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Well, since I haven't seen all that many, topping the list of the few "classics" I've seen would be Cassablanca. That movie was so good, the story still made sense and was relevant to people today, even though it was at a totally differnt point in history then we are now. And the romance story was cuuuuuute. (Sue me, I'm a chick) Let's not forget all the quotes from it that made their way into everyone's vocabulary. "Play it again, Sam," "Here's looking at you, kid," "The usual suspects," and so on. Anyways, that's my two cents.

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Unless of course I'm allowed to count the Star Wars movies as classics, then Empire Strikes back is the top, but most people tell me they're "too new" to be classics. *sigh*
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I am a HUGE fan of WEST SIDE STORY...it still gives me chills when i see the dance scene for "COOL"


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i'd have to say that Citizen Kane is the BEST classic film of all time. the storyline was intriguing, the cinematography was excellent, and the acting and editing was superb.
hey, when you say classic films, does that mean old films or film noir?

i guess anything old would count...

anything from shirly temple movies...to wizard of oz....

to the Three Stooges.. http://discussanything.com/Ubb/smile.gif...

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But then the issue is to define "old". Five years? Ten years? More? A movie can be considered an old movie when it moves from the bigger theatres to the $2 cheap seats theatres. Or when it goes to video. Because it's not new anymore, thus it's old. And yes, I'm just arguing for arguements sake, because I really think it's all a matter of perspective, and what one person may consider classic, someone else will call a fad, and so on. Intresting thing to note, though, Disney declares their animated movies classics straight out of the gate, which I find amusing.

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Of course Cats are smarter than Dogs. You'd never see eight cats pulling a sled through snow, would you?

yeah I dunno what counts as classic... I guess anything black and white... Harvey was great. Mr. Smith goes to Washington was pretty good. Grapes of Wrath I liked, of Mice and Men... I dunno... I used to watch a bunch with my dad but Im drawing a blank...

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Gone With The Wind, political correctness aside. It's a Southern thing, if you carpetbaggers don't get it. http://discussanything.com/Ubb/wink.gif

I like old Poitier films like. Guess Who's Comming to Dinner, Heat of The Night, even To Sir With Love. One hell of an actor and Guess Who's Comming to Dinner had Spencer Tracy and Katherine Hepburn all the actors in that movie were top shelf.

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Freedom.....have you seen "A Patch of Blue" w/ Sidney Poitier and Shelly Winters? Outstanding movie. Apparently when it was released, it drew a bigger box office return than "Gone with the Wind."
I'm a huge Poitier fan as well. Have you read his autobiography "The Measure of a Man"?
My vote goes for A Patch of Blue or Indiscreet w/ Bergman and Cary Grant. Oh there are too many to list! http://discussanything.com/Ubb/smile.gif

Originally posted by Ayla:
Freedom.....have you seen "A Patch of Blue" w/ Sidney Poitier and Shelly Winters? Outstanding movie. Apparently when it was released, it drew a bigger box office return than "Gone with the Wind."
I'm a huge Poitier fan as well. Have you read his autobiography "The Measure of a Man"?
My vote goes for A Patch of Blue or Indiscreet w/ Bergman and Cary Grant. Oh there are too many to list! http://discussanything.com/Ubb/smile.gif

No to both of those but thanks I will definitely check into renting that movie quick quick. What is the autobiography like?

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Originally posted by Fordman50:
The Devil and Misses Jones



I don't think you are supposed to pick movies that family members stared in.


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Winner of the "peoples Choice award" for supreme advocate for the people!

I'm not "always right", it just seems that way

Spelling is for kids! I think you got the point!

Freedom.......haven't started Mr. Poitier's biography yet. I just began reading the "Hobbit" again. I'm on a Tolkein kick.
A Patch of Blue is one of my all time favorite movies, very well done. I hope you like it.
As for Indiscreet, you can't go wrong w/ Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman.

The Graduate...

Rain Man....

Anything DUSTIN HOFFMAN...I WORSHIP THE GROUND HE WALKS ON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Anything with Jimmy Stewart, james Dean, Cary Grant etc.

Plus musicals.........im a musical fanatic.

Hmmmm an 80's movie I love would be Labryinth. Good stuff that one.....

R

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NICE!!!... fellow musical fanatic...

i'll start a new thread...

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I have one thing to say, first person who knows about it gets a pat on the head from me. "BRMC" I'm pretty sure that's it, but I'm drunk. OK, another clue, just in case I make no sense, Marlon Brando.

Gone With The Wind, political correctness aside. It's a Southern thing, if you carpetbaggers don't get it.

Man...I have tried to watch that movie on several occasions....I'm sorry, but that has got to be the most excruciating thing to watch that I have ever seen (out side of "Eyes Wide Shut"). I think I would rather take a trip to the dentist and the proctologist all in the same day then to watch that again....
Scarlet = last nerve shot....

