Couple of good older movies

[Master Capper]

Now that I have TIVO I can actually watch movies on my time which is excellent. I recommend these movies even though they are before my time they were excellent flicks, as I think all of them are from the 70's.

1. The French Connection

2. Chinatown

3. Meanstreets

4. The King of New York

5. Midnight Express

 

[danmurphy jr]

Good ones, all.

 

[Nole]

I received "Citizen Kane" a couple of days ago(Netflix). Everywhere I look it's ranked one of the greatest flicks of all time.

Haven't had a chance to see it yet.

Do you have an opinion?

Thanks.

nole

 

[ripken8]

great older movie... to kill a mockingbird. Gregory Peck, Robert Duvall. early 60's.

 

[AR182]

imo, chinatown is one of the great movies of all time....nicholson was at his best.

i also liked the french connection......i remember them filming the car chase under the train tressel... happened pretty close where i was living at the time.

midnight express is a good movie...but too depressing for my tastes.

for some reason i never saw mean streets...it was the first movie that deniro made with scorscese (sp ?).

also never saw king of n.y.

enjoyed citizen kane.....loosely base on hearst's life story.

also enjoyed to kill a mockingbird.

here are a couple of old time date night movies that is my money back guarantees:

bringing up baby......katherine hepburn & cary grant

the philadelphia story....katherine hepburn, cary grant, & james stewart

yankee doodle dandy.....james cagney in a roll that you don't expect him to be in...

it happened one night....clark gable & claudette colbert

 

[Master Capper]

Just got done watching "The Wanderers" another one that was a excellent flick. Taped on TIVO "Hollywood Knights" with Tony Danza, going to check it out tomorrow night.

 

[countinguy]

Holllywood Knights now that is an all time classic!!

 

[Trossi3389]

The Gauntlet

8 million ways to die

defiance

angel heart

straight time

 

[Nole]

Holllywood Knights now that is an all time classic!!

What was his name? "Newbom Turk" or something like that?

"Newbom, did you cum?.

"A little."

"I'm glad I came."

Had that "Nanny" chick in it. Fran something.

:mj07:

nole

 

[bjfinste]

One previously mentioned by AR... I absolutely love "The Philadelphia Story". Also "Casablanca" is worth the hype it's recieved over the years.

My buddy let me borrow a "Citizen Kane" DVD a couple weeks ago, but I haven't watched it yet. Sometime I'll take it in, though... the story has always interested me.

 

[IntenseOperator]

I think King of NY is 80's, may even be later than that.

Take a look at Bronson in The Mechanic

 

[DOGS THAT BARK]

Ironoic I O was one of 1st that came to my mind--but am huge Bronson fan--Hard Times was also very good.

 

[yyz]

Daddy Daycare

 

[Keith 1]

didn't see them listed. In no particular order:

Planet of the Apes (first one only)

It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

The Bank Dick (W.C. Fields); and

Animal House.

My favorite all-time comedy was and always will be Back To School.

 

[Sonny Palermo]

saw the title, thought it would be flicks from 40's or 50's....

SEVENTIES? OLDER FLIX?
Thanks for making me feel older MC.....


Anyway....
a couple REAL older flicks, great stuff, from before my time even......

His Girl Friday - Cary Grant and Rosalind Russel

My Man Godfrey - William Powell and Carole Lombard (fell in love with Lombard in the opening scene in the city dump)

Witness for the Prosecution - Charles Laughton and Marlene Dietrich (no, still can't believe Laughton is gay (not that there's anything wrong with that) yes, can believe Tyone Powers was).

Somebody please agree with me so I don't feel like an old coot here....

 

[AR182]

yeah sonny, i'm right with you.....those movies we both listed were before my time also.....but there was something about those older movies that made them special.....oh yeah, story plots.

witness for the prosecution was truly a great movie, imo......


here are a few more...

treasure of sierra madre..."badges, we don't need no stinkin badges"

one of my favorite westerns....the searchers.....probably one of the first movies where the hero had some flaws

 

[IntenseOperator]

Blazing Saddles

"Excuse me while I whip this out."

 

[Eddie Haskell]

Sonny and AR:

Couldn't agree with you lugs more about "Witness for the Prosecution". If anyone rents this flick, make sure you rent the black and white version made in 1957 with Tyrone Power, Charles Laughton and Marlena Dietrich as there was a recent remake (which pales in insignificance to the original).

One of the best "who dun its" of all time. I believe it was an movie made from a novel by Agatha Christie.

Sir Wilfred: "I am continually surprised that womans hats do not provoke more murders."

Eddie

 

[yyz]

I always watch "In The Heat Of The Night" when TBS has it on! That was a classic film.

Apocalypse Now, and the Deer Hunter are two Viet Nam genre flicks that I always liked, as well.


Twelve Angry Men was a movie that I was surprised I enjoyed, but it really was a good film.


The original Night Stalker movies (two of them), with Darrin McGavin.

 

[IntenseOperator]

The Sting

"Ya Falla"