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diamondsgirl

11-19-2009, 04:58 PM

Just saw "Some Like it Hot" with Marilyn Monroe, Jack Lemmon, and Tony Curtis. I havent seen this movie in a long time and it reminded me how sometimes the simplest vintage classics are much more fun to watch than all the special effects of todays crap. Just the acting in general, was better back in the day. Even Marilyn Monroe was a better actress than some of the shitheads on the screen today.

There are certain movies, that just never get old. I think this is a good example as it is still pretty damn entertaining today.

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_xcUrnJy-qHw/SlypkTESe5I/AAAAAAAABhk/tNuUcICJO2s/s400/some_like_it_hot%25202.jpg

Hardrock69

11-19-2009, 05:16 PM

Kinda like Maltese Falcon, or Casablanca. If I see they are on Turner Classic Movies (at least twice a year), I will watch them. Seen them both at least 40-50 times.

They never get old. Classics, for sure.

Little Texan

11-19-2009, 08:08 PM

I've watched "It's A Wonderful Life" every year for the last few years around Christmas and it never gets old. I also like watching some old John Wayne movies as well. I picked up a 4 DVD set of John Wayne movies at Wal-mart a few weeks ago for $5, and the only movie I've watched from it so far is "McLintock", and it is a great film!

Hardrock69

11-19-2009, 09:50 PM

My fave scene with the Duke is in the Sons Of Katie Elder where a thug (played by George Kennedy) is dunking the undertaker into a water trough. John Wayne walks in, grabs an axe handle and BAM! busts George Kennedy's face with it! :D

diamondsgirl

11-23-2009, 05:51 PM

I've watched "It's A Wonderful Life" every year for the last few years around Christmas and it never gets old. I also like watching some old John Wayne movies as well. I picked up a 4 DVD set of John Wayne movies at Wal-mart a few weeks ago for $5, and the only movie I've watched from it so far is "McLintock", and it is a great film!

I have never seen this entire movie. It is one of Max's favorites and so it is on our "things to do" this Christmas season.

diamondsgirl

11-23-2009, 05:51 PM

My fave scene with the Duke is in the Sons Of Katie Elder where a thug (played by George Kennedy) is dunking the undertaker into a water trough. John Wayne walks in, grabs an axe handle and BAM! busts George Kennedy's face with it! :D

Nice! ;)

diamondsgirl

11-23-2009, 05:56 PM

Has anyone ever seen the original "Out-of Towners" with Jack Lemmon and Sandy Dennis? I LMAO everytime I watch it!

The newer one sucks compared to the original.

Little Texan

11-23-2009, 07:02 PM

I have never seen this entire movie. It is one of Max's favorites and so it is on our "things to do" this Christmas season.

If you're talking about "It's A Wonderful Life", then I was like you up until 5 or so years ago. I had never watched it all the way through, only seeing bits and pieces through the years and thinking it was just some old boring movie. Then one year I forced myself to sit and watch it all the way through, and I couldn't believe what a great movie it was! It instantly became one of my favorites, and has probably the most replay value of any movie. The only thing that really nags me about it is that Mr. Potter didn't get his in the end, but SNL took care of that a few years back! :biggrin:

http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/clips/its-a-wonderful-life-lost-ending/2731/

Sensible Shoes

11-23-2009, 09:23 PM

Has anyone ever seen the original "Out-of Towners" with Jack Lemmon and Sandy Dennis? I LMAO everytime I watch it!

The newer one sucks compared to the original.

Burke's rule: Everything sucks compared to the original

diamondsgirl

11-24-2009, 02:11 PM

Burke's rule: Everything sucks compared to the original

true.

the original "Psycho" is 1,000 times better than the remake. Even though it is in black and white and doesnt "show" anything scary, it still scares the crap out of me.

(although Vince Vaughn is hot in the remake...lol)

Seshmeister

11-24-2009, 02:20 PM

Kinda like Maltese Falcon, or Casablanca. If I see they are on Turner Classic Movies (at least twice a year), I will watch them. Seen them both at least 40-50 times.

They never get old. Classics, for sure.

I finally saw the Maltese Falcon last year and was a bit disappointed.

I didn't believe the central relationship, that Spade and Brigid were so deeply in love yet only knew each other for a day.

All this and yet we are led to assume there wasn't even a blow job to seal the deal never mind anal.

Maybe I'm an old cynic...

LoungeMachine

11-24-2009, 03:10 PM

Grapes of Wrath.

The classic movie.

