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Neon_Chaos

12-20-2007, 12:06 PM

I happened on Spies Like Us tonight. Made me smile. Chevy Chase and Dan Aykroyd at their comedic prime. :)

Lathum

12-20-2007, 12:09 PM

lol.

I hear old flicks and think about Gone with the Wind or 12 angry men

Butter

12-20-2007, 12:09 PM

My 2 favorite lines:

Jesus, where did you learn your Russian, JCPenney?

And, in reference to when they heard the Russians playing The Bar-kays "Soulfinger" at the missile silo site:

They must be having trouble getting gigs.

I've seen it a time or six.

Lathum

12-20-2007, 12:09 PM

but I do lo ve Spies Like Us

miked

12-20-2007, 12:30 PM

Mmmmmm....Vanessa Angel.

Mustang

12-20-2007, 12:52 PM

Hey Hey What do you say... someone took your plans away

st.cronin

12-20-2007, 12:58 PM

What's a dick for?

rkmsuf

12-20-2007, 12:59 PM

Preparing to incise.

cougarfreak

12-20-2007, 01:00 PM

One of my favorites, I found on DVD last year. "The Toy" with Richard Pryor. Good stuff, although you could never make that movie today.

RomaGoth

12-20-2007, 02:15 PM

The Godfather trilogy is still one of the all time greats. With that being said, The Untouchables and Goodfellas are pretty damn good too, they don't get as much credit as the Godfather does in the mobster genre. At least in my opinion....

MikeVic

12-20-2007, 02:26 PM

I love watching old chicks...

http://www.corpsstories.com/ArthurBea.jpg

On a side note... do an uncensored image search on Google for Bea Arthur, and the very first image you get is just funny. NSFW though.

RomaGoth

12-20-2007, 02:40 PM

hoopsguy

12-20-2007, 03:23 PM

larrymcg421

12-20-2007, 03:31 PM

I thought Breakfast at Tiffany's was extremely overrated and not even close to being one of the best Audrey films (Roman Holiday, Sabrina, Wait Until Dark, Robin and Marian, Love in the Afternoon). Peppard was an extremely dull lead and the less said about Mickey Rooney's blatantly racist performance, the better.

RomaGoth

12-20-2007, 03:49 PM

On the topic of old flicks, I'm planning to watch Casablanca for the first time this weekend. My wife and I decided last year to watch a "classic" film neither of us have seen on Christmas. Last year was "Breakfast at Tiffany's", which was very different than what I expected.

Never seen either of these films. My wife and I have also decided to watch some older films. We have never seen Gone With The Wind, Casablanca, To Kill a Mockingbird, or a few others. She wanted to see "White Christmas" again so damn badly, so I bought it for her last year. It is still in the shrink wrap. I ask her about it the other day, and she says that nobody will watch it with her. Sigh. Women. Oh, sorry, this thread is about films. :rolleyes:

Lathum

12-20-2007, 03:53 PM

I am shocked there isn't a parody thread yet

MikeVic

12-20-2007, 04:24 PM

I wanted to keep it in the thread.

CraigSca

12-20-2007, 04:55 PM

My wife and I thought Casablanca was overrated (maybe we're the wrong generation?). I'm currently in the midst of watching Chinatown right now...

Jas_lov

12-20-2007, 05:12 PM

A lot of GREAT movies being mentioned in this thread! I love the classics! I watched Casablanca for the first time earlier this year and it was excellent. Chinatown was very good! The Godfather, The Conversation, and The French Connection are three of my favorite movies ever. To Kill a Mockingbird was fantastic. Never seen Breakfast at Tiffany's or 12 Angry Men though. I need to watch those. Anyone like the old Hitchcock films? I like them all. Just watched To Catch a Thief the other day and it was great!

oliegirl

12-20-2007, 06:14 PM

Twelve Angry Men and To Kill a Mockingbird are 2 of my all time favorite movies, right in the top 5 with The Godfather 1 & 2 (which in my opinion is just one really long kick ass movie)...

Breakfast at Tiffany's is a great movie, dated, but still great. Sometimes you just have to let go of your expectations and realize that 40 years ago, the movie and the characters in it were appropriate. Mickey Rooney's character is racist, but not as racist as many other characters I've seen in films. Plus, it was done comedically, which doesn't make it right, but makes it less slanderous in my opinion.

Neon_Chaos

12-26-2007, 08:25 AM

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Noop

12-26-2007, 09:57 AM

I like watching old porns...

EDIT: Not old people but you know the ones from the 70's and 80's with the fake acting and what not, it was more funny then anything.

korme

12-26-2007, 10:42 AM

So, hoopsguy, did you watch Casablanca?

cuervo72

12-26-2007, 10:45 AM

Mmmmmm....Vanessa Angel.

yes yes

Draft Dodger

12-26-2007, 11:05 AM

My wife and I thought Casablanca was overrated (maybe we're the wrong generation?). I'm currently in the midst of watching Chinatown right now...

coincidentally, I just watched Chinatown for the first time on Monday. I thought it was solid, but I don't know that I was fond enough to call it one of the all-time greats. Maybe it's a bit of a Beatles effect - I can't really appreciate how revolutionary it was, because of all the films I've seen since then that have been influenced by it.

