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01-16-2014, 10:18 AM | #106 |
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I've never seen Citizen Kane or Casablanca. I haven't seen really ANY classic western movie. I need to change that soon.
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01-16-2014, 10:34 AM | #107 | |
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I think you're right in some respects, but not always. Some movies/stories are just sort of timeless and so well-acted it doesn't much matter. I think Casablanca is awesome regardless of when it's made. Conversely, being a Cary Grant fan, I watched Gunga Din. My god is it bad. The action scenes are comically awful. But The Philadelphia Story, with Cary Grant, is quite good. As long as you can tolerate B&W movies (some people have a visceral hatred for them, like my wife, there are some really good movies out there to see. The acting was just better, on average, back then, and plot didn't suffer for special effects.
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01-16-2014, 10:35 AM | #108 | |
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Whoa. Skip Citizen Kane. Watch Casablanca. My favorite classic Western is probably The Searchers, though there are many others you could go for, and the Searchers has less action than some.
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01-16-2014, 11:09 AM | #109 |
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As far as black and white classics, I like On the Waterfront the best. And I like Casablanca but I like the Maltese Falcon more.
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01-16-2014, 12:35 PM | #110 | |
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01-16-2014, 01:02 PM | #111 | |
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I'm also a huge fan of Maltese Falcon, so I won't fault you for that.
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01-16-2014, 01:03 PM | #112 | |
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The word hate doesn't begin to capture my feelings for that movie. It's a story about a three day weekend, as I recall, and it felt like the movie lasted at least ten. I remember watching and watching and watching and watching and watching and watching....and then the FIRST DAY ended, and I was like "OH MY GOD, NOOOOOOOOOOOOOooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
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01-16-2014, 01:07 PM | #113 | |
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01-16-2014, 10:39 PM | #114 |
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Sadly, here it goes:
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01-17-2014, 12:13 AM | #116 | |
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Another B&W I love is Whatever Happened To Baby Jane,she was one sick bitch...
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01-23-2014, 08:23 AM | #117 |
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Just saw crouching tiger last night. Really cool.
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01-23-2014, 07:37 PM | #118 |
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I think you need to spread your definition of classic movie a bit further, like maybe something before 1970. I don't really know of anybody that would call Mission Impossible a classic movie
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