:gulp:

Nitro Express

11-24-2009, 03:26 PM

A lot of movies today seem like they were written by the marketing department more than an artist. Regarding the special effects, when it's all computer modeling it looks like a video game. I don't like that either. You still have to have some real modeling and set building and then use computer animation to enhance that. Pure animation sucks unless that is what you are going for in an obvious format.

Nitro Express

11-24-2009, 03:29 PM

true.

the original "Psycho" is 1,000 times better than the remake. Even though it is in black and white and doesnt "show" anything scary, it still scares the crap out of me.

(although Vince Vaughn is hot in the remake...lol)

I love those old Hitchcock movies and yes, psycho still psycs people out. It must have scared the shit out of people in the day it came out.

Nitro Express

11-24-2009, 03:32 PM

My fave scene with the Duke is in the Sons Of Katie Elder where a thug (played by George Kennedy) is dunking the undertaker into a water trough. John Wayne walks in, grabs an axe handle and BAM! busts George Kennedy's face with it! :D

John Wayne used to live on the marina in Newport Beach, California where our family used to have a place when I was a kid. I got to meet him. He was eating with his wife at the next table at a local resturaunt. He was exactly what you saw on the screen but it was weird to see him in a hawaiian shit, shorts, and tennis shoes.

Hardrock69

11-25-2009, 01:12 AM

Ah yes, I remember you mentioned that before, you lucky bastid! :)

I finally saw the Maltese Falcon last year and was a bit disappointed.

I didn't believe the central relationship, that Spade and Brigid were so deeply in love yet only knew each other for a day.

All this and yet we are led to assume there wasn't even a blow job to seal the deal never mind anal.

Maybe I'm an old cynic...

Sesh, you missed something. Bogie got his poon from Brigette.

Sam Spade was not stupid enough to care that much for some bitch by the end of the film without getting some. :D

Shaun Ponsonby

11-25-2009, 06:27 AM

I have a strange affection for bad B-movies...especially Ed Wood films.

Glenn or Glenda..."Pull the string"

The awful Flameco-sounding guitar that plays RIGHT THROUGH Jailbait.

And, of course, Plan 9...

Noirs are cool too.

Hardrock69

11-25-2009, 10:07 AM

I recall a movie on Night Flight back in the 80s called "Ship Of Zombies".

People on a small boat out partying at night. Ship sinks. Suddenly out of the fog an old sailing vessel appears. Nobody on board. Lotsa long boxes in the hold...about the same size as coffins. Suddenly, the coffin lids come open, and these creatures dressed in hooded robes (like the Grim Reaper) slowly get out and come shuffling after the people going "ooooooOOOooooh......oooooOOooooh...".

http://i47.tinypic.com/359lu9x.jpg

If'n yoo not be careful, dey zombies drag you down to da hold and be fucking yoo wit dem bones 'n shit:

http://i47.tinypic.com/t7bk9y.jpg

Long story short, at the end of the movie they have been rescued or some crap, and they burn the zombie ship.

So suddenly it cuts to a distant shot of the zombie ship on fire. Only problem is, the fire looks odd. It is triangular in shape, and not really 'flickering'. I took a closer look, and realized that what I was seeing was a lit stick match lying on the deck.....if it were actual size, the match would be 30 feet long....but realizing what it was, it turned out the ship I was seeing was this little model about 6-8 inches long, and the match is just lying on top of it slowly burning out.

Oh, by the way, it was a Mexican horror film, had alternate names of :

Ghost Ship of the Blind Dead
Horror of the Zombies
The Blind Dead 3

http://i50.tinypic.com/24wab7q.jpg

Here is a total review. It is definitely a bad film, worth watching due to it's 'badness'.

The Ghost Galleon (1974) (http://www.gotterdammerung.org/film/reviews/g/ghost-galleon.html)

Has some hilarious captions of the screencaps, like this one:

http://i45.tinypic.com/3004c1w.jpg

diamondsgirl

12-02-2009, 09:07 AM

Just watched "A Christmas Carol" from 1938 with my daughter. I hadn't seen this version in quite some time. I wonder how many adaptations, remakes and take-offs there are of this story. Dozens, probably. And I'll bet none of the movies are as good as the book by Charles Dickens.

http://www.videodetective.com/photos/007/000031_17.jpg

Seshmeister

12-02-2009, 09:54 AM

The only Christmas Carol to watch is the Muppet one.

Hardrock69

12-02-2009, 09:55 AM

I would venture to agree, though when it comes to adaptations of the classics, I feel a majority of film versions from the 30s and 40s are the best.