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The Marx Brothers - "Monkey Business", "Duck Soup", "Night at the Opera". take your pick.

Alfred Hitchcock - "The 39 Steps", "Rear Window"

John Huston - "Treasure of Sierra Madre" - Bogart

Fritz Lang - "M" - with Peter Lorre in an amazing performance.

One more ... I just saw Fritz Lang's "Metropolis" (a silent film) on a large screen accompanied by a live theatre pipe organ. That movie is a surreal mind-****.

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"The Quiet Man" with John Wayne. The first American film to be filmed overseas. I just love John Wayne...an "American hero!"

One of my favorite lines from the movie.."Here's a stick to beat the lovely lady with sir!" And no he didn't beat her, you'll just have to watch the film!!

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Any Bogart film... even the cheesey ones like "We're No Angels".

I Wake Up Screaming with Betty Grable also ranks pretty high.


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-- Michael Shermer

I think the oldest movie that I like would be
"The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly"...

I dunno know about some of the others you guys have mentioned...

And I have yet to see a black and white movie I could actually sit threw...

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I don't know if you would consider "Scarface" a classic, but it is one of my favorites. "Wizard of Oz" is another favorite classic of mine!

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oh Buggy, you're breaking my heart! "We're No Angels", cheesey?!

Dated, yes ... but what a great cast, excellent writing and the song "Sentimental Moments" makes me weep.

My favorite Christmas movie.

"Are you guys getting soft? We came here to rob them and that's exactly what we're going to do. We'll bash their heads in, cut their throats ... after we do the dishes."

(Don't be fooled by Penn/DeNiro movie by the same name.)

Originally posted by James:
oh Buggy, you're breaking my heart! "We're No Angels", cheesey?!

Dated, yes ... but what a great cast, excellent writing and the song "Sentimental Moments" makes me weep.

My favorite Christmas movie.

Sentimental = cheesey! You're a guy, you're supposed to know this. http://discussanything.com/Ubb/smile.gif

"Are you guys getting soft? We came here to rob them and that's exactly what we're going to do. We'll bash their heads in, cut their throats ... after we do the dishes."

(Don't be fooled by Penn/DeNiro movie by the same name.)



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-- Michael Shermer

Originally posted by slacker79:
"Wizard of Oz" is another favorite classic of mine!

As far as kid's movies go, Wizard Of Oz and Willy Wonka are great classics. http://discussanything.com/Ubb/smile.gif



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-- Michael Shermer

willy wonka...another GREAT one.


have you gotten the DVD yet?




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buggy wrote ...
Sentimental = cheesey! You're a guy, you're supposed to know this.

Somehow my parents lost the "It's A Boy!" owner's manual and ever since, life has been one confusing moment after the next.

I just thought of another fave ... although I would call it a "cult" classic:
"Harold and Maude"

Originally posted by James:
Somehow my parents lost the "It's A Boy!" owner's manual and ever since, life has been one confusing moment after the next.


My parents must of mistakenly found it. http://discussanything.com/Ubb/smile.gif http://discussanything.com/Ubb/tongue.gif

Scott, it is next on my list. I still need the Toy Story package. BTW, you mentioned Singing In The Rain ... which only brings A Clock Work Orange to mind... http://discussanything.com/Ubb/smile.gif

Another classic:
Papillon

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now there's a name association sure to make Gene Kelley shudder!

If you say Roy Orbison ... I say ...
"Blue Velvet".

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This is my favorite
movie, ..... http://jeffsarchive.com/realplayer%20audio/Triumph%20of%20the%20Will.rm

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A fistfull of dollars, For a few dollars more, The good the bad and the ugly.

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maniac88: You must be kidding. That Nazi clip is boring and the music blows chunks. How can watching brainwashed morons bending over for a totalitarian regime be your favorite? I know Hollywood has produced a lot of crap, but there must be something you like besides Nazi propaganda clips.

Originally posted by Snouter:
maniac88: You must be kidding. That Nazi clip is boring and the music blows chunks. How can watching brainwashed morons bending over for a totalitarian regime be your favorite? I know Hollywood has produced a lot of crap, but there must be something you like besides Nazi propaganda clips.


It was kind of a joke, but I still think it is a classic. I dont really think that you can get away with calling them morons either. They are responsible for numorous military break throughs.

Anyways, some movies that I like besides this are .....
"Repoman" , "Braveheart", "Good Fellas" , "Conan the Barbarian" and "Slapshot".

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Originally posted by maniac88:
It was kind of a joke, but I still think it is a classic. I dont really think that you can get away with calling them morons either. They are responsible for numorous military break throughs.

Anyways, some movies that I like besides this are .....
"Repoman" , "Braveheart", "Good Fellas" , "Conan the Barbarian" and "Slapshot".



Hah! Slapshot rocked. McFarlane's release of The Hanson brothers graces my toy collection.

A Slight Case Of Murder is another good old movie...

Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid, too.



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Originally posted by maniac88:
I dont really think that you can get away with calling them morons either. They are responsible for numorous military break throughs.


Sorry, there is not doubt they were indeed morons, cannon fodder, and brainwashed. Certainly some scientists were interned to engineer, research and develop high technology. But the vast majority were Hitler's tools who observed an occultist, pink, regime that was just as evil as the Leon Trotsky's Marxist Bolsheviks, Joseph Stalin's and Nikita Khrushchev's Russian Communists, Ho Chi Minh's, Pol Pot's, and Mao Tse-Tung's communist regimes in south east Asia.

I dont see the similarity between Pol Pot's evil regime and Nazi Germany. Pol Pot was intent on killing the best of his own people. I know a guy that was in Cambodia during the time of Pol Pot and he said Nazi Germany would have been paradise compared to Cambodia. They lost one out of every three people. Hitler was the complete opposit, he encouraged everyone to strive to be their best.

Not to mention it is extremely insulting to label an entire nation of the people morons. Do you believe our fore fathers to be morons since they stood around while the Native Americans were removed from their homes to progress the emergence of the United States? You need to understand that you have been feed propaganda your entire life regarding World War two era Germany. It was vital for America to slander the Germans as much as possible to maintain public support for the war effort. Thus creating a false ,misguided image of Nazi era Germany. Not to mention the acceleration of this effect after the domination of media outlets by Jews which has has occured over the last fifty years. In fact I was watching a documentary on the Discovery channel about the Nazi's attempt to reintroduce pre-christian, Pagan history. The whole time the show talking about the glorious pagan history of Europe they felt the need to play creepy ,horror movie type music. Why? I'll tell you why, because they are trying to slant public opinion regarding the Nazis. And you my friend are a victim of such.

To call them "cannon fodder" is also insulting. Would you call the heroic men who died at Pearl Harbor cannon fodder?

I would suggest that you try and look at the entire picture instead of spouting rhetoric from your television. Also, it would be nice if you would take the the time to point out specific examples or reasons why you feel the way you do instead of lashing out with vauge insults. Thanks. http://discussanything.com/Ubb/cool.gif

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Maniac wrote:
It was kind of a joke, but I still think it is a classic.

Actually, "Triumph of the Will" is considered to be a great piece of documentary filmmaking, despite the subject matter. Leni Riefenstahl, was an acclaimed, award-winning director, handpicked by Hitler to document the Third Reich.

I guess I am going to have to beat a dead horse, but I didn't see this post previously.

Originally posted by maniac88:
You need to understand that you have been feed propaganda your entire life regarding World War two era Germany... And you my friend are a victim of such.

LOL! Some of my sources include my copy of The Rise and Fall of The Third Reich.

To call them "cannon fodder" is also insulting. Would you call the heroic men who died at Pearl Harbor cannon fodder?

I use that term in reference to soldiers used intentially by their government for exploitation as pawns in games of conquest to satisfy the bloodlust of insane political leaders.


I would suggest that you try and look at the entire picture instead of spouting rhetoric from your television.

LOL!!! All I watch is hockey and wrestling you damn National Socialist German Workers' Party wannabe. http://discussanything.com/Ubb/wink.gif

Also, it would be nice if you would take the the time to point out specific examples or reasons why you feel the way you do instead of lashing out with vauge insults.

It is not a matter of feeling at all! It is the stating of documentated fact. Like our Afghan nemisis, Bin Laden, Hitler glorified war and world conquest and the absolute power of the authoritarian state. He believed he could create a master race for this purpose. At first most Germans laughed at him. His Nietzche-like philosophy began to take with the help of his secret police and his propaganda machine in place to control the press. He made the Germans into lemmings by extracting their wealth and labor in his Bin Laden-like plot to rule the world.

The Rise and Fall of The Third Reich by William Shirer is over 1,000 pages, but is an excellent book. A must for everyone, included neo-National Socialist German Workers' Party people. What you will find is that Hitler was a liar in almost everything he told the Germans. I call the Germans who sympathized with him morons because they couldn't see through his lies and meglamania. The German people ended up being cannon fodder as the Allies were forced to dispose of his source of power.

This is the tragic reality we are faced with today in the middle east. One megalmaniac has inspired enough Muslims to force us to hurt them primarily because they are ignorant of the truth.

how did this thread turn into a bitch fest of hate and opinions http://discussanything.com/Ubb/frown.gif ?


lets keep it on topic guys..instead of discussing that crap

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I thought they were relevent, objective analysis and commentary raised by a film clip posted by an ex-member. No big deal.

sorry snout man...

i guess i did snap a bit...

it was before i knew that maniac was gone...

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I like Gone with the Wind..

Rhett, my darling... *sigh*

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