Old Movies

[Nitro Express]

Closely Watched Trains it is.

[Sensible Shoes]

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.

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]

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]

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]

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Man, that was so fucked up.

But there you go, no love story there, at least not one that ends with "and they lived happily ever after".

Money. Builds dreams, and shatters them. 'T's all there is to it.

Still one of the best movies ever.

Cheers! :bottle:

[Anonymous]

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]

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Got to see this version of "Christmas Carol" just to watch Marley's jaw drop open......

[Dr. Love]

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

[Little Texan]

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Got to see this version of "Christmas Carol" just to watch Marley's jaw drop open......

George C. Scott was the best Ebenezer Scrooge, IMO.

[Susie Q]

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

[Sensible Shoes]

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]

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.

[Dr. Love]

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]

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]

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

Once again, proving my point that you are too young