The only Christmas Carol to watch is the Muppet one.

Gee...I wonder why you would think that? ;)

Little Texan

12-02-2009, 12:28 PM

The only Christmas Carol to watch is the Muppet one.

Is that the one where Kermit gives Fozzie Bear a handjob?

Nitro Express

12-02-2009, 12:39 PM

You have to have the freaky Scooby Doo Jacob Marley. Used to freak me out when I was a kid.

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Coyote

12-02-2009, 04:45 PM

Just saw "Some Like it Hot" with Marilyn Monroe, Jack Lemmon, and Tony Curtis. I havent seen this movie in a long time and it reminded me how sometimes the simplest vintage classics are much more fun to watch than all the special effects of todays crap. Just the acting in general, was better back in the day. Even Marilyn Monroe was a better actress than some of the shitheads on the screen today.

There are certain movies, that just never get old. I think this is a good example as it is still pretty damn entertaining today.

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_xcUrnJy-qHw/SlypkTESe5I/AAAAAAAABhk/tNuUcICJO2s/s400/some_like_it_hot%25202.jpg

Saw this last Saturday, great movie. Kinda re-affirmed Monroe as my "ideal woman"... :hitch:

Anonymous

12-02-2009, 05:07 PM

I finally saw the Maltese Falcon last year and was a bit disappointed.

I didn't believe the central relationship, that Spade and Brigid were so deeply in love yet only knew each other for a day.

All this and yet we are led to assume there wasn't even a blow job to seal the deal never mind anal.

Maybe I'm an old cynic...

Deeply in love? What the hell are you talking about? That relationship was pure carnal desire.

Maltese Falcon wasn't a fairy tale with knights in shiny armour rescuing damsles in distress in the name of love, Sesh...

It's a gritty movie.

As for what was or what wasn't, for all that movie is, and it's a lot, it's not exactly a porn, so little wonder you didn't watch Sam giving it to her from behind.

Cheers! :bottle:

Seshmeister

12-02-2009, 08:02 PM

I'll need to watch it again now.

I thought there was all this stuff about motivation based on their relationship at the end even though they had only known each other a day.

PETE'S BROTHER

12-02-2009, 09:52 PM

"dead men don't wear plaid" was a great old movie about great old movies.

Anonymous

12-02-2009, 09:58 PM

I'll need to watch it again now.

I thought there was all this stuff about motivation based on their relationship at the end even though they had only known each other a day.

Nah, that's today's romantic comedies.

Don't watch those, you'll get a blurry pinkish vision of the world, and become subject to depressions.

It's all about the Falcon. Monees, and stuff. Sam is playing off the cuff, controlling the game with the cards everyone else deals him. If he gets the girl, it ain't for living happily ever after.

They just don't make movies like that anymore.

Cheers! :bottle:

Hardrock69

12-02-2009, 10:14 PM

Somewhere in the midst of the film, I think it is like when they first swap spit....then it cuts to the next morning. And they are still in the same room.

Connect the dots. :D

Nitro Express

12-03-2009, 12:39 PM

Let's not forget the wierd foriegn films. Carefully Watching Trains is a good one.

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Nitro Express

12-03-2009, 12:40 PM

Closely Watched Trains it is.

Sensible Shoes

12-03-2009, 12:44 PM

Just watched "A Christmas Carol" from 1938 with my daughter. I hadn't seen this version in quite some time. I wonder how many adaptations, remakes and take-offs there are of this story. Dozens, probably. And I'll bet none of the movies are as good as the book by Charles Dickens.

http://www.videodetective.com/photos/007/000031_17.jpg

I like an obscure made for TV version starring George C. Scott.

Also like a version of the Nutcracker with Baryshikov and Kirkland - believe it was made for CBS - although both of them hated it A LOT

diamondsgirl

12-03-2009, 12:59 PM

Nah, that's today's romantic comedies.

Don't watch those, you'll get a blurry pinkish vision of the world, and become subject to depressions.

It's all about the Falcon. Monees, and stuff. Sam is playing off the cuff, controlling the game with the cards everyone else deals him. If he gets the girl, it ain't for living happily ever after.

They just don't make movies like that anymore.

Cheers! :bottle:

never saw MF...sounds hot!

will check it out ;)

ZahZoo

12-03-2009, 05:24 PM

It's all about the Falcon. Monees, and stuff. Sam is playing off the cuff, controlling the game with the cards everyone else deals him. If he gets the girl, it ain't for living happily ever after.

They just don't make movies like that anymore.

