir (and in my opinion the weakest of the set). Still, it's a Philip Marlowe story and it has to be seen.

Let me know what kind of movies you're into and I'll bust out a list of reccomendations. Horror, Comedy, Adventure, whatever.

EDIT: yeah, you should really turn the clock back pre-1960 or color.

[The_Meach]

Hooray for Jerks! </Red Stripe>

IP, there are a ton of must-see movies from before 1979. Here is a list that you should print out, put in your wallet and consult when you go to the videostore. Some of these are great movies that everyone should see. Others are incredibly influential pieces of art that no movie fan should avoid. Still others are movies that had flaws but starred important actors whose performances are still relevant.

- Casablanca
- Godfather (I & II)
- Dr. Strangelove
- 2001
- Get Carter (Michael Caine)
- all of Peter Sellers' movies (particularly the Inspector Clousceau movies)
- Chinatown
- Pacino's 70's work (including Serpico, Dog Day Afternoon, etc.)
- The Conversation (Gene Hackman is AWESOME in this)
- the spaghetti Westerns (for no other reason than to appreciate how important Unforgiven really is)
- North by Northwest (feel free to skip all the other Hitchcock movies)
- all of Cary Grant's movies
- Spartacus (and all the rest of Stanley Kubrick's movies)

This should get you started. Enjoy the movie goodness!

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Revoltor is steering you in the right direction.

[Mr-K]

Titles include: Asphalt Jungle, Gun-Crazy, The Set-up, Murder My Sweet and Out of the Past (considered an all-time definitive noir). All 5 showcase dark themes and incredibly fucked up situations. Only Murder My Sweet is the stereotypical detective noir (and in my opinion the weakest of the set). Still, it's a Philip Marlowe story and it has to be seen.

Ehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh there is better stuff out there than those five, much better in fact. The Big Sleep is better than Murder My Sweet and it's the same story with Bogart instead of Dick Powell playing Marlowe. I mean Dick Powell was mainly a musical actor anyway. Double Indemnity is good, and if you want to go post-1979 Body Heat is good too, essentially the same story with more Kathlene Turner boobies and Ted Danson. Orson Welles Noirs are all pretty good too, Touch of Evil, Stranger, Third Man and such, but that's mainly because Orson Welles kicks ass. Then there are movies like Sunset Blvd, which I like a lot.

Then there's Hitchcock. Don't listen to The Meach, don't avoid him, why? He's great, that's why. Strangers on A Train is a good noir thriller, I like that one a lot, and the movie Rope is really great (it's shot to appear to be one long take, it would work great on stage). Then of course there are his other big movies: Psycho, NBNW, Birds, Vertigo yadda yadda. Hitchcock, Man. Hitchcock.

Westerns and even some musicals are pretty sweet too, I'll get into those later.

[rezo]

I enjoy old books.

I just read this great old book, Crime and Punishment. It was really awesome.

Who else likes reading old books?

I like old books. My favorite is the Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce. If you are a cynic in need of a wordbook from around the turn of the 20th century, then it is the old book for you.

Do you like old comedy on recording cylinders? My favorite is Two rubes at the vaudeville. They certainly give that singer what for. Does anyone else like old comedy cylinders? What are your favorites?(please choose from cylinders made before 1979, except for melf who must choose from cylinders made before 1910 because he is really old)

[The_Meach]

Then there's Hitchcock. Don't listen to The Meach, don't avoid him, why? He's great, that's why.

Why is Hitchcock great?

The only reason NBNW is any good (at all) is b/c of Cary Grant's droll Cary Grantishness.

[Mr-K]

Hitch really knows how to up the suspense in his movies. There are several examples of this in all of his movies. In Psycho there is the part where Norman pushes the car with all of the evidence into the bog and it stops sinking for just a couple of seconds. There is also that shift in character that is fantastic, you spend the entire first act with Janet Leigh, who is billed as a star, only to have her die and then have the central character shift over to Norman. The movie Rope leaves you on the edge the entire movie (The premise is that two men murder their friend with a rope and hide him in a chest, they then invite the friend's family over for dinner all with his corpse in the room without their knowing it). Rope is really one of Hitch's best use of suspense, it's just a constant barrage of both wanting the killers to get caught and not wanting them to. Jimmie Stewart is also awesome in it to boot.

There's also his visual style, it's rather remarkable, he lends a touch to every picture that is distinctly his. He knows how to use color as well, Vertigo is like a color orgy, it's fantastic to view. I mean his choice to film Psycho in black and white (in 1960 no less) really made the movie.

Don't fuck with Hitchcock.