ISiddiqui

12-26-2007, 11:51 AM

Wait... did someone just say "Spies Like Us" and "old flicks" in the same sentance? Hell, I'm 27 and I'm shocked!

cuervo72

12-26-2007, 12:15 PM

coincidentally, I just watched Chinatown for the first time on Monday. I thought it was solid, but I don't know that I was fond enough to call it one of the all-time greats. Maybe it's a bit of a Beatles effect - I can't really appreciate how revolutionary it was, because of all the films I've seen since then that have been influenced by it.

I remember seeing The Two Jakes w/o knowing about Chinatown...and I was freaking lost throughout the whole movie.

As for Spies, it's funny...for years I don't think about it, and then it pops up three times in the past week (two message boards and I Love the 80s 3D).

korme

12-26-2007, 12:16 PM

I happened on Pearl Jam tonight. Made me smile. Eddie Vedder and Stone Gossard at their rockin prime. http://www.operationsports.com/fofc/images/smilies/smile.gif

hoopsguy

12-26-2007, 12:32 PM

So, hoopsguy, did you watch Casablanca?

Yeah, and overall I thought it was a very good film. For a short (1 hour, 40 minute) film, there was a good amount of character development and plot complexity. It didn't feel like the director was in a hurry to tell the story, but rather let it unfold naturally. It is hard for a 60+ year old movie to feel fresh, especially one that has been borrowed from like this one, but I felt it held up better than several other "classic" films I've seen years after release.

Tammy wants to see "Affair to Remember" next Christmas, so that will probably be the next one in our rotation.

Passacaglia

12-26-2007, 12:33 PM

My wife and I thought Casablanca was overrated (maybe we're the wrong generation?). I'm currently in the midst of watching Chinatown right now...

My wife and I thought it was vastly overrated, too.

hoopsguy

12-26-2007, 12:44 PM

korme

12-26-2007, 12:50 PM

Y'all is crazy

Casablanca ftw

hoopsguy

12-26-2007, 12:55 PM

My wife and I thought it was vastly overrated, too.

I'm curious what your expectations were for viewing a movie released in 1942. For example, my father just raved about "The Graduate" when I was growing up. I thought the movie was a massive letdown compared to the hype he created, but I think part of the problem there was that I didn't really account for the movie being 30 years old (now 40) at the time I saw it. So I was expecting it to be as powerful to me as it was to him, and it failed to deliver at that level.

I expect if I went back to see The Graduate again I would appreciate it more for the movie it was rather than killing it for not meeting my expectations for what a great movie should be at this point in my life.

On the flip side, if I go back and watch Star Wars now it obviously would not measure up to what I thought it was as a six year old who saw it in theaters five times over the summer. I don't expect my kid will think of that trilogy of movies the same way I did, because it is dated.

The long and meandering point that I'm trying to make here is that if you expected to see something truly unique and special when viewing a movie two generations past its release date then I understand why you would think it is overrated. But I would argue that the expectations you had viewing the movie would contribute to thinking it is overrated as much, if not more, than the actual movie in the specific case of Casablanca.

Passacaglia

12-26-2007, 01:03 PM

I'm curious what your expectations were for viewing a movie released in 1942. For example, my father just raved about "The Graduate" when I was growing up. I thought the movie was a massive letdown compared to the hype he created, but I think part of the problem there was that I didn't really account for the movie being 30 years old (now 40) at the time I saw it. So I was expecting it to be as powerful to me as it was to him, and it failed to deliver at that level.

I expect if I went back to see The Graduate again I would appreciate it more for the movie it was rather than killing it for not meeting my expectations for what a great movie should be at this point in my life.

On the flip side, if I go back and watch Star Wars now it obviously would not measure up to what I thought it was as a six year old who saw it in theaters five times over the summer. I don't expect my kid will think of that trilogy of movies the same way I did, because it is dated.

The long and meandering point that I'm trying to make here is that if you expected to see something truly unique and special when viewing a movie two generations past its release date then I understand why you would think it is overrated. But I would argue that the expectations you had viewing the movie would contribute to thinking it is overrated as much, if not more, than the actual movie in the specific case of Casablanca.

Maybe we're just looking for different things in movies. I'm not really watching to see something unique or revolutionary -- I think art loses some of its flavor if it tries too hard to do that. I don't think that the release date really played a factor in my opinion of it, since I like some movies even older than that (Gone with the Wind, Citizen Kane, The Wizard of Oz) much, much more.

George

12-26-2007, 01:38 PM

I watched Casablanca for the first time a couple of years ago. After hearing so much about it for so many years, I expected a bit of a let-down.

Well, not only was I pleasantly surprised, I thought it lived up to the hype and more. I absolutely loved it.

twothree

12-26-2007, 02:27 PM

I watched all four Alien films over this extended weekend. Followed by the two Alien vs Predator films. I saw the two Alien vs Predator films for the first time and they can't compare to the original older Alien films. I definitely liked the older films more.

Aliens (1986), is probably now my favorite. The original Alien film (1979) just isn't as scary after watching it so many times, but the campy humor in the second film still holds up.