Cheers! :bottle:

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Anonymous

12-03-2009, 05:40 PM

Anonymous

12-03-2009, 05:42 PM

never saw MF...sounds hot!

will check it out ;)

Please do, you'll be doing yourself a favour. You'll get sucked right into the story. But DO NOT watch Zahzoo's video first, or it'll ruin it for you.

Cheers! :bottle:

Sensible Shoes

12-03-2009, 08:36 PM

Dr. Love

12-03-2009, 09:48 PM

My favorite old movies are Back to the Future and Spaceballs.

Little Texan

12-03-2009, 09:57 PM

Susie Q

12-05-2009, 02:01 PM

I adore Lucille Ball and she made only a handful of non-comedy movies. One of them is a 1947 movie called "Lured".

Lucille Ball is an American taxi-dancer living in London whose roommate has disappeared. The missing girl had left to answer a job offer in the "personal" column of the Times...just like several other women who've vanished without a trace. Scotland Yard detective George Zucco suggests that Ball answer the personals herself in hopes trapping the killer. She crosses the paths of several eccentrics, including deranged artist Boris Karloff, who for a brief time is the prime suspect. The actual culprit, a sex murderer, is the least likely and most helpful of Ball's contacts -- a fact that she learns almost too late.

YouTube - Lured (Lucille Ball) 1/11 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JlJa5NlfCU)

Sensible Shoes

12-05-2009, 02:31 PM

My favorite old movies are Back to the Future and Spaceballs.

There was a gag like this in the movie "Monster-in-law" (Which I watched because I had one) where Jane Fonda asked some blonde bubblehead what her favorite movies were and she says "Oh I like to watch the old movies - Legally Blonde, legally blonde 2"

diamondsgirl

12-05-2009, 03:48 PM

The best old movie of all time, IMO, and my favorite movie ever is the Wizard of Oz. I have to see this move at least once a year, sometimes more.

I was in heaven, last year, snuggying on the couch with Max in a down comforter, watching the Wizard of Oz. :)

http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/Wizard%20of%20Oz%20movie%20poster.jpg

Dr. Love

12-05-2009, 07:23 PM

There was a gag like this in the movie "Monster-in-law" (Which I watched because I had one) where Jane Fonda asked some blonde bubblehead what her favorite movies were and she says "Oh I like to watch the old movies - Legally Blonde, legally blonde 2"

yes, but I was only 5 when those movies came out, I believe :)

Hardrock69

12-06-2009, 08:37 PM

Back in the late 80s/early 90s they came out with the 50th anniversary edition of "Wizard Of Oz".

They had a documentary on the making of it on cable.

The film is SO good I found it hard to conceive of there being any kind of "behind-the-scenes" at all....I mean, you get so into the story, it is hard think of it as "fiction". :)

Sensible Shoes

12-06-2009, 09:25 PM

yes, but I was only 5 when those movies came out, I believe :)

Once again, proving my point that you are too young

Grant

12-17-2009, 05:45 AM

I re-watched Charlie Chaplin's 'The Gold Rush' (very, very old movie) on the big screen a few years ago with a live orchestra doing the music pieces and the sound effects - was a cool experience! Chaplin's entrance into the movie, doing his quirky walk with cane in-hand on the edge of the snowy mountaintop, still brought out the laughs from everyone there.

Hardrock69

12-17-2009, 03:38 PM

A true classic! :D

Seshmeister

12-17-2009, 06:32 PM

My favorite old movies are Back to the Future and Spaceballs.

I watched Back To the Future II the other day, for some reason the BTTF films are classified as Xmas films and are on all the time at the moment.

Anyhoo did you realise that when he goes into the future with the hover boards, the 3D Jaws 19 and so on that is meant to be 2015?

Not so far away now, I'm looking forward to getting one of those board things... :)

Anonymous

12-17-2009, 08:44 PM

I watched Back To the Future II the other day, for some reason the BTTF films are classified as Xmas films and are on all the time at the moment.

Anyhoo did you realise that when he goes into the future with the hover boards, the 3D Jaws 19 and so on that is meant to be 2015?

Not so far away now, I'm looking forward to getting one of those board things... :)

I'm still waiting for the flying cars, so I won't be holding my breath for those...

I mean, just yesterday I saw one of these around...

http://www.karl-son.dk/Renault%204L.jpg

Not quite what I was expecting to see in the 2000s, back in the eighties when I was reading all those 50s futuristic stories.

Besides, aren't you a bit too old & drunk to be fooling around on a flying board?

Cheers! :bottle: