cool old movie thread -pre 1985

[sonnylarue]

feel free to chime in about the old flicks you've seen lately...

here's a couple i saw this wknd so far

1970 the cheyenne social club-great jimmy stewart henry fonda comedy western

1949-adam's rib-tracy and hepburn in their primes plus judy holiday's film debut

more later...

[Ashwin Pande]

Taking of Pelham 123 - LOVE Walter Matthau

Night of the Hunter - The best Mitchum performance I've ever seen. He is so terrifying in this movie.

The Postman Always Rings Twice - Man oh man... Lana Turner... wow... what a knockout!

The Long Goodbye - I can't believe I'm going to say this... but Gould was a wayyyyy better Marlowe than Bogart.

Alphaville - Amazing. Complex, beautiful, insane and crazy. Blade Runner before there was a Blade Runner.

[shoelaceless]

The Long Goodbye - I can't believe I'm going to say this... but Gould was a wayyyyy better Marlowe than Bogart.

Word.

[Taxman]

Taking of Pelham 123 - LOVE Walter Matthau

I saw that this is being remade.

I guess everything gets remade eventually

[Taxman]

Here are a few comments posted Bendis side.

The Adventures of Robin Hood - really a great film, but if you have seen a lot of Robin Hood films, this might feel a little played out. This seems to be true of a lot of classics. I have never really seen Olivia de Havilland look so hot before.

Army of Darkness - This really was not like what I was expecting. I hadn't seen any of these films before. I know that Evil Dead 2 is supposed to be an all time great horror film, and I would have prefered to watch thses in order. However, the movie gods decided to release only this film on HD, so I rented it to check it out. I was expecting something more along the lines of what the first two are supposed to be like. I had no idea that this was some sort of time travel middeval epic. The film pretty much works for what it is supposed to be, and Campbell does have a few flashes of brilliance. He seems to have a few flashes of hack too, but he is enough of a presence on the screen to carry a campfest like this.

Fast Times as Ridgmemont High - It stuck me watching this that there was no way when it was being made that anyone could have imagined that there were four future Oscar winners, the life partner of a fifth and an infamous murder victim involved with the project. Pretty iconic film if only because of the number of people in it who went on to become stars, even if briefly. Very dated film, and in the end it is just a teen sex romp. Probably the best teen sex romp of all time, and probably as good a film as the genre could possibly produce. Still, it is what it is.

The Twilight Zone: The Movie - I last saw this when it first came out and wasn't all that impressed. I guess that I liked it a little better than before. It still does not really live up to the original series, and probably nothing does. There are quite a few things put in the film that I might call Easter Eggs, or at least inside references to the original series and at least one other film. It might be worth watching just for these.

[TonyFleecs]

I haven't watched Kubrick's the Killing in a while, but I think a viewing is in order. That and Lolita are my favorite Kubrick movies, I think.

Whenever someone mentions the Long Goodbye, I get the theme song stuck in my head.

[sonnylarue]

I haven't watched Kubrick's the Killing in a while, but I think a viewing is in order. That and Lolita are my favorite Kubrick movies, I think.

Whenever someone mentions the Long Goodbye, I get the theme song stuck in my head.

i noticed a couple of early kubricks on one of the encores this month

[TonyFleecs]

Paths of Glory? For some reason, I don't have that one... But I'm a big fan of that whole era of his stuff.

[Amedeo]

Little Caesar. 1931 pre-code gangster film with Edward G. Robinson. Tells the character arc that the Godfather trilogy was attempting to, but in 79 minutes. I highly recommend it.

[NeverWanderer]

Reposted from the movie thread on the Benbo!

A Fistful of Dollars - Loved it. Very barebones story, great atmosphere, young Clint was the freakin' man. (and could have played Wolverine.)

(of course, if they were to remake these, they would HAVE to cast Hugh Jackman as the man with no name)

For a Few Dollars More - Again, awesome. Built nicely on the mythology from the first movie, maintained that same wonderful tone. Colonel Mortimer kicks ASS. I completely forgot the badguy was the same actor from the first. Perhaps my favorite of the series.

The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly - Disappointing. It meandered in places and took too long to get to the good, interesting parts. Seemed like Leone was revelling in his newfound budget and let the story suffer from it. There was WAY too much Tuco, not nearly enough Clint, and Mortimer was a hollow shadow of someone vaguely resembling the character he was in the previous movie. It was REALLY disappointing to see such an interesting and complex character reduced to the "Bad" archetype.

To be honest, this doesn't even feel like it belongs in the same series. Both "Blondie" and "Angeleyes" bear little resemblance to their characters from the previous movies, which makes the bit at the end with Clint finally donning the poncho seem a bit forced. And that raw, quiet tone from the first two... just not there.

All in all, not a bad movie, but not nearly as entertaining or engrossing as the first two, and seemingly a shallow attempt at making a sequel out of a story that obviously isn't.

Made me want to read Jinx again, though. So at least there's that.

(as an addendum, I did some research and discovered that the Angel Eyes character from GB&U is NOT the Mortimer character from the previous movie! I just misread the blurb on the DVD case. It is a little misleading, though, the way they all know each other. Still, that's one bad mark